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Little push
Posted on November 25, 2017 by David M Willis

112 thoughts on “Little push”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    small steps

    1. Reltzik

      Really? Sounds like she’s about to escalate.

    2. Paul

      Is the steppy thing easier, or is it easier to draw? 😛

      1. David M Willis

        A treadmill is about 500% easier to draw than a steppy thing.

        1. DonDueed

          Even easier is drawing neither.

        2. Needfuldoer

          What piece of exercise equipment is the hardest to draw? Stationary bicycle? Elliptical machine? Bowflex?

        3. ValdVin

          Accurately drawing a person using the old-school Nordic Track, with actual slats of wood you strap feet into, has all the fun toil of drawing the machine plus genuine human motion of XC skiing.

        4. Tawdry Quirks

          So, where do stairmills fall in relation to treadmills and conventional step machines in terms of difficulty to draw? Is it the middle ground between the two, or is it even harder to draw than an ordinary stepper?

      2. Deanatay

        Trust me, the steppy thing? Not easier.

        Joyce, stop. You fool. Don’t do it.

        1. Ana Chronistic

          easier for me, I have to pay attention that I’m not gonna just fall off on a treadmill

        2. Ana Chronistic

          (I ended up watching Crunchyroll when I realized the gym was in the WiFi range)

  2. BBCC

    I, ah, can recall a couple of bible stories to that affect, Joe.

    1. shadowcell

      God’s really into the whole “do as i say, not as i do” thing

      1. Meta

        “do as I say, not as I said before”

        1. Bast

          do as I say, not as I said before, unless I say so”

          No wonder we have endless religious wars.

      2. FacelessDeviant

        Ah yes. The old “Do as I say, don’t kill every firstborn in Egypt”-adage

    2. Keulen

      Yeah, how the god of the Bible behaves is really dependent on which parts you read.

      1. Jamie

        Depends even more on who’s reading it for you.

        Which is super ironic given Protestantism.

    3. Marsh Maryrose

      Oooh! One of them involves the biblical Jacob. No, wait, at least two of them involve the biblical Jacob!

    4. Reltzik

      I think you mean bible stories to that effe-…

      ….

      …. wait, no, that could work. Carry on.

  3. Wack'd

    “god’s super big on deceit” we are talking about the same god who was totally cool with jacob tricking his senile father into giving him all his land instead of his brother, right

    1. Wack'd

      …not that jacob

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    Baby Jesus cries when you tell fibs and lies.

    1. Bagge

      To be fair, babies cries a lot. It’s probably just gas.

    2. Bast

      Just take the batteries out of the baby monitor…duh! 😛

    3. Crusading Barista

      Lies and Fibs give Baby Jesus gas! STOP TOTURING THE POOR CHILD!
      No wonder why He says, “The Truth shall set you free.”

    4. Reltzik

      Post hoc ergo proctor hoc?

  5. Achallenger

    I am so confused

  6. AgentKeen

    ?The Dig It bone is connected to the next panel Dig It bone?

    1. JessWitt

      I’m seeing triple. Nine Joes!

    2. The Chosen One

      He’s got a second head
      And a third leg

      Classic Joe

    3. foamy

      He’s a three-legged two-headed abomination of science!

  7. Derek

    so wait Joyce DOESN’T think Jacob belongs with Sarah anymore?

    1. AgentKeen

      I think it’s that she realized she was imagining Jacob never getting with herself and caught herself.

    2. Fart Captor

      I think she doesn’t believe there’s any possible world where Joyce would want to be with HER, but she’s still trying to tell herself she wants him to be with Sarah :/

      1. Smiling Cat

        “…where Joyce would want to be with HER” Your typo and your avatar sync up really well.

        1. Fart Captor

          That is CRAZY TALK because Joyce does not appreciate dinosaurs and Becky has come to understand the importance of this in a relationship

  8. Stephen Bierce

    Step By Step…One By One…
    Higher and higher!
    Step By Step…Rung By Rung
    Climbing Jacob’s Ladder!    –Huey Lewis & The News

  9. HL

    every time Joyce and Joe interact my heart makes a smile

    1. Reltzik

      That’s probably not healthy.

      1. AGV

        It deppends on how it smiles
        Is it in a Joyce’s Patented Triangle Smile(tm) way or in a “wanna know how I got these scars” way?

  10. ValdVin

    Panel four Joyce is caught out, cutely (like evrytying she does).

