Navel
Posted on January 25, 2012 by David M Willis

256 thoughts on “Navel”

  1. NCP19

    Joe would also like to put something behind you.

    1. AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)

      While Mike….

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        …will put something behind your mother for a nickel.

        1. Zoey

          roflmao! I swear the fans make the comic even better than it all ready is!

  2. Hello, Mr. Anderson

    Her logic is impeccable!

    1. Darkflame

      Not really. God has Xray vision!

      1. God

        Yes, yes. You cannot hide your bones from my x-ray vision! Mmmm~ that femur looks mighty fine.

        1. Fauxlosopher

          That avatar. Not ironic at all.

      2. Aragonius

        Arguably God can see through your clothes anyways..

      3. Blob Marley

        x-rays don’t register navels. God can never see your navel.

  3. Tom

    Internally, we all know Joyce is flipping out.

  4. Rognik

    Because heaven knows the navel can’t be seen at other times of the day…

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      I find this comment unreasonably amusing thanks to the double meaning.

      1. Chester

        Seconded.

  5. Xailenrath Omniversal

    Wait… we put away childish things when we get old and joyless?
    why didn’t someone TELL me?!!

    1. Wack'd

      “People never get more mature, they only get better at faking it.”

      1. Tristan J

        Cue CS Lewis quote.

        1. Thor

          “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.”

          — C. S. Lewis

        2. Izzy

          “How many advantages can one person have? I’m a white man!”

        3. Izzy

          -Louis C. K.

        4. Daibhid C

          “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -Lewis

          Also “When I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!” -Sir Terry Pratchett

          I wonder if Dorothy even knows she’s paraphrasing the Bible here.

      2. Rex Hondo

        “The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.”

        -James T. Kirk

        1. lawzlo

          “What does God need with a starship?”

          -James T. Kirk

        2. Aizat

          “Remember”

          -Spock

        3. Rex Hondo

          “That green-blooded son of a bongo. It’s his revenge for all the arguments he lost.”

          -Leonard McCoy

        4. Michelle J Caboose

          “Really, Doctor, you must learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing.”
          — Spock

        5. lordphulish

          “Shut up, Wesley!”

          -Everyone on ST:TNG

        6. iggy_rock

          It’s green.
          — Scotty

        7. BriGuy

          Also Data, to Scotty.
          …Now I gotta go watch that episode.

          Damn you!
          (Not really)

        8. Raiser

          “Their shields are up.”
          -Worf
          “I sense… hostility.”
          -Deanna Troi

        9. SteveCharb

          “I shall leave you as you left me… as you left her… alone for all eternity at the center of a dead planet. Buried alive… buried alive.”

        10. SteveCharb

          -KHAAAAAAAN!!!

        11. Tucker

          To escape the creepy factor:

          “My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone; in fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others.” -Patrick Bateman

          Feel like life’s going too good? Quote Bateman.

        12. Aizat

          “Back in high school, they used to call me Dr. Love”

          -Derrick Bateman

        13. Plasma Mongoose

          The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun.

          -Sir Humphrey-

        14. NF

          “What?”

          -Richard Nixon

        15. Tucker

          “…media perception creates a fake reality that becomes more meaningful than the whatever actually happened. Also, Lady Gaga.” -Chuck Klosterman

        16. Wack'd

          “The fact that you still call it ‘pop-pop’ tells me you’re not ready.” –Jason Bateman

        17. Michelle J Caboose

          “Damn it Bones, you’re a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away! I need my pain!”

          — James T… Crap, I wasn’t going to make any more nerdy comments today. >_<

      3. Animal

        As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

        – Marcus Tullius Cicero

        (Nerd THAT, children.)

    2. mechaqua

      For gods sake Dorothy its okay to have some guilty pleasures, although i personally don’t think cartoons are really a guilty pleasure i suppose thats my point of view. But wait your favorite film is Persepolis which is an animated film.. wtf!!??

