May 5
on December 5, 2014 at 12:01 amYup, May 5 (the day this strip originally published) is Joyce’s birthday.  And she’s turning 21!  It spasms my brain a little to consider this Joyce is somehow three years older than the one in Dumbing of Age.  She really doesn’t act it.
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Well, this Joyce is, in some sense, only about six months old.
And Walky totally wants to hit that.
“What do Mormons do when they turn 21?”
“Nothing.”
[what relevance that has to Joyce, eh, but it came to mind]
I don’t drink, for various reasons (none of them religious). I spent my 21st birthday refusing to buy for my still-underage friends. It was great fun.
I spent my 21st at a bar with my sister, who insisted we weren’t leaving the bar until I was completely drunk. My response was, guess we’re never leaving then!
I spent my 21st getting really drunk
I spent my 19th getting blind drunk (different country, different Legal Drinking Age)
It was a Wednesday; I parted company with my friends with a young woman…and turned up at a friend’s house on Friday morning, crashed on their couch and came to Friday evening…with no recollection of Thursday. Can’t even tell you anything about my lady friend except she had long, dark hair and she was a little bit taller than me (my arm was around her shoulder when I said bye to my drinking buddies).
Because of this ‘lost day’, I’m now teetotal. :/
It’s actually really easy to forget the cast of the comic are supposed to be adults and not a bunch of 12 year olds.
It’s really easy to forget that actual people are supposed to be adults, and not a bunch of 12 year olds.
Particularly certain groups of actual people.
Mind wipes are a hell of a drug
I don’t know she was like before the mind wipe.
You can see earlier on in “Roomies!” by pressing the <Prev button (or the <<First button), but that's really only recommended for hardcore "go back and read the whole thing in it's entirety" kinds of Walkyverse absorption, which understandably not everyone would want to do. Walky himself describes the basic process for that kind of thing rather well in DoA: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/roadmap/
Short answer, though, Joyce was a one-track-mind stalker following Danny constantly (that's 95% of what she did). She also disapproved of all sexual things (other than stalking Danny and planning names for their nonexistant future children and so on).
She was also concerned about anything interfering with her preexisting notions and deliberately dedicated herself to avoiding anything that could challenge those notions (seriously, she was meta enough about it to basically describe it that way). She also thought the Head Alien and the other aliens were adorable when they abducted her, and she was the only person in the story who enjoyed the old real-world movie "The Sound of Music". She was also a fan of Titanic and roped Joe into seeing it, only-technically losing a dare that he would cry about it (he managed not to, but then stole Danny's Titanic soundtrack).
There was this one time when she put a spoon on her eye and pretended to be an awesome pirate, that was kinda cool.
My bad I meant “I don’t know. She was like this before the mindwipe.” I mistyped.
You missed your period.
I apologise. It’s late.
Wow…Joyce is my age here O_o
How old were you when you were writing this strip, if I may ask?
And she’s my age in DoA! Given that It’s Walky! was timed to start at Y2K, and Willis is in his mid-thirties, he must’ve been about 20.
Joyce in the Walkyverse is canonically about one month younger than Willis was at time of writing. So Willis was also 21 in these days.
Jason you already drink to damn much, you’re recovering from a hang over and you’re already drinking now you thought that was coffee in your hand but your subconscious had you grab that glass of Vodka.
If that’s booze, it’s something a lot more lethal than plain old vodka. Vodka doesn’t typically emit visible fumes.
Funny, I saw it as just a cuppa coffee.
Or, given that Jason is supposed to be British, a cuppa tea.
Well I don’t know about pubs but there are still cantinas in Mexico were they serve you food, and it can be really really delicious…
I’ve spent weeks at a time eating almost nothing but pub food…
I actually spent my 21st birthday getting a book autographed by Douglas Adams.
ARGH, such a sore spot… I’d JUST become a fan when he died… =(
I was lucky enough to talk to him a few times by email before he died.
“…she’s actually 3 years older than Joyce is in DoA, but she doesn’t act it”, says the writer.
Well, actually I think she acts older than the DoA Joyce-except for those unfortunate ‘puppy’ incidences maybe.
Not to mention, this Joyce has been mind wiped. DoA Joyce just is that way. (yeah I know terrible fundie parents, repressive religion, et al).
Funny… I didn’t know there wee any pubs inside of the last dinosaur… lol
I will admit, it took me a few moments to get that.
Wait… so SEMME is a top secret government agency that works in Denver? Can I expect any reference to the notorious New World Airport?
The pencils are showing on this one!
Argh why are they blue?
PUB CRAAAAAAAAAWL