She has no reason to Doko Doki Panic. These aren’t Doki Doki School Hours and she hasn’t joined the Doki Doki Literature Club, that said, depending on the particular flavor of worship service Joyce is used to it could still be Doki Doki Morning so let’s see if that can’t be cued up on the hacked muzak.
I rather suspect that this scene is fairly directly autobiographical. I’m not sure what year Mr. Willis did this, but a regular wrist watch – NOT a Fitbit – seems most likely.
Willis keeps his buffer full, but not THAT full. This would have been drawn around January of 2019 or so, give or take a few months. More than enough time to have heard of Fitbits.
Also, I’m pretty sure Joyce’s Fitbit has been explicitly discussed, but I’m too lazy to archive binge for it.
I think that’s “when Willis did this” in the sense of checking his heart rate when he first skipped church back in the day, not when he drew this strip.
Under the assumption this bit is autobiographical.
I went to a massive school, and there were lectures with a few hundred students so they never took attendance, and the slides were online, and it’s not like you can ask questions in a lecture that big anyway.
Might as well sleep in. 7:30 AM is no time for learning.
Nah, 7:30 am is a great time for learning, just not in an entry level dumb lecture class.
It’s the 2:30pm one that eats your soul… especially when your boss keeps scheduling you at 3pm and trying to write you up for being late when you show up at 5pm even though your availability doesn’t start until 4:30. OK, yeah, I’m still bitter about that jerkoff twenty years on since he set a tone for the type of stupidity I could expect in the workplace. Same dumbass used to also salute me in the NSDAP style as I walked into work because black trench coat and combat boots… it was 1998, that was sorta the style, well before April of ’99 anyway.
Well Joyce, being worried over something tends to cause an elevated heart rate and I’d say expecting angry angels or a talking donkey would do it. Now what is her heart rate going to look like if Becky/her mom/anyone asks how church was and she doesn’t have an answer?
Nothing bad happened. And the longer nothing happens, the more she’s going to worry about the really bad things that could happen, because she knows that the universe won’t just ignore her not going to church. That’s how anxiety works.
I’m wondering what her reaction is going to be as she starts testing her beliefs and finds everything she’s afraid of doesn’t happen. ill she be happy? Relieved? Angry? Sad? A combination of the above?
unfortunately, christianity is smarter than that and promises you thing that you won’t find out before your earthly life is over. You may feel fine but then you’ll end up in hell, and since you can’t disprove that, you better believe…..
even after years of content atheism, there’s still this tiny nag of doubt of “but what if i die and find there IS a hell with biblical entry criteria?” …. well played, christianity, permanent dread instilled early on!
110 thoughts on “Over, finished”
Ana Chronistic
then later that night…
…
Ceiling Cat watches her masticate
Doctor_Who
Blowjob Cat watches us always.
Clif
I just want to know who names their donkey Waffles.
No Name
I can’t tell if that’s auto-correct, a typo, or you really did mean “chew”. I’m going with option three.
Michael Lanting
Seeing this is Joyce we’re talking about, I think this was intentional and not auto-correct.
Marsh Maryrose
(Whispers) “Your epidermis is showing!”
Also, Joyce is secretly a philatelist.
Agemegos
She loves tax exemptions? Who doesn’t?
Marsh Maryrose
One of the greatest campaign speeches of all time.
“His parents not only permitted him to masticate excessively in their presence, but even urged him to do so.”
The Other Mike
Next thing you know, she’ll come out as a practicing thespian.
Wizard
Wouldn’t surprise me. She has already matriculated in college.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
But since she is the youngest, she may not have ever perambulated a child on a public street.
Regalli
Oh, Joyce, honey…
ValdVin
“My donkey didn’t even start to talk”? Did she get a new, perhaps magical, plushie while we weren’t paying attention?
Reltzik
She named it Balaam.
Eric Burns
Worse. Far worse. She named it Ollie.
Regalli
Everyone gets a loss of faith donkey. Comes with the Rich Mullins dreams.
Marsh Maryrose
When this came up on Patreon, my mind immediately went to Numbers 22:28. I am ashamed to admit that Shrek never occurred to me.
GoblinScribe
I was thinking of the caterpillar from Veggie Tales, weirdly enough.
Marsh Maryrose
Even though I grew up on Sid & Marty Krofft, what little I’ve seen of Veggie Tales seems weird and trippy to me.
Charlie Spencer
Sid and Marty? Thanks, I need the occasional reminder I’m not the only Boomer around here.
Bunny
Donkey=Ass
Terry
So in modern day, when you skip church, your butt starts to talk? Does this mean that regular church goers don’t fart?
Sunmaster57
a homage to “Wonderfalls”???
BBCC
Aw, hon, this’ll feel liberating some day.
One hopes anyways.
Kern Wallace
You could say she’s having a…
Doki Doki Panic.
David M Willis
NO
Kyrik Michalowski
Your reaction is worth a thousand strips, thank you.
Doom Shepherd
Could be worse. Could be a Colonel Panic.
Marsh Maryrose
Wouldn’t be the first time she’s needed rebooting.
vlademir1
She has no reason to Doko Doki Panic. These aren’t Doki Doki School Hours and she hasn’t joined the Doki Doki Literature Club, that said, depending on the particular flavor of worship service Joyce is used to it could still be Doki Doki Morning so let’s see if that can’t be cued up on the hacked muzak.
