Your nose is fine.
on July 4, 2021 at 12:01 amJoyce’s nose is fine! I have been drawing it a little bigger, now that she’s wearing glasses. Not sure why. Maybe Dorothy and Amber both being glasses-wearing people with identical noses has pushed me to diversify an extremely tiny amount.
This is the last noncolor Saturday strip. The penultimate any Saturday strip.
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bc we all know THE INTERNET is a font of wisdom *nod nod*
UR NOSE IS FINE JOYCE
But it’s the Internet that’s saying that.
And would YOU take fashion/makeup advice from a random person on the internet?
Oh, tomorrow’s That One, huh.
“That One”
Okay, now I’m curious.
why do i hear boss music?
You know after this J/W rerun, I’m starting to realize that while I like slice of life, having it in webcomic form is extremely dull, especially when it’s ‘married couple’ slice of life.
You can do slice of life webcomics, but they generally benefit from being more reflective instead of gag-a-day. Dumbing of Age is pretty slice of life (the occasional parental irruption of toxic parents and superheroes notwithstanding), and it does fine. So did Shortpacked!, when it was the focus. These J&W strips feel more supplemental, like the sorts of things you’d read in the margins of a more focused collection; I’d be interested in what a comic that does for these what DoA does for Roomies would look like.
Someone who’s better at maths than me can calculate how long it’s going to take DoA to get to “the characters are graduated and some of them are married”. (Remember you don’t have to go through “the characters are fighting aliens” first.)
It’s less about arithmetic and more about assumptions. The first DoA strip ran on September 10, 2010. The first DoA strip of the new semester ran on September 10, 2020. If we assume that there’ll be a time skip at the end of every semester to account for winter and summer breaks, at current rate it would take 80 years our time for the characters to complete a 4-year degree.
But a bunch of these assumptions are subject to change. Maybe Willis doesn’t have any intention of taking us through all 4 years (although if he does I hope he has a plan for either handing off the strip or extending his own lifespan, but either way I don’t expect I’ll live to see that at current pacing). Maybe timeskips will start to happen more frequently. Soggies may rule.
Weren’t the last few weeks’ worth of reruns originally the standalone freebies that were mixed in with an ongoing plot? Airing them all back-to-back like this just emphasizes their disconnected, gag-a-day nature.
Pretty much. The particular subscription model for J&W! (and its focus almost exclusively on Joyce and Walky, with relatively short focus periods on Danny, Joe, and Sal) makes it much trickier to slot in the one-offs between scene changes, which is one of the ways Dumbing of Age pulls it off. Instead we get these big blocks of jokes nonstop, and then big blocks of plot, but because of the way the plot works you can’t slot joke strips in during storylines.
You CAN, but it’s awkward, and Willis reorganised everything for readability
Yeah, for the sake of readability, way easier to not slot this mid-Sal-searching arc.
Surprising that apparently everyone on the Internet agrees on something, and that something is that a celebrity with a nose similar to Joyce has an ugly nose.