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Permission
Posted on October 26, 2013 by David M Willis

202 thoughts on “Permission”

  1. thecanvashat

    Wow, what a rebel.

    1. TPman

      Joyce’s next rebellious act: buy a motorcycle.

      1. The Candyman

        No, she’s going to not do her homework.

        On purpose.

        1. KingMabel

          Next step:

          Do her math exam in pen. A green pen.

        2. tom

          My favorite is students who do everything in red pen. I use a red pen. If it’s in red, they copied it from me, so they get no credit. Why don’t my students like me?

        3. someguywithakatana

          Never has anyone’s Mike Gravatar been more appropriate.

        4. CrazyOne

          Cuz they are students :p

        5. begbert2

          I’m confused. So you get back a test, and on it is an essay written in the student’s handwriting, and because it’s written in red you assume you wrote it?

        6. Tachyon

          If so: study typography.

          Everyone’s handwriting will become illegible by comparison. Problem solved.

        7. SiggimusMaximus

          He means he wont count their answer because red pen is a holy artifact that only teachers may wield. Its a status symbol, like a catholic rosary or a turban. You stick it in your shirt pocket and it tells people “I am a teacher. I control your social life.”

        8. Valdrax

          Here’s a radical concept: You can buy pens in other colors too.

          I suggest a hot pink glitter pen and a note that this is what happens when you use red.

        9. AgentKeen

          Then everyone will use red, because HOT PINK GLITTER PEN!!!

        10. TPman

          On the back of a motorcycle.

        11. kateastrophe

          She’s going to convince the professor to give her an extension on homework using bible verses.

      2. Beth

        Nah, she’s too timid for a motorcycle. A scooter, however…. 😀 Joyce on a scooter would be AMAZING.

    2. The kid

      much reble
      so dangerous
      wow much no complacency

  2. Giant Speck

    Wow. I feel like we’ve gone all the way back to the beginning of the series.

    1. Yotomoe

      1 step forward and 600 steps back.

    2. Kernanator

      To be more specific, we’ve gone back to the 9th comic. I counted.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/high/

      1. Giant Speck

        That’s exactly the one I was thinking of, but I couldn’t have been bothered to look for it.

        1. garaden

          Wow, for some reason I thought Willis’s style hadn’t evolved much since starting DoA. I didn’t notice how much extra badassery was in the new comics until going back to the old ones!

    3. ninja_jesus

      Nah, I think we’ve made a bunch of progress since the beginning. Sure, we probably won’t see her disowning her religion any time soon, but it’s important that she begins to confront the contradictions in her own and/or her parents’ belief systems and come to her own conclusions on the matter.

  3. Geminia999

    Shouldn’t it be an eagle riding a mermaid, you know, ‘Merica!

    1. Doctor_Who

      It’s Joyce. It should be a pony riding another pony.

      Wait…

      1. thecanvashat

        all riding a motorcycle.

    2. The Candyman

      The Bill of Rights punching out the Gettysburg Address.

    3. KingMabel

      No it should be a cross. Or 7 of them. I hear girls with several crosses are really friendly

      1. Yotomoe

        Only few believe in the MEGACROSS.

    4. John

      An eagle riding a mermaid riding Sonic the Hedgehog, all of whom are genuflecting before a cross and weeping.

    5. dethtoll

      A lot of super-religious people are Jesus first, America second. They don’t really pay much attention to American politics and rules, because they answer to a higher power than that of secular government.

    6. Kintrex

      A mermaid would have trouble staying on a flying eagle, but tattoos were never much for logic.

  4. Kladeos

    Huh, maybe Billie isn’t there?

    1. Kernanator

      Maybe nobody is there. Maybe Joyce was talking to JESUS.

      1. KingMabel

        Strange. In my Christian denomination, Jesus isn’t a half-black rebel with boobs….

