It’s a touch more than just being naïve. Naïve is Joyce not knowing calling her roommate a novelty for being black; trying to reunite two people who drive each other mad is flat-out denial.
Yeah, the last thing I need is for my toxic mother to get back together with my drug addicted pi-polar father. They’re both great people, but they drove eachother to actions neither would normally ever do. Quite frankly if it wasn’t for their religion the marriage wouldn’t have lasted a year, let alone the twenty that it did.
Literally the moment they separated mom’s behavior toned down to casual condescension and Dad’s been clean and consistently taking his medication for five years. They were about as terrible a match as any could be.
Joebo
pi-polar? he has 3.1415926… different moods? That must get confusing.
As someone whose parents didn’t get divorced until he was 19 and was thus forced to live with them fighting constantly until then. And then STILL had to deal with them fighting as two people who just hate each other and live in the same house (because my family wasn’t dysfunctional enough as it was) for 4 more months, I have to agree with Joe here.
He did destroy it, in It’s Walky, many years ago. But this story takes place in a world where that never happened. So it makes sense she’s back to her old naive self.
True, I learnt the flute. Wasn’t actually given a choice, they just one day sent me home with a note saying “We’re teaching your son the flute, so pay us for instrument rental.”
For some reason bass violin strikes me the same way as bass flute. You know they’re real and out there somewhere, but the concept just seems wrong.
Andy
And that was totally not meant to go there.
Bickendan
I see bass violin and I think upright/double bass.
It is a very manly instrument. I can very much see Joe playing double bass.
Hoop
Silly readers. You think Joe is actually cool, instead of being a giant dork engineer who pretends to be a cool fratboy type.
Of COURSE he plays the violin.
Wack'd
Willis has said he doesn’t know about Joe being a closet nerd in the DOA verse.
inafets113
There is actually not such a thing as a bass violin. Unless Joe is referring to a musical instrument from the renaissance, which is highly unlikely, but would also be by far the geekiest kind of musical instrument you can play. My guess is that he is referring to a viola. Or that Willis is making something up.
Saxophone is the coolest instrument you can learn in school. Which I played.
Rognik
I’m with you there on the sax.
However, I think playing drums is about the “coolest” instruments schools would allow. Even then, percussionists generally have to learn to play dorky instruments, too, like the glockenspiel.
PIZZA PROTECTION PROGRAM…. 12$
if you buy one, and your pizza is wrong, it will only cost you 5$ to have it fixed instead of the price of a whole new pizza.
I hate that this is my first time ever commenting on a Willis comic, but:
Do you mean “bass violin” as in the Renaissance-era precursor to the cello, or do you mean the modern-day double bass?
If it’s the former, which I’d be very interested in seeing a high school orchestra who was performing on period instruments (I can’t imagine what the rental on such an instrument would be); or the latter, for which I’m surprised Joe would use such an archaic nickname?
I can picture him playing double bass, for what it’s worth. He’d do well in a jazz trio.
I was wondering that. Out of curiosity, what did they call a cello? Or viola for that matter
Slyness
I’d be willing to bet still ‘cello’ and ‘viola’.
In my town, they were just basses. If we had to go further we’d usually fall back on ‘non-electric bass’ or ‘bass violin’. But then my town’s junior high and high schools had really active (and popular) jazz bands, so it’s also bizarre to me that the bass could be considered an uncool instrument in the first place.
112 thoughts on “Divorce”
addude
I could see Joe playing Bass Guitar but not violin for some reason
Rogue of Space
I could see a double bass.
Or I could be Billie and see double. Either one.
Koolaid Guy
Or you could be roxy and make double/still see double.
arjay2813
Galasso’s =D
joyce has selective hearing/memory it seems
Jen Aside
It’s called “being naïve”
arjay2813
i was trying to point that out, i just couldn’t think of the word (thanks)
Shift
I’m not sure it’s Naive, or just actively refusing to live in the real world.
mobyfoo
Let’s face it, college is next door to the real world, and she’s actively refusing to live there, even.
Pat
Why would you want to live in the real world if you have another option?
