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Persistent
Posted on July 29, 2013 by David M Willis

237 thoughts on “Persistent”

  1. thecanvashat

    Joe’s dad is part zebra.

    1. Glib

      Part zebra, all beard

      1. Dorky

        I think he’s probably hung like a horse, though.

        1. Yotomoe

          He doesn’t get a lot of NEIGH sayers when it comes to the bedroom.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          These puns are giving me the TROTS.

        3. Aizat

          And some saddle sores.

        4. Doctor_Who

          I’m laughing myself horse.

        5. thecanvashat

          Recent Gallop polls put Joe’s dad as the second most fancy in a tie, right behind Dina, although Jason seems to be pulling ahead.

        6. Tucker

          He still has no name, but he was quite pleased about getting in out of the rain.

        7. Totz the Plaid

          They all ride him pretty hard.

        8. Aizat

          And they ride him all night.

        9. thecanvashat

          And they ride him all day.

        10. Aizat

          And they ride him all throughout the seasons.

        11. thecanvashat

          And they ride him into the sunset.

        12. Aizat

          And they ride him all throughout the year.

        13. Jenny Creed

          Something about horse doctors and solving all problems with his “gun”.

        14. Rogue of Space

          They also ride him out of the sunset, on your colour tv screen.

    2. EvergreenFir

      Is it wrong I immediately thought to myself, “are his pubes striped too?”

      1. nothri

        No. The thing you did that was wrong is to pass that mental image on to the rest of us.

  2. Justnobody

    Joe’s dad voted for best dad.

    1. Aizat

      Voted by the ladies?

      1. thecanvashat

        And also Ethan.

        1. VZG

          “Boom. Helped your friend their embrace his sexuality. I’m good.”

          “Daaaaad, you’re embarrassing me.”

          “Aw, come on, Joe. What did you expect?”

          “For you to let me start the gun show, damn it.”

  3. Luzahn

    So…do they deliberately practice doing the same expression for greetings? Because that is just the best.

    1. thecanvashat

      Joe’s dad made Joe learn it at a young age.

    2. Doctor_Who

      The “How you doin?” look is genetic as well.

      1. Mr. Random

        Joe’s dad makes Joey look chivalrous.

        1. Lani

          Joey kind of was. In one of the Vegas episodes, he used that line on Rachel, and when she responded positively, rather than take advantage, he took it as a sign that she should stop drinking

  4. Raibean

    sexual harassment much?

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Not as much as Mr. Rosenthal would like…

    2. Luzahn

      Ahh, the avatar matching. It’s perfect.

  5. Kurai Seraphim

    I like to think his dad is wearing a tie so that he has something to hang on doors when he enters rooms. He’s just -that- confident.

    1. Yotomoe

      Joe’s dad isn’t going to not get action on this trip.

      1. thecanvashat

        Joe’s Dad, Action Star!

        1. Aizat

          That’s Dr Action Star.

        2. thecanvashat

          Captain Doctor Action Star III Rosenthal of the Five Inversions

        3. Undrave

          Don’t you mean ‘Five Insertions’? As in that’s how much tail he gets in one day.

        4. Jenny Creed

          Captain Doctor is a sweet title, but I believe the military counts Doctor as a rank equivalent to Major, so you’ll never see anything below a Major Doctor.

          Accuracy in a throwaway joke is very important.

        5. inkwell

          Shouldn’t it be Doctor Captain Sir? Or Major Doctor Sir.

          — also, at least during Korea, the rank of a standard surgeon was initially Captain. My knowledge of American military rank kind of peters out after 1955.

        6. Jenny Creed

          That’s very possible. And if my half-remembered trivia facts are correct I guess that indicates some rank inflation over the decades. How annoying. It’s like I want to dig into this and set the story straight, but at the same time I can’t bring myself to care that much.

        7. Rogue of Space

          So Joe’s dad is Alan Alda, then.

      2. Doctor_Who

        Nah, he’s gonna hook up with Roz, just to seriously creep Joe out.

        1. Yotomoe

          And their video will get more views.