        But I’m open to convert…

        1. Kernanator

          That would certainly be interesting, but that’s not what I meant. We were talking about last comic, where Joyce was apparently talking to someone.

        2. timemonkey

          And KingMabel was making a joke, it happens sometimes. Don’t worry about it, you’ll get used to it after a while.

        3. Kernanator

          Oh I know there was a joke going on, it’s just that KingMabel’s went in a completely different direction from the previous conversation. If that was the intention, my apologies for letting it go over my head.

        4. KingMabel

          It’s okay, but about the “talking to someone in the room” thing I’m sure Billie is half-sleep in a slight drunken haze, and Joyce was waking her up earlier to talk to her favorite rebel.

    2. Yotomoe

      She’s also under Sal’s covers. They were cuddling.

      1. The Candyman

        Sal nuzzled up to Billie in her sleep. She was too scared to move.

  5. Gottawonder

    Major slippage there Joyce.

    1. Historyman68

      Not really, she’s still herself. It would be weirder if she renounced her faith as soon as she rebelled against her parents. Less healthy, probably.

      1. begbert2

        The healthy part is debatable, but her doing that would make absolutely no sense, so yeah it would be weirder.

    2. Chug

      Baby steps.

  6. Mkvenner

    Prove it.

    1. Yotomoe

      Show me your heart!

      1. Rheinman

        As in the Aztec sense? Sounds messy, and unsanitary.

        1. The Candyman

          The Thuggee way is somewhat cleaner, though it takes a bit.

  7. Plasma Mongoose

    Joyce should be the new face of the Rule Abiding Rebel.

    1. Yotomoe

      She’s a rebel with a cause. Her cause? Rebellion.

  8. Keroshino

    Rebel Rebel!

    1. TPman

      you’ve torn your dress

      1. marr

        Your face is a mess.

    2. Mal

      I read this in the Hamburgler’s voice.

      1. Heimdall

        You’ve ruined that song for me. Or made it more awesome, I’m not entirely sure.

  9. TPman

    She just doesn’t get it does she?

    1. timemonkey

      Yeah, Sal totally missed the point there.

  10. Jackson

    God bless you, Joyce. God bless you to Heaven.

    1. C.W. Roden

      Amen sir!

  11. Tofusmith

    Not “INRI?”

    1. Bill

      INRI = Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum — the Latin phrase meaning “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”.  This is the “blasphemy” for which he was crucified; Pontius Pilate ordered this to be posted on the cross.

      1. NightmareWarden

        Could the english translation be “Jesus Nasasaurus Rex” please?

        1. The Candyman

          That still has a bit of Latin in it. A full translation would be: Jesus, king of the Nazareth lizards.

  12. Ailorn

    Joyce is so cute 🙂 It’s tough standing up to your folks some times. She needs to start small. I’m enjoying how Joyce and Sal actually are friendly-ish in this world.

  13. Tom Speelman

    …Willis, you know you have to put that design on a shirt, right? Or at least on Dumblr?

    1. Yotomoe

      A topless sal design? Only if we get topless Walky shirts.
      I don’t like dudes but we gotta keep it fair.

      1. Rheinman

        Tastefully topless, covering her chest with her motorcycle gloves.

        I’d buy that for a dollar. 😉

      2. The Candyman

        I know, right? The comments here can be totes sexist.

      3. xKiv

        How do topless shirts work? Wouldn’t that be a shoulderpiece with a miniskirt?

  14. Fuzzydaemon

    Nope, she doesn’t. Oy vey! But give her time; maybe she will.

  15. Pyr05

    Quick everyone! Join Joyce in an impromptu breast exam for tumors!

    1. Yotomoe

      Nope. Nothing but my obscene man-boobs…
      :C…

      1. Pyr05

        Here. Have a bro. It gives you all the support that moobs require. You’ll feel better, I promise.

        1. A5PECT

          It’s not a bro, it’s a manssiere!

