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Sister
Posted on February 22, 2011 by David M Willis

106 thoughts on “Sister”

  1. Mkvenner

    joyce magnet.

    1. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

      Hah, Maybe I should fly in on a motorcycle. Nahhh, well my character could have one, though I’m more of the motor scooter type person. Sal is something else though.

  2. ScytheAkse

    HAS SHE TALKED TO BILLIE YET?!?!?!?!

    1. Shift

      I’m thinking no. She probably snuck in and out without Billie ever noticing.

      1. ScytheAkse

        i agree.. damnit

    2. Michelle Alford

      I don’t really see the big deal. If I were Billy, I’d just fake her signature.

      1. Michelle Alford

        Oh, hey, check it out. Apparently I am Billie.

        1. ScytheAkse

          epi, so forge her signature 😛

  3. cappadocius

    Is it okay if Walky and Mike kiss now?

    1. LC

      oh… oh my
      i had never thought of that…

      😀

    2. Madock345

      more than okay, Much More than Okay!
      DO WANT!

    3. ScytheAkse

      DON’T WANT

      1. NightRoseK

        DO WANT!
        Majority rules. ;P

        1. Pagannerd

          ‘Been wanting for ooooooooooooh so long.

        2. Izzy

          Don’t want. It is now a tie…How long it stays a tie reamans to me seen…I am so tired i cang type righ…but tont fee l ike fixing. ugh

  4. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

    LOL! Mike’s actually in shock trying to figure out what the heck just happened.

    1. Joebo

      Umm, his expression doesn’t change one iota from panel to panel.

      1. The HellJack

        Actually, Third Panel Mike looks a bit…less angry? Less pissed?

        Less…what?

        1. Kamino Neko

          Less Mike-ish.

      2. Viktoria

        Mike in emoticon form:
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        😐
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  5. Guitar Dude From SD

    For some rason I really like the shirts that Mike wears, like the brown and yellow one we first saw him in, and now this grey one.

    1. MJ

      It might be PSL

      1. Guitar Dude From SD

        What’s that?

        1. zuche

          Perverse Sexual Lust. Old running gag ’round these parts.

  6. Joebo

    Vroom. VROOOOM!

  7. Organs

    Why does Mike always look so angry? Actually, don’t answer that! He’s much funnier when he doesn’t say anything and yet so discontent!

  8. David Herbert

    She’s so cute.

    Is it stalkerish to make a plushie of a person you admire and sleep with it?

    1. David

      Well, if this were 2003 or so, you wouldn’t have had to make one, you just woulda had to buy one.

      (I wonder if Keenspot still stores the ones they didn’t sell or if they just threw them all away.)

      ((Regardless, I have one or two Joyce plushies hanging around the house. They are mine.))

      1. David Herbert

        Actually I meant if Joyce makes a Sal plushie. I can’t sew for crap.

        You should sell some Joyce plushies, I bet they’d make some money.

        1. Scott

          Perhaps with little voice boxes in them that dress you down for being a sinner, but in a cute way.

        2. David Herbert

          Or a Mike plushie that tells you how he fucked your mom for a nickel.

          With his penis.

      2. Ian

        Did you put trousers on them?

        1. Guitar Dude From SD

          I’d buy a Mike

      3. R

        I had one of those. Sadly it was my evil ex who gave it to me, so I no longer have it.

  9. Brendan

    I see kissing, but no running. Are they mutually exclusive?

    What do you want to bet that this Joyce doesn’t actually know what “lesbian” means?

    1. wednesday

      She does NOW.

    2. MM

      Sure she does! She’s just working on getting caught up for Gender Studies: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/why/

  10. KWCarlson

    Wait, what Dave? hell yeah when they catch them they should kiss them, slowly…and film it so I can see it again later.

    1. Soundbucket

      With your penis?

  11. asdfasdf asdf

    first

    1. David

      I usually delete “first” posts out-right, but… what?

