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Seinfeld
Posted on November 3, 2014 by David M Willis

245 thoughts on “Seinfeld”

  1. Pan

    They got sexy squirrels here

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      That statement might make more sense in EGS.

      1. sps48

        Grace is hot. Usually.

        1. thebombzen

          Especially when she says “I have my ways…”

        2. saltchocolate

          Love me some Grace.

      2. Tunaro

        If you actually need context, you don’t know the right squirrels.
        Also Squirrel Girl.

        1. TachyonCode

          You have impeccable taste.

        2. Marissa

          Squirrel Girl, as in PSU Squirrel Girl?

      3. Roborat

        Or Sequential Art.

    2. Yotomoe

      They’re known for their nuts.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        They love their nuts. 😀

        1. Paradox

          They also bury them.

        2. nothri

          In the winter they horde all the nuts they can get so they can chew on them at their leisure.

        3. Deanatay

          *SQEEEK*

          Translation:

          STOP STARIN’ AT MY NUTS!

    3. Ruck Bogers

      I like your gravatar.

  2. Mr k

    Good Point Sarah. Very good point.

    1. Kennerly

      Dun dun dun!

  3. Emperor Kiva

    YAY, JOYCE IS OKAY!

    1. Mr k

      She’s undead, actually.

      1. Doctor_Who

        She’s the world’s first Christian lich.

        Her phylactery is a bible.

        1. Tunaro

          Wouldn’t that just continually exorcise her, then?

        2. Yotomoe

          She doesn’t need exorcise. She looks pretty fit to me!

        3. Rutee

          You’re thinking of vampires, and depending on which ones they may just get angry at you.

        4. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          I thought Jesus was the first Christian lich…

        5. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          Wait – never mind – Jesus was a [i]Jewish[/i] lich.

        6. Razzmatazz MacKenzie

          *slow claps

        7. nothri

          No. Liches are normally classified as magic users, not clerics. Jesus’ powers were supposed to be granted by the Jewish/Christian god, therefore he would most likely qualify as some sort of Greater Mummy, possibly one of those ones from Ravenloft who’s appearance looked human and pristine.

        8. Senorange

          Well hell I wasn’t expecting an answer like that. On a side note, Jesus definitely seems like he would be a pyromancer. Yeah. Throwin’ fireballs an shit. Take that Romans. Judas ain’t gonna screw with a pyromancer

        9. Undrave

          Nah, I think Jesus is more of a Transmuter guy, wih some Necromancy ability for the healing spells.

        10. Kyrros

          I just woulda gone with a plain ‘ol Avatar of Yahweh

        11. Swerve

          Nothri, there can be Cleric Liches, Druid Liches, Bard Liches, even Ex-Paladin Liches. Anyone who’s a spellcaster and can craft the Phylactery, can become one. There was a Druid Lich in the “Red Hand of Doom” adventure, a Bard Lich in Ravenloft, and good ol’ Dr. van Richten wrote about Cleric Liches.

          There are also Archliches, but I blame Ed Greenwood for that travesty. Seriously, whoever heard of a Lawful Good Lich?

        12. Volkai

          Liches are classified as Always Evil, are they not? Jesus (and Joyce) would probably be classified as “Deathless”

        13. Wayne

          Jesus saves!
          …and only takes half damage.

        14. John

          I’m pretty sure Strom Thurmond antedates her.

      2. Yumi

        It’s actually Dina in a Joyce disguise.
        It’s not made from Joyce’s body or anything, Dina just has an incredibly accurate Joyce suit.

        1. Doctor_Who

          Joyce is still unconscious. Dina is behind her, manipulating her like a ventriloquist dummy.

          Nobody will notice her back there. The years of hiding behind doors for practice has paid off.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          That kinda reminds me of that Angel episode where Angel is transformed into a Muppet.

        3. butting

          Joyce as a Dina-operated dummy will still be more than capable of beating the snot out of Faz at will.

        4. Zach

          That is only, just, less disturbing.

        5. jy3

          Fluttershy would agree.

