I was in a house once where none of the front door keys worked properly except the one the landlady kept so she could sneak in at wierd times. She only replaced the lock after hers failed too. It was like having rats. Rats that looked like Margaret Thatcher.
Yikes, I can’t imagine having to deal with a landlord like that. Not sure where you live, but here that would be super illegal. My landlord has to give me 24 hours notice in writing if he wants to enter my unit for any reason.
Remember that if traps fail, you should consider poison or bait.
And what’s an RA room check? Lived in college dorms for 4 years and never had a single one. One Nine weeks, I never saw the RA but twice, and she was my roomie.
Yes. From before she came out.
This has been discussed before, I’m almost certain. I only even slightly doubt because I may be thinking of Shortpacked! where we even met the guy. But yeah, I’m like 85% sure it came up in class at one point.
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(Side-note, if they form a group dedicated to bats, would they be known as the Batwomen? ’cause, good! We’ve needed to expand our vigilante base, now that the villains are unionizing.)
Leslie you have a suspiciously long list of people who might try to break into your apartment for some reason. I recommend mkre self defense than a bat and perhaps a better security system.
In other news, glad to see Becky and Leslie speaking with each other. How long has it been since Becky just up and left?
I believe it was mentioned before that it was Leslie’s landlord who “allowed” Robin to break into Leslie’s house way back when. It may not be so simple as “getting a better security system”.
Assuming it’s the same schlub as in Shortpacked, the answer is probably ‘yes, if only to save her soul from this horrible sin.’ And even if not, guy’s probably on a similar level of fundie as Leo was. Leslie’s parents are still going to be douchebags, after all.
(I was just rereading the Shortpacked wedding arcs the other night. One, SP!Leslie/Robin still fills me with deep and happy emotions. Two, GOD, fuck the Bean parents.)
Shortpacked one was a well meaning guy that when asking “how have you been doing after you left the church” would not have been a passive agressive comment but an actual question. He seems to be very fond of Leslie but unfortunately he seems to be very confortable being a straight white guy in church not unlike Joyce (but with families with more money) and kinda clueless so the possibilities of him getting out are low. He did recognize Leslie’s parents as a pain in the ass.
He would probably would have liked remain married to Leslie but I don’t think he would have ever broken in to her house unless tricked to do so.
I have a feeling in this universe Leo would have been similar including his unfortunate tendency to put his foot on his mouth thinking he was saying something tolerant XD XD It’s complex
I had to look that up. I remembered it, but I knew it wasn’t Brothers in Arms. On Every Street was kind of forgettable. Now I’ve got to go listen to Dire Straits. 🙂
We have a “Randy is a gigantic troll” situation. He hit a different webcomic’s lead with a car one day after that strip ended. This situation could absolutely go either way.
(though why would they be holding a wake, for a teenager from Indiana, at a bar in Texas?)
They do-ish…not in a way that beholds either comic to the other’s continuity (thus the lack of Soggies in S*P), but Singularikitty is Choo-Choo Bear’s kid, so they’re at least tangentially related.
Plot twist: it’s actually Walkyverse Mike; there were one or two small crossovers between S*P & Shortpacked, so it’s possible. Singularikitty was related to Choo-Choo Bear.
Don’t ask why there would be a wake for a toy store manager in Colorado at a bar in Texas.
It has been established that UltraCar is a character in the S*P universe. And there is a strip where every other web comic character in the world was in S*P after their creators either died or were rendered incapable of physically continuing their series. Or there used to be, an archive crawl failed to turn the strip up.
I can’t recall look-alikes in SP, so I think it’s Mike.
Question is whether Randy knows something we don’t, because webcomic artist friends, or if he’s just trolling readers. The comic caption is “throwing golden apples”, i.e. of discord from the Paris/Trojan War stuff. So it could just be trolling. Or it could be informed trolling.
Robert E. Howard left the best suicide note ever:
“All dead, all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The guests are gone, and the lamps expire.”
And he was 29, not 30.
Are you sure that was a reference to Faye? Faye’s dad killed himself standing in the backyard. Robert Howard killed himself in his car, as pictured. Faye’s dad had no known reason to do it; Robert Howard had several stressors.
