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Perfect for each other
Posted on June 30, 2013 by David M Willis

204 thoughts on “Perfect for each other”

  1. Axel

    You’re killing me, Joyce.

    1. Ragnal

      YOO AH TEHHING ME APAHT, JOYCE!

      1. andiemus

        I’M FED AUP WITH THIS WULD!

        1. timemonkey

          …..Jesus?

        2. Yarrr

          win

        3. MMX2

          O hai Mark.

        4. A

          WHAT DRUGS DENNY! WHAT DRUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

        5. ninja_jesus

          AH DID NUT HIT HUR, AH DID NAHT.

        6. Chronos

          oh, Hai Jacob!

      2. Gold

        For a second there I thought you were all trying to talk in Ebonics.

        1. ironballs16

          I think ebonics (or even the old Jive talk from “Airplane!”) is FAR more comprehensible than that accent.

      3. Aisling

        i almost spit water on my phone at that reference

    2. Kernanator

      Quick, arrest her for murder.

      1. Boom

        Actually it’d be attempted murder since she was caught in the act.

  2. Kernanator

    Oh Joyce, what will we ever do with you?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Trade her in for a less defective model? 😀

      1. Boom

        Is a retrofit also a possibility?

      2. Kernanator

        The developers are working on a patch.

        Honest.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Of the nicotine kind now doubt.

        2. Boom

          Don’t be silly. The only thing Joyce is addicted to is the love of Jesus!

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          When it comes to communion wine and wavers, once you pop, you cannot stop.

        4. Boom

          What denomination is Joyce?

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          Nun-denominationial IIRC.

        6. tahrey

          Seventh day advent-hoppist.

        7. VMtheCoyote

          Get thee far from me, papist heretic!
          [/Joyce]

        8. Ivan

          I’d be a great Messiah.

          “This is my body. Sit on this appendage. This is not my blood. No… don’t ask, just do what I tell you!”

      3. xKiv

        She’s been damaged too much.
        Trade her in for a less-been model.

        1. Flushmaster

          What about a les-bian model? Preferably with an on-board camera. What’s the markup on that one?

  3. SUGauthor

    One of these days she’ll run it through her head before she says it out loud.

    1. ALLxISxGONE

      When will that be? 10 or 20 years from now?

      1. Shariku Onikage

        No.

        No it will not.

        1. Ragnal

          So we’re looking at less time, then…?

  4. The Sound Defense

    This is what happens when you don’t grow up around minorities; when you meet one you have no idea how to interact.

    1. Raibean

      Trust me, white kids from diverse neighborhoods say plenty of racist shit without realizing it.

      1. MichaelHaneline

        Trust me, kids from diverse neighborhoods say plenty of racist shit without realizing it.

        1. Flakes

          Yeah but it’s two different types of racism:

          Kids from homogeneous neighborhoods learn the stereotypes without seeing what the people they are applied to are really like, while kids from diverse neighborhoods see the behaviors that caused the stereotypes as “normal” and don’t realize it’s inappropriate to generalize them to other people.

        2. Icalasari

          Trust me, people say plenty of racist shit without realizing it

        3. AsimovSideburns

          Trust me, kids say plenty of racist shit.

        4. Gordon Blvd

          win

        5. Shilo

          . . . you just had to get in their and defend those poor white people, huh? :/

      2. tahrey

        I’ve been there, I was that solider. As well as ableist and probably sexist to boot.

        It’s something you can grow out of, but it does require some self awareness and you end up always second guessing yourself…

  5. ASmellyOgre

    Oh, Joyce. Joycey Joyce.

    Joycey Joycey Joycey Joyce.

    I forgot what I was going to say because that is just too much fun.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Rejoycing I see.

      1. Resne

        She needs a de-joycing if you ask me.

        1. Chronos

          A Joyce-ing machine would work best, to remove it from the pulp.

        2. Ivan

          Pulp? Like this @ Octo Pie? http://bit.ly/11WPgRR

        3. Sarpiedon

          A good joe-ing would fik all her ills.

  6. Aizat

    Hey, at least she didn’t start with a racial slur or something offensive.

    1. Kernanator

      Always remember, it could be worse.

      1. Boom

        She could have set him on fire with her lust-fuelled stare.

        1. Kernanator

          Maybe he set off the fire alarm, with his SMOKIN’ HOT BODY.

