Joyce has never met anyone in this dorm with as much enthusiasm as her, all the time around these people(and Sarah) is making her cynical. She can’t identify a genuine warm and excited greeting anymore.
At her home almost everyone was a right wing fundie, and at her dorm almost everyone is a nihilistic jerk. She has to get out to see the world and see that there are different kinds of people and not just extremes, like the flawed extremes of the Shin Megami Tensei games.
I hope Joyce protects Billie, her best friend, from the incredibly uncool Lucy. Lucy just can’t stand to be around someone as awesome as a high school cheerleader.
Ha! Not EXACTLY what I predicted, but close enough. I thought they would be put off by each other’s sunniness. Joyce being too used to sarcasm to recognize genuine friendliness is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
From opposite ends of the corridor, Sarah and Malaya comes walking. Both give Lucy and Joyce and look, then they turn around and flee screaming in terror.
I’ve never seen any of the movie TimeCop except for the bit where the guy touches another version of himself and explodes or something. I’m concerned that might happen here.
On one hand, it’s sad that Joyce now can’t be enthused about meeting an equally enthused person. On the other hand, signs of character development give me the warm tinglies in my soul.
I’m guessing Walky peaced out when Billie started talking about her feelings.
He can barely handle his own, let alone someone else’s, especially considering he’s not very enthused about that relationship.
I would work under the assumption that, unless they two bears were perfectly opposed, the Stare would, as is the case when Care Bears Unleash their Stare in unison, the beams would collide and continue along their vector average. This would likely result in the Stare going perpendicular to the two bears tummies or Care Bear Cannons, as we in the field call them.
Something akin to the low-violence kid’s version of a firefight (either with pistols or phasers) where one person shoots the other’s weapon out of the hand without injury, or (in extreme cases) hits the ammunition out of the air?
Panels 2 through 5 should just be a wide-angle shot of the state of Indiana being vaporized/irradiated by about (m_joyce+m_lucy)*c^2 joules worth of gamma particles.
Oh hey. HEY. Joyce didn’t get to celebrate Halloween growing up, did she? She got to hand out tracts to trick-or-treaters or something equally unfun, right?
Joyce isn’t used to sincere niceness. Most of the good people she have met behave like cynic jerks, and some of the evil bastards she has met speak with fake niceness.
It looks like that those readers who thought that Joyce would be weirded out by looking into a bizarro mirror were right! There’s nothing like meeting yourself to realise how unintentionally annoying you can be! XD
Seriously, though, I hope that this isn’t a single-strip one-off. I really think that Joyce and Lucy can be good friends and can motivate beneficial change in each other.
This is Willis we are talking about. In a scale between Andrew Hussie and Dan Shive, Willis points more in Hussie’s direction. That is up to interpretation.
I know this comment section tends to skew toward introversion but if saying “Hello” and introducing yourself with a smile and a handshake is considered annoying now that makes me sad.
That’s what we call the apathy that has taken over our lives in recent decades thanks to dismisal of Global Warming, Fascist demagogues gaining power, toxic internet communities, systematic racism and Black Mirror levels of priviliged people not caring about the lives of others. Being cynical and apathetic shouldn’t be the norm.
Lucy is who Joyce could be. She’s awkward, but likeable and religious without all the shaming and judgement which is why Mary hated her within seconds. She can sense it.
Becoming cynical shouldn’t be an improvement. Being cautious is a normal part of growing up, but distrusting everyone seems like a sign of a toxic environment affecting people.
But how religious? Religious and social, like many people? (Even Danny was telling his mom he was going to go to church.)
We need a DofA scale where Joyce is on one end (can only listen to some pop songs because she imagines the two people in the lyric are married) and maybe Dorothy is on the other.
Religious enough to go to church every Sunday, even when she’s really excited about something else, not religious enough that everyone remembers it about her in the comments. So, moreso than Billie or Danny, far less so than Becky or Joyce.
We need more than one axis. Mary and Joyce are both observant but so different with what they do with it–Mary still condemning people to hell, Joyce shipping at least two lesbian love affairs.
Lucy I love you so much. You’re so pure so sweet and just a really positive person. I really really hope you and Joyce become friends and you help each other. I want Lucy to learn to be a tiny bit less awkward and I want Joyce to learn that she can maintain herself and be a sweet little sunshine still
Lucy is the best character in this comic and I would literally die for her. A Lucy/Joyce friendship would be amazing because Lucy is all the best parts of Joyce without the religious shame and everything. I want this to happen, blease Willis
I hope so so so much that the enounter goes upwards from here and the two become friends. They fit so well together and would be such a force to reckon with!
