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Hands

Posted on May 3, 2024 by David M Willis

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Tags: joe, joyce
The Dumbing of Age Book 13 Kickstarter is in its final five days!  It ends Tuesday night at 11:45pm Eastern, and as of this writing we're under $2000 from unlocking the twelfth character magnet!  We're... probably gonna make it?  Seems likely!  Now, the bonus thirteenth magnet unlocked at $55K, we'll see.  That might be cutting it closer. Anyway, yo, My Peer Group’s Smoochy Chart Is Basically Now An Ouroboros will collect “Year Thirteen,” spanning the four storylines that start on August 22, 2022, and complete on August 15, 2023. This includes new commentary, behind-the-scenes artwork, and new character designs into a 218-page tome with luxurious glossy paper all bound up into a sturdy, full-color presentation.   It's fancy!   Includes new commentary, behind-the-scenes artwork, and new character designs gathered into a hefty tome with luxurious glossy paper all bound up into a sturdy, full-color presentation.  There’s 24 new Patreon bonus strips collected!  There's rejected strips!  There's... laundry! Ends Tuesday night!  Pledge today.

Discussion (166) - “Hands”

  1. NGPZ

    05/03/2024, 12:01 am
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    ???

    *plays “Unforgetting” by Devin Church on hacked muzak*

  2. Ana Chronistic

    05/03/2024, 12:02 am
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    “…nuts”

    ?

    1. Clif

      05/03/2024, 2:32 am
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      We don’t actually know where those hands are.

      But we can have fun guessing.

      1. Plaaaaaa

        05/03/2024, 4:12 am
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        But the position of the arm is clearly below the waist in the last panel

        1. Hydrohead

          05/03/2024, 7:22 am

          agreed

        2. Rook

          05/03/2024, 10:57 am

          And she smiling too like she enjoying something…….

      2. Warcodered

        05/03/2024, 3:38 pm
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        considering the two things she’s not wearing, there’s a pretty good guess.

  3. quark

    05/03/2024, 12:02 am
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    shoulders knees and toes?

    1. quark

      05/03/2024, 12:03 am
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      wait. its head not hands. im a fool and a charlatan

      1. True Survivor

        05/03/2024, 12:07 am
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        Well I liked it regardless.

      2. GholaHalleck

        05/03/2024, 12:19 am
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        Can you *imagine* the comments when she asks for that though?

        1. Byron Orpheus

          05/06/2024, 1:36 pm

          When she asks for Joe to giver her shoulders? I just assumed that Joe gave good shoulder.

      3. David DeLaney

        05/03/2024, 8:05 am
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        *plays Nails Hair Hips Heels on the hacked Muzak*
        (NSFW)

        1. David DeLaney

          05/03/2024, 8:10 am

          how long does it take you to notice
          they’re ALL in heels

      4. Mark

        05/03/2024, 4:54 pm
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        Nose and toes the same way goes?

    2. Jamie

      05/03/2024, 12:10 am
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      hand bone connected to the?

      1. Agemegos

        05/03/2024, 12:24 am
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        Bone bone.

    3. butting

      05/03/2024, 12:54 am
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      Jugs.

  4. shadowcell

    05/03/2024, 12:03 am
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    yep poop would definitely probably be unwelcome right about now

  5. Animedingo

    05/03/2024, 12:03 am
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    Nsfw incoming

    1. Grimey

      05/03/2024, 12:04 am
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      Slowly but surely.

    2. NGPZ

      05/03/2024, 12:04 am
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      Get ready to renew your slipshine subscription! OWO

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        05/03/2024, 1:51 am
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        I genuinely wonder how big the spike in Slipshine subscriptions is every time Willis posts one, and how many of those are 1-month only, just for the sake of getting that one story.

        And I really wonder how much bigger the spike will be the day it’s a Joyce Slipshine.

      2. Jeremiah

        05/03/2024, 7:20 am
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        That Gravatar disturbs me.