          …I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at my pun.

        2. Boom

          Option C: defending yourself from a class action lawsuit for the pain and suffering that pun has caused.

        3. Aizat

          Is it hot enough to have a BBQ on it?

        4. Kernanator

          Crack open an egg on his abs. That shit will SIZZLE.

        5. Mrelegos

          Just don’t try that on Walky’s sister. You’ll get SALmonella!

        6. Luzahn

          Now now, we all know that Joyce’s lack of a lust-fuelled stare for Jacob means that she only lusts for Sal.

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          Sal’s motorbike.

          FIXED!

        8. Boom

          Caramel.

          RE-FIXED!

      2. timemonkey

        She could have said ‘No wonder Ethan’s gay.’

    2. Sporky

      she kinda did start with something offensive

      thats the point

  7. Boom

    Five minutes Joyce! That’s all we’re asking of you! Just five minutes where you don’t stick your foot in your mouth! Metaphorically. If you did it literally that’d be kind’f hot.

    1. Mr. Random

      Kinda nasty, really. Foot doesn’t taste good…….I expect.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        Incredibly nasty. Feet are gross.

        1. Makkabee

          What if she washed them first?

        2. FlyingFish

          Hey, she should be all about washing feet, right?

        3. sidhe3141

          And before she can wash feet, she has to uncover them…
          Oh wait we’re talking about HER OWN feet. Somehow that’s not quite as hot.

      2. tahrey

        Only because you (we?) go around barefoot all the time.

        Nice fresh socks, pair of odor-eaters in the shoes, shower every morning giving them a quick scrub… and it’s just skin, yknow?

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    I was trying to figure out why Joyce is acting the way she does, until I remembered who Joyce’s room-mate was.

    1. Boom

      I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        For a few seconds, I thought Joyce’s room-mate was either Dotty, Dina or Sierra.

        1. Totz the Plaid

          I had the same problem, except my first thought was:

          “Billie? Well, she’s looking out for a friend at least! Wait. She’s not rooming with Billie… Who’s she rooming with agai- Oh. Oh… *facepalm* Really, Joyce? Just because Jacob and Sarah are both black? Really?!”

        2. ender1200

          Had the same reaction. For some reason i remembered she was billies roommate.

        3. DarkVeghetta

          Same. It didn’t strike me until after I saw Joyce’s realization.

    2. Aizat

      You mean, BILLIE?

      1. Blue

        It wasn’t until now that I realised her roommate isn’t Billie.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Room-mates:
          Billie and Sal
          Joyce and Sarah
          Dotty and Sierra
          Amber and Dina

        2. timemonkey

          They share a half-bathroom, so they kinda are.

        3. Lawzlo

          I think that just makes them half-of-a-bathroom-mates, which is totally a phrase that exists in language.

        4. Chronos

          “Suitemate” is probably the word you’re looking for.

        5. Erika Hammerschmidt

          The first time I heard that word I thought it was “sweet mate,” which was very confusing in the context.

  9. alicemacher

    [Insert Picard-facepalm image here.]

    1. Boom

      [Jackie Chan WTF Image Counter]

      1. andiemus

        [David Silverman AREYOUSERIOUS face]

        1. Doctor Lantern

          [David Willis Troll Face here]

        2. Josh

          [Damn you Willis rageface here]

        3. Makkabee

          [this face intentionally left blank]

        4. xKiv

          [carface]

  10. Ragnal

    Poor Joyce, remembering for a fact that Sarah is, in fact, a grump, and would not be perfect for a guy that she knows for all of three seconds.

    …Betcha thought you knew where I was going with this. THE JOKE IS ON YOU!

    1. Boom

      Get it off, get it off, get it off! I’m allergic to jokes! Aaaaaah!

      1. Mr. Random

        Quick! Use this Epi-pen!

  11. Shadowcthuhlu

    What Joyce meant to say: “You’re perfect for me. Abs.”

  12. Kamino Neko

    I ♥ Jacob’s response.

  13. Boom

    Now, Jacob… take off your shirt. Take of your shirt! Do it. Do it, do it, do it!

    1. Kennerly

      His is the type that will do anything a woman wants.

      1. Boom

        SHOW ME YOUR NIPPLES, JACOB!