Used to be Joyce would’ve been just as enthusiastic and friendly, she may have changed for the better by casting aside some of her indoctrination and naivete but it is sobering to see her be more jaded and cynical like this
Joyce has met the enemy, and she is us
Pogo lives!
(God, do I miss Walt Kelly.)
A thousand times.
Joyce has met the enemy, and she is basically just a mirror.
Speak for yourself
Fasten your seat belts…
Brace for Impact…
It begins…
Tomorrow we cut away to another scene.
well, it’s been a while since we heard from Danny so it’s the perfect time to catch up with him 😀
we’ve waited for this for so long!
also, since when is Joyce so perceptive on how she looks to other people?!
^u^
Hehe, I guess Lucy, to Joyce, would seem like someone aping her enthusiasm level we’ve come to expect from her.
Don’t be rediculous!
Lucy’s smile isn’t anywhere NEAR triangular enough.
Plus, Joyce doesn’t wear glasses!
ILLUSION BLOWN
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh
This is gonna be GOOD.
I know, right?
Look at that expression on Joyce’s face in the last panel. Lucy in trouble!
Identity theft is not a joke!
There’s so many good popcorn eating gifs, I can’t decide which one to use for this.
[somewhere in another time, another place]
BATMAN: i’m Batman.
DAISY: Hi, I’m Daisy
Obligatory: https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/04/12/episode-015-a-little-intellectual-conversation/
“No, I’m Batman.”
“No, I’m Batman, and so is my wife…”
THIS IS PATRICK!
Groot: I am Groot.
Thou art Groot! We are all Groot.
All that Groots is Groot.
I grok Groot.
“I am Groot!”
“I’m Batman.”
“I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!”
hahahahaha holy shit
great start
I just want you to imagine that image of two spidermen pointing fingers at each other. You know the one.
It’s rude to point.
I’m not pointing, you’re pointing!
Rose: “It’s manners out of joint / to point”
(Gilbert & Sullivan, Ruddigore
Joyce has never met anyone in this dorm with as much enthusiasm as her, all the time around these people(and Sarah) is making her cynical. She can’t identify a genuine warm and excited greeting anymore.
Yeah, it makes me sad 🙁
At her home almost everyone was a right wing fundie, and at her dorm almost everyone is a nihilistic jerk. She has to get out to see the world and see that there are different kinds of people and not just extremes, like the flawed extremes of the Shin Megami Tensei games.
–Is it me you’re looking for?
I hope Joyce protects Billie, her best friend, from the incredibly uncool Lucy. Lucy just can’t stand to be around someone as awesome as a high school cheerleader.
I will fite you and I will poop in your car
*Joyce hurls out Lucy from the Quad like she was hurled out of hers*
It was Billie who hurled Joyce out, though.
Hey op? Where’s your location I wanna talk
Oh, shit.
Read Hall broke Joyce.
To be fair, she has broken Read Hall well and good as well.
Ha! Not EXACTLY what I predicted, but close enough. I thought they would be put off by each other’s sunniness. Joyce being too used to sarcasm to recognize genuine friendliness is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
In classic fashion, we were given the meetup we wanted but it’s bittersweet.
Yep, Willis gives people what they want… And like the Fates in the Wish spell, turns the wish around on the wishers at the drop of a hat.
Damn you literal genie Willis
From opposite ends of the corridor, Sarah and Malaya comes walking. Both give Lucy and Joyce and look, then they turn around and flee screaming in terror.
They just turn around and walk away without changing pace, like that gif of Grandpa Simpson.
I’ve never seen any of the movie TimeCop except for the bit where the guy touches another version of himself and explodes or something. I’m concerned that might happen here.
I was once warned against touching myself for similar reasons.
Underrated comment.
Apt avatar is apt. *WINK!*
Ha!
Awwwwwwwww no! Not like this! They must combine their sunshine powers! Together they’ll burn brighter than THE SUN ITSELF!
Now, now, Perfectly symmetrical greetings never solved anything….
TRIANGULAR SMILE VERSUS SEMI-CIRCULAR SMILE!!!!! THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF DENTAL GEOMETRY!
Or, with a hat tip to Bagge:
BATTLE OF THE ALPHA SWEETIES! (Only one can be Alpha!)
May the sweeties sweetie be the AAAAAALPHA!
A wonderful way to put it.
Dental geometry should be a thing.
The shape of things to come…
Joyce knows. There can only be one.
Yes Joyce this is what it’s like to meet you. The only thing missing are the Soul piercing blue eyes looking dead at you and a much wider smile.
…. Well I suppose SOMETHING had to happen to prevent the cuteness of these two meeting from hitting critical mass.