      1. Linkara

        An animated film about oppression and feminism in a country operating under Sharia law.

        1. Aizat

          I for one believe that if a Muslim country that operates under the Shariat law, it should not be oppressive and feministic. If that occurs, it is not the fault of the law, it’s both the execution of the law and the culture of said country.

        2. mechaqua

          Yes and its a very good film with a serious tone (and probably should have won the 2007 academy award.) and a fictional cartoon based on a monkey master (i cannot recall the name of the show) is most likely not in the same league with this film. I was more shocked that Dorothy was willing to reject the monkey master animated show yet her favorite film is animated clearly she enjoys animation why be ashamed of a show she enjoyed and looking at previous strips seems to still enjoy perhaps, this show is what made her enjoy Persepolis in the first place i guess she is associating the theme of the monkey master show with childhood but it clearly had an impact on her, if something gives you joy and is harmless why reject it or hide it. the best comparison i can make is two films i like Super troopers and A Serious Man Super Troopers is a movie that relies on crude humor and immature jokes well A Serious Man is Dark Comedy that you have to think in order to get the Jokes well i love A Serious Man far more then Super Troopers I am not going to reject the film and put it behind me just because its Crude and Immature no matter what people think and Dorothy seems to be rejecting Monkey Master based on that it is immature and that she can’t be successful if she has what she views as immature impulses. But I am probably wrong. but The most important thing about this comic today is Dr. Pepper which is awesome.

        3. Wack'd

          It has nothing to do with being animated. Monkey Master is geared towards children and is therefore immature and to be put aside. Persepolis is geared towards adults and is therefore fine.

        4. mechaqua

          Ok I admit my first post was a mistake it made it sound like I regard a childrens cartoon equivelent to a movie that was clearly made for adult audiencr . But what actualy lrkd me about Dorothy’s statement is that that the she should no longer like a childrens cartoon beacuse its for children. my orginal statement was just a fail . However my last statement I did identify that Dorothy was judging the show based on theme also this being writt touch screen so theres going to be mistakes in spelling and punctuation sorry for my orginal statement and the punctuation errors and paragraph mistakes I suck at lifea nd clearly am an idiot please forgive me.

        5. mechaqua

          Also I am actually being sincere about my apology.

        6. David

          May I recommend punctuation.

        7. Animal

          And the occasional paragraph break.

        8. Tucker

          tl;dr

        9. Roborat

          Oh, I thought he/she had started a “longest sentence” competition.

    3. Bekah

      Only if you include the joyless part. I’m twenty-frakking-three and I still play with my lego.

      1. Thor

        If you think that’s fun, imagine what it would be like if you had a second one.

        1. Bekah

          Lego is a brand name. You wouldn’t say “My adobes photoshops” would you?

        2. David

          Strictly speaking, you play with your LEGO brand construction bricks.

        3. Tucker

          I have a LEGO BRAND CONSTRUCTION BRICK prop airplane on the top of my monitor! How is it sitting there, you ask? CRT goodness.

        4. ADHadh

          And I have a LEGO BRAND MINIATURE FIGURINE standing below mine. It’s a surfer lady.

        5. Icalasari

          And when I was a little kid in kindergarten, I made a very crude LEGO BRAND CONSTRUCTION BRICK penis and LEGO BRAND CONSTRUCTION BRICK vagina

        6. Kryss LaBryn

          I have a LEGO BRAND Spybotics robot on mine. 🙂 Those things are AWESOME!!

        7. Bekah

          Yes… well… there’s that.

        8. Ethan

          http://www.fbtb.net/2012/01/25/studs-comic-4/studs4finalsmall/

        9. begbert2

          Of course not – “my adobes photoshops” is a grotesque bastardization of standard pluralization and practically a crime against nature.

        10. Jarnor

          Isn’t the plural of that “Legolas”?

        11. fellixe

          I don’t imagine you’ll find many women or gay men for that matter who’ll complain they’re too old to play with Legolas.