        2. Rheinman

          You and I shall have words at the Festivus pole

        3. Kryss LaBryn

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsyE2rCW71o

  16. Lokitsu

    I hope Jesus remembered to use a sterile needle.

    1. C.W. Roden

      No worries man, the J-Man is awesome with tattooing the heart. Love his work.

  17. Darnel

    LOL
    How can you dislike either of them?
    Now,…Is Billie going to resolve her TA issues?

    1. begbert2

      What TA issues? Not enough kissing?

      1. John

        That her roommate is banging their TA instead of her?

  18. Doom Shepherd

    Baby steps.

  19. Kernanator

    Joyce’s next step in her rebellious phase is to STAY UP PAST MIDNIGHT.

    1. Yotomoe

      She’ll totally show up 5 minutes late for her classes and play violent video games!!!!

      1. Jay Eff

        And then she’ll do THIS!

        OMfG

        1. Kernanator

          She’ll start out stealing songs, then she’ll be robbing liquor stores and selling crack and running over school kids with her car!

        2. The Candyman

          It’s a slippery slope.

        3. Yotomoe

          She’s selling crack WHILE she’s running over the kids.

        4. John

          Whoa, five-years-ago Sweetheart looks so different.

      2. Heimdall

        Violent video games…like TETRIS.

        1. Bill

          I didn’t think TETRIS was necessarily violent; but it is of Russian origin so if Joyce were to start playing that quite her parents would obviously think she had become a Godless COMMUNIST!!

  20. Yotomoe

    Now, Joyce. To be more of a rebel, you must be sal and sleep topless. But remember you need to buy some gloves, and never take them off.

    1. sadsack

      yes..either mickey mouse or michael jackson inspired…

  21. Super Duper

    Two rebels sighted in the dorm room. Ordering bombardment. Hold the Imperial Guard on stand-by.
    For the Emperor.

    1. Rani

      One of them is what the locals call a “Walkerton”

      Commence Exterminatus. The Emperor Protects.

      1. GaiusTavarusMagnus

        On of them is a Fallen, call in the Dark Angels

        1. Super Duper

          Ah, shit. We need Primus for this one.

        2. Ancestral Hamster

          The Dark Angels are on a tight schedule there if Exterminatus has started. Even with Terminator Armor and a Crux Rosarius I wouldn’t want to be on that planet!

        3. Rani

          HERESY

  22. Alex Stritar

    Wow, Jesus does some awesome tatoo work.

    1. C.W. Roden

      She could get a fish symbol tattooed on her left boob to seal the deal….just saying.

  23. Jay Eff

    .. Really… this is the funniest DOA Ever.

  24. Thor

    LOL at Sal. She thinks that getting a tattoo is an act of rebellion.

    1. Bill

      Calling it an act of rebellion sounds better than calling it an act of douchebaggery.

    2. timemonkey

      It can be, it’s just not an effective act of rebellion.

    3. MM

      I think Sal assumed Joyce would be too horrified to continue the conversation. She’s nice enough to not want Joyce’s head to explode with any more serious suggestions. (Or just doesn’t want to clean up the mess.)

  25. Emoroffle

    The tat Jesus gave her says ” Love others like I love you. P.S. Dinosaurs totally had feathers.”

  26. DJTsurugi

    Oh Joyce

  27. Lavaticmay

    Tattoo’s on the heart are expensive, not to mention painful.

  28. Echelon Four

    Joyce has been more rebellious to her parents than Sal has. Sal is still too scared to do anything but present that catholic school girl persona to them. Joyce at least directly confronted her parents.

    1. Leah Rockshard

      We’ve seen Sal interact with her parents exactly once. We don’t know the full history there.

      What we do know is that Sal committed a robbery and her parents sent her away for four years in punishment, that in the present even pretending to be the good little schoolgirl that she thinks they want her to be can’t get her more attention than a few disappointed words from her father and zero acknowledgement from her mum.

