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Frosty
Posted on April 19, 2024 by David M Willis
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212 thoughts on “Frosty”

  1. NGPZ

    *plays “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven on hacked muzak*

    1. Laura

      Perfect choice!

      I was imagining something like this, as shards of glass fly in scintillating, artistic slow motion:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBet3jC7Kss

      But yours is more badasse. ;-D

      1. Laura

        (For those who’d rather not click, I was imagining Joyce’s smithereens tinkling to the sound of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air on the G String)

      2. Henri

        Like the slow motion scene at the end of Dredd?

        1. Laura

          Oh, yes. Or like Summer Glau’s balletic fight scenes in the Serenity movie.
          Or like when Quicksilver (Peter Maximoff) works his magic in the X-men movies.

    2. ValdVin

      “The last guy who got too close? Everyone calls him Gashface.”

      Seriously impressed with how lucid Joyce was, in this state, in having this ready to go. And it’s also maybe a bit telling?

      1. Decidedly Orthogonal

        Wait… like he eats a lot of pussy? SIGN ME UP!

        1. Laura

          Yum! ;-9

        2. NGPZ

          Speaking of yummy things,

          I just made myself a steakhouse burrito for in case I get the munchies tomorrow :9

          I also got a large pepperoni pizza just in case

        3. Taffy

          He does it a lot, but he’s unfortunately terrible at it. Just awful, really. The best compliment he ever got was “It was okay, for your first time.”, the 45th time he’d done it.

  2. IntangibleMatter

    Dorothy seems like she’s done this before…

    Or maybe she just seems competent next to Joyce

    Much more likely the latter.

    1. Taffy

      She’s an attractive woman. Unfortunately, that fact alone makes her more likely to need “excuses” for not talking to some men.

      1. Freemage

        And unlike Joyce, she didn’t spend decades growing up in a highly sheltered environment, and therefore have stunted defense mechanisms.

  3. Rose by Any Other Name

    Is Joyce doubting her ability to defeat Walky with a broken glass, or saying that she prefers rando guy over Walky for Dorothy’s sexual partner?

    1. Proxiehunter

      She’s saying she would be a better boyfriend for Dorothy than Walky would.

      1. Grimey

        Perfect time for “Boyfriend” by Dove Cameron to start playing in the bar.

    2. Sirksome

      Joyce is saying she could defend Dorothy better than Walky could against that dude. She’s probably right too, Walky is not a fighter. He has zero dog in him.

      1. DailyBrad

        Yeah, that makes sense. He’d defuse, Joyce’ll throw hands.

        1. Proxiehunter

          And anything in reach she can lift.

        2. TGS

          I do hope we can appreciate the value of a de-escalator. Diffusing a violent situation is waaaaay more likely to be the better outcome than engaging in aggression or antagonism. This little show of bravado is amusing and shows some of whats going on in Joyce’s brain (and in her heart?) but this could have gone wrong. Given that this guy has a tag now, implying we will see him again, I hope his future appearances don’t show him escalating anything.

        3. Miri

          Love how your avatar is Ruth for this…

          Also agree with you that de-escalating is better than glassing people in the face ? Just a shame that “we have boyfriends” works better to make him go away than an angry threat.

          Hopefully he’s just the sort of casual misogynist who only respects women as the property of men so if they’re “taken” he’ll back off, and not a violent one who takes rejection as a deep personal attack on his ego…

        4. Swissaboo

          Frankly he wouldn’t be too good at defusing either

        5. Ymbrael

          He’d probably do great for about 30 seconds before his foot found its way squarely in his mouth.

      2. PedanticJerkass

        Well, I mean, he did punch Asher that one time. Of course, he ran away afterward with tears in his eyes and holding his hand in pain, but he still punched him.

        1. Mark

          Not to mention: Asher barely noticed.

      3. Lars

        But what about Nightguy?

        1. Reltzik

          No one remembers Nightguy.

          Not even Walky.

      4. Marianne

        You never know, he might have some updog in him.