        12. Raiser

          Heck, I’m straight, and I like to toss all my Legolas into a pile.

          They get uppity when I start trying to peg them together though…

        13. Kryss LaBryn

          Well, pegging is a sensitive thing for some guys…

      2. Aizat

        Hey, I’m 20 and still play with my old toys and watch cartoons and I’m proud of it, no matter what all people say about it.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Cartoons don’t automatically equal kids anymore anymore than live-action shows automatically equaling with adult.

        2. Aizat

          Problem is most people in Malaysia still attribute cartoons with children. For them, “adults” watch boring, cliche trite that is our local drama or foreign drama, most of which being Indonesian drama which is pretty much the “torture our stupid main character our and got away with it almost Scott free hour”.

        3. begbert2

          Oh come on, anime is always child-appropriate!

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          So that’s why I used to find anime like Akira, The Legend Of The Overfiend, Wicked City and Golgo 13 in the kids section of the video shops.

          Because, nothing entertains kids quite like tentacle rape, bodies turning into ‘chunky salsa and spider women with toothy vaginas. 😀

        5. a99steaksauce

          lol

        6. Tucker

          You know, I wanted to weigh in here and say something about graduating into big boys toys… But then I realized that I played video games as a kid, and messed around with stereos. I guess I do the same thing now, just the video games are bigger and the speakers are more interesting XD

        7. Rex Hondo

          Big boys’ toys are NOT to be confused with big girls’ toys, which were covered in last friday’s strip and comments.

        8. Fauxlosopher

          What about big boytoys?

        9. Rex Hondo

          Like Joe?

      3. Keulan

        I’m 23, I’m male, and I watch My Little Pony.

        1. Anon

          I WOULD say something about your avatar and statement matching, but I must confess that I watch it too! Anyone who doesn’t is missing out on life!

          …well, thats what i tell myself anyways..

        2. SteveCharb

          bronieeeees, wassup

    4. Jetstream

      You put away childish things, but you unpack most of them when you get where you’re going.

      Mac Hall said so 😉

      http://www.machall.com/

  6. Jen Aside

    As long as it’s not Sierra Mist!

    1. Ragnal

      Ow…-.- That HURT my SOUL!

  7. Mkvenner

    He can see it no matter what.

    1. begbert2

      He also sees every other part of you too, regardless of what you try to do to cover up.

      …that pervert!

  8. Confuzor

    One of Dr. Pepper’s many selling points!

    1. Tenn

      I only know of one other selling point: it’s an excellent emetic! Sure, it’s a bit unpleasant for a few seconds, but the vomit washes away most of the taste.

    2. heh

      Dr. Pepper: Now 20% more godproof!

  9. mechaqua

    Is there anything Dr. Pepper can’t fix?

    “Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn’t even get his degree.’
    Mitch Hedberg

    1. Fauxlosopher

      I less than three Mitch. RIP dude.

  10. TemplarKnight

    . . .That Dr Pepper is totally freaking Joyce out!

    1. Trae Dorn

      That’s just because one of those 23 flavors is… SATAN!

      1. mechaqua

        Satan is delicious.

  11. Wonder Wig

    I know they’ve never met but… Sal x Sierra babies would be HOT.

  12. Plasma Mongoose

    Convenient censorship doesn’t work like that IRL Sierra, just to let you know.

    1. begbert2

      It does if she pressed the bottle up against her belly.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        So she plans on holding it there for the next few hours?

  13. Khantalas

    I like the cut of Sierra’s jib.

    Also, I am betting 10 credits that Dorothy won’t be able to put all that behind her.

  14. Twisted Two-face

    I’m I the only one not sure what Sierra’s race is….? Not that it matters…..it’s just….she’s grey…..

    1. Twisted Two-face

      *am. Silly autocorrect

    2. a99steaksauce

      I highly doubt that grey is a good description for the color of her skin. In fact, I would say it is most certainly not grey.