      1. Malph

        I’m think that means “First to post ‘first’ after there are already 15 other posts”.

    2. huhh

      yeah for real, what?

    3. Cinder

      You’re about 32 minutes late, buddy.

    4. TheAlucinaut

      twenty-seventh

    5. Soundbucket

      twenty-G and a half

    6. zuche

      No, I’m pretty sure Joyce has had other homosexual crushes before this, including that brief fling with Billie.

    7. Menachem Schmuel

      You’ve given me ideas.

      Thank you, kind sir.

  12. Alechsa

    B.S.!!!! ALWAYS kiss them! Especially if boys are watching!!!

    I wanna see which one Mike punches.

    1. Alechsa

      Also: SAAALLLLL!!!!!!!

    2. Joebo

      No, the punching is over for now, he’s off the job.

      1. AndysDrawings

        Mike only punches people when he’s allowed to, now?

  13. dratava

    Don’t tell me what to do, Willis! I’ll go chase and kiss a bunch of girls today!

    Wait…

  14. Cinder

    Joyce should kiss Sal just to piss people off.

    1. Trae Dorn

      Actually, you’re more likely to excite the lonely members of the fanbase than anger anyone if that happened.

      1. Kamino Neko

        Judging from the reaction to the referenced P&A strip…it’ll anger people. A lot.

        1. Ray Radlein

          ‘Cause evidently four or five years of careful foreshadowing and plot buildup aren’t enough.

        2. Trae Dorn

          David Willis fans are really into Lesbians though. 😛

        3. ADHadh

          Some of us are Girly! fans though.

        4. T Campbell

          Everything that happens in P&A angers somebody.

        5. Kamino Neko

          Point ceded.

        6. zuche

          It angers me to see you admit that.

          For a certain, non-existent value of angers.

    2. Viktoria

      Yeah, she should. It would make me…angry? Is angry what it would take for that? I’d be angry. Veeerrry angry.

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  16. Jimmy

    I got about three pages into this comic convinced Joyce is gonna have at least one wild lesbian night with someone, and now I’m pretty sure it’s going to be Sal.

    1. Madock345

      Hmmm, lets see
      Sarah: Porobably too down to earth
      Sal: Might do it jutst to be a reble
      Dina: too shy, unless she is shy because she is in the closet
      Amber: Maybe, in Shortpacked she is cool with gay people
      Dorothy: could come to her in a moment of weakness about Danny and get a bit carried away.
      Becky: probably too religious, although they might “experiment”
      Billie: Possible, she could get really drunk.
      Ruth: she was an alchoholic in Roomies! and might still be since Billie is and thats where she got it from, Although that might not be acting with Integrity and could definatly lead to some Regrets (sorry)

      1. Ian

        Dina may well be in the closet. Of course, in her case, that probably is no indicator of her sexuality.

        1. The E-man

          HAHAHAHA That’s so true!

      2. Menachem Schmuel

        … no mention of the very lesbian Leslie?

        1. Madock345

          Thx, I knew I forgot someone obvious, but just couldn’t think of her.

        2. Tristan J

          Probably because she’s a teacher.

      3. Jimmy

        It’s possible Billie could get her super drunk (by accident at first perhaps) and it ends fantastically too well for everyone. I can’t see Joyce having more than one night with another lady. It would make for a few good pages of inner turmoil before she realizes a little bit of experimentation isn’t an automatic gay.

  17. Danielle

    Okay I first started out reading this series, then found shortpacked, and now am caught up on both. Whew! This is freaking awesome comic!!!! Also I find Mike slightly less cool in Dumbing of age…

    Anywho You’re the best!

    1. Madock345

      Good, now read Roomies! It’s Walky! and Joyce and Walky!. come back when you have compleatly caught up.

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  19. Jacob Martin

    I guess the reverse of the male saying appears in this comic. Sisters Before Hipsters? Or maybe it’s Ladies Before Tradies? (a bit Australian I admit, but it is still valid.) – Girlies Before Techies?

