Image 1 (for posting September 7)Well, it looks like either Joyce has an
eeebil plan or she's trying to tell Walky an off-colour joke. Naturally, Walky looks weirded out because neither of these things are things that one normally associates with Joyce and I doubt that she can do them very well... or at all... without making her friends think that she's been replaced with a pod-person.
Image 2 (for posting September 8 )Yeah, I think that this is more-or-less how I'd expect Walky to react to Joyce proposing to be sneaky, cunning or in any way other than fresh-faced and innocent. He's probably giving her a reality check in this strip.
Image 3 (for posting September 10)I don't think that Joyce is too happy with Walky's earlier reality check!
Meanwhile, Sal and Mike are watching! I'm not too sure of my DoA geography but this looks to me like the entrance to the main college buildings. Now, why does Mike look like he's waiting for them? As they are all in the same calculus class, I'm thinking that the four of them may have a class project that they've been assigned to together and he's waiting for his 'partners'. I can imagine what Mike said about this situation when the assignments were handed out and it probably wasn't polite!
Image 4 (for posting September 11)BECKY: "Ah, don't ask me Joyce, you know I don't get that stuff!"
Not much else to say about this other than to say, whether or not Ruth busts Becky, she's still hanging around campus in the immediate future of the strip.
Image 5 (for posting September 12)JOYCE: "Well... er... Bye! Try to be careful!"
This is the picture that initially caught my attention in this sequence. Joyce looks worried, which suggests to me that Becky is going to do something ill-considered but Joyce doesn't want to say too much in front of the others. I just love the nonplussed expressions that Walky, Sal and Mike are wearing. I'm thinking that, for someone not fully read-in to the complexities and subtleties of Joyce and Becky's relationship, their interactions must seem puzzling if not outright weird.