Too bad it’s going to be decades in our timeline until They’re Roommates? hits its stride and starts plotlines involving the Venusians led by Sinister, and the secret government organization tasked with stopping them.
No, the Venusians are a third faction entirely, opposed to both the Extraterrestrials led by Sinister/the Lead Extraterrestrial, and the secretive government organization.
Real question: what will Jaime think of Raidah? He’s been smiling this whole time and wouldn’t it be interesting if he burst into tears when she tries to tickle him.
BBCC
Again, not terrible in theory, but this storyline has soured me on the possibility. I’m not down for Jacob’s family to prefer Joyce to Raidah.
Seregiel
Except Radiah has hinted she’s also with Jacob because of his brother, the legend and had plans to impress Harrison aka try too hard.. She’s disregarded Jacob’s age and also some of his interests. Both have same priorities though and no shame in that! Bonus points for her trying to be secure in the relationship though it kind of comes off as a superiority complex with how she interacts with her own friends. Normally I’d be totally with you on the hating Joyce more due to all of this… but from a different perspective – not sure someone dating my bro with hopes he becomes the next Legend is any better than latch on girl who genuinely likes him. And one wasn’t “worth writing home about” but Joyce was. Probably would take an interest in Joyce just because of that. Mind you we’ve only seen Radiah “the opposition” not Radiah the girl in pajamas. I’d bet on him telling Jacob he could do better than either… unless he sees Radiah The Opposition because Jacob never let Harrison know the girl in pajamas and she’s Really Trying.
thejeff
Well, he’s obviously mentioned the girlfriend too and you could argue that he only used Joyce’s name so Harrison could follow the news stories about the incident.
As for Raidah, while we haven’t seen that much of her, we have seen her hanging out with her friends and she’s worse then. And there are definite hints that she’s not being open with Jacob.
Seregiel
Yeah, I mentioned that part of Radiah. That still isn’t the same as seeing her and Jacob without peer posturing or with people she’s agitated with. Benefit of doubt that Jacob isn’t completely clueless as pizza thought bubbles might imply.
thejeff
We’ve seen her with her friends. We’ve seen her alone with Jacob – which was actually my high point for liking her. She talked about how she wasn’t like those jealous girls. Then as soon as she saw a threat from Joyce, she moved into attack mode – strongly hinting that her non-jealous talk wasn’t real.
And near as I can tell, Jacob is completely clueless – though affected by Joyce’s charm anyways.
Oh no, this is gonna be fucking great, story wise, I’m speaking from a ‘loving the characters’ point there. From the writing standpoint…yeah, bring it on.
thejeff
This hits the level of cringe I have trouble enjoying. Even from a “drama” standpoint.
In a comic (or a novel) I can handle it, but if it was a show I’d be turning it off.
Yeah, I didn’t think I would hope for things to go horribly wrong for Joyce, yet here we are. What in the world could she possibly be thinking? This is so fucked up.
What if the plot twit is that he never meets her during the visit so when he has a bunch of nice things to say about Jacob’s girlfriend it actually improves their relationship?
And Joyce doesn’t go with him to see Jacob and he never mentions the shooting part or anything else about her.
I really hate that kind of contrived rom-com plot.
timemonkey
Normally I would to, but this would backfire on Joyce’s lie so it’s all good!
I hope he doesn’t like Raidah. Whether or not this works out for Joyce being irrelevant, I don’t want Raidah to be rewarded for basically hooking up to Jacob just to get a chance to smarming up to Harrison. It’s entirely as political move on her behalf, and I think it’s pretty gross.
If Joyce actually comes clean about not being Jacob’s girlfriend before Harrison goes upstairs, I’ll let her off on this. One thing to lie in the heat of the moment when an opportunity presents (and with Joyce being as horny for Jacob as she is, I think everything is heated), it’s another one to let the lie stand for too long.