    Glad for Joe to have this moment, not because it’s a victory for him, but because he’s being the person who can say what Joyce needs to hear. Actual human Joe: He comes in handy sometimes.

  11. vile_gamer

    I need a shirt like Joe’s.

  12. Kernanator

    Joyce has clearly booked a flight to Egypt.

    1. OhPun

      I think she’s already there and Queen. However, she may be considering (panel 2 and 3) booking a return flight.

    2. Reltzik

      She should work on her deltaoids.

    3. Deanatay

      To go on a river cruise, no less!

  13. Beef

    I love Joyce but I wish she’d stop

    1. Ninjamaid

      Yeah, I can’t see a way this’ll end well. Joyce is trying to get Jacob with Sarah, Sarah is trying to get Joyce with Jacob. They both like Jacob. He’s loyal to Raidah.

      I think either combination would work well, but you shouldn’t try to build a romantic relationship with someone while they’re already in one.

      Homewrecking is a terrible place to start a relationship.

  14. Keulen

    Looks like Joyce still isn’t aware of her own feelings towards Jacob yet.

    1. Averien

      She’s aware of her feelings; she just believes that what she thinks are Sarah’s feelings are more important.

  15. DailyBrad

    Joe and Joyce’s friendship is one of the comic’s most interesting ones, mostly post-gun on campus storyline, where I thiiiink is when she started talking to Joe more over text, but I forget for sure.

    1. HL

      I agree, they’ve always had a good dynamic and I’m glad to see more of them.

      1. Wright

        I’ve read all of Shortpacked!, and only bits and pieces of Rookies and It’s Walky (mostly out of confusion about where to start in the archives). But there’s this really sweet short storyline at the end of Its Walky where Joyce and Joe pretend to be married when Joyce visits her family. It’s really sweet, and because of it I kind of ship Joyce and Joe. Not as either of them are now (God, no) but somewhere, maybe ten years down the line in our time, after they’ve both grown up in their own way and have been friends, honest with each other, the whole time.

        1. Wright

          That’s supposed to be Roomies. Stupid auto-correct.

        2. geno

          They have a super cute little arc towards the end of Roomies as well. They go to a museum or something

        3. SarahSaur

          I;ve been reading roomies/itswalky with the rerun David Willis has been doing over on itswalky.com I only mention this, because it kinda solves the “where to start in the archives” issue, because they are getting posted in the order that he wants them to be. He posts one daily (along with his commentary on it), currently a good portion of the way through itswalky, I think.

  16. HL

    also dang Joe stop skipping leg day

    1. Nono

      Yeah, he’s really top-heavy. I’m not that surprised though since he’s not THAT much into working out so he’s probably in it mostly to attract girls.

      1. HL

        girls are attracted to calves i should know i met a girl once

        1. tyersome

          So, was she impressed with your mooves?

        2. Jamie

          Have an internet.

        3. Roborat

          . . . . once.

          Sorry, I was channeling Johnny Dangerously for a bit there.

        4. merbrat

          I was hearing Joe Piscopo’s voice saying that, too.

    2. Blackbird

      It’s not like his arms are super-muscular either, and some guys are just born with big shoulders. I’d bet Joe never worked out a day in his life before he started hanging with Jacob.

  17. Lapin

    Joyce is so confused and since I have no desire to revisit those weird years my mother bought into the evangelical BS I am walking away from this storyline.

  18. Mad_Academic

    Can I get a GAWD BOMB!?

  19. JessWitt

    I’ve always been bad at running and my knees went to hell seven years ago so yes to the steppy thing.

  20. Kamino Neko

    I hadn’t realized that Joyce was so consciously aware of her crush on Jacob so I took a few minutes to properly parse her line in panels 3 and 4.

    ‘Oh, wait…she hesitated because she almost admitted she had a thing for him, herself, not because she realized she was kind of insulting Sarah.’

    … And, thus, she ended up insulting Sarah by accident.

    1. RacingTurtle

      Yep. Oh, Joyce.

  21. Passchendaele

    *Joyce pulls out a honey bun when no one’s looking*

  22. FLUFFYWOLF

    That awkward moment when Joe is displaying more ethics about honesty and relationships than you.

    1. Jason

      To be fair, Joe always thought he was pretty good at honesty and relationships. He’s very much Not A Fan of deceit in relationships- although he was blinded to when he used deceit himself and convinced himself otherwise.

  23. Tacos

    Ah yes… the steppy thing.

    1. JessWitt

      The bad guy from Justice League?

