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Buddies
Posted on July 8, 2011 by David M Willis

215 thoughts on “Buddies”

  1. Mkvenner

    I’m with Billie on this one.

    1. Kernanator

      I wanna be with Billie. 😛

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Only if you accept Joyce as your Shower Daddy!

        1. Kernanator

          Okay, we’re gonna do some praying. In the shower. Together. 😛

        2. Transkaren

          Repeatedly crying out “Oh God” doesn’t count as praying!

        3. Khrene Cleaver

          It does in black churches!

        4. sorrycouldn'tresist

          *ahem*
          “Oh, god! Ooooh goooOod!”

        5. Kernanator

          “All this and more can be yours. Inquire within.”

        6. Djw175

          “With your penis”

        7. Quantum Polagnus

          “And a nickel”

        8. Aisling

          And a feather!

        9. DK1105

          We’re gonna do some praying. In the shower. With my penis.

        10. BrokenDown

          Your Gravatar makes the above comment all the more worse…

    2. David Herbert

      Really? Shower buddies sounds like fun.

    3. Ana

      Suddenly I hear the uproar of a thousand ships launching from afar…

      1. Mkvenner

        Going the other way.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        …from giant catapults as they wizz through the air before they crash spectacularly, crushing the hopes and dreams of thousands of fans.

        1. Kernanator

          At least there will be massive fireballs. And flames.

          I like fire.

        2. Aizat

          I like stuff blowing up but I don’t like people blowing up.

        3. Aizat

          And cannons fired from ships that wished to see their opposing ship sunk.

  2. Plasma Mongoose

    Billie, whatever you do, DON’T DROP THE SOAP!

    1. Aizat

      That’s a disturbing image.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Joyce loves it when Billie wears lather. ^_^

        1. Mkvenner

          Now that is a disturbing image. *cringe*

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          That’s pretty ironic reaction, considering who your avatar is this time.

        3. Mkvenner

          i’m not into leather.

        4. Bickendan

          Lather, not leather.

        5. Mkvenner

          Ooooohhhhhhh…….

          Then ignore my previous two comments.

        6. Rowen Morland

          If her soap is Imperial Leather then it works for both.

          (I found that so confusing growing up)

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          I always figured that Imperial Leather was a misprint that never was corrected, Imperial Lather makes way more sense.

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          Bickendan is correct, I did not misspell leather, I MEANT LATHER.

          lath·er
          1. A foam formed by soap or detergent agitated in water, as in washing or shaving.

        9. Plasma Mongoose

          Mkvenner, that’s more like it. ^_^

        10. Aizat

          Great! Now I can’t stop picturing Billie naked

        11. Kernanator

          Aizat, you say that like it’s a bad thing.

        12. Aizat

          Actually, it’s a good thing.

        13. Kernanator

          Yes, it’s a very good thing. 😉

      2. Naraktu Shinobu Mocha Latte

        Not to me! I have a very fucked up mind.

  3. Jen Aside

    Joyce, you’re not making your case any better =/

    Then again, Billie DID just come out of the closet…

    1. dchorror

      Too strong, too strong! Play it smooth, you’ll get a date!

  4. Henry

    Looks like Joyce harbors a little PSL of her own…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Now I’m harbouring some PSL, damn you Joyce, DAMN YOU!

  5. arjay2813

    Billie came out of the closet just in time for college experimentation

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      No college experience is truely complete without experimenting with lesbainism.

      1. Null Set

        Especially if you are male.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          College is a great time for men to experiment with lesbianism before they settle into boring old heterosexuality when they go out in the real world.

        2. Kernanator

          Yeah, I should totally do that!

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Score some of that hot scissoring action while you still can. 😛

        4. Kernanator

          I don’t care if I have a penis, I will make it work!

      2. Hypsie

        I just realized that my friend and I can actually use the cliche excuse of ‘we were young, it was college!’ for what happened a couple weeks ago.. HAHAHAH xD

  6. Qaxis

    If Billie explained what that implies, would Joyce break again?

    1. Mkvenner

      maybe not?

    2. Amber

      Billie could use that moment to escape….

      …or laugh her @ss off! Oh, wait, no, that’d be me laughing. ^_^

  7. Croaxleigh

    Now there’s a print that Willis could make some money off of. 😉

    1. Croaxleigh

      Why does that seem more disturbing with my new avatar than back when I had Sal?