        1. Woop de doop

          What’s updogggg

        2. Casi

          Not much, what’s up with you?

      5. Rose by Any Other Name

        @Sirksome
        Having slept and looked again, I completely agree with your interpretation. Thanks!

      6. Devin

        He hit a guy once! To…almost no effect. And Joyce has proficiency with drinkware. Yep, checks out.

        1. Devin

          HOW did I forget that Joyce also punched Ross one good? Yeah, Joyce is a clearly superior fighter.

    3. Grimey

      I think she’s saying that she’s got better odds beating up that guy on Dorothy’s behalf than Wally does.

    4. Viktoria

      Dorothy used the fictional boyfriends to make that guy back off. Joyce was concerned Dorothy was dating Walky again and confused about how the threat of Walky made someone back off, since Joyce thinks(correctly) that she is better in a fight than Walky.

      1. Mark

        Oh, was Walky a threat? It hadn’t occurred to me. The message I got from Dorothy was “thanks for your interest, but we have none to return.”

    5. Ben

      She’s saying that Walky would be useless in that situation. She’s probably right.

    6. Hoboturtle

      I think I agree with everyone that Joyce could take that guy better then Walky could…

      Oh wait, did they mean in a fight?

      1. Rose by Any Other Name

        If you’re suggesting they “take that guy” in a sexual fashion…
        Actually, Walky has slightly more experience as a lover than Joyce, so I’m gonna say that Walky could take that guy just as well as Joyce, possibly better.

        1. deliverything

          Especially if there’s free pizza involved.
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/jim/

    7. HueSatLight

      Joyce is a better fighter than Walky. She glassed Ryan in the face, as she mentioned, punched Ross in the face, and fought goons during the basement escape (while Walky hid behind Ethan).

      1. Coatl

        The detail is that with Ross, she didn’t hesitate for a moment to get her hands dirty, I mean, there was a bloodthirsty feeling on her face, if it weren’t for Becky, things would have gotten worse.

    8. Wereg

      Pretty sure she’s saying she could kick that dude’s ass better than Walky could.

    9. Aura

      Thank you to all the people who translated that! 🙂

      1. clif

        Do you imagine we’re through?

    10. Decidedly Orthogonal

      She’s saying she’d do a better job of kicking Frosty’s ass than Walky would.

  4. Ben

    That…. seems creepy, somehow.

    1. JA

      I’m a guy and even my red flag detector went off.

    2. Zaxares

      The fact that he went straight to “need a ride home?” triggered alarm bells for me too.

    3. Decidedly Orthogonal

      Oh it is. He’s Either a creep (most likely) or an utterly oblivious clown. The way to ask that, is to offer it in a way that doesn’t involve *him*. i.e. Offer to _get the bartender_ to call them a cab.

    4. zee

      Wdym somehow? Dude might has well have worn a T-shirt that says “I have bad ideas about what consent means and Im gonna end up on the sex offender registry”. He was as subtle as a drug dealer in a 90s psa for kids

      1. Proxiehunter

        I mean, I can see a thought process that involves personally offering a ride that doesn’t involve being a creep. It does however involve not thinking about how it looks to someone on the outside of your head.

        The thing is, women have been raped by the person driving the cab they or the bartender called to take them home before. So the possible thought process going through Frosty’s head would be “I know that I won’t rape them. I can’t be sure that a cab driver that gets called for them won’t. So I should offer them a ride so they’ll be safe.”

        I’m not saying that he’s not throwing up a red flag in this strip. They’re right to be suspicious and Dorothy made the right call here. Just saying that he might have good intentions and poor ability to think about how he looks and the readers shouldn’t necessarily be judging him off of three panels before we know anything about him. He’s not a potential danger to us like he is to them.

        Thanks to Schrodinger’s rapist turning down an offer like that is always the right decision to make. That doesn’t mean the person making it is always a creep.

