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Running
Posted on October 4, 2014 by David M Willis

169 thoughts on “Running”

  1. Jen Aside

    http://imgur.com/gallery/891y9

    1. David M Willis

      you had that lying in wait from patreon, didn’t you

      1. liahansen

        That is cheating. You are disqualified.

      2. Maveric1984

        Considering Patreon uses your real name, all us backers risk dozing ourselves by copying posts

        1. Maveric1984

          Doxxing… Not dozing. Damn autocorrect…

        2. Jen Aside

          Real… name…?

        3. Clif

          And if you copy someone else’s post, identity theft?

        4. Jen Aside

          what theft \=| this imgur link is a main website exclusive!

      3. Camachri

        Noooo! Nobody would ever do a thing like that!

      4. Jen Aside

        what, I can’t have a macro of that

      5. Jon P

        Not necessarily. We did know the headband was coming today.

    2. Boom

      Yeah, that, er, looks… awful… yeah. I’ll be in my bunk.

      1. Kelly

        PSL!

        1. DSL

          Personal Seat License?

  2. Mal

    That’s the most amazing look for Dorothy.

    1. Doctor_Who

      After a run, she’s trying out for a spot in Jem and the Holograms.

      1. DeadlyCreampuff

        Oh please, her hair isn’t remotely big enough to fit in there :3

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Two Words: Hair Extensions.

  3. Opus the Poet

    Joyce and Dorothy again…

    1. MrSirk

      Joyce and Dorothy WITHOUT Walky! It’s a Christmas miracle and it’s not even Halloween yet.

      1. Kyrros

        Still fails the Bechdel Test :-p

        1. DSL

          Was the Bechdel Test being given?

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    ACK 80s FLASHBACKS!

    1. Tunaro

      Sometimes, late at night, I can still hear the growling stomach of a wolf. As it’s chasing me through I hear that name whisper over and over.
      Duran…Duran…

    2. Doctor_Who

      Let’s get physical, physical!

    3. Felix

      the best decade!

    4. Roborat

      Would you give your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

  5. Nobbidy

    Well, that is that.

  6. Kernanator

    Hisssssssssssssssssssss

  7. Airyu

    what is with the alt text. i don’t understand the alt text. :C

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I got no idea myself, some please explain!

    2. someguywithakatana

      It’s what Walky supposedly said to Dorothy after waking up and forgetting he dumped her. He assumed her trying to wake him up to run was a dream

      1. TheZachariah

        It’s also Willis ironically pointing out that Dorothy’s super-disciplined morning schedule is the epitome of the mother-figure, enhanced by the fact that she was trying to wake up Walky (the epitome of the lazy teenager).

        1. TheZachariah

          OH MY GOD I MISREAD THAT AND THOUGHT IT SAID MOTHER WOW WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT ME

        2. Seerow

          I made the same mis-reading at first.

        3. Lawzlo

          Sigmund Freud: Bill?
          Bill S. Preston, Esq.: Nah… just got a minor Oedipal Complex.

        4. Deanatay

          Nothing complex about it! 🙂

      2. DeadlyCreampuff

        I’m still just going to assume he thought she was president carter, but that simpsons joke might be too old :3

  8. insomniac

    Morning people.

    1. Yotomoe

      If Dorothy tries to get Walky up at dawn again, Joyce will become a Mourning person.

    2. Deathjavu

      As discussed previously, the correct term is ” ‘people’ ” (with quotes around) (because they are actually alien lizards)

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Wait, ALL of us are? Dang, the guys’ve been holding out on me!

        1. xKiv

          You must be a “sleeper” agent.

        2. deathjavu

          Well, I suppose some percentage might also be cyborg robots.

  9. Undead Mantis

    Annexing the time of others is the path to immortality.

  10. GoogerGeiger

    Dorothy you look ridiculous. Stop.

    1. liahansen

      I mean, she’s going for a morning jog. s’not exactly a black-tie affair.

      1. David M Willis

        and if you’re running before dawn you probably want high-visibility colors or you’re gonna get hit by a car

        1. Jen Aside

          or you could use the running track??

        2. Dante

          Git yer logic out of here. e.e

        3. Kelly

          yuck. I’ll stick to the sidewalks

        4. David M Willis

          Well that’s not right outside her door!

        5. Deanatay

          You could run down to the running track, and back.

          What? AROUND the running track? That’s too far.

        6. Cattleprod

          What about taking a cab to and from the running track? That sounds like an efficient use of time and resources.

        7. Jen Aside

          “Why do you sound out of breath?”
          “I’m not. I was just jogging in the canyon.”
          “I thought you were driving.”
          “Right, I was driving… to the canyon… where I’m gonna jog.”

        8. DSL

          The gym has a parking lot. Think about it.

        9. Swerve

          Me, I’d rather transform, and roll out!