I don’t think that’s why Raidah is with Jacob, but if this doesn’t work out for Joyce, I can live with him disliking Raidah. I’m just already sick of the commentariot idea that Harrison and/or the rest of his family will like Joyce, dislike Raidah and this will lead to Joyce and Jacob.
thejeff
That I can whole-heartedly agree with. Plus, I don’t even see how it would work. Her pretending to be his girlfriend is just too huge a red flag to be overlooked. Not without serious hijinks intervening.
If she’d just introduced herself and they’d talked based on Jacob telling him more about her than his actual girlfriend or something, then I could see it happening.
Clif
But when Raidah introduces herself to Harrison, he assumes she is lying and that she’s the stalkerish one.
“That’s Winky” sounds like a “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend” kinda comic where at the end of each strip a young boy ends up starkers from the waist down.
Well, Harrison thinks that because that’s what Joyce just told him, and who would lie like that?
…Hm.
For Jacob’s part, it sounds like he hasn’t said much about Raidah. His mention of Joyce was in connection with a larger topic that he may or may not have been the one to bring up.
thejeff
Quite probably. I’d assume that basically every student on campus got calls from their family asking about the happy fun gun times incident. Only natural to mention you knew one of the people involved.
Nah, the ship was always a slow moving one with a few stops on the way.
thejeff
That’s what I like least about this Joyce/Jacob plot on the meta level. I actually like them together and think they’d make a fun couple, but this approach makes me not want them to get together and makes me think we will end up with Joyce/Joe instead – and I like that pairing a lot less.
Yeah – of those significantly involved with the campus shooting, only Joyce’s, Becky’s, Dina’s, and Ross’s names were known to the public (Amazi-Girl’s identity isn’t known, and Sal cleared out of there before the cops came for self-evident reasons).
145 thoughts on “Dish”
Ana Chronistic
It’s College!
a comic strip by Joyce Brown
starring Julia Gray and Blake Drake
Ana Chronistic
Happy Dumbiversaroomy
LeslieBean4shizzle
Happy WalkyandAgey?
Lokitsu
Congratulations on being a cartoonist for longer than some of your readers have been alive!
That’s a good thing, right?
Ana Chronistic
That’s probably less impressive if you’re an illustrator for children’s books
Jimi
Ah, yes, the polar opposite of pornlord.
Er, not that a children’s illustrator can’t also make porn on the side.
Needfuldoer
Too bad it’s going to be decades in our timeline until They’re Roommates? hits its stride and starts plotlines involving the Venusians led by Sinister, and the secret government organization tasked with stopping them.
King Daniel
No, the Venusians are a third faction entirely, opposed to both the Extraterrestrials led by Sinister/the Lead Extraterrestrial, and the secretive government organization.
Clif
Let the art flow through you, Joyce.
Yumi
Oh, yikes, Joyce is talking.
LeslieBean4shizzle
I know, right?
**gets some kernelless popcorn**
woobie
You mean ‘digging that hole deeper’.
Sunny
I’d say she’s tunneling at the moment. She’s not heading for the surface, however.
BBCC
I mean, yeah, that shooting made the news. I’m not surprised Jacob mentioned he was hanging out with the girl who punched the dickbag responsible.
I hope Harrison gets along this well with Raidah, because I really don’t want this working out for Joyce in ANY regard.
….This is probably going to get worse before it gets better.
Kyrik Michalowski
I know I shouldn’t be hoping for it, but I do actually hope he dislikes Raidah, though I don’t want Joyce to be rewarded for this either.
BBCC
I get wanting him to dislike Raidah because she can be pretty mean herself. For me, though, this storyline ruins that possibility.
Norah
He can think dislike both Joyce and Raidah.
BBCC
True enough.
AntJ
Real question: what will Jaime think of Raidah? He’s been smiling this whole time and wouldn’t it be interesting if he burst into tears when she tries to tickle him.
BBCC
Again, not terrible in theory, but this storyline has soured me on the possibility. I’m not down for Jacob’s family to prefer Joyce to Raidah.