        6. Itama

          well DUH. |:[
          Dina is Amazi-girl. Of COURSE she’s got a Joyce shaped body suit on hand!

          I mean really! Do you people need everything explained for you? >:(

      3. Mattarias

        Victory for Sylvanas…

    2. David

      That’s not Joyce. That’s the grout having taken over her clothes.

      1. Spaz

        I am Grout!

        1. jesslin

          Oh, ow!

      2. gwalla

        It’s sort of like John Carpenter’s The Thing.

    3. Varian Fry

      But how does she know what a Y-chromosome is? How much info do they include on Of Pandas and People?

  4. ShaggyDonahugh

    Sarah knows. She must be exterminated.

    1. Emperor Kiva

      What are you a friggin’ Dalek?!

      1. Tunaro

        My general internet policy is to assume EVERYBODY else is an alien robot trying to gather information on humans from message threads.

        1. ShaggyDonahugh

          Brings new meaning to the term “I’m just here for the comments”

        2. Spaz

          I’d imagine the hard part is determining their chassis model.

          I mean, we have the Terminators, the Daleks, the Cybermen, the CyberPredators (yes, Predators that have been overtaken by the Cybermen), Ultron (and his many bodies), Sonic’s forest buddies (post-Robotnik), Cylons, Transformers……and this is just a small sample.

        3. tinfoil theory

          The Daleks aren’t robots. They are alien tentacle monsters in elaborate space suits.

        4. Undrave

          More like Space Tanks. Really good at killing, maybe data draining, and little else.

        5. tinfoil theory

          They are draining the data from this very thread in search of information on how to navigate stairs.

        6. timemonkey

          Stairs haven’t been a problem for them ina LONG time.

        7. tinfoil theory

          timemonkey, you of all people should know that time is relative.

        8. Cybersnark

          More like cyborgs. The glimpse we got inside one suggests that its biology and technology are interdependent (data backups for thoughts, antibodies for the machinery, etc).

        9. Swerve

          Daleks are like reverse Pretenders: The Robot shell hides the monster within!

        10. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself

          That’s a horrendous idea. When they come to Earth, they’ll completely ignore the threat women pose (Due to Reddit) assume that cats and bacon are our overlords, assume that everyone but cis white males are horribly weak and unnatural (Due to everything, excepting tumblr) and that we spend all our time procrastinating (Well, that’s accurate.))

  5. Jen Aside

    Becky made rather effective use of the free student bus fare, I see

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    No you shouldn’t, that’s sexual harassment.

    1. KingMabel

      …I’m 80% eye balling squirrels calls for something bigger than sexual harassment.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        It could get you onto a sex offenders list.

        1. KingMabel

          Sounds about right.

      2. Spaz

        http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090720184728/scrubs/images/4/44/4x4kyle.jpg

        …..who DOESN’T occasionally look at a Squirrel and consider adding it to their squirrel army?

    2. Yotomoe

      They’re the ones going around flashing everyone!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Are you suggesting that the squirrels are asking for it? TSK TSK! 😛

      2. Marianne

        It’s worse than that, a few years ago one of them decided to do their streaking on television! Sensitive viewers across the British isles fainted in shock, and Mary Whitehouse spun in her grave! http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a343915/british-bake-off-squirrel-causes-twitter-storm.html (probably NSFW)

    3. thebombzen

      “The boys who stare at me in the comic shop”

  7. Doctor_Who

    In regards to the Alt-Text, I would buy that Joyce can change clothes by spinning around, like Wonder Woman.

    1. JessWitt

      Or the Sims.

      1. KingMabel

        Or my Aunt Sally

      2. Aeron

        I’ll use a nude mod in The Sims, and my sim will walk outside, spin around, and be wearing layered winter gear.

        “Wait, where were you… keeping…”

    2. ThisIsSoLemons

      I like to believe Joyce keeps a spare change of clothes in the Daily Planet broom closet, to which she dashes inside after leaving the shower

    3. Bill

      In regard to the alt-text, Mr. Willis, where is her original outfit now that she has come back to the room?  She just tossed that towel off to the side and there weren’t nuthin’ hiding under it then.

