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Early update for July 31, 2025 (Patreon)

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2025-07-30 03:55:01
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2026-06

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C Bonesmith

I love how Joyce's hair rumpling is indicative of her emotional state. It's a good visual.

Sajuuk-Khar

God they’re so fucking stupid I love them so much

Omnithea

Ok. Polyamory cannot be more complicated than this bullshit.

Jay's Journey

It isn't, unless people get jealous or if people break relationship rules.

Jayne Lindgren

Willis' mutant power is to always know how to write the exact thing that will leave *everyone* at least a little mad.

Mariah

Dorothy is taking this much better than the comment section did.

KittyKai

JESUS CHRIST I LOVE THEM xD

Vivian

This is certainly one way for Dorothy to avoid Becky

Jayne Lindgren

Note: This is not a bad thing. I'm genuinely in awe. This must be what watching Mozart perform was like.

AE Gonzalez

“The next morning.” Yup, everyone’s gonna know before they wake up. Also: Sarah or not, they’re gonna fuck.

LupinThe8th

I like to think the actual polycule in the dorm is just, like, super chill and drama-free. They just noped out of angst like this entirely when they decided "Fuck it, we're ALL dating."

Maybeeus

Listen, a little sloppy with joe isn't gonna stop her from consummating this marriage.

Heatth

At least Dorothy reacted better then I expected? But, yeah, this is going to explode before they wake up, somehow.

Vivian

Also the fact that she just gave Joe head

Heatth

It is a work of art

Harold

Dorothy's talk of clocking out and clocking in has me picturing her and Joe exchanging pleasantries at the timeclock like the wolf and the sheepdog in the old Warner Brothers cartoons

Girlycore

Bets on Sarah staying at Tony's another night?

Girlycore

I'm not mad. I feel left out of the mad club :(

Vivian

The only time we've seen them wake up next to each other Joyce was laying on her back, but she was sandwiched between Dorothy and Walky — I'm curious what kind of compromising position they'll wake up in tomorrow

AE Gonzalez

Dorothy being surprisingly comfortable with this would hint at her being equally comfortable sharing Joyce. Dorothy loves Joyce, and if her happiness means occasionally fucking Joe, that’s fine.

MrShoggoth

Oh this just keeps getting worse and worse doesn’t it

Uniquitous

Just so long as she brushes her teeth before bed

Logibear

Ah yes, the metaphorical weight of Joe covering them as they spend the night together underneath the Lesbian Flag Blanket... gosh these two are goobers.

Harold

@LupinThe8th: Grace and Mandy came to IU as an established couple, I believe. I've always been curious about the backstory of how they approached Sierra and eventually became a polycule (one that does indeed appear to be entirely drama-free).

GundamBradley

I get why people, Joyce included, thought of it as cheating on Dorothy, but to be honest, I sorta looked at it the same way Dorothy did, just kind of placing myself in her shoes. The baton has not yet been passed.

5099 5618 v2.0

Horniness that concentrated is like gravity: bends light; distorts space and/or time.

5099 5618 v2.0

I suspect most Dark Souls bosses wouldn't be able to stop her, at this point.

Gale Tazzin

they're gonna scissor in their sleep

etherealDesign

"we have to sleep together normal style or else people will assume we're sleeping together sexual style" is pretty much how i assumed this arc would wrap up one way or another. was wrong about most of the rest of it though!

Logibear

The weighted blanket shall compress the horniness and make a cornucopia of horniness... A Hornucopia if you will

Sajuuk-Khar

That’s blowjob hair, my bone-smithing friend

Heatth

Frankly, between the horniness of being near each other without being "allowed" to do anything and the constant reminder from the weighted blanket of guilt, I doubt they will sleep well tonight.

Harold

@GundamBradley: The Olympic Polycule Relay

Dan Rabin

Dorothy has not been seen without her notebook since it first appeared. Notebook is to Dorothy as Amazi-Girl costume is to Amazi-Girl? In her effort to draft the perfect speech, Dorothy is forgetting that Ruth has long wanted to dump someone for her. I love the use of the blanket from Joe as the thing to share in bed, with four hands holding it up in the last panel. The quick association rest->together-in-bed->not-rest is also fun.

Dan Rabin

Possibly likewise for Joe loving Joyce and being solicitous of her happiness.

