Anyway, I thought I'd do a limited print like in the old It's Walky! days and you can find it in my primary webstore. "Twenty" is 11"x17", printed on cardstock gloss, and I'm doing 45 of them, numbered and signed. The art centers around modern Dumbing of Age versions of the original Roomies! cast, plus some other folks who may have been important along the way thrown into the back as spooooky ghosts. Look, for the 15th Anniversary I already drew "every character ever" and now I have two toddlers and I don't got time for that kind of shit anymore. YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE.
I've also uploaded the graphic to my TeePublic site in case you want to capitalism this milestone in t-shirt form. There will likely be a wallpaper-sized version available through my Patreon. And if you're like "eff material goods," that's cool, too, because you can still look at it at a reasonable resolution right over there. I am accommodating.
Here's to twenty more years! If there's not twenty more years, something has gone dreadfully wrong. Twenty
Tags: batman, danny, joe, joyce
Anyway, I thought I'd do a limited print like in the old It's Walky! days and you can find it in my primary webstore. "Twenty" is 11"x17", printed on cardstock gloss, and I'm doing 45 of them, numbered and signed. The art centers around modern Dumbing of Age versions of the original Roomies! cast, plus some other folks who may have been important along the way thrown into the back as spooooky ghosts. Look, for the 15th Anniversary I already drew "every character ever" and now I have two toddlers and I don't got time for that kind of shit anymore. YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE.
I've also uploaded the graphic to my TeePublic site in case you want to capitalism this milestone in t-shirt form. There will likely be a wallpaper-sized version available through my Patreon. And if you're like "eff material goods," that's cool, too, because you can still look at it at a reasonable resolution right over there. I am accommodating.
Here's to twenty more years! If there's not twenty more years, something has gone dreadfully wrong.
Discussion (230) - “Twenty”
Doctor_Who
This comic is going to be very dated in a month when Super Mario Odyssey comes out and its new ass-slapping mechanic is revealed.
DrWattson
I’m kind of surprised that isn’t a thing in the new Mario/Rabbids crossover.
Regalli
I mean certainly the Rabbids would. (If we need a No Prize: he is, they just don’t believe it.)
Wack'd
Let’s go in the garden
You’ll find something waiting
Right there where you left it
Lying upside down
When you finally find it
You’ll see how it’s faded
The underside is lighter
When you turn it around
Everything stays
Right where you left it
Everything stays
But it still changes
Ever so slightly
Daily and nightly
In little ways
When everything stays
Br44n5m
Is Mario in the garden, slightly changed?
Ana Chronistic
go big or go home, Joyce
…Presbyterian
Ana Chronistic
also happy Dumbiversary!
Maveric1984
Nope, gotta go old school. Pre-Martin Luther old school!
Go to a Catholic Church.
Pablo360
No, she should go to a neo-pagan revivalist festival focusing on mesopotamian bronze-age pantheons.
Dusk Rain
As a neo-pagan I support this message.
StClair
“… and that’s good enough for me!”
Marsh Maryrose
We will worship with the druids,
Drinking strange fermented fluids,
Running naked through the woo-ids!
(Also, I’m a Zarathustra booster.)
Briny
P is for Pagan/ That’s good enough for meeee
Marsh Maryrose
The Moravian Church is also pre-Martin Luther old school. And if Wikipedia is to be believed, Waldensians may still be around.
Unusually Angry Hippie
Pffft, pre-schism Ethiopian Miaphisite Christianity is where it’s at. They don’t even have a new testament, it’s just the Torah with a ‘jesus was pretty alright’ sticky note in the back.
Rukdug
Please, Calvinist Churches are some of the least hated churches by the Born-Agains. If she really wants to make at least her mother mad, she has to go to the ultimate hate sink of accused vice, immorality, blasphemy, and cultish heresy that American “born again” fundamentalist Christian knows. She has to go to a Catholic Mass. Preformed by a Jesuit Priest.
…
It would make Carol’s head explode!
Delicious Taffy
Catholic Mass is fucking boring and tedious. There, I said it.
Deathjavu
All services of any denomination are.
If I wanted to waste an hour being told things that didn’t happen, I’d listen to Trump. At least that’s horrifyingly relevant.
Socks
Counterpoint: jews have a legit religious holiday centered around wearing costumes and getting super drunk and sexy. I mean, I haven’t celebrated it since I was a kid at a watered-down kid version that sucked, but it’s got the ingredients there to not be boring. I hear there’s people who do it right.