I admit a few minutes of Google-searching didn’t explain who else the girl in the comic might be.
No lookalike. And the commentary at the bottom of the comic mentions “throwing golden apples”… a.k.a. causing chaos and discord. Randy and Willis are friends and Randy’s 100% a lovable troll.
Does Becky not have a key to Leslie’s place? I always assumed that Leslie gave her one. At least then she wouldn’t assume someone was trying to break in which she would need a bat for.
So, yeah, Mr. Willis, uhh, WHAT THE F*CK HAPPENED TO MIKE AND AMBER’S PSYCHOTIC DAD, AND BECKY’S PSYCHOTIC IN A DIFFERENT WAY DAD??? AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
A little nitpick, but Blaine is what they call obviously psychopatic, while Ross is probably qualifying as legally incompetent. If we’re going to throw around mental diagnoses.
But yes we all want to know. At this point I mainly want to know if putting off the reveal is going to serve some plot purpose or if it’s just to mess with us. . .
Psychotic specifically means having a mental illness that causes you to lose touch with reality. There’s plenty of people who have psychotic symptoms, and it’s a heavily stigmatized illness – they’re actually far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. (This tends to be true of most mental illnesses and disabilities, and is extremely depressing.) Using it in this sense does kind of contribute to the stigma.
Psychopath is no longer clinical language, and is still pretty stigmatizing to low-empathy folks (we exist, we live functional lives, and apparently it’s a really good trait to have for surgeons to be able to handle that pressure,) but I will admit, sometimes it’s not wholly inaccurate and we don’t have a less stigmatizing single word for ‘completely self-absorbed abusive monster’. In the abstract, at least.
Ableism: It’s deeply exhausting to contemplate and gets people killed!
Apparently it also helps in the business world – people low in empathy are represented more at the C-suite level than in the general population as a whole.
2nd panel. Is this a hint of things to come. I think you guys have collaborated or at least mentioned each others strips in the past. https://www.somethingpositive.net/
In the Bat-Club, no one can have successful interpersonal relationships because if anyone found out I was Batman, they would try to hurt me through you!
Getting more and more anxious waiting to learn what happened last night. I’m not naturally a nail biter, but if we have to wait another week I may well turn into one.
She responded to Leslie hitting it off with Anna by saying ‘you will pick me up at seven’, which is… rather aggressive and not great. And then said in the post-mortem to Anna that Leslie ran away and became a missionary, which is likewise not great. (The fact that she didn’t get what the problem was with Robin invading Leslie’s house and staying there also suggests ‘bad at boundaries’.) I wouldn’t be surprised if Leslie’s heard through Anna that Mindy’s not in a great headspace, though who knows what Anna picks up on or doesn’t.
Generally, though, the reason she and Leslie didn’t click is that they’re too similar, and specifically what Mindy said about Robin was stuff Leslie had had as a romantic fantasy before realizing how fucked up that was. Which, yeah, not Mindy’s fault really. I suspect she’d be a lot happier if she stopped living with (and, given they’re apparently both dental hygienists, very possibly working with) Anna.
Anna’s a dentist, yeah, and Mindy is a dental hygienist, which I have no idea what it means because we don’t have that here, but I assume is lower in the hierarchy than “dentist”. It’s actually Anna’s dental office. And also they’re roommates. Meaning Mindy is not only her ex’s subordinate, she also lives with her – no escape.
I hope that at least they started their relationship while in college and not at work.
If you HAVE to date a coworker, at least be smart/decent enough to not do so across hierarchical lines.
1) S*P is not in the same universe as DoA.
2) Randy isn’t, despite being caustic, an asshole. He would not spoil another artist’s work. He would totally poke the fandom over being overdramatically concerned about something, however.
Even then, it seems to only be his internet presence that’s caustic. I met him at a con, and he was the nicest dude I’d ever met. Felt like I could stand there and talk to him all day and he wouldn’t mind (which, I mean, he probably would, but he had such a gentle presence that you wouldn’t suspect).
Sorry, I was so impressed by Randy that I take any opportunity to gush. 🙂
There is no reason in the world this should be, but is it safe to assume that both the DoA and S*P strips run in linear time and are loosely synchronized … not with each other, but in that “Today = Today” in both worlds?