      1. John

        She’s been shown before to be wearing her pajamas under her clothes. Maybe that’s just S.O.P. for her.

  8. advancecasette

    so really looking like she ran off or something right

    1. Mr k

      Why did she stop at Joyce’s school, I wonder? Maybe she’s got something to admit to, or something she wants from Joyce…

    2. newllend

      no really any minute now a man in a trench coat is going to show up and take her back home before the aliens show up

      1. Chaotic Candy

        As long as she kicks the man in the nuts and steals his hat.

  9. caesaria82

    Joyce is alive. It’s a miracle!

  10. Dean

    Holy crap, Becky’s run away from college! Ridin’ the rails to Californey, hobo-style!

    She has obviously come to Joyce for bindle-tying tips.

  11. The Sound Defense

    Calling it now: Becky was sent to basically spy on Joyce’s school, to see if she’s being corrupted. Alternately, that was just her excuse to go visit.

    1. dailybrad

      I think it’s more likely she’s here on her own volition, and she potentially ran away, or as much as an adult can run away in these situations. Otherwise, they’d have given her a phone to check in or something.

      1. Barf Ninjason

        And *I* think it’s more likely that Becky just killed and ate like three other students at her school and is having one last good-times-with-Joyce thing before they find her and cart her off.

        1. Itama

          hmmmm…. this seems unlikely.
          .
          .
          .
          she’s probably just here to eat joyce as well.

        2. MrBurrows

          I’m sure she would love to eat Joyce, if you know what I mean.

    2. J42

      Maybe, though if she was on church/family spying errands she wouldn’t be looking at abominationary apps or admitting to watching sacrilegious sitcoms.
      Though it would make sense that she search Joyce’s phone.

    3. Lawzlo

      Maybe she was kicked out? For some sort of conduct that the school would not approve of (they probably couldn’t legally kick her out for being a lesbian, but if they figured out she was one, they might be able to drum up some BS reason to kick her out).

      1. Lawzlo

        Just a theory, obviously.

      2. Benjy

        There are no state-wide LBGTQ anti-discrimination measures in Indiana. It varies by county if/how far LGBTQ people are protected, and I’m not sure what Madison County’s policies are. Besides, I’m sure private institutions like universities can lobby for religious protection against anti-discrimination laws and have that reason accepted, even if it makes no legal or moral sense.

      3. Benjy

        So I wouldn’t be surprised if she was kicked out explicitly for being a lesbian.

      4. drs

        For making eye babies with another girl.

  12. Kernanator

    Don’t worry, Sarah. I’m sure this’ll neeeever be brought up again.

  13. Yotomoe

    Are you calling Ethan a chick, Joyce? That’s just insensitive.

    1. newllend

      that guy is man, a man who probably dreams of glitter and rainbows but a man nonetheless

      1. tinfoil theory

        Which of the giant space robots and Batman are the glitter and which the rainbows?

        1. Psi-Baka-Onna

          Well Batman did have to keep changing the colour of his costume that one time to foil a villain. The Silver age was weird.

        2. begbert2

          Well, since the giant space robots are PLAYSKOOL colored, that allows us to deduce some things about how the batsignal works.

  14. Z3tto

    Joyce’s abductee power in this universe is the ability to create sweater vests at will.

    1. ShaggyDonahugh

      She can throw The Good Book at ya faster than a speeding bullet.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        She’s able to make tall conclusions in a single bound.

        1. KingMabel

          Her friendship is more powerful than a locomotive.

        2. Hannah

          She’s Superfundie!

  15. Regalli

    … Sooo. I get the distinct feeling Becky’s running away, then.

    Or at the very least, testing waters for an eventual cutting off.

    1. OnnaStik

      Or she’s already been cut off. I’m thinking of last strip’s lesbian speculations in a much sadder light now…

      1. PlainMarie

        This is where my mind went. Becky came out to her parents and was kicked out. Becky’s morose musings to Sarah also seemed to imply that she anticipates “losing” Joyce as well.