      Knowing Sal, it’s my guess that she’s tried to confront them before, and it didn’t go well. But we don’t know either way.

  29. ajm5007

    Joyce’s method of rebellion is the kind that actually works, strangely enough.

    1. Jesse

      I know, right? Sal acts tough, but she’s cowardly when it matters.

      1. ninja_jesus

        That’s not really fair to say, since Joyce and Sal were raised in entirely different circumstances. Joyce is able to confront her parents because she has confidence that no matter what happens, they will always love her; Sal, on the other hand, is fighting to keep hold of what little affection her parents have left for her. Would you risk something so important that if you failed, you believed that your parents would completely disown you? I highly doubt it.

        1. Jesse

          It’s not particularly important if it requires living a lie.

        2. ninja_jesus

          Maybe not to you.

      2. Kladeos

        Wouldn’t you be nervous your parents decided they couldn’t deal with you and sent you to live out-of-state at a Catholic boarding school for the rest of your dependent/underage years? Then didn’t help you move into college, didn’t visit you at college, and in every respect acted like they’d written you off.

        Being isolated from your parents for the entirety of your teenage years is pretty traumatic, I’d guess.

        1. Jesse

          They’re shit parents, who cares what they think at this point? They’re not worth groveling over.

    2. Rex Hondo

      Joyce’s rebellion was to genuinely stand up for something in which she believes, her friendship with Dorothy. Wrongheaded as they are most of the time, her parents were able to recognize that and respect it.

      Sal’s “rebellion,” on the other hand, is a paint-by-numbers set of behaviors that serve no purpose other than to say “Hey, I’m a rebel.”

      1. Kladeos

        Sal isn’t rebelling, past her presumably cry for attention crimes in her early teen years. Notice that her motorcycle riding, leather-wearing, smoking ways are her NORMAL behaviours. When she goes to see her parents, the way she presents herself is a 180. She’s neat, she dressed conservatively, she’s smiling and friendly. How can you call her rebelling?

        1. xKiv

          She’s rebelling against their idea that she’s a … rebel?

  30. Jesse

    I just realized the irony that Joyce stood up to her parents and Sal didn’t.

    1. Turbo Sexaphonic Delight

      …whoa.

    2. nick

      CALL THE PAPERS!

    3. begbert2

      Joyce had something to fight for or lose, Sal didn’t. Different situations.

      1. Kladeos

        Also Joyce was already on good terms with her parents and had lived with them up to four weeks ago. Sal’s parents barely acknowledged her.

        1. Jesse

          I would argue it’s harder to stand up to people you would normally get along with. There’s more to lose by taking a risk.

      2. Jesse

        Sal could have had dignity.

    4. Tahkuya

      careful Joyce was chocked for waking Sal up, you don’t want to upset her… do you

      1. Jesse

        I can’t upset her because she’s a fictional character.

  31. Ancestral Hamster

    Oh, Joyce, I’ve a suggestion for that heart tattoo. “Do not back up. Severe tire damage.”

  32. Charles Phipps

    I made a character in Skyrim named Joyce who vaguely resembles her. She’s the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood and a Vampire Lord.

    THIS IS WHAT REBELLING AGAINST YOUR PARENTS DOES!

  33. John

    I dunno about a tattoo, but Joyce should totally get a motorcycle.

  34. Turbo Sexaphonic Delight

    http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii125/chels922/imaloner.jpg

    1. Tahkuya

      Joyce is a female Peewee Herman…seems legit

  35. RachelEvil

    A tattoo on one’s heart would be pretty hardcore. Also, possibly fatal.

  36. ninja_jesus

    Hey, at least Joyce is taking baby steps. Baby’s first rebellion. 😀

    1. marr

      And no one puts Baby in a figurative corner.

  37. Maycroft

    “you see this tatoo right here? Jesus made it”

  38. Potatamoto

    She had to get it on the inside or her Dad would totally kill her! She had to get *wasted* ’cause it hurt like eight bongoes on a bongo boat!