        2. timemonkey

          That could potentially be the most awkward threesome of Joe’s life.

  6. Geminia999

    Satah you are forgetting an important fact! He also has a tie!

  7. Doctor_Who

    Joe’s dad is Joe from the other universe! He canonically has a dimensional portal! He uses it to father other Joes across the multiverse!

    IT ALL MAKES SENSE!

    1. Aizat

      So, Joe is his own father? And quite possibly his own grandfather and his great-great-great grandfather?

      1. thecanvashat

        It’s the Joegularity

        1. Doctor_Who

          The Joeniversal constant.

        2. thecanvashat

          The Joelpha and the Joemega.

        3. Thor

          He’s got generational Joementum.

        4. thecanvashat

          We are the Joe. Lower your shields and surrender your girls. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, if you know what we mean. Resistance is futile.

        5. Whittier

          Especially adding biological distinctiveness.

        6. saltchocolate

          Or maybe fertile.

      2. Yotomoe

        It’s Joe’s fault for having hot mom’s, otherwise he wouldn’t keep doing this.

      3. Animal

        David Lister did it first.

    2. Ascension

      That’ll happen when you Joe every fertile woman you meet.

    3. Zoroark173

      He needs to shave his beard and then they can switch out with each other. Then he will be pretending to be Joe, even though he is the father of Joe who is Joe. JOECEPTION.

    4. Fernando

      “Hello, Sarah! Yes, I know your name. You see, I’m from another universe and I know a different version of you from back home. Actually, I know all sorts of stuff, like all your favorite pleasure points, favorite positions…”

      1. Doctor_Who

        I can actually see “I’m from another universe” working as a pickup line. Sort of like how “I’m from another planet” worked in Hitchhiker’s Guide.

        1. Li

          It didn’t, though. I mean, Trillian — aka Trisha McMillan — went with Zaphod because she was bored with her life on Earth and wanted more. Frankly lots of us would probably jump at the chance just like she did. You can’t really give the pickup line too much credit.

          Of course I’m talking about the radio play or the books, where Trillian does indeed fall in love with Zaphod, who is interesting and charming and layered even in his seeming shallowness; I’m definitely not talking about the big budget movie, where Trillian was in fact seduced away from her true soul mate Arthur by Zaphod’s coolness and later regrets everything. In that case, yes: clearly the pickup line had its intended effect.

    5. The Candyman

      Joe did the nasty in the pasty.

  8. Aizat

    So, Joe’s dad is basically Joe with a beard? Well, at least he sorta looked like Riker with that beard.

    1. Cleftes

      Thank God I’m not the only one who thought that!

  9. Blue

    Joe looks actually apologetic in the last panel.

    1. Yotomoe

      Probably cuz he remembered his dad hitting on women when he and his mom were together. Kind of a buzz kill realization.

      1. MM

        Also, he knows Sarah will remember this moment every time he tries to hit on her in future.

        1. Yotomoe

          Joe, remember how your dad had more game than you?

        2. thecanvashat

          Joe’s dad’s been gamin’ since before the Famicom.

        3. Totz the Plaid

          Famicom? Hell, Joe’s dad’s been gamin’ since before PONG, and the Rosenthal men have been gaming since before games were a thing!

        4. Yotomoe

          First there was the big bang. Then 5 minutes later, there was the second biggest bang. And that was the first Joeing in history.

        5. Aizat

          Why do you think they called it the Big Bang in the first place?

        6. thecanvashat

          Deuterium: “Hey, Joe, are you bu–Oh. Ooooh. I’ll see you later then.

  10. Sir Robin

    I ship this now, Joe can start calling Sarah “Mom”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Does that mean that Mike will show up anytime now with a nickel?

      1. Sir Robin

        No, the Mike x Sarah Hate-Fuck would destroy the Earth

        1. thecanvashat

          And most of Mars.

        2. Totz the Plaid

          Strangely, the moon will remain intact, though.

        3. Aizat

          And Pluto will be the new planet for humanity. And yes, I still say Pluto is a planet.