    2. Arani

      Yeah, I gotta agree – the ‘cancelled’ classes didn’t seem quite right, and the more we hear from Becky, the more it feels like there’s something else going on. Also, you know, that whole meta-knowledge that we’re all probably going to end up shouting “DAMN YOU WILLIS!” at some point in this story…

      1. Lone Wolf

        Dumbing of Age is like if every episode of Deep Space Nine was an “O’Brien must suffer” episode and everyone in the cast is O’Brien.

  16. Morty

    solid snake alert nose go!

    1. Morty

      *noise. dang it

      1. Opus the Poet

        Nose works, too.

    2. Emperor Kiva

      !

  17. JessWitt

    With Ethan’s sexuality and Becky’s uhm…”something”, Sarah’s a real natural at deduction.

    1. Mr k

      She gets a job as a detective. I hope Willis makes a comic about that.

      1. Spaz

        Maybe she can go to the GWS-verse and join the Love Detectives.

        1. andmangrewproud

          I can totally see her as a rival to Hazel, who dislikes her only for Jaime to comment that “You too are a lot alike.”

    2. Yotomoe

      That’s not being very deductive. If she was truly deductive she’d already deduced what it is. Sherlock Holmes would know her mother’s maiden name 20 minutes before she even showed up.

      1. JessWitt

        True that. Sarah catches on to suspicious stuff quickly then. It’s in her nature I s’pose.

      2. Rutee

        Doesn’t it count for something that SArah doesn’t weight circumstantial evidence and spurious logic so heavily?

  18. dailybrad

    I get the feeling Becky’s visit isn’t solely just to see Joyce for happy reasons.

  19. Plasma Mongoose

    Thinking of all the Y-chromosome people in DoA, I cannot think of any one of them besides Jacob who hasn’t proven to be at least somewhat of an asshole.

    1. ShaggyDonahugh

      Joe’s obviously a horndog, Mike…Yea…, Walky is only sort of a dick to Joyce, and Danny….Danny’s not that bad is he? An idiot surely, but an asshole?

    2. Emperor Kiva

      Yeah agreed

    3. Regalli

      There is Jocelyn.

      1. KingMabel

        Actually Jo….never mind

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        That depends on if Jocelyn actually has a Y-chromosome or not.

        1. Regalli

          Entirely true. But then, I don’t think we know the chromosomal makeup of anyone on the cast for sure in that respect.

        2. Regalli

          Oh! There is *Scrolls tags* Jeremiah and Reno, they were both thoroughly decent dudes from what little we saw of them. And I think also Mike’s dad, probably?

        3. John

          I’m still not convinced that the Warners haven’t been making an insanely dedicated effort to troll Mike his entire life.

        4. Regalli

          … Okay, that I want to see, like, yesterday.

    4. Tom T.

      Jacob was a bit of a jerk in the extent to which he was using “making fun of Joyce” as a way of talking to Sarah.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        It was Sarah who was using “making fun of Joyce” as a way to talk to Jacob.

  20. newllend

    the fact that she hates all her male friends isn’t helping her disprove that she might a lesbian.

    1. AgentKeen

      She hates the way they act, but like dude butts. I think that’s not uncommon.

    2. Emperor Kiva

      Your brain needs examining

      1. Emperor Kiva

        ^ sorry forgot to add newlland

        1. newllend

          go ahead and take a peak, it will be just like staring into Cthulhu’s eyes

        2. Spaz

          http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014-10/16/11/enhanced/webdr09/anigif_original-grid-image-29428-1413473066-4.gif

        3. Emperor Kiva

          It’s cool I got a knife that can kill everything. I got it from a guy in a trench coat who’s name is Castiel.

    3. JessWitt

      It also seems she’s furthering Beckster into trying out lesbianism.

      1. begbert2

        Or squirrelism.

    4. Yotomoe

      I’m straight and I don’t hate all MY male friends.

  21. Tacdud2

    Joyce is wearing the same cloths from the first day.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Joyce did promise to never change after all… 😀

      1. Jen Aside

        Becky: “Uh, you can change THOSE”

    2. RickZarber

      Yay, I was looking for comments on that. It’s a nice touch!