      1. dchorror

        Cause you’re smiling instead of grimacing.

  8. iSaidCandleja-

    …and she’s back into the closet.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      now with re-enforced dead-locks.

      1. Mkvenner

        And a deadlock seal.’

        …You know just in case someone has a sonic screwdriver on them.

        1. Null Set

          She has the sonic screwdriver in there with her. It can get lonely all alone in the closet.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          WOW, the sonic screwdriver really CAN do anything, including Rule 36.

        3. The Doctor

          That’s Rule 34

        4. The Doctor

          Ceiling monkey is watching you.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          A sonic screwdriver as a character works as Rule 34, pictures of people ‘getting their rocks off’ with sonic screwdrivers is Rule 36.

        6. The Doctor

          rule 34 is general naughty material, rule 36 is a rule that changes depending on what list you are looking at. The only rules that are set in stone are 1, 2, 34, and 35. as far as i’m aware.

        7. Mkvenner

          Rule 36 is:

          If it exists, someone has a fetish for it. No exceptions

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          What Mkvenner just said.

        9. Aizat

          And a barricade. Just in case if someone managed to open the deadlock seal and the deadlock.

        10. Mkvenner

          Well anything can be overcome with right amount and placement of plastic explosive.

        11. Redpossum

          Well, with proper tamping, yes.

      2. Dedlok

        But let’s say that Deadlock just happens to not want to stay closed. 😀

        And yes, I simply had to post because the word deadlock was used. 😀

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          😛 😛 😛

  9. Jetpack Monkey

    And Billie passes Dorothy in the tag count!

    I am way too obsessed with this “race.”

    1. Thor

      And still the cartoonist has not updated the title graphic! WHY HAVEN’T YOU UPDATED THE GRAPHIC, WILLIS!? YOU MUST INSTANTLY SUBMIT TO MY PSEUDO-ANONYMOUS DEMANDS!!!

      1. Aizat

        Relax, man. It’s just the title graphic. No need to bring torches and pitchforks.

        1. Badass Toph

          Aww but it’s fun watching them get worked up over nothing.

        2. Leesai

          Yet.

        3. Thor

          It also could be that Willis is biding his time.

          Two more appearances and Billie pulls even with Joe.

  10. Aizat

    Shower buddies? Man, Joyce is sure subtle.

  11. taekwondogirl

    Oh Joyce, you’ll be ready for your Gender Studies pre-req in no time.

    1. Mkvenner

      😀 🙂 😀

      1. John

        The avatar adds so much to this.

        1. John

          Oh, hey, and I’m not Walky anymore, which just makes it even better.

        2. taekwondogirl

          Hahaha, agreed!

  12. Brendan

    Joyce… WHAT.

    No. No level of naïveté can explain that. That’s a Freudian slip right there.

    DoA Joyce is gayer than DoA Ethan.

    1. Mkvenner

      That’s a possibility.

    2. MM

      So…you’re saying that deep down, Joyce wants to be “shower buddies” with her family? I’ll admit that would be Freudian, but…

      1. dchorror

        I don’t think that was brought up…

        1. MM

          Second panel, last sentence.

        2. dchorror

          I meant the combination of the thoughts.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          “Maw and Paw were brotha ‘n’ sista, didn’t ‘fect me none.”

        4. Ancestral Hamster

          “Son, if she ain’t good enough for her own kin, she ain’t good enough for you!”

    3. Jackson

      Because DoA Ethan is straight, right?

      ::is shot::

  13. The Sound Defense

    I’ll be shower buddies with Joyce. Or Billie. Or both.

    1. dchorror

      Definitely Billie. Could even suffer Joyce for the opportunity.

    2. Mkvenner

      I’d prefer Ruth.

  14. Plasma Mongoose

    If I remember the last time Joyce had a shower, she put on about a dozen layers of clothes…could this be in fact…

    Anti-Joyce?

    1. Mkvenner

      You mean her Id.

    2. Thor

      That reminds me of a piece of fan-art I once saw that had Joyce and Anti-Joyce totally making out.

      Someone needs to update that with IW Joyce, Anti-Joyce, and DoA Joyce having some sort of three-way interaction.

