Snow White
on October 10, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Psy-cute-ic
Location: Joyce and Sarah's dorm room
The first appearance of Sarah.
You know, it suddenly occurred to me that Joyce and Sarah live in a different residence hall than Danny and Joe in Roomies!, at least according to yesterday’s walk-through-the-dark to travel between the two locations. This is absolutely strange to me. I’ve thought of both pairs having been in Read Hall nearly all these years. …I wonder if this is ever contradicted in later strips…
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She also goes really fast thanks to her speed lines.
… Was that racist?
Maybe.
I’d argue that the last line of the comic itself is potentially moreso.
I wouldn’t say it was racist – it’s not a joke about her skin colour so much as about how Willis chose to represent it.
So maybe the dorms were segregated male/female 15 years ago?
I can ‘see’ Danny and Joyce in this strip, but Sarah is not even close to todays Sarah. I like todays Sarah’s look a lot better.
She’s got real big eyes, and of course everyone’s heads rounded out that dent over the years.
The hair is about right.
Some but not all of the dorm buildings in IU are co-ed. 15 years ago, Read was one of them, as it still is today.
So, the lines on Sarah…did that come directly from how Charles Schulz drew Franklin, or what?
Also, that “sudden occurrence” took place over the span of a month.
I think a simpler explanation is that a month ago, concurrently with that Tumblr post, I uploaded this strip.
That occurred to me after I posted it.
…is what I would say if I was too proud to admit I was wrong.
Thanks for ruining my joke, reality.
It’s so weird seeing Sarah in this continuity when you know her role in both.
i could see joyce leading danny around and right back to their dorm, or from another entrance (never been to IU, so idk if any buildings have multiple entrances, but i would hope they do) just for the feel of a “romantic nighttime stroll.” also, joyce is crazy
on a side note, i almost put my email in the name and email slot. anyone else ever do that?
I like this explanation and I will steal it.
And that’s where cannon comes from, kids!
For not using the correct spelling of “canon”, you are hereby sentenced to being shot from a “cannon”.
The Canon Cannon!
IT’S MURDERIN’ TIME
sorry been off my computer for a few days, its cool with me if you use it
Hooch = crazy
Joyce = crazy
∴ Hooch = Joyce
Where do I get a “CUTE” poster?
Ha Ha…no seriously where’s the joke I can’t find it?
It’s over there, in a box.
Don’t Joyce and Danny share a dorm elevator in the Roomies Redux strips? That’s the first contradiction that springs to mind.
They share one in the new two-page story for the book collection. ….it is possible that Joyce just goes up and down the elevators of Read Hall all day just to trap Danny in one.
It’s possible they just became severely lost.
Originally posted:
October 2, 1997