Sorry, Dorothy, romantically you reside in a universe that runs on the concept of Dibs.
It’s great how if you don’t keep the knowledge that Joyce bummed a jetpack jacket off a Future Kid in the front of your brain, it looks for all the world that Joyce is just hovering into the panel under power of her own farts.
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JOYCE!!
Looks like the jetpack of comics past went back.
How long has it been?!
wait so is this not her old jetpack from the SEMME days?
Nah, you can see sleeves here, which means it’s one of the jackets the future kids used. Joyce’s SEMME one was just a backpack, essentially, as I recall.
Oh, I thought it was a vest.
I’m pretty sure that canonically the government seized the original jacket and must of the other old alien junk from the SEMMF days. I think that maybe Joe has the resurrection machine though under some very shaky legal grounds.
“under power of her own farts” = proof Joyce and Walky were MADE for each other
My brain when to “jet-powered queefs” first.
Sucker punch!
I mean…even knowing that, it still looks like that.
…uuuugh. I know this is the Walkyverse and not DoA, but Joyce punching Dorothy in the face just feels wrong.
Like, yeah, she’s justified within the context of this story– Dorothy is trying to kill Walky, it’s not an unreasonable thing to do in response– but I hate it. I’ve read a decade’s worth of comics where they have a strong, mutually-supportive friendship and always have each other’s backs, and I like that dynamic way better.
Doesn’t help that Walkyverse Joyce appears to be almost entirely incapable of having any female friends. She can’t be friends with Billie, because Danny. She still can’t be friends with Sal, also because Danny, even though Danny isn’t with either of them and she’s marrying Walky! She couldn’t be friends with Dina (when she was alive), because Walky. And so, in the grand tradition of Walkyverse Joyce: she can’t be friends with Dorothy, because Walky. It almost makes one think she picked Becky to be her best friend solely because that wouldn’t be an issue with her.
I’m curious to see what shifts with this Dorothy once we get to the last pages written after the Dumbing of Age version became a thing.
Hopefully Dina/Becky being canon in the Walkyverse doesn’t mean Joyce can’t be friends with Becky now.
THIS Dorothy is absolutely only here for the cake.
Listen, weddings can be very stressful and stress can lead to gas – you can’t convince me that Joyce isn’t being propelled by farts right now
Joyce isn’t flying by the power of her own farts? How disappointing.
Ah Joyce, threats of violence against your soon-to-be-husband, the dumbiverse is always classy
Why is Joyce threatening Walky? Is this going to be one of those “mix-ups” where Joyce thinks Walky willingly ran away with Dorothy?
Groom can’t see the bride on the wedding day/in the dress before the wedding tradition. It’s mostly a joke, I think.
A tradition that Willis has since gleefully mocked elsewhere.
Ah, right, I forgot about that tradition.