OH HEY! It's that time of year again, which means I'm making my annual pilgrimage to Dumbing of Age Ground Zero, aka Bloomington, Indiana. You can find me at Vintage Phoenix Comic Books downtown on September 22, from 5pm to 7pm, where I will have books and maybe some other things like spare magnets from years past. Come say hello to me! My trip to Bloomington is always the best. That place is rad.
but admittedly not as rad as the Lisa Frank dress on the left that Joyce will NEVER WEAR because i don't have the hours in the day to draw it in every panel she appears
ALSO: Friday night at midnight EST (24 hours from this posting), I'm gonna put up the final three remaining copies of the "Twenty" limited anniversary print. The dust has settled, and three left is what I've got. (i proooooobably don't have to say this, but i'll say please limit yourself to buying one, just in case) Tights
Tags: jennifer, joyce, sarah
OH HEY! It's that time of year again, which means I'm making my annual pilgrimage to Dumbing of Age Ground Zero, aka Bloomington, Indiana. You can find me at Vintage Phoenix Comic Books downtown on September 22, from 5pm to 7pm, where I will have books and maybe some other things like spare magnets from years past. Come say hello to me! My trip to Bloomington is always the best. That place is rad.
but admittedly not as rad as the Lisa Frank dress on the left that Joyce will NEVER WEAR because i don't have the hours in the day to draw it in every panel she appears
ALSO: Friday night at midnight EST (24 hours from this posting), I'm gonna put up the final three remaining copies of the "Twenty" limited anniversary print. The dust has settled, and three left is what I've got. (i proooooobably don't have to say this, but i'll say please limit yourself to buying one, just in case)
Discussion (197) - “Tights”
Ana Chronistic
–and grape juice!
what
Danni
canary in a coal mine sounds like a sex thing
butting
The disturbing happy Mary avatar is disturbing.
Danni
i didnt pick the damn avatar and dont know how to change it
Emperor Norton II
Don’t ever change it!
butting
Yup! Mary avatars can be fun, especially if talking about sex.
Clif
Voice of experience.
butting
Nah, the only noteworthy thing that happened when I had one was a cascade of four of us with it griping about it.
Someone followed up with a comment about slapping all four Marys in turn and *sniff* it wuz the best
Jhon
Fun times.
Doctor_Who
I believe that if you change the capitalization of your email address slightly, you’ll be assigned a new one.
No one should have to suffer through being Mary. Not even Mary. That’s why she’s so grouchy. You’d be too if you woke up and you were Mary.
Clif
So logically, if Mary changed her name to MarY, …
Yumi
If you want to change it, you can just capitalize (or de-capitalize) a letter in the email address you put in the comment’s email field.
Stephen Bierce
It’s a song from The Police too but I won’t play it on the hacked Muzak as a service to everybody.
John
I know that Sting singing about a canary in a coma is the first place my mind went.
elebenty
But… he gets so dizzy! Even walking in a straight line.
Remmington Steele
New York Mining Disaster 1941 by the Bee Gees.
Deanatay
Wait, since when was NOT playing something on the hacked Muzak a thing?
Reltzik
When Stephen started Policing himself.
….
*flees for dear punning life*
butts
i bet Sarah wants Jacob to be the canary in her coal mine ehhhh
Arawn
As long as you don’t name the canary Lemmiwinks or anything resembling…
Danni
your icons a coal mine
Pablo360
and yours is a canary
wait fu
Pablo360
I forgot I changed my gravatar, this is going to be trippy for a while
CJ
You know that the canary in the coal mine’s function was to drop dead from gas in time to warn the miners?
Jhon
Chokedamp is -not- sexy.
Yumi
I was thinking Jacob’s church might be dressier than what Joyce was expecting. Maybe the beliefs are more “hippie,” but the physical spaces seem fancy.
Yumi
And I forgot to use the new Gravatar-associated email. Oops.
AutobotDen
I like Joyce’s outfit. It’s cute, and pastel yellow is definitely a nice color on her.
AnvilPro
There is no way this ends happy. Even if I think Joyce and Joe would be a cute couple this ain’t the answer
Wolfbeckett
I’m sure you meant to say Joyce and Jacob there. I think Joyce and Joe went out the window as a possible couple when she hired someone to punch him in the face.
begbert2
Oddly, I think the face punching is what opened the door to that ship being possible. Prior to that Joe saw her only as a female body with an inconvenient head propped on top, so only after that view of her was blasted out of his head did it even become possible for him to see her as a person, thus allowing an actual relationship (of any kind) to develop.
Carms
good grief this is hilarious
Marsh Maryrose
Head cheerleader, problem maker! (But only for those who deserve to have problems made for them, of course.)
Pigeon Pollyx
regardless of intentions that is a good look.
I wasn’t raised religious so I don’t think I can diagnose what Joyce is feeling right now, but I can’t help but feel a little uncomfortable about “my church is real”. Anyone know what that feeling’s like, wanna explain?
vlademir1
It’s going to be essentially the same feeling as when anyone casts doubt on anything you consider a significant part of who you are.
Opus the Poet
Ask a neo-Pagan about having a “real” church that isn’t based on the mis-translated transcriptions of a 6000 YO oral tradition.
I’ll save you the bus fare, ’tain’t fun. Even less fun when your religion was based on a secret society.
ditrysia
In short, they are suggesting that her system of beliefs and the society she shares them with, which are really important to her, are less legit than other religions which are probably more standard and/or organized. It removed validation from something that is important to her. It’s a joke but it also shows disrespect.
Pablo360
I’ve seen what those kinds of churches can do and am fully willing to disrespect that.
Yumi
I don’t care about respecting those churches, but I don’t think positioning them as “not real” as one’s form of disrespect really does anybody any good. I’d also try to respect my friend even if I didn’t like the church they were a part of.