        1. NGPZ

          05/03/2024, 11:03 am

          Awe thanks. It’s the icon of a Chinese Plants vs Zombies game where SpongeBob Peashooter Pants doesn’t even exist ;-;

        2. Chokfi

          05/04/2024, 11:49 am

          Did… did you change it or is chinese plants vs zombies about spungebob got a weed smoking pikachu icon?

        3. NGPZ

          05/04/2024, 1:07 pm

          I changed it XD

          The game with the spongebob peashooter icon is called PVZ 2 Expedition if you interested

    3. Decidedly Orthogonal

      05/03/2024, 2:59 am
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      Pretty sure it’s Joe incoming…

  6. Nono

    05/03/2024, 12:03 am
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    Sounds like things are gonna get… HANDSY OO-HOO-HOO

    1. True Survivor

      05/03/2024, 12:07 am
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      *Applause*

    2. Emperor Norton II

      05/03/2024, 1:28 am
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      Gotta hand this one to you.

  7. Nathan

    05/03/2024, 12:03 am
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    Don’t you guys gotta go to school or work or breakfast or something.

    1. Doctor_Who

      05/03/2024, 12:11 am
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      I was going to suggest it’s the weekend, and Joyce was smart enough to plan her Drinking Adventure when it wasn’t a school night, but the storyline title suggests this is a Tuesday, so I guess not.

      1. anonymsly

        05/03/2024, 12:15 am
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        The chapter title could just be the expression,it could be Saturday. Like ‘for you this was some incredible thing, for me it was Tuesday.’ (Admittedly I just don’t see Dorothy willing to go out for dranks on a week night under any circumstances.)

        1. HueSatLight

          05/03/2024, 12:24 am

          There’s been no timeskips, last chapter they had MWF classes. The chapter before that Walky went to church with Lucy.

        2. riley

          05/03/2024, 12:39 am

          ohohohoho no it’s not just any ol saying. it’s a quote from one of the greatest movies of all time. Street Fighter (1994)

        3. clif

          05/03/2024, 2:05 pm

          I would have sworn I saw this in a Conan movie or something, but the Internet insists you’re right.

        4. Shaith86

          05/03/2024, 9:39 pm

          Well if it’s on the internet it must be true!

      2. Reltzik

        05/03/2024, 12:40 am
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        Drinking Adventure wasn’t planned for a school night because it wasn’t planned, period. Joyce just had a sudden epiphany about Dorothy being in a downward spiral and called an audible.

      3. Screwball

        05/03/2024, 12:45 am
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        The title is from a quote from a movie few people liked yet gets quoted quite a lot…… the live action Street Fighter movie staring Jean-Claude Van Damme…
        ” For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.”
        Meaning this was a major event in your life. For me, it was just another day…
        Yaay, I’m still learning new stuff about this planet…

    2. Jamie

      05/03/2024, 12:11 am
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      Next strip, we cut away to them in class.

      1. GholaHalleck

        05/03/2024, 12:20 am
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        Next strip, we cut to Dotty and Sarah being in class and not seeing Joyce or Joe because snuggle hooky.

        1. ian livs

          05/03/2024, 12:30 am

          I mean, at least it isn’t nookie hooky (I kid, that’d be perfectly acceptable if they so chose)

        2. Reltzik

          05/03/2024, 6:07 am

          Next strip, Sarah grabs a baseball bat and comes looking for a Joyce that didn’t come last night.

        3. S

          05/03/2024, 11:39 am

          She didn’t come last night but it looks like she might come today

      2. Needfuldoer

        05/03/2024, 3:19 am
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        Hopefully they get dressed first, instead of just teleporting there.

    3. Jeremiah

      05/03/2024, 12:11 am
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      College. Varied schedules. I think this has already been explained.