Right now in DoA, it looks like the morning after Mike’s plunge, which would have happened only a few hours prior. Meanwhile over at S*P, a hall has already been secured and Mike’s memorial wreath with photo has already been created. I don’t know how early the florists and photolabs open in Bloomington, but a four hour overnight turnaround? Damn! And Mike’s friends are not even aware yet!
One possibility: the characters over at S*P hired florist Jamie “The Rack” McJack from Dani Corsetto’s “Girls With Slingshots” to put one together fast. Jamie is usually up late anyway.
Ahh-hh, why am I overthinking this? The Mike wreath is a great In-Joke, period.
I doubt anything that happens in Something Positive will impact the DoA story And the “wake” is just a joke.
Time-wise the 2 strips use different scales, with DoA on pace to take a decade to cover one school term of material. On the other hand something positive runs in (almost) real time, with characters actually aging as the strip progresses. (That would limit the ability to do crossovers, if either strip payed attention to logic)
problem with seeing characters being reused? sometimes is hard to disconnect them from their previous versions.
It always hurts me to see my to favorite lesbians at war like this
Am I the only one who noticed that Leslie doesn’t know how to hold a bat? Wrong hand is on top for that side. If she was left handed, the bat should be on the other side. Not going to get any leverage out of that thing.
Definitely a southpaw, as evident in “Sculptor”, June 2013 (unable to create valid hyperlink with my crummy computer).
She wont be swatting the horsehide; but will likely come straight down like Maxwells Silver Hammer, hence the stance. Besides, if the bat were on the other shoulder, her face would be partially obscured. Composition, y’all…
What annoys me the most about the SP strip is that PeeJee thought it would be inappropriate for someone to come to Mike’s wake dressed like a fuckable chicken; when in fact Mike’s will and testament probably demands that everyone should dress up like that.
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yeah, it’s super creepy when someone comes home and you don’t expect anyone to come home
*side-eyes landlord/landlady, that RA who decided to finally do a room check after literal MONTHS of nothing*
It is also really creepy when you follow a seemingly innocent link to another web comic where someone drew something… disturbing.
…
Not that that has any relevance to today’s strip. Nope. Not at all.
I swear, Randy’s such a troll…
I’m still salty about that RA who marked me down in a room check for having a bit of powder on an otherwise clean bathroom counter.
Like, tf, I was literally doing my makeup right as you walked in. You want me constantly wiping down my counter the second anything gets on it?
You got marked down because your room was untidy? Where were you, West Point?
I was in a house once where none of the front door keys worked properly except the one the landlady kept so she could sneak in at wierd times. She only replaced the lock after hers failed too. It was like having rats. Rats that looked like Margaret Thatcher.
Yikes, I can’t imagine having to deal with a landlord like that. Not sure where you live, but here that would be super illegal. My landlord has to give me 24 hours notice in writing if he wants to enter my unit for any reason.
I would leave traps for that 😒
Not that they’d SUCCEED but it’s the idea of it
So you’re the Rogue of the party, then?
Remember that if traps fail, you should consider poison or bait.
And what’s an RA room check? Lived in college dorms for 4 years and never had a single one. One Nine weeks, I never saw the RA but twice, and she was my roomie.
They’re doing the bit wrong. Becky is supposed to go first and ask if that’s a bat or Leslie is happy to see her.
Both?
Just a bat club – with all the targets you can HIT
… Leslie had a HUBBY?!
Yes. From before she came out.
This has been discussed before, I’m almost certain. I only even slightly doubt because I may be thinking of Shortpacked! where we even met the guy. But yeah, I’m like 85% sure it came up in class at one point.
Yeah, she said so in this strip.
Yup – that’s the one. Thanks Doctor!
Guess coming up to her honesty came in pretty quick, huh.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/faithbased/
Yes. Both here and in the Walky!verse.
I feel like this might have been a pun on “hobby”? I’m not sure.
The first rule of Bat Club …
… is hit people with a bat first, ask questions second. Maybe.
PUNCH FIRST. ASK QUESTIONS WHILE PUNCHING.
Mike would approve.
Isn’t “bat club” a bit redundant, though?
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(Side-note, if they form a group dedicated to bats, would they be known as the Batwomen? ’cause, good! We’ve needed to expand our vigilante base, now that the villains are unionizing.)