        1. zee

          You won’t see this but it’s the fact he dropped it when he heard “boyfriend” for me. Maybe he took it as a “no seriously fuck off” but to me it just confirmed his intentions were to hook up. Which at this level of intoxication is automatically SA, which he probably doesn’t realize because a lot of people don’t know what consent actually is

        2. Felian

          Yeah, that also threw me. But then again, a decent guy might be aware that women say “i have a boyfriend“ to say “really dude, leave me alone”. If someone told me “i have a boyfriend“ i’d know it probably translates to “i mean No, but afraid to just say No because dudes don’t respect it“…

  5. Sirksome

    I wonder if he was actually a good person cause the track record is so in the dumpster it would be a refreshing change of pace.

    1. Golden Yak

      Well, he bails as soon as he hears they’re taken, which means that he was interested in hooking up and not just making sure they’ve got a ride home safely. But that’s hardly satantic, lots of people hook up at bars.

      Maybe we’ll find out! Maybe Frosty will be a new central character and the MC of the next webcomic. It all starts here!

      1. Kimi

        He could think that doing a good deed might get him a hook-up, but he could also equally be a creep. A better phrasing to not be creepy would have been asking if they had a ride home or making sure that they weren’t planning on driving themselves. Continuing from that, asking if they had a local friend to call if they didn’t have a ride. Some people would probably think that it is none of their business and would just leave them alone.

        1. Mollyscribbles

          I think it’s possible he’s somewhat creepy but not a complete asshole and thinks “Hey, if I escort them home and don’t try taking advantage of them, I can ask them out later and get a hookup without the risk of them puking on me!”

          or at least I’m desperately trying to be optimistic given the range of shitheads in the strip and also real life.

        2. Masumi

          Dunno, that might be creepier. “So, is there anyone who’d notice if you’d disappear right now?”

        3. Kimi

          Yeah, I didn’t think about that aspect. As someone mentioned below, letting an employee deal with it is probably the best.

      2. Bogeywoman

        Schrodinger’s creep is a common occurrence. He may have been creeping or he may recognise and respect “we have boyfriends” as code for “please leave us alone”.

        One good experience with this for me was getting Joyce wasted at a gig, a guy asking me basically this, acknowledging my discomfort and pointed to his friends (mostly girls) and said if I want help getting home they’d walk me to the taxi rank.

        1. Felian

          THAT is a good way!
          (i mean, not saying women can’t be creeps too)
          but basically, if the guy is just as happy with someone else trustworthy driving me home, as himself doing it, that’s a sign he’s actually concerned and not creepy.

      3. Yvonne

        She said she had a boyfriend in response to being offered a ride, which is either:

        1 – A stock phrase meaning “back off”, making backing off the correct response.

        2 – In the context of how the English language works, as a literal answer to the question, “we have a ride already”. Because a significant other is, traditionally, the person you’d call for a ride home from places (since, among other things, ‘home’ might be the same place for both of you).

        So depending on his intentions, the statement either works as telling him she’s not interested, or telling him she’s fine because she always has a ride. Either way, “okay, bye,” is the correct response.

        Virtue is it’s own reward here, since not being involved with any of these people is basically the greatest blessing the gods can grant in this universe so he just dodged a bullet made of, like, razor blades and broken glass and drama.

      4. someone

        It’s not just as soon as Dotty says they’re taken, it’s also after Joyce threatened violence. So both girls have demonstrated they’re not interested in his company, and at this point insisting any further would be creep behavior.

        1. Bash

          Yeah, it’s WAY worse if he keeps hanging around after neither of them was interested in a ride or a conversation.

    2. Weatherheight

      The advice my older sister gave me during my senior year in high school:

      If you’re worried, that’s nice, but tell the bartender and let them handle it – don’t hassle girls on their night out.

      1. DinaJoyce

        Exactly. Even as a woman. I was at a bar/restaurant the other day and overheard two ladies in the bathroom talking about which of them was going to drive home. I didn’t say anything to them, I just stopped to chat with the bouncer on my way back to my table and let him know that neither of those ladies seemed safe to drive. He assured me he would make sure they had a safe ride. That’s his job.

