I don’t know Nono, but I’m pretty sure that ship is not freight style shipping that can go on a train, although I agree a train would sink. Usually I think that ship is like a large, ocean-going vessel, often colloquially described as a boat. Then again, maybe that’s not the kind of train you meant, but I think those are not shipped, but rather … pulled.
I’m not fond of eating hearts out. Maybe a pizza? with mozzarella? Or a Caesar salad, I dunno. Hell, I wouldn’t mind a large fries. Not fried chicken though.
I don’t know, Spousal ValdVin is 5’3″ and I’m 6′, and my chin clears her head by a couple inches, and Joe’s seems to have a couple more inches clearance than than.
Lordhaw
I would agree. My wife is 4’10” and I’m 5’10” and there’s a similar difference in position. Using my teen daughter who actually is Joyce’s canonical height, based off my own height it’d probably be about correct for someone 6′ – 6’3″ or so
Yeah, if we’re going that Joyce is 5’4″ and measure it by that, he’s probably about that height. I’m about 5’9″ and my friends that are 5’4″ go up to around my chin, so if Joe’s a good five inches taller than me, it would put Joyce around his chest. I think it’s just a low door, if anything.
While this is something of a downwards perspective, Joe doesn’t appear to be /that/ far away from the door frame.
woobie
Joe is past the edge of the door, and the door is open widely.
Demoted Oblivious
You’re right. And yet his hand on the door frame, or wall, also with the bend of his elbow, indicates that he is comfortably close to the entry. Yet when I had a door open 45d, I had to stretch my arm full out to rest my hand on the wall with my hip behind the door. Along with the foot on front brings us back to, meh it’s a comic and the art isn’t intended to be a physically perfect representation of the real world. wooo-woop-woop-woop hoo hoo hoo HOOOOO
Clif
It’s all in the mentals.
Audkitten
I have a friend who is 6’9 and has to duck to get into doors. I think standard door frames are 6’8. My guess is Joe is 6’9
I dunno, my inlaws house was built for someone less than 5’5″, I can touch the ceiling easily and anyone over 6′ might not fit in the house. I’m only 5’8″ and I have to duck through some of their doorways. Some buildings are built weird.
Let’s face it … Joyce is still a unicorn; a bashful, blushing virginal unicorn – but somewhere along the past eighteen years she’s learned SOMETHING about the birds and the bees and the boys and the girls …
And as Dustin Hoffman (as Captain Hook) said in the movie “Hook”, “To a 10-year-old, I’m huge.”
So I think Willis is drawing this so that we are ‘seeing’ Joe from Joyce’s perspective. Half-nekkid man, flat abs, chest hair — and that bulging ‘package’ of his….. well, in her eyes, he’s larger than life itself.
Now THAT is a solid interpretation featuring artist license(TM). But it leaves all of us poor geometers holding our protractors and compasses ultimately unsatisfied with the numerical information we’ve derived. What about OUR needs?
Did I miss a post where you officially passed the torch, or is Waggy just quicker on the draw?
NotThatDrew
There’ve been days where I’ve seen both of em playing music. Hell, I’ve got a particular track in mind myself for whenever one of three potential (or rather nearly inevitable) scenarios finally play out.
Wagstaff
Great minds think alike, I guess.
I mean, if Newton and Leibniz could conceive of calculus completely independently of each other and with extraordinary synchronicity, I guess anything is possible in that regard.
On that note, there’s a good chance that I was also thinking of at least two of the same scenarios as you, for which I have reserved much revered cinematic masterpieces.
I think that just happens in most forms of media. Usually all characters are made more attractive unless intentionally designed otherwise. Especially when stylized. Pretty much everyone even the horrible characters like Mary or Blaine can be appealing to someone design wise.
207 thoughts on “The boys”
Ana Chronistic
Joyce, you should know better about waking people up, after Sal
MugiwaraNoPancakes
That’s why she sent expendable Danny to get strangled instead
RacingTurtle
SHE SENT A PROXY
Deanatay
admittedly the proxy also appreciates the male form in general, but does not want to do so with Joe in particular.
