And NOW I finally understand the “middle name Ana” comment!
Cholma
At least Jen gets a line of dialog! 😀
Orbit Junkie
I don’t. What is this?
Kryss LaBryn
(me either. It’s probably a Doctor Who thing somehow. It’s always a Doctor Who thing somehow.)
Tan
Jen Aside, Sue Aside, and Ana Chronistic are all commenting aliases of the same DoA fan, who is the person cameoing in the comic, and who is widely known for tending to be the first commenter on many many strips, to the point where we started to get annoying with “Where’s Jen?” comments when someone else got first. Possibly yet more aliases exist, but those are the ones that are ‘public’.
Orbit Junkie
Oh, ok. I know who Jen Aside is, and I’d figured out she became Sue Aside and Ana Chronistic, but I hadn’t realized she was using all three accounts at the same time. I’d though she’d retired Jen for Ana, and someone else was now using Jen’s name. Thanks for clearing that up.
Spencer
There is actually a Jhennaside here too.
Kryss LaBryn
Ah! I knew the rest, but hadn’t made the connection with the Jen in the comic. And thus, the alt text is explained. 😀 Thanks!
Honestly, more like termite, innocent ingrediense being mixed together that when ignited provides high heat with sparks flying everywhere that burns whoever is stupid enough to get close enogh to it:-P
Kryss LaBryn
Or thermite. Termites mostly just invisibly eat away at your house until the whole thing comes crashing down around your ears.
Joyce makes Holy Water by adding the sodium and chlorine separately and expecting a miracle.
Aside, since the two elements only combine in water, how did sodium chloride first get made in space?
Falling Star
What about francium and water?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Apparently, due to the size of Francium atoms and the binding energy of the electrons in its outer shel, Francium + water is basically the same as Caesium + water, in fact maybe a little less reactive. Also,
a) it’s radioactive, so hard to handle, and
b) it’s transuranic, so manmade. There’s usually only a few grammes of Francium in existence anywhere in the world at any time.
🙂
No Name
Um, Francium is cis-uranic. It’s just odd numbered, so it has a significantly shorter half-life than it’s more famous neighbors Radium and Radon.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I… *looks at a periodic table again* …o yes, so it is. My bad. xD
But still, short half-life and slightly less reactive due to shell sizes. Also, while it is pre-uranic and therefore naturally occurring, it’s ridiculously difficult to find, owing to its short half-life (and possbily its naturally high reactivity too?).
According to Wikipedia, it is the second-most electronegative element after Caesium, as a consequence slightly less reactive than Cs too.
Say what you like about Joe being a horrible monster, I have high hopes for this pairing. I think Joe’s recent spate of machine-gun monogamy is starting to get a bit stale – he’s lonely, and seeking connection (of the non-physical kind). Once you get past the horn-dog facade, there’s a decent guy in there, and Joyce is just the person to bring him out.
How is this doing that, though (she’s not scared of all men or specifically of Joe (although she doesn’t like him), and I think her main crisis here has to do with faith/family more than her previous trauma), and is it really good if it’s not in a controlled/safe environment?
This. Her current crisis is with regards to crises of faith. Joe has little to nothing to offer on that score. And that’s not a slam on him though I do dislike the man. He’s a secular-leaning Jewish gentleman. He’s going to have very very little to offer Joyce with regards to her crises surrounding Pre-Millennial Dispensationalist Christian theology.
timemonkey
Well, she definitely has issues with Joe, she’s been treating him horribly when he did pretty much nothing wrong. Yes, he wanted to have sex with her, but there was never any attempt to force her, she was never in any danger, instead she had him assaulted repeatedly for showing any sign of sexuality at all and then acted like a victim afterward.
She has every right to dislike him and his attitude but she’s been going overboard and treating him like a monster for no reason.
He attempted to remove her chaperone. He was dishonest in his intentions with the date. He has since continued to make inappropriate comments including coming up behind her to make comments about her hiding exciting things in her pants in direct response to complaining about guys trying to get in her pants over the phone. And he keeps doing it over and over and over again despite how much she has communicated not only her no, her get the fuck away from me, but also that she in no uncertain terms does not feel safe around him.
And that pants one is important because it was him inserting himself into a conversation that wasn’t even relating to him to make a come-on statement and then when she went off on him about it (mostly due to triggers, admittedly), he started whining like he was a poor martyr who had been done wrong.
Yes, she had him punched repeatedly. Yes, she comes from a fucked up background that has historically viewed him as evil simply for being a sexual being and that’s neither of those things are even remotely okay, but she has very good reasons to view him as a pushy creep in addition to the terrible reasons she has to hate him.