        4. Totz the Plaid

          Pluto and Charon are a binary planet in my view.

        5. thecanvashat

          Watch out for the men in black. They’re cracking down on poorly defined words.

        6. Sir Robin

          Because no nickel was given, Mike does not destroy Uranus

        7. Justnobody

          Your mom’s anus, though……

        8. sidhe3141

          I hear there are certain fungal gentlemen who would object to that.

          Until Joe makes first contact.

  11. Wonder Wig

    I remember David’s tumblr post about Joyce’s parents and his technique for parents in general, and the little part about how some will only look like older version of their kids for effect…

  12. ASmellyOgre

    I’m starting to think Joe doesn’t actually have a mom and he’s just a clone of his dad.

    1. Yotomoe

      I like to think Joe’s mom looks exactly like Joe’s dad.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        …including the beard.

        1. Aizat

          And Joe needed therapy to forget that image.

        2. Aizat

          And unfortunately for Joe, his dad is doing the therapist.

        3. Yotomoe

          During the session.

        4. thecanvashat

          While One Direction is being played out the window.

        5. Aizat

          Why One Direction? I would’ve gone with Ethereal Icelandic Moaning.

        6. Aizat

          Or Barry White.

        7. Yotomoe

          Oh there’ll be moaning, alright.

    2. Peruhain

      Parthenogenesis!

  13. Yotomoe

    And again Roomies and DOA sync up.

    1. Totz the Plaid

      I think that’s why the Rosenthal’s divorced before Joe hit college in DoA. Willis didn’t want to have the same sort of story going on in both simultaneously.

      1. Draga

        the sync up is just a coincidence, Willis said that certain stories like Ethan’s coming out and in this case the divorce have already happened

  14. Gram91

    Joe’s dad is more Joe than Joe O_o

    1. Doctor_Who

      Joe’s mom is also Joe.

      1. AgentKeen

        Which means, Joe’s dad Joe’d Joe’s mom, and due to the transitive property, that can be simplified to Joe Joe’d Joe.

        1. Yotomoe

          and when Joe joe’d joe, joe made joe to joe other joes until they too, make joes.

        2. Totz the Plaid

          Joe joed Joe to make Joe who joes all the hos to make more Joes to joe more hos to make more Joes.

        3. Gram91

          Planet of the Joes in the making

        4. Totz the Plaid

          “Only two things come from the Rosenthals, Joes and hos, and you ain’t lookin’ horny.”

        5. Yotomoe

          BULLSHIT, I bet you could Joe a joe through a garden hose! Are you a Joe Joer!!?

        6. Aizat

          Are you a Joe enough Joe to Joe the Joe?

        7. Gram91

          I haven’t even seen a biological female Rosenthal.

        8. thecanvashat

          YOU MANIACS! YOU JOED IT UP! AH, JOE YOU ALL! JOE YOU ALL TO JOE!

        9. Kernanator

          Very good! Can you say, “Titus the tailor told ten tall tales to Titania the titmouse”?

        10. AgentKeen

          Not without giggling at ‘titmouse’.

          Heh.

        11. Nakari

          Talk about JoeJoes Bizarre Adventure! That hurt to type…

      2. thecanvashat

        So is his future spouse.

    2. Aizat

      Well, where do you think Joe learn being Joe from?

      1. Gram91

        Hormones and bad 80s movies?

        1. Totz the Plaid

          That, too.

    3. Gigafreak

      Yo, Joe!

      Now you know (carnally), and knowing is half the battle.

  15. Plasma Mongoose

    The beard is strong with this one.

  16. AHR

    AAAAAAAA so this means the divorce happened before college in doaverse?

    1. David

      Joe talked about the divorce during his date with Joyce during the first year of the strip, so yes.

  17. AgentKeen

    Careful, Sarah. If there was some all-powerful creator listening to you, he might not be too happy suggesting he’s lazy. Don’t want him putting you in traumatic situations that would cause others to yell out ‘Damn you!’

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Nah, that was just Willis lampshading his design choices through his characters.

