I’m not any stranger to rage
on June 24, 2018 at 12:01 amjoyce c’mon dina probably meant something to you, jeez
And Walky’s like, oh, riiiight, you shot your clone in the face. And also your butt’s cute.
I dunno. This strip feels more like an overcorrection than the previous few strips. Emotional trajectories shouldn’t be perfectly linear, but this feels like it’s trying very hard to put a pretty bow on things. There should be more uncertainty.
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There has always been something mildly endearing about these two insistently using the word “tushie” like this.
To be fair, the characters themselves are trying really hard to put a bow on things, hoping that this time their relationship will remain perfect forever.
Yeah, that’s true. That does make it feel a bit more natural, in that they themselves would be actively wanting to return to some normalcy. It is still a bit cheat-y, but not wholly unconvincing.
“Keep telling me about how autohypnotic my body is to you, Walkerton. It will do so many good things for you!”
Joyce: remember back when I went kind of crazy and killed another version of me then snapped at you really harshly just a few days later.
Walky:Yeah but I got over it, because let’s honest that butt though.
Don’t discount the power of the booty.
Joyce’s face in panel 4 sells it well.
I dunno… the ellipsis sells it to me. She knows that this is trying hard to put a pretty bow on things, but I think that she realizes (as anybody who has waded through enough shit does) that unless you put your foot down and /decide/ how to start feeling about things–thus how you think and act–you may be waiting for a long, long time, maybe a lifetime, for that feeling to occur naturally.