      1. LauraS

        But it is. What color does that look like to you?

        1. Aizat

          She looks like dark olive to me.

        2. a99steaksauce

          Brown if anything, definitly brown.

        3. a99steaksauce

          That tv or computer screen in the background is more along the lines of grey, although slightly blueish i think. Just for a reference.

        4. Thor

          According to Photoshop, Sierra’s main skin tone is #8c8569, which is a mid-tone yellow-cast brown. The computer monitor screen behind here is #a1a1ab, which is 66% of the way from white to black, with a slight blue cast.

          If these colors don’t look right to you, then you need to adjust the settings on your monitor. Your eyes can lie to you, but the RGB numbers won’t.

        5. a99steaksauce

          I know her skin color is not a complete brown, Its a light brown but definitly cant be said is a light brown, so I just settled for saying brown. And by your description and my no understanding of what you just said, I think said that the screen was gray with some blue?

        6. Tucker

          For people who are not familiar with colour temperatures, cinema standard is 6500k (typically “warm”) with a steady 2.2 gamma. There’s a launch-point for your inquisition.

          I know I always aim for d65 (industry shorthand for the previous) on my displays. It seems to yield the best results ongoing – especially with cinema, as that is an ISF specification.

          What is your calibration target, Willis?

        7. David

          My calibration target is “my monitor turns on successfully.”

        8. Tucker

          Cheeky.

        9. Plasma Mongoose

          If I was to guess her nationality, I would choose Sudanese as we have a number of Sudanese in I seen in Adelaide have a charcoalish skintone.

        10. Jerrery

          What kinda weird brown charcoal you got where you come from? Kingsford’s black.

        11. Plasma Mongoose

          Hence the term charcolISH, I was going to say licorice but that’s more of a bluish black.

        12. Rex Hondo

          Like delicious, delicious caramel…

      2. lordphulish

        Girls not grey
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yzu-4kJg6g

        1. Tucker

          I see what you did there.

    3. mechaqua

      is Elf an option cause i am gonna go with Elf

    4. Jetstream

      I’m thinking Pacific islander of some stripe or another.

      1. Rex Hondo

        Polynesian? Like the yummy yummy sauce at Chik-Fil-A?

        1. Jetstream

          I’m resisting a lewd joke here, but only because I’m tired and I can’t think of one right now.

  15. Henry

    Looks like Sierra likes to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BareYourMidriff

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      That’s not how you trope, THIS IS HOW YOU TROPE! Young Grasshopper!

      1. Aizat

        Damn it, you two. I’ve just left TV Tropes 2 hours ago.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Think of it as building up your Trope resistance, soon you will be able to spend as little as a few minutes in TVTropes at any one time like I can.

        2. a99steaksauce

          Probably cus he’ll have seen them all by then.

        3. Raiser

          That’s kinda the long and short of it, yes.

      2. Henry

        How does I trope?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          [href=”http://www.hereisanexample.com”]EXAMPLE[/a]

          Remember to replace [ with <

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          [href=”http://website.com”]EXAMPLE[/a]

        3. Kryss LaBryn

          [a href=”http://website.com”]EXAMPLE[/a]

          You need that leading “a” in there, I think.

  16. Dave Van Domelen

    Dr Pepper is God-proof? This explains much.

    1. mechaqua

      its the perfect agnostic drink not quite cola not quite root beer its something else

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        So which one is God, cola or root beer?

        1. Chester

          If you have to ask, I think you’re hellbound either way.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          I am only Hell-bound if it turns out that, that not only God exists but that many Christan denominations turn out to be correct when it comes to Final Judgement.

        3. Tucker

          This begs a question: If only a couple-hundred thousand Jehovah’s witnesses are going to be saved on judgement day, why do they keep trying to recruit more people? It seems to be mathematically flawed. Not very pragmatic, indeed…

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          If that was litrally true, I am pretty sure that the quota would have been met hundreds of years ago, maybe thousands.

