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Damn you, Willis! (Dumbing of Age)
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 22 Jun 2017, 19:27 ---Joe, you really can be an utter prick sometimes.
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HEY!!!!!!!!!
... Oh... Wait...
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JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Jun 2017, 23:21 ---Okay, I'm taking today's strip as meaning that Joe has real feelings for Joyce. Not necessarily romantic feelings but feelings; likely growing friendship. Joe realised that he is growing closer emotionally with a woman whom he once found sexually desirable enough to date (he rarely goes to such lengths to trap his prey). Given his aversion to romantic relationships, I can imagine that lead to a very strong fear reaction.
As always seems to happen, fear led to anger and resentment. Lacking emotional maturity, Joe's reaction was to lash out at Joyce in a passive-aggressive way by editing his 'review' of her into a flaming put-down.
However, Joyce has ripped off his mask just by way of asking the right question. Joe once again proves just how young he is emotionally by running away from something that he desperately does not want to confront.
To further elaborate: I suspect that Joe’s laptop has a three- or four-page draft ‘in-depth review’ of Joyce that he wrote but never posted on the feed because it horrified him. It began to lapse into sappy poetry about her beauty (inner and outer) and rated her as "10+ Snap this up and keep it before someone else does!"
When he realised what he’d done, he had a panic attack and responded by publishing a flame about her instead. He’s still got the review, though. He’s been elaborating on it by adding photos of her in candid moments and even a sound-track of some sort. It’s become his guilty addiction to just sit there at night and once again read through the review.
Yes, I’m saying that the ‘Zero-minus’ thing represents a fear reaction and a wall of denial.
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I've thought this for a while.
Posted as such on the DoA boards, but few seem to go with it.
Joe *likes* Dorothy. Like... he *really* likes her.
And it's possible he may have Zero minus'ed her to shift the focus of all the horn dogs, whom he apparently keeps this list for, away from her.
("Yeah... sure... Zero minus... don't even THINK about this one... pointless... move along... "swipe right" (or whatever you young 'uns say these days!)
At heart, he's an immature horn-dog himself... but I think Joyce has made him see girls (or - at least HER), maybe for the first time, as something else other than receptacles.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 22 Jun 2017, 08:55 ---
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 22 Jun 2017, 02:47 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 21 Jun 2017, 09:15 ---A little blood spray doesn't mean he can't walk away. I've walked away from plenty of fights where bleeding was involved.
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Still doesn't alter the fact that this is a major deal...
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Again, it's only a "major deal" if anyone other than the three of them even know it happened. No one can react to events they don't know occurred.
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Yes... precisely.
And it's *that* that I find unbelievable - given where it happened.
And if it proves that this *is* the case...well... that'll be another "Damn you , Willis!" moment... but for different reasons than usual.
(One similar to the "Deus Ex Machina of Spookybot" arc, here... an easy 'out' for an otherwise very dramatic scenario.)
Although none of this explains Joyce's sudden "out on her own"-ness. Which again, if no-one knows what's happened, is a bit too synchronicitous for comfort. (That's a word, yeah?? :) )
A Duck:
"It's Walky" spoilers
(click to show/hide)Ok, I changed my mind, Willis seems to be doing something similar to what happened with Walkyverse Joe. In that case, Joyce was also the first one for who he had real feelings for
Joyce seems to be acting strangely...calm about the whole thing? I wonder if something happened. Regardless, I'm sure Joyce was the only "10" in Joe's list before he caught feelings for her.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: A Duck on 23 Jun 2017, 05:14 ---Regardless, I'm sure Joyce was the only "10" in Joe's list before he caught feelings for her.
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Canonically, she was a four, but Joe "breaking her in" would upgrade her to a ten: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/corrupt/
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