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Self-conscious
Posted on March 6, 2014 by David M Willis

220 thoughts on “Self-conscious”

  1. Idon'tcarenomore

    hehe

    1. Jen Aside

      My guess is there’s a credit card company handing out free hoodie dresses…

      1. Led

        No, no, remember… Joyce dresses EVERYONE today 😀

        1. Jaxx Sentinel

          ASSIMILATE! ASSIMILATE!

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          We Are The Joyce
          Resistance Is Futile

        3. das-g

          Also, we’re legion.

        4. Nee Hou

          Resistance Is Useless!
          (When will the Vogons run into the Borg? It would be … EPIC!)

  2. Mr. Random

    It is a sea of JOYCES!

    1. Khantalas

      Among which, hopefully, Sarah will stick out like an island for Jacob, wandering in that sea, looking for safe harbor. :p

      1. saltchocolate

        ^ This. And it must be said, Sarah wouldn’t have been wearing a hoodie dress, even if she hadn’t put on the outfit Joyce got her.

      2. I don't know what to put here.

        Is he gonna dock with her?

        1. I don't know what to put here.

          I hope he doesn’t get cock-docked.

  3. Doctor_Who

    Looks like a cult started up on campus when no one was looking.

    1. Yotomoe

      ALL HAIL THE HOODIE DRESS.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        All we need now is the Ugg boots.

        1. saltchocolate

          They’re all on my campus.

        2. Lauren

          I think that’s preferable to art school: everyone in designer.

        3. MichaelHaneline

          At my art school half the people wore stuff they found in thrift store (the beginning of big Hipster… thing, I guess), and the other half wore whatever the fuck they didn’t care about getting paint and clay and ink all over.

        4. Betty Anne

          ^ This. We weren’t sure some of the art students ever changed their clothes – kind of a “Hipster Hipster” thing, I think. O.o

          But yeah – whatever it was, it usually had clay and/or paint and/or charcoal on it, so it was never very expensive.

        5. The kid

          O hoodie dress why art thou so comfy with yet look so good with my leggings

        6. Undrave

          That’s hilarious with your gravatar.

        7. BrokenTusk

          and size 6 strap ons

    2. newllend

      HOLY SHIT, Joyce is a natural Jim Jones, next thing you know she’ll be handing out cups of poisoned koolaid.

      1. AgentKeen

        Not poisoned, just spiked. She is Queen of the Drunks after all.

      2. Zap Rowsdower

        Flavor-Aid.

        1. Opus the Poet

          Yep, they were too cheap to buy the name brand drink mix, they went with the generic because the aftertaste would hide the drugs…

    3. Mystrana

      Haha, all of the similarly colored hoodie dresses made me think “cult” too! Sarah looks awesome!

  4. Khantalas

    Joyce dresses literally everyone, it seems.

  5. Pteropine

    What a rebel.

  6. arank11

    HOODIE DRESSES FOR EVERYBODYYYYY!!!

    1. Badeyes

      None for me thanks.
      ;^)

    2. TacosForever

      Aww, you beat me to it! But I’m glad we can join in this cause.

    3. Doctor_Who

      I haven’t the legs for it.

      1. Opus the Poet

        Aside from the hideous scars all over them I do have the legs for them. Especially in the summer when I shave them so the cuts from flying road trash are easier to treat… Riding a bicycle for transportation in Texas is a full-contact blood sport. In spite of the clothes it ain’t for sissies.

        1. Turbo Sexaphonic Delight

          Solution: leather bicycle chaps.

        2. Opus the Poet

          Someone made me a pair of those and leather on bare skin in 110F is a really bad combination. It doesn’t take much humidity at those temperatures combined with the exertion of riding a bike and the chaps moving on the legs to make pools of sweat and large areas of skin that are missing layers. And that was the only time I wore the chaps, the girl that made them took them and turned them into a domme costume.

        3. OldFart

          I admire your bravery, sir.

        4. Opus the Poet

          I don’t know how much of it is bravery and how much is brain damage from the first big wreck to be brutally honest.