          But then again, I am no expert on LDS theology.

        5. Michelle J Caboose

          Actually, LDS is the Mormons. Different group.

        6. begbert2

          Yeah, the Mormons don’t assume a limit, so the “wait, why are you recruiting people again?” pretty much applies only to the JWs.

        7. Tucker

          Silly willy!

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          Opps I get those two mixed up sometimes.

        9. Clouded

          Let me help you out here. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that only a few will go to heaven and that the rest will live here on earth in peace. Unlike other religions they do not believe that the earth will be destroyed just the bad people who live on it. That is why they continue to “recruit”.

        10. Plasma Mongoose

          Thanks, that explains a lot. So the JW believe that only the ‘best of the best’ will get to live in Heaven, while everyone else stays on Earth.

        11. Tucker

          Still seems like a bad idea. If you want your best chances of being one of the few, then a smaller pool makes for better bets.

        12. Kryss LaBryn

          @ Tucker: According to the Jehovah’s Witness I worked with, recruiting more people makes you awesomer in God’s eyes and moves you higher up the list. It’s kind of like a pyramid scheme like that. (My phrasing of what he was explaining, not his).

        13. Leorale

          Root bear goes with ice cream, Coca Cola goes with rum. I think we’ve got a pretty even heaven/hell split here.

        14. Rex Hondo

          Dr Pepper also goes nicely with ice cream, as does Guinness… mmmm…

        15. fellixe

          And Jim Beam goes well with Welch’s Grape Soda for some reason.

        16. Tucker

          And Canadian Club goes good in my mouth… with more Canadian Club.

      2. Michelle J Caboose

        Right. Everything is explained here.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          For whatever reason, I cannot watch it here in Australia.

    2. Thor

      Can God make a soda so opaque that even He can’t leer through it?

      1. Kernanator

        Answer: Trick question! Everyone knows soda comes straight from Hell!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          So God didn’t create Hell?

      2. captainswift

        Yes, but he can then see through it anyway. Do not doubt God’s ability to both see and not see through a substance.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          God is the only being who CAN UNSEE things.

    3. Noel Schornhorst

      His one weakness!!!

  17. SlenderTroll

    So is Joyce going mad in that last panel, or just passing gas?

    1. begbert2

      More like straining to sound polite and approving when she’s internally horrified.

  18. Ragnal

    What did Dr. Pepper ever do to you, Joyce? WHAT DID HE EVER DO TO NERVE YOU?!

    Seriously, love Dr. Pepper. LOVE IT JOYCE.

    1. Michelle J Caboose

      Eh. I don’t blame her. I find the stuff nauseating, myself. And Sierra’s navel less so.

      1. fellixe

        Dr. Pepper has awesome in it! But you are still correct, Sierra’s navel is better.

  19. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

    Okay, so churches normally no longer judge what people come in and wear, but I think they’d have a little bit of a problem. They wouldn’t kick her out, just kindly approach her on the matter.

    1. Schroedingers Spy

      Which is still even a bit silly. Shes wearing clothes and willing to go see and practise said beliefs in this day and age they should be happy enough for just that

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Many churches do have an unoffical dress code, something on the lines of no shoes, no shirt, no service.

        1. fellixe

          No service! HA! Nicely done!

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          Pants: Optional. XD

    2. Jackson

      Depends on the church.

  20. LauraS

    God doesn’t give a crap what you wear. The little old ladies at church, on the other hand…

    1. a99steaksauce

      I get the feeling sometimes that old highly devout religious women are religious so they have something to yell at people for about. Or rather as an excuse to.

      1. Noel Schornhorst

        Not just the women…

        Some people need to remember the Pharisees and, y’know, not act like them…

    2. tbf

      Jesus didn’t wear pants. Why should I?

      1. LauraS

        Win.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Did pants even exist back in Jesus’s time?

        1. Rex Hondo

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers

      3. Kernanator

        You, sir or ma’am, are now a saint to me. That’s going to be what I say when I go to church in pajamas.

