ono :'))))) :'((((( my heart... lil jocelyne tryna run her new name by the family </3 (same)
Alice
2023-08-25 20:04:28 +0000 UTC
I can't really make out panel 2 100% but here's my best attempt:
Hank: "So, Joshua, what do you think would be a good name for a girl?"
Jocelyne: "I... I wike "Jossalin.""
Jocelyne: "It's pwetty."
Hank: ""Jocelyne," huh? So is that a good name for your sister?"
Jocelyne: "No! Not fo' my sista!"
Carol: "It's a little long and hard to spell. I think I like "Joyce" better. It's similar, but..."
Hank: "We'll think about it."
Hank (I assume): "Hey, John, what do you think would make a good name for a girl?"
Jonathan: "I like "Jacqueline.""
Carol (I assume): "Ugh, gross, that's a Kennedy."
RubbishBinMan
2022-08-14 06:50:58 +0000 UTC
Hello John, we'll be seeing more of you later.
Theron Gilliland, Jr.
2016-04-09 23:51:22 +0000 UTC
Ah, now the Jocelyne/Joyce name thing makes sense! I always thought it was weird she picked a name that was so like her sister's, but fair enough if she picked it first.
Andrew Freer
2016-04-03 22:55:22 +0000 UTC
I <3 this strip so much.
Jennell Jaquays
2015-12-01 20:44:26 +0000 UTC
I <3 this strip so much.
Jennell Jaquays
2015-12-01 20:44:26 +0000 UTC
Good thing they didn't name Joyce "Jocelyne" because boy would it be awkward to have two daughters with the same name.
Elphrid
2015-10-23 13:24:33 +0000 UTC
Why does he look so much like mike? Its really unsettleling
Vika
2015-09-30 11:26:36 +0000 UTC
I like that this foot-in-mouths the people who are all 'She should have picked a name that wasn't like her sister's that's creepy nyah nyah'
Jocelyne picked it first. Joyce is actually copying off of her without knowing it.
KayKey
2015-09-29 10:28:32 +0000 UTC
Joyce has three siblings: John, who is married in the present time, Jordan, who is "too Jordan", and "Joshua", who is actually Jocelyne (see the link on Willis' comment downthread). She had five in the other continuity, but they were never fleshed out.
Francisco
2015-09-29 07:50:29 +0000 UTC
The panel composition itself is heartbreaking, with little "Joshua" being pushed out of frame "his" protests unheard.
I wonder if "he" ever was resentful of Joyce who got to be a girl without any fuss.
Bagge
2015-09-29 05:44:18 +0000 UTC
That hair has inspired my headcanon: in the future, time machines are coin-operated and cost 5¢, allowing Mike to keep his promise bang your mom for a nickel.
DVW
2015-09-29 04:46:42 +0000 UTC
So does Joyce only have two brothers or an undecided quantity that shall be determined over the course of the comic based solely on their usefulness to the plot like Robin from Shortpacked. If anyone wants to reword that in a better way be my guest.
Russell Hutchens
2015-09-29 04:09:44 +0000 UTC
All this talk about how the young-ish Hank Brown looks like Mike with blue eyes, but no one mentions how John looks almost exactly like Danny? ...no wonder he was never on Joyce's radar in this continuity.
Francisco
2015-09-29 03:49:54 +0000 UTC
Joyce's younger parents look like the walkyverse versions of drunk mike and Becky........ This makes me uncomfortable.
TheJesterKing
2015-09-29 03:47:03 +0000 UTC
We've had a modern-day Jocelyn bonus. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-strip-2014-1003716">https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-strip-2014-1003716</a>
Peter Wood
2015-09-29 03:05:39 +0000 UTC
aaaaaa she's so cute
Emily Jones
2015-09-29 03:01:36 +0000 UTC
I, too, come from a family where everyone named their children with "J" names. I have at least ten cousins with "J" names. My sister and one cousin are the exception to the rule.
Giant Speck
2015-09-29 02:56:15 +0000 UTC
Oh, wow! The first time we've seen John!
Harley Goodreau
2015-09-29 02:47:10 +0000 UTC
WELL OW. Poor Jocelyne.
Katherine Pollack
2015-09-29 02:40:23 +0000 UTC
Damnit! When I wasn't looking, Jocelyn just snuck out in front of GALASSO, WHO WILL TRIUMPH REGARDLESS.
Paul Grodt
2015-09-29 02:28:09 +0000 UTC
cousins cousins cousins
Joe
2015-09-29 02:27:12 +0000 UTC
Unlikely. Ethan is gay and Jocelyn is a girl. Transwoman, admittedly, but the more she can be her real self, the less interested Ethan will be.
Jeff MacDonald
2015-09-29 02:26:31 +0000 UTC
Yikes! Do Ethan and Joshua/Jocelyn end up together?? Cute is right!