    4. AHA

      Willis, for the next Kickstarter you should sell hoodie dresses. They could have the Dumbing of Age logo printed on them.

      1. Casey

        I would buy one. Or five.

  7. Michelle

    Well, hey – being the only one not dressed like a comfy Jawa will certainly help. Catch Jacob’s eye!

    1. Yotomoe

      Thank God, Sarah! I thought everyone had become some sort of bizzare Joyce clone!

    2. Baker

      Yeah after all, if everyone was dressed slinky it’s not like it would provide an edge.

  8. Idon'tcarenomore

    Letting Joyce dress you is not the smartest move no matter who you are. Although I’m surprised, it is not a sweater vest.

    1. nothri

      I think she looks cute!

  9. EvilPenguin

    I was about to ask if today was hoodie day.

    Then I remembered I always wear hoodies and every day is hoodie day.

    1. Yotomoe

      I never wear hoodies but I always wear a jacket.

  10. Wonder Wig

    I remember seeing the art with everyone walking toward the camera and thinking that Sarah seemed a bit odd in that outfit, which is the one she’s wearing now.

  11. timemonkey

    I think she looks really nice in it.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Yes, Joyce has picked a good look for Sarah (and I had to go read the tags to make sure I had the name right, I’m trash at remembering names).

      1. Kelly

        Remembering character names is usually easier for me than remembering real peoples’ names. Odd that.

        1. Pat

          Characters in fiction often have more easily distinguished names, since the same person named them all and did that on purpose.

        2. John

          Willis said once that the most unrealistic thing about his comics is that he only has one character named “Jennifer”.

        3. Opus the Poet

          And everyone calls her “Billie”. So zero in realistic terms.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          My theory was that when she was younger, Billie went to a school where there were a few Jennifers around, so she(or someone else) nicknamed her Billie and the name stuck.

        5. John

          I’ve kind of been assuming that the Walkyverse backstory for Billie and Walky’s nicknames holds in this universe, too. Except, y’know, with less Ruth and alien abductions.

          Though the preponderance of Jennifers is probably the reason, in both universes, that everyone calls her “Billie”.

    2. saltchocolate

      Yes — she’s rocking it. Let’s see if it actually works magic on Jacob, though…

  12. Kernanator

    Night of the Living Hoodie Dresses.

  13. TacosForever

    Oh my god, the dream is coming true!

    HOODIE DRESSES FOR EVERYONE

  14. Yotomoe

    Oh Sarah…sweetie….You’re in a David Willis comic.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Quick, kiss a girl! Then you’ll fit right in! 😀

      1. Wonder Wig

        Sha-la-la-la-la- don’t be scared

        1. AndromedaRage

          We got the mood prepared,
          Go on and kiss a girl

  15. Bunk

    They all have these blank stares… I think… I think they might all be robots guys.

    1. MM

      Robots don’t have blank stares. They assess you clinically, trying to figure out the best way to kill you. Or at least abandon you in the Amazon.

    2. Yotomoe

      Joyce Brown Models 24-B, 72-A and 459-D

      1. Gigafreak

        Is it too much to ask for a model 36-DD?

        1. Cragalanch

          Yes. Yes it is

  16. Tom Speelman

    Boy, you weren’t kidding when you said hoodie dresses for everyone, eh, Willis?

  17. David Herbert

    Must have been a sale at Target.

    Also, Joyce picked out a good outfit, I’d say.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Wassup with your web site dude? I keep getting a russian malware warning and a file attempts to download itself…

      1. Opus the Poet

        That’s the LWI web site not the Domain Tnemrot.

        1. David Herbert

          Just cleaned out the code, I think it’s something in the Project Wonderful ads. I’m asking them what’s going on.

  18. Giant Speck

    I’ve seen this outfit on her elsewhere but I can’t remember where. Was it Tumblr?

  19. LiaHansen

    Suddenly it doesn’t look so great anymore.

    1. Yotomoe

      The hoodie dresses or Sarah’s outfit?

      1. LiaHansen

        hoodie dress

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Many things don’t seem half as good when EVERYBODY does it.

