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Sleepyhead
Posted on October 8, 2014 by David M Willis

161 thoughts on “Sleepyhead”

  1. astronomifier

    but where’s Billie?

    1. Jen Aside

      WHO IS DRUNK

      OH NO BEAR IS DRUNK HOW CAN THAT BE

      1. thinkingofthechildren

        My day…You’ve made it.

      2. Tom Speelman

        A+++, Jen Aside. Now…EVERYBODY WORK!

      3. Doctor_Who

        This show doesn’t get referenced enough.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          It’s been 30 months since the announcement of its revival, and that makes me sad.

        2. JDavis

          So much has happened with Kevin Smith since that article. The movie it initially mentions as then being planned as his last (Hit Somebody) transitioned development into a miniseries (which I haven’t heard him mention on his podcasts in a while, so who knows), then he wrote Clerks 3, then there was a whole slew of hurdles to get that green lit (primarily getting the cast to come back and getting Miramax to decide if they wanted to make it or if they’d let Kevin make it himself since they had a contractual first dibs setup from making Clerks 2), then he wrote the recently released “Tusk” (which delayed the aforementioned Clerks 3), THEN there was a Christmas-themed horror anthology movie centered around the krampus (which I guess is still in the works?), and “Yoga Hosers”, and “Moose Jaws”… and some TV pilots as well. Dude’s been super busy lately, but his attention span isn’t the greatest.

        3. gwalla

          He apparently made Tusk to raise money for Clerks 3.

      4. TachyonCode

        WAIT, THEN WHO WAS BEAR?

        1. ProjectMars

          Phone was bear.

      5. Justin Reilly

        SOMETIMES BEAR IS DRUNK. BEAR HAS HAD HARD TIME OF IT. BUT BEAR IS GETTING BETTER ONE DAY AT TIME. BEAR REALLY TURNING LIFE AROUND.

  2. MrSirk

    It’s not like some of that story wasn’t true.

    1. Yet_One_More_Idiot

      Alt text = “Once a bear drunkenly mauled me in my pyjamas”.

      OK, two questions…why was a bear drunk and what on earth was it doing wearing Willis’ pyjamas? o_O

      1. JCfromNC

        How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.

  3. Tunaro

    I can think of worse ways to die than drunkenly wrestling a bear.

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      If I’m gonna die drunk, I’m gonna light me a torch and blow in the face of my enemy. It probably won’t work, but at that point, it can’t hurt to try.

    2. Disloyal Subject

      It’s in my top 3. Has been for a few years, actually.

    3. tinfoil theory

      She just died in the mama bear’s arms tonight.
      (It must have been something she said.)

      1. Deanatay

        It musta been some kind of lesbian interspecies drunken kiss.

        I should’ve Walky’d away… I should’ve Walky’d away!

  4. Doctor_Who

    Well, Billie was drunk first, but she’s like 40% ethanol by volume, so eating her got the bear drunk too.

    …Maybe Billie shouldn’t be roomed with a smoker.

    1. Kernanator

      Are you saying that Billie’s breath is combustible?

      1. Doctor_Who

        I think Billie herself is probably pretty combustible.

        1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          According to Game Theory, you are correct – people who drink often and in excess are more likely to spontaneously combust.
          * The More You Know.

        2. JessWitt

          I read your username and comment and I keep thinking Inspector Ruth and Constable Billie.

      2. Cephalo the Pod

        Well she was a cheerleader for the Golden Dragons.

  5. Plasma Mongoose

    Mike doesn’t need his shins to live, just he femurs.

    1. JWLM

      ‘He femurs’? Is that like ‘He demurs’? (Then again, is there any instance where you’d use that particular verb in the third-person singular present tense?)

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I should have said his femurs, I guess I had a small brain fart when I wrote that part.

  6. carl320

    A bear once bit my sister…

    1. Koms

      Eeeks!!

      1. Cholma

        carl320 was sacked. Management apologizes for his posts.

        1. OctopusGardener

          (Mind you, bear bites kan be pretti nasti)

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          LLAMA LLAMA LLAMA!!

        3. Roborat

          And she did carve her initials into it.

  7. NCP19

    How the bear got in my pajamas, I’ll never know.

    1. timdrake3

      beat me to it!

    2. captainswift

      Ah, good. Somebody’s already got that covered. Thanks.

      1. Leorale

        I checked the comments for this, too.

        It reminds me of a very old Yiddish song involving misplaced modifiers:

        Boris sat upon a horse, sagging in the middle
        Boris sat upon a horse, playin’ on the fiddle
        It was Boris, not the horse, sagging in the middle
        It was the horse, not Boris, playin’ on the fiddle.