        10. Mo

          Runners don’t do that. I guess a track is for pussies or something.

          My wife runs half-marathons and likes to work out before dawn. Our neighborhood has almost no sidewalks, but we live literally STEPS from my kid’s school, which has a beautiful paved track. The one at the park across the street is even better. And yet.

  11. Emperor Kiva

    I had something but then I lost it……Well no sense in leaving that as a comment. I like Joyce. That’s better

  12. Tunaro

    Human beings are not made to get up at, before, or after the sun does.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      That’s right; we get up whenever we damn well please, and the sun can get bent!
      I do rather miss having some semblance of a sleep schedule, though. xkcd.com/320

      1. das-g

        Are you completely missing a sleep schedule or is it just drifting west?

  13. dailybrad

    Dorothy really does look like Lisa Simpson sometimes, definitely see why Sal called her that once.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I just hope her voice isn’t also like Lisa Simpson’s cos that would get annoying fast.

      1. Mo

        If she played the bari sax, it would even things out, though.

  14. Regalli

    Oh, headbands. You are so difficult to wear cutely. *Glares at her pile of headbands* TV LIED, YOU TRAITORS.

    1. Tunaro

      The solution is simple. Cat ears. Cat ear headbands for everybody.

      1. Yotomoe

        Those are even worse!

        1. Jen Aside

          Headbands with bangs!

          HEADBANGS

          wait

        2. Mass Confusion

          No, that’s brilliant! WE CAN MAKE MILLIONS!
          Wait.. I think maining a gobby in WoW has messed with my head….. carry on

        3. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

          Yeah, Gnomes are better, anyways.

        4. Lawzlo

          I’m in favor of Dorothy headbanging.

    2. Kelly

      Based on the evidence here, I am going to disagree!

      1. Regalli

        I just can never get them pulled back to a place where I like them while being secure and not get my hair sticking up everywhere. Which is frustrating, because my hair is super-fine and thus tangles at the slightest provocation.

  15. Lonas

    Who will Joyce talk to next? Please be a conversation about volunteering to be Amazi-Girl’s sidekick! I’m good with her talking to Joe too.

    1. Koms

      Yeah, what’s with Joyce this morning? She’s lonely? Looking for some companionship? Anxious?

      1. Clif

        What’s with Joyce this morning is that she’s with Dorothy while she’s on her way to Walky’s room to check if Billie spent the night there. And she hasn’t thought it through.

        1. Koms

          Uh oh

  16. Darth Cariss

    I can see why Walky would want to brake up with her if he saw her looking like that. Yikes.

    1. Barf Ninjason

      Blasphemy!

    2. Kelly

      Madness! That look calls for a slipshine, not a breakup!

  17. newllend

    Smash 4 is the fucking tits and wow with the hair…I like it.

  18. winter

    Running at 6am, volunteering at the soup kitchen, 8am logic classes…

    It’s only been a few weeks, but how long before Dorothy completely burns herself out?

    1. Gangler

      I’m pretty sure her lifestyle predates college. She might find she has to give up a thing or two to make time for her newly enhanced workload at school, but overall she’ll probably continue to be fine and busy.

      1. TheZachariah

        Yeah, but at the pace this comic goes it could be 2016 before Willis does a storyline with Dorothy going into exasperation about how there’s not enough time in the day and/or falling asleep and missing important things.

      2. Clif

        Yeah, high energy insane people have a history of high energy insanity. It’s normal for them.

  19. Barf Ninjason

    I find Dorothy’s freckles, uh, really, reaaaalllly attractive like that. Then I wondered if I should feel bad; like, am I objectifying this [fictitious cartoon] person? Then I realized that I am similarly massively enfreckulated (for some reason I always forget) so now I feel less bad about myself. I can not decide what is the single weirdest thing in this stew of reactions.

    1. Yotomoe

      I don’t think finding something attractive means you’re objectifying it anymore than have casual sex makes you a whore.

      1. TheZachariah

        …so you agree with him?

        1. Yotomoe

          …I don’t…Disagree with him?

        2. Clif

          Is self-objectification even a thing?

        3. Barf Ninjason

          Well sure, you can cast Polymorph Any Object on yourself, but I think you’d need to do that psionic sandwich trick with it or something, otherwise it’s basically suicide.

      2. Gigafreak

        Pretty sure you’d have to basically downplay or outright disregard all other qualities of the person/character for it to be full-on objectification– y’know, because at that point they stop being a person to you and start being just an object.

        1. Yotomoe

          ^ This.

        2. tinfoil theory

          Not necessarily all other qualities. Agency and a will of their own will do.

  20. timemonkey

    So Dorothy’s been dumped by Walky twice now. XD

    1. Maveric1984

      Frankly, he was justified for the second one

      1. Disloyal Subject

        I disagree. The first, on the other hand…

  21. ridtom

    DEM FRECKLES!