      1. Doopyboop

        05/03/2024, 12:29 am
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        Agreed, like when I was in college I tried to do my best to snag classes that were later in the morning/early noon because I have issues with sleeping/waking up, so while sometimes you just have to take the 8 am class, other times your schedule will work out and you’ll get to relax until your first class is noon. Or in this case, have a bit of honky honks.

        1. RedWarlock

          05/04/2024, 6:39 am

          Totally. I preferred evening classes to am classes.

    4. JA

      05/03/2024, 12:12 am
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      Listen, there are some things that just take priority over trivial things like classes or food.

    5. Taffy

      05/03/2024, 2:38 am
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      I know it’s confusing, but it’s only been a few minutes for them, not several days. That one’s us.

      1. HueSatLight

        05/03/2024, 11:30 am
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        I like to imagine there’s a background character that experiences time like us. They don’t tire, hunger, or age like us, but every day feels like it’s almost 3 months long. Maybe they were Agatha’s first roommate, and spending what felt like 10 years in September and part of October of her freshman year, only to have the rest of October, November, and December pass like three days drove her to drop out.

  8. MordWa

    05/03/2024, 12:03 am
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    Jeez, Joyce. Start with just a couple of fingers first- HEY YOOO!

  9. Ty34er

    05/03/2024, 12:07 am
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    I swear to God Willis

    1. NGPZ

      05/03/2024, 1:23 am
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      Which one?

    2. shrub

      05/03/2024, 2:08 am
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      Swear to me!

    3. Steamweed

      05/03/2024, 7:45 am
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      You’re swearing to the God Willis?

      Am I a part of His following now, too??

  10. jeffepp

    05/03/2024, 12:08 am
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    Hand bra engaged.

    1. David DeLaney

      05/03/2024, 8:36 am
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      error 469 – bra missing

  11. Kyoulkoa

    05/03/2024, 12:08 am
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    Paging Dr. Haends

    1. Dday

      05/03/2024, 7:49 pm
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      I’m Doc
      Doc
      Doctor Hands
      And I can understands
      All your demands

  12. VolticEXE

    05/03/2024, 12:11 am
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    Good for Joyce.
    Hoping this doesn’t backfire for her or Joe.

  13. JA

    05/03/2024, 12:11 am
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    Must secure the assets. And breastets.

  14. Dday

    05/03/2024, 12:13 am
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    Note she didn’t say hand.

  15. RacingTurtle

    05/03/2024, 12:14 am
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    Awwwwwwwwwwwwww

  16. Dara

    05/03/2024, 12:14 am
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    Regarding my comment yesterday: I’m glad to see he received instructions.

    1. sultryglebe

      05/03/2024, 12:17 am
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      She is really comfortable giving instructions.

  17. Schpoonman

    05/03/2024, 12:16 am
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    Joe in panel 3: “Wait, like, my hands?” Big return of the energy of when Dorothy told Walky to touch her breasts the first time.

    Joyce’s smile widening and her hand clenching in panel 5. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    1. Needfuldoer

      05/03/2024, 3:20 am
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      It’s the subtle details that tell the story.

  18. Rabbit

    05/03/2024, 12:18 am
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    I’m gonna pretend that the comic ends here because I am unprepared for anything to happen to these two/for them to split.

    So long and thanks for all the fish

  19. shrub

    05/03/2024, 12:19 am
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    Touching a boob is not fail

    1. Needfuldoer

      05/03/2024, 3:23 am
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      Only with permission, of course.

  20. RassilonTDavros

    05/03/2024, 12:19 am
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    I gotta hand it to these two. They cute

    1. RassilonTDavros

      05/03/2024, 12:21 am
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      side note, is anyone else getting particularly RAM-hogging ads on this and/or other pages today? My browser is barely functioning.

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        05/03/2024, 1:21 am
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        It’s not just you, my browser hates loading this site.

