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Halfbath
Posted on April 26, 2011 by David M Willis

94 thoughts on “Halfbath”

  1. David Herbert

    But morning hugs are the best hugs.

    Or maybe by mugs she meant mugs of coffee to wake up Billie. Isn’t Joyce thoughtful?

    1. Matt of Steel

      Joyce’s Morning Mugs … the best part of waking up.

      Hmm … that sounds almost dirty. Almost.

  2. Rognik

    Ri rate being mugged ih te morring.

    1. Cranberrier

      Rut rut ru ru rate it?
      (repetition entirely accidental)

  3. Vivvav

    That smile in the last panel is mildly terrifying.

    1. George

      Billie agrees.

  4. Henry

    Joyce in pj’s PSL.

    Just puttin’ that out there.

    1. LimeTH

      While we’re at it, Billie with her hair down PSL.

      1. ProtonCon

        Billie PSL

      2. Bill M.

        Some of us have been harboring PSL for her since before the term PSL came into being.

  5. Dahlia

    AFFECTION!!!!!

    lol xD darn you, Phoenix Wright!!!!!!!!!

  6. DrDVD

    joyce has rabbies!!!! AH!!!!!!!…………… I’d still hug her.

    1. CWR

      Is rabbies a really cute form of rabies? Maybe something to do with bunny rabbits…?

  7. calendarman27

    can’t joyce be in your circle billie? you won’t just be adding her, you’ll also be adding jesus, that’s two friends right there!

    1. NCP19

      Heh, excellent.

    2. dchorror

      Two friends at the cost of one’s sanity is not worth the bargain.

      And before someone says anything, I’m not saying Jesus wouldn’t make a good friend. I rather think he would. It’s the people he hangs out with that I find problems.

      1. gangler

        She still has her sanity? Goodness goodness that limits her options. Really, she should have ditched that years ago. It’s just gonna get broken after the first exam season anyway.

      2. Jackson

        I’m not so sure Billie still has her sanity.

        1. dchorror

          She doesn’t need to still have. Just to believe that she does.

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    This might sound dumb, but what is a halfbath?

    1. Cranberrier

      It is a place for midget cleansing. In the watery sense, not in the final solution sense. Also, your gravatar will haunt my nightmares.

      1. NF

        “It is a place for midget cleansing. In the watery sense, not in the final solution sense.”

        The second sense sounds like something Mike would say.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Your ava make your helpful reply way more sinister and thanks, that’s the response I want my Joyce ava to evoke.

    2. You

      I dunno about college dorms, but at Job Corps, the halfbath is a toilet and a sink in a room halfway between the bathroom with the showers and the end of the hall. The toilets in the shower room were pretty much no-man’s-land in the coed dorms.

      1. Bekah

        Basically this.

        It’s half a bathroom. A full-bath is a bathroom with a sink, a toilet, and bathing facilities (ei: tub & shower, or just a shower) and a half bath lacks the bathing facilities.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          So a halfbath is a loo/shower/sink combo minus the bathtub huh?

          Here in Oz, a lot of places don’t have toilets in the bathroom, the loo has its own room.

        2. Bekah

          No, it has no shower either. Just a sink and a toilet.

    3. dchorror

      Sink and toilet, maybe a shower, but not a tub.

    4. Matt of Steel

      A halfbath is a place you go when you don’t half to bath.

    5. Mkvenner

      It’s half a bathroom with half a sink (it only has cold water), half a toilet, half a shower (again no hot water), half of a tube of toothpaste, and a half used toothbrush.

  9. Doctor_Who

    Every day Joyce reminds me a little more of a girl I actually know. It’s actually a little uncanny.

    Willis, I would never accuse you of spying on her with hidden cameras. At least, I would never accuse you of doing so if you agreed to share some of the footage with me.

    1. goatman95111

      I don’t know whether I want to meet this person you know, or run in fear.

      1. dchorror

        Is study with caution an option?

  10. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

    Well that half explains it.

  11. Ridureyu

    Is Joyce gay in this continuity?

    (SORRY SORRY I HAD TO MAKE THE JOKE SORRY STOP HITTING ME PLEASE OW)

    1. NF

      “Your fandom isn’t a real fandom unless it has a gay subtext.”

      1. beeftony

        And this is a rare case where my chosen avatar is more appropriate than a randomly assigned one.

    2. arjay2813

      you may actually be right on that account, we’ll probably see if she spends moar time w/Ethan

    3. Trae Dorn

      It’s written by David Willis – EVERYONE is gay. There are just differing states of denial.

      1. Tristan J

        Including and especially the reader.

        1. Trae Dorn

          EXACTLY.

    4. R

      I think Willis said somewhere that everyone’s sexual orientation is the same as it is in the other ‘verse.

      Although, honestly, if I squinted, I could see this Joyce as possibly gay, just because of how she doesn’t address any of her own sexual feelings, but that’s just because closet cases are repressed, as is Joyce.

      I don’t think she’s actually gay.

      1. Trae Dorn

        Well Joyce-prime was really into a girl once… Sure, it was a sex changed Walky, and she was a dude at the time… But still… 😛

        1. R

          Well most people aren’t purely 100% hetero or homosexual. She’s probably only 99% straight, with the 1% gay being reserved for guys-who-have-been-turned-into-women-when-she’s-been-turned-into-a-dude-when-they’ve-previously-been-attracted-to-each-other-when-their-genders-were-natural. Just like how I’m not into blondes at all, but when my wife dyed her hair, I still found her very attractive. 🙂

      2. Shift

        I honestly wonder if Joyce in this continuity is A-sexual, and her desire to marry is solely because of some sort of religious or Disney-esque programing created by her hyper-religious/home schooled childhood. I mean, yeah, she blushed like hell when Joe was interested in her, but that could be just because its never happened to her before.

