Early update for July 21, 2024
Added 2024-07-20 03:55:00 +0000 UTClike a C- for acting
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these two mean the world to me ughhhhh. love these kids and their neuroses
Toby (she-they)
2024-07-20 23:12:44 +0000 UTCJoe is the party mom
Terra Bruder
2024-07-20 16:38:52 +0000 UTCJoe is winning at being the best character and having a great character arc.
Bronxden
2024-07-20 15:56:32 +0000 UTC“Joyce is a perfect delicate angel, and everyone says I’m an evil corrupting lust monster. Surely if I give Joyce he smooches she requests, someone will snap a photo and put it on InstaFaceTok and I’ll be pilloried for taking advantage of the underage-drinking drunk girl.”
Shane Wegner
2024-07-20 07:20:35 +0000 UTCYeah what I said last strip still stands, this is exactly the dynamic with me and my girlfriend.
MrShoggoth
2024-07-20 04:58:10 +0000 UTCHeterosexuals with the looming specter of bisexuality constantly hovering over them, cackling in a voice beyond human hearing
Sajuuk-Khar
2024-07-20 04:39:14 +0000 UTCThis is super wholesome even if they are (ostensibly) heterosexuals
Fart Captor
2024-07-20 04:31:48 +0000 UTCJoe's consent principles go way back: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/casualbang/
Dan Rabin
2024-07-20 04:11:52 +0000 UTCAs was foreseen. Does Joe fear losing Joyce? Joe said he would follow Joyce's lead, but he was not talking to Drunk Joyce. Joyce thinks Drunk Joyce is Real Joyce, but Joe thinks *Joyce* is Real Joyce. Joyce thinks ethanol leads to sex, but Joe thinks ethanol rules out consent. The strip repeats visually except for the two panels where Joe is Acting in the vain hope of diverting Joyce's insistence; the borderless panel has them both realizing that agreement is not imminent. The drawn shape of Joe's mouth in the last panel does multiple duty: Joe's mouth is closed, he's kinda frowny, and his face is being distorted by Joyce's tugging. When Liz wanted to stop making out, Joe was very quick to comply. It would be wonderful if he were as quick now to tell Joyce the deal.
Dan Rabin
2024-07-20 04:09:04 +0000 UTCJoe has always been really good about consent if nothing else. Giant manwhore and varying levels of disrespectful of boundaries but he has always been strict on getting consent to actually TOUCH anyone.
Aeryn Monet
2024-07-20 04:02:27 +0000 UTCJoe has become such a gem of a man.
Populuxe
2024-07-20 04:02:00 +0000 UTCBuck Caldwell
2024-07-20 03:57:51 +0000 UTCYOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN—ER, JOE ROSENTHAL
Sajuuk-Khar
2024-07-20 03:56:41 +0000 UTC