      2. HueSatLight

        05/03/2024, 11:35 am
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        No, do you use Firefox with any script blocking addons? If you’re allowing ads so that Willis gets paid, block the ads and pay on patreon.
        Using NoScript, for this page, I only have three sites whitelisted, dumbingofage.com, hiveworkcomics.com, wordpress.com

  21. Jo_cubstar

    05/03/2024, 12:21 am
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    This is so wholesome

  22. Shakes

    05/03/2024, 12:23 am
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    This is big thing for Joe too, it’s intimacy without necessarily being sex which is something he’s had trouble getting a handle on.

    1. shrub

      05/03/2024, 12:29 am
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      I think he’s handling it quite well if Joyce’s expression and hand are anything to go by

      Giggity

  23. TrueVCU

    05/03/2024, 12:25 am
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    Ok NOW its an arousal boner

  24. Icalasari

    05/03/2024, 12:28 am
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    DAWWW!

  25. AlexaSpuds

    05/03/2024, 12:30 am
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    I love how much Joyce has grown and progressed over the last 14 years, she went from “I hope you get better soon weirdo” to “she just like me fr” in record (in universe) time, I’m so proud of her

    1. AlexaSpuds

      05/03/2024, 12:32 am
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      Also it’s gonna SUCK when she gets up and has to remove the makeup lmao

      1. Bittersweet

        05/03/2024, 9:12 am
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        People saying this always makes me feel self conscious. I’ve never once removed makeup before sleeping or after. My skin is clear. What happens when you try to take makeup off the morning after as opposed to letting it was off over several days in the shower???

        (Ftr, I only wear makeup to special events anyways these days. Don’t even wear lip gloss anymore for the most part.)

        1. Dara

          05/03/2024, 11:20 pm

          Yeah, me too – I think it must have something to do with skin type or something. Or maybe the kind of makeup.

    2. Rabid Rabbit

      05/03/2024, 1:54 am
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      Even more impressive is that it’s only been about six months for her.

  26. Freezer

    05/03/2024, 12:34 am
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    And it just hit me that this scenario is new territory (dare I say “virgin territory”) for both of them.

    Godspeed, you crazy kids!

  27. M!a

    05/03/2024, 12:39 am
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    Ok, this would be, undoubtedly, the most heartwarming, adorable porn I have ever consumed. This shit is Hallmark porn, basically.

    1. Steamweed

      05/03/2024, 7:48 am
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      _That_ is an untapped market that we very much need to be developed.

      1. David DeLaney

        05/03/2024, 8:37 am
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        every film involves a small rural town
        at christmastime
        sacs full of presents

        1. Asky

          05/03/2024, 3:04 pm

          One such Hallmark-like movie was filmed in my hometown.

          It was also extremely gay. A very lesbian Christmastime, it was.

          Given how conservative my hometown can be… I like this factoid.

  28. egon

    05/03/2024, 12:52 am
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    finally this comic is getting somewhere

  29. zee

    05/03/2024, 12:56 am
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    This was absolutely worth the brief depressive stint I will have tomorrow morning for obliterating my morning routine of reading the comic and checking the comments

    1. Amós Batista

      05/03/2024, 3:39 am
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      Hope you will have a better moment tomorrow.

      1. zee

        05/03/2024, 12:21 pm
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        Yep, still worth it

  30. BBCC

    05/03/2024, 1:02 am
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    Awwww! They’re so cute!

  31. bemisawa

    05/03/2024, 1:47 am
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    This continues to be just so, so super wholesome. A+++

  32. SvenTS

    05/03/2024, 1:56 am
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    Really love both Joe’s caution and Joyce’s ability to clearly ask for exactly what she wants.

    Best way to proceed on both fronts.

  33. TheCozburger

    05/03/2024, 1:56 am
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    …across America…

    1. David DeLaney

      05/03/2024, 8:38 am
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      haaands across the bra-ter
      heaaads across the thigh

      1. Opus the Poet

        05/03/2024, 7:23 pm
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        Imaginary upvote for the McCartney and Wings reference.

        1. David DeLaney

          05/03/2024, 8:53 pm

          “… McCartney was in a BAND??”

