Let us go over this rather stupid storyline.Remember, it's Becky's fault that she feels hurt and betrayed by her best friend telling her she's not gay then turning around and clam slamming another chick and rubbing it in everyone's faces including Becky's. Also that Becky's girlriend is a fucking autist who told her that it's her fault.Willis, because he is a bad writer, has actually made me feel bad for Becko except I think he intends for you to think that she is, actually, the problem and overreacting and needs to be the one to apologize to everyone despite not doing anything wrong.
>>152103833The autist girlfriend knew she was Becky consolation prize. Just Joyce being more autistic straight person in a relationship with Joe sort of put her in a safe spot with Becky. Joyce deciding she's gay is by far the dumbest shit I read. There's probably more straight girls in her doom that had gayer experience than her.
>>152104025She decided she was gay and then decided this meant she was better than everyone else. If the intent is that we're supposed to find her delusionally annoying then I'd say Willis is doing a good job but the point is that we're supposed to be congratulating her and finding he adorably quirky so he's instead doing a bad job. Which isn't helped by the fact the comments section is full of mouthbreathers who actually praise this because representation and quirkiness is more important to them than actual decent writing.
I find it hilarious that Willis had to scrap six-to-seven months worth of backlog because of how many people pushed back on him making the notIsrael/notPalestine war protest mostly about two gay white girls.And then he keeps trying to make the gay muslim front desk chick into a character who's been relegated to background NPC status for the past 15 years.
>>152104230Reminds me of boy meets world. Some characters left the show, Cory's sister, Minkus who was Topanga academic rival. The excuse of why we whenever saw them especially so Willis writing. The sister was grounded in her room, and Minkus was just "over there" pointing off screen.
>>152103833Becky looks better with this hair. Finally that mutant side lock is gone.
>>152104230He keeps wimping out on it because he knows he's just going to get in trouble no matter what he does and he'll get fatwah'd for actually showing her being gay and doing gay things while wearing the sacred hijab. His sense of self-preservation overrides his desire to show how brave he is and stick it to Geroge W. Bush.
>>152104166Will Willis dare to make Joyce Bisexual(cause that's what she is) instead of full on Homo?
>>152104281Oh BeckyMom got Rugrats Chucky's mom death syndromeRan away to tell her bestie she's gayBestie "I'm not gay" Is just homeless living at campusToe dad shows up "let me g'it muh gun" in full daylight.Dragon ball Z arc of her dad going crazy only for him to get arrested put in the hospital and shot deadManages to enroll in school Has two psyedo lesbian mommiesEven has a girlfriend Cut to nowBest friend is now gay "not kissing you" Girlfriend brakes up with herTwo psuedo lesbian mommies ended up getting arrested at a protest.
>>152104352You know the answer. He's apparently said that Joyce/Durrothy has always been an endgame thing so unless he changes his mind this is what we're getting for the long haul.
>>152104412I knew his plans for Joyce and Dorothy for years now, but I honestly think he wasn't expecting how many people enjoyed Joyce/Joe and sped things up.For instance, him choosing the not!Israel/not!Palestine protest for the big gay moment seems like something he only thought up in the last year or two.
>>152103833I'm surprised that Willis didn't change Becky's hair years ago when it became obvious how shitty it looked with Becky's black, no-Sclera eyes.
>>152104269Minkus was fucking based. Jk I don't remember shit about Minkus except for the show always telling us he was wrong and Tapangela was right.
>>152104476I think that hairstyle was supposed to represent her freedom or whatever and she got it cut because she's depressed now. But yeah, it never looked good. Depressed Becky is at least a semi-interesting character by DOA standards so I suspect he's going to fuck it up somehow.
>>152103833Joyce and Becky are still pieces of shit who hurt tons of people. Being gay does not make this foxed or even better!!Also joyce’s personality has completely changed since (yesterday in comic time) like she’s not remotely written the same.
>>152104505He has a son in the reboot, but he doesn't know who his mom is, and Corey now a dad wonders if he might be cloned.
>>152104166Okay but this strip was actually funny. I’m not pretending Joyce is right, but it’s funny because she very much isn’t
>>152104505Minkus is the most powerful character in that universe, he did the impossible he walked to the other side of the hallway and came back.
>>152104561It works on a college girl takes a course in psychology and is a month thinks she's an expert on people.
>>152104519"Becky trying a new hair style every few weeks" could have been a new thing to show Becky being free to try new things, but that would have required effort.
>>152104573>>152104505https://youtu.be/Tl8ZH9QSwkI?si=ECQjnZdLETa5fR2Q
>>152104581>The fucking gumlineIt took having that called out over and over for Willis to cut that shit out
>>152104581Do you have the one of NotJoyce and NotDorothy how creepy it was to teach her to masterbate.