        1. ryan

          please be a little more considerate. at least wear pajama jeans.

    3. Kernanator

      You know, sometimes, I feel like going to church in a T-shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, with messy hair, while squinting/glaring to complete the image that I just got out of bed. I’ll be grumpy on the outside, but smirking on the inside.

      Then I remember that part of the reason I live on campus now instead of at home like I used to is so I can sleep as long as I want on Sunday morning.

    4. HiEv

      It always amuses me when people speak for God, and in doing so, directly contradict the Bible.

      Apparently God cares a lot about what you wear when you pray or worship, especially what you do or do not wear on your head (see 1 Corinthians 11:2-16).

      Heck, you should see how specific the commandments got about the dress code around the Ark of the Covenant. It even specifies the kind of cloth for your underwear. (Exodus 39, if you’re curious.)

      But hey, I’m just an atheist who actually reads the Bible. What do I know?

      1. DagonXIII

        Well, we kinda just ignore those verses. Its a wonderful bit of hypocrisy; Something about outdated cultural norms. Doesn’t apply anywhere else but to how to dress in church.

        1. Tucker

          But gay marriage is serious business, guys. We can’t ignore those verses in light of outdated cultural norms. Not even for legal marriage not performed within a church, but under a JP.

        2. HiEv

          And some of those anti-gay paragraphs are just one chapter away from the commandment about not wearing clothing woven of two kinds of material and getting tattoos (Leviticus 20:13, 19:19, and 19:28, respectively). Funny how only the ones they don’t personally like are the ones that are “serious business” to them, and the rest are “no big deal”.

          The way that some treat those passages so differently is part of the hypocritical part of Christianity that I just don’t understand, that is, if you really believe those are all commandments from your God.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        In other words, men: short hair and no headgear, women: long hair and some kind of head covering.

        I can only assume that Jesus as depicted in many paintings is not classified as too long for some reason.

        1. HiEv

          Considering that they usually depict him as white, and I mean Caucasian white, it really isn’t hard to believe that they got the hair wrong too.

  21. Jabberwocky

    Evidently, if God were Superman, overrated soft drinks would be his lead.

    1. a99steaksauce

      Silly, superman can eat lead for breakfast. Although he would probably have bad indigestion afterwords or diarrhea.

      1. Jabberwocky

        Yeah, but he can’t see *through* lead.

        1. a99steaksauce

          Damn, blast you and your comic logic.

  22. Aizat

    You know Dorothy, you are never too old for the things you cherished the most.

    1. mechaqua

      Like the cool refreshing taste of Dr. Pepper…. oh and nostalgic cartoons t, there pretty awesome as well now watching nostalgic Cartoons and drinking Dr. Pepper, that’s just a good time waiting to happen

      1. Michelle J Caboose

        It sure is. Except for the Dr. Pepper part.

        Cherry Pepsi and a box of Count Chocula, however…

  23. Janette

    Finally, someone with my take on church.

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      Exactly, most chuch-going freshmen I knew had a similar outlook. I mean aside from the attire being more suited for Saturday night than Sunday morning. Perhaps Sierra decided not to go to bed before going to confession.

  24. MarcinMN

    I wonder if Sierra’s hair has an impact on her depth perception. =P

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Why would a 2D character have depth perception? 😛

      1. fellixe

        *Zzzzzzt!* Dammitss! Now U make brreakin mind mine.

        1. Tucker

          Only on account of villainy.

  25. OhHayMike

    Seriously! What’s going on with her collarbone???

  26. AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)

    Loopholes!

    I don’t know why but I think the word “loophole” sounds dirty to me…

  27. Robert

    What a terribe waste of a dr. pepper!

  28. Thor

    So when will we hear the story of how Sierra lost an eye?

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      It was a dark and misty night…

    2. Aizat

      Do you know how I lost my eye?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Are we talking glass eye here?