Thag Simmons
JoJo Shippers eat your heart out
Nono
I was never on that train. I don’t know who I ship Joe with, but it’s not Joyce. They work way better as friends for the foreseeable future.
Mordecai
“Foreseeable future” yes. Jojo shippers are playing the long game
Sirksome
How long a game depends on exactly how far into the future one can see.
GreyICE
10 seconds, of course. The problem is whatever we see always comes true
DailyBrad
We definitely are, I mean, they definitely are.
RowenMorland
They are eating a lot of healthy foods.
fridge_logic
This is the only way to ship Jojo
BarerMender
I’m still shipping Joyce and Dorothy. Even though Dorothy is straight as a string and finds Joyce’s crush on her a little freaky.
RassilonTDavros
I mean, strings don’t have to be straight. You can make whatever shapes you want with them!
BarerMender
It’s the alliteration. And there is such a thing as a string
level.
Demoted Oblivious
I don’t know Nono, but I’m pretty sure that ship is not freight style shipping that can go on a train, although I agree a train would sink. Usually I think that ship is like a large, ocean-going vessel, often colloquially described as a boat. Then again, maybe that’s not the kind of train you meant, but I think those are not shipped, but rather … pulled.
RassilonTDavros
I’m not fond of eating hearts out. Maybe a pizza? with mozzarella? Or a Caesar salad, I dunno. Hell, I wouldn’t mind a large fries. Not fried chicken though.
a/snow/mous/e
There are so many options for eating out!
AlexanderHammil
Not if you’re Batman!
a/snow/mous/e
Batman can go with Catwoman!
RacingTurtle
DC wouldn’t let Batman go downstairs on Catwoman. It was (is?) a whole thing
Delicious Taffy
Fucking what.
RassilonTDavros
On the plus side it’s starting to cause a fanart boom.
I am Nothing
Batman can eat out Catwoman!
ShellShockBP
as a treat
Jon S.
Apparently not, sadly. DC says that heroes don’t, ah, eat catwomen.
Yotomoe
I will. 😛
Demoted Oblivious
Apparently Joyce is wearing the pants in today’s engagement. Joe, how does that make you feel?
Yotomoe
Aroused.Respectful.
Josh Spicer
Heart ate.
Mister Gray
I still ship them!
Keulen
I like this ship, but I refuse to call it “JoJo”.
Jenn
What do you call it?
Ryek Hvek
“Inevitable”
Deanatay
JOECE
Greg
I prefer “Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo”
Doctor_Who
Man…Joe’s tall.
Look at panel 4, he’s about the same as the doorframe. If it’s a normal sized door, he’s like six foot eight.
Demoted Oblivious
If we go by a standard ceiling, (8′) he’s taller still and it’s a tall door too. If it’s a commercial height (9’+), he’s huge.
Kyrik Michalowski
I’m going to chalk it up to the weird angle. Unless Willis decides to confirm that Joe is super tall.
Demoted Oblivious
Weird angle/artist was challenged is my guess. Like the recent call back to Joyce being 4′ tall standing outside the dorm’s main doors.
Needfuldoer
Joyce is canonically 5’4″, Joe would have to be about 7 feet tall for her eye level to land where it does.
I’ll chalk it up to ‘artistic license to make the joke land’.
ValdVin
I don’t know, Spousal ValdVin is 5’3″ and I’m 6′, and my chin clears her head by a couple inches, and Joe’s seems to have a couple more inches clearance than than.
Lordhaw
I would agree. My wife is 4’10” and I’m 5’10” and there’s a similar difference in position. Using my teen daughter who actually is Joyce’s canonical height, based off my own height it’d probably be about correct for someone 6′ – 6’3″ or so
Samantha
I think he’s supposed to be about 6’3 he’s always been very tall
Caninse
Yeah, if we’re going that Joyce is 5’4″ and measure it by that, he’s probably about that height. I’m about 5’9″ and my friends that are 5’4″ go up to around my chin, so if Joe’s a good five inches taller than me, it would put Joyce around his chest. I think it’s just a low door, if anything.
woobie
Parallax.