  22. AgentKeen

    I think Sarah would make a better superhero than Amazi-Girl between her deductive skills and ‘baseball-bat-to-the-rapist’s-face’ skills.

    1. JessWitt

      We have a probable sidekick to AmaziGirl: Sarah “The Law” Clinton.

      1. takashid

        Sidekick? more like the superman to her batman. and i think Sarah’s hero name should be “Old Testament God” myself. That strip remains my favorite of all of DOA to this day

        1. John

          My candidate is “Bat-Woman”.

        2. begbert2

          I thought her superhero name was God.

        3. John

          No, that’s her secret identity.

  23. Saaaam

    Hmm. Now I think Becky is hoping Joyce can hook her up with a dude cause Andersen’s probably a super celibate place.

    1. Yotomoe

      Becky knows all about the loophole.

  24. liahansen

    I would bring up Carla, but then again, she actually probably makes that list for the same reason as Mike.

    1. Regalli

      Yeah, and that’s assuming Joyce even knows her at all, much less that she’s trans.

      Similarly, Malaya would totally make that list if Joyce knew her.

      1. Mr k

        Maybe if Amazi-Girl hits her again, she’ll lose her memory and become nice!

      2. What If I Don't Have A Name?

        Whoa, wait, Carla is trans? When did we find this out? I mean, looking back at some of the past strips she’s been in, a couple of her comments make more sense if she were trans, like:

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/purpleandskates/
        Sal – “You’re pretty dang tall.”
        Carla – “There’s a reason for that.”

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/permanent/
        Carla – “There’s a dick on my whiteboard! That is a hate crime!”

        But I don’t think it was said anywhere in the official comic strip, or at least not in any of the strips she’s tagged in. Did Willis say this on his blog at some point?

        1. Slinx

          I think Willis did word-of-God this at some point. Carla is trans, yes.

  25. liahansen

    Also, did anyone else think Becky had a terrible pink dinosaur-claw in panel four for a second?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I didn’t until you mentioned it.

  26. Gangler

    Okay, so three possibilities on my head.

    1. Like others have put forward, she could be running away from home.

    2. She misses Joyce enough to put up with the surely catastrophic consequences when her parents find out, with possible non-platanic implications to this gesture.

    3. She’s been sent to check up on Joyce, report back on whether or not Joyce is healthy, safe, sticking to the straight and narrow, etc. Mostly with the intention of putting everybody’s minds at ease but with terrible ramifications for Joyce if Becky learns of anything worrying.

    1. AgentKeen

      Oooh, 3 would be an interesting option, especially as it could potentially turn into a ‘my parents are kinda f-ed up’ moment for Joyce.

    2. newllend

      two of these seem the same and the other sounds so underhanded and diabolical that I almost want that to actually be whats be whats going on.

      but who would she report too? the evil corrupt church cult organization that run Joyce’s home town?

      1. AgentKeen

        Well, there’s running away, and there’s just sneaking off and accepting the consequences for such. I think that’s the difference between 1 and 2.

        I have a friend that pretty much believes the church in the mall where her son does tae kwan do is exactly an evil corrupt church cult. I think it was cus of something on HBO.

      2. Gangler

        I imagine she’d report back to her parents, who would pass the information along to Joyce’s parents, who would inform any other concerned parties asking about Joyce’s wellbeing, who will then make the news a topic of conversation with the rest of the church community, who would then shame and embarrass Joyce’s parents into taking harsher action than they might otherwise have chosen.

  27. Sam

    Go Sarah go. That is suspicious, investigation time!

    1. Hoboturtle

      It was good that she mentioned how she was raised but that’ll only broke one of the psyche- locks. She still has at least two to go.

  28. Rocketboy1313

    Huh. Becky is literally the first character to appear in the strip. That is strange.

    1. Crumplepunch

      Her head has sure shrunk since then.

  29. caramelundqueer

    I’d be willing to consider the idea of Becky running away from home if it hadn’t more or less been established that she’s living on campus at her college.