    1. Koms

      Perfect gravatar.

  22. newllend

    You know if she wasn’t wearing all green there would be a chance she would look less stupider

    1. Barf Ninjason

      She’s not wearing all green. She’s got a pink headband, and I’d say THAT, by clashing with all the green, is what is making her look kind of silly (in the midst of the ludicrous hotness ‘n all.) If she were wearing all green, she’d look kinda like a gender-swapped Link, I think.

      1. tinfoil theory

        Or just, like Link with glasses.

  23. PBManning

    Still trying to get the reference to Dorothy being history’s greatest monster. Is that a Joyce & Walky thing?

    1. Camachri

      It’s what Walky said to her when he woke up later.

    2. Jen Aside

      It’s a reference to how only horrible people make others get up that early

    3. Disloyal Subject

      Dunno; reminds me of http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1578 , but that’s likely just me missing the same reference twice.

      1. Barf Ninjason

        As everyone knows, history’s greatest monster is Jimmy Carter. Sheesh.

  24. Deathjavu

    I’ve woken up at 6 am with no external compulsion before.

    Nope, wait, sorry, I meant to say I’ve stayed up past 6 am. I think I can safely say I have never woken up voluntarily before 6 am.

    1. Bill

      Now you know whey they always executed people at sunrise.  *NOBODY* wants to be alive that early in the morning.

  25. Idontcarenomore

    What in Hell happened to Dorothy?

    1. Crumplepunch

      The dreaded hair-band has seized control of her head.

      All is lost.

  26. Idontcarenomore

    Besides getting up at 6 am?

  27. Malchus

    Dorothy should star in an 80s music vdeo.

  28. Jackson

    Oh hell yes son, it is about to get all physical fitness up in here. Two words:

    Extracurricular

    Athletics.

    1. AgentKeen

      “Extracurricular Athletics!
      Friends of Dorothy only!!”

    2. Bill

      First time I ever heard of p-m h-p being called that.

  29. Doom Shepherd

    Walky dreamed Dorothy was Joel Schumacher?

  30. SilentRain

    joyce just kiss her already we all know you want to

    1. Barf Ninjason

      Joyce Performs a Joyce Just Lezzes Out Already

      1. Koms

        Joyce performs a Joyce talks to everybody

    2. Willoughby Chase

      I’m waiting for the post-run shower.

    3. Cephalo the Pod

      JOYCE UNDRESSES EVERYONE TODAY!

  31. Jesse

    What kind of person chooses to get up at dawn?

    1. AgentKeen

      Like the alt-text says, history’s greatest monster.

      (I’ve totally had to get up at dawn. It is weird.)

      1. Jen Aside

        I get up at dawn to answer the call of nature, then I go back to bed

      2. Deanatay

        True, getting up at dawn is a horrible thing. That’s why I get up before dawn.

    2. Disloyal Subject

      Outdoorsy people, in my experience. Watching the sun rise over a lightly frosted field is pretty cool.
      In a more urban context, so is laying all your traps before your roommates wake up.

      1. Clif

        Remind me never to room with you.

    3. Willoughby Chase

      I used to get up before dawn when I made a living before the mast.

      Was cool sometimes watching the sun-rise over the Pacific, the darkness turning in shades of grey before the sun rose from it’s watery bed.

      Otherwise, I wondered wtf I was doing there.

  32. KPSquall

    Was the alt text a shout out to navcomic? 6am would be a stretch for me but I could probably do it and not be too grumpy.

  33. zmm

    I like the lack of “why are you coming out of Sal and her door?”

    I wonder if this will lead to a “Say do you know if Billie slept over at Walky’s again?” question, which will cause an explosion I’m sure. Of inapproraite explosion. Well inappropriate for Dorothy’s POV, less so Walky’s and billies siblingness (and Billlies’ Bi/lesbian ness)

    1. Koms

      Why are you coming out of Sal?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Coitus interruptus? 😀

        1. Koms

          😀 😀

  34. Quinctia

    Yeah, I’m on Walky’s side here. Waking up early AND running? (My gym routine was always after work and doing something that didn’t lead to tripping and falling.)

  35. Wendy

    I don’t think I remember seeing Dorothy ever look genuinely happy to see Joyce. She always has this kind of pained expression where she seems to be like “oh crap” but thinks she ought to be polite because she doesn’t want to hurt Joyce’s feelings.

    1. Ian

      Happy to see her, complimenting her dorky-ass outfit, and excited to meet her family – briefly.

      Not only happy to see her but explicitly asking to spend more time with her.

      1. Wendy

        Yeah, that’s like two over the run of the whole comic and in the second Joyce had JUST “defied her parents just to keep being friends with her” and had earned (“deserved”) a lunch date. You can’t see much of Dorothy’s face in the first panel of the first one, but she looks pretty uncomfortable right in the following panel and Joyce’s parents haven’t even said anything yet.