    3. Hrodvitnir

      I mean… a sober man approaching unknown drunk women to offer a ride is never, ever something you should trust. So whether or not there is a hypthetical reality in which this comic character is a good guy, I’m only going to be able to view him with suspicion.

    4. Mark

      We’ll never know now.

  6. Nono

    Frosty the snowman…

    1. Nathan

      Frosty the bro man, was a kinda douchey soul

  7. NGPZ

    What the? So his name is legit Frosty? Like he has that on his birth certificate and ID an everything wow

    1. HueSatLight

      A true name is not necessarily a government name. Joyce guessed his true name and was able to banish him with it.

    2. RassilonTDavros

      This universe has people named “Les(lie) Bean,” “Sydney Yus,” and “Ruth Less(ick),” so I assume hospital workers (or whoever writes down new baby names) just look at the parents, tell themselves that they ain’t getting paid to give a shit, and move on with their lives.

      1. eh, whatever

        I finally got what the pun in “Les Bean” is, but I have no clue how “Sydney Yus” works.

        1. wwwhhattt

          insidious, I think?

      2. Amelie Wikström

        And don’t forget Beef!

        I’m guessing he’s Frosty because having frosted hair is his whole personality, but yeah it wouldn’t be the weirdest legal name around here.

  8. Grimey

    Anyone noticed they haven’t stopped being cuddly/touch oriented since they started drinking? Just me?

    1. Hoboturtle

      The sexual tension is so thick that you can take a knife to it, shape it into a donut and bite into it like an old Scooby Doo episode.

      1. Dante

        What a glorious mental image sdkljf thank u

      2. eh, whatever

        Sexual? Why sexual? Not everyone conflates touching with sex.

        1. Proxiehunter

          I would not say that it’s sexual yet. It is well into flirty at this point.

    2. JA

      Damn Joyce, tell us how you really feel about Walky…

      1. JA

        Ugh, somehow replied here rather than a top level comment.

    3. Nono

      Some people are just touch-friendly when drunk. It’s normal. Like how some people are sleepy drunks and some are angry.

      1. HueSatLight

        heavily agree.

      2. David DeLaney

        the seven dwarf varieties of drunkenness

        1. Reltzik

          Okay, let’s see.

          Sleepy drunk, Dopey drunk, Grumpy drunk, and Happy drunk are all obvious.

          Bashful drunk and Sneezy drunk… seem kind of a stretch for drunken behavior, but sure, people have variety.

          Drunk Doc is just frightening.

        2. Asky

          Doc drunk sounds like their drunken behaviour is “alcoholic”

        3. David DeLaney

          gropy drunk, angry drunk, touchy-feely drunk, and lecherous drunk

    4. John Campbell

      It’s Dorothy’s finger that gets me.

      1. Proxiehunter

        Oh yeah, I hadn’t noticed what Dorothy was doing with her finger. Wonder if Dorothy has noticed what she’s doing with her finger.

        1. TGS

          But will JOYCE notice Dorothy’s finger?

      2. nicoleandmaggie

        I thought that was just a poke, but now that you point it out I can see other interpretations.

        1. John Campbell

          Thing is, this is not the first strip where she’s doing that. The previous one had multiple panels of that finger moving on Joyce’s arm in an obviously completely platonic delicate little caress.

        2. Aura

          Wow, nice pickup! I didn’t notice that at all 🙂 What a great little detail to include in the comic too.

      3. HueSatLight

        If I had never had and urge just to touch things when inebriated, I’d say it was a slam dunk. If I didn’t already think Dorothy had it bad for Joyce, this scene would not convince me (so far).

    5. Dday

      At the end of the evening, a fused being called “Jorothoyce” will shamble out of that bar

  9. UrsulaDavina

    I am pondering all the ways Joyce could use the non broken glass as a weapon, my next thought was Joyce Wick.

    1. RassilonTDavros

      My God. Project Shotglass.