    2. Li

      This sort of logic makes sexual harassment and assault out to be natural disasters. “Situations you might find yourself in.” Rather than conscious decisions made by other people to be pieces of shit. And since God is all about free will, inflicting other people’s free choices on Sarah makes not even the tiniest bit of sense, nor should it be something God can arrange for punishment.

      All of this without even pointing out what a gross, stupid, and unworthy god God would be to think rape is an a proportionate response to being called “lazy”.

      1. Andy

        Or, y’know, it could just be a reference to the fact that this universe does, in fact, have a creator that is all-powerful in determining actions and whatnot due to the fact that it’s fictional. I have no clue what Willis’ position on free will is, but I imagine that if he let the characters exercise theirs, we wouldn’t have a comic. Because they’re not real and can’t decide what to do.

        1. Li

          a) Still super disproportionate, if OP was talking about the sexual harassment.
          b) Seems even LESS like something Willis would do, not only because he already made this joke himself?
          c) If Wills controls everything his characters do, then he made her call him lazy, so punishing her for that is now also extra special stupid.

          The joke makes even less sense by your interpretation of it, is what I’m saying.

          Sorry for snapping but this view of sexual assault / harassment as “event that happens” (rather than “act committed”) really is problematic and pernicious. It should be corrected until it stops happening.

        2. Yotomoe

          I think you’re being a TAD overdefensive. The OP probably meant another traumatic event aside from sexual harassment, as Willis is known for such things. I can see why you would assume he means sexual harassment, but attacking someone based on a hunch is why we had Witch Hunts. Clarify before you Persecute.

        3. Li

          Can I ask what part of my comment was an attack? Let alone a persecution? Those are such loaded words…

          I thought the comment was thoughtless, not malicious. The things it brought to mind were awful, but… where did I insult AgentKen or accuse him of anything? I was more annoyed with Andy’s glib response but I still wasnt insulting and I apologized for my tone just to be safe.

          Between this and the comment I got back from Andy, it makes me feel like my pissy avatar is coloring my words.

        4. Yotomoe

          I mean, I get it. I think you’re a smart verbose well spoken individual. But the way you come across seems to be dragging this into something it doesn’t need to go. I am sure the OP was just telling a joke and now the joke is gone. Because of the way you took it, it won’t be funny unless one chooses not to read your post. It’d be like if someone said.
          “Sarah just wants to go home and be lazy”
          and then I start on a tangent about how it’s a negative stereotype that all black people are lazy. Look, I’m not saying you don’t make good points. I respect or opinions more than quite a few others on this site, but sometimes you gotta pick how when you bring something of this nature up. I understand there are world problems that are often looked over and joked about that people don’t take seriousely, but to be honest it feels like youre grasping at straws here. If that joke isn’t safe then I don’t know what joke WOULD be. Look, I respect you a lot, I’m just sayin’ maybe tone it down sometimes.

        5. Li

          Okay, part of that is falling into the “calling me a bigot is as mean as bigotry” trap — but I really didn’t even call OP anything. I just pointed out what the logic, behind what I thought OP’s joke was, meant.

          I want to stress that I am sorry for misinterpreting the joke. Because I misinterpreted it, of course my response to it was wrong. I’m definitely sorry I made AgentKeen feel bad, if I did.

          But. Unless I’m misunderstanding you, you’re asking for more than that — for me to feel guilty that I spoiled a joke, and to next time think twice about speaking up lest I spoil another innocent joke.

          And that’s — a little bit silly. Because there are so many many many jokes out there that, both innocently and maliciously, really do reinforce rape culture — jokes that come from ways of thinking that just haven’t been challenged. A lot of good would be done if everyone did everything they could to cut those jokes off at the knees, to remind people that well-intentioned stuff like “rape prevention tips for women” actually do the opposite of helping.

          Meanwhile, a few innocent jokes will suffer — and when they do, the joke-teller will be appalled, and the person who misinterpreted the joke will be sorry. But nothing else bad will happen, to anyone. Certainly nothing remotely as bad as the, you know, day-to-day consequences of rape culture.

          This also goes for making people re-examine racist jokes and homophobic jokes and generally sexist jokes.