  20. newllend

    Its funny how things can go “everybody is going to say something about what I’m wearing” too A”WHYNTHE FUCK HAS NOBODY NOTICED JET!?”

    1. newllend

      “Yet” the J and the Y are next to each other on my- never mind

    2. Maveric1984

      I had that happen to me when I started to wear contacts in high school. Nobody said anything. And since I never got used to putting them in or wearing them, I just said “forget it” and went back to wearing glasses.

  21. Plasma Mongoose

    A sea of juvenile delinquents…

    1. newllend

      That must be a really violent sea

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        In London, hoodies = juvenile delinquents so…

        1. newllend

          Didn’t we talk about that case on trayvon martin before, On this strip?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Not sure, I don’t recall…

        3. JustCheetoDust

          On a somewhat related note, I would like to see football hooliganism applied to American collegiate sports. (in this comic, not in real life)

        4. Belegcam

          It already exists in real life. Look up Harvey Updyke.

          It’s not likely to happen in this comic, though. Football isn’t a big thing at IU.

        5. JustCheetoDust

          I was well aware of the incident, I just managed to go two years without associating a name with it.

          Anyways, I meant the kind of hooliganism that results in police using riot gear.

        6. begbert2

          I think the reason you see less of that over here is guns guns guns. Cops carry them, which dissuades the crazies, and a proper American drunken mob would be shooting everyone in sight, which would summon serious reprisal, which dissuades the crazies.

          This is just a guess, mind; I haven’t studied the psychotic (non-American) football fan mindset in detail. Maybe American football is just less interesting than the foreign alternative.

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          So if the English had more guns, there would be less soccer riots?

        8. John

          We don’t have soccer riots here because no one gives a shit about soccer here.

          I’ve seen both basketball and baseball riots. Never witnessed a gridiron riot, but they probably have them in the parts of the country where people feel about it the way they do about basketball in North Carolina. (My sister is in an interfaith marriage. She’s a UNC fan; her husband is a Duke fan.)

  22. Detective Mury

    Huh I just realized she’s dressed like Sal…

    1. Yotomoe

      Joyce things Sal is the most beautiful girl in the world, and thus thinks that dressing Sarah as her will make her pretty.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        So will Joyce be playing with Sarah’s hair next then?

    2. newllend

      I dont see it.

      1. nothri

        yeah, me neither. Drop us a link to illustrate your point? Pretty please.

  23. Kell

    Joyce: Trendsetter of the year.

  24. Baker

    Joyce really did dress everyone today

  25. Stephen Bierce

    It’s like the old DOONESBURY storyline with Ginny & Joanie in law school. With Sarah in the Ginny role.

  26. MM

    The girl in the last panel who’s standing up looks a bit like a long-lost Walkerton triplet who got adopted by Joyce’s family and taught the ways of the triangle grin. I’m a little scared.

    1. Opus the Poet

      There is more than one mixed-race marriage in the state of Indiana you know.

  27. Jay Eff

    “That’s a lotta fish hoods.”

  28. Doctor_Who

    Sarah’s thinking “Man, I totally stand out. Everyone wore black dot eyes today except me.”

    1. AgentKeen

      “How many kids did the Walkertons have…”

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Scleras are sooo last season you know. 😛

    3. Yotomoe

      And clearly I didn’t get the memo that today is ponytail day.

    4. TBeckett

      It’s a sign of the hivemind! You cannot dress like a hoodie-wearer without BECOMING a hoodie-wearer!

  29. Cattleprod

    Just how big was the hoodie dress advertising blitz and sale that week? That’s some pretty impressive market saturation.

  30. DailyBrad

    On the bright side, she does look great. Sarah seems to do layers quite well.

  31. EvergreenFir

    Those don’t look like Ugg boots, tights, and a Northface coat…

  32. Navi

    Is it just me, or does one of the girls in the third panel look like Danny?

    1. Dude

      Just you.

  33. GoogerGeiger

    God damnit, Joyce.

  34. AgentKeen

    Well, he wasn’t lying. Everybody in a hoodie dress.

  35. nothri

    So if everyone dresses like Joyce is dressed does that mean that they are all….Re-Joycing?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Happy Happy Joyce Joyce!