It’s scary!
omegaultima
what’s scary is how well your avatar and what you said fit
Rognik
It’s a touch more than just being naïve. Naïve is Joyce not knowing calling her roommate a novelty for being black; trying to reunite two people who drive each other mad is flat-out denial.
TheAlucinaut
Wow, this is actually very sweet, & a bit sad. Love the sudden emotion in those middle panels.
This is strip really is something.
Alice Macher
A bit of pathos from Joe in the third panel. Unexpected. Like it.
Coppermouth
Galasso’s Pizza…what.
David Herbert
Oh God, I hope he’s just as insane as a pizza shop owner.
Alechsa
I hope he IS! <3 and that their server is Faz!!!
creativerealms
Yes and yes to Faz. Maybe Ninja Rick too cutting up pizza with a Katana blade.
Scotty Van
Apparently, Mother Bear’s has been bought by Galasso in this universe, since it has the same coloration.
Also…as a child of divorced parents, I REALLY identify with Joe here. Joyce’s naivete hits me.
arjay2813
my mom divorced her 1st husband and married my dad, so i’m a product of divorce, so you can probably tell i’m w/you on that
gangler
Yeah, the last thing I need is for my toxic mother to get back together with my drug addicted pi-polar father. They’re both great people, but they drove eachother to actions neither would normally ever do. Quite frankly if it wasn’t for their religion the marriage wouldn’t have lasted a year, let alone the twenty that it did.
Literally the moment they separated mom’s behavior toned down to casual condescension and Dad’s been clean and consistently taking his medication for five years. They were about as terrible a match as any could be.
Joebo
pi-polar? he has 3.1415926… different moods? That must get confusing.
Malph
As someone whose parents didn’t get divorced until he was 19 and was thus forced to live with them fighting constantly until then. And then STILL had to deal with them fighting as two people who just hate each other and live in the same house (because my family wasn’t dysfunctional enough as it was) for 4 more months, I have to agree with Joe here.
Ripps
So…
How many years is it going to take before Willis destroys this Joyce’s closed-minded world view. Her inability to see the real world is kinda sad.
George
She’s out with Mike and Joe. One way or another, she’s seeing the real world tonight.
Shift
I dunno… her ability to reside in her own little world, seems pretty sturdy…
Bill M.
She rejects our reality and substitutes her own.
James
In the original Walkyverse (Walkyverse Prime?) it took a clone embodiment of every negative impulse she’d been repressing to tear down her world view.
DoA!Joyce might take a while.
inafets113
He did destroy it, in It’s Walky, many years ago. But this story takes place in a world where that never happened. So it makes sense she’s back to her old naive self.
Fyre
hence why Ripps said “this” Joyce
inafets113
oh whoops…my bad
Wackd
Bass violin? Really? I always pictured him playing something more..chick-magnety. Maybe a guitar or something.
Also, I quite like how this is playing out. In Roomies!, Joe found Joyce irritating right off the bat. Here he’s catching on slowly.
David
Joe learned bass violin in high school orchestra. You don’t get to play a cool instrument in school.
JK9000
That can’t be right. My mom assured me the clarinet is the coolest instrument in the universe.
Bickendan
It is. Especially the two contras.
David Herbert
True, I learnt the flute. Wasn’t actually given a choice, they just one day sent me home with a note saying “We’re teaching your son the flute, so pay us for instrument rental.”
Andy
For some reason bass violin strikes me the same way as bass flute. You know they’re real and out there somewhere, but the concept just seems wrong.
Andy
And that was totally not meant to go there.
Bickendan
I see bass violin and I think upright/double bass.
It is a very manly instrument. I can very much see Joe playing double bass.
Hoop
Silly readers. You think Joe is actually cool, instead of being a giant dork engineer who pretends to be a cool fratboy type.
Of COURSE he plays the violin.
Wack'd
Willis has said he doesn’t know about Joe being a closet nerd in the DOA verse.
inafets113
There is actually not such a thing as a bass violin. Unless Joe is referring to a musical instrument from the renaissance, which is highly unlikely, but would also be by far the geekiest kind of musical instrument you can play. My guess is that he is referring to a viola. Or that Willis is making something up.