  39. Rosie

    Has no one else noticed Joyce has a whole nother button unbuttoned on her shirt today? And that there’s a micrometer of cleavage showing?

    She IS a rebel.

    1. Pinja

      It doesn’t seem more unbuttoned to previous comics.

      Maybe Willis is just drawing her with more detail?

    2. Bill

      Different shirt; she’s normally in short sleeves.
      And she has been shown with a small amount of cleavage; check this version of Joyce that appeared on the most recent cast poster.  Joyce was also displaying a similar amount of cleavage when she wore the yellow dress on the pizza date with Joe and Mike.

    3. karmax

      It does lolk more unbuttoned to me.
      Hubba hubba!
      if Joyce is an autobiographical character, does that mean I am attracted to Willis?

    4. nick

      Yes, especially compared to http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/high/

    5. MM

      It could just have come undone from the throat hug.

      1. Bill

        Don’t think so.  If you look back at the “throat-hug” strip – http://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2013-10-24-noon.png – she’s already showing a modest amount of cleavage in the first panel, before Sal is even fully awake.

  40. Rani

    Oh that reminds me: what on earth does Sal sound like? I can never pin down her accent.

    Give me a famous voice for a point of reference if nothing else

    1. ninja_jesus

      She sounds a bit like an older Applejack to me.

    2. Leah Rockshard

      Back in the day Sal was supposed to sound like Andie MacDowell, I believe.

  41. Echelon Four

    Wait, does Sal or Billie sleep in the top bunk?
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/white-2/
    Both?

    1. Crumplepunch

      Judging from a few panels there are two weird unibunk things with beds over desks. See page 2. So both of them, I guess.

      1. Kladeos

        My friends had a room like that in college, and I had a bed like that. They’re called loft beds.

    2. MrMyerst

      This bed design is throughout the comic.
      This is a very clear example, that for some reason, stuck in my mind:

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/goodmorning/

  42. Averien

    So, this is probably (along with the other Walkyverse comics), my 2nd favorite series out there. I love it.

    What I most love is Joyce. I know dozens of Joyces well, personally, and am familiar with hundreds… but I know very few who have the courage to honor their parents with the strength and conviction Joyce did.

    She didn’t rebel; she was given two mandates from them. The first is her Christianity, and I find it unlikely her parents ever told her anything other than “Love God first.” Joyce defended her position with Scripture, and without taking it out of context, no less. Moreover, she did it spontaneously (I *LOVED* the question mark in her Matthew citation).

    Sal rebels from her parents, ineffectively. She says, “Yes,” but does “No.” Joyce says, “No,” but does “Yes.” The fact that Joyce doesn’t realize this is a part of why I love her: she is humble in spirit. If every Christian– particularly every public Christian– were like Joyce, I suspect the world would be a much, much better place. Thank you, David, for sharing her with us.

    1. Joshua Rotella

      Word, yo.

    2. khambatta

      I think people are being harsh on Sal here. Joyce and her parents engaged in a dialogue. That’s a social contract, requiring mutual respect and a willingness to consider each other’s point of view. Sal’s parents just ignore her. At this point, she’s not so much rebelling as getting on with her life as best she can.

    3. xKiv

      I like you Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ. — Gandhi

  43. Darwin

    People are going to mock Joyce, but it’s hard not to respect someone who believes so sincerely in something. I like that she’s trying to make another friend, even with someone with so alien a mindset.

  44. Jenny Creed

    Little known fact, Sal’s first tattoo was “SPQR” superimposed over a lion riding a shark. On her femur.

    1. aotearoan3000

      SPQR? What’s that stand for she-bruh?

    2. Bill

      SPQR is an abbreviation meaning Senatus Populusque Romanus which was a Latin phrase emblazoned on the standards of the Roman legions at the time of the Roman Empire and indicating that the legions were making their conquests at the will of “The Senate and the People of Rome”.

