I had been wondering how Joyce's father was going to respond to her mother's behavior. Considering he has already told Joyce he respects her decisions, and clearly her mother doesn't, this is likely to become a conflict between them.
On today's comic's comments, someone pointed out
this It's Walky comic (in the context of the puppy-Dorothy in today's DoA). Something in Willis' comments on the comic caught my eye: I didn't know that his parents are divorced. Considering Joyce is a bit of an author avatar, this could point toward the resolution of the conflict between Joyce's parents...