5099 5618 v2.0

"Sarah was not there, reader." (/Narrator)

David M Willis

Nah, Grace and Mandy didn't meet each other until being roommates. Then after some unspecified drama behind-the-panels, realized they were in Joyrothy with each other. And then also Sierra, why not.

5099 5618 v2.0

"Let me tell you something, my friend. [Horniness] is a dangerous thing. [Horniness] can drive a man insane." (/Shawshank Redemption)

tifani

Ok they need to STOP. This isn’t funny or charming or romantic. Sarah doesn’t deserve to be put in a position like this where she’s being used as a buffer who is absolutely smart enough to figure out what’s going on. And then what? She has to be invited into drama she never asked for. Stop making things worse!

Logibear

Alright, who would be the funniest person to see them shuffling awkwardly along towards Joyce's room?

Heatth

The more they delay the talk the more scummy they will seem when the truth come to light. And I remember again that Walky (and Jeniffer) "knows" Joyce and Dorothy already slept together a week ago, which might be taken as the actual start of the affair. Like Walky initially dismissed the information as Joyce wishful thinking, but I am sure it will look more credible *now*. And if they already hid the relationship for a day it is not a big leap to think they have been hiding for longer.

5099 5618 v2.0

And before someone beats me to it: "Get busy [***in'] or get busy dyin'."

tifani

I’m thinking about Walky now who already has reason to be suspicious of Dorothy based on what Billie said and Dorothy’s own weird behavior. Also do any of Amazi girl’s memories carry over to Amber? Could Amber know about the kiss?

Railway Series Book Club

imagine the news outs these two tomorrow with a kiss pic and ruth immediately runs to find walky so she can cash in what dorothy owes her

Megh

AG and Amber seem to be on good terms at the moment They were literally talking to each other when Joe and Joyce were at the gazebo at the start of this storyline So I'd be very surprised if Amber isn't aware of the kiss

Railway Series Book Club

"in order to avoid suspicion of being gay for each other, we have to keep doing shit that people were calling us gay for in the first place!" "foolproof!!!" i love these two so much

tifani

They’re already pretty scummy but Dorothy’s behavior towards Walky is bothering me the most right now.

Heatth

I mean, I respect more than giving a bj to Joe with the intention to dumping him tomorrow, tbh. Naked cowardice seems better than deception to me. But, yeah, they are already pretty scummy, and the more they wait the more scummy it becomes while also leaving door open for it seeming even more scummy than it actually is. It become more of a mess, is what I am saying.

Megh

My wife doesn't read DOA or know much about it except what I occasionally tell/show her Anyway after seeing today's strip she tells me that Joyce and Dorothy are "two halves of a whole idiot" Which I think is a fair assessment

Heatth

I think there is the possibility of AG actively covering up for Joyce and Dorothy by blocking up the information. I am not sure if she would have a reason for doing so though.

tifani

Okay I’m convinced now Walky’s finding out before Joe or Becky and Dorothy has a storm coming. Everyone’s so worried about Joe, I’m not. I think he will be shockingly mature but I think Walky will be truly angry at Dorothy for the first time ever and in a position to point out some of her shittier qualities about romantic relationships.

Heatth

I mean, frankly, seems one of the most sensible things they have said so far. I still don't think Sal actually noticed anything different (or Agatha for that matter). It is still a terrible idea, to be clear, just for other reasons.

Lea

Who slept together a week ago, as the start of an affair?

Heatth

God, I hope Walky gets mad at Dorothy. She have been unfair to him quite a feel times (unintentionally, she never means any harm) when dating and the boy always blamed himself for everything.

Sajuuk-Khar

Prophecy Corner: I feel like I’m going to get my “don’t make me choose” Joyce moment in the upcoming storyline and also like it’s going to cut my heart out of my body when it happens There will not be triumph, only sobbing

shiftdruid

option 1, they have outrageous hookup sex that changes them forever and traumatizes everyone involved

Maude Reads Things

Well, it's always worked to hide their feelings before! Heck, their romantic dynamic being very similar to their friendship dynamic had me not noticing until the Daisy bit with the newspaper and the pharmacy ladies. This is an awkward conversation they want to handle properly. I think sleeping on it is probably the best move, especially after weenus sucking.

shiftdruid

option 2, they spend an Extraordinarily Tense Night together where even the Slightest Touch is electric and raw with what isn't allowed and what could be

Smoochie

Mornin’ Sam

AE Gonzalez

If it goes where it seems to be going: In a span of as little as one hour, Joyce will have tasted both male and female genitalia for the first time. Peak bisexual.