So a night on the town is when they go clubbing?
Yes. But only if they’re feeling batty. 😛
DC Bombshells has the Batgirls, they all dress in world war II era baseball outfits with the bat sign and carry bats to fight crime 😀
Oh, that’s true, isn’t it- I need to read that at some point, haven’t managed to get a hold of the comics quite yet. Appreciate the reminder. 🙂
Is that a bat in your hands or are you just happy to see me?
The answer, as always to that kind of question, is yes
Ye- oh, nevermind, I see Bagge already covered it.
Leslie you have a suspiciously long list of people who might try to break into your apartment for some reason. I recommend mkre self defense than a bat and perhaps a better security system.
In other news, glad to see Becky and Leslie speaking with each other. How long has it been since Becky just up and left?
I believe it was mentioned before that it was Leslie’s landlord who “allowed” Robin to break into Leslie’s house way back when. It may not be so simple as “getting a better security system”.
Did Leslie have an ex-husband who wants her back? Or am I think of someone else?
Pretty sure it’s more pissed that she’s not attracted to men.
In Shortpacked he did. He hasn’t made an appearance here to my memory so in DoA, he might not.
Leo was incredibly brainwashed by his environment and is sadly what Joyce would have been like, probably, if he never learned to grow.
He’s been mentioned, though not seen. We don’t know if he wants her back or not.
Assuming it’s the same schlub as in Shortpacked, the answer is probably ‘yes, if only to save her soul from this horrible sin.’ And even if not, guy’s probably on a similar level of fundie as Leo was. Leslie’s parents are still going to be douchebags, after all.
(I was just rereading the Shortpacked wedding arcs the other night. One, SP!Leslie/Robin still fills me with deep and happy emotions. Two, GOD, fuck the Bean parents.)
Shortpacked one was a well meaning guy that when asking “how have you been doing after you left the church” would not have been a passive agressive comment but an actual question. He seems to be very fond of Leslie but unfortunately he seems to be very confortable being a straight white guy in church not unlike Joyce (but with families with more money) and kinda clueless so the possibilities of him getting out are low. He did recognize Leslie’s parents as a pain in the ass.
He would probably would have liked remain married to Leslie but I don’t think he would have ever broken in to her house unless tricked to do so.
I have a feeling in this universe Leo would have been similar including his unfortunate tendency to put his foot on his mouth thinking he was saying something tolerant XD XD It’s complex
I have a feeling this Leo is substantially worse if Leslie believes he’d break into her house.
Not clear how much we’re supposed to take all those as serious possibilities and how much just Leslie freaking out.
Sometimes you’re the Louisville Slugger, baby
Sometimes you’re the ball…
–and by request, I follow up the hacked Muzak selection with Nirvana’s “About A Girl”
I not only recognize this reference, I have the album.
The Bug, from the album Brothers In Arms, by Dire Straights
It’s actually from On Every Street.
I had to look that up. I remembered it, but I knew it wasn’t Brothers in Arms. On Every Street was kind of forgettable. Now I’ve got to go listen to Dire Straits. 🙂
Also, related to the Something Positive strip that Willis linked, is that a wake for Mike’s death? Or do we have a look a like situation?
We have a “Randy is a gigantic troll” situation. He hit a different webcomic’s lead with a car one day after that strip ended. This situation could absolutely go either way.
(though why would they be holding a wake, for a teenager from Indiana, at a bar in Texas?)
I could swear the Shortpacked characters existed in the S*P universe.
They do-ish…not in a way that beholds either comic to the other’s continuity (thus the lack of Soggies in S*P), but Singularikitty is Choo-Choo Bear’s kid, so they’re at least tangentially related.
Wait, what did I miss?! There’s a Singularikitty?! Can someone link me?
Plot twist: it’s actually Walkyverse Mike; there were one or two small crossovers between S*P & Shortpacked, so it’s possible. Singularikitty was related to Choo-Choo Bear.
Don’t ask why there would be a wake for a toy store manager in Colorado at a bar in Texas.
Aw, I hope Walkyverse Mike ain’t dead. In that universe and timeline he’s got a wife and a small child.