That said, if I was in Joyce’s place, I don’t feel like my reaction to a comment like that would be more than, “Um, rude” in an equally joking manner, unless it’s stirring up other feelings she has around her church, which is very possible.
Minotaur
It´s not like more standard and/or organized religions always have the moral high ground in that respect…
CJ
Some denominations have a tradition of more than 10, 50 or even a hundred years. Naturally, they had more time time raise money for church building and created tradition on how to behave.
On the fundi end, you get the impression there is a new church spawned as soon as someone disagrees with one tenet or other.
It’s disturbing that a basicly grass-roots and anarchist behavior leads to totalitarian though systems.
I’m depressed about the current state of German politics. the trump clones are getting third place in the “Sunday question” (if Sunday were the election, whom would you vote for?).
The Gorram Batguy
“there is a new church spawned as soon as someone disagrees with one tenet or other”
I can’t speak for every particular religion, but that sounds about right.
Meanwhile, reminds me of the following joke by the great Emo Phillips
(Gotta watch to the end.)
https://youtu.be/l3fAcxcxoZ8
Tom T.
Think of it as akin to someone suggesting that your college isn’t “real” because it’s new or non-standard (e.g., Hampshire or Liberty), or that your degree isn’t “real” because it’s in women’s studies or some other supposedly “soft” field.
Clif
Like those non-physicists pretending that what they do is real science.
BeatleJWOL
Does…does this actually work??
Like, ever, in the history of ever?
pjeseb
What, putting your hair in a ponytail?
I… I think so? I mean, I don’t have any personal experience with it, but I’ve seen people with ponytails in the real life so I assume there must be some way to pull it off.
Emperor Norton II
No no no!
You don’t pull it off, then it’s no longer a pony tail!
Arawn
It’s not hard to cause jealousy and division between a couple. It just takes suspicion, a girl that’s prettier or something to cause some form of inferiority complex to pop up and wreak havoc. We can all be our own worst enemy. In terms of breaking someone up to get someone together with someone else? Uh… it can work but the relationships are quite rarely more than short term.
Leorale
The end goal is just to make Raidah unhappy. It could work for that.
Leorale
–or, of course, Raidah might not be the jealous type, and/or she’s impressed that Jacob comports himself well, and/or Jacob catches on and is grossed out, and another twenty ways this could backfire and make Jacob/Raidah stronger.
Greylurker
I feel like we’ve seen Raidah react to Joyce’s presence before. I think she recognizes a threat even if Joyce doesn’t realize it.
Deathjavu
Radiah “doesn’t do” jealousy (although who would say they do??)
SomeUnregPunk
it could backfire in a different way. Raidah deciding that she’s cool with polysexual relationships but only with Joyce.
Sam
Yes, it does. There is always a segment of really insecure or jealous people dating partners that are shallow, emotionally detached or immature that would leave if someone better came along or if the relationship took effort to maintain. Could also just lead to cheating on their partner though.
Doesn’t seem likely to work on Raidah and Jacob with our current knowledge of the situation in my opinion, but it can definitely work on certain types of people in unstable relationships without a solid foundation of trust.
BenRG
FWIW, I can see Raidah effectively sabotaging her relationship with Jacob (by being possessive of him and cruel to Joyce) in response to a threat from Joyce that only exists in her mind. However, I’m not familiar enough with the character to know how plausible this scenario might be.
Dalben
Well, Joyce is trying to break them up, so the threat isn’t entirely imaginary.
BenRG
Joyce’s intentions and her ability to actually carry out those intentions are quite different things, IMO. In fact, the whole thought of her trying to persuade Jacob to dump Raidah for Sarah through flowery oratory that she claims describe Sarah’s feelings actually is quite funny.
Sam
So far we haven’t seen Raidah to be the jealous type which is why I don’t think she will do that at the moment. But jealousy and possessiveness CAN be induced if there is enough suspicion so I’m not throwing the possibility away completely, just saying I don’t think it will work based on our current knowledge.
Kernanator
What could possibly go wrong?
Yumi
Also: Okay, but can we vote for that Lisa Frank dress to appear in a bonus strip?
(Side note, I was blanking on the first name for a minute, and then all I could come up with is “Anne Frank” which is SO DIFFERENT.)
MapleAmber
Joyce looks so good in this comic; I love her clothes!
Good job, Billie, at least someone sees this.
Nono
I… don’t think I’ve ever seen light blue tights before.
Like I’m sure they exist, but the concept of tights that weren’t just black or brown or maybe red is somehow a new concept.
Yumi
They come in all sorts of patterns and colors. I feel like it’s more popular with leggings, but I like galaxy print versions of both.
JetstreamGW
Maybe you’ve never seen light blue tights… but you have seen… GREEN!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Montreal_Comiccon_2015_-_Robin_Hood_-_Men_in_Tights_%2819292135019%29.jpg
!
Goshii
They are Men, Men in tights!
Passchendaele
hmm I know my dad used to be episcopalian, but he never really talks about it, so this’ll be an interesting new perspective. Pews are definitely better than gymnasiums, at least. :p
DinaWho
Am I the only person who isn’t really feeling Joyce’s outfit? The pale yellow and blue combo just isn’t working for me (I think if the tights were a different colour it wouldn’t seem so odd).
Yumi
If the tights were white that might be okay, any other color probably not, but I like the blue more than I imagine I would the white. So basically I think it’s nice as is.
Yumi
Also note: I’m predisposed to be opposed to the pairing of blue and yellow, but I still like it.
Ansel
It’s kind of washed out but I don’t think it’s bad otherwise.
But yeah were it me I’d pair with darker tights or something that would make the yellow pop? I like yellow.
missilentmurmur