Demoted Oblivious
While this is something of a downwards perspective, Joe doesn’t appear to be /that/ far away from the door frame.
woobie
Joe is past the edge of the door, and the door is open widely.
Demoted Oblivious
You’re right. And yet his hand on the door frame, or wall, also with the bend of his elbow, indicates that he is comfortably close to the entry. Yet when I had a door open 45d, I had to stretch my arm full out to rest my hand on the wall with my hip behind the door. Along with the foot on front brings us back to, meh it’s a comic and the art isn’t intended to be a physically perfect representation of the real world. wooo-woop-woop-woop hoo hoo hoo HOOOOO
Clif
It’s all in the mentals.
Audkitten
I have a friend who is 6’9 and has to duck to get into doors. I think standard door frames are 6’8. My guess is Joe is 6’9
Segnosaur
You mean the villian from that Green Lantern movie that crashed and burned?
Spencer
The big yellow fear bug that made Hal Jordan not boring and greyed his temples, yeah.
JessWitt
I wonder how tall Joyce is then. 5’3″ or 5’5″?
Needfuldoer
5’4″.
https://mobile.twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1402437792777617412
Suzi
I dunno, my inlaws house was built for someone less than 5’5″, I can touch the ceiling easily and anyone over 6′ might not fit in the house. I’m only 5’8″ and I have to duck through some of their doorways. Some buildings are built weird.
Bicycle Bill
Let’s face it … Joyce is still a unicorn; a bashful, blushing virginal unicorn – but somewhere along the past eighteen years she’s learned SOMETHING about the birds and the bees and the boys and the girls …
And as Dustin Hoffman (as Captain Hook) said in the movie “Hook”, “To a 10-year-old, I’m huge.”
So I think Willis is drawing this so that we are ‘seeing’ Joe from Joyce’s perspective. Half-nekkid man, flat abs, chest hair — and that bulging ‘package’ of his….. well, in her eyes, he’s larger than life itself.
Demoted Oblivious
Now THAT is a solid interpretation featuring artist license(TM). But it leaves all of us poor geometers holding our protractors and compasses ultimately unsatisfied with the numerical information we’ve derived. What about OUR needs?
Alaric
Maybe we’re seeing him the way Joyce is seeing him at the moment, rather than his actual height?
Wagstaff
*plays “Calm Sightseeing” by Yugo Kanno on Voxola PR-76*
Stephen Bierce
I would have used “Boys Keep Swinging” by David Bowie.
StClair
or “Playing With the Boys”, by Kenny Loggins.
which, like the scene that uses it in Top Gun, is not at all gay.
nope. not one bit.
woobie
It’s just a volleyball game….
Demoted Oblivious
Did I miss a post where you officially passed the torch, or is Waggy just quicker on the draw?
NotThatDrew
There’ve been days where I’ve seen both of em playing music. Hell, I’ve got a particular track in mind myself for whenever one of three potential (or rather nearly inevitable) scenarios finally play out.
Wagstaff
Great minds think alike, I guess.
I mean, if Newton and Leibniz could conceive of calculus completely independently of each other and with extraordinary synchronicity, I guess anything is possible in that regard.
On that note, there’s a good chance that I was also thinking of at least two of the same scenarios as you, for which I have reserved much revered cinematic masterpieces.
Keulen
I was thinking The Boys Are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy.
Sirksome
There’s suddenly a lot man in this comic. See this is what Asher is competing with and you want to tell me he’s pure sex!
DailyBrad
Joe’s definitely hot, too. Jacob, too, for that matter. And like the comic characters, I am digging Walky’s hair.
Really, there is a good looking cast across the board.
Sirksome
I think that just happens in most forms of media. Usually all characters are made more attractive unless intentionally designed otherwise. Especially when stylized. Pretty much everyone even the horrible characters like Mary or Blaine can be appealing to someone design wise.
Suitora
You all forgot Ethan the dreamboat.
Yotomoe