  30. StoryMagnet

    But the state is Indiana, so bussing halfway across it is only, like, one transfer. Now if it were a real-sized state, I’d wonder too.

    1. John

      Indiana’s a pretty decent-sized state! (says the Vermonter)

    2. Benjy

      Hey! Indiana is a big enough boot to completely squish Kentucky!

    3. Bill

      I took a bus once from western Wisconsin to Columbus Ohio, and only had to change buses twice — Chicago and Indianapolis.  And they still managed to misplace my bike at Indy.

  31. Packy

    I know that it’s a real college in Indiana, but every time I see Becky in her Anderson University shirt, it feels like Willis is giving a shout-out to ME.

    1. David M Willis

      Becky’s hoodie just wants to be friends.

      1. gwalla

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  32. Idon'tcarenomore

    Joyce wouldn’t introduce Becky to Joe (horn dog extrodinaire), Walky (he already hogs up all of her college best friend Dorothy’s time and she doesn’t want him taking up Becky’s time too, and would you introduce Mike to your best friend? Would you introduce Mike to anyone?

    Joyce found her sweater vest quick enough, by magic 🙂

    Becky can’t have a phone because she a fundamental shut in maybe?
    She may be running away, but she’s Joyce’s best friend pretty sure she will tell her soon if so.
    She may be sent to spy on Joyce, but it’s a bit late, Joyce won’t go home now. She’s learned to say no to her parents when they told her to stop seeing Dorothy.

    As to Becky thinking Joyce’s is a lesbian. Ain’t buying that.
    As I said first time it came up: these two have been brainwashed about what sex will do to them: how would they react to homosexual relations for each other or with another person?
    Probably run screaming into the sunset and hide under the bed or something.
    Not saying it isn’t possible, home school religious or not: just not at this stage of the game: Joyce is surely not ready. Becky may be more wordldy than we know, guess we will find out.

    1. tinfoil theory

      Maybe Becky doesn’t even knows what a lesbian is, and just thinks it’s natural for girls to be attracted to each other that way. And it is not what she had been warned about, so she doesn’t make the connection that it might, just might, be PMHP.

      Or maybe she prefers squirrels.

      1. Benjy

        I like this theory. Like when parents go out of their way to stress that their kids are never to say a “BAD WORD”, but never say what that bad word was, so the kid hears it and repeats it not knowing it was bad and gets punished for it. Only in this case it would be about 10x worse than that.

  33. newllend

    Its really funny that the 3 guys she cant stand the most are probably the ones she will possibly end up with.

    1. chris73

      What gets me is that Joe is a good guy, yes he wants to bone anything but he respects boundaries and is secure in his manhood

      1. tinfoil theory

        Anything, you say?

        1. chris73

          Well maybe just girls but still he asks the question and when declined he back off

        2. Ruck Bogers

          So, those lady squirrels should be watching their asses, eh?

        3. xKiv

          They can’t consent in a way that Joe would understand, so they are probably safe.
          The squirrels, and the asses too.

    2. Nono

      If you consider Anti-Joyce, those three guys are also the three guys IW! Joyce has at least smooched up with.

      1. 4th Dimension

        I don’t remember her smooching with Mike.

        1. Nono

          At least.

          I’d considering doing Mike a bit further ahead than first base.

  34. Ray Radlein

    My theory (which I haven’t seen anywhere else in this thread yet) is that Becky has gotten expelled from her private, Christian college, and is having to transfer to a public, state college.

    1. Bill

      Don’t think so.  If she had gotten expelled/transferred to IU she’d have shown up with some baggage or something.

    2. Swerve

      I like this hypothesis. Based on what we’ve seen, Becky is both more willing to press the boundaries of her restrictive upbringing, and on a permanent sugar high. Those are not a combination that restrictive religious institutions like.

  35. March

    Oh hell, this bird done flown the coop, hasn’t she?

  36. Henry

    Why am I starting to suspect that of the two of them, Becky is the less-repressed of the two, despite having apparently come from an even stricter home?

