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Super excited
Posted on September 11, 2012 by David M Willis

139 thoughts on “Super excited”

  1. Jen Aside

    Faz-Joyce is Fazzy.

    Er, creepy o_o

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Wait until she pulls out a whiteboard to demonstrate how excited she is.

      1. Yotomoe

        Faz would be super into that.

        1. Pyr05

          Allow me to show you charts depicting Joyce’s excitement level and God’s presence. As you can see, the overlap occurs when God is more present than present all the time.

        2. ThatRobedGuy

          This pleases Faz in the most perverse of ways.

      2. The Funkalicious Cale Andrew Baird

        That just makes me laugh because of the current storyline.

  2. Blob Marley

    Danno would be excited if Amazi-Girl were at church.

    1. Raoullefere

      He’d be even more excited if she had her own church. Perhaps that should be her next move: to found Amazi-Church.

      1. CommentSpawn

        It worked for Captain Marvel.

  3. Humson

    Looks like mary is still irritated

    1. Kernanator

      Since when is she NOT irritated?

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      I misread that as ‘irradiated’.

      1. Yotomoe

        She’s Irrigated.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          of the colonic variety.

        2. Luke

          That sounds extremely unpleasant for everyone involved.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          You bet your bottom dollar it is.

        4. Luke

          Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go have nightmares.

        5. liquidcruelty

          don’t tell me how to spend my bottom dollars

        6. Kam

          they spend like any other dollay, they just have a
          certain musky smell…

          example.

        7. Somebody

          lol

      2. Trae Dorn

        Bitten by an irradiated Mary, Peter Parker has become BITTER-MAN!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          He gains the ability to write snarky comics in a single bound.

        2. Yotomoe

          He can push their own religious preferences from 400 feet.

        3. Uncle Rylon

          And his bitter sense tells him when a non-beliver is about to pounce nearby.

    3. Dean

      It’s cool, God is two-ply, with aloe.

      1. Shade

        And twice as absorbant as the next leading diety.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        3ply cos you know Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

        1. Random Guy

          Holy Ghost is the aloe. I t leaves you with that good feeling.

  4. Wonder Wig

    That makes sense, since I usually find myself praying while on the can.

    1. Uncle Rylon

      Psalm #2 (verse 4) is appropriate in some instances: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

    2. diremoi

      What, like… legit prayers, heal the sick, bless my finances, that sort of thing?

      Or OH GOD OH GOD I PROMISE I’LL NEVER EAT AT DENNY’S AGAIN IF YOU JUST MAKE IT STOP HURTING OH GOD kind of prayer?

      1. Kernanator

        Yes.

      2. Wonder Wig

        The second. Usually after 12 jalapeno poppers. It’s like pooping hell.

        1. madd

          Mmmm … jalapeño poppers ….

        2. Yotomoe

          Jalepeño poopers…

      3. Cheredarenee

        this comment made my day. thanks

  5. Yotomoe

    Church is to Exciting as Internet is to Innocence.

    1. Kernanator

      So, church is where you lose your excitement?

      1. begbert2

        Well, I for one lose my will to live with each moment in one. Does that count?

        1. Kernanator

          …Eh, close enough for government work.

        2. Andiemus

          There’s a catholic priest joke about excitement somewhere in there but we’re too classy for that.

        3. Kam

          which comics’ comments do you believe you’re commenting in?

        4. Andiemus

          The comic with comments containing classy contents on the comic’s comments?

    2. Petre Pan

      Eh, it depends on how you use it.

      Just like with the internet, which can be a place of perfectly innocent progressive learning if you only use it for that purpose (as some people do).

  6. David Herbert

    I love Mary in the background giving her disapproval face.

    “How dare you act excited over this experience.”

    1. Yotomoe

      “Nobody does religion as good as me.”

      1. Doctor_Who

        “I am the religiest of them all!”

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          ‘Debbie Does Denominational’

        2. Hannover Fist

          Is your avatar Mattie Ross?

  7. Luke

    Likening God to toilet paper. That’s… an odd concept.

    1. Yotomoe

      He has wiped evil off the face of the earth a few times.

      1. George

        Wait, face? I think you’re doing toilet paper wrong dude.

        1. Random Guy

          Face is the end you talk out of right? I think Plasma Mongoose may have gotten it correct… judging by past comments.

      2. Pie

        What about the great stone ass of Mars?

      3. Björn

        And all the puppies.

    2. thomas0comer

      People use both of them to cover their asses.