  15. DeWeese07

    when Leslie said they we’re all in woman studies because they were all lesbians… she may have been on to something

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      There could be a Credit or even a Distinction grade for Joyce if she keeps it up.

      1. George

        And if she plays her cards right, a Religion column might show up in the newspaper soon…

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          But only if she adds Chest Windows to her clothing.

        2. Aizat

          Joyce would not do that, I think.

        3. DeWeese07

          anti-joyce would!

        4. Mkvenner

          Anti-joyce = Id.

        5. Skye

          I think you’re taking people to literal, Aizat.

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          True enough, but at the same time, it provides new ops for comedic material.

        7. Aizat

          I like taking people to literal. It made my life more interesting.

  16. Confuzor

    I can get behind the best-case scenario this line of thought implies!

  17. Vivvav

    Damn it Willis, I’m above this kind of temptation, but the rest of your fans are weak-minded fools!

  18. Ridureyu

    I became the only member of my family to always sleep in my day-clothes.

    Why?

    “What if somebody rings the doorbell and it’s early in the morning? You HAVE to be dressed so you can answer it!”

    1. John

      Nah. The way I figure it, someone rings my doorbell early in the morning, and I’m not expecting them and up and dressed already, it’s either a close friend or family, in which case who cares how I’m dressed, or it’s a missionary or petitioner or something that I don’t really want to talk to, and I find they go away a lot faster when I answer the door in my underwear.

      “Hi, have you heard the good… uh… um, your, uh, fly is… uh…”
      “Yeah, and?”
      “Uh, Jesus. Think about him. Bye.”

      1. Jackson

        This actually happened to my brother with some Jehovah’s Witnesses. Saturday morning, he’d just taken a shower and answered the door in bathrobe and boxers. They were exhibited roughly the same level of disconcertment as in your dialogue there. 🙂

  19. Daeva

    Oh God…insert the voice of J.D. and Dr. Cox into the final panel. FanTAStic.

    They hopeful smoochey face Joyce is making when talks about being shower buddies. Just. Gah. XD

    1. MM

      Can’t unhear. Or unsee, for that matter. I don’t know why, but the idea of J.D. as Joyce is hilarious.

    2. Hypsie

      HAHAHHAHAHAH YESSSS! That just made this my favorite panel EVER.

  20. Plasma Mongoose

    This Joyce/Billie Ship must be the size of the Titanic, I’m half expecting an ‘iceberg’ to hit anytime now.

    1. dchorror

      The only thing that trumps it for me(which sadly doesn’t get many moments to be teased) is Billie/Walky.

      1. Kernanator

        Walky IS the iceberg. An iceberg covered in Nachitos.

        The analogy sort of breaks down at this point.

        1. dchorror

          It’s just a case of figuring out which side he’ll go for?

        2. Undrave

          But what a GLORIOUS analogy it is. So who is singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ in this analogy?

        3. dchorror

          Beef.

        4. Pagannerd

          I was going to say Dina, but your answer was better.

        5. Mkvenner

          Bovinae.

    2. Aizat

      Just hope that there’s no talking mice, rapping dogs or talking dolphins and magic moonbeams on this ship.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        You also seen the animated versions of Titanic or at least the NC reviews about them, I take it.

        1. Aizat

          Yes I do. Seriously, who in their right mind would change a tragic accident into a children’s movie with a nonsensical premise?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          The same sort of people who thought that Dante’s Divine Comedy would be an ideal subject for a children’s book.

        3. Kernanator

          And a video game.

        4. Aizat

          What’s next? A game about the Hindenburg disaster? I apologize if this is a tasteless joke.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          That or 9/11 The Musical.

  21. Stephen

    Shower buddies are the best kind of buddies!

    1. Kernanator

      It’s better than Sects Buddies.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        But sect buddies get to enjoy drinking refreshing Kool-Aid together. 😀

        1. Aizat

          No! Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!

        2. 1Samildanach

          Yeah, its for intravenous injection :P.

  22. NCP19

    Man, the last panel is a great Foxtrot style panel AND gives me…images…to…think of…

    Sorry, I drifted there…

  23. Kernanator

    “And if you convert to Christianity, we can also be Sects Buddies!”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      WATCH OUT BILLIE, IT’S A TRACT!