  34. Arianod

    05/03/2024, 2:09 am
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    Joyce is right. This situation clearly calls for a hands-on approach.

  35. Juanoku

    05/03/2024, 2:18 am
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    Don’t watch the mouth…

  36. Loki

    05/03/2024, 2:32 am
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    I am still scandalized by the disregard for the safety of the glasses.

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      05/03/2024, 8:36 am
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      Came here to say this.

    2. zee

      05/03/2024, 12:20 pm
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      Right? Girl you’re gonna break your hinges!!!

      1. clif

        05/03/2024, 2:17 pm
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        What kind of flimsy glasses do you guys have? I’ve woken up laying on top of mine before multiple times and they’ve been fine. They were closed, but so are Joyce’s. I *have* broken the hinges before, but that was from stepping on them. And they were extended, not closed.

  37. Taffy

    05/03/2024, 2:40 am
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    They’re both doing really well.

    1. HueSatLight

      05/03/2024, 11:48 am
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      So somewhere, someone else has to be doing bad, to even it out. [rot13] Qbebgul, ol gur ybbxf bs gur cerivrj cnary. Fhqqrayl srryvat cnatf bs ybff naq wrnybhfl fur pna’g rkcynva, fur purpxf ure cubar sbe pyhrf sebz gur avtug orsber: n frysvr bs Wblpr xvffvat ure ba gur purrx va sevraqfuvc, ohg gur ybbx ba ure bja snpr vf qvssrerag. [/rot13]

      1. Taffy

        05/03/2024, 11:49 am
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        I don’t speak German.

        1. clif

          05/03/2024, 2:20 pm

          It’s not German. Germans say nine a lot.

        2. David DeLaney

          05/03/2024, 8:52 pm

          oh, that’s right, you’re a young’un

          run it through rot13.com , which somehow still exists to-day

        3. HueSatLight

          05/03/2024, 10:07 pm

          It references a preview panel, link to tumblr got messed up though. firefox addon link works though. You just highlight, right-click, choose rot13.

      2. HueSatLight

        05/04/2024, 1:01 am
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        Guessed the preview panel wrong again.

  38. Bash

    05/03/2024, 2:41 am
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    I’m glad that Joyce is specifying what she wants and Joe isn’t supposed to just assume. That dynamic always makes me uncomfortable.

    1. Steamweed

      05/03/2024, 7:49 am
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      Same!

  39. Woop de doop

    05/03/2024, 2:46 am
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    Woah someone called it. I half called it.

  40. Acher4

    05/03/2024, 3:11 am
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    Aaaaaaaaand…

    Credits roll!

  41. Amós Batista

    05/03/2024, 3:37 am
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    let her cook

  42. Taffy

    05/03/2024, 3:52 am
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    *character wakes up at 3:00 AM to piss*
    Commenters: “Don’t they have a class to go to?”

    1. CrazyJ

      05/03/2024, 4:15 am
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      I’d be more concerned about how long Danny would have been in the shower by that point.

      1. Needfuldoer

        05/03/2024, 5:20 am
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        Not like he’s going to get any wetter.

        1. morleuca

          05/03/2024, 7:19 am

          I mean

        2. Proxiehunter

          05/03/2024, 11:02 am

          No but Joyce is going to.

      2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        05/03/2024, 8:37 am
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        He is metamorphosing in to Deep One by now.

  43. PirateTawnee

    05/03/2024, 6:03 am
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    *gasp* p[re-marital Handy-Panky!

  44. ValdVin

    05/03/2024, 7:09 am
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    And that’s why artists learn drawing folds in cloth.

    Really, a great tutorial on this popped up in my Tumblr feed a week ago.

    1. Schpoonman

      05/03/2024, 8:37 am
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      Was rereading the Cubetown introduction, got to the party, and Jeph said under one particular comic he learned how to draw fabric folds for a boob joke.