>>152104707You mean this comic?
>>152104724Yes, yes. This comic is exactly what's in my mind during the whole lesbian thing.
>>152104540Who did Becky hurt? At worst she was just kind of annoying. I wouldn't say Dina because Dina's the one being a cunt to her and going "I am your rebound (I already knew that) and you are bad for it," basically piling hits to someone who's already wounded who has legitimate reason to be upset right now considering all the shit she's gone through because of her own feelings or Joyce and now Joyce just nonchalantly flaunts shit in her face.
>>152104980This is the same place that said it was okay to punch Mary in the face for telling a trans to use the men's room. After Carly was bugging her for weeks (days, minutes, the time confuses me)
>>152104980Sorry, that’s genuinely a mistake on my part. I meant to say Dorothy but I think I just had a war flashback and wrote Becky out of instinct.
>>152105062I really need a Mary/Becky team up. They would be justified.
>>152103833Calling it now, because I've been subjecting myself to this for years and I have pattern recognition.The more Becky talks about it the more she's going to reveal that the real reason she's upset and saying there is no god is because Joyce came out as queer and isn't having her life fall to pieces for it, including having her super Christian father basically nonchalantly accept her, while Becky had to torch her entire life and had her father chase her down with a gun. While Joyce turning her down by saying she's not gay then jumping onto Dorothy is a kick to the nuts, it's something she can get over. However, because she feels guilty for in a way wishing her best friend's life was ruined out of a fucked up sense of fairness she's letting people think it's because of Joyce and letting Dina leave to punish herself.She'll soon, likely after this talk with Leslie, work up the nerve to talk to Dina about it and reaffirm their feelings for each other, Joyce and Dorothy will be there, comically trying to get them back together out of guilt for kicking Becky in the nuts and making them break up. When the comedic hijinks reach breaking point Joyce will word vomit her own anxiety about the fact that she's a fake homosexual because she hasn't suffered while coming out, this will prompt Becky to say "Yeah, I also think that" in a cliffhanger, then explain that she thinks she's a piece of shit for thinking that because that's a shitty thing to think. Everyone will assure Becky she's not a shitty person and they'll hug it out and everyone will be friends again.And then someone's dad will show up dressed as the green goblin and shoot Dina or something.
Sydney Yus can’t ever be a villain again because she’s brown
It's actually kind of funny. We're clearly in the wrap up of the whole Not-Gaza protest arc. And the farther we get away from it, the more clear it is that it really WAS nothing more than just a dramatic backdrop for his lesbians to kiss in front of, no matter how much Willis self-flagellates about it.
>>152105186The only parents left are Walky and Sal's (somehow?)racist mom and Joyce's mom.I mean there's Dorothy's and Carla's parents, but they're not even characters, they're just props used to make sure the audience knows how cool their daughters are.And then there's Dina's parents who might also be autistic? Or maybe Willis is just lowkey racist and doesn't wanna' write about non-white people that won't net him brownie points.
>>152105563Joe’s dad (he knocks up Dina)
>>152105563I want to say that Joyce's dad was right before the protest. Joyce comes out to him that she's gay, and it's the biggest >Okay, your in college I get it your experimenting Face that I seen. I swear to god, Willis is the dumbest mother fucker or the most ironic mother fucker I seen.
Ya'll ever feel like Willis' college years are when he was happiest? I know that sounds weird considering he's got a wife, kids, and fuckin' good steady income, but it feels like he misses his college years because >1: He realized how much he hated christianity and was able to get out from under his parents.>2: Had a job that let him buy all the Transformers he wanted and indulge in his hobby>3: Was probably surrounded by people who told him that told him all the things he needed to hear to vindicate his hatred of christianity
>>152105186>Joyce and Dorothy will be there, comically trying to get them back together out of guilt for kicking Becky in the nuts and making them break upJoyce has shown absolutely no concern for the feelings of Becky, Joe or anyone else so I doubt that. Given that Becky is justifiably upset over things (and I think would feel justified in being resentful to Joyce for having everything go smoothly compared to her who lost everything) she'll still be portrayed as slightly in the wrong and be the one who has to have a come to Jesus moment and apologize for the way she's acted. If Willis had any balls he wouldn't feel the need to have Becky feel bad about being resentful towards Joyce and acknowledge that their friendship is effectively over.>>152105426Lesbians are to David Willis what writers and comic book nerds are to Tom Batiuk. Except with a more sexual fetishization Willis's part.
>>152105687I started reading Willis in college. Back then it was short packed, which resonated with me since I worked at Walmart at the time and the way he wrote dealing with costumers felt eerily similar to mine.