      1. Urzu13

        And on the members of the roman version of Camp Half-Blood in the Lost Hero series.

  45. aotearoan3000

    A DAGGER. ON MY FACE. THEN BARBED WIRE. AROUND MY THROAT.

  46. All Else Fails

    Sal does NOT approve.

  47. The Candyman

    When did Joyce’s parents get angry? They were clearly disappointed, but they never seemed to be angry with her.

    1. Jenny Creed

      We might have missed some part of what Jocelyne described as a “heated argument”, or Joyce thinks the parents were angry because she was. From what I could see the strongest feelings they expressed were disgust and hate at meeting someone openly Atheist.

      1. MM

        If they rarely express anything other than love and support, though, that could have felt like a major argument to Joyce, though. I had a boss like that. Once she apologized for getting snippy in a way that wouldn’t have registered with anyone if I or anyone else in the office had done it, but on her it was really noticeable.

        1. Jack Finch

          The Brown’s are thoroughly judgemental, but they’re not misanthropic. They like people and want the best for them.

    2. Valdrax

      Based on the little prayer after first expressing disapproval of Dorothy, I think it’s pretty clear that they take the passive-aggressive approach to anger.

      1. Jack Finch

        Boy howdy!

  48. Parnifia the Bastard

    That hovertext made no sense yet I laughed my ass off anyway.

    1. Scarnifax the Skullduggerous

      YHWH is the tetragrammaton. The classical rendering of Yahweh without those pesky latin vowels.

      1. Jenny Creed

        I understand it’s God’s unpronounceable name, translated from Hebrew where it’s spelled with four characters that sound something like “yod hud ved hod”. It may be based on a quote from God in the Bible where someone asks who he is and he says “I am what I am!” in a voice like thunder.

        Which I remember mostly because it’s such a ridiculous statement. In context, it’s clear the writer is trying to convey the might and majesty and absolute divine authority of God; a self-assured claim based on its own self-evidentness. Of course God is God because God is God and you’re a fool to even think of questioning Him or His credentials. But if you don’t buy into this cult of personality God’s selling it’s the indignant, entitled, inarticulate, self-absorbed cry of an infant who assumes he’s the center of the universe to such a degree that he lacks the conceptual tools to actually explain why this should be the case when he’s called on it.

        And that’s the story of one of God’s seven thousand names.

        1. John

          It’s funnier if you imagine it in Bugs Bunny’s voice.

          “Eh, I yam what I yam. What’s up, doc?”

        2. The Candyman

          I imagined it in Popeye’s voice, actually. Well, when I don’t imagine it in the voice of Donald Hayne.

        3. Bill

          And I imagine it in the voice of James Earl Jones.
          Or maybe Dennis Haysbert (the All-State guy).

        4. Bill

          Seriously, aren’t all gods, by definition, supposedly beyond the ability of mere mortals to doubt their validity, ascertain their intents, or question their actions?  And I note that like a lot of older Catholics you capitalize the pronouns referring to God (His, Him), so I wonder just which side of that fence you are on – or at least started on.

        5. The Candyman

          Actually, most gods in historical religions are incredibly fallible: getting into all sorts of stupid drama, being dicks for no reason, and sometimes even being called out on it by mortals. I believe Plato (or some other Greek philosopher) once said that the gods shouldn’t be revered, simply because they were all terrible people.

          The Hebrew concept of a single, all powerful deity with no defining form that made no mistakes and was supposed to be viewed entirely with awe and fear was very novel for it’s time.

        6. John

          Personally, I subscribe to Vlad Taltos’s philosophy that when a god does something reprehensible, it’s still reprehensible.