Heatth

Joyce and Dorothy. The whole "Doing Laundry" thing. Joyce described it as "having sex with Dorothy" to Jennifer and Alice who then relayed that information to Walky. Of course, *we* know that they haven't done nothing further between then and the kiss. But from Walky perspective it is not that hard to infer they were having an affair since then, meaning they were dating behind his and Joe's back the entire time.

tifani

Okay like I’m trying to articulate a thought here please forgive me if I fail but I feel like this entire thing is just…stupid. It’s really fucking stupid and they’re only doing it because of this idea of monogamy that they think they have to align with when all signs point towards that not actually being who they are at all. They have both proven that they don’t actually feel like someone being partnered already means they’re off limits. They have both already proven that they are still capable of being attracted to other people while partnered. So why are they in such a rush to break up with their boyfriends other then they feel like they’re supposed to? And why all this deceit other than them valuing the perception of themselves by others as monogamous? And I think the deception is more just about them not actually wanting to break up with their boyfriends! It’s just….DUMB.

shiftdruid

and I don't know about the rest of you sickos out there. but the sapphic loser dirtbag in me knows which one of those scenarios is more Paramore out of them

Megh

So this storyline has two more strips and a slipshine right?

shiftdruid

hey remember how these two idiots spent the entire morning doing everything within their power to avoid each other

Megh

Clearly they didn't have much power

shiftdruid

feels like the moment when all these pieces are finally laid out is where the breakthrough can come

Waifu Purplebutt

MASSIVE oof Using the blanket your boyfriend gave you as a token of his love for you AND that's a symbol of how he's changed specifically for you to AT BEST non-sexually intimate with the person you're cheating on him with

Smoochie

@Heatth Gonna mess up a lot of people in-comic and out when Joyce tries to engage Walky with sibling/rival verbal back and forth and he refuses to even humor her

shiftdruid

magnets! how do they work

AE Gonzalez

I could have sworn this was the last one.

tifani

I’m starting to think the poly pill is going to be harder for them to swallow then the bi pill.

Tessea

I'm now imagining Joyce and Dorothy on the bed, sleeping when Sarah gets home from doing stuff. And Sarah wakes up the whole floor with 'FINALLY!!'

Megh

Willis said a few days ago the storyline ends on August 2nd, so we should have 2 strips left

Logibear

Yeah, as a Paladin this is filling me with a heap of ick... as a closet sicko however, I'm chewing popcorn.

tifani

Honestly if they don’t just accept that they’re poly all signs point towards them cheating on each other with Joe and Walky in about a week so maybe just…be poly?

The25th

Wow! I have a feeling they are not gonna like what they see in the news tomorrow.

Jeph Jacques

Cannot believe these horny teenagers are making bad decisions

tifani

At this point I think Walky is going to get with Amber even quicker than he got with Dorothy after the Lucy break up and Dorothy is going to end up having to share Joyce with Joe. I think Dorothy getting Joyce is going to mean loss and compromise for her she never considered: actually losing Walky to Amber (temporarily?) and not being fully able to get Joyce from Joe as choosing between them becomes less of an obvious thing for Joyce when she is actually out in that position. For someone who kept going on about denying herself Dorothy isn’t really that good at not getting her way.

Astariel

But if that were true, Joyrothy would be the older relationship and have priority. D/W and J/J would be the 'cheating' ships.

Mariah

if a slipshine happens it will be the first that people pay 15 dollars just to be further angry and outraged lol.

Mariah

at this point I am all in on the news theory because I just don't think joe and walky will find out otherwise.

Ali Youngman

#goals Also Idk if Joyce would be willing to go down on Dorothy right away. Like… that’s a big step

Katrina Marie Paton

Gee Tif, ever wondered why Willis called it DUMBING of Age?

George Simpson

On the remote chance Sarah's even there, not at Tony's, she'd probably just tell them (again) that it would be less gay to bang than whatever the hell it is they're doing when sublimating their desires.

Jeremy AR

God i love them so much.

Jeremy AR

I know how outrageous

Jeremy AR

And if somd other kind of sucking happens the oh well.

Jeremy AR

I find this extremely funny actually

Jeremy AR

Would Walky be Joyce kismesis?