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    God is like toilet paper huh? Who knew? 😛

    1. Kernanator

      Dammit, I’m trying to find something God has in common with toilet paper, and it’s making my brain hurt.

      1. Yotomoe

        I figured it out in Luke’s response :3

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        You need to use 3ply then. 😀

      3. begbert2

        I could start listing, but as tempting as it is it would come off as *way* rude.

    2. Rognik

      I wonder if double-ply faith is quilted or not?

  9. Uniqueantique

    Striped Joyce with the triangle smile.

  10. Doctor_Who

    Hehe, double-ply. I have a very religious friend I need to quote that to. I keep trying to get her to read this strip, because she basically IS Joyce (but slightly saner).

  11. Kernanator

    Man, sometimes you make a joke so out there, I can’t even comment on it.

    So all I’m going to say is, Mary does not approve of your metaphors.

    1. Yotomoe

      “I’m Mary and I don’t approve this message”

    2. SkepticJ

      Either that, or she doesn’t approve of Ethan’s presence. Jewish *and* gay has to be a double whammy for someone like Mary.

      1. Ancestral Hamster

        Mary is eager for the stoning to begin. “Let she who is a hypocrite cast the first stone.”

      2. begbert2

        This of course assumes that she has Jewdar. (The gay part is obvious, of course.)

  12. Yotomoe

    I’m only into religion for the money. (I’m honestly surprised Joe’s comment didn’t have anything to do with chicks)

    1. begbert2

      I think Joyce learned him about the potential downside of dating religious chicks.

    2. katzgoboom

      Joe is a good Jewish boy. He only wants a woman who isn’t like his mother.

    3. sidhe3141

      Hang on, one of the two Jewish characters only went to temple for money?

      Isn’t that sort of offensive?

  13. beinsane

    That ain’t the half of it, Joe. Synagogues charge for admission, and if you aren’t pals with the Board of Trustees you can forget about getting the good seats. My family always ended up in the rented annex space for “parallel” Rosh Hashanah services with the crummy assistant rabbi…

    1. Historyman68

      Whaaa? You guys need a new synagogue. One that respects you.

  14. brasca1

    Double-ply usually pertains to toilet paper, but I guess it’s the little things in life that make Joyce happy.

  15. Yotomoe

    It’s like 2 sheets of god combined together in cotton stitching that makes praying more enjoyable…praying anywhere else chafes.

    1. madd

      Not to mention all of the lint they leave behind!

  16. adius

    damn look at joe’s nipple in the third panel. thats a big nipple

    1. Luke

      Gravatar is disturbingly appropriate.

    2. Thor

      That’s his areola, not his nipple.

      Common mistake.

      1. Andiemus

        Anatomy level: win.

  17. Swine59238

    I forget — have Joyce and Danny met yet?

    Either way, this foreshadowing makes me happy 😀

    1. Andiemus

      Begun the shipping wars will.

  18. Bekah

    One of my Christian friends suddenly makes a lot more sense to me.

    1. Luke

      … Do I even want to know?

      1. Bekah

        Probably not, no.

      2. Andiemus

        Hey, Luke, what’s your gravatar? Anime confederacy is kinda unusual.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Oh? How so?

  19. Ryan Balis

    If only she knew he’s gay

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      But he doesn’t look all that happy to me.

      1. turkishproverb

        Talk to reagan

    2. Shade

      Hopefully the sermon doesn’t end up being something most would call ironic, though it wouldn’t be by defintion.

      1. begbert2

        If the sermon was on how the congregation should start attending synagogues on the sly in order to date secretly Jewish women, would that be ironic?

        I confess that the more I learn about irony, the less I understand it. I that ironic? I have no idea.

        1. begbert2

          Er, to secretly date Jewish women. I think that being secretly Jewish at a synagogue would blow their cover.

        2. katzgoboom

          If they married any of their secret Jewish girlfriends, wouldn’t that just make all of their children Jewish?

        3. Andiemus

          Not if they’re baptized.

        4. Fannonymous

          Or if they’ve been nail to a cross.

  20. Doomdarts

    I love how Sierra still gets a character tag, even though her arm and part of her boob are the only things in the shot.

    There’s a joke in there somewhere.

    1. begbert2

      Please, her hair and the edge of her torso are in shot too. That’s more than enough.

      Plus, it’s a very nice boob.

      1. Kirt Dankmyer

        I look forward to Willis posting a wider version of the church scene on his tumbr. 🙂

  21. Jackson

    Hmm…super-omnipresence. I like this theology.

    1. Kam

      The only way to be more present than all around you is to be inside you too. Hmm, no wonder Joyce is excited.