      Jeph and David’s cases of Butts Disease is coterminal, it seems.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        05/03/2024, 11:23 am
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        John Kovalic may also be involved, with his unprecedented underboob on Gilly.

        http://www.dorktower.com/2024/04/22/18614/

      2. ValdVin

        05/03/2024, 4:26 pm
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        Ooh, I remember Jeph’s note about that. It was time well spent.

  45. Steamweed

    05/03/2024, 7:39 am
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    “Hey, my breasts are down here.”

    Like Dorothy, like Joyce. Dorothy had to tell Walky to touch her boobs.

    1. Pseudowolf

      05/03/2024, 11:43 am
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      She may have just wanted his arms around her waist, rather than feeling her up.

  46. Van Jealous

    05/03/2024, 8:17 am
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    I get the point of this part of the arc. But the last few days panels have brought back memories of this classic Indy comic :-): http://www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/

  47. Disastroid

    05/03/2024, 8:21 am
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    SWEET CAROLINE

    1. Needfuldoer

      05/03/2024, 3:13 pm
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      BAH BAH BAH

      (The Citgo sign somehow briefly appears outside the dorm window)

      1. JR

        05/04/2024, 1:03 am
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        Incredible, yes please.

  48. Amós Batista

    05/03/2024, 8:31 am
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    Even in Kickstarter banner today, Joyce and Dorothy are holding hands, but in “real” life, Joyce has chosen the huge himbo.
    Oh, unfairness…

  49. Yeet

    05/03/2024, 8:37 am
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    hell yeah joyce

  50. BlackScarabFilmZ

    05/03/2024, 9:13 am
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    I think I’ve been watching too much “The Bear” because I instinctively hear “Hands” in Jeremy Allen White’s shouting voice “HANDS!”

  51. SailorCakes

    05/03/2024, 9:23 am
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    Whatever Joe is holding onto is nice enough to make her fingers curl up which is a win 😉

    1. Amós Batista

      05/03/2024, 10:33 am
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      Her biggest smile.

      1. SailorCakes

        05/03/2024, 2:13 pm
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        It’s also surprising at how calm Joe looks. I think this is so good for the both of them ?

  52. Mturtle7

    05/03/2024, 11:34 am
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    *George Takei voice* OHHHHH MY!

  53. Plonker

    05/03/2024, 11:49 am
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    I see Willis subscribe to the theory that female hormonal contraceptives affect female sexual behavior and choices.

    In a comic strip blink of an eye, Joyce went from chaste virginal non-consumer of birth control pills, to full-on hussy, exploring lesbianism and sex with appliances, eventually jumping in bed with the biggest manwhore on campus.

    Willis must have thought he could sneak his right-wing, red pilled, incel propaganda without any of us noticing before he rolled out the heavy anti-abortion guns, but we are, or at least, I am, on to him!

    Just you wait, in another five years, we’ll no doubt see how Joyce’s pills fail to work properly and her falling pregnant. Then over a year or two of strips, we’ll see Joe and Jennifer teaming up to convince her to have an abortion, how he’d love to have kids with her, but it’s “too soon” and “they’re still in college”, with her eventually cracking and agreeing.

    Bit more back-and-forth were other friends try to dissuade her over the following year, but in about 8-9 years we’ll see her go to Planned Parenthood, with Joe accompanying her to ensure she don’t change her mind, last moment. She has the abortion, but, surprise surprise, something goes horribly wrong.

    Joe, who only stucks around long enough to confirm that the “clump of cells” is definitely out of her, tells her “it’s not you, it’s me”, dumps her, and leaves. On his way out, the receptionist hits on him, and we have a little 6 month sub-plot of him and her finding a secluded place where he can explore his newfound freedom.

    While that’s happening, Joyce starts bleeding and it just won’t stop, she’s taken in an ambulance to the nearest hospital, and over the next two years, we follow her life being saved at the cost of her ability to ever have children, her medical recovery, and her visiting friends supporting her and vowing revenge on Joe, who is their designated scapegoat for everything.