Jeremy AR

I know isn't it great 😃

Shane Wegner

You’re right that they’re doing it because they got a lot of “monogamy is the only right way” programming growing up. But despite how they want to see themselves as rejecting religion and The System, I’d say don’t underestimate the desire to Be Good and conform and get that sweet social acceptance. It takes a lot to say “I know we’re -supposed to-, but we’re just going to live how we actually want.” Props to Joyce for on some level knowing she wants to smooch Dorothy yet also enjoy Joe smooshings and weighted blankets and fellatios. Is it “rebellion” or “cheating”? Is Dorothy the boss of Joyce?

Shane Wegner

Big agree on taking a moment to just _process_ everything. They were just at a major protest with teargas. Then add major self revelations. A lot of people would be borderline catatonic with all the worldview change. As an introvert I’d be going full Fortress of Solitude by now, Amber style gaming.

Shane Wegner

Post-nut clarity is their only hope for enlightenment now.

John C. Kirk

I saw a comment on Reddit recently about polyamory/ENM (ethical non-monogamy). Paraphrasing from memory: “Wanting to have multiple partners doesn’t make you polyamorous. Being ok with your partner(s) seeing other people is what makes you polyamorous.” In this case, would Dorothy be ok with Walky dating Amber? Would Joyce be ok with it if Joe had sex with Roz again?

Shane Wegner

I’m not a monogamy paladin, but there’s still ethics. Joyce is failing at the Golden Rule. She’s not treating Joe how she herself would want to be treated in a reverse situation, and she’s doing what she wouldn’t want Joe to do.

Shane Wegner

Dorothy could re-walk the paladin path and refuse to do any more smooches or otherwise until said baton is actually passed. Could. Didn’t say “will”.

Anna K

Despite stereotypes, cheating on your partner is not, in fact, "peak bisexual".

Crunchos cereal

I was thinking it's either Sarah or Joe who wakes then up the next morning. You know, the start of the next storyline.

Terra Bruder

Sometimes it really is better to fess up and engage with your feelings. It's not somehow better to stay with someone when you realize you were in the wrong postal code. Yes, this sucks, yes, it sucks for Joe and Walky (and to a lesser extent for the girls, who are screaming at themselves "NOW YOU TELL ME.") But this is more like a really big oops than fuccboi behavior.

Maybeeus

GIRL, YOU'RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT. CARRY THAT WEIGHT A LONG TIME.

William Lewis

See you Cowgirl, someday, somewhere!

T Campbell

TECHNICALLY technically, Joyce could be cheating on both Joe and Dorothy if she'd said "Yep, I broke up with Joe, super sad" but actually didn't and kept sleeping with both of them without telling the other...which is one of the few things that keeps her from scoring a zero minus on this one. No, that wouldn't be a sustainable strategy, but it'd only be a little dumber than what they're doing here...

Naff

The messy train just keeps on chugging. I am along for the ride.

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

i dunno if joyce has conceptualized that she can be cheated on. if she's dating someone it's true love! what are they gonna find true love with someone else

Seth Aaron Hershman has they/she pronouns

i do not think joyce will be eating dorothy out with sarah in the room nor do i think joyce will sexile sarah when doing so would reveal the ruse

Maybeeus

Honestly, a part of why i didn't like Joe and Joyce as a couple is because it felt way too straight forward and "clean" by the end. It was basically easy mode. Joe has basically become the perfect boyfriend willing to tend to any of Joyce's needs and be with her whenever which is cute to see but you don't get quite as much of a story out of it. Dorothy by contrast, is a much messier relationship between two people coming into it at probably their absolute worst but it has much more room to develop because of it. There's more room for growth and drama both. I feel like this is the matrix revelation part of Joyce's queer journey where you realize that you're given the choice of never fully self actualizing but you can remain a part of the system and stick to your old cold comforts in eternal stagnancy or you can take the hard path and ultimately stick true to who you are even if the whole world becomes your enemy. It's the point where you go "OHHH that's what the movie is about." These characters are messy, gross, and kinda being incredibly boneheaded with this situation but it's also authentic in that way. I think everyone has their regrets but the real difference is between people who grow from their mistakes and those who don't. Something that i'm thinking about now is if Joe also became stagnant because of Joyce by the end. He was completely willing to put Joyce before himself at every turn. It's like Jacob told him sometimes you've gotta work to improve not just for others but for yourself as well. I think Joe will bounce back and keep up the good work but i think this is going to be the start of his own journey down the rabbit hole so to speak and that's way more interesting to me than the alternative.