Trae Dorn
Bass Violin is a really common name for a Double Bass.
Herbert
The Bass Violin is just another name for String Bass or Double Bass. And it is one of the coolest instruments ever.
Of course I’m a bit biased because I’ve played that and tuba for 12 years now…
Ozzmandius
People played an electric guitar at my school!
That was also with the Jazz Band though.
There was also Cow Bell.
Zehnoda
Saxophone is the coolest instrument you can learn in school. Which I played.
Rognik
I’m with you there on the sax.
However, I think playing drums is about the “coolest” instruments schools would allow. Even then, percussionists generally have to learn to play dorky instruments, too, like the glockenspiel.
Kernanator
No no no, TRUMPET is the coolest instrument. We can hit high notes like nobody’s business!
Izzy
Watch me go third position on
joycemy violin and I’ll show you high notestom
Wait. You didn’t just say that the bass is uncool, did you? Because Mingus is the fucking MAN and you’re going to take it back.
NF
Run Joe, run…
Also, I can’t wait to see how Galasso runs a pizza place to extort the most money from his customers.
Cassidy
PIZZA PROTECTION PROGRAM…. 12$
if you buy one, and your pizza is wrong, it will only cost you 5$ to have it fixed instead of the price of a whole new pizza.
Galasso
You’re hired!
MM
Wow. I’m guessing most of Joe’s dates never learn that particular bit of trivia. Good work, Joyce…I guess?
Dierna
Galasso’s Pizza? Is this where Faz works?
Snail
Oh, FAZ. Do you think he’s still [SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER] in this universe, or is his origin going to be completely different?
NF
We don’t even know if [SPOILER] is [SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER] in this universe yet, but I very much doubt Faz’s [SPOILER] is a space pirate.
Also [SPOILER] are ungulates, and despite the [SPOILER] of their neck, have the same number of [SPOILER] as humans.
Rognik
But what about [SPOILERSAPLENTY]? I mean, Dexter [MORESPOILERS], and that’s not even getting into the weird stuff.
PleasingFungus
Joe’s eyes seem to have reached escape velocity in the last panel.
Krominof
Sadly, Joyce’s view of things is very similar to a great deal of people whom I recently graduated college with.
TheSoundDefense
I think Joyce is going to end up completely broken at the end of this. Then again, you could say she’s pretty broken already.
Penthesilea
Aww, Joe! Joyce looks so horrified by the idea of yelling (before she promptly resumes Parent Trap mode).
DTComposer
I hate that this is my first time ever commenting on a Willis comic, but:
Do you mean “bass violin” as in the Renaissance-era precursor to the cello, or do you mean the modern-day double bass?
If it’s the former, which I’d be very interested in seeing a high school orchestra who was performing on period instruments (I can’t imagine what the rental on such an instrument would be); or the latter, for which I’m surprised Joe would use such an archaic nickname?
I can picture him playing double bass, for what it’s worth. He’d do well in a jazz trio.
David
They used this “archaic nickname” pretty exclusively in the town Joe grew up in. I would know. 🙂
LiamKav
I was wondering that. Out of curiosity, what did they call a cello? Or viola for that matter
Slyness
I’d be willing to bet still ‘cello’ and ‘viola’.
In my town, they were just basses. If we had to go further we’d usually fall back on ‘non-electric bass’ or ‘bass violin’. But then my town’s junior high and high schools had really active (and popular) jazz bands, so it’s also bizarre to me that the bass could be considered an uncool instrument in the first place.
inafets113
I was wondering that too. In my highschool one of my friends starting everyone calling my cello a “battle violin” because of the sharp endpin.
Guitar Dude From SD
Galasso’s Pizza?
Awesome
Socks
joyce’s puppy dog face makes me so sad XD then she totally gets over it in like the next 2 panels lol
Sporkaganza
Was not expecting Joe to… well, know an instrument at all, but especially not that. Interesting
dchorror
Wall of Teeth.
I sympathize with Joe, they yell a lot is a completely reasonable reason not to want your parents to get back together.
begbert2