More Joyce it’s more like shoveling “Scooby Don’t” (Which raises the question, “What would Hanna Barberra have called that damned dog if Frank Sinatra had never released ‘Strangers In The Night’?”).
In the earliest drafts, the dog was called “Too Much.” He was also a sheep dog, because they were trying to cash in on the popularity of The Archie Show.
Thank you Willis, for giving us Dorothy as Velma in a skirt. Forgive us our sins to be committed with this image, as we forgive those whose sins have been committed with others. Lead us thus into temptation, and deliver us some alien head.
Joyce has spent a bunch of time trying to convince people that President Doris isn’t Dorothy because the former has dark hair, so Dorothy dying her hair dark isn’t helping Joyce’s case.
Because of the autism. This one has personally never been a trait of mine, people changing their appearances, but I am a super recognizer. My best friend, however, when I would get a hair cut in middle school, they would keep asking me who I am. Not fully genuinely, they love a good “bit”, but appearance changes don’t fly with them.
I mean, yes, autism, but maybe she’s upset remembering she wasn’t allowed to watch Scooby Doo. That’s the thing about comic panels; about ten seconds of dialogue superimposed on an instantaneous moment.
That’s the face she’s doing while saying the second part of the dialogue. She’s probably a bit annoyed that Dorothy went with a reference that she knew Joyce wouldn’t get.
Well, unless we’re talking about Mystery Incorporated, or The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo, or some of the animated movies that involved actual supernatural elements . . .
Mind you, I always liked the interpretation Velma DOES believe in ghosts and is continually frustrated she’s having her time wasted by all these fraudsters.
Mystery Incorporated, meanwhile, VASTLY oversold the sorts of technological skills you could pick up at the local community college or university annex.
And The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan vastly oversold the optional features you can have installed on your family car. After that, MASK was a let-down even if you could own toys of the cars.
Could just be the angle or the coloring. Then again Malya may be over feeding him, or giving him something she shouldn’t like donuts and chips – I wouldn’t put it past her (though I’m not sure if a lizard would willing it junk food).
It’s not perspective, I specifically picked out that strip because it (and the one following, to a lesser extent) is the most recent one to have Fuckface and Joyce at the same angles as in today’s strip. Fuckface’s head is roughly about as thick as his body there and his tail’s almost stick-thin in that sequence; compare with today, where his body’s two to three times as thick as his head, and his tail’s likewise tripled. 😛
Like I said, it’s most likely either an art evolution thing or an exceptionally-rapid in-universe weight gain spurt—I’m just wondering which it is.
158 thoughts on “Scooby Doo”
Ana Chronistic
time to Scooby Doo some shit
Van Jealous
More Joyce it’s more like shoveling “Scooby Don’t” (Which raises the question, “What would Hanna Barberra have called that damned dog if Frank Sinatra had never released ‘Strangers In The Night’?”).
Patrick Duke
In the earliest drafts, the dog was called “Too Much.” He was also a sheep dog, because they were trying to cash in on the popularity of The Archie Show.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Thank you Willis, for giving us Dorothy as Velma in a skirt. Forgive us our sins to be committed with this image, as we forgive those whose sins have been committed with others. Lead us thus into temptation, and deliver us some alien head.
DailyBrad
God, she makes a cute Velma.
And hmm, wonder if Joyce will check it out now.
Schpoonman
They actually put UI Shaggy (albeit in a rather roundabout way) into Multiversus, don’t put it past Willis.
Clif
Dorothy may be a cute Velma, but ignoring the subtext, Joyce is the one who looks incredibly cute in that last panel.
Devin
I feel like looking cute is a Joyce core competency.
Pan
I mean, like, yeah I guess so.
Johan
NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A LESSON
Doctor_Who
It does if you’re doing everything like you’re being graded on it!
Clif
It may not have had to be a lesson, but judging by that last panel, it was an effective one that actually got through.
Subjektivity
Everything is a lesson of some sort to our pattern seeking brains. The neural network WILL be trained
thejeff
Does make me wonder a bit about Dorothy’s parents. Were they perhaps not as wonderful as they seem?
Johan
Kids like this are ones where they only get praise when they do well.
Or this is just Dorothy with her own self-grown issues. (I don’t wanna say OCD but idk)
khn0
… that partially makes sense, because that brains sure still has to learn about sleep, but at lest it’s very well potty trained?
McMuffin
Why does Joyce look pissed that she dyed her hair?
PASchaefer
Because she either looks more or less like President Dorothy.
Ana Chronistic
bc at this rate everyone else is cosplaying her characters except for Joyce?
Doctor_Who
She’s one to talk, she’s wearing a lizard in hers.
Shen Hibiki
..when has Joyce been happy with -change-?
RassilonTDavros
Joyce has spent a bunch of time trying to convince people that President Doris isn’t Dorothy because the former has dark hair, so Dorothy dying her hair dark isn’t helping Joyce’s case.
C.T. Phipps
I think that it’s the fact Joyce hates any sort of change whatsoever to her routine.
Uly
Because she’s mildly faceblind, hasn’t learned that word yet, and only knows that when people change their hair, it’s hard to recognize them.
Yoder of Kansas
But it looks like she’s the one that called out to Dorothy in the first panel, so she knows it’s her based on face and not voice. Possibly.
Yoder of Kansas
Probably more about Dorothy changing bugging her, or as said above, President Doris.