    2. Proxiehunter

      Same way you do a bottle. You keep hitting them until it breaks sharp and then use the sharp part that’s left.

  10. William

    Angry Threatening Face Joyce is Fucking Adorable. Well Done! 😀

  11. NGPZ

    Wait a minute… where’s Frosty’s hand stamp?

    1. Kimi

      If he works at the bar, would he have a had stamp? Would a worker at the bar wear a uniform or call for a cab for a drunk client?

      1. Daibhid C

        I would like to believe that a worker at the bar wouldn’t immediately back away from offering a drunk client transport upon learning they were in a relationship…

    2. HueSatLight

      Hooch Place has a special deal, you don’t have to pay cover if you’re on Rummspringa, just come in the back.

      1. David DeLaney

        innuendo interpreter! we need an innuendo interpreter over here STAT!

        1. HueSatLight

          none intended. They have to have more than one door for fire code.

        2. David DeLaney

          i *see*

        3. David DeLaney

          {scribbles in notebook labeled _AMISH_ on the front}

          –Dave, a reminder to me that angle-brackets are not suitable as delimiters here

    3. Jonathan

      Joyce’s stamp is clearly missing in yesterday’s comic. I’m guessing they just got forgotten.

    4. DashWallkick

      If you’re wondering how he eats or breathes,
      and other science facts
      (la la la!)
      repeat to yourself
      “It’s just a show,
      I should really just relax,”

      1. NGPZ

        Holy shit I was JUST singing that to myself right before I checked the comments.

  12. RassilonTDavros

    He looks like some kinda weird cross between Joe and Ryan. Which is… not a thought I needed in my head.

    Anyway happy birthday, thumpity thump thump thumpity thump thump

  13. True Survivor

    Once again Frosty turned away confused and disappointed in mankind’s lack of Christmas Spirit. Perhaps his wish to be human was a mistake. Though, cruel and painful, the endless cycle of wintery birth and ironic Spring-born death had been a gilded cage – the children and joyful townsfolk drunk on Holiday generosity had been ever kind, unchanging, magnified in their innocent love and frivolity. Kindness and virtue, crystalized and vision-conquering, like a snowflake pressed between the slides of microscope – and now just as fleeting. If the angry woman could glass again, perhaps he could one day be snow once more.

    1. Laura

      For the win!!!

    2. RocketRelm

      This is immediately my headcannon for any of the previous iterations of this series that had more fantasy elements involved.

  14. Dara

    Walk. Away. Frosty.

    I LOVE DRANK JOYCE SO MUCH

  15. Pocky

    Living with a Lie

  16. Blibdoolpoolp

    I like to believe Frosty is a classmate of Joyce’s whose just never been relevant enough to mention until now and thats how she knows his name.

    1. Mark

      You know, it could be a reference to the way he styles his hair.

  17. Dante

    YOU’RE HER BOYFRIEND, JOYCE. IT’S YOU.

    That said, I love angry drunk Joyce. Holy shit, the Emotions coming out of her tonight have been a treat.

    1. Dara

      So does Dorothy 😀

    2. Tan

      Joyce’s willingness to glass again gives me life.

    3. Sajuuk-Khar

      She’s having a boyfriend and the boyfriend is you

      1. Taffy

        8^y

  18. John Campbell

    Clearly Joyce checked the tags.

    1. Hoboturtle

      Wait, shit. He has a tag. So he’s probably gonna appear again. Crap!

      1. Fay

        I’m pretty sure Willis has a policy that any speaking character gets a tag, so it’s not guaranteed he’ll return.

        1. John Campbell

          Nah, I’ve got a couple of one-shots on the F-bomb scoreboard where I had to come up with handles for them because they didn’t get tags, despite having speaking lines (that included an F-bomb).

          On the other hand, Squirrel has not made a second appearance.

  19. Coatl

    There is no doubt that you are a beast, isn’t it Joyce.