      1. Jackson

        Just a guess, but she’s probably pretty excited to be in the presence of Ethan too.

  22. KazasDrakon

    Don’t Squeeze the G-dHead

  23. Raine

    Thought she said he’s ‘Double-Fly’

    Hoping she was getting hip. =<

    1. ryan

      i’m glad i’m not the only one.

    2. Effie

      Word to your virgin mothers.

      1. Luke

        … I don’t… No. Just no.

  24. Drunken Nordmann

    Joyce’s “Faz Face” is mildly disturbing…

  25. Mooslug

    Noooooo Joe’s stubble from yesterday’s comic is gone!

    1. begbert2

      Joe’s dismissal of Judaism yesterday offended his stubble, and it retreated back into his face in protest.

      He does this every morning; it’s easier than shaving.

  26. WhiteEyedCat

    Of course Joyce thinks that toast is super exciting, so she’s really not the best judge.

  27. Steven

    You didn’t tag God.

    1. Historyman68

      Whoa, that’s like deep man

    2. Rex Hondo

      Shouldn’t he be tagged in every comic, since he’s everywhere?

      1. begbert2

        Unless, perhaps, he’s *not* everywhere…

        There you have it, folks – we now know Willis’s theology; he’s an atheist! There is no god!

        Oh, and look, this other webcomic author is an atheist too, here’s a strip without god tagged!

        And look at this site over here too, here’s another! And another one there!

        They’re everywhere! Run for your lives!

        1. Khrene

          No guys, WIllis IS God, and he used to tag himself in the bottom left of every strip, then it got old for him.

  28. Historyman68

    Jump cut!

  29. AJBulldis

    …I think church is exciting…

  30. Bill

    The church serves a great purpose.
    Keeping my favorite pancake house empty until 11 am. 😉

  31. Raoullefere

    With all this church talk, you guys are missing the important things.

    Has Joe been that hirsute throughout this comic?

    1. madd

      Yes. Yes he has.

  32. Effie

    I totally read that as “yeah but in churches he’s double-fly.”
    word

    1. GrrArg42

      Double-fly for a Rabbi. Our temple’s had a fair share..

  33. Blamforbam

    Well, God the Father is everywhere, but the Holy Spirit is present when two or more are gathered in his name. If you are Catholic like me, Jesus is present in the Eucharist as well.

    Triple-ply baby! Now that’s luxury.

  34. luke

    this should go swimmingly

  35. katzgoboom

    I have literally never been asked whether or not I’m going to church on Sunday.

    1. GrrArg42

      Then allow frightened Elan to ask: Are you going to church this Sunday?! If you don’t you might not get any snacks. I hear they have snacks.

  36. Ray

    I go to church every Sunday, and Joyce’s level of enthusiasm for religion even annoys me. Though, American Catholicism and whatever fundamentalist group Joyce is a representation of don’t really seem to have a whole lot in common.

    1. Usayasha

      She’s nondenominational, I believe. So she probably isn’t supposed to represent any one group in particular, but common traits of many.

  37. gangler

    She’s so holy that her frown don’t quit.
    You wonder out loud “Mary girl, why can’t you just co-exist?”
    Be-Be-Because being all prepared to proselytize is less devout
    And she ain’t about to relinquish holy clout.

  38. Dio

    I never realized how much I want Ethan to be Joe’s college experimental phase until just now.

  39. begbert2

    Silly Joe, Christians don’t go to church for free. Most of them pay for the privilege.

  40. Wack'd

    So, since this comic is addressing Joe’s religion head-on–is he going home for Rosh Hashona? Is he gonna fast on Yom Kippur? Or is he just kinda done with everything?

  41. kschenke

    In ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ the two main characters are in a church’s meeting room (where their counselor keeps saying they’re in the heart of Jesus) and after the meeting have a conversation about how it can’t be healthy to have a bunch of cancer kids hanging out in Jesus’ heart and how they wish they could warn Jesus but sadly they’re still trapped in his heart.

  42. Marshall Erickson

    I love Joyce freaking out like a schoolgirl

  43. Trolldrool

    In the town where I was born, Christians only went to church at Christmas, Easter, weddings, baptisms and funerals. Exactly because they felt close to God through the world around them every second they were awake, so going to church every sunday just felt redundant.

  44. acoraz

    I keep drawing comparisons between Joe and Ethan, and I’m convincing myself more and more that Joe’s gonna find out he’s bi and then they’re gonna get together.

    I need to stop doing this to myself.

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