Just read through the whole thing in two days after seeing #182 on r/webcomics, reading a few on webtoons, and then becoming curious why the numbers there didn’t match the numbers here (because of the reboot/renumbering back to 1 it turns out).
The kid parts make me think of Calvin and Hobbes, except if Calvin’s imagination was real and Hobbes was actually just a homeless kid Calvin found one day.
Fun Fact: Joey isn’t reading the classic children’s book. He’s reading the novelization of the American adaptation of the hit Japanese movie based on the book.
As a kid, Joey’s ridiculously hot Mom told him that boys and girls have different bathrooms because if everyone found out that girls don’t poop, society might collapse. This references the myth that girls don’t produce stinky solid waste products. Girls and women tend to find everything about their solid waste offensive and want to imagine, (or at least have boys, and men, of course, believe,) that nothing so disgusting emerges from them, especially given what’s right next to the spot where it emerges.
This leads to the popular notion that girls simply don’t poop–an absurdity–but one that allows them to distance themselves, even further, psychologically, from even the very concept of poop.
For some reason, Joey is, (years later, of course, implying that the first part was a flashback, or that a decade or so has elapsed between the first and last panels of this strip,) reading the popular children’s book, “Everybody Poops”. I’ve never read it, but I think I get the basic gist from the title: if the author is to be believed, everybody poops, and logically, everybody would seem to include GIRLS.
So the joke here is that Joey has been, for a decade and well into young adulthood, seemingly believing this myth that his mother jokingly told him when he was a kid, and this myth has just been dispelled for him before our eyes. There are implications, of course. How he sees Carmen and Katherine, Sandy, and even his own mother may change. Maybe we’ve just witnessed the end of one kind of innocense for Joey, or maybe several. After all, he’s bound to think, if his mother lied to him about THAT, what other lies has she told him? Maybe he wasn’t either found under a cabbage leaf as a baby. Maybe the stork didn’t bring him to his parents. Etc.
As an aside, Dear Cuddlep00p, can you give us a comic showing Joey’s Mom as a kid? Using time travel or a flashback, or a fond remeniscence, perhaps? Thanks in advance!
Just read through the whole thing in two days after seeing #182 on r/webcomics, reading a few on webtoons, and then becoming curious why the numbers there didn’t match the numbers here (because of the reboot/renumbering back to 1 it turns out).
The kid parts make me think of Calvin and Hobbes, except if Calvin’s imagination was real and Hobbes was actually just a homeless kid Calvin found one day.
Fun Fact: Joey isn’t reading the classic children’s book. He’s reading the novelization of the American adaptation of the hit Japanese movie based on the book.
Everybody p00ps… then someone cuddles those p00ps. It is written.
I’m not sure I understand the joke of this comic… Is it trying to say that girls actually do poop?
Wait, They Do!!?!??!
As a kid, Joey’s ridiculously hot Mom told him that boys and girls have different bathrooms because if everyone found out that girls don’t poop, society might collapse. This references the myth that girls don’t produce stinky solid waste products. Girls and women tend to find everything about their solid waste offensive and want to imagine, (or at least have boys, and men, of course, believe,) that nothing so disgusting emerges from them, especially given what’s right next to the spot where it emerges.
This leads to the popular notion that girls simply don’t poop–an absurdity–but one that allows them to distance themselves, even further, psychologically, from even the very concept of poop.
For some reason, Joey is, (years later, of course, implying that the first part was a flashback, or that a decade or so has elapsed between the first and last panels of this strip,) reading the popular children’s book, “Everybody Poops”. I’ve never read it, but I think I get the basic gist from the title: if the author is to be believed, everybody poops, and logically, everybody would seem to include GIRLS.
So the joke here is that Joey has been, for a decade and well into young adulthood, seemingly believing this myth that his mother jokingly told him when he was a kid, and this myth has just been dispelled for him before our eyes. There are implications, of course. How he sees Carmen and Katherine, Sandy, and even his own mother may change. Maybe we’ve just witnessed the end of one kind of innocense for Joey, or maybe several. After all, he’s bound to think, if his mother lied to him about THAT, what other lies has she told him? Maybe he wasn’t either found under a cabbage leaf as a baby. Maybe the stork didn’t bring him to his parents. Etc.
As an aside, Dear Cuddlep00p, can you give us a comic showing Joey’s Mom as a kid? Using time travel or a flashback, or a fond remeniscence, perhaps? Thanks in advance!
Wait, How would societal collapse happen form guys knowing that girl poo?