      1. Flimsyfishy

        Well if you ain’t the grand daddy of hoodie dresses

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Were you referring to me or my grav?

    2. WaveRocker

      I’m sure they don’t SWEAT it

  36. March

    Sarah is now that One Girl in class who is actually dressed like a grown-up, that everyone else looks at with envy and something like fear.

    1. Maveric1984

      I still like wearing hoodies as a 30 year old man, but I feel slightly ridiculous wearing them in public anymore.

      1. Kelly

        As a 32 year old man, I feel fine wear my PA or Debian hoodies in public.

        1. Opus the Poet

          As a 55 YO man I still wear my Punisher hoodie in public when the weather dictates.

      2. March

        Dude, I’m a 24-year-old woman, and I am one of the masses, in a hoodie and jeans. Sarah has become my Feared Classmate, she of the Done Hair, and the Coordinated Outfit. Her notes have multiple highlighter colours, and each colour has a meaning.

        1. Zekiah2

          She has shown herself! The one who is prepared, the one who has embraced vanity! Surely she brings the four horse men!! APOCALYPSE, RAGNARÖK, THE END IS NIGH!!!!

        2. March

          People who show up for morning classes dressed nicely with all their supplies just intimidate me.

          I doubt even the Apocalypse could make a decently-dressed me.

    2. Pinja

      That’s your idea of grown up clothes?

      Because that is my idea of clubbing outfits.

      1. nothri

        You mean like this kind of clubbing? http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/oldtestament/

        1. Pinja

          That’s a bat you knob, not a club.

          They’re totally different.

      2. March

        Going to have disagree with you on that. That looks like pretty typical day wear to me. Well, for people who actually try when they go out in the world.

  37. Alex Stritar

    Everyone must’ve been on the same brainwave or something. I never even knew hoodie dresses were a thing before.

    1. March

      It’s usually just an oversized hoodie over leggings/jeggings.

  38. Super Duper

    Who weres short shorts? Sarah were’s short shorts.

    1. Opus the Poet

      She’s a lycanshort?

      1. Opus the Poet

        Wereshorts turn into people when they aren’t shorts?

  39. themaskedpixie

    well sarah and sal.

  40. BloodPlum

    The problem with this, it’s %100 true. Because in college, girl cliques go shopping together, and they ALL get the same outfits only in different colors. Like a living collection of Bratz dolls. My sister really hates it cause she wears something different and people look at her weird (and like call her a hipster, which she hates too).

    1. MM

      …Where does your sister go to college that there are girl cliques? Besides sororities, I mean.

      1. BloodPlum

        Georgia State University in Milledgeville, and honestly in all walks of life there are girl cliques. It’s unavoidable.

        1. timemonkey

          We never had those at school. There were groups of girl friends but they freely interacted with everyone else, never coordinated outfits and were very pleasant all around. Come college there weren’t even girl groups anymore.

        2. ChaoticCandy

          Not in my neck of the woods thank goodness. By the time we hit college we couldn’t care less.

    2. March

      Uh, dude, most college girls wander around in a hoodie and jeans or yoga pants. Or a hippie dress. When all your thoughts revolve around “OH GOD PLEASE LET ME UNDERSTAND THIS MATERIAL” clothes kind of just become that thing you put on to pass in public. Bras become optional, because hoodies are thick in material, and your back already hurts from sitting over a laptop/book all day.

      People are probably looking at your sister because they’re thinking “Oh gawd, she’s dressed all cute, and her make-up is done. I look like shit. She probably thinks I’m some lazy-ass brat. Fuck. How early does she get up to get all that done?”

      1. Marisa Mockery

        Or “how the fuck can she afford those clothes?!” That was a common thought in my head. I felt happy when I could buy a new t-shirt.

        1. March

          That too, though, for reference, consignment shops are your friend. Also, you can get sign-ups from shops like Target and Old Navy telling you when stuff is on sale, where you can score stuff on the cheap. Usually when the seasons are changing. They send you coupons too. The e-mails can be annoying, but every now and then they send you something useful.