          And pretty much all gods are dicks. I have trouble thinking of any exceptions at all; Yahweh certainly isn’t it. He’s notable mainly for the followers that insist that when He does something reprehensible, it’s just because He loves us so much, why do we keep making Him hurt us? He doesn’t want to have to hurt us, just sometimes we make Him so angry…

          The Greek gods were universally dicks, and unapologetic about it, because They’re gods, whatcha gonna do about it? Athena’s one of the better of the lot, and even She turned Arachne into a spider for the sin of claiming to be a better weaver than Her and being able to back it up.

          Baldr’s the least dickish god I can think of, and He’s dead.

        7. Lel

          Hesphaetus. That poor guy was born ugly (possibly because all the greek gods were a bunch of inbreds) so they threw him down a mountain. He’s still the smartest of the bunch (see above brackeds; inbreeding).

        8. The Candyman

          Even Hephaestus had his moments: dude got a bit rapey with Athena when she rejected his advances one time, but she fortunately kicked his ass (incidentally, Heph “letting off some steam” after the incident indirectly caused the birth of king Ericthonus of Athens).

          Hestia is probably the best of the bunch, as she was just a sweet old lady who wisely avoided getting involved in anything on Olympus.

          Quetzalcoatl is probably one of the nicest gods I can name, even if he was from one of the least pleasant religions.

        9. Jenny Creed

          Thor isn’t that bad, at least if you’re a human. (Zeus help you if you’re a troll.) He may be careless with his thunderbolts and really not very bright, but he’s loyal and honest and kind to those weaker than him. Which is everyone. God of strength, thunder, rain and – according to a few of the stories – “friendship with humans”. Depending on which stories you read he’s either Loki’s half brother or blood rite nephew, but either way there has to be something deeply incorruptible about him to still be a good guy with that influence in his family.

          Also I think he could only lift Mjölnr as long as he’s pure of heart, or maybe that’s just in the Marvel comics.

        10. Jenny Creed

          Thank you for asking. I’m a Humanist; I’m on the side of humanity over gods. Although I try to not tell anyone what to think, and so I like to keep my opinions to myself when discussing religion. Probably more than I need.

          And I capitalize the pronouns for God only when I describe how the authors of the bible see him. I think it makes a nice subtle contrast between the two viewpoints represented in my post, but then I may be the only one who enjoys uselessly playing with grammar that way.

        11. Historyman68

          God means never having to explain why you’re the center of the universe.

  49. Ry

    “Your Hearth Will Hemorrhage”

  50. James

    You have William Hartnell?

    I didn’t know JC was down with the first Doctor.

    1. FinalOwen

      Neither of them got on that well with the Romans!

      1. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

        I don’t know, One didn’t have that much trouble getting along with the Romans. You could even say they got along like a house on fire.

  51. davidbreslin101

    “You think you’re tough cos you had a little tattoo done? I’VE been tattooed on my internal organs by a living God!”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I bet the heart surgeon was surprised when he saw that.

  52. Snowflakeman

    This comic gave me 983 flashbacks to my childhood.

  53. Notebooked

    That “aren’t you proud of me” part may just be a joke, but if it’s not, Joyce is kind of overestimating her relationship to Sal! They did get along fine in the past, with Sal agreeing to do a thing Joyce wanted her to do, but she kind of wanted to do that anyway and Joyce just gave her the persistent push. This isn’t unusual, though, and so probably insignificant.

  54. aussiekat

    We shall see, I”m just excited to have two of my favorite characters in the same panel ^^

  55. Karma Aster

    Oh, Joyce…bless. You’re just so gosh-darn naive, and it’s just ADORABLE.

  56. Arkadi

    I’ve said it before and I say it again: you can’t hate Joyce! It’s impossible!

  57. GoogerGeiger

    Joyce’s next act as a rebel is to pay for a meal and tip much less than 20%

    1. Bill

      That’s not rebellion; that’s college economics.

    2. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

      Rampage!

  58. mariotunic

    Mike’s heart tattoo would be your mom superimposed over his dick.

  59. newllend

    Holy shit she took me seriously, you still have a little ways to go!

  60. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

    That sounds rather ghoulish

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