Rutee
But he also has good reasons to hate her, because well, aside from the fucked up shit Evangelicals believe about Jews, she punched him repeatedly, and paid someone to punch him.
Of COURSE he attempted to remove her chaperone. Mike threatened to strangle him from the word go. While that might have been in jest, it wasn’t, and it’s not a promising sign even if it weren’t true. Yeah, he’s harrassing her, but it’s not like this is a one way relationship and she just ‘hates him for terrible reasons too’.
thejeff
Mike’s presence (and especially the “punch anyone who acts inappropriately” part) would be a perfectly good reason to walk away from the date at that point. Secretly bribing him to go away is inappropriate.
I’m definitely not saying he doesn’t have reasons to be aggrieved. He was straight up assaulted at their date and Mike not only threatened him from the get-go, but found an excuse in the conversation to punch him repeatedly and Joyce cared more about his language while he was being punched than the fact he was being punched and later on straight up ordered Mike to continue punching him over actions that were in no ways a call for anything other than an ended date.
But he tried to get rid of Mike as an isolation tactic so he could get his flirt for sex on, not because Mike is violent. I’m very much with thejeff that the right thing in that case would have been to walk away rather than trying to find a way to return to game plan one of getting her to agree to sex she did not want to have at the beginning of the night.
Willoughby Chase
Wasn’t that for comic effect though? A metaphor, if you will.
If Joe can be nasty for, a-hem, “light relief”, I’m sure it can work both ways.
amirite or amirite.
Ghola
Will let you if it ever happens.
Spencer
Yeah, I feel the same way about Joyce and Mike beating up Joe the same way I do Amazi-Girl beating up Beef and his friends at the party, or Mary vs. Carla from a while back. It was such a purely cartoony moment so divorced from reality that I can’t even consider it a legitimate moment with any weight to the characters.
thejeff
The problem with that approach in this case is that Joe keeps bringing it up again, apparently seriously.
Spencer
I know, and that’s where the problem stems. It was too cartoony to take seriously, so consequently, I don’t care when Joe brings it up.
Like, remember when everyone went to the beach? I kind of doubt Sal was able to materialize a speedboat out of nowhere to water ski immediately at a point where it would be perfectly timed for Billie to gripe about how Sal wasn’t that cool.
Or that one time Mrs. Warner tried to hug Sal, and she pulled out her bat to repel her. Not only was the hammerspace silly, but she reacted violently over the top to someone who was super dedicated to hug her. It was too silly to take seriously.
Joe is the source of her issues? I thought the date-rapist at the party or maybe her fundamentalist upbringing was the source. Joe did literally nothing wrong.
333 thoughts on “Teams”
AnvilPro
Go Team Awkward!!!
Spencer
I’m mildly disappointed Jen Aside wasn’t the first poster this time.
Jen Aside
not even first INSIDE the comic, alt-text
saltchocolate
Jen Aside, your grav makes me feel like Dina is cheating on Becky!!
Rutee
WHY DO YOU CHOOSE THE BEST GRAVATAR MAKE OUTS THEN NOT USE THEM.
AnvilPro
Well then I’m going to cross “Disappoint strangers online” off my Resolutions list
Ana Chronistic
come to think of it, I’ve never been able to FIRST one of my own appearances
Ana Chronistic
dang, my hair got long since then
THE SECRET TO ETERNAL YOUTH: be in DoA
Mr. Random
Well, it HAS only been like two months since the semester started.
JustCheetoDust
I thought the first month just ended.
John
Today is Friday of Week Five, the 34th day of the comic.
Adam Black
Should use you appearance as your icon.
Willoughby Chase
Are you a …. Time Lady?
Captain Button
Never ask that question!
Stan T
yes, but what do you want? XD
MrSpkr
Team JoJo?
Ana Chronistic
lately, it’s Min
AS AN ASIDE, do I have to work, or is Roz so passionate she’ll do everything and I can just sit back
Jen Aside
dangit this dual thing setup isn’t working
TJ Pittsburgh
And NOW I finally understand the “middle name Ana” comment!
Cholma
At least Jen gets a line of dialog! 😀
Orbit Junkie
I don’t. What is this?
Kryss LaBryn
(me either. It’s probably a Doctor Who thing somehow. It’s always a Doctor Who thing somehow.)