    5. Matt of Steel

      Of course she’s gay. She’s so gay in fact that her gay-odometer has rolled over to straight.

      Isn’t that how gay works? Just like time singularities?

  12. arjay2813

    i’m almost surprised joyce wasn’t drawn with bubbles from her toothpaste to make her look feral, that would make the mugging comment slightly funnier

    1. begbert2

      She does have them – they’re just completely white, therefore subtle.

  13. NF

    I’m wondering if Joyce wants to give Billie a morning hug because Joyce likes her, or if Joyce likes to give morning hugs to everyone she knows. If the second, I wonder who out of the Dumbing of Age cast would least want a morning hug from Joyce, and who would most want one.

    I think Mike would least want a morning hug from Joyce. The only character I can see wanting a morning hug from Joyce is her best friend who is at a different college.

    1. dchorror

      I’m of the opinion that Mike might by more on the most side. It makes it easier to plant something on someone’s person when you are actually touching them.

  14. kater

    Well, Joyce has offically gone from being cute if a little ignorant to ignorent if a little cute to fucking TERRIFYING!

    Thanks, Willis, I don’t need to sleep tonight.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Joyce won’t be terrifying until she has tentacles growing out of her FAAACCCCEEEE!

      1. Jackson

        Hey, we made it forty comments without the meme, even after Joyce’s expression in the last panel! Good job, guys!

        Tomorrow it’s gonna be in the first comment isn’t it

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Life’s pretty straight without memes.

        2. voodoo_curse

          Almost as straight as Ethan?

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          YES!

        4. Tristan J

          See, I was about to come here and say that if Billie wants new friends she should go on FAAAAAAAAAAAACEbook but that just ruined it.

  15. Ridureyu

    I remember the one semester when my room was directly across from the bathroom.

    the things I saw

    the horror

    the horror

    kill me

    1. kilonum

      thankfully I was a commuter student

  16. Hello, Mr. Anderson

    Now THAT’S not something you want to wake up to!

    1. Bekah

      So… you’re saying that I should stop doing this to my boyfriend?

      1. drpepperfan

        Ha ha ha, Walky has a boyfriend.

        Yes, I am that immature.

        1. taekwondogirl

          hahahaha

        2. Ancestral Hamster

          I thought you were Osaka.

        3. Cha

          Exactly what I thought as I was scrolling down. Scary!

  17. drpepperfan

    Billie looks good with her hair down. Very nice, you should draw her with it down more often.

    1. Undrave

      YES!

      1. Jackson

        Billie looks good when she’s Billie.

        You know, on account of all the being Billie.

  18. dchorror

    That does not look like she’s trying to get a hug.

    For a second, when I first read the last panel, I thought she’d called Billie a mirror.

  19. Undrave

    Poor Billie… you already have a circle of friends! Just stop pushing Walky away and embrace the ‘nerds’.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      NEEERRRRRDDDDDDD! *crushes can on forehead*

    2. calendarman27

      Yes Billie…join the nerds…succumb to our divine coalescence…one of us, one of us, ONE OF US!!!

  20. Grayven

    Is it just me, or does Joyce’s smile+toothbrush in panel 4 look like a jesus fish?

    1. begbert2

      Jesus fish don’t have eyes!

      Also they have a pointy nose – that’s a Jesus whale.

  21. Lulu

    She definitely should. 😀

  22. Ezzy

    Oh gawd, I wanna hug her.

    Course, then I’d probably grope her and she would freak out and hire Mike to kick my ass and sleep with my mom for a nickel.

  23. daughterofthestars

    I don’t remember how these two know each other. :/ Classmates? That doesn’t seem to warrant the need for “morring mugs.”

    Course, this is Joyce we’re talking about.

    1. Undrave

      Joycemetand followed Walky (and Mike)and she followed them because they go to the same math class. Joyce also follows Billie on Twitter and re-tweets bible verse at her :p

  24. nothri

    I…have no idea what Joyce just said….

    1. Undrave

      “Billie! Morning hugs!”

  25. TheDoctor

    Okay I’m a little slow today so what does PSL mean? Tried to Google it, got multiple hits.

    1. begbert2

      Perverse Sexual Lust.

      It’s actually an internet meme in its own right, including having an entry on tvtropes, and it’s all Willis’s fault.

    2. OmegaDez

      Same.

    3. das-g

      Googling that could be a bit tricky. The meaning this abbreviation has in the context of Willis’ comics can be found on Walkypedia! and tvtropes.

    4. Matt of Steel

      Pandas Smoking Licorice.

      These poor pandas were force to smoke licorice as part of a circus act in their native land. Harboring them is incredibly brave as nothing is quite as scary as a panda going through licorice withdrawal. But if you can step them down to twizzlers you’re through the worst of it.

    5. Plasma Mongoose

      PSL is when you lust after a fictional character. If the character exists/ed in real life, then it’s just normal lust.

      eg: If you fancy Emma Watson, then it’s lust.
      If you fancy Hermione Granger, then it’s PSL.

  26. iggzy

    I love how “hugs” turns to “mugs”, you should be afraid of either of those

    1. Roborat

      This is Joyce, it could very well be morning mugs.

  27. Shift

    At what point has Billie ever demonstrated any sign she like hugs to Joyce? Joyce really does lack any sort of social understanding.

    1. calendarman27

      Dude, hugs kick ass, even Billie has to know that

      1. Shift

        Somehow I doubt Billie knows that… Especially when she’s sober.

  28. Cha

    I swear she’s looking at Billie’s boobs in that last panel. xD

    1. Mkvenner

      😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀

  29. Clementine

    I feel like this may have happened in real life to someone.

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