    1. Stil

      Sometimes people internalize the rules less, despite the reinforcement. Almost everyone is more likely to just not tell their parents than Joyce.

    2. timemonkey

      Sometimes when you grasp something too tightly it slips through your fingers and you lose it entirely. Sometimes giving something just enough room to move around gives them enough of an illusion of freedom to not realise how caged they really are.

      That’s kind of been the whole storyline for Joyce, she thought she had a happy, loving home. Then she entered the real world, saw what people were really like and how they’re not sin incarnate despite each doing something she found sinful and when she tried to share that with her family they responded with hatred and tried to force their beliefs into her. I think if anything that’s what has shaken Joyce’s core more than anything, her faith in her parents and their wisdom has been shaken and if she can’t be sure of that how can she be sure of anything they taught her?

  37. Willoughby Chase

    deus ex machina

    1. Itama

      no

  38. JustSomeGuy

    anyone else feelin like she’s actually ridiculously deviant and either:
    a: a closet lesbian with hots for joyce or
    b: looking to hook up, will succeed, and joyce will walk in on her and have a mental breakdown

    1. fit-to-freak

      being a lesbian isn’t deviant…

      1. Benjy

        It is to their (Joyce and Becky’s) Fundie point-of-view.

      2. begbert2

        It is however possible to be a lesbian AND deviant.

  39. Very Good Karma

    Ominous feeling continues to be ominous.

  40. snark

    I’m not sure the best place to link this, but here goes

    psst I wrote a theme song for Dumbing of Age and recorded a test of it with some unfinished illustrations: http://youtu.be/CQJnHliQ2VE

  41. OnyxIdol

    Y-chromosome? You better watch Your mouth with that science-talk young lady.

  42. Triniking1234

    Detective Sarah works FAST.

  43. JohnnyO

    Across the state? the only college called Anderson I know is in SC.

    1. Thomas64

      Prepare to have your knowledge expanded, then

  44. The_Master

    Something tells me she’s way better socialized than Joyce.

    1. gears

      It’s already been established that Joyce is the best socialized of her homeschooling group.

  45. Bagge

    Joyce has stashes of clothes hidden all over campus in case she has to change in a hurry from her secret identity – the ding-dong bandit.

  46. CarlaGriffin

    “Depending on how good your gaydar is you probably shouldn’t meet Ethan either…”

  47. OmegaDez

    I’m surprised Joyce knows what a Chromosome is. Aren’t fundies, like, totally against science?

    1. Will

      No. They are against specific aspects of science that directly contradict their dogma.

      You can’t say chromossomes don’t exist. We can see them.
      Evolution is bit more abstract than things you can actually see in a microscope, so they still try to deny and strawman/misrepresent it.

      They also won’t deny atoms and gravity, but Big Bang and 6 billion years old Earth is a big fat lie for them, somehow. And so on.

      They see the science they approve of as “how God did things”, and science they disagree with as “naturalistic/liberal/atheistic/satanist lies”.

      1. Emperor Kiva

        I believe god made science so he/she could work his wonders. And us humans could have our own little explanation.

        1. Hoboturtle

          As some would describe it. The world is but a sims game that god has left running. Now if you’re excuse me, I’m going out for a swim. Right after I destroy the pool ladder of course.

      2. OmegaDez

        You can’t just take science apart and just pick the aspects that you like.
        Evolution is just as observable as chromosomes.

        Just see how selective breeding made the various dog breeds so wildly different, and apply this on a planetary scale for millions of years…

        The worst part is, evolution doesn’t even denies the existence of God. It makes him much more awesome, if anything.

    2. OnyxIdol

      I wondered about that too. I mean, one day they talk about chromosomes, and before You know it, they are mastering in microbiology. And marxism.

  48. Lone Wolf

    Am I crazy, or does Becky basically look like a female version of Danny with red hair and freckles?

  49. LiamAldam

    So everyone’s speculating that Becky’s hiding something but coming out has been done so many times so far in this series. My theory: Becky may have been cut off or running away or what have you but because she totally had some premarital hanky-panky and got preggo.

