Stalking down Joyce certainly ain't giving her good opportunity to get a win
Jey Siksa
2023-11-26 07:41:13 +0000 UTC
Dorothy needs a win. I love her character, but damn she's not doing well.
Ryan Malcolm
2023-11-26 06:59:25 +0000 UTC
According to Joe this is actually something that Dorothy has done before so I think the cringe ship has long since sailed, she was just good enough at hiding it until now.
Jeremy AR
2023-11-26 06:06:05 +0000 UTC
Oh god, the finger guns. “Catch you on the flip side” deployed poorly. The symptoms are worse than I thought. Joyce, you need to get Dotty to a hospital before the cringe gets terminal.
Sajuuk-Khar
2023-11-26 06:04:03 +0000 UTC
Save a horse 🤠
Jey Siksa
2023-11-26 05:56:51 +0000 UTC
Joe doesn't play any sports, he just likes to lift
Jey Siksa
2023-11-26 05:56:24 +0000 UTC
Maybe this us me having the joke go over my head but wouldn't both this and the hoarse back riding require to work up a sweat.
HenryVolt
2023-11-26 05:31:03 +0000 UTC
You can't afford the horseback ride in this economy.
Olivia Cheatham
2023-11-26 05:28:27 +0000 UTC
More like she doesn't know who is when she is not being productive, helpful or trying to improve things for someone.
Jeremy AR
2023-11-26 05:24:33 +0000 UTC
dorothy really does not know who she is when she isnt being someone else's mentor huh
Toby (she-they)
2023-11-26 05:21:43 +0000 UTC
Such a good analysis!
Jeremy AR
2023-11-26 05:19:58 +0000 UTC
Because you're dating a jock, this is your own fault
BBCC
2023-11-26 05:17:18 +0000 UTC
Joyce, there's no reason you can't ride horseback, Joe's RIGHT THERE
Fart Captor
2023-11-26 05:14:30 +0000 UTC
Panel 2 gives us important information: Dorothy was expecting Joyce (and maybe Joe) to be in the gym. Seeing Dorothy with a forced smile makes me die a little inside.
Ever since the night of the troubling dream, when Dorothy may have entered Joyce's room to watch her sleep, Dorothy seems to be using "being kind to/taking care of Joyce as a diversion to keep herself from the scary re-purposing she needs to face.
Joe's query seems to have got Dorothy to see what she's actually doing, which conflicts with her habitual notions of how to behave.
And yes, I read Joyce's last remark, which references the shared-dream structure the author has constructed. Her rhetorical question has an obvious, too-simple answer: she's there because Joe asked her, and she likes being with him. If Dorothy backs way the hell off, Joyce loses something she had, and if Dorothy keeps injecting herself into Joe and Joyce's relationship, then Joyce loses something she wants.