YESSSSS
https://tenor.com/view/its-about-time-marvel-antman-gif-5954739
On one hand, it’s sad that Joyce now can’t be enthused about meeting an equally enthused person. On the other hand, signs of character development give me the warm tinglies in my soul.
I would consider Joyce having the friendliness beaten out of her to be negative character development.
I’m with you one hundred percent Emily.
Isn’t it great? Negative character development is the BEST kind of character development!
It’s about time White Lucy met Lucy.
I’m guessing Walky peaced out when Billie started talking about her feelings.
He can barely handle his own, let alone someone else’s, especially considering he’s not very enthused about that relationship.
Ray of Sunshine Death Battle: FIGHT!
What happens when two Care Bears each direct a maximum-force Care Bear Stare against each other?
I would work under the assumption that, unless they two bears were perfectly opposed, the Stare would, as is the case when Care Bears Unleash their Stare in unison, the beams would collide and continue along their vector average. This would likely result in the Stare going perpendicular to the two bears tummies or Care Bear Cannons, as we in the field call them.
😛
Something akin to the low-violence kid’s version of a firefight (either with pistols or phasers) where one person shoots the other’s weapon out of the hand without injury, or (in extreme cases) hits the ammunition out of the air?
What TV Tropes calls a Beam-of-War.
It would be bad. Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Important safety tip.
Got it, never cross the streams.
Okay now wipe that smile off your face, Lucy. Fun time’s over.
WOW. SOMEONE SO BRIGHT IT TURNED JOYCE INTO A BITCH. WHAT. IN THE WORLD.
I blame Sarah, Billie, Joe and Walky.
Panels 2 through 5 should just be a wide-angle shot of the state of Indiana being vaporized/irradiated by about (m_joyce+m_lucy)*c^2 joules worth of gamma particles.
That’s a whole lotta Hulks in the making!
Spidey-senses!
Awww this makes me sad…I wanted them to immediately be friends.
Triangle grin, meet semicircle grin.
I’m sort of expecting Sarah to walk out of her room before retreating screaming: “The smiles! I’m blind! I’m blind! I’m blind!!!”
YES! I have been waiting for these two to meet for so long!
You never know how annoying you are to other people until you meet someone else who is just like you. Ignorance really is bliss.
But Joyce knows Becky.
Right ?
Becky isn’t annoying tho because she’s self aware
Becky is like Walky, though.
“This is Reed. Only cool, serious people live here.”
“I’ve met Carla. She only manages ‘cool’.”
“Touché.”
…
I’m leaving now.
Unfortunately for Lucy, she just ran into the Alpha Bongo Padawan. Shit’s about to go down.
*glances at pumpkins on door*
Oh hey. HEY. Joyce didn’t get to celebrate Halloween growing up, did she? She got to hand out tracts to trick-or-treaters or something equally unfun, right?
Probably. And yay, Halloween!
Now for the next 2-3 years until we get there.
I WANT A COSTUME EPISODE SO BAD!
And we do know Willis has at least considered it…
https://i1.wp.com/animationanomaly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DoA-Joyce-Rapunzel.png?w=600
(Apologies for not finding the original tumblr post. I assume tumblr thought it was a male presenting nipple or something.)
There sure aren’t any similarities between Carol and Gothel noooooo.
Mother knows best.
Oh my fucking god that’s the best thing I’ve seen all week.
I have not seem that movie. Is that a gap in my animation geekness?
Tangled? Well, it’s fairly standard Disney, but clearly the writers knew something about controlling, emotionally-abusive parents.
There’s another one from this past October! No idea what they’re supposed to be, though…
YES I HAVE SAID THIS FOR SO LONG
CHARACTERS IN COSTUMES NAO PLZ
That’s now how I expected it to go.
Joyce is finally looking at herself from the outside.
AHA. THIS’LL BE GOOD.
Joyce isn’t used to sincere niceness. Most of the good people she have met behave like cynic jerks, and some of the evil bastards she has met speak with fake niceness.
Precisely. She’s been unknowingly embittered and made cynical! I really look forward to the strip when she realises this!
It looks like that those readers who thought that Joyce would be weirded out by looking into a bizarro mirror were right! There’s nothing like meeting yourself to realise how unintentionally annoying you can be! XD
Seriously, though, I hope that this isn’t a single-strip one-off. I really think that Joyce and Lucy can be good friends and can motivate beneficial change in each other.
This is Willis we are talking about. In a scale between Andrew Hussie and Dan Shive, Willis points more in Hussie’s direction. That is up to interpretation.
I never thought I’d see a comparison between hussie and Willis but okay
Joyce being super exuberant and friendly is literally the least annoying aspect of her personality.