    But seriously, although Joyce would not hesitate to defend the people she cares about, strategy in combat is not exactly her greatest strength, I mean, she almost showed her bloodthirsty side with Ross, but Becky arrived in time and In the kidnapping incident she was going to attack Blaine in a very obvious way, only to end up kidnapped again.

    And now Dorothy arrived in time to stop Joyce from making an unnecessary bloodfest.

    1. David DeLaney

      so we’re proposing that Dorothy did actually ‘arrive’ over this?

      –Dave, attraction specialization: UNLOCKED

  20. Ben

    Really though…. Sarah just made a bad situation worse during the original “drugged Joyce” episode. Amazi-Girl just added to the confusion and let him escape.

    Walky’s “pyjama super-hero” was less than useless with Lucy.

    Protective Joe is needed here.

    1. HueSatLight

      Ryan was about to attack Joyce when the drug was making her too groggy to continue to fight back, when Sarah stopped him.

      1. Ben

        Yes, but by slugging him from behind she created the situation where they couldn’t call the police, and created the general confusion in which Amazi Girl let him escape entirely.

        1. HueSatLight

          that’s not why they didn’t call the police. Sarah was advocating for calling the police. They didn’t call the police because Joyce didn’t want her parents to find out.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/police/
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/decision/

      2. Ben

        How DID Joyce come to glass Ryan? It really isn’t easy to break a glass or a bottle

        1. Freemage

          Joyce is a barely contained seething pot of emotions. Ryan drugging her had the side-effect of lowering her inhibitions, and then his ineptitude at revealing his true intentions too early triggered a rage-spasm, along witha brief burst of adrenaline.
          And right now, she’s seriously drank. Honestly, I’d rather fight Walky than her, too.

        2. Taffy

          She just hit him really hard with the cup and it broke on his skull. Glass isn’t hard to break, I’ve done it many many times.

  21. Florence

    Even if the kiss of chaos that I so badly want to see happen doesn’t happen, it’s really nice to see Dorothy and Joyce hang out and relax

    1. Coatl

      That’s supposed to be the goal of all this and the truth is that it’s okay to just have fun, and to be honest, that kiss is a double-edged sword.

      1. Florence

        I mean, I want both of those edges

  22. Steelbright

    I am impressed by how much Joyce’s sentence made almost zero sense at first. very accurate drunk.

  23. JessWitt

    Oh Frosty, like frosted tips. Are those still a thing nowadays?

    1. Dante

      Everything awful about the late 90’s and early 00’s has come back. Like low rise jeans, thin eyebrows, and yes – frosted tips.

      1. David DeLaney

        *plays Bell Bottom Blues on the hacked Muzak*

  24. M!a

    I think Sal’s gonna be sorry she missed this! Mean Drank Joyce is the most adorable mean drank y’ever saw. ?❤️

  25. Taffy

    Look at that ridiculous fucking facial hair. You call that a beard, dude? It looks like he got dunked chin-first in a meatloaf and forgot to clean up. If you turn his head upside-down, he’ll turn into a Neopet. Did his razor run out of batteries before he could get to his jawline? Is he trying to play baseball for Mr. Burns? Brother, when you manscape you’re not supposed to glue it back on elsewhere. He looks like Sweeney Todd was about to send him to the pie shop but the sailor came into the room at the last second. If he mows his lawn like he shaves his face, it’s probably best these gals didn’t go home with him or they’d have to check for crab lice and ticks. It’s cute he cares about his niece enough to wear the coffee filter hat she made him, but maybe he should take it off at the bar. Knock knock, who’s there, fix, fix who, fix your fucking beard. Dude spent $130 on drinks for chicks tonight, but he couldn’t afford a $15 Midwestern haircut? Oh man, here’s a text message, wow it’s from his mom, she’s asking why the dog is bald again. This guy’s the worst undercover cop ever, he couldn’t even figure out how to button his shirt and his wig is the wrong color. That’s weird, I didn’t know birds’ nests were back in style. Here’s a man who has way too much self esteem and cologne, and neither of them is working for him. He’s mouth says he’s trying to be nice, but his hair says he’s eaten live mice.