      2. WaveRocker

        I can’t stand yoga pants. Apparently (like Uggs) they’re very comfortable, but I can’t get over how bad they look. especially with those awful riding boots

        1. March

          I know they don’t look great, but goddamn, my ass and waist are comfortable, and if my hoodie is long enough, I look decent. ‘Sides, I’m here to learn, not be pretty. I’ll be pretty later, when I have a grown-up job.

      3. BloodPlum

        Knowing my sister, around six am, after she’s killed her alarm clock. She sleeps like a bear, but she gets up early cause she always overclocks like everything. As for affording clothes, she just wears the same clothes she had in high school, which is a mash up of clothing actually bought for her, and clothing she’s stolen from my other five sisters (I never fit their clothing or liked their style so I never touched there stuff) and occasionally discount online funny shirts I send her from six dollar t-shirts.

    3. Marisa Mockery

      ……..This never happened to me. Then again, I went to a very large state school, so….

  41. Beige

    …clones o.0 an army of clones

  42. Fuzzydaemon

    Poor Sarah. She is so cute. Jacob, notice her.

    1. Doctor_Who

      He’s too busy showing off his new hoodie dress.

      1. JustCheetoDust

        Hoodie dashiki?

      2. Super Duper

        Hoodie Kilt

      3. Marisa Mockery

        Why isn’t this facebook so I can like this comment? XD

        1. Opus the Poet

          Because FB is the spawn of Satan and devours your soul, and we don’t cotten to any soulless around here. One Blaine is more than enough thankewverramuch.

  43. timemonkey

    I could never wear hoodies. They make my neck sweat too much. Drives me insane.

    1. Bill

      I don’t wear them either.  I don’t like the way they cut off my peripheral vision.

      1. John

        You don’t have to put the hood up.

      2. Bill

        But if you’re not going to put the hood up at one time or another, why buy it in the first place?

        1. John

          You don’t have to not put the hood up, either. It’s an option. It can go up or down as required. Like a convertible.

          Out in the rain, hood up. Come inside where it’s dry, hood down. Shoveling snow and you want to keep your ears warm, hood up. Working on the ice ridge the plow left at the end of the driveway and you want your peripheral vision to watch for traffic, hood down.

          Also, the hood looks better than just a round neck hole.

  44. newllend

    Man everybody is copying Billies style, not cool.

  45. Huttj

    …did Joyce dress everyone to make Sara stand out more to catch Joe’s attention?

    1. timemonkey

      Jacob’s attention. Sarah and Joyce are firmly anti-Joe attention.

      1. Huttj

        you know, that’s what I meant, and I even double-checked the tag, just brainfarted while typing.

  46. moby

    And Sal

  47. Darwin

    <3 Sarah.

    1. WaveRocker

      Narcissism much? Geez, some people

  48. eff this my name is S.A.L.

    She looks like a TDI competitor…. *cannot unsee*

    1. Opus the Poet

      Volkswagen Jetta TDI Racing Series?

      1. eff this my name is S.A.L.

        Total Drama Island

  49. Ben

    It is clearly the beginning of hoddie-dress-mageddon.

    1. Super Duper

      We could have prevented it. Now, it is too late. Far too late…

    2. The Candyman

      No one wanted to believe, believe they even existed..

  50. Double M

    Am I alone in thinking that Sarah looks hot right now?

    1. WaveRocker

      That was her intention (regarding your Gravatar)

    2. sumolegend

      NOPE.

    3. Megatron

      All you fleshlings look alike to me.

  51. Kennerly

    So what class is this that has no guys in it?

    1. Jen Aside

      Hoodie Dresses 101

  52. WaveRocker

    WILLSI
    Why is this a thing?

  53. Deathjavu

    Oh Sarah. Being better dressed than everyone else is a perfect way to get Jacob’s attention.

  54. Regalli

    All hoodie dresses, ponytails and triangle smiles. All the time.

    ALL SHALL BE JOYCE.

  55. Kevin

    Yeah Sarah, cuz the best way to attract the attention of someone is to blend in with the crowd.