LeslieBean4shizzle
**claps**
Bravo.
JBento
Donkey Donkey Panic?
Reltzik
Joyce, you don’t have to take your pulse. YOU HAVE A FITBIT.
Bathymetheus
I rather suspect that this scene is fairly directly autobiographical. I’m not sure what year Mr. Willis did this, but a regular wrist watch – NOT a Fitbit – seems most likely.
Needfuldoer
That looks like her “fitness watch that tells you fitness things”, probably a Ruttech version of a FitBit.
Marsh Maryrose
Ninja’d again by asynchronous network transmission! Curse you, asynchronous network transmission!
Jamie
Willis keeps his buffer full, but not THAT full. This would have been drawn around January of 2019 or so, give or take a few months. More than enough time to have heard of Fitbits.
Also, I’m pretty sure Joyce’s Fitbit has been explicitly discussed, but I’m too lazy to archive binge for it.
Marsh Maryrose
She’s got one of those fitness watches that tell you fitness things! Go, fitness conquistador, go!
thejeff
I think that’s “when Willis did this” in the sense of checking his heart rate when he first skipped church back in the day, not when he drew this strip.
Under the assumption this bit is autobiographical.
Bathymetheus
Yes.
TrueVCU
Joyce taking her lack of donkey, talking or otherwise, in stride
Shiro
Joyce, your what? Is that a reference I’m missing?
CoffeeBurps
Its an Old Testament story of a guy who decided to not do what God told him and eventually his donkey started yelling at him to get his shit together.
McBogue
So you’re saying that God was talking out of his ass?
Hoboturtle
*clap* *clap*
StClair
*joins the clapping*
Masumi
OMG
*standing ovations*
Deanatay
Or out of Her bush. Which is on fire, ’cause it’s hot.
BarerMender
Not God. God sent an angel to talk out Balaam’s ass.
Bagge
Some angel-jobs are less glamorous than other angel-jobs.
Bagge
Some of Gods signs are mysterious and open to multiple interpretations.
Other are… fairly straight forward.
Stephen Bierce
Did Willis leggo his Eggo or something that morning?
*plays “Breakfast In America” on the hacked Muzak*
No Name
That (the title text) is one of Donkey’s lines in Shrek, when Donkey pesters the titular ogre into letting Donkey stay.
Needfuldoer
Donkey’s voiced by Eddie Murphy, who I’ve always assumed had to exercise all the self control he could muster to keep it clean for a kids’ movie.
He also took a crack at a singing career, where he tried to emulate Lionel Ritchie for some reason.
Wizard
And recorded a song about putting stuff in people’s butts.
Needfuldoer
Honestly he should have done more fun, nonsense, “Boogie in Your Butt” music; I don’t think 1985 America was ready to take him seriously.
ARoseJess
Sad…but that’s me the first time I skipped a college class…(*spoiler* it would NOT be the last time, and no, it did not turn out well)
Doctor_Who
I went to a massive school, and there were lectures with a few hundred students so they never took attendance, and the slides were online, and it’s not like you can ask questions in a lecture that big anyway.
Might as well sleep in. 7:30 AM is no time for learning.
vlademir1
Nah, 7:30 am is a great time for learning, just not in an entry level dumb lecture class.
It’s the 2:30pm one that eats your soul… especially when your boss keeps scheduling you at 3pm and trying to write you up for being late when you show up at 5pm even though your availability doesn’t start until 4:30. OK, yeah, I’m still bitter about that jerkoff twenty years on since he set a tone for the type of stupidity I could expect in the workplace. Same dumbass used to also salute me in the NSDAP style as I walked into work because black trench coat and combat boots… it was 1998, that was sorta the style, well before April of ’99 anyway.
Marsh Maryrose
His salute truly invoked Popehat’s
Rule of Goats.
hof1991
The narrow Venn Diagram of Popehat and Dumbing of Age followers.
Kyrik Michalowski
Well Joyce, being worried over something tends to cause an elevated heart rate and I’d say expecting angry angels or a talking donkey would do it. Now what is her heart rate going to look like if Becky/her mom/anyone asks how church was and she doesn’t have an answer?
Ophidiophile
Nothing bad happened. And the longer nothing happens, the more she’s going to worry about the really bad things that could happen, because she knows that the universe won’t just ignore her not going to church. That’s how anxiety works.
Marsh Maryrose
And now I really need to start a band just so I can name it “Expecting Angry Angels.”
Mr. Random
Many rules are there to provide structure. Living outside of it, without any consequence, it’s odd. Part of growing up.
timemonkey
I’m wondering what her reaction is going to be as she starts testing her beliefs and finds everything she’s afraid of doesn’t happen. ill she be happy? Relieved? Angry? Sad? A combination of the above?
Jamie
Current evidence is trending towards “Panicked.”
Felian
unfortunately, christianity is smarter than that and promises you thing that you won’t find out before your earthly life is over. You may feel fine but then you’ll end up in hell, and since you can’t disprove that, you better believe…..
even after years of content atheism, there’s still this tiny nag of doubt of “but what if i die and find there IS a hell with biblical entry criteria?” …. well played, christianity, permanent dread instilled early on!
Darkoneko
Her donkey didn’t what now
Sean Dillon
I didn’t know Joyce was a fan of William S Burroughs.
ian livs