Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 14, 2012

so who’s this Joy and can i get her number?

It’s even more fun when there’s water in the pool! (of course some folks dive in dry, and land on their heads)

Wiley is one the few that draws five fingers and toes!

I started out naked and I want to go out the same way. Life is short. Play naked.

Good lessons for life.

life…you wake up, you walk around, and go back to bed. repeat.

Brilliant! Thank you!Keep up the wonderful work.

Noice! ;)

Most people are afraid when they fall because they have no control. Interesting metaphor for life…and death.

Nice swan dive.

But the size of the splash is the biggest part of the joy!

Too true!!!! Make a joyful noise all the time.

it’s not a trans gender comic. Starts out a boy and ends up a older boy!

I dated a girl named Joy once, and she live up to her name!Thanks to Gokie5 for the birthday wishes yesterday. 60 ain’t so bad!

I just noticed the tomb stone opposite the ladder.

Well done Wiley.

It’s not the joy you get, it’s the joy you give

so true. so true

Brilliant Wiley ! Much more fun than Shakespeare’s Ages of Man. The older I get, the more I realize what a joy life really is.

Alas, there are those who so hate joy, they not only deny it to themselves, they try to deny it to others as well.

He didn’t eat for 94 years, so he couldn’t wait to be in the Pool of Youth (and death)

(musical notes)I wanna free fall out into nothin’Gonna leave this world for awhile

And I’m free, I’m free fallin’ (and more musical notes)- Tom Petty(i really gotta learn how to make those notes)

Thanks again Wiley for being one ot the creators of joy in this world!

Good one!

I can totally relate to this. I’m currently at stage 7 (hawaiian shirt and all) and I personally remember all but stage 1.

Wonderful. Have contacted Joy, who gets around. Am having fun smiting evil reeeps verbally in a campaign and putting an honest(gasp!) local candidate into office. Wonderful cartoon! I might learn to adjust my entry for the fun of it yet…but be kind to the kind and smite the evil constantly…

Great visualization! And that last bit really does go by fast.

A beautiful dive! Starts in the bellyflop position, relaxes back into a 1-1/2 spin, pike position somersault, back into a bellyflop, finally a tuck entry with virtually no splash! All but the China judge gives it a 9.0…that China judge is tough!

Life sucks….then you die!

While I agree with this sentiment, for some of us life has been such a crucible that we’re not exactly afraid of dying (I won’t go into details, suffice to say my doctors don’t expect me to live another nine years at best thanks to some monumental idiocy on my part as a teenager, which I did thanks to a whole other slew of problems). So to those who will survive to see 40, I say this: Enjoy life while you can. Make the most of it and never forget to have fun at every turn. No matter how minor. To quote and translate Megadeth’s À Tout le Monde, “To everyone, to all my friends, I love you, I must leave.”

For all I know, this could just be friends razzing each other in good fun. No tit for tat evident here, so no call.

The joy, and love, that Wiley keeps reminding us of is that the greatest joy comes from the inner child we keep in our lives. Sometimes it’s playing with a favorite toy, other times, merely marveling at the beauty of a butterfly, or a brilliantly colored leaf come fall, and knowing that come spring, there will be more butterflies, and green leaves. Even Danae actually brings this out.

Now that we’re both in our seventies, we have to agree with some here that is is more fun to play naked, even though we do plenty of sight-seeing too (fully clothed). I also put on a nightgown – to cook breakfast ;-D

Absotively!

The other day, I met a girl named Joy.She said, “Come here, I’m going to make you my Joy Boy”Well, things went good, things went bad,Now every time I think of Joy it makes me sad.

Joy to the world was a beautiful girl,But to me Joy meant only sorrow. — Harry Nilsson

im not making a very graceful dive, at the moment.i hope to recover later.if i keep going the way i am, its going to be a belly flop.

Ignore JackDallass. He’s just another troll, with no life, looking see how much attention he can get by being the biggest jerk on the block.

This needs to be a poster!!

Thank you for your kind words…don’t appreciate my tolerance and kindness too much; have been on a rampage of late at other comics. Not so nice. Sort of feel bad about it, but ignorant statements DO get tiresome. Maybe I shouldn’t worry about truth and moderation so much. (Just private musings going on here, talking to myself…in front of you and whoever else cares to read. Sometimes I do that. Sigh.)

pot – kettle

I like this one very much.

I meant “font,” above, of course, instead of “fount.” Too lazy to go through proper correction process.

Great strip today, Wiley. Very moving.

Sweet! thanks Wiley!

One of my favorite quotes is" Tisn’t life that matters but the courage you bring to it." Hugh Walpole, FORTITUDE

And it can be noted that it is the old guy that does the CANNONBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

@Gokie5: Hey, thank you very much. I just hope I can remember how to do it the next time I need it. ♫♬♩

Well said, Wiley…and well illustrated! :-)

Brilliant, Wiley.But… how did the baby get to the top of the ladder?

This was done a few years ago in video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6zgQH3tUKk

Gosh!!!! I am flabbergasted. The best dadgum strip you have ever done, Wiiey. May you have joy everlasting.

Your tombstone monument will be the Joy you gave to others and not so much the money you made. Someone said: “No success can compensate for failure in the home”.

Hi Mech:Not a problem. Most of us are familiar with Jack and his antics, and pretty much ignore him. And, to be fair, he is considerably more rational than some of the other right-wingers here; he even posts something worthwhile every so often (I’m always embarrassed when I agree with him). He’s not the scary kind. I do agree that his attack was more than a bit hasty, but “no blood, no foul.”

The most fun I’ve had in life is having a dog who listens to me (most of the time) and keeps my lap warm when I sit in my recliner.

AH!!Keeping with the 7 stages of manNice homage to the bard of Avon ;-)Classic

Amazing strip today Wiley.. It is extremely well-done, and easily-relatble. Great job.

Really? Seems everyone I know has their pool buried in trees, cactus and brambly vines. Life ain’t no dive off in to nirvana. However, you do get points for helping others clear the obstacles.

Love It – BitterSweet.