Rob McBobson

See, this? This right here? This is what I wanted. It's how I hoped Willis would handle it. The ethical aspect, I mean. No dramatic, condemning "I AM EVIL AND MUST ATONE FOR MY EVIL" but an "Oh crap, this isn't good. This is not how things should be going. I gotta try to handle this better, oh crap" from Joyce. Yeah, fictional characters are allowed to do bad things in a story, but it would have felt so out of character for Joyce not to feel at least a little conflicted about what's happening.

Heatth

I love how between Dorothy and Joe, Joe is the squeaky clean boyfriend and Dorothy is the messier option.

Just Ted

You know, Joyce characterizing it as cheating is kind of interesting- with the framing of yesterday's comic, and since we cut away abruptly, Joyce 'reciprocating' Joe's gift could have had an air of transaction or even overcompensating for a sense of guilt- from Joyce's end. He did something thoughtful and she responded by rewarding him with something she assumed he wanted in return, mixed in with not wanting to hurt him? But this characterization complicates things a bit. The abrupt cut leaves a lot to the imagination by design, but some time must have passed, enough for Dorothy to assume a conversation, and it could be seen as anything from "So I pulled his pants down immediately without further explanation" to "This kind of just happened as I was cuddling him because I panicked" But Joyce Characterizing it as cheating, at least to me, suggests that there are still residual feelings for Joe, it's not a light switch or a band-aid to be ripped off, something that both of them are kind of willfully ignoring right now due to just...everything else going on at the moment.

etherealDesign

To me at least it scans as really liking Joe but being head-over-heels in love with dorothy and having absolutely zero idea of how to handle it well. She's trying to do what she can to avoid hurting anyone and to assuage her own guilt, but there's no way through this that doesnt end with someone at least a bit genuinely hurt. Basically im right with you re: your analysis just a slight added take of my own.

zee

Ayo quadrants? In romance?

AE Gonzalez

All bets are off if Sarah’s spending the night at Tony’s.

etherealDesign

As a poly lady myself I'm honestly lost as to why people think poly will fix everything here? Cheating is still cheating. There was obviously an expectation of exclusivity here and they broke that and now their relationship is cooked. Both Joyce and Joe could and probably should be happily poly, but probably not right now and definitely not with each other right now. In a way i find it worse/more offensive to say that theyre not cheating, theyre just being poly, because poly people are already unfairly stereotyped as cheaters enough without something like this reinforcing that idea. The fairest thing to Joe is getting a clean break here, not getting strung along by a girl whom he loves more than anything who herself loves her best friend more than anything. That would hurt so much more.

AE Gonzalez

Dorothy had what she called “apology sex” with Walky after sending Joyce lewd pics. Joyce could similarly be said to have given an “apology blowjob.” In both cases, neither Dorothy nor Joyce have told their respective partners what they are apologizing for.

AE Gonzalez

If that’s the case, Last Comic in the Book Sex would put them on the same page as Lucy/Jacob. It would also point to a twofer Slipshine, if that happens. First half: Joyce/Joe, “Joyce Puts Her Mouth on a Weenus.” Second half: Joyce/Dorothy, “Joyce and Dorothy Watch Cartoons.”

etherealDesign

Dorothy, at the start of the next storyline: "The problem, Walky, is that when the subject of troll romance is broached..."

tifani

I don’t think we really need to downplay what she has with Joe just to glorify what’s happening with Dorothy and Joyce didn’t look very sorry in yesterday’s last panel.

tifani

I feel like a few people are really scrambling here to act like Joyce is with Joe out of some kind of guilt or obligation. Guys she blew him because she wanted to blow him. She loves him and she loves Dorothy. It is possible to love more than one person at the same time. She’s not trapped with Joe. She hasn’t lost interest in him. She still wants him. She just wants Dorothy too. But she feels like she HAS to pick and she feels like wanting Dorothy means she has to stop wanting him because on top of all the other brainwashing she’s been through she still has the idea of “you can only be with one person and they’re your true love” stuck in her head.

tifani

@katrina: Nope! And I never will! (Wait no…, turns into that iasip Charlie meme) MY GOD!

tifani

@ethereal: I am also a poly person and I recommend poly for this exact situation because I think it’s the relationship ideal closest to what these specific people actually want and are capable of if they just do the work. I don’t advocate cheating but I don’t think everything they had before needs to be thrown out because it happened and that they can’t have something good and honest in the aftermath. It’s been less than a week. They can renegotiate their boundaries and trust can be rebuilt.

tifani

Repression takes people to levels of kink that are so fucking intricate.