      1. Reltzik

        No, the Born To Be Wild band. *cue stair machine montage*

      2. Tacos

        I haven’t actually seen the movie yet. I hear people say it’s either real good or real bad.

        1. Reltzik

          That’s what you should expect out of Zack Schrodinger.

  24. Doopyboop

    As much as I dislike Raidah, I’ll be glad when we get to the end of this arc about breaking her and Jacob up. I’m not a fan of Raidah and Jacob, but that is Jacob’s decision to make. The more you push on people in a relationship, the more you’re not exactly gonna convince them not to date that person.

    1. geno

      Thinking you know what Willis is gonna do almost always means he’s gonna do something completely different.

  25. Bagge

    You know… I thought we had seen all adorable sides of Joyce by now, but flustered-totally-not-trying-to-impress-cute-boys!Joyce sure is adorable.

  26. Katherine

    I made a JJJoe from the comic above: https://imgur.com/a/ViNRy

    1. JessWitt

      Like a humanoid Cerberus.

      1. Pl0x

        I’m pretty sure Cerberus is a human. You gotta have capable fingers to type all those super long comments.

        Seriously though, the name ‘Cerberus’ has come to mean the DOA commenter for me, even more than the mythological three-headed dog.

      2. Deanatay

        Joeberus?

  27. NinjaNick

    You gotta start somewhere.

    1. BentKnee

      The steppy thing is most likely to make sure you never try again if you pick it first.

      1. Kamino Neko

        I’ve never had trouble with stair machines…treadmills have attempted to kill me twice. >_>

  28. Badgermole

    I really want to know how Joe feels about this, fingers crossed for introspecting-Joe strips soon.

    1. chris73

      We know Joe feels strongly about cheating via his thoughts on his dad and hes tried to dissuade Joyce before about this however hes probably the best person to out to Joyce why this course of action so wrong.

      Becky won’t because what Joyce wants is all thats important, Dorothy would hem and haw, Walky would be ignored so really Jow is the best option here

      1. chris73

        Jow…Joe sheesh

  29. Reltzik

    …. well, Joyce IS making a scene. She might as well get some exercise out of those awkward stairs.

  30. DarkoNeko

    Dig it

  31. BenRG

    The point when Joyce’s conscience starts to needle her regarding this whole stupid plan. Also possibly the point when Joyce realises that maybe being too close to Jacob (on the treadmill) is not good for her peace of mind!

  32. Peter

    That pause between “get with…” and “Sarah” is pretty revealing of how Joyce is beginning to feel. I sense that she really meant “me”, not “Sarah”.

  33. Emily

    Joe being the voice of reason in a matter of interpersonal relationships has to be a sign of the apocalypse.

    1. Josh Spicer

      This isn’t the first time he’s had to have a talk with Joyce regarding matters of the heart.

  34. Reltzik

    BTW, Joyce, you’re blowing a perfect opportunity. Just be honest, admit you don’t know how this equipment works, say you’re trying to get into it, and ask Jacob to show you. It’s not a bad way for him to get with… Sarah.

  35. Bast

    Why arn’t bouncy castles considered a legitimate for of exercise?

    1. Bast

      form*

      Please implement editing.

      1. Reltzik

        Safety issues. There’s supposed to be a little red tether that shuts the whole thing down if something goes screwy and the whole castle flies away.

        1. Bast

          Blasphemy!

    2. Needfuldoer

      Because exercise isn’t supposed to be fun, at least according to Calvin’s dad.

      1. Bast

        No one will deny my bouncyness!

    3. OhPun

      (Warning: Extreme geekiness and off topic) Because, no matter how upset you get while trying to implement them, Cryptography APIs are not exercise.

      1. OhPun

        https://www.bouncycastle.org/

  36. Josh Spicer

    There’s something about Joe and Joyce trying to get the other to be more honest/truthful/not deceitful/not a bad person even if they are a good person doing bad things for selfish reasons that makes me happy for both of them to have each other.

    Even if the ship isn’t an end game, I’d like to think that at the end they can still go to each other and talk about anything.

  37. Jhon

    Joyce, there’s this thing your nose does when you lie.

  38. DJ Professor K

    I JUST noticed Joe is wearing the same shirt as Dina from before for a completely different reason this is fantastic

    1. Roborat

      Dina is going to be pissed when Joe returns it to her, he stretched it all out of shape.

  39. ǝ snow ʍousɐ

    That panel 4 cognitive dissonance though

  40. LadyJ

    okay where’s my 9999k slowburn joexjoyce coffeeshop AU

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