BUT, I'm wondering of Amber's casual "He needs someone good and pure", is about to lead into machinations to throw him and Joyce together...?
I'm not sure what I think of that.
Some on Willis's own site have said the same thing.
It's interesting because, in the very first of Willis's strips in the Walkyverse,
Roomies, Joyce was crushing on and stalking Danny. This didn't go anywhere because she was abducted, mindwiped and forcibly inducted into SEMME where she met Walky and imprinted on him. One of the stated objectives of
Dumbing of Age from the start was Willis's desire to see what would happen to the characters if the war against the Aliens had never happened. Given th at DoA!Joyce is a very different person from the one she was portrayed as in
Roomies, as is Danny, Willis may be intending to spend at least some time addressing whether time and maturity may have seen them work out together.