          You worry about people reading AgentKeen’s joke and not being able to laugh because I killed the mood. I think what they get instead of a joke now is some lovely human decency; his response to my comment is very kind, and my wrongness refreshes me at least even if no one else.

          So while I’m still sorry I made him feel bad, I can’t be too sorry I took the risk of saying something.

        6. Yotomoe

          Yeah and I guess I can understand that. Rape culture is a big deal. And maybe I’m wrong. I just feel that sometimes we seek out problems and make them more than they are because if we didn’t noone would learn…and there’s nothing wrong with that. I just feel….like you’re always on guard, waiting for something sexist , something mysoginistic, something rape culture to be said so that you can slap it down.You’re very intelligent and for the most part, your opinions are always righteous. But, the battlefield you have chosen is a webcomic comments section. That’s not to say mysoginistic, sexist people don’t comment here, FAR FROM IT IN FACT. However, I just feel like when you always try to make people see your point of view, at every opportunity, it seems…constricting. “You’d better watch what you say because you don’t want to be advocating rape culture”. Granted, if you’re saying something that DOES do that, it’s not good and you probably should be corrected…I dunno. Maybe I’m just really lax. I want to correct those who are ignorant and help them understand other points of view, but I feel no desire to constrict people. I may be nice but I am also awful. I love awful jokes and I have a terrible sense of humor. But at the same time, I guess I don’t take anything seriousely. I’m at a point in my life where most things bounce off on me and it just…stresses me out seeing someone always on guard. I know you have your reasons to do what you do so I guess I can’t stop you. Perhaps it’s not place. I just don’t feel like it’s worth it to always correct something that’s not politically correct. (If AgentKeen’s comment HAD been about Joe’s dad harassin’ Sarah maybe I would be more on your side, but the fact that I didn’t read it that way and you did is more what I’m about. You can correct dumb stuff, I just think you should lower your sensitivity so you don’t begin to become preachy).

        7. David

          If… if we must have giant walls of text that scroll down for pages in response to these comics, can they be about the comics themselves and not the other commenters?

        8. AgentKeen

          I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean it like that at all. I never meant for there to be a connection to the harassment Sarah’s receiving in the last panel.

          To be honest, the ‘character says something which makes the writer/artist upset and put them in bad/hilarious situations’ is a fairly common trope. I was mostly making a comment in that vein. In that situation, part of the comedy is that the writer is getting upset over something they made the character say, or the implication that the character is acting of their own volition, which is impossible. I also know that Willis wouldn’t really break the 4th wall for that joke, but he does have a tendency for characters to end up in tragic/difficult situations, so I was just playing off of that.

        9. Li

          Thank you for saying so, and I’m sorry I misinterpreted your intended punishment. Joe’s dad is seriously creeping me out so I thought the connection was clear, but yeah. As a general “or else Willis will inflict draaaaama on you!!” it’s all good.

          /in my head that voice is 100% Venture Bros Dr Morpheus so now I want to rewatch!

    3. Regalli

      What does this look like, Funky Winkerbean?

      … Wait. No. This has more facial expressions than “Smug smirk of insufferableness” and “Dulled to the despair that is living in this universe.”

  18. Kernanator

    Richard is a sexy badger.

    (A NoPrize for guessing the reference!)

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      But there were many fucks given.

  19. Mkvenner

    Explains so much.

  20. MajesticSpaceBen

    Joe’s dad is voiced by George Clooney in my head.

    1. Aizat

      Jonathan Frakes for me.

      1. Sir Robin

        I always imagine Billy West as Zap Branigan

      2. MM

        Oh, God. Cannot unhear.

        1. Totz the Plaid

          Don’t want to unhear.

      3. RobHagen

        Yes. The Frakes for me at first sight. It’s the beard…

      4. Ancestral Hamster

        You’re right. Joe’s Dad does look like Jonathan Frakes. “Want to study the Captain’s Log?” (Yes, I know he was just a Commander in ST:NG but the line works better at the rank of Captain.)