    1. begbert2

      Girls before churls.

    2. Kamino Neko

      Sisters before misters.

    3. JDX

      Chicks before dicks.

      1. Jimmy

        If you’re a lesbian: Chicks before clits.

  20. goatman95111

    I’m looking forward now to the Sal fan club

  21. Ozzmandius

    SAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL

  22. Robert in San Diego

    Given how late Sal is getting into the dorm room at night, and the whole “ride a motorcycle to math class” dynamic going on, I’m wondering where Sal sleeps during the day.

  23. Animal

    Do not kiss them, that is, until Animal has time to get the video camera.

  24. zuche

    Th-th-th-that’s Sal, folks!

  25. Someone

    Man, I know it was a bad first date, but recovering by seeking out the strongest female image she’s seen? Hmmm…

  26. showler

    Wasn’t there a link to Penny and Aggie here a short while ago? Now there’s a Joyce ad on the P&A site, but I seem to have lost the link from here to P&A.

  27. Sili

    I can’t decide if I like Joyce/Joe or Sal/Joyce more.

    Decisions, decisions.

    1. Menachem Schmuel

      Let’s compromise: Joyce/Joe/Sal

      1. Kilonum

        THREEWAY!

      2. Sili

        I knew someone was gonna suggest that, but I don’t care for Joe/Sal – sorry.

    2. Madock345

      There is also Danny/Joe and Joyce/Sal
      (I have been shipping Danny and Joes since I started reading Willis’ work, and I have been reading since Roomies! first started.) Please Willis, just one accidental kiss or shower scene and I will love you forever.

      1. Sili

        Ooooooh.

        I’m intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

    3. goatman95111

      What about Joyce/Sal/Dina? Because come on, you can just see Dina is so introverted she’d jump on the “be like Sal!” bandwagon, and become “mini-Sal” for….

      …one MILLION dollars!

  28. X15lm204

    OK, kinda wondering about something; why is this section called “The Bechdel Test”? The comic passed on the first page, and continues to do so regularly.

    (Funnily enough, it’s the Reverse Bechdel Test that it so far fails, unless you count a two-bubble exchange between Walky and Mike or Joe ordering pizza from Galasso. I don’t think Joe is capable of having an actual conversation that passes.)

  29. Gabe

    Did you model Joyce off of a real-life bible thumper? She may be a main character, but her portrayal is SO dead on that I want to never read another word of her dialog.

    1. Gabe

      Also, I felt I should add that your genius ad one Penny&Aggie is what brought me here. Drawing an ad targeted to a specific page of a webcomic that updates irregularly enough so that your ad will be relevant for a long time?? Brilliant!

      And your comic is superb enough to make me stay 😀

    2. David

      She is modeled off me.

  30. Chris

    Where did the motorcycle’s gas tank go?

    1. Roborat

      It’s an electric crotch rocket, it’s what all the environmentally aware rebels drive these days.

  31. Danno

    I swear to god that sidewalk looks like it’s at RPI.

  32. 1Samildanach

    I’m pretty certain those footpegs are too far back for a road bike. Sure, it kinda fits for Sal to have a racing bike (re: bike which is designed for actual racing, not street), but that configuration would not be comfortable for anything more than shortish rides (bear in mind that you hold your weight with your legs and feet, preferably with the former taking most of it, for various reasons relating to physics).

    1. 1Samildanach

      And got Ethan on that comment. How fitting =D.

  33. Cookiegirl

    she needs video games. motorcyle video games

  34. DT

    Is Mike crushing on Joyce? He’s got a mad look when she mentions Sal… then goes neutral as Sal drives by, and then he’s back to grouchy as Joyce runs off.

  35. Hinoron

    Sooo… she likes the bad girls, but not the bad boys?

    Free benefit of doubt with ovaries?

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