    1. Sajuuk-Khar

      Inverted Guy Fieri-looking motherfucker

      1. Schpoonman

        I’m never going to top this line.

    2. Mr D phone posting

      I was gonna say that is a big reaction to a goatee but then I went back and sheesh that’s a lot bigger than I expected.

      1. Bash

        Oh, spot on.

    3. Jess

      this was beautiful, well done

    4. Needfuldoer

      Stop! Stop! He’s already dead! D:

    5. David DeLaney

      hello, bar police? i’ve just witnessed an actual MURDER

      no, no, it was extremely well-done … yes, i’ll hold

    6. HueSatLight

      goatee creep

  26. DorJoJo

    Confident Joyce is best Joyce.

    1. Needfuldoer

      Indeed she is.

  27. Sajuuk-Khar

    New theory: Joyce, Dorothy and Joe end up in a triad situation not because of Dorothy and Joyce’s massive mutual unresolved sexual tension, but because in an effort to keep Dorothy from getting back with Walky, Joyce proposes that “let’s just share Joe, Dorothy, he’s very large”

    1. Bogeywoman

      Joe is very confused how committed monogamy led to his first threesome but wants to be supportive of Joyce

      1. DorJoJo

        Peak.

  28. BBCC

    Hey, you don’t know what Night Guy is capable of!

    Granted you’re probably right.

    1. HueSatLight

      Hiding behind Ethan and flirting. https://www.dumbingofage.com/forks/

  29. Throwatron

    i was already jealous of joe but holy fuck drunk joyce is making me jealous of joe but twice

    1. Needfuldoer

      Second.

  30. Francoinblanco

    Well you look like the kind of girls that could use two boyfriends. Flexing hi ha ho

    1. Schpoonman

      “My glasses! I can’t be seen without my glasses!”

  31. PedanticJerkass

    [Glass him]

  32. sdrainbow

    That is definitely the nonstop cuddle lock of two gals with boyfriends just being pals

  33. Maddie B

    She’s glassed before. That’s a deep cut.

    1. David DeLaney

      and it would’ve been, too!

  34. Bash

    And we thought creeps hitting on them was going to be a problem.

  35. Needfuldoer

    Whoa dang, Drunk Joyce is assertive.

    I hope Frosty is tagged for comedic effect and not foreshadowing.

  36. Acher4

    Wow on “Will glass again”-Joyce! 😀

  37. eh, whatever

    TERMINATOR: I LIED.

  38. The Jighole Man

    Dorothy a few pages ago: What if someone tries to take advantage of you again?
    Joyce: Shamk

  39. Suet

    Glassed before

    Some frosted tips those are, so it’s great that he didn’t ask any further. I want either a vanilla Frosty or a caramel pudding now…

    1. J.Gawain

      I want a villain frosty and a criminal pudding, courtesy of me misreading “vanilla.”

      1. Suet

        Villain Frosty and criminal pudding would so belong in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but the Frosty has to be Stay Puft-levels of intimidating. Or at least look like Master Shake’s evil twin

  40. Call Me Deacon Blues

    Ugh… Dammit… When are these girls gonna just kiss already?!

  41. Woop de doop

    LOL what a pathetic douchebag

    1. Taffy

      Oh come on, Dorothy’s not that bad. ☹️

  42. DashWallkick

    “Frosty” gets his own tag? Has this happened for one-and-done characters before, or is he coming back?

    1. thejeff

      Happens for pretty much everyone who gets to talk.

      1. ValdVin

        Like speaking res in a movie? I will try to remember that. (Never noticed before.)

  43. Yeet

    violent joyce ftw

  44. DarkoNeko

    yeah, i’m starting to really hope that someone who saw their posted picture online will soon come to walk them back…

    1. CianM1301

      My money’s on it being Joe, who walks in on them kissing.

    2. HueSatLight

      Lucy, who has been upstairs at the comedy club since lunch, comes down to meet them and calls someone she knows with a car, Sydney Yus.