        (Boris, Boris, save me save me, from the Cossacks at my heels, hey! hey! hey! / Boris, Boris, save me save me, there are only two more reels…)

    3. LograyX

      I was going to be very disappointed if no one got to this joke by now.

      1. StClair

        Me too.

  8. Mr. Random

    TAKIN’ CARE OF BILLIE, OH YEAH, TAKIN’ CARE OF BILLIE, AAAALL RIGHT!

    1. Sylvester Crow

      TAKIN’ CARE OF BILLIE AND DRINKING OVERTIME!

  9. AgentKeen

    …why was the bear wearing your pajamas?
    -hit in face with pie-

    1. RoberJolt

      If that’s a Three Stooges reference, I love you.

  10. clodia

    Guys. I’m kinda shipping Joyce/Mike. Somebody stop me.

    1. thinkingofthechildren

      She won’t be able to change him. Nor he her. Ship only if you live for tragedy.

      1. MissQuinn

        It’s a David Willis comic. All ships end in tragedy.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Why do you think I call the Joyce/Mike ship Joke?

        1. Jen Aside

          Not Mice?

    2. newllend

      For once I’m actually on board for a random ship.( pun not included)

      1. TheZachariah

        On the one hand, NO.

        On the other hand it’s been interesting to see a VERY different Joyce recently. She would never have forced an entrance like this. And she DEFINITELY would never have done this before. Let’s just say, a Mike/Joyce ship is actually POSSIBLE in the future, it’s just not a future anyone would want to live in…

        1. Opus the Poet

          Eh, I’d ship it…

        2. Sylvester Crow

          Could you not!?

        3. Opus the Poet

          OTP.

    3. saltchocolate

      Oh dear — I seem to have ended up on board this ship by accident. But now that I’m here, I think I want to stay on . . . So, where’s the good ship Joke (or is that Mice?) going to take me???

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Mice. How has no one posted that yet?! It’s even better!!
        Especially after that Hymnal incident…

        1. Amazi-Stool

          “You were right, Joyce, the Mike boy is pretty cute, once customed appropriate.”

        2. Jen Aside

          whoops I can read farther down the page, huh

      2. AustKyzor

        I sense a lot of bondage in this ship’s future…

    4. Willoughby Chase

      Passing ships, night etc

    5. Cephalo the Pod

      If you don’t stop now, from this moment on I will respond to each of your comments with this line:

      But the boar only has two shoes!

      Every. Single. Comment.

      1. clodia

        You’ve convinced me good cephalopod. I will only ship them in the alternate universe wherein Mike has a goatee and Joyce has gone evil.

    6. Itama

      NO! you will continue damnit!! this ship is too horribly amazing not to launch!!

  11. PsychokineticEX

    FUCK EM UP JOYCE

  12. MissQuinn

    Mike’s not a fan of his shins, but he is a fan of gratuitous violence inflicted on his person, it seems.

    1. Rabid Rabbit

      As a masochistic acquaintance of mine once remarked, you can always identify the masochist in an S&M couple by which one says the most things deserving of pain.

  13. arank11

    I… I’m sorry, were you wearing the pajamas, or was the bear?

  14. newllend

    It’s was weird , she thought the bear was some chick named Ruth and she tried to make out with it, the bear was confused for a moment and it all just went down hill after that.

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      Billie’s not asleep at the end of Book 4.

  15. Kernanator

    And a moose bit Walky’s sister.

    1. AgentKeen

      …It’s not your fault, but got dangit, now I have that silly moose song from that Old Navy (or was it the Gap?) winter commercial from a few years back.

      1. Opus the Poet

        Same company, so mox nix.

    2. Deanatay

      Weremoose.

    3. AustKyzor

      I’m going to have to have you sacked now. Tell your sister to stop carving her initials into moose.

    4. Cephalo the Pod

      His parents were trampled by ducks.

  16. Sporky

    Mike’s probably not a fan of The Shins either. Which is his loss.

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      It’s a shame. It really took off after the third season.

  17. JessWitt

    More Mike is always welcome. I wonder if he’ll get his own existential college crisis subplot.

    1. TheZachariah

      Your Gravatar makes this comment wonderfully introspective. 🙂

      1. JessWitt

        And your Gravatar is the very definition of introspection itself. 🙂

    2. Cephalo the Pod

      This comic tends to focus on the dumb shit young people do.

      Mike’s not really dumb. Just a dick.

  18. Mkvenner

    In a manner of speaking Mike is not wrong.

  19. nothri

    ANIMAL!!!!! How could you???

    1. begbert2

      He was drunk! He was just trying to shake hands, and stumbled!

  20. nothri

    And by “bear” he means “Ruth” and by “mauled” he means “screwed her brains out”.