        And speaking of lecherous starship captains … You know how Luke had Obi Wan as a Force ghost to give him advice. Captain James T. Kirk had the ghost of Hugh Hefner as his Force Ghost. “Bust a move, Jim baby, bust a move!” “The Mack will be with you … always.”

        1. Cybersnark

          And the grey wouldn’t have really started growing in until Riker becomes Captain (post-Nemesis) anyway.

      5. StClair

        Definitely Jonathan Frakes.

    2. HiEv

      Joe’s dad’s voice instantly came across as a smug Sean Connery for me.

      “Oh, I think yew’ll find my genetic material is quite pershishtant.”

    3. Li

      You guys sure are picking cool guys to voice a divorced forty-something hitting on a college student to her visible displeasure.

      I hear pathetic skeezy insecurity. A Hollywood guy to represent that effectively isn’t really springing to mind, but maybe modern-day Jack Nicholson, or Mel Gibson while drunk. Both still too cool, but closer.

      1. Yotomoe

        People like this aren’t pathetic or Skeezy, though. At least not in tone. They never are. He’s confident and full of himself. He’s lived his whole life like this and seems to have no desire to change so it’s not uncanny for him to not sound insecure, at least in voice.

        1. Li

          But he IS insecure; otherwise he wouldn’t feel the need to target barely-legal women. 😉 Which also makes him skeezy by definition, even when he’s not literally cornering them with his body. The whole hyper masculine overcompensation of it all springs from a well of insecurity even if it’s buried deep down.

          I picked Jack Nicholson because he’s capable of an older-guy charisma but is also kind of skeezy and fully capable of being creepy too. Meanwhile the other people are saying “George Clooney” “Jonathan Frakes” “Sean Connery”. Heart throbs who have spent their careers playing pretty much nothing but smart handsome desirable leading men. Sean Connery getting on in years doesn’t negate the fact that the dude played James Bond. And Frakes’ occasional villain role certainly never made him any less appealing.

          (Zap Branagan is PERFECT, though. Props for that.)

          I mean, everyone is kind of acting like Joe’s dad is a successful playa, and we don’t have any evidence of that — Sarah looks grossed out and Joe is sorry for his dad’s over-the-line behavior.

        2. Kelvandil

          How about Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery?

        3. Li

          *snork*

          That’d probably work.

    4. james

      I hear BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWSnxzoVfoY

  21. Yotomoe

    Am I gonna be the first person to say how friggin’ Creepy panel 2 is?

    1. Aizat

      It’ll be a lot creepier if they both said the same thing.

      1. Pie

        Suddenly I’m imagining them saying “Hello nurse!” in unison now, a la Animaniacs.

    2. Totz the Plaid

      I think that was already implied by some of our fellow commenters.

    3. AgentKeen

      It’s like they’re thinking the same thoughts, likely PSL in nature.

      Of course, the last panel is about as creepy, with Joe-Dad all up in Sarah’s space.

  22. Henry

    I was really hoping after reading the comic that the title would be “Testicular Torsion.” Or maybe just Torsion. Either way.

    1. David

      Nah, I don’t want titles to spoil punchlines. If you click through from Twitter, you shouldn’t get to the last panel and find that distinctive word or phrase that took you there.

  23. Milosh

    If Joe’s dad is Roomies!-era Joe, is Sarah about to make out with him?

    1. Yotomoe

      Obviousely.

      1. Undrave

        Joebviously!

    2. AgentKeen

      Testicular Torsion is just one of her kinks.

    3. Li

      You misread Willis’s comments — it’s not that Joe’s dad is Roomies!Joe, but that Joe is Roomies!Joe’s dad.

      No one is Roomies!Joe in this scenario, so there’s no one for Sarah to make out with.

      1. Li

        Unless this is about hover text instead of the post that talked about his design, which I only fuzzily remember to begin with really. :|a I can’t read the hover text on my phone and that has burned me before in comment sections 😉

        1. Yotomoe

          Sorry, it was Hovertext
          Burned by hover text again!

        2. Li

          Nooooo!