    3. Kryss LaBryn

      She traded it in exchange for wisdom granted by a drink of water from Mimir’s well.

      That’s how she knows God can’t see through Dr. Pepper.

  29. Vabolo

    I’ve heard of product placement before, but this is ridiculous!

    1. David

      booooooooooooooooooooo

      1. begbert2

        You obviously should have said, “with one non-specific opaque soft drink” instead. It would have been much more natural-sounding too.

    2. Jason

      At least it wasn’t Sierra Mist….

      1. Tucker

        I’m almost thinking that might have been more glorious. She’d be able to make all kinds of bad puns regarding her mist!

  30. Davecom3

    And here I thought that God had a problem with us hiding ourselves away from his sight. Not that I necessarily argue, therefore, that all of us should go around nude, though. Can get rather chilly if you do that too often.

    1. fellixe

      And come cold and flu season it can be really hard on the furniture.

  31. Sporkaganza

    I like Sierra already. I seem to recall her having no characterization in IW! at all so it’s nice to actually get some here.

    1. Tucker

      I know I saw her, but I can’t remember for the life of me in what strip.

      Which of the 200,000 1-bit coloured characters was she?

      Before anybody starts, that’s not a race comment – it’s just that when people don’t have actual physical features as detailed as real life, you start to have to identify them by the colour of their clothes and such XD

  32. DT

    Dr Pepper. Is there anything it can’t do? 😀

  33. Azumango

    TACTICAL (Dr.) PEPPER

  34. Henry

    JoycexNavel OTP!

  35. Rex Hondo

    Apropos of nothing, but this comment section has been a LOT more fun than the Shortpacked! comment section over the last few days… 😛

    1. Tucker

      Here here.

    2. ADHadh

      And then Willis will troll us all by throwing Malaya in here.
      And pairing her with Sal or Billie.

      1. Tucker

        Perhaps the shift could dispel some of the murderous rages. They are getting… tedious.

  36. Kernanator

    It looks like she’s using…

    Pepper Spray.

  37. Romanticide

    I think Sierra has just become my favorite character 😀

    1. Rex Hondo

      I don’t know that I’d call her my favorite, but it certainly is a breath of fresh air after a Malaya-centric week in the other comic to have a new character introduced who is, y’know, friendly.

  38. Markus

    Reminds me of an expletive used by a character in a (Jerry Pournelle?) SF Novel:
    “God’s Navel!”
    I like this for some twisted reason.

    1. Markus

      Huh? I think that’s the second time in maybe 5 comments total that I’ve got the Marcie gravatar. Do these thing gravitate towards similar Nicks?

      1. ryan

        unless you upload your own, the gravatar is randomly assigned. you will keep the same randomly assigned gravatar until willis adds new ones. when that happens, gravatars are randomly assigned again.

    2. Hannover Fist

      The Mote In God’s Eye (one of my all-time favorite books by the way) was a collaboration between Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

  39. Ed

    Sierra is really cool and i hope we get more of her.

  40. ADHadh

    What is it with dark skinned ladies in Willis’ comics? They’re nearly all fun characters I’d love to know IRL. Even Malaya.

    1. begbert2

      And yet they’re all drastically different from one another. Perhaps it’s just that he makes fun female characters in general? He seems to save “comically annoying/crazy” for male characters (Faz, Joe, Galasso, Mike), possibly because they can be more readily ‘punished’ with slapstick violence. Or whatever.

      1. ADHadh

        Yeah, they’re all pretty good, but there something about the dark skinned ones that appeals to me. And I’m pretty sure it’s not their skin colour.

  41. LiC

    Cause everyone knows how much God hates to see navels.

    1. begbert2

      There are those that believe that God created Adam and Eve without navels, even though there obviously was nothing to stop him from including them. Working off that assumption, one could deduce that navels are in fact a reproduction defect (like molding seams are), and that God could indeed be offended by their presence – that he excluded them from his original design is telling.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        The reason they believe Adam and Eve had no navels is because belly-buttons are the remnants of the umbilical cord and as Adam and Eve were not born from a womb but created out of mud, thus no belly-buttons.