Seregiel
Except Radiah has hinted she’s also with Jacob because of his brother, the legend and had plans to impress Harrison aka try too hard.. She’s disregarded Jacob’s age and also some of his interests. Both have same priorities though and no shame in that! Bonus points for her trying to be secure in the relationship though it kind of comes off as a superiority complex with how she interacts with her own friends. Normally I’d be totally with you on the hating Joyce more due to all of this… but from a different perspective – not sure someone dating my bro with hopes he becomes the next Legend is any better than latch on girl who genuinely likes him. And one wasn’t “worth writing home about” but Joyce was. Probably would take an interest in Joyce just because of that. Mind you we’ve only seen Radiah “the opposition” not Radiah the girl in pajamas. I’d bet on him telling Jacob he could do better than either… unless he sees Radiah The Opposition because Jacob never let Harrison know the girl in pajamas and she’s Really Trying.
thejeff
Well, he’s obviously mentioned the girlfriend too and you could argue that he only used Joyce’s name so Harrison could follow the news stories about the incident.
As for Raidah, while we haven’t seen that much of her, we have seen her hanging out with her friends and she’s worse then. And there are definite hints that she’s not being open with Jacob.
Seregiel
Yeah, I mentioned that part of Radiah. That still isn’t the same as seeing her and Jacob without peer posturing or with people she’s agitated with. Benefit of doubt that Jacob isn’t completely clueless as pizza thought bubbles might imply.
thejeff
We’ve seen her with her friends. We’ve seen her alone with Jacob – which was actually my high point for liking her. She talked about how she wasn’t like those jealous girls. Then as soon as she saw a threat from Joyce, she moved into attack mode – strongly hinting that her non-jealous talk wasn’t real.
And near as I can tell, Jacob is completely clueless – though affected by Joyce’s charm anyways.
Diner Kinetic
You say it’s going to get worse like a bad thing. Excuse me while I actively root for the firestorm of the millennia.
BBCC
Oh no, this is gonna be fucking great, story wise, I’m speaking from a ‘loving the characters’ point there. From the writing standpoint…yeah, bring it on.
thejeff
This hits the level of cringe I have trouble enjoying. Even from a “drama” standpoint.
In a comic (or a novel) I can handle it, but if it was a show I’d be turning it off.
w00t
Yeah, I didn’t think I would hope for things to go horribly wrong for Joyce, yet here we are. What in the world could she possibly be thinking? This is so fucked up.
BBCC
She’s thinking in pure rom com tropes now.
timemonkey
What if the plot twit is that he never meets her during the visit so when he has a bunch of nice things to say about Jacob’s girlfriend it actually improves their relationship?
thejeff
And Joyce doesn’t go with him to see Jacob and he never mentions the shooting part or anything else about her.
I really hate that kind of contrived rom-com plot.
timemonkey
Normally I would to, but this would backfire on Joyce’s lie so it’s all good!
Lexi
I hope he doesn’t like Raidah. Whether or not this works out for Joyce being irrelevant, I don’t want Raidah to be rewarded for basically hooking up to Jacob just to get a chance to smarming up to Harrison. It’s entirely as political move on her behalf, and I think it’s pretty gross.
If Joyce actually comes clean about not being Jacob’s girlfriend before Harrison goes upstairs, I’ll let her off on this. One thing to lie in the heat of the moment when an opportunity presents (and with Joyce being as horny for Jacob as she is, I think everything is heated), it’s another one to let the lie stand for too long.
BBCC
I don’t think that’s why Raidah is with Jacob, but if this doesn’t work out for Joyce, I can live with him disliking Raidah. I’m just already sick of the commentariot idea that Harrison and/or the rest of his family will like Joyce, dislike Raidah and this will lead to Joyce and Jacob.
thejeff
That I can whole-heartedly agree with. Plus, I don’t even see how it would work. Her pretending to be his girlfriend is just too huge a red flag to be overlooked. Not without serious hijinks intervening.