Well, bad news…
His is,
https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1222028665959190528
Oh well, time to dust off the ol’resurrection chamber. I’m sure Amber has plenty of genetic material *cough*sperm*cough* to work on.
According to Willis on Twitter, you’re actually right. Looks like the Soggies finally got Mike.
I can’t believe that no-one has the Mike memorial wreath as an avatar yet.
Its hard to believe Davan never commented on all these alien invasions.
snarkily
Not a wake, a support group “Mothers With Nickels.”
It has been established that UltraCar is a character in the S*P universe. And there is a strip where every other web comic character in the world was in S*P after their creators either died or were rendered incapable of physically continuing their series. Or there used to be, an archive crawl failed to turn the strip up.
I can’t recall look-alikes in SP, so I think it’s Mike.
Question is whether Randy knows something we don’t, because webcomic artist friends, or if he’s just trolling readers. The comic caption is “throwing golden apples”, i.e. of discord from the Paris/Trojan War stuff. So it could just be trolling. Or it could be informed trolling.
He’s definitely joking with it, like when he put Faye from Questionable Content witnessing someone, uhh, doing something related to her backstory.
Randy definitely would not spoil someone else’s story by spoiling things. That’d be a dick move.
Which one was the one with Faye? Now I’m curious.
This is the strip which the website claims I’ve posted already but does not show.
https://somethingpositive.net/sp12042005.shtml
Robert E. Howard left the best suicide note ever:
“All dead, all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The guests are gone, and the lamps expire.”
And he was 29, not 30.
Are you sure that was a reference to Faye? Faye’s dad killed himself standing in the backyard. Robert Howard killed himself in his car, as pictured. Faye’s dad had no known reason to do it; Robert Howard had several stressors.
I admit a few minutes of Google-searching didn’t explain who else the girl in the comic might be.
Yeah, Randy’s a wiseass, not a jackass.
No lookalike. And the commentary at the bottom of the comic mentions “throwing golden apples”… a.k.a. causing chaos and discord. Randy and Willis are friends and Randy’s 100% a lovable troll.
**follows Willis Link**
OH MY.
Oh no, Willis, don’t you dare!
Does Becky not have a key to Leslie’s place? I always assumed that Leslie gave her one. At least then she wouldn’t assume someone was trying to break in which she would need a bat for.
I took it as she has a key but it’s finicky to use.
As Leslie points out, Becky is not actually trying to avoid Leslie. She probably made the key make a bunch of noise on purpose.
Willis, you monster. xD
awwww. the wayward daugher returns home to her awesome yet slightly neutrotic lesbian mother. I have waited for this moment.
Is that a bludgeoning weapon in your hands; or are you just happy enough to give me a concussion?
I’m glad these two are going to get some talking done.
Also, Leslie might get to hit Ross with a baseball bat. Win/win, really.
So, yeah, Mr. Willis, uhh, WHAT THE F*CK HAPPENED TO MIKE AND AMBER’S PSYCHOTIC DAD, AND BECKY’S PSYCHOTIC IN A DIFFERENT WAY DAD??? AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
A little nitpick, but Blaine is what they call obviously psychopatic, while Ross is probably qualifying as legally incompetent. If we’re going to throw around mental diagnoses.
But yes we all want to know. At this point I mainly want to know if putting off the reveal is going to serve some plot purpose or if it’s just to mess with us. . .
Does it matter?
Psychotic specifically means having a mental illness that causes you to lose touch with reality. There’s plenty of people who have psychotic symptoms, and it’s a heavily stigmatized illness – they’re actually far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. (This tends to be true of most mental illnesses and disabilities, and is extremely depressing.) Using it in this sense does kind of contribute to the stigma.
Psychopath is no longer clinical language, and is still pretty stigmatizing to low-empathy folks (we exist, we live functional lives, and apparently it’s a really good trait to have for surgeons to be able to handle that pressure,) but I will admit, sometimes it’s not wholly inaccurate and we don’t have a less stigmatizing single word for ‘completely self-absorbed abusive monster’. In the abstract, at least.
Ableism: It’s deeply exhausting to contemplate and gets people killed!
Apparently it also helps in the business world – people low in empathy are represented more at the C-suite level than in the general population as a whole.