  14. Plasma Mongoose

    Jacob/Dina, Moe Couplet.

    1. Jackson

      Darn it, PM, you gotta put a TVTropes Link Warning on that shit!

  15. Nena

    Joyce is so awkward, isn’t she? haha

  16. Kennerly

    Playing matchmaker is next to godliness.

  17. brionl

    It’s OK, they probably already know each other anyway.
    What? What!?

    1. Alexis

      No, no, it’s fine.

      THOSE people ALWAYS know each other.

      You know. Sophomores.

      1. Regalli

        Do we know if Jacob’s a sophomore, actually?

  18. Plasma Mongoose

    Gotta ask, is there a significant number of blacks going to IU or are they a tiny proportion of the student population?

    1. timemonkey

      I’m pretty sure we’re not supposed to refer to them as just ‘blacks’.

      1. Mr. Random

        People of a descent that gives their epidermal layer a naturally dark skin tone is a bit of a mouthful.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        I could have also chosen the term “of African decent” but I used black cos for most part, almost everyone knows what someone means when you use the word black in a racial sense, the same way when you hear the word white you think “of Europeon decent” or possibly “of NW Europeon decent”.

    2. Chrissy

      Yeah, “black people” is more accepted than “blacks” because referring to people with a summarizing identifying descriptor is kind of dehumanizing, since people are all multifaceted and more than any one descriptor can capture. The race breakdown of IU according to “college prowler”:
      African American 4%
      Asian 4%
      Hispanic 3%
      International 9%
      Native American 0%
      White 77%
      Unknown 1%
      Historically Black College/University? No
      Tribal College? No
      Out-of-State Students 38%

      1. Chrissy

        Also, to put it in context, in 2011 the US census bureau estimated 13.1% of Americans identified as African American compared to 9.4% of Hoosiers.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          I also heard somewhere that in America if you, your parents or grandparents came from Africa, you are clearly African-American, if your family has lived in the US since at least the 18th century, you’re Black.

          I’m not sure if there is any point in a distiction like this unless “African-Americans” see themselves as different from “Blacks”.

        2. timemonkey

          The issue is the way you’re saying it. It’s ‘black people’ not ‘blacks’.

        3. DarkVeghetta

          ‘white people’ sounds terrible, I’d rather be called ‘white’. In the interest of equality, I’m using ‘black’. If subject of sed descriptor has a problem with it, he’s welcome to forward another term he personally agrees with more.

        4. Buckybone

          Most black people prefer “African-American”, as if they don’t think they should be fully American.

        5. Makkabee

          Um… no. That’s not the reason.

          (At least not in the vast majority of cases. Unwise to speak in absolutes, particularly when you’re dealing with c. 40 million people)

          But seriously, why do you think African Americans don’t think they should be fully American? Also, if (while in the USA) you see a “kiss me, I’m Irish” t-shirt do you assume the person wearing it is saying s/he isn’t American at all?

        6. David

          wtf dude

          i guess someone was bound to out-racist joyce in today’s comments but damn

        7. Ivan

          hey people… next time you visit IU, drive north a few hours to Gary.

          Try 1 block off 5th & Broadway. At 1am. Report back if you live. Murder cap of USA, many, many times.

          Per Cap – per cap.

        8. Kitrona

          … seriously? I’ve driven through Gary at 1 am and later lots of times, and I’m so white I glow in the dark. I have yet to be shot. Or maimed. Or murdered, etc.

          Also, it’s not “a few hours” from Bloomington to Gary. Closer to 5 or 6.

        9. DarkVeghetta

          ^ obviously, your car looks too cheap. Or not redneck enough.

        10. Blur

          Down where I live the term African-American will get you dirty stares from a lot of black people. I was partly raised by a black family and the father once told me that the term African-American sounded too much like something said by someone scared to call him what he is. Black.

          But that doesn’t seem to be the case in other parts of the country. So it really depends.

        11. Love is Mathematical

          In some regions of Europe the preferred term is “brown” (not necessarily the English word for brown).

          My Jamaican boss likes referring the kids we work with according to their true colors: chocolate, caramel, peachy-cream, pepperoni.

          Yes, my Jamaican boss in Europe.

        12. Marcos Dantas

          Hummmm, a delicious workplace …

        13. LiamKav

          What parts? It certainly doesn’t apply in the UK, where you’d want to use the term “black people” rather than “blacks”, and (just FYI) “gay people” rather than “gays”.