Lea

AE was pretty clear about what specifically they considered to be "peak bisexual." Nothing in there was about cheating. Or being white Or being girls. College students. Freshmen. Gender studies course completers. Survivors of tear gassing. First time protestors. Indiana residents. Americans. Humans. Terrans. Etc. People can be a lot of things at once, and have just a portion of their traits be related to just one thing.

tifani

But honestly though they are actually so bad at staying faithful but also shockingly are equally bad at cheating.

Harold

I mean, that one guy over the weekend literally paid money to join the Patreon for, like, 24 hours specifically to vent his spleen at Willis and try to make everyone who's enjoying the storyline feel like giant pieces of shit, so nothing would surprise me at this point.

Harold

Joyce and Dotty got the blues 'Cause they think they need to choose Don't worry Be poly

Harold

@AE Gonzalez: Your "first half/second half" reminded me of that great throwaway scene in FARGO where Buscemi and Stormare are thrashing away with the sex workers in the motel, and then there's a smash cut to the four of them afterwards watching Johnny Carson

Harold

I *am* wondering/fearing whether Willis has some kind of massive gutpunch in store for these last two storyline strips - possibly involving Amazi-Girl?

etherealDesign

@tifani i understand your point about poly, truly i do. what im saying is that you seem to think its the only healthy and legitimate outcome here, but theres a lot of reasons to think its a bad idea in this specific instance that dont come from being brainwashed into adhering to hegemonic cultural norms about love and relationships. i think they lack the emotional maturity required to pull it off right, especially because joyce has said multiple times in the comic that she loves dorothy more than anything else in the world, that if you put her against everything else in her life she'll win every time, and thats BEFORE she knew she could be into her romantically/sexually. she MIGHT love joe but shes never actually said that. meanwhile it's clear that joe is completely head-over-heels for her. it is so much more likely that his heart will get shattered into a trillion pieces if they try to stay together than if joyce breaks things off cleanly now. having someone cheat on me, retroactively say our relationship is poly, and then treat me like their secondary when i would really like more than that is just about the most painful fucking thing i can imagine.

Megh

@Paul Spicknall: I dunno I was trying to make a joke but I feel like it very much didn't land That said I wouldn't be surprised if there's a slipshine

Smoochie

(Joyce, several semesters later when Dorothy cheats on her for Ruth in a moment of passion) “Hey Walky, can we—talk?” “….What.”

Harold

@David M Willis: So it was a genuine "oh my God, they were roommates" situation! That makes me even more curious.

Harold

@5099 5618: Sarah comes home on Sunday morning after spending another night at Tony's. She walks into the room, sees Joyce and Dorothy entangled, and shouts "What the Christ is this happy horseshit?" (Not necessarily one of the *great* SHAWSHANK lines, but one that's always stuck with me.)

tifani

@ethereal: I don’t think it’s the only healthy or legitimate outcome I just think it’s the best possible one and I think it is what (if Joyce were actually able to articulate her desires fully) she actually wants. I’m also not super comfortable with ranking levels of attraction based on what has actually been said. I think Joyce has had up until this point a certain level of comfort when it comes to articulating how she feels about Dorothy because Dorothy is a girl and was viewed as a platonic bestie up until now. I think Joe being a man and Joyce having hang ups and justified trauma about desire and the near assault make women likely feel safer and Joyce has probably really limited how much she is willing to vocalize her desires when it comes to Joe. Based on actions though I think her true affections are obvious. It’s all well and good to say Dorothy matters more but force her to actually choose and see if she can do it.

Silent

"Read Homestuck", they said. "It'll help you understand the angles Toby Fox is going for in Undertale/Deltarune", they said. "It certainly won't make perfectly innocuous sentances send you on a trainwreck of speculative shipping routed in non-human forms of romance." they said.

zee

Look man at least you weren't 15 trying not to giggle your ass off at a display of assorted colored buckets in a pharmacy/craft store

KaylaZX

Sarah approximately 4 strips from now: ...I needed to leave.

Rob McBobson

Did Willis clarify whether the ending on August 2 is the date for the main site, or for the Patreon people?