No, I mean does it matter if its a plot point or if Willis is messing with our minds. The end result is the same.
The first rule of bat club…
We don’t talk about the-OUCH!
…is get your rabies shots.
Pretty sure she is trying to avoid Leslie. Hence the coming to the house when Leslie is supposed to be having office hours with her students.
2nd panel. Is this a hint of things to come. I think you guys have collaborated or at least mentioned each others strips in the past. https://www.somethingpositive.net/
Leslie, in spite of Joey Ramone’s sage advice, I recommend that you don’t beat on the brat with a base-ball bat.
Well, which is it, Willis? Is it a bat or a club?
It’s a club taped to a bat.
It is a security device for the Batmobile.
It’s more like a grinder or hoagie than a club.
Technically, a bat club is a team.
“A League of Our Own” comes to mind if it’s an all-girls bat club.
There’s no crying in baseball!
In the Bat-Club, no one can have successful interpersonal relationships because if anyone found out I was Batman, they would try to hurt me through you!
Yikes that’s a long list of potential break ins. No wonder she owns a bat.
I’d like to imagine that Mindy, at least, would be above that.
I think she would be, but Leslie doesn’t know her well.
There’s a thing called knocking!
Also Mike’s wake over at SomethingPositive was very nice. RIP.
If that is canon I am going to riot.
He was no match for the Soggies.
They may rule.
Becky, you don’t get it. You always need a bat as a precaution when neonazis and animatronics inside flesh suits lurk in the shadows.
Oh goodie, double nightmare fuel!
I’ve got a feeling that this is where we find out what happened to Mike.
The bat’s happy to see Becky too.
This conversation is gonna be delightful.
RANDY YOU BRILLIANT PIECE OF S$&@ I LOVE YOU
Oh, and this comic is good too. Also DAMN YOU WILLIS AND RANDY
Ok but…
Where is Mike?
Aaaaand another week added til we find out.
Keep asking though.
When you don’t notice the text mentioning Something Positive and go there independently and *screams*
Damn you both!
For a second I mistook Leslie’s hair over her eye as a black eye and got worried this was somehow going to be even more dramatic.
Wow, Leslie really stepped up to bat. Guess stepping up to third base with Anna really made a good pitch.
Technically third base is a home run for lesbians. I’ll let myself out.
Getting more and more anxious waiting to learn what happened last night. I’m not naturally a nail biter, but if we have to wait another week I may well turn into one.
Hope you live near a hardware shop because I have a feeling that your going to need a lot of nails.
*enthusiastic rimshot*
Dumbing of Age Book 10: Students Only Show Up To Office Hours When I’m Late. A documentary.
This is mean to Mindy, who seems genuinely nice and deserves better from everybody. 8(
She responded to Leslie hitting it off with Anna by saying ‘you will pick me up at seven’, which is… rather aggressive and not great. And then said in the post-mortem to Anna that Leslie ran away and became a missionary, which is likewise not great. (The fact that she didn’t get what the problem was with Robin invading Leslie’s house and staying there also suggests ‘bad at boundaries’.) I wouldn’t be surprised if Leslie’s heard through Anna that Mindy’s not in a great headspace, though who knows what Anna picks up on or doesn’t.
Generally, though, the reason she and Leslie didn’t click is that they’re too similar, and specifically what Mindy said about Robin was stuff Leslie had had as a romantic fantasy before realizing how fucked up that was. Which, yeah, not Mindy’s fault really. I suspect she’d be a lot happier if she stopped living with (and, given they’re apparently both dental hygienists, very possibly working with) Anna.
I believe Anna’s actually the dentist and Mindy apparently works for her. Which is even worse.
Anna’s a dentist, yeah, and Mindy is a dental hygienist, which I have no idea what it means because we don’t have that here, but I assume is lower in the hierarchy than “dentist”. It’s actually Anna’s dental office. And also they’re roommates. Meaning Mindy is not only her ex’s subordinate, she also lives with her – no escape.
I hope that at least they started their relationship while in college and not at work.
If you HAVE to date a coworker, at least be smart/decent enough to not do so across hierarchical lines.
The dental hygenist is the person who cleans your teeth while the dentist is the one who looks at ‘em and checks how healthy they are.
