AH-CHEW!
on January 17, 2017 at 12:01 amSee! There’s the hypothermia!
While one could chide Joyce for needing external validation, sometimes we fucking do, y’know? I dunno. I think I was in more Joyce headspace when I originally wrote this than Walky.
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I think the trope for that first panel there would be Reality Ensues.
I completely forgot which character it was who said Joyce is beautiful, and when.
Drunk Walky: “Dina, you’re beautiful… almost as beautiful as Joyce.”
ok not quite, but the gist: http://www.itswalky.com/comic/too-much-beer/
I was thinking ‘in what other world besides the awkward dude’s fantasy does the object of his crush exasperatedly bait him into confessing his feelings?’ but I may be projecting. Joyce’s hangups have been plenty internally consistent and this is an effective callback, but it’s still one of those moments that make it painfully clear how much of the story is aimed at getting these two together in the end, including setting up their relationships with these other characters to fail.
I can agree a little bit with Dina and Walky because Dina didn’t seem too developed beyond their relationship, but I think Joyce and Joe was pretty organic. Those two have some keys differences in their morals and their ideas of what relationships are. Joe’s right — he’d probably end up hurting Joyce even if he didn’t want to.
Neither one was too bad, though.
Yeah the Joe/Joyce thing doesn’t feel forced to me at all.
Originally posted:
May 1, 2002
a minute after Walky thought Joyce was actually her evil twin, whom Joyce killed in cold blood, Walky reassures Joyce that there’s nothing wrong with her. i am pretty certain that SEMME needs better mental healthcare coverage and education. maybe slide a work-life balance seminar into the staff retreat.
They’re stupid….and contagious maybe? Huh, huh?