We are also religiously obligated to drink four+ glasses of wine in a ceremony that, at my boyfriend’s family’s last passover, was abridged to take half an hour, so, that was pretty entertaining. And you CAN use the little shotglass sized wine glasses, but you’ll need the full glasses in order to make it through the evening with crazy aunt Sasha and grandma Marilyn anyway. Again, this was always a LOT less fun as a kid, but, you know, booze.
So basically what all you other religions need is more wine. Just, more wine. Go get some wine, make up a reason you’re supposed to drink all of the wine, and then drink all of the wine. Get drunk with Marilyn. Hear stories about the time Leonard ran a grocery store for the Russian mafia, and had stag parties at the temple. 300% better than catholic mass.
But yeah all the other services do suck ass. Maybe the one where you have to sleep in a treehouse, I’m not sure, I lived in a condo as a kid so we never got to do that one.
Socks
Oh oh and the Passover wine happens before you’re technically allowed to eat any of the actual dinner food! So you’re running off of some salty parsley and a piece of stale cardboard covered in horseradish and fruit paste with MORE WINE IN IT, as you down your four glasses and pretend not to be sloppy drunk in front of your boyfriend’s parents even though his dad’s probably already drinking out of a bottle anyway and the facade is only going to last until his aunts start asking about your family traditions and you have to pretend to be from a functional jewish household ANYWAY.
Although when you’re a kid your rich relatives give you cash for playing hide and seek with the stale cardboard so that part I guess was neat.
Br44n5m
You drink the wine while somebody eats all the matzoh, cause for some reason if it’s made properly nobody shares!
The Other Mike
So what you’re saying is, to be a practicing Jew is to drink religiously.
Rukdug
Well back before someone insisted that we get centralized and hierarchical, Christian masses were essentially community sized dinner parties or potlucks with a lot of wine (Thanks a lot Constantine). So if we ever go back to our roots… Christmas and Easter Mass would end up being so much more fun.
vlademir1
I would concur if you indicated it was the Tridentine Mass or the Pauline Mass in Latin.
That said, I may not be the best respondent to that comment, seeing as I’m a heretic by the standard view of the Church yet also not really compatible with the Protestant nor Orthodox churches and haven’t attended Mass in years, though I understand it better now than I ever did then.
Rukdug
Ooowww. I wouldn’t wish a Pauline Latin Mass on Joyce, that would just be torture. Depending on the currently level of acceptance for liberation theolovy in the Vatican, I’m probably a heretic as well. Have you perhaps looked at Fraticelli, Hussite, Waldensian, Cathar, Lollard, or Pelagian heresy’s at all?
vlademir1
Yeah, it would be. In my consideration one of the most important elements to come from the Second Vatican Council, at least for us of the laity, was the acceptance of the use of vernacular languages for Mass. which mirrored the reasons for the early Church switch from Greek to Latin in the first place. If you don’t understand the language well, it’s hard to impossible to really grasp the significance of what’s going on and why.
I’ve read on each of those heresies at some point or another, and myriad other besides. I don’t want to go deep here on where my beliefs depart from those of the Church as I could write a book if I did, but Pelagius and Arius both held beliefs that run parallel to my own for example.
Rukdug
Why do you think we have all that standing and kneeling? It’s too make sure we stay awake.
…
In all seriousness, it all depends on whether the priest can make the sermon interesting or not.
Z
I’m only there for the music. At least thirteen pieces of music I have to sing in a regular mass at my church. The rest of the time I’m either daydreaming or on my phone if I can get away with it, especially if I can hide behind the grand piano. Haha
Ed Rhodes
My wife was raised going to a Black Baptist Church. When we married, she started going to my Catholic Church and found the tedium actually soothing.
Marsh Maryrose
OOOOH! A new game!
Out of all churches nominally within the Christian tradition, which ones would Carol most be freaked out by Joyce’s attending them?
(I am excluding non-Christian religions because I assume that Carol would be equally freaked out beyond measure if Joyce went to Muslim or Hindu or Sikh or Yoruba services/ceremonies.)
I’m not ranking these, but some of the the contenders I can think of off the top of my head: Catholic, Mormon, High Church Episcopalian, Quaker, AME, Unitarian. Others?
vlademir1
Can’t think of any others that are generally accepted by the Christian community, though there are plenty of unrecognized and unnamed single location denominations that are much more divergent from the kind of view Carol would accept than those.
JohnF
I suspect Mum might not approve of Metropolitan Community Churches. I attend MCC Brisbane, and the Pastor and his husband are lovely.
Durandal_1707
Universal Church of Christ?
butting
Denominations would be tricky because of how regional differences apply, but with Carol I’d wager: any church with a gay minister.