And Anna and Mindy were partners in high school, IIRC, as Mindy implied that Anna was her prom date.
Thanks
Anna is much like Mike, in that I think everybody should keep away from them even if what they do isn’t criminally violent.
God, I want to give Leslie a hug.
I honestly forget Leslie’s actively dating Anna.
She has the worst taste in women.
Today’s SomethingPositive has a picture at a wake that looks alot like Mike. I worry.
https://somethingpositive.net/sp01272020.png
For those who haven’t seen it. Ohhhhh shit.
I saw that, laughed my ass off at it.
1) S*P is not in the same universe as DoA.
2) Randy isn’t, despite being caustic, an asshole. He would not spoil another artist’s work. He would totally poke the fandom over being overdramatically concerned about something, however.
Even then, it seems to only be his internet presence that’s caustic. I met him at a con, and he was the nicest dude I’d ever met. Felt like I could stand there and talk to him all day and he wouldn’t mind (which, I mean, he probably would, but he had such a gentle presence that you wouldn’t suspect).
Sorry, I was so impressed by Randy that I take any opportunity to gush. 🙂
Then I expect tomorrow he’ll show up in Lego form on the Infinite Featureless Plain of Death in Irregular Webcomic. That’s the tradition, is it not?
Leslie sure has a lot of enemies and weird, potentially dangerous people around.
If anybody is in Texas and is able to port into webcomics, I may have found the perfect wake Tshirt for Mike:
https://i.redd.it/ragzmdjqtbb41.jpg
I want one.
Hum.
So LESLIE is Batgirl.
They can call their club the Batclub Family!
There is no reason in the world this should be, but is it safe to assume that both the DoA and S*P strips run in linear time and are loosely synchronized … not with each other, but in that “Today = Today” in both worlds?
Right now in DoA, it looks like the morning after Mike’s plunge, which would have happened only a few hours prior. Meanwhile over at S*P, a hall has already been secured and Mike’s memorial wreath with photo has already been created. I don’t know how early the florists and photolabs open in Bloomington, but a four hour overnight turnaround? Damn! And Mike’s friends are not even aware yet!
One possibility: the characters over at S*P hired florist Jamie “The Rack” McJack from Dani Corsetto’s “Girls With Slingshots” to put one together fast. Jamie is usually up late anyway.
Ahh-hh, why am I overthinking this? The Mike wreath is a great In-Joke, period.
I doubt anything that happens in Something Positive will impact the DoA story And the “wake” is just a joke.
Time-wise the 2 strips use different scales, with DoA on pace to take a decade to cover one school term of material. On the other hand something positive runs in (almost) real time, with characters actually aging as the strip progresses. (That would limit the ability to do crossovers, if either strip payed attention to logic)
Boy, Leslie sure does talk to herself a lot, a veritable wall of exposition.
Now, was Becky trying to avoid Leslie by popping by during work hours, or trying to meet with her?
Leslie is VERY lonely.
Leslie must be related to my wife who has a constant mental monologue going on which she sometimes vocalizes. And by sometimes I mean constantly.
Also she has one-sided conversations with the cats…
One-sided from your point of view…
When you start hearing both sides of the conversation, it is time to get worried.
problem with seeing characters being reused? sometimes is hard to disconnect them from their previous versions.
It always hurts me to see my to favorite lesbians at war like this
Am I the only one who noticed that Leslie doesn’t know how to hold a bat? Wrong hand is on top for that side. If she was left handed, the bat should be on the other side. Not going to get any leverage out of that thing.
Definitely a southpaw, as evident in “Sculptor”, June 2013 (unable to create valid hyperlink with my crummy computer).
She wont be swatting the horsehide; but will likely come straight down like Maxwells Silver Hammer, hence the stance. Besides, if the bat were on the other shoulder, her face would be partially obscured. Composition, y’all…
Good point about the hammer strike. Nice reference, too.
As for composition, of course that is the best way to do it. I mean, this IS David Willis, after all. 🙂
What annoys me the most about the SP strip is that PeeJee thought it would be inappropriate for someone to come to Mike’s wake dressed like a fuckable chicken; when in fact Mike’s will and testament probably demands that everyone should dress up like that.
Especially all the moms.