          /falls to knees
          /weeps

  24. Sir Robin

    I’m kind of curious if we get to see Amber’s parents in this universe

    1. Josh

      Well, we know her Dad left when she was a child, so it’s unlikely we’ll see her. But there’s every chance we’ll see her Mum.

      1. Sir Robin

        What about Faz?

  25. Taigan

    Y’know, for winning the “who do you want to see” poll by such a large margin, we sure haven’t seen much of Dina’s family yet. Is this a best-for-last thing?

    1. Aizat

      Or like Dina, they are behind the door?

    2. Yotomoe

      Dinosaurs won’t fit inside the building, Silly.

    3. David

      I again direct folks to the BUFFER WATCH on the left-hand side of the page. I was already nearly done drawing this story by the time that poll went live. The poll exists for my curiosity (and everyone’s fun).

      1. Sir Robin

        Buffer watch? It’s surrounded by ads that I am so used to ignoring

      2. Taigan

        Sorry, I never noticed that amongst all the ad space.

    4. Totz the Plaid

      Willis has already said that this storyline is going to be hard on our favorite dino-lover. I’m not sure that “best” is the right word.

      1. Luzahn

        I was going to comment about how the community enjoys schadenfreude, but then I remembered that it likes Dina far, far more.

    5. Aizat

      Or that they are freaking ninjas?

      1. Yotomoe

        Well they are asian.

        1. The Candyman

          Nah, Dina was raised by turkeys.

          “I don’t have to listen to this; do you know who my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great (repeat several million times) grandfather was? I’ll tell you, he was a Tyrannosaurus rex!”
          “That’s not how evolution works, dad.”
          “Don’t tell me how it works!”

  26. Aizat

    I’m not surprised if Joe’s sister(if he had one) looked like Joe’s dad.

    1. Sir Robin

      With a beard?

  27. RaijinK

    All those green shirts made me think I was reading Shortpacked! for a second.

  28. Cheryl

    Dat eyebrow

  29. zomgvampires

    ^These comments.^

    ALL OF THEM. They make my day.

    1. Aizat

      Thank you. We all aim to please.

      1. Yotomoe

        I actually and trying to ruin your day. I just have very bad aim…

        1. ArkhamTexan

          Just clean the seat when you miss, OK?!

  30. Kernanator

    By the way, while I’m thinking of it, I saw someone today that seriously reminded me of Sarah. She wore purple and green, had a headscarf, and wore her hair in a similar style. Strange coincidence, huh?

  31. ArkhamTexan

    And with this comic I realize that I–despite all my best intentions–have turned into my father. A better version of my father, no doubt, but he was still something I was hoping to be completely NOT like…

    DAMN YOU, WILLIS! So good at character writin’ that he incite character development in the real world…

    1. N0083rP00F

      Sympathy you have. Glad not like my father I am.
      Well except for the socially awkward bit and the … oh my …..
      …. what a revolting development this is…..

  32. Undrave

    This comic is WAY more hilarious than it has any right to be. It’s just Joe’s dad being Joe with a beard and yet I find it just so FUNNY!

    Joe’s dad should officially be known as ‘Joe with Beard’.

  33. Chrissy

    Sarah’s handling it better than I would if he got in my personal space talking like that.

  34. DiDi

    Aww… it’s cute that Joe seems to feel awkward about his dad. We can say, see, Joe? That’s how everyone else tends to feel about you.

    I’m betting we know what led to the divorce too…

  35. Romanticide

    You know guys I just remembered a song of ice and fire/GoT when they comment some bloodlines being really resilient more in specific king Robert and his bastards XD

  36. RachelEvil

    Is Joe’s dad Will Riker?

    1. StClair

      or possibly Tom Riker.

      1. Aizat

        Aren’t they the same guy? It’s just that Tom is alternate timeline version of Will.

        1. Andrusi

          No alternate timelines involved. Tom Riker was created in a freak transporter accident.

          Well, actually, the argument is slightly stronger for Will Riker having been created in a freak transporter accident, while the “original” was inadvertently left behind and eventually became Tom Riker. But then you start getting into weird philosophical questions.