  21. David Alexander McDonald

    And now, Walkerton, we begin Orgy 101.

    1. AgentKeen

      I was half-ready for a ‘Wait, this dream again… Awesome.” line from Walky, except he’d probably wonder why it was Joyce.

  22. Kennerly

    Bärenjäger strikes again!

    1. tinfoil theory

      Girl Genius reference?
      (Because the thought of the bears drinking the Jägerdraught excites me in all the wrong ways.)

      1. Kennerly

        No, Bärenjäger is just a honey liquor I know about.

        1. tinfoil theory

          Ah. I never heard of it. I only know Jägermeister.
          Good pun, though.

      2. gwalla

        Jäger is German for “hunter”, and is part of the names of two liqueurs: Jägermeister (“Huntmaster”), which is turpentine licorice flavored, and Bärenjäger (“Bear hunter”), which is honey flavored.

        The Jägermonsters from Girl Genius are of course a pun on Jägermeister, though their name does actually make sense in context.

        1. Romanticide

          Billy wrestling with a bottle of Bärenjäger sound amazingly appropiate XD

  23. saltchocolate

    By the way, David Willis, I *love* how you drew Dorothy’s hair in panel two!

    1. saltchocolate

      How you make it show that she’s leaning over Walky, is what I mean—not just that she looks cute (though that’s also true!).

      1. Thomas64

        I agree, her hair and the light on her face, and her expression, is just what you would want to see if you’re looking at a face looking down at you when you’re waking up.
        Except for the nose. Those DoA close-up noses that have only one nostril. That kinda creeps me out when I look at it too long, and I can’t seem to not do that.

        1. 4th Dimension

          Huh, I don’t notice those single nostril noses. My brain labels them as lines so I don’t see them. But now I do. Oh horror!

        2. Cephalo the Pod

          Willis claims they’re shadows, but yeah, they do look a tad bit too big.

  24. Sam

    Of course that bear mauled you, you forced it into your pajamas, no one wants to wear those!

  25. Benjy

    I’m likin’ this new Joyce.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Violence is not the answer.
      It’s a question.
      And the answer is frequently yes.

    2. Cephalo the Pod

      Here’s the new Joyce.
      Same as the old Joyce.

      1. xKiv

        Second Joyce, same as the first!

  26. Flimsyfishy

    Hey, he’s just trying to weasel his way into some more pain here.

  27. Moriarty70

    How it got in my pajamas I’ll never know!

  28. Bunk

    Am I the only one who made a Mii Fighter from the Amazigirl Mii Willis posted years ago?

    1. David M Willis

      i made one

      1. Bunk

        I made here a brawler and gave her the tracksuit I believe. Seemed to fit the best.

        1. David M Willis

          http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/99159649462/dumbing-of-rage

        2. Bunk

          I made mine from like the first wave you put out. Less angry eyes.

  29. Khaner

    I like aggressive Joyce.
    It fits her so well.

  30. ridtom

    Ooooh Dorothy you got caramel fever!

  31. Lex

    Careful, Joyce. Mike likes excessive force. A little TOO much.

  32. blackhat64

    Since when was Joyce so chock-full of badass one-liners?

    1. 4th Dimension

      The power of ding dongs courses through her veins?

    2. Cephalo the Pod

      For quite a while.

      “How much do I have to pay you to not say anything at all?”, towards Joe.
      “Our fists were instruments of the Lord!” Joe, again. Quite far back, too.

  33. Idon'tcarenomore

    Like this strip, neat grouping of people on bunk bed.
    Also wondering why Joyce seems to be becoming human, and a smart ass one at that.
    Love Mike as usual, and if you go back far enough, he and Joyce have had conversations before: for some strange reason, he appears to like her-as being opposed to hating everyone else or being totally indifferent to them.
    As noted: as fine as these guys are drawn: never a problem looking at them to know pretty much exactly what they are feeling, and as fine as the animation can be and the artistic backdrops:
    WHY do they all have one closeup nostril? Creeepy?

    1. Disloyal Subject

      She’s always human. We’re pretty complicated critters, wonderful, horrible, and generally more than meets the eye.
      And on this nostril issue – I just see it as the underside of the nose being in shadow from the angle. It may not work in every scene, but it perfectly suits this one.

    2. PSIREN

      Why DO they only have one nostril? Before I thought it was a thickened line to indicate shadow. What.

      1. David M Willis

        It’s not a nostril. It’s a shadow, like the one under their chins.

        1. Ophannin

          I’ve always understood that it’s a shadow; it makes complete sense. But now that someone has pointed out the one nostril thing, I can’t unsee it. Damn you not-Willis!