>>152105687He 100% pines for his college days since that was his first taste of freedom and he screwed it up. I don't know if he was happier per se but it's probably the most formative and impactful period of his life barring being introduced to Transformers as a kid.Fun fact: the brief time he attended IU Bloomington would have overlapped with Jared Fogle's time there. I'm surprised he didn't make Rapin' Ryan a fat pedo.
>>152104980Here's the thing, and this is coming from someone who likes Dina as a character, she's an asshole. She is a gigantic asshole. Not a Willis snark asshole either, just a massively judgmental cunt. Despite being in Joyce's friend group she does not like Joyce at all, in fact she thinks Joyce is a moron. More pertinent to the situation, she's only with Becky for her own validation. The entire reason she hooked up with Becky is because the rest of her social group was infantilizing her. >>152104579>>152104561It works because she's playing off Roz, who isn't as smart as she thinks she is.
>>152105760>portrayed as slightly in the wrongShe is. Becky's feelings are valid, but at the same time so are Dina's because even if a rebound they've been together for months at this point, and Joyce isn't obligated to figure out her sexuality on Becky's time table or return Becky's feelings, nor should she carry any guilt for her coming out going more smoothly (Joyce still hasn't told her brothers or mother) or feel bad about dating someone she's interested in. What's frustrating is that this storyline could be a fantastically nuanced story where where everyone is in the wrong but also not really to blame but that's not how Willis rolls.
>>152105968The problem is that she told Becky she wasn't gay, then a relatively short time later she is and when she sees Becky, her supposed best friend, and sees that she's clearly hurt Joyce's response isn't to try and talk to her about it but to rub it in her (and everyone else's) face. That's the problem with this entire storyline, Joyce is acting like a self-absorbed cunt and the only person who's semi-called her out on it is someone who's also an antagonistic figure and thus their opinion can be safely discarded.Because Willis is too myopic to Joyce's faults and just sees them as cute awkward quirks from a girl excited to realize who she is. The difference between him with Joyce and Batiuk with Les is that the loudest people talking about Funky online were critics picking apart the faults of his stories while Willis has his comment section full of ass patters who only care about quirky lesbians and as long as they're getting quirky lesbians they couldn't give two shits about anything else. He has no reason to think that what he's writing is bad or poorly done or makes Joyce look bad because of the bubble he's in.
I'm still mad no one got shot by the police sniper. They mentioned it like four times during the protest. It's a literal Chekhov's gun left unfired.
>>152106264Amber got shot sis
>>152106264Shocking swerve, the sniper was Asma the whole time.
>>152106326No, she got "cut up pretty bad"
>>152106133Honestly even as a sheltered religious kid, Joyce is pathetically retarded about society. Not sure if her parents were that overprotective or if she's just that ignorant.
>>152106350Amber's recollection of her confrontation with the cops:>singlehandedly beats up a half dozen cops before they dogpile her, which she is able to escape from by singlehandedly beating them up harderBodycam footage from the cops:>Amber gets pepper sprayed from ten feet away, runs away screaming, smashes through a plate glass window, keeps running>>152106371It's weird because I can see Joyce being that naive given her background but then Willis slips in something, like Joyce having seen Twilight before college, that goes against it.
>>152105186>And then someone's dad will show up dressed as the green goblin and shoot Dina or something.I will now read your webcomic.
>>152104519could've worked if he just got rid of that stupid floating eye
>>152105062that is ok, though. Based, even
>>152104980Becky is pure evil
>>152107369Becky Is.
This is still better than funky winkerbeanJoyce is still not as bad as Les getting a fucking Oscar
>>152107441>This is still better than funky winkerbeanIt absolutely is not. It's all the problems of Funky Winkerbean amplifies because its creator is even more arrogant and oblivious to his creative faults.
>>152107441We've yet to see what awards Joyce "heroically gay" Brown and Dorothy "THIS is leadership" Keener will receive for being the front-page face of the protest and "using their platform" to fix everything (or at least simultaneously seek and reject forgiveness from those they happen to see who look Bulmerian).Things move fucking slow in this comic. Honestly, is it slower than Funky Winkerbean? At least when directly comparing the arcs? We'll have to wait a few years until it's over to be sure I guess.
>>152107557Maybe Joyce will receive her artistic credit and awards by using her comic to address the issue. I would love to see how Willis's self-insert addresses the resulting haters during the "comic goes off the rails because self-insert Julia Grey and President Doris are heroically gay during the Bulmerian genocide" arc. Did Funkyverse ever have a recursive double-down?
>>152107557This was such awkward dialog from Joyce in that panel.
>Becky actually is going to have to go crawling back to Dina and Joyce as if she was the one in the wrongThis is going to be Funky apologizing to Les all over again. Just draw Joyce with that same smug or pouty look.
>>152108380Can't wait for dina to hold this over Becky's head for years even after they make up
>>152107441That's a Nordic take.
>>152107441>This is still better than funky winkerbeanNo.