          (Obviously, calling a black British guy “African-American” would just be weird.)

        14. DarkVeghetta

          So, ‘white/black people’ would be the plural for ‘black/white’ as well as for ‘black/white person’? I -sort- of get it, but this is pretty inane PC-ism. There’s a reason why it’s ‘Brits’, not ‘British people’ in common parlance.

        15. DarkVeghetta

          peachy-cream? pepperoni? I have zero idea what ethnicities must have been involved to create those colors.

        16. DarkVeghetta

          Wait… why are all of those also innuendo?

      2. Lawzlo

        I hope that the “unknown” 1% are Native Americans, otherwise that statistic is kinda depressing.

        1. Lawzlo

          Well, it would still be kinda depressing, but still…

      3. Dhirik

        Oddly enough, it gets a little more subtle (at least judging from an average of mainstream media articles I read).
        “Blacks” is used as a subject frequently, and I rarely see people offended.

        For instance, “Blacks/hispanics voted predominantly for…. in that election”
        When preceded by an article, it sounds loads worse to the ear, and people react. e.g. “…for the blacks…”. Even “…for blacks…” sounds almost as bad.

        I know to my ear the latter two sound worse; I’m going to guess it’s a matter of agency within the sentence that’s led to that usage, but it definitely isn’t intuitive a priori.

      4. Andrew_C

        I always put my race as “Other” on forms that ask for it. I understand why they ask, but I grew up in Apartheid South Africa and remember all the forms that asked that there for very different reasons and am just glad most forms here give you the option of “Other”.

  19. someguywithakatana

    I don’t get why this is difficult. Sure, even if she did say it purely out of racial motivations, it shouldn’t be too hard to give a basic description of Sarah’s personality.

    Ya know. Cyncial. Grumpy. Fond of baseball bats.

    1. timemonkey

      The problem is likely because she has no reason to think they’d be a good couple. It’s not like Sarah’s a body builder or has displayed an interest in muscle guys so she has nowhere to go but stick her foot in her mouth.

    2. Jackson

      I like to think that in panel 3, something like this is going through Joyce’s mind:

      “Yikes, you can’t just say “black!” Describe her personality! No, wait, don’t describe her personality! Maybe go with hobbies? What’s she into? Studying? Oh geez I really did not think this through”

      1. bunivasal

        In the inevitable Dumbing of Age cartoon, can we get Zach Braff to provide Joyce’s inner monologue?

        1. DarkVeghetta

          YES. ALL OF MY YES.

    3. Reepicheep-chan

      I think mostly she started saying a thing without realizing how terrible it was and then she realized how terrible it was and got all flustered. Joyce is not intentionally awful, after all, just ignorant as hell.

  20. K

    Jacob kind of creeps me out. Just his face. It’s like a freaky… goldfish face. Or something. I can’t explain it.

    1. DarkVeghetta

      It’s his LIPS. Hence ‘goldfish face’. They’re orange… nothing else is (as far as we can see bow chika bow wow). Hmm… his face is somewhat too round as well. Ya’ know, the more I look at him the creepier he gets. I think I’ll stop now.

  21. Jetstream

    Damn girl, that foot in mouth disease is gonna get fatal soon. Engage brain before mouth, dear.

  22. Ben

    Dang it Joyce… I try to be on your side (or at least understand it), i really do, but you can’t just /do/ things like that…

    1. Ben

      ^^ ironic pic for my thing…

    2. timemonkey

      At least this time she didn’t call him a novelty.

  23. Bearfuz

    Joyce might grow up to be Paula Deen. Just sayin’.

    1. DSL

      Promoting an unhealthy diet while hiding the fact she’s on a drug as a result of a condition promoted by that diet, while clandestinely taking money from a company that makes that drug?

      1. Totz the Plaid

        Nah, just a cholesterol-filled accidental racist whose arteries are so clogged that not enough blood gets to her brain for her to think before she speaks.

        I’m not saying what Paula Deen did was acceptable or right, I’m just saying that if your brain had more cholesterol than blood, you’d say stupid shit that you grew up with, too.

        I don’t think she meant to be racist, per se, but she was racist, and she deserves all the negative attention she’s getting for it.