  50. andmangrewproud

    Ok Alternative theory: Becky met a man, and they’re getting married, and she came to ask Joyce to be her maid of honor. This causes Joyce to have a panic attack because the whole reason she went to college is to find a guy and get married, not to get an education, and she feels like a failure.

  51. Benjy

    So I’m going to hazard a guess that when Joyce was desperately trying to get a hold of Becky, Becky was having her own crisis?

    1. John Madden

      That’d be my guess.

    2. Heather

      Sounds pretty likely.

  52. DAS

    Becky is so relatable it makes me uncomfortable. Willis is a damn good writer.

    I would totally buy that she ran away entirely to meet Joyce. No sexuality reasons. Just that she desperately needs Joyce, who understandably wasn’t there for her. She may not feel wronged, but she lost the person she needs.
    My upbringing was certainly less extreme, but uh, honestly, I see her, and I just read Depression in Denial.
    If this were 19 year old me, the translations could come out to this:

    “I know my place” = “I’m tempted to be unhappy about this, but clearly that’s not fair and having those feelings is invalid”

    “yes, ma’am!” = “we’ve been best friends since teeny tot times!”, which translates to: “we’ve been each other’s life preserver forever!”, which translates to: “I haven’t realized what this implies about our lives!”

    Keep in mind, that world that repressive world that Joyce escaped, just in time to develop into an adult? Becky hasn’t had that. She’s going to the religious school that was chosen for her. Now that her BFF has matured and developed into more of a free-feeling person, she’s going to have to learn that her old friend no longer exists, in a way.

    Becky seems smart enough to get that, but repressed enough to not give herself a break.

    YES I’M READING A BIT MUCH INTO IT

  53. vangeln

    Don’t trust her Becky! She’s gonna take you to her stall.

  54. SeanNOLA

    Option 1: Becky is pregnant. She left school and she was afraid to tell her parents, so she went to Joyce.

    Option 2: Joyce was Becky’s crutch all through school. She is failing out of school and (again) can’t go home to tell her parents.

    1. Nono

      It’s been less than two months though. Unless she’s already had a large amount of her coursework required in I don’t see how she can be failing, especially in freshman year, unless there’s some mandatory attendance policy she’s failing obviously and badly.

  55. Danielle

    Was it a deliberate decision to have Joyce be wearing the same clothes as her first day? (had to go back all the way to the very first strip to confirm that)

  56. Tenn

    That’s not Joyce! It’s a shower detritus golem!

  57. Adam Black

    Becky, professional Towel-Girl

    ( I bet thats fore-shadowing . Its Checkovs Wet-towel )

  58. Bodehn

    So I’ma see if I can’t guess a few things here:

    1) Becky has run away from her home/college
    2) She’s going to be REALLY disappointed when Joyce introduces her to Ethan
    3) She’s actually gay, in the closet and is REALLY into Joyce

    Not sure if I’m right or if other people have said similar/complete opposite things. Place yer bets!

    Alternatively, if you want to clear this up or tell me to wait and see Mr Willis, Pornlord and rule of the “DAMN YOU”s, I’d be much obliged.

    1. Bodehn

      *Ruler. Accursed typos.

  59. AriBerri

    Holy crap guys. If you hit first, we can see a comparison of old Becky and Joyce drawings versus present style. That was a very fortuneate coincidence.

  60. Arkadi

    You have no business eyeballin’ the squirrels’ ends, Becky. Whatever those are.

  61. Resulli

    I think even if Becky hasn’t run away she’s taking advantage of her freedom while living away from home. Like Joyce, she’s seeing more of the world but I don’t think she’s as in denial as Joyce is either.

  62. chris73

    Last panel Becky looks a lot like Danny

  63. Slinx

    Secret Road Trip!

  64. Sean

    I’m guessing that christian school she went to didn’t turn out so great.

    1. DarkoNeko

      …ok, you won an internet.

  65. shammers

    why do i feel like she ran away a long time ago

  66. Rheios

    I have actually done the clothes hiding under a towel thing.

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