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Dina will be among so many other toys

in the cars and bedrooms of so many enbies, girls and boys

Guess who came in the mail?

Rawr

after posting this i was like "hmm i wonder if there are any panels of joyce in this shirt that would be similarly apt to editing into a bunnysuit"

even without the fuckass toothpaste shirt i think it'd be a good bit

My default setting is to have characters overexplain things, and I spend a lot of time trying to dial it back and let a handful of words and the accompanying framing and faces work for themselves.

like, you'd think "dorothy, you have always always had me" would kind of explain itself, vis-a-vis joyce's romantic intentions, but sometimes i see people still wanting a deeper written-out explanation and some laborious thought balloons, i dunno

But decades of being in this, as you say, have mostly taught me to hang back and let people not understand. Years ago I would've gotten directly engaged and explained things comment-for-comment, but now? Ehh. It's time better-spent drawing more comics.

yesterday there was somebody in my bluesky comic link thread, insisting (to me???) that everyone thinking joe would ever suggest polyamory was friggin' nuts, and i'm just looking at the next day's strip (already up on patreon) and back to this guy, and back to next day's strip (already up on patreon) and back to this guy, this guy who is 100% confident, under my very nose, in my presence, being absolutely confidently wrong

and like

well okay

Was rereading the old Its Walky archives and found this bit of commentary which I thought was funny, given the current DOA strips. Granted, I love the current arcs, but I was wondering when/if your attitudes shifted from 2017?

been waiting for this one

i think a few years ago, my wife pointblank asked me, "hey... none of your college characters have never ever cheated, have they" and I thought, nope, none of 'em

i write... completely wonderful perfect college freshmen who've never had a messy terrible end to a relationship

even asher, who, as walky points out early on, is "villain-coded," makes absolutely double-sure his relationship with jennifer is over before agreeing to make out with ethan even a little

everybody always in my strip makes sure to give every relationship's end its due diligence, to exhaustive ends, to the point that lucy has to throw shade at walky for waiting a handful of days after getting dumped before moving on, because THAT is where the narrative has set the moral event horizon

and at some point, i'm like

let freshmen be freshmen

they're horny idiots