I know this comment section tends to skew toward introversion but if saying “Hello” and introducing yourself with a smile and a handshake is considered annoying now that makes me sad.
That’s what we call the apathy that has taken over our lives in recent decades thanks to dismisal of Global Warming, Fascist demagogues gaining power, toxic internet communities, systematic racism and Black Mirror levels of priviliged people not caring about the lives of others. Being cynical and apathetic shouldn’t be the norm.
Agreed.
Lucy is who Joyce could be. She’s awkward, but likeable and religious without all the shaming and judgement which is why Mary hated her within seconds. She can sense it.
Could’ve been maybe, I think current Joyce has seen too much of the world to be so naive and trusting again
Becoming cynical shouldn’t be an improvement. Being cautious is a normal part of growing up, but distrusting everyone seems like a sign of a toxic environment affecting people.
I never said being cynical was an improvement and Joyce isn’t cynical, just less trusting than she used to be
Echo Joyce.
If only Smash 5 still let you customize the moves and stats of Miis, then that could be exactly true!
Is Lucy religious? I haven’t seen her reference religion, but I could have easily missed something.
I don’t think she is, I cannot recall her mentioning God once.
She is a SECULAR Black Joyce.
She goes to church on Sundays. It’s why she wasn’t there to meet Billie when Billie moved into her dorm.
But how religious? Religious and social, like many people? (Even Danny was telling his mom he was going to go to church.)
We need a DofA scale where Joyce is on one end (can only listen to some pop songs because she imagines the two people in the lyric are married) and maybe Dorothy is on the other.
Religious enough to go to church every Sunday, even when she’s really excited about something else, not religious enough that everyone remembers it about her in the comments. So, moreso than Billie or Danny, far less so than Becky or Joyce.
Don’t forget…what’s her name…Mary.
Mary then Joyce then a sliding scale up through…Sal?
Something makes me forget Mary!
We need more than one axis. Mary and Joyce are both observant but so different with what they do with it–Mary still condemning people to hell, Joyce shipping at least two lesbian love affairs.
A religiousness index crossed with an assholeishness index?
Ooh, I like it.
Fated meeting. But how will it go from here?
Just shake the hand. Do nothing else.
“Wonder Twin powers, ACTIVATE!”
NO! Don’t let them physically touch, it will trigger an uncontrollable cascade of niceness, resulting in total annihilation of the universe.
Lucy I love you so much. You’re so pure so sweet and just a really positive person. I really really hope you and Joyce become friends and you help each other. I want Lucy to learn to be a tiny bit less awkward and I want Joyce to learn that she can maintain herself and be a sweet little sunshine still
There it is, there’s the incredible positivity that was missing from Lucy and Joyce meeting. Thank goodness you found it!
Yes, more people seeing The Truth. Thank you
Well this is not how I imagined their meeting. Feeling weird when your own level of friendliness is aimed back at you, Joyce?
2010 vs 20190
Yay for typos that you can’t fix ?
Still works though. Just slightly premature.
Or just make up a whole new calendar.
Their ship name is Jucy (Juicy? Are you allowed to change spelling when you mash?)
And then they fell in love and Willis had to draw a rather unexpected slipshine
Lucy isn’t going to get a single normal danged hello in this hall, is she?
Is it even that normal to have a hall full of bratty self centered jerks that don’t want to give simple gestures like “hi”?
She got one here. Joyce replied “Hi!” It was just the subsequent conversation that went a bit off the rails.
Lucy is the best character in this comic and I would literally die for her. A Lucy/Joyce friendship would be amazing because Lucy is all the best parts of Joyce without the religious shame and everything. I want this to happen, blease Willis
“Hi, I’m you with less trauma!”
Not for long!
THEY MEET
I’m so excited
This is… kind of sad in a way…
Poor Lucy, she can’t catch a break
Why is Joyce Even upset? She never met Lucy, so how can Lucy be making fun of her?
PLEASE DAVID. LET THE BECOME THE SOULMATES THEY WERE MEANT TO BE
Soulmates, yes! Exactly that!
Joyce has become a lot more jaded, hasn’t she?
I hope so so so much that the enounter goes upwards from here and the two become friends. They fit so well together and would be such a force to reckon with!
Joyce is has been corrupted.
Used to be Joyce would’ve been just as enthusiastic and friendly, she may have changed for the better by casting aside some of her indoctrination and naivete but it is sobering to see her be more jaded and cynical like this
This is not how I expected this to happen AT ALL, and yet I am not surprised.
hello, triangle smile, I am semicircle smile
I’d like to see Walky and amber sufficiently resolved before he considers Lucy. But sadly life does not work that way.