        2. PSIREN

          D: Sorry Willis ilu

    3. Dorje Sylas

      I would think it’s becasue there are richer targets in proximity for most of those. The dicking of Joyce’s whiteboard was their first “solo” interaction, devoid of other targets. Joyce would be low on his target list because life away from a sheltered homeschooling is going to do most of his work for him. The white board is an example where no one else but Mike would have dicked it, out of deference to Joyce.

  34. ShaggyDonahugh

    To everyone who mentioned the one close-up nostril business, I was having such a nice morning not seeing all of that. Thank you so much.

  35. shammers

    meh, i can see it. mauled by the bear of her drunken worthlessness

  36. Badeyes

    And from that day forward Mike constantly wore shin guards.
    Later events caused him to add armored athletic support to his wardrobe as well.

  37. StClair

    After Joyce takes his shins, Ruth can have his femurs.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Well after the tibias are removed the femurs aren’t much use. Not quite as bad as going the other way around as tibias are completely useless without femurs.

      1. Deanatay

        Worthless?? The femurs are the longest bone in the human body, great for making useful tools. Or flutes. If only we didn’t need them to live…

        1. Deanatay

          (Not to mention they’re probably the largest producer of red blood cells in the entire body.)

        2. Opus the Poet

          Tibias are pretty worthless without femurs to transmit the motion from the glutes…

  38. DK1105

    Totally read that last line as “really not a fan or your shit” and that caused a bit of a double take coming from Joyce.

    1. RandomRedmage

      Read it exactly the same way, twice…. on the third time my brain decided to read the word correctly.

  39. Emperor Kiva

    He must not be, Joyce.

  40. Joebo

    “How he got in my Pajamas, I’ll never know.

  41. James Rye

    Mike isn’t so wrong with his joke. At least about the drunk part that is. XD

  42. Boomwolf

    Joyce is actually becoming cool. Hooray for character development!

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      Joyce has been aggressive like this before. It just takes a lot (or rather, something rather specific, as in Joe’s case) to piss her off.

  43. JustShy

    Joyce and Mike should hook up.

  44. djaevlenselv

    I am wondering, is this the first time in this comic Mike is blatantly lying? He usually seems to favor hurting people with the truth or variations on the truth.

    1. Tufto

      Unless… he’s not lying! That really did happen! :o!

    2. Parasite

      Mike has been known to lie before, on at least one occasion. Specifically, when a girl asked to duck in his room so she could spy on someone else. Mike then approached the couple and claimed he and the girl were making out.

    3. Willoughby Chase

      Bear == Ruth perhaps?

      1. Cephalo the Pod

        She’s a shapeshifter. This is now a superhero webcomic.

        1. John

          It’s been a superhero comic since Day One.

  45. Ntrovert60

    …but what color are the pajamas? And the bear?

  46. Willoughby Chase

    We have the bear necessities of life, so we can begin.

  47. Gangler

    This could get weird when they explain that they’re here to make sure he’s not sexin up his sister.

  48. DSL

    Please look up the word “animation.”

  49. Ghola

    To be fair.. we have no idea how hairy ruth actually is… I think? Mayhaps the next slipshine…

  50. andmangrewproud

    “Walky… this is an intervention.”

  51. hof1991

    Three panels of pleasant good morning and smiles. Then Mike speaks and a panel full of anger, confusion and angst. It’s a good day for Mike. Winning.

  52. brionl

    This guy wants to join a Fraternity at U of Alaska. The brothers tell him he has to drink a fifth of Yukon Jack, go out into the woods and kill a grizzly bear, then come back and seduce a college girl. So he slams down the whiskey and staggers off into the night.
    A couple hours later he comes staggering back, clothes all torn up, covered in bloody scratches, generally mangled. “OK, where’s this college girl I have to kill?”

  53. Vangeln

    Course no, Joyce, he is a fan of your mom.

  54. ATN

    Shin-kicks for all!

  55. MrBurrows

    So, unrelated to the comic, but I think there was an allusion to “It’s Walky!” in this weeks “Agents of Shield”
    They refer to “The Sound of Music” while torturing/brainwashing someone.

    1. Akahane

      If a writer on Agents of SHIELD is a fan of It’s Walky, my fangirl squee circle will be complete and I can die happy.

  56. Akahane

    Wow, when our little Joycey doesn’t like someone, she REALLY and violently doesn’t like the,.

    1. ThatGuy

      Its true. However at least in this case its Mike. The one who aggreed to shaparone Joyce’s date so long as he got to punch people.

      Karma.

  57. ThatGuy

    Wait…what kind of bear? Was he cute…

  58. Onion

    That might’ve been one of the saltiest things I’ve seen Joyce say yet.

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