Tan
Jen Aside, Sue Aside, and Ana Chronistic are all commenting aliases of the same DoA fan, who is the person cameoing in the comic, and who is widely known for tending to be the first commenter on many many strips, to the point where we started to get annoying with “Where’s Jen?” comments when someone else got first. Possibly yet more aliases exist, but those are the ones that are ‘public’.
Orbit Junkie
Oh, ok. I know who Jen Aside is, and I’d figured out she became Sue Aside and Ana Chronistic, but I hadn’t realized she was using all three accounts at the same time. I’d though she’d retired Jen for Ana, and someone else was now using Jen’s name. Thanks for clearing that up.
Spencer
There is actually a Jhennaside here too.
Kryss LaBryn
Ah! I knew the rest, but hadn’t made the connection with the Jen in the comic. And thus, the alt text is explained. 😀 Thanks!
asnow mous e
Oh. I haven’t seen “Sue Aside.”
Kelly
Min… Farshaw? Is this a Wheel of Time/DoA crossover thing?
anon
The face of ultimate disapproval.
LadyThrimbletrimmer
With your icon as first runner-up
anon
This pleases the anon. Thank you.
On another note, looking forward to Joe and Joyce teaming up. They have good chemistry.
Disloyal Subject
Like sodium and water.
inqntrol
Or oil with water.
Opus the Poet
Na and H2O is much more explosive.
inqntrol
Well, they are going to have a blowing experience then.
dmaxx
Honestly, more like termite, innocent ingrediense being mixed together that when ignited provides high heat with sparks flying everywhere that burns whoever is stupid enough to get close enogh to it:-P
Kryss LaBryn
Or thermite. Termites mostly just invisibly eat away at your house until the whole thing comes crashing down around your ears.
So, okay, not really all that different. 😛
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Sodium and Water just burns a bit and makes a few sparks. As shown in this video of Alkali metals in water.
Try Caesium and water instead. ;P
Opus the Poet
Joyce makes Holy Water by adding the sodium and chlorine separately and expecting a miracle.
Aside, since the two elements only combine in water, how did sodium chloride first get made in space?
Falling Star
What about francium and water?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Apparently, due to the size of Francium atoms and the binding energy of the electrons in its outer shel, Francium + water is basically the same as Caesium + water, in fact maybe a little less reactive. Also,
a) it’s radioactive, so hard to handle, and
b) it’s transuranic, so manmade. There’s usually only a few grammes of Francium in existence anywhere in the world at any time.
🙂
No Name
Um, Francium is cis-uranic. It’s just odd numbered, so it has a significantly shorter half-life than it’s more famous neighbors Radium and Radon.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I… *looks at a periodic table again* …o yes, so it is. My bad. xD
But still, short half-life and slightly less reactive due to shell sizes. Also, while it is pre-uranic and therefore naturally occurring, it’s ridiculously difficult to find, owing to its short half-life (and possbily its naturally high reactivity too?).
According to Wikipedia, it is the second-most electronegative element after Caesium, as a consequence slightly less reactive than Cs too.
DarkoNeko
Kyon-kun, denwa !
Deanatay
Say what you like about Joe being a horrible monster, I have high hopes for this pairing. I think Joe’s recent spate of machine-gun monogamy is starting to get a bit stale – he’s lonely, and seeking connection (of the non-physical kind). Once you get past the horn-dog facade, there’s a decent guy in there, and Joyce is just the person to bring him out.
Falling Star
Of course, Kyon spends most of his time in a state of disapproval, so this isn’t surprising.
Opus the Poet
That is one unhappy Joyce, and Joe don’t look thrilled either.
Captain Button
A lose-lose situation.
Captain Button
Hey. I’ll be on a team with you instead. Walky can find someone else.
No, That’s all right. Be with your boyfriend.
But he was the one who just said I should … oh.
Mr. Mendo
You know, this will actually be good for Joyce. Force her to confront the source of her issues!
Captain Button
Joe, keep an eye on her fingers. If she closes them up, duck!
JustCheetoDust
What if ducking just sets up connecting with the other fist? Maybe he should just lean away instead.
Deanatay
Eh, Joe is built to take punches.
Marie
How is this doing that, though (she’s not scared of all men or specifically of Joe (although she doesn’t like him), and I think her main crisis here has to do with faith/family more than her previous trauma), and is it really good if it’s not in a controlled/safe environment?