  56. TrueVCU

    Makeover Stage 1: COMPLETE

  57. Chris Phoenix

    I came across a photo of a real-life Dina, apparently doing a velociraptor impression – in something that might be a hoodie dress!
    http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/872/5650/original.jpg

    1. Zekiah2

      That image met and obliterated every expectation I had. Thank you.

    2. Red Robot

      That lovely dino-hoodie immediately brought this to my mind:
      http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/menace.html
      Now I wonder if a raptor costume would have a similar effect on Dina.

  58. Pinja

    That seems like a pretty revealing outfit to be picked by Joyce.

    Also kind of spoiled by the ugly headscarf thing

  59. Arturo

    Wow, that halter-top is actually pretty hot. Definitely a summer look though.

    1. Opus the Poet

      That’s a spaghetti-strap top, not a halter top. Two straps over the shoulder instead of one strap around the neck.

  60. The kid

    I am just noticing how tall Sarah is…

  61. Gargamel

    I’d say this (assuming it is a negative reaction) has more to do with Sarah being tall rather than having her own style.

  62. Nono

    The real question:

    Will Jacob be in a hoodie dress?

    1. Farmer_10

      EVERYONE!

    2. hof1991

      I want Dina in a dino-hoodie. Cute but dangerous.

      1. Alex Stritar

        I think I’ve actually seen those before.

        1. Opus the Poet

          See the picture of “Dina” up thread.

  63. hof1991

    Like Sarah needs to feel more isolated. Older and more mature than her dorm mates, who all seem like kids to her. Active enemies from her first year. Tall. She definitely needs someone like Jacob who she might consider an equal. Almost said peer, but I know how dirty all your minds are.

  64. jbear

    AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT DOES NOT KNOW HOODIE-DRESSES?

  65. davidbreslin101

    Joyce picked those shorts? JOYCE!!!!!?????
    (Maybe she was thinking very, very hard about what a pagan would wear to get laid.)

  66. dropded

    We Need A New Poll!!

  67. KingStarscream

    Wait, that last panel: when did Walkie become a chick?

    1. Doctor_Who

      Dorothy wears the pants in their relationship. Therefore, he must wear the hoodie-dress.

    2. John

      November 16th, 2003.

  68. David

    Now let’s hope Jacob is not a hoodlum.

  69. Daibhid C

    A couple of the girls in panel 3 could conceivably be thinking “She’s not wearing a hoodie dress! What’s up with that?” By panel 4, as Sarah attempts to disappear into the wall in embarassment, it’s very apparent that no-one cares what she’s wearing.

  70. Bill

    Willis must be getting lazy.  No tags for the ancillary characters.

    1. ninja_jesus

      <_< Surely you meant "auxiliary"?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        ancillary: pronounced (anˈsɪləri)
        meaning:providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, system, etc. “ancillary staff”

  71. Twirls

    I am confused by Sarah’s outfit.
    I am also confused by hoodie dresses.
    But damn, Sarah has nice legs.

  72. Ikaru

    I love Sarah’s outfit. <3 I love the reversed layers look. I wear stuff like that too….now even. A sundress over a long sleeved shirt. And a vest over all of it. <3

  73. Roborat

    The page made me laugh, then after I had read my other webcomics for the day, I had to come back and laugh again. That is a rare thing. Kudos Sir Willis.

    Sarah looks good in that outfit, Joyce has a good eye. That last panel looks like an ewok invasion. At first glance, I thought that was Walky in the last panel.

  74. Arias01

    *Whistle* *Whistle*

  75. Cragalanch

    Joyce in triplicate

  76. Doc Harleen

    WHAT IS HAPPENING.

  77. Prior Semblance

    So either way she would have been dressing different from everyone else

  78. peachkid4

    Damn you WILLIIIIIIIS!!!!!!
    I really want a hoodie dress, cannot find one in any stores around me (or even amazon) and you just keep throwing it’s awesomeness in my face! IN MY FACE, YOU BASTARD!!!!!

    On another note, dayum, Joyce knows how to sexy dress other people!

  79. OmegaDez

    What’s with the hoodie thing? XD

  80. DarkoNeko

    Don’t mind them, Sarah, you look gorgeous.

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