So many Browns
on November 11, 2016 at 12:01 amHere is the first — and for many, many, many years, the only — time I’d drawn any of Joyce’s siblings. In this universe, there are five of them, but for the Dumbiverse, I wanted to age Hank and Carol down a bit, and so I gave her only three. This does beg the question of what happened to Dumbiverse Justin and Jared Brown, but, uh, I guess in this universe, Carol just wasn’t in the mood or something on two otherwise important nights. WHOOPS. Half of them are on some discarded tissue and the other half of them are on some OTHER discarded paraphernalia. This is how babby is not formed.
Years later, when I decided to force myself to include one of Joyce’s siblings in a storyline, I didn’t look to the family portrait in this strip at all. At the time, I considered Joyce’s Dumbiverse siblings to be entirely new entities, partly because I felt awkward about the missing two. I started from scratch in my design for “Joshua Brown.” However, “Joshua” would eventually reveal herself to both the readers and myself as Jocelyne, and she became very popular! And so I ended up retconning her into the Walkyverse as well. Thankfully, there’s only so many ways to draw “Joyce has a sibling,” and I went through basically all of them here, and so I was able to decide that the one in the middle left was Jocelyne. It’s a good-enough match, so long as she later decides to wear glasses.
Obviously Jocelyne hadn’t come out yet, given Joyce’s second-panel declaration of “five brothers,” or maybe she just, you know, had her mind erased. Either or.
As usual, I really appreciate the commentary. While reading this I surprised by how little Jocelyne’s design had changed, but nope, it’s random Brown sibling who looked close enough to retcon.
Joyce has also been away for, what, three years? So even without mindwiping it could just be information she doesn’t have.
What is Joyce’s face doing in the last panel…?
what Trump’s daughter’s was doing when he admitted he would bang her?
And now he’s President.
Glasses one is Jordan, right?
Maybe Ethan will have an opportunity to actually embarrass himself with one of Joyce’s cute brothers this time, instead of with her sister.
He does look a bit like he was squeezed a bit too hard, or not enough. Having trouble telling, really.
Based on “It’s a good-enough match, so long as she later decides to wear glasses”, glasses one is Jocelyne.
…?
Glasses One is ALREADY wearing glasses and outside of that has the completly wrong hair and eyes to be Joclyn (he actually looks a lot like Dorothy)
It’s kinda cool reading about the changes to Joyce’s siblings from Walkyverse to Dumbiverse.
Originally posted:
February 24, 2002
Also,
Joyce only has three siblings in the Dumbiverse? Darn. I was kinda wondering if you’d give all of them a different reason for “failing” to reproduce.
I keep reading “Bulmeria” as “bulimia.” So this one is especially funny.
For some reason it took me a second to realise that “she” in the last paragraph was Joyce. I read “Obviously Jocelyne hadn’t come out yet or maybe she just, you know, had her mind erased” and thought “Yeah, that sounds like how Mrs Brown would react to that. 8-(“
This is Joyce’s dad?
Thanks, I hate him.
If I were Jocelyne I can’t imagine I would have come out to Joyce before she joined SEMME. She was clearly still some character development short of being ready to hear that.