  42. lawzlo

    Sierra, cover that navel up with a fig leaf, like Eve did in the…

    Wait…

    Never mind, she didn’t have one.

    Anyhow, they’re offensive to God.

  43. Zababcd

    Dorothy agrees to go to church with Joyce, and already she’s slowly morphing into a nun – see clothing colour scheme.

  44. Gordon Blvd

    I’m abosolutely shocked that none of y’all are concerned with the FAR MORE stunning implication that Dr Pepper contains an ingredient that can knowingly blind the eyes of God! 😉

    1. DagonXIII

      Now that we have this knowledge, there is only one response. We must line our facilities with Dr. Pepper so that we can begin the resistance.

  45. Jackson

    I wonder if Dorothy is aware of just how close she is to quoting 1 Corinthians 13:11 verbatim in panel 2.

  46. lordphulish

    It’s a process of justification. When you grow up, you call your action figures valuable collectibles, anime become foreign films. In other words, they’re not comics, they’re graphic novels mom!

    1. ryan

      guess i’m not a grown up yet. toys are toys, cartoons are cartoons, and comics are comics.

  47. begbert2

    Non-comic-related question: when I try to enter a comment on this page, there appears to be an opaque blue background element on the web page that covers the right edge of the edit control. You can see it in how it chops off the right rounded corners of the control. It’s not a big deal when I enter a root-level like this one and it only covers the rightmost few pixels, but respond to a reply a few levels down and it covers a third of the edit control and I have to type literally blind. It’s hella annoying. Is anybody else seeing this?

    1. Tucker

      I was debating commenting on that. I have an advantage that the Chromium rendering engine opens it up as I type, but it is noticeable. Another thing I’ve notices is that the Post Comment button tries to inhabit the same line as the following Gravatar. It’s not detrimental by any means, but it is slightly irritating.

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        Yeah, it’s doing it for me with Firefox as well. I just assumed it was something to do with my new monitor settings (changed them recently); if it’s not just me then it’s probably something to do with Willis’s new layout.

  48. Phillip Wilde

    And now I want a Dr Pepper. Excuse me.

  49. Arkadi

    Yes, Joyce. Sierra’s navel is awesome ^^

  50. Lone Wolf

    “When I became a man, I put away my childish things, including my fear of being thought childish and my desire to appear so very grown up.” – C.S. Lewis

    1. Rory

      Awesome quote.

  51. Doom Shepherd

    Next week (in a few years): Joyce reciprocates by attending a Wiccan ritual…

    Skyclad.

    1. begbert2

      I would be fascinated to see Joyce’s reaction to a Wiccan ritual, even if everyone present is fully clothed.

      Though, “reciprocates”? Is somebody present a Wiccan to whom she could be reciprocating? Dorothy certainly isn’t.

    2. Animal

      I went to a few Wiccan to-dos a few years back, when I was still maintaining some curiosity about matters of religion. I didn’t see many people “skyclad” (for those not in the know, that’s New Age-ese for “nekkid”) but the ones that were, almost without exception, really should not have been.

      To quote Joseph Page: “Yipes. Just yipes.”

      1. Tucker

        Everyone in this particular strip is Joseph Page resistant.

  52. Uniqueantique

    Joyce would not likely last thru a Wiccan ritual. She would scream and faint or run and scream. All those pagans around, if one atheist made here scream what would a whole group do to her 🙂

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      Heh. She should try a Heathen blot. Heh heh heh…

  53. J

    Is that why we don’t see much more of the original comics?

  54. B.D

    When Sierra’s hair is flipped over the other side of her face, an alternate personality takes over: “Mist”. “Mist” is basically The Spirit to Amazi-Girl’s Batman.

    (When her hair is completely tied back, she becomes “Sierra-Mist”, essentially the Captain America of the campus.)

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