Morgan Byrd

We all know that horny teens exist within an economist’s model society and only make rational decisions. 0/10 webcomic

Justin Seifert

Either Sarah's not going to be there (spending time with her boyfriend's), or if she's there.. she's going to, for the first time, endorse Joyce's relationship with Joe.

tifani

Am I the only one feeling like the people saying Dorothy and Joyce have some transcendent connection so obviously she’s gonna pick her over Joe while trying to make it seem like Joe is just Joyce’s pal she likes to smooch a lot are giving off a similar energy to Mary when she was yelling about Nancy Reagan being Ronald’s true love to get over the divorce remarriage issue? It just feels like some people really need Joyce to not also be in love with Joe to cope with what’s happening/their worldview.

Megh

@Rob McBobson: I don't think so, but my guess would be August 2nd on the main site

tifani

People have open marriages…and are you really just responding to my post with the exact behavior I made it to criticize?

Harold

@Tifani Milewski: I guess that's what I was doing, and I went ahead and deleted those replies. Sorry about that.

tifani

It’s fine.

George Simpson

If not, I'm sure anybody on the internet can supply you with some infurating *opinions*. There's never any shortage of stuff to be mad about.

Paul's VHS Recordings

Fair point... I'm just trying to make sure I didn't miss anything Willis said.

tifani

This whole thing is really just crazy from Walky’s perspective. Dorothy tells him to get with Lucy. Dorothy then does everything in her power to get him from Lucy. Then three days later cheats on him with Joyce and then (if she goes through with her current planning) presents him with a novel length break up speech….I still want the polycule but I think he’s going to need some space from her for awhile after this.

Heatth

I am not sure Dorothy did "everything in her power to get [Walky] from Lucy". She asked him once and then he approached her after he got dumped. Other than that, yeah, definitively agree.

zee

See the thing is: dotty is absolute dog water at relationships lmfao. Her neuroticism is at war with her desires and it leads to her being weird as hell with people. Especially Walky. Whoo boy, if he felt yo-yo'd before just you fuckin wait buddy i was about to go on a long rambly and mostly repetitive yapsesh about her pattern of leaning into her wants and then snapping back to what she thinks is right. Which has thusfar made her super unreliable as a partner. But I decided to spare everyone from that incomprehensible wall of text. Anyway it is my favorite character flaw of hers and I feel like it's coming to a head here

tifani

Honestly it’s been a long time since I read that storyline but maybe I should replace “within her power” to “within her mental energy”

The Deliberate Myth

This is gonna lead to kne of those "thrill of getting caught" situations, isn't it? I say Sarah IS there, and that Joyrothy have some secret sexytimes under the blanket of sin, trying to keep quiet so they don't wake Sarah. Then Sarah sees the photo of the kiss the next morning while Joyce and Dorothy are still asleep.

Heatth

I am just rereading Dorothy getting together with Walky again and, yeah, it is a mess. It is even worse than you described: After Walky tells he is probably single again Dorothy immediately tries to kiss him, is rebuked and then tries to get him back with Lucy. Then they fucked the next day and Dorothy made Joyce the topic of conversation during the afterglow. So, yeah, from Walky's pov it been bonkers. Hopefully it helps him to deconstruct Dorothy as the perfect girfriend.

NinjaZaku

There's a lot to unpack here, but plenty of people in these replies have done it more eloquently than I would, so I am instead going to summarize my feelings simply - WOOF, that's rough.

Rachel Baker

That was my experience, figuring out both - at least it was for all the ding-dongs around me.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold: For Joyce, in that moment, I think that would be just about perfect.

AE Gonzalez

“. . . then we get some pancakes, then we get laid.”

Tessea

This is why all the demonizing of the storyline drives me nuts. It's like 3/4 of the fanbase suddenly decided that Willis was just going to completely ignore the ethics and consequences without waiting to see how it all plays out. For us it's been a couple months since they went to the protest and started holding hands, but for these two dorks it's only been a couple of hours and they haven't completely processed the emotions.

Sumit

horny idiots 😂

Shane Wegner

Joe isn’t too clean, he just plays one on TV. He’s holding his breath, trying to hide all his flaws. Can’t do that forever. He’s puts Joyce on a pedestal. He has a lifetime of coping with his (womanizing?) dad, whatever fallout he had watching his parents deal with infidelity and divorce and remarry. He’s been pilloried as some evil monster, and is worried maybe he is and will corrupt Joyce from the “angel” he makes her out to be. There’s plenty of mess waiting to happen, he’s just trying to gloss it over and be perfect- a bit of a problem in itself.