        1. Li

          I think she completely meant to be racist. She just didn’t mean to get in trouble for it.

        2. DarkVeghetta

          Not really ALL of it. She’s just not used to different people. Like nudists. I could conceivably say something similar to a nudist regarding another nudist JUST because they’re nudists. Horrible, I know.

  24. Mr. Torgue

    Jacob totally looks like a Goron.

  25. Uniqueantique

    Joyce tries, she just doesn’t put brain in gear before she engages mouth.
    And if NOT correct to call African descended people ‘just’ blacks, why is it okay to call caucasions people (sp?) ‘just’ white. Just askin?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Personally it doesn’t bother me to be refered to as white, even though that due to having some Spanish blood, I might be classed as part Latino, a term I don’t really hear outside of American TV shows.

    2. Hoboturtle

      I think it has to do with how you say it if anything. Saying someone is white or black isn’t offensive. But calling a group of people just their ethnic is weird. Saying, “look at that group of white people” sounds better then look at those whites”. “People” being the keyword that makes it okay cause that says “people who just so happen to be this way”. I personally would be confused if I and my family was referred to as ‘blacks”, cause that sounds like an Overlord minion type.

      The alternative is that white people are never really referred to by people by their ethnicity. When you see someone who is white, you usually just say, “that guy”. When you see a person who’s black, “you usually say that black guy”. White being treated as the norm and so minorities are allow to make fun of them.

      If someone prefers to be called “african-american” as suppose to “black”? I have no idea. I’m a black guy. I grew up in new york, not much African about me (hell my family is Caribbean-american if anything).

      1. DarkVeghetta

        To be fair, white -is- the norm in the US and Europe, while black is the norm in Africa. Eskimo’s the norm where your dick freezes off when you pee.
        For clarity people tend to attach small descriptors if they’re simple to use. Black/white’s pretty handy if sed group is a minority, not so much if mostly everyone’s that way. Also we’re very visual apes – if everyone would be wearing top-hats I’d wager ‘dapper’ would be used in place of any racial distinction.
        …
        What I’m trying to say is that verbal racial tensions can be diffused by wearing a tuxedo and a top hat. Extra points for a monocle.

    3. Dhirik

      Honestly, I think it almost purely because using a phrase like “the blacks” or “those Hispanics” has been such a constant feature of racist commentary on minority groups. The kind of thing an old racist grandma would say. That phrasing gets tainted and people react because it’s reminiscent. When you use the same word in a way that doesn’t resonate with that language, it usually doesn’t bother people.

      And because you just don’t hear about “those whites”, that phrasing doesn’t really set people off.

      Anyway, just because the reaction is inconsistent doesn’t make that reaction less real, so I usually figure there’s no reason to prod people.

    4. Li

      Because white people have zero racial tension behind them and don’t care what they’re called. Seriously. Racially-charged names cannot hurt us because there is no power behind them, no oppression there, nothing.

      Find me a white person who is actually offended by “cracker”, for example, and I’ll find you someone who just thinks they should be able to say the N-word with impunity and that it’s really unfair that we have a Black History Month but don’t have a White History Month. Someone with no sense of context or scale, in other words.

      1. xKiv

        Unrelated, but I probably *would* be offended by being called cracker. I do not crack software.
        I might qualify for being called hacker though. I had to hack my way around some seriously convoluted code. But I do not even begin to compare to the greats.

      2. Reepicheep-chan

        This. I do not give any shits if people wanna get down on me cause of my race b/c at the end of the day I still have my white people privileges and no amount of name calling is gonna change that. On the other hand I hate hate HATE when people whip out the sexist slurs like ‘c’mon guys being a lady is already hard as balls why you gotta be like that?’

        In any case as a white person I get to make the call on what is or is not offense to white people, I do not get to make the call for people of other elasticities; if someone of color is offended by a thing then I just gotta accept that and not be a dick about it. It is called ‘not being a dick’.

        1. DarkVeghetta

          Yet sometimes poking fun at old wounds is therapeutic for everyone involved.
          Words only have power in a context and the day the old slurs stop being taken seriously will be a good day for equality. I won’t call a black person the N-word because that’s just not cool, I will however call my very white friends that and myself as well since it mocks the term itself therefor taking away it’s symbolic power/place and replacing it with a lighter tone.
          On some parts of the Internet this is common parlance, and incidentally it is on those parts that the word isn’t offensive to anyone anymore because everyone knows it’s only used as a joke – much like ‘your mom with my penis for a nickel’ has lost all pejorative meaning around here or ‘fag’ just means ‘user’ on 4-chan.
          Hopefully such practices spread past the Internet eventually and sad, offensive words loose their original meaning, thus taking some wind out of that still-lingering racial tension.