      1. Kernanator

        Talk about perfect timing…
        I’m all in favor of bringing up this meme for every time Joyce appears.

      2. Ancestral Hamster

        “Likes a tract.” 😀

  24. Undrave

    Geez I hate coming this late into the comment. Especially on such a great one… All the best jokes have already been made!

    DAMN YOU WILLIS AND YOUR SOFTBALL JOKES! DAMN YOU IN THE FAAAAAAACE!

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      Thats the type of joke I refer to as “low hanging fruit”.

      1. Kernanator

        Is making a “I have low hanging fruit with my penis” comment the appropriate response here?

        1. ADHadh

          In this universe, penis is always the appropriate response.
          (ignore avatar).

        2. iSaidCandleja-

          It would be if that comment invovled your mom.

        3. Kernanator

          I used my low hanging fruit to bang your mom. For a nickel.

        4. Undrave

          You guys are awesome hahahaha.

  25. Alix

    Joyce is so cute! Taking care of Billie like that. But the shower thing is a touch creepy.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Unless joyces dresses like this.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/shower/

    2. Shifty

      I dunno… the idea of waking up to find a random girl who Billie is not particularly fond of or at least friends with, bursting into her room uninvited to play “Motherly caregiver” comes off kinda creepy too.

  26. DT

    The shower thing feels a bit out of character considering a previous comic showed Joyce terrified of going to the bathroom with other girls. Fortunately, I’m not one to go insane over continuity in favor of enjoying a funny joke. 😀
    (long story short, “I lol’d”)

    1. MM

      Clearly dinner with Dorothy has worked wonders.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Which leads to this question: Did something happen with/between Joyce and Dotty?

        DRAMA BUTTON

        1. 1Samildanach

          Perhaps she made herself a shower-buddy last time she lathered up, and said buddy got her more comfortable with the situation?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          So if we ever see Dotty and/or Joyce blush when they spot each other, that would provide all the shipping fuel we need.

  27. ShifterComic

    Shower buddies.

    I… I must DRAW this.

    1. Kernanator

      DOO EET.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      I have FAAAAAAITH in you!

  28. 47

    “Shower buddies?” *snerk* Joyce clearly does not realize how homoerotic she sounds there.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Or Does She?

    2. Mkvenner

      Her Id does. 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀

  29. shoeboxjeddy

    When I slept on the upper bunk, I rarely jumped down like Billie’s doing there in panel 2. Sends a shock all the way up your knees. She’s a cheerleader though, guess she’s used to diving off of things… and into things (ba dum pish).

  30. carcinoGeneticist

    Man the decks, all ships are a-go!

    Poor, poor naive Joyce. If only she understood what horrendous things her words have caused.

  31. Malph

    That’s how I’d react to someone wanting to be my “Shower Buddy”.

    Of course, “shower buddy” means something completely different to men.

    1. Aydr

      No, I think it means just about the same thing either way. Just not if you’re Joyce.

      1. Malph

        Ok, maybe it’s not “completely” different. But there are some subtle (or possibly not so subtle) differences between the two.

        Great, now I’m starting to sound like a connoisseur of prison rape.

        1. gangler

          Are you?

        2. 1Samildanach

          Yet another case of an avatar adding that little something extra!

        3. Malph

          I think you have to have first-hand knowledge of something to be a connoisseur, so I’m not.

          It’s not exactly a field I wish to study.

  32. TemplarKnight

    Shower buddies.

    I dreamed this day would come.

  33. Stopa

    I’d be her shower buddy if you know what i mean

    1. Mkvenner

      🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀

  34. Skye

    This is the first time I have ever actually seen Billie’s Asian half.

    1. Mkvenner

      Asian half?

      1. Kernanator

        Is that like Two-Face? Or Two-Boob?

        1. Mkvenner

          Nock it off.

        2. Kernanator

          Why? That joke was made back around the last time Joyce was shown taking a shower.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        I believe she is refering to Billies eyes without the glasses.

        I must admit that, Willis’s drawing style aside, they do look kinda Asian, moreso in panel 4.

  35. Pat

    Billie, honey, violence is acceptable at this point. Really, it’s okay.