Carla's #2 Fan
Because of the autism. This one has personally never been a trait of mine, people changing their appearances, but I am a super recognizer. My best friend, however, when I would get a hair cut in middle school, they would keep asking me who I am. Not fully genuinely, they love a good “bit”, but appearance changes don’t fly with them.
Daibhid C
I mean, yes, autism, but maybe she’s upset remembering she wasn’t allowed to watch Scooby Doo. That’s the thing about comic panels; about ten seconds of dialogue superimposed on an instantaneous moment.
Pylgrim
That’s the face she’s doing while saying the second part of the dialogue. She’s probably a bit annoyed that Dorothy went with a reference that she knew Joyce wouldn’t get.
Leadsynth
I think Joyce’s pissed face is more about the “I wasn’t allowed to watch Scooby-Doo” than the “You changed your hair.”
Yumi
To be fair, I really liked Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost as a kid, and it did get me trying to do some witchcraft.
C.T. Phipps
The Hex Girls got me into trying to do some wi….AHEM.
Sorry, what was I saying.
Needfuldoer
That was my favorite of the “new” Scooby movies.
Because… reasons.
Stephen Bierce
–and Flippin’ out with Great Danes…
She’s about all I can handle
It’s too much for my brain
She’s got me Under Pressure!
StClair
“Let’s see who you really are, ‘Jehovah’!”
Jade
*GASP* “It was the Patriarchy all along!”
“And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids, and your critical thinking skills!”
“Rooby-Rooby-Roo!”
The Wellerman
Thank you humans. This demon energy I’m getting off this is fantastic!!! ?
foducool
*rips face off*
“OH CRAP”
True Survivor
Looks like the lizard has pretty good grip on Joyces head. I hope that doesn’t hurt.
Proxiehunter
Well, unless we’re talking about Mystery Incorporated, or The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo, or some of the animated movies that involved actual supernatural elements . . .
Johan
I loved Ghoul School.
C.T. Phipps
Velma always does the acredited research.
Mind you, I always liked the interpretation Velma DOES believe in ghosts and is continually frustrated she’s having her time wasted by all these fraudsters.
Thag Simmons
Look sometimes Scooby’s just gotta fight an eldritch horror from beyond the colours of time
Pylgrim
The Thirteen Ghosts was peak Scooby Doo. Not even Scrappy could bring it down, hard as he tried.
Dave Van Domelen
Mystery Incorporated, meanwhile, VASTLY oversold the sorts of technological skills you could pick up at the local community college or university annex.
Needfuldoer
And A Pup Named Scooby-Doo vastly oversold how much technology you could cram into a briefcase in the late 80s.
Opus the Poet
Well sci-fi has always been pushing the limits of technology.
Stephen Bierce
And The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan vastly oversold the optional features you can have installed on your family car. After that, MASK was a let-down even if you could own toys of the cars.
Black
Well, until the movies came out in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, where it turned out that the supernatural DID exist!
Jess
Wasn’t ghoul school from the 80s?
King Daniel
…is it just an art evolution thing, or did Fuckface nearly double his body mass in the span of less than three in-universe weeks? 😛
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/teleport/
Yumi
And then Fuckface exploded and Halloween went to shit.
King Daniel
Willis has killed off a lot of fan-favorite characters over the years, but Fuckface exploding…that’d be pretty gutsy.
Roborat
Yup, they would be everywhere.
True Survivor
Could just be the angle or the coloring. Then again Malya may be over feeding him, or giving him something she shouldn’t like donuts and chips – I wouldn’t put it past her (though I’m not sure if a lizard would willing it junk food).
BigDogLittleCat
He seems to have doubled his mass right then. Check out the next day’s strip.
Needfuldoer
He doesn’t like Mondays, either.
Thag Simmons
perspective, I think
King Daniel
It’s not perspective, I specifically picked out that strip because it (and the one following, to a lesser extent) is the most recent one to have Fuckface and Joyce at the same angles as in today’s strip. Fuckface’s head is roughly about as thick as his body there and his tail’s almost stick-thin in that sequence; compare with today, where his body’s two to three times as thick as his head, and his tail’s likewise tripled. 😛
Like I said, it’s most likely either an art evolution thing or an exceptionally-rapid in-universe weight gain spurt—I’m just wondering which it is.
Suet
Sometimes it was even kids, tweens or teens. Rare sight, being scared by someone half yer age.
The Wellerman
Who here liked the Scooby Doo games? ?
JepMZ
I loved replaying the snes game over and over back then lol
egg egg
i loved the ones on cartoon network’s website
butts
Huh
newlland(Henryvolt)
THIS might be the best strip Willis had made all year, atleast to me. It’s simple but when you think about it more it really speaks to you.
CallynD
100% agree. Very good.
Endplanets
Vincent Price is angry because he fought the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo. As in, he fought the occult after some fool messed with witchcraft.
And later on Velma helped kill (?) two literal salem witches.
C.T. Phipps
This is also incorrect because SOME elders are lying to people, usually real estate criminals or fraudsters.
Other elders are cool like the Blue Falcon, Batman, Sandy Duncan, and the Harlem Globetrotters.
Reed
Huh. I thought Scooby Doo was about making dog treats look appetizing.
(Seriously. Why did a kids animated show have to make a treat for dogs look so good?)
Uly
Oh, you thought scooby snacks were supposed to be dog treats?
The Oracle