        I mean, I’m not denying that she likes Joyce on some level, recognizing that Joyce is well-meaning and all. I just question if Dorothy actually enjoys spending time with her, or would continue to do so if not for Joyce’s own insistence and/or, like in the latter instance, out of a sense of obligation.

        Honestly, I can’t imagine Dorothy realistically being interested in maintaining their friendship after college – maybe not even after they don’t have to see each other that often, like not having classes together anymore or living nearby. That is, unless Joyce has a major and thorough change in values and ideology.

        Though it does seem like the comic is gearing towards that, so who knows.

  36. Zaxares

    Walky is correct. Morning people are clearly pod people. 😛

  37. JustShy

    This would totally happen to me if someone woke me up at six in the morning to go running.

    The last time someone woke me up at six in the morning it was because they wanted more sex. Sex is fantastic, but I’m still not sure how they made it happen.

    1. Clif

      Possibly because you were asleep for the first part?

  38. Bagge

    Look at that – someone else who is up as early as you Joyce. This must mean that you are destined to be the bestest friends forever!

  39. Nightsbridge

    And here we have two examples of the rare and illusive homo oriens. Upon rising, they stalk through homes, apartments and other dwellings of humans in the world, where they blind their prey with their impossibly sunny dispositions and attempt to lure them outside, where they can be held down by the rest of their pack and devoured. Here are two members of the species considering breaking away from their existing packs and beginning another. In the event that you encounter a homo oriens, do not panic. Merely turn over, mutter something and pretend to sleep. This will convince the oriens that you are actually part of the bed, and they will move on in search of other victims.

    1. anonymous

      Somehow, I pictured Dina as a morning person. No real reason to think so, though.

      1. M-M

        Dina doesn’t sleep. She’s ever vigilant. Watching. Waiting. Processing.

        1. Jen Aside

          Nah, she sleeps like animals do, in short bursts and without the having to spent thirty minutes to get to REM state that human society has trained itself out of wanting.

    2. Romanticide

      your assesment of morning persons is a international treasure… XD XD

  40. Marc in MN

    Thus begins to the true story arc of this comic: Where Joyce becomes an Olympic Marathoner. 😉

    1. Jackson

      Joyce x Gold Medal OTP

  41. Cynthia

    these are some tall doors

    1. Bill

      No, Dorothy and Joyce are just extremely short.

  42. ShadowDJ

    …and to think, Joyce was the one with Walky back in the original universe. 😛

  43. Cephalo the Pod

    To all complaining about Dorothy’s outfit:

    Would you run and get all sweaty in clothes you like?

    1. Marc in MN

      As someone who is a runner and runs the occasional race, I can say that runners where some crazy stuff that they wouldn’t wear in any other circumstances (myself included).

      And Dorothy’s hair doesn’t look that strange to me either. Hair often looks rather windblown after a run. I have really short hair and even mine is standing on end when I come back from a run. (The real fun is when I run outside in January in Minnesota and I come back with hair that is standing on end AND frozen from a combination of sweat and sub-zero temperatures.) 😉

      1. Marc in MN

        Dang it…that should say “wear” not “where.” That’ll teach me not to proofread.

  44. Chengrel

    To be fair, that is a completely valid reason to break up with someone.

    1. ShadowDJ

      Hey, if they break up, then we can have Joyce and Walky back together XP

      1. Sir Robin

        Joyce and Walky? In what universe is that a good idea? What’s next? Adding an alien invasion subplot and killing off a semi-main character?

        1. ShadowDJ

          …(looks at the main Walky!/Shortpacked universe) Apparently in that one.

        2. ShadowDJ

          Honestly part of me just prefers Joyce and Walky together. ;; They’re chemistry in the Joyce and Walky comics is both hilarious and adorable. Sort of like Leslie and Robin.

          Outside of the Amber and Danny Couple here and somewhat with Walky and Dorothy…the other couples here don’t got that flare. ;;;

        3. Sir Robin

          That’s sounds ridiculous, what are you going to tell me next? Danny and someone like, oh I don’t know … Billy?

        4. anonymous

          (I don’t think they’re getting your sarcasm)

        5. Suitora

          Next, they’re going to be pairing up Amber and Mike…

  45. Nobody

    The body freckles are making my PSL act up. Time for another cold shower!

  46. advancecasette

    now have an extremely powerful curiosity as to what dina’s exercise outfit would look like

    1. Bill

      It would probably have feathers.

  47. Harry

    Hah hah hah I’ve been Walky in that conversation before.

    >_>

    Good times.

  48. Charles Phipps

    Joyce is going to tell Dorothy that billie spent the night isn’t she?

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