Cerberus
This. Her current crisis is with regards to crises of faith. Joe has little to nothing to offer on that score. And that’s not a slam on him though I do dislike the man. He’s a secular-leaning Jewish gentleman. He’s going to have very very little to offer Joyce with regards to her crises surrounding Pre-Millennial Dispensationalist Christian theology.
timemonkey
Well, she definitely has issues with Joe, she’s been treating him horribly when he did pretty much nothing wrong. Yes, he wanted to have sex with her, but there was never any attempt to force her, she was never in any danger, instead she had him assaulted repeatedly for showing any sign of sexuality at all and then acted like a victim afterward.
She has every right to dislike him and his attitude but she’s been going overboard and treating him like a monster for no reason.
Cerberus
He attempted to remove her chaperone. He was dishonest in his intentions with the date. He has since continued to make inappropriate comments including coming up behind her to make comments about her hiding exciting things in her pants in direct response to complaining about guys trying to get in her pants over the phone. And he keeps doing it over and over and over again despite how much she has communicated not only her no, her get the fuck away from me, but also that she in no uncertain terms does not feel safe around him.
And that pants one is important because it was him inserting himself into a conversation that wasn’t even relating to him to make a come-on statement and then when she went off on him about it (mostly due to triggers, admittedly), he started whining like he was a poor martyr who had been done wrong.
Yes, she had him punched repeatedly. Yes, she comes from a fucked up background that has historically viewed him as evil simply for being a sexual being and that’s neither of those things are even remotely okay, but she has very good reasons to view him as a pushy creep in addition to the terrible reasons she has to hate him.
Rutee
But he also has good reasons to hate her, because well, aside from the fucked up shit Evangelicals believe about Jews, she punched him repeatedly, and paid someone to punch him.
Of COURSE he attempted to remove her chaperone. Mike threatened to strangle him from the word go. While that might have been in jest, it wasn’t, and it’s not a promising sign even if it weren’t true. Yeah, he’s harrassing her, but it’s not like this is a one way relationship and she just ‘hates him for terrible reasons too’.
thejeff
Mike’s presence (and especially the “punch anyone who acts inappropriately” part) would be a perfectly good reason to walk away from the date at that point. Secretly bribing him to go away is inappropriate.
Cerberus
There is this.
Rutee-
I’m definitely not saying he doesn’t have reasons to be aggrieved. He was straight up assaulted at their date and Mike not only threatened him from the get-go, but found an excuse in the conversation to punch him repeatedly and Joyce cared more about his language while he was being punched than the fact he was being punched and later on straight up ordered Mike to continue punching him over actions that were in no ways a call for anything other than an ended date.
But he tried to get rid of Mike as an isolation tactic so he could get his flirt for sex on, not because Mike is violent. I’m very much with thejeff that the right thing in that case would have been to walk away rather than trying to find a way to return to game plan one of getting her to agree to sex she did not want to have at the beginning of the night.
Willoughby Chase
Wasn’t that for comic effect though? A metaphor, if you will.
If Joe can be nasty for, a-hem, “light relief”, I’m sure it can work both ways.
amirite or amirite.
Ghola
Will let you if it ever happens.
Spencer
Yeah, I feel the same way about Joyce and Mike beating up Joe the same way I do Amazi-Girl beating up Beef and his friends at the party, or Mary vs. Carla from a while back. It was such a purely cartoony moment so divorced from reality that I can’t even consider it a legitimate moment with any weight to the characters.
thejeff
The problem with that approach in this case is that Joe keeps bringing it up again, apparently seriously.
Spencer
I know, and that’s where the problem stems. It was too cartoony to take seriously, so consequently, I don’t care when Joe brings it up.
Like, remember when everyone went to the beach? I kind of doubt Sal was able to materialize a speedboat out of nowhere to water ski immediately at a point where it would be perfectly timed for Billie to gripe about how Sal wasn’t that cool.
Or that one time Mrs. Warner tried to hug Sal, and she pulled out her bat to repel her. Not only was the hammerspace silly, but she reacted violently over the top to someone who was super dedicated to hug her. It was too silly to take seriously.
Reltzik
You’re right! THIS CAN ONLY END WELL!
Andrew
Joe is the source of her issues? I thought the date-rapist at the party or maybe her fundamentalist upbringing was the source. Joe did literally nothing wrong.
buckybone
This is going to hurt…probably Joe.
miados
different mindsets can help make for an interesting project. or it can make one person do all the work. I have experienced both
Disloyal Subject
I wouldn’t be surprised if Joyce tries to do the whole thing to avoid interacting with Joe. I wonder how he’d react to that.
Kryss LaBryn
Joe: *Shrugs* “Whatever.” *Leans closer to cute coed in next row* “SOoooo… /:D”
miados
probably depends on the final grade
Fish Facade
Too much meta
Rob