    1. Aizat

      Just make sure she’s breathing when you’re done.

      1. Mkvenner

        If you need tips just contact either Aubrey or Pee-Jee.

      2. Shifty

        Accoutring ot Family Guy if you beat someone with a sock of Valencia Oranges, it doesn’t leave a mark, but gets the lesson across of who’s boss. Billie could look into that.

  36. GuitarDudeSD

    All I take from this comic is Joyce and Billie being “Shower Buddies”

    1. Jackson

      No, Joyce! You’re encouraging the shippers!

  37. 1Samildanach

    Sounds like Joyce wants to ‘pop in’…

  38. nothri

    Warning: Billie/Joyce shippers with weak hearts may wish to skip this episode.

  39. NF

    These comments are the greatest comments ever. I want to hug them and squeeze them and name them George!

    1. Mkvenner

      Looney Toons are the bestest ever! 😀

      1. Kernanator

        “I will call them Squishy, and they will be mine, and they will be my Squishies.”

  40. Animal

    David. Limited print. David, are you listening? LIMITED PRINT. Even if it’s limited just to ME.

    1. Mkvenner

      100 quid a print.

  41. Cholisose

    Joyce’s face in the last panel scares me…

  42. Bill M.

    I know the “shower buddies” line is distracting me majorly, but did Joyce just channel Horschack in that last panel?

  43. Lis

    shower buddies are forever

  44. MacaroniPterodactyl

    Where is the fanfiction of this? I demand fanfiction of this.

    1. Kernanator

      I second the motion for JoycexBillie fanfiction!

      1. The Doctor

        All in favor say “Aye”
        Aye

        1. Mkvenner

          Aye-Aye!

        2. Mkvenner

          And why is the rum always gone. 🙁

        3. Aizat

          We had to make room for the jar of dirt.

      2. The Doctor

        got to follow roberts rules of order here

  45. Plasma Mongoose

    Am I the only one to imagine last panel Joyce thusting her hips as she says SHOWER BUDDIES?

    1. Kernanator

      Not anymore, you’re not.

    2. Aizat

      You had to do that, don’t you?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        But of cause I did. >:)

  46. Shifty

    Willis, you just LOVE to tantalize your fans with possible homoerotic shiping, huh? 🙂

    Sigh… again, I ask why does Joyce think that barging, uninvited into the bedroom of a perpetually angry and occasionally violent alcoholic is a good idea?

    To be honest, I’m impressed by Billie’s self-control. Were I her, I’d be going off on Joyce, essentially telling her to get the hell out. I mean, what Joyce is doing is really unexceptable as far as dorm etiquette goes. She was never given permission to come into the room whenever she wanted. Billie isn’t her sibling. She’s her neighbor. Those are not the same thing.

    1. Daeva

      At this point, I’m fairly certain Billie’s gone on auto-pilot. She’s been through so much shit for the past few days, the night before in particular, that Joyce is just the partially digested cherry on top of a massive, puke-frosted, bug-ridden shit cake.

      It might also help that, though so obviously tainted with her infuriating naivite, Joyce’s good intentions in doing this actually appeal to Billie in some small way, in that there’s at least one person who isn’t out to cause her distress intentionally. Doesn’t make it MUCH better, but compared to waking up in and sneaking out of the closet of the girl who is out for your figurative blood, it becomes somewhat bearable.

      1. gangler

        She hasn’t gone though [i]that[/i] much. I mean, let’s take a list. She’s been bullied by an authority figure, tripped over herself trying to figure out how to work with a peer twice, got turned down a job, swallowed her pride and got a job, and experienced mild rudeness from a neighbor. Also she slept terribly last night after some mild chemical abuse.

        Sounds like a pretty standard 4 days to me. Just dancing on the broadway that is life.

      2. Pat

        Wait, “figurative”?

        1. gangler

          pronounced “Buckets O-“

  47. Random832

    OH MY GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH HER MOUTH?

    1. gangler

      She’s a duck now. It’s cool. Don’t worry about it. Don’t say anything if you don’t wanna be offensive to the duckpeople.

    2. Aizat

      Reminds me of Doraemon for some reason.

  48. SgtNumnum

    Good natured naive characters.Sometimes I want to hug them, other times I want to strangle them.This is mostly the latter

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