    5. AHR

      In terms of being correct/incorrect, it really depends on the person. :/. I know some people who saw the term “black” as really offensive, and others who saw it as just a term (both of these coming from someone who could fall under said description). Soooo…yeah, it’s the type of thing I just pay attention to and see if I cause any twitches by saying it.

  26. Twirls

    I’m actually intrigued as to how Sarah and Jacob would interract now because Javob seems pretty nice and Sarah is perpetually grumpy. But, yeah, count me in the number who forgot for a second that Joyce’s roommate wasn’t Billie.

    1. Darchias

      They seem to share an affinity for snarking at Joyce, at least.

    2. randonimity

      I am too. Jacob has always struck me as personable.

    3. Marcos Dantas

      Sarah wouldn’t be grumpy anymore after being jacobed. Jacob would jacob the grumpy out of her.

  27. vuragado

    Nice. Just nice Joyce.

  28. Raibean

    I bet there are like 5 black women at this university and Jacob has been set up with all of them. Let’s remember we’re not even a month into school yet.

    1. DarkVeghetta

      To be fair, humans tend to be more sexually attracted to our own racial groups, by and large. Social change has somewhat diluted this, but it’s really not -quite- as racist as everyone seems to think it is. Now, saying it as the first thing after you meet him… yeah.
      That sed, I’d be very interested in getting a black/Asian/Indian girlfriend one of these days and I’m pretty damn white if I don’t do enough farm work.
      Ok, so maybe it is as racist as it sounds like. Still, this is Joyce damnit! New and unfamiliar with the setting’s social interactions is still a valid excuse here.

  29. Jenny Creed

    Hello second black person I’ve ever seen! Have you seen the other black person? You should have so much in common since you’re both black!

    Thor’s beard, Joyce, even you should be able to figure out that just because you know two black people doesn’t mean there are only two black people.

    1. Jenny Creed

      We’re probably lucky she’s not calling Jacob a son of Ham and demanding he be put to slave work, on reflection.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        Hey, to be fair, he’s the FIFTH black person she’s met (remember Sierra?) if we count the mixed-race nature of Walky and Sal. She just knows that Sal’s got her own thing going on. And points for her to not immediately follow that up by suggesting Sierra.

        She knows that Sarah’s grumpy and feels alone, so despite the incredibly racist implication that she and Jacob would be a good match just because they’re both black, she’s still kinda looking out for her roomate.

        She should really try to get Sarah and Mike together, though. I’d LOVE to see them on at least one date.

        1. Notebooked

          I didn’t even consider that angle, especially since their last conversation was Joyce saying she’s made friends with her risk-taking while Sarah’s still alone. Good catch!

          And good lord, Sarah and Mike. I can’t even imagine the consequences.

        2. DarkVeghetta

          All aboard the SaraxMike, next destination: DOOM! HORROR! JAYWALKING!

        3. Jenny Creed

          I did not remember, though now I’m happy Joyce didn’t assume Jacob was Sarah’s brother.

          And, I could buy she’s looking out for Sarah if we had seen her trying to find her dates before, or if it had been established Sarah is looking for dates within her own skin tone spectrum. . .actually, looking for dates at all. But I really don’t think Joyce looked any further than “Hey these people have the same unusual skin color and compatible genitals, they must be made for each other”, and hey, it looks like even she realizes she goofed up when Jacob starts talking and she’s reminded that he’s a person.

    2. Alex Stritar

      Hasn’t Joyce already me Sierra? Only reason she hasn’t set her up with with Sarah is because she’s still in her ‘homosexuality is a sin’ phase.

  30. Arkadi

    Joyce just can’t get a break today XDXDXDXD

  31. Kaci

    no Roadblock poster?

  32. skillions

    yo but seriously they would be super perfect for each other

  33. KB_SBI

    I would have punched her in the throat. There’s nothing worse than white people who think that you’re automatically best buds with every other person who’s a similar shade of brown.