(eg: wherever my stepmum’s preaching on any given Sunday)
Arian
She’d hate the Uniting Church in Australia. I think the closest equivalent in the USA is called United Methodists? The Australian version was a union of the Methodists, the Congregationalists and the progressive half of the Presbyterians.
Arian
Damn, forgot to edit my email on this device. Go *away*, Malaya.
foamy
What about the Church of England, specifically created to allow the King to divorce?
Ana Chronistic
(I don’t actually know shit about the Christian denominations)
Knayt
Nah, just going to a Catholic church is half assing it. I have two words for you: Greek Orthodox.
merbrat
Christian Science? (stopped attending when I was 15)
Rukdug
Why stop there? How about Armenian Apostolic or Coptic?
Knayt
Mostly because it seems like there’s at least a decent chance that one of those is around in Indiana.
Andrew_C
Yeah, wasn’t it Calvin who largely responsible for a lot of the predestination style bullshit a lot of evangelicals use as a Get Out Of Jail Free card?
Kim Chee
No, his was different. Calvinist predestination basically makes evangelism worthless because who’s going to heaven and who’s going to hell is determined long before you were born, so preaching to the ‘heretics’ about fire and brimstone isn’t worth doing because if they were going to heaven they’d be Christian already, and those who are consigned to hell are not capable of becoming Christian anyway, and if they did it wouldn’t make a difference because ‘choosing’ to follow god is a good work, and good works alone don’t get you into heaven.
Mollyscribbles
despite having been raised Presbyterian, I realize I have very little concept of the differences between different denominations and don’t know what she’d be freaked out by.
Probably the bit where I stopped attending services years ago has something to do with it. Um . . . the communion involves squares of white bread and shots of grape juice?
Emily
I was going to go with catholic
AnvilPro
Why didn’t we get comics of Joe and Danny playing games for 10 hours straight?
King Daniel
But is Mario making a duckface while he’s doing so
Nono
Is it truly sleep deprivation, or did they’d watch wander obto google image search?
Durandal_1707
I think the real question is: How sleep deprived were you when you wrote this post?
Needfuldoer
I usually have to get three sleep deprived before hitting that point.
Bristingr
Clever marketing of the Joycons and Nintendo Switch.
Jed!
Is that what they are? I wasn’t sure if I was too young or too old to recognize the controllers.
Bristingr
Yeah, the red and blue tiny controllers are a dead giveaway, plus Mario… so I assume they’re either playing Mario Kart 8 or Rabbids x Mario 😛
Socks
Nah, I bet it’s Odyssey, because willis knows that by the time we check back in with them after Joyce finishes church, the game will have been out for months anyway.
ValdVin
That’s “hippie church” to you. Okay, maybe not you.
A lone shoggie
I remember Tripod!
Jamie
I think my website for a high school club was on there. Or was it Angelfire? I can’t remember.
Unusually Angry Hippie
Believe it or not, Angelfire domains STILL EXIST. All of that shit, bad web design and opressive ’90’s angst and all, can still be find if your willing to do the searching.
David M Willis
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/infrarred/
Needfuldoer
Tripod, Angelfire, Geoshitties, AOL Homepage, Newgrounds, YTMND, phpbb, vBulletin… The late 90s/early 2000s were a magical time on the Internet.
Delicious Taffy
Most of the artists I follow built their popularity on Newgrounds. It’s still going strong today.
hof1991
my Geocities site lives on at the Internet Archive. But I’m older than DYW. I used the Net when it was command line driven on a 1200 baud modem. Archie and Veronica lived there. God, I’m not only older than DYW, I’m sure there a lot of dirt younger than me.
thejeff
Gopher. And Usenet access through a local BBS before that. 1200 baud was painful. Even 2400. I can read text faster than that.
Hopefully us old farts make Willis feel better. I was years out of college before he started Roomies!
(What’s the proper punctuation usage when you end a sentence with a proper name that ends in an exclamation mark? I’m not yelling, so should I add a period?)
Mephron
It’s a proper name with the exclamation point, so yes, put a period after it. So you would write:
I was years out of college before he started Roomies!.
Yumi
In my experience of sleep deprivation, the 52nd hour is when it really peaks.
Shiro
I was so excited when I realized I was out of high school and could pull all-nighters without parental consequences. I did not realize that there would be other, more biological consequences. All nighters: not as fun as you thought they’d be.
Socks
Aww, Joe and Danny being broooooooooooossss
bros bros bros bros bros
Socks
WAIT danny where is your hat, you were such a good egg with it, I don’t know if you can sustain that good egg status on your own
DrWattson
He’s sleep deprived, he’s clearly not thinking straight.
Yumi
He never is.