      2. Specter177

        Nah, he’s Will Riker. Tom Riker doesn’t have sideburns.

  37. Icalasari

    Bet the Shortpacked! Joe got into dimension hopping shenanigans again and that is him

  38. Saiyaman

    Seeing Joe and his dad I’m reminded of that Beavis and Butt-Head episode “Sporting goods” where they have to buy Athletic supporters but the ones they are handed are too big for them, so they get eye patches instead. They try them on just as Daria walks in with a camera inquiring about active wear. B&B emerge from the dressing room with their Johnsons stuffed into the eye patches.

    At which Daria goes “WHOA! EVEN SMALLER THAN I THOUGHT!”
    And shoots a picture of the two.

  39. Gigafreak

    Joe’s father is named Richard.

    It’s funny because that’s longhand for “Dick.”

    1. Yotomoe

      And sure is acting like one! o-hooooo!

    2. Regalli

      Him and old-verse Ruth’s dad.

  40. Andrusi

    All I can think is that Joe’s dad is Vandal Savage.

    1. Aizat

      Oh god, if Joe’s dad is Vandal Savage, that means Joe’s dad had done women since cavemen times. I guess, the meteor radiation gave him more than just immortality, if you catch my drift.

  41. Pat Myers

    What a super-creep.

  42. james

    The seed is strong….

  43. tahrey

    Biting my finger SO hard trying to to burst out laughing at this.

    So wrong, but still funny.

  44. Black Drazon

    Guess the only way Joe could have a kid that didn’t look like him was to build her out of automotive parts. Don’t worry though, Ultra-Car, they say it’ll catch up to you in middle-age.

    1. The Candyman

      Does this mean UltraCar will randomly transform into a copy of Joe?

  45. Vree

    Towards a future where all men on Earth are Joe, one woman at a time.

  46. Notebooked

    Dang, look at Joe’s face in the fourth panel. “I wish I could say that. I wish. So many women. So, so many prostitutes.” Then his face lights up with a huge grin. “Awesome!”

    Here we observe Sarah’s two moods: Skepticism and disgust. (The ‘caring’ setting hasn’t been used frequently enough to deserve inclusion.)

  47. LookingIn

    Joe is so shocked at his father’s actions his eyebrows shot off his head!

    1. DT

      When Joe talks about his parents’ divorce, his eyebrows disappear. This is scientific fact.

  48. N0083rP00F

    Is it just me but reading the word Torsion instantly made me think of Einstein–Cartan theory.
    But how does that relate to Joe’s testicles?

    1. Noxx

      Having had one in my youth, it just made me cringe. A lot.

  49. Bunivasal

    Richard, I’m struggling to parse what you think is appealing about that sentence. Nobody likes persistent genetic material. It makes your sperm sound like Rambo.

    1. The Candyman

      It also gives off a vibe of “I’m going to get you pregnant”, which isn’t very appealing in itself.

  50. bumblebee

    who thinks hes gonna get punched in the face

  51. Mr. Morningstar

    What if joes dad is the Joe from the Walkyverse who traveled to this dimension and fathered this universes version of himself?

  52. cc_Plush

    …Joe and Sarah match

  53. Charles Phipps

    I like Sarah. She and Joe should hook up.

    1. Maycroft

      Well, they more or less did in roomies.

  54. The Weird One

    After reading the comments, the word “Joe” no longer holds meaning for me.

  55. newllend

    Starteing to see where joe gets his dickhead personaliy from

  56. SgtNumnum

    This is the first time I’ve ever seen Joe emabarrased

  57. Parnifia the Bastard

    I have to say it: TIME PARADOX!

  58. Sambo

    Oh man, I laughed TOO hard at this XD

  59. Tealjoy

    I love how Joe is the one saying that not his mother

  60. Blackout

    Just now realized how… appropriate Joe’s dad’s name is from the tags.

  61. Paula

    I love Joe’s dad xD

  62. Rowen Morland

    The alt text makes me wonder if DoA era Joe was Roomies era Joe’s father.

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