    1. DarkVeghetta

      Except ya know… genocide n’ Hitler. Also Pol Pot and Twilight.

      1. DarkVeghetta

        Also my penis in your mother. Wait, since this is me replying to myself, would that make it incest? Huh, well suppose for some that’s pretty terrible too.

  34. Notebooked

    “No, no, no, she’s just an angry misanthrope who doesn’t want anything to do with the social scene, which seems like…your…type?”

    Joyceus.

  35. RJF

    I dunno, this page seems more of a stereotype than an actual credible character moment. I get that “Dumbing of Age” is a comedy so we need to embarrass people and make jokes, but I don’t recall any previous incident where Joyce has been particularly insensitive about colour so for her to suddenly blurt this out seems odd.

    1. OnarReshana

      Well, I’d have to go back through the series to give you exact pages, but Joyce has always had a tendency to blurt out potentially racist statements due to having lived sheltered from most of the world. It’s not that she means to…just she doesn’t think things through before she says them. I recall her calling Billie Mexican at one point

    2. kujazlilmage

      Wasn’t there an incident before where she was talking about Sarah with Becky and essentially went on about “So yeah I have a BLACK roommate she’s BLACK like I’ve never roomed with a BLACK girl before do I call her my SISTER or are only BLACK people allowed to do that?”

      And Sarah was standing RIGHT THERE, so…yeah. This kind of thoughtless blabbing isn’t new from Joyce. The difference is she at least seems to be aware (if only a little bit) about how some of the things she says are unacceptable.

    3. Jackson

      Here, I can help.

      Sisters: regarding Sarah
      Mixed: regarding Billie
      David: regarding Walky

      This kind of thing is, admittedly, not a super-frequent occurrence for Joyce, but it happens.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        I beg to differ: if you consider the fact that the strip’s covered maybe 3 weeks of time, it’s pretty frequent…

    4. Greenygal

      This strip establishes both that Joyce has spent her life surrounded entirely by white people and that she’s liable to say dumb things because of it. (I feel like there are others, but this is the one I remember.)

      1. John

        This one and the next, too.

    5. AHR

      On Jacob’s end, it seems pretty common. He gets a bit snarky about this stuff, judging from Shortpacked.

  36. sumolegend

    “She’s got a great personality!”

  37. Chubsius

    Somehow, I think a shortpacked!, sex-addict version of Jacob would be more “perfect” for Joyce than Ethan. I’m shipping Joyce/Jacob now because I think he’s the straight guy who take her the most out of her comfort zone. Plus, an Ethan/Jacob/Joyce love triangle? Epic.

    Fanart, commence fufilling my dreams and fantasies.

    1. Whittier

      This is fantastic all around.

  38. Historyman68

    Aw up until the last panel he’s still giving her the benefit of the doubt.

  39. Ellie

    and he’s so excited in the second panel. like he thinks she’s about to mention her roommate’s really into fitness or something and then nooooope.

  40. ArkhamTexan

    Joyce, you’re just so damn adorable sometimes! A lot of the time, actually.

  41. Vree

    Hey! You can’t say “white kids”! That’s racist!

  42. DARKFIRE32

    someone needs the magic “restart” button

  43. Crumplepunch

    SUDDENLY EYEBROWS

  44. Honor

    Poor Joyce always making bad first impressions.

  45. NightmareWarden

    Poor Ethan. He has so much awkward in his life already and then Joyce has to go and “Joyce-it-up” even more!

  46. ALLxISxGONE

    Just noticed this but not one webcomic iv read has ever made a beatlejuice reference… kind of expect it from this one though

    1. DarkVeghetta

      Comment section made a few in previous pages.

  47. Ross V

    I thought she was talking about Sal at first, and was like “…But isn’t she boning up on her math skills?”

  48. DiDi

    Aww… she’s doing the whole ‘they should be together because they’re the same race’ thing. That is sadly adorable.

  49. Gordon Blvd

    “That is sadly adorable.”……………………………..that quote is SUCH A WIN! 🙂

  50. Griffin

    So Jacob is officially voiced by Phil Lamarr in my head now. He probably always should have been.

  51. CrazyPete

    Thar be a lot of racist bullshit here matees

  52. SgtNumnum

    Bayformers poster? racism? This strip has problems all over it!

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