  45. GUIGUI

    “It’s a made-up tale. It’s a total fabrication. It never happened.”

    1. Nazmazh

      *chuckles* Not this time. We got you.

      (My friends and I have been rewatching this series lately. It’s great, in that cheesy sort of nostalgic way. But, yeesh, some of the stories – choices/depiction -definitely have not aged well. Such was the 90s/00s, I guess)

      1. Daibhid C

        I always find it amusing that Leonard Nimoy and Jonathan Frakes both hosted “mysterious world” type shows. When do Nana Visitor and Robert Beltran get theirs?

        (Yes, Zachary Quinto hosted a remake of In Search Of…, but that was too obvious.)

  46. goggleman64

    Ahahaha, those first two panels are such a delight

  47. Woop de doop

    Pink bokeh background is giving me anime romance vibes, except Frosty is decidedly NOT a romantic interest. A little confusing.

  48. Adept

    Wow, I’m liking this new Joyce. She read that dude correctly in an instant. Fuck off, Frosty.

  49. CianM1301

    The 90’s called, sir, they want their hairstyle back.

    1. deliverything

      But not the beardstyle. No one wants that thing.

  50. Amós Batista

    One more tag for Doa Chart I’m building (and that’s completly outdated).

  51. Amós Batista

    Do Indiana people talks with this accent, or is Joyce just drunk?

    1. HueSatLight

      For a long time, I thought my uncle had an unusual accent, but it turns out he just drank a lot. To answer your question indirectly.

  52. Makkabee

    “How did she know his name is Frosty?” (per alt text)

    The two eyes made out of coal were a dead giveaway.

    1. Schpoonman

      Damn, that’s good.

      1. David DeLaney

        plus the carrot sticking out of his fly

  53. Rabisch

    Is it just my impression or is Dorothy’s hug slowly becoming warmer, more passionate and kinda adorable?

    1. BorkBorkBork

      Good ol’ “probably a zero” Dorothy having an old-fashioned platonic drink hug with her friend Jugs.

  54. Pergola

    There are two gals here. Where is Frosty’s wingman?

    This is a job for NightGirl!

  55. Taffy

    I think Dorothy is just cuddly with her bestie. She could have her hand down the front of that shirt in half a second if she wanted to, but she hasn’t even tried it and I don’t think she’s gonna. Sometimes people touch other people and have fun and feel joy, and it’s not evidence they’re gonna 69 on the table.

    1. BorkBorkBork

      Well, yeah, but this is Dorothy-With-Repressed-Dreams-Of-Riding-Winged-Laundry-Pegasuses-With-Joyce. Absolutely this could just be “I’m a cuddly drunk with my bestie,” but I’m not taking the lack of groping to imply she has no other feelings going on here. More like, evidence that either she hasn’t fully processed some of her feelings, or that she respects and values her friendship with Joyce enough to hold herself back.

      Then again, the night is young. Plenty of time for a stolen drunken kiss that only one of them will remember the next day. I’m taking bets on who kisses who.

      1. Taffy

        Nah, I’m not starting at the conclusion and working backwards on this one.

  56. shrub

    Two different ways of handling the same situation.

    The problem with escalating a situation is its much harder to de-escalate and Joyce backed herself into a corner where she either puts up (actually glasses the guy) thereby opening herself upto serious criminal charges or backs down plus she’s also lost the element of surprise

    On the other hand drunk Joyce is quite fun to watch, don’t envy her first hangover though

  57. Asky

    I love how Joyce just assumed that Dorothy’s boyfriend would’ve been Walky.

    Like, Joyce-o-vision was all “oh, she got back with Walky? That’s cool.” Granted… this is drunk Joyce-o-vision, but still!

  58. Felian

    Chat, i’m really curious about some ideas:

    If you aren’t a creep, but genuinely concerned about a stranger’s safety, what’s a good way to prove you’re earnestly kind, in a way that the concerned person can verify and be sure they aren’t being tricked (and not just by trusting me)?

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