    You’ll see. Or it could be those tasty mushrooms I found and ate.

    1. Adept

      05/03/2024, 1:18 pm
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      Not nearly as funny as you probably thought.

      1. Bryy

        05/03/2024, 7:47 pm
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        Not NEARLY.

        Especially given the Christofascists that actually do read this comic.

    2. Rocketboy1313

      05/03/2024, 1:37 pm
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      This reads as somehow both lame and fucked up?
      Try-hard-y is perhaps the best way to describe it.

    3. Taffy

      05/03/2024, 1:55 pm
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      D-
      Poorly worded, boring, overly reliant on shock value tropes, unfunny reference to drug use. It’s like you want to fail this class.

    4. Schpoonman

      05/03/2024, 5:06 pm
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      How the fuck did this get through the filter?

    5. Renadt

      05/03/2024, 7:33 pm
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      A lot of what made Joyce the way she was was because of the indoctrination she received at home. Her mother showed her the dark side of that indoctrination. Not to mention the douche that almost assaulted her using her naiveté to his advantage. This is her feeling safe with a man who actually acknowledged her as a person rather than a piece of meat.

    6. NGPZ

      05/03/2024, 8:08 pm
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      Awe that’s a cute opinion, did a YouTuber give it to you?

      For reals though, I may not be the best at reading social cues, but it looks like you just missed one yourself.

      And a big one too. ?

    7. Hof1991

      05/04/2024, 12:25 am
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      The fail mode of smart ass is dumb ass.

    8. albi frfr

      05/05/2024, 10:18 am
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      I think I read that book in middle school.

      But seriously, I don’t visit the comments section often and dunno of Plonker is a bad actor here. But I thought they were just absolutely taking the piss out of whatever-the-hell-that-was, because of the last line: “You’ll see. Or it could be those tasty mushrooms I found and ate.”

  54. DashWallkick

    05/03/2024, 12:06 pm
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    Who knows what we’ll see when we cut back here but I like Joyce shedding her puritan shame. It really is okay to have desire and seek it. There’s no Hell which means it’s okay to take things you want. And Joe is doing perfectly handling this.

  55. IntangibleMatter

    05/03/2024, 1:07 pm
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    Alt text: they better be jazz hands

    1. David DeLaney

      05/03/2024, 8:49 pm
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      vowel shift

  56. Adept

    05/03/2024, 1:17 pm
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    I like this new Joyce. She knows what she wants, and is successfully communicating it as well.

  57. kaitou

    05/03/2024, 2:41 pm
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    “Jazz hands”? Close; wrong vowel.

    1. vjlobel

      05/03/2024, 11:56 pm
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      spit out my beverage at this one. Well done.

  58. Nothri

    05/03/2024, 4:27 pm
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    Joyce is that one player in an xp based RPG LARP who forgets to allocate experience to her character for like 10 sessions and then spends like a thousand character points to level up her skills to become an expert overnight….and I guess in this analogy she’s maxed out the skill Foreplay.

  59. Alan in DC

    05/03/2024, 5:20 pm
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    I should be enjoying today’s strip like everyone else… instead Im obsessing over how enormous Joyce’s head would be if she cut off her hair.

    Yeah she’s adorable, but mentally turn off her hair for a moment, and see that those are MegaMind proportions.

    1. John Campbell

      05/04/2024, 12:04 am
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      Nah, she just has ’80s hair.

      And 90% of her head is taken up by her eyeballs, anyway.

  60. Bryy

    05/03/2024, 7:46 pm
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    oh SHIT.

    OH SHIT.

    IT’S HAPPENING.

  61. albi frfr

    05/05/2024, 10:14 am
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    Skin-to-skin contact snuggling IS THE BEST, especially for contact’s sake. I’m so proud of them both.

  62. anon

    05/06/2024, 7:26 pm
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    half expect sal to walk in on these two and assume they already did it and rush to shag danny lol

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