If she’d just introduced herself and they’d talked based on Jacob telling him more about her than his actual girlfriend or something, then I could see it happening.
Clif
But when Raidah introduces herself to Harrison, he assumes she is lying and that she’s the stalkerish one.
thejeff
And Jacob goes along with it?
Clif
Jacob isn’t there.
Kyrik Michalowski
Oh boy Joyce, you just keep digging yourself into this hole. We’ll be standing here pulling our hair out or eating popcorn, depending on the person.
Reltzik
Look, best of both worlds. Let’s throw popcorn at her so that the hole fills up with it and she can get out.
…. I think. …. I thought. …. okay, now I’m questioning whether the physics of that would work.
….
New plan: Let’s throw popcorn at her so the hole fills up…. FOR SCIENCE!
Diner Kinetic
Alternatively we’ll just get hair in our popcorn
Kat
Remember: If no one from the future has showed up to stop you yet, it can’t be that bad of an idea…
Doctor_Who
Ah yes, “Cohabitants” by Willard Davis. I much prefer his later work, like “That’s Winky” and “Understocked”.
ValdVin
“That’s Winky” sounds like a “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend” kinda comic where at the end of each strip a young boy ends up starkers from the waist down.
Doctor_Who
Don’t know how we got from here to Winsor McCay, but I guess as long as we’re acknowledging significant moments in cartoonist history it fits.
ValdVin
What DofA really needs is a brick-throwing mouse.
Clif
Walky can be a brick throwing mouse.
Koms
Occasionally he also makes a comic called That’s Kinky on a website Shipsline
Keulen
I heard he’s also doing an alternate universe comic with the same characters called “Smarting of Age”.
ValdVin
Jacob has mentioned Joyce by name to his brother, but not Raidah. Hmmm.
Bryy
To the point where, apparently, Harrison thinks Joyce is his girlfriend.
Or Jacob lied and said she was.
Either way, I do not like the implication of Harrison’s use of the word “nabbed”.
Yumi
Well, Harrison thinks that because that’s what Joyce just told him, and who would lie like that?
…Hm.
For Jacob’s part, it sounds like he hasn’t said much about Raidah. His mention of Joyce was in connection with a larger topic that he may or may not have been the one to bring up.
thejeff
Quite probably. I’d assume that basically every student on campus got calls from their family asking about the happy fun gun times incident. Only natural to mention you knew one of the people involved.
AntJ
The Joyce/Joe ship appears to be changing directions and sailing back to the harbor
timemonkey
Nah, the ship was always a slow moving one with a few stops on the way.
thejeff
That’s what I like least about this Joyce/Jacob plot on the meta level. I actually like them together and think they’d make a fun couple, but this approach makes me not want them to get together and makes me think we will end up with Joyce/Joe instead – and I like that pairing a lot less.
Norah
Because Joyce was involved in the Ross episode. Possibly Harrison mentioned it to Jacob, and Jacob said he knew the Joyce who was involved.
King Daniel
Yeah – of those significantly involved with the campus shooting, only Joyce’s, Becky’s, Dina’s, and Ross’s names were known to the public (Amazi-Girl’s identity isn’t known, and Sal cleared out of there before the cops came for self-evident reasons).
Nono
This storyline is full of bad.
Yumi
“Maybe it will at least be over quickly.” NOPE
AntJ
lol we’re only 24 strips in
there is a LOT of drama that has yet to go down
Kravis
Abed would be so excited!
Catullus
i said this yesterday, but it deserves saying again:
joyce noooo
StClair
oh, the meta.
pienapp1e
Happy Anniversary!
BiOnyx
Will all this ‘meta’ manifest a glitch in The Matrix?
Needfuldoer
Walkyverse Ultra-Car, Becky, Dina, and Galasso will appear through a rift in the background, continuing their search for an anti-Soggies device.
thejeff
Okay, that would be fun. We could see it mostly in the April Fools SP! strip and just a couple cameos in the background of whatever’s going in DoA.
AnvilPro