I think he’s a lot smarter than everyone actually considers him to be, but he’s so consumed by grief and religion that he just doesn’t use those smarts.
I’ve known some actual geniuses who could be outsmarted by the Forrest Gumps of the world, simply because the latter do what they know needs to be done with the very limited resources they have, while the genius sits back and tries to work out the perfect way of doing things endlessly, without actually *doing* any of it.
I’m not positive, but panel 3 makes me think that Ross pulled in front of him and he hit the car instead of the car hitting him. Those scooters aren’t super fast, so it might not be too bad.
Still clearly sent him flying though. Wear a helmet, kiddos!
But if we’re talking 20 feet per minute (14mph), unexpected, and no gear, there’s a lot of damage you can incur before you even hit the ground. Head- and teeth-first, even.
On the other hand, two weeks ago my brother fell off a bicycle at low speed and suffered and intertrochanteric fracture of his right hip. Sometimes you don’t need to be going fast, you just need to fall badly. (And on the gripping hand: do this when you are nineteen, not when you are 67.)
Motie reference, Agemegos? Wow, i forgot about those books, can’t even remember the author’s name. I do remember reading one on my first smartphone, with a 3.5 inch screen. That was painful.
You can see the motion lines to suggest that Toedad pulled in front of Mike. Funny thing is, in order to do that he had to drive on footpaths to get there. I am a little confused, though, as while one of the pathways in Dunn Woods does empty out in front of Kirkwood Hall, Mike got hit on the back side of the building.
Still, between Mike yelling all over and Toedad driving on the walkways, I cannot imagine how Blaine and Toedad expect to assault Mike and NOT get caught by the cops before they can get away. They are on campus now, after all.
I think Mike had a goal of getting Blaine and Ross to follow him onto Campus. I don’t know if it would be a bigger violation of the restraining order, and so he hoped for the intervention of the Campus authorities. Come to think of it,Toedad is probably supposed to stay away from Becky as well.
It’s hard to document or prove these shmoes were lurking around an odd campus apartment. It’s hearsay. But if they’re caught performing an act of violence on Campus, that’s documented.
Actually Mike’s testimony would be considered eyewitness testimony, and he observed them near the apartment. So, more than ‘hearsay’. (However, I should point out that in many cases hearsay actually is allowed as evidence in criminal cases.)
Plus, with an eyewitness, the cops would probably investigate further (there would be records from the hotel they were staying at, probably various video footage from security cameras, etc.) Blane/toedad would have to either provide an alibi, or explain why they were both located in a city that they did not live in, that contained ‘victims’.
Neither Blaine nor especially Toedad are allowed on campus, so at the very least they are trespassing at this moment, though since both have a history of kidnapping people and are chasing another that isn’t a good look.
I am alive today because when a car and my bicycle crossed paths at a 90 degree angle, the car hit my front tire instead of hitting me. A fraction of a second more and my body would have dented his car instead of my front fork denting his car.
And yes, I was wearing my helmet, and I’d probably be dead without it. Wear your fucking helmet, folks.
I’ve been hit by a speeding taxi when I was younger head on, and the only injuries I sustained was a badly bruised leg and a little bit of blood in my urine. Getting hit by a vehicle could kill someone or leave them relatively unscathed, it really depends on how they get hit and how they land and how the forces get distributed between those two impacts.
Sometimes you can get hit by a car and be fine. Maybe Mike’s just a little scrapped up from hitting the ground. (Okay, you probably SHOULD go the the hospital following being hit by a car, but it’s never turned out to be necessary for me.)
My current record in death matches against motor vehicles is 2-0-1. I walked away from the first two that got totaled out by hitting me, but wasn’t as lucky the third time I got hit. I had to be removed from the scene by ambulance, the truck managed to drive away from the scene because it was going fast enough to keep on driving for a little while after it was used to hit me. I have had numerous other encounters that did not end with the weapon vehicle getting declared a total wreck. In none of my wrecks was the presence or lack of a foam hat a factor in my survival, but it did result in fewer abrasions in the last wreck. My face looked horrible, but without the helmet holding the side of my head away from the pavement I would have needed much more plastic surgery.
Yeah. The vital import of DamnYouWillis’ statement is that you comic is not going to spend six months or so dealing with the main cast’s anger and grief over the death of somebody close. People in universe who the main cast don’t know or care all that much about are dying off-camera all the time, and it’s possible that someone member of the actual cast might get so alienated or estranged from the main cast that they could die without de-railing the comic.
I don’t think Mike is at that point, though. Blaine or Clint might be. Even Asher.
Not lies, but changes his mind based on story needs, yes. Case in point: He originally said on tumblr that Faz was 17, but later in the comic he was confirmed to be 15.
Also Faz-related, he also originally had a statement out there that Amber was Blaine’s only biological offspring (unlike in the Walkyverse), but around the time that Amber brought up the possibility in-comic that Faz may actually be her half-brother, Willis said that he’d forgotten that he’d made the prior declaration and that it no longer necessarily applied.
I’m feeling disconcerted by the current buffer date, which is March 15. It’s just a coincidence, and he’s not going to backstab us on the “no major character deaths” rule, is he?
I have to be reading too much into the Ides of March thing, right?
Yeah there’s one day where you go “ooooooh I’m BREAKING THE LAW” and then you’re just waiting for the next update.
Especially on a 7 day a week comic like DoA. Questionable Content’s schedule feels really weird as a Patreon subscriber, since Jeph updates in the evening most of the time, so for what is nominally a M-F comic, you’re really looking at Sa-W.
Especially when you could do the reverse- fall one or more updates behind when there’s nothing particularly exciting happening storywise, then consume that self-imposed buffer later as a free read-ahead.
Not saying you shouldn’t financially support your artists, of course. But if “reading ahead” is what you care about there are other ways of tricking yourself into having that option.
I’m so used to Ultra-Car being the most commonly seen vehicle in Willis’s comics that Toedad’s car is reminding me of the other non-sentient robots in Short Circuit. It looks like UC but it’s soulless.
I don’t know if if this counts as idiot ball or not.
But now the guy who got thrown in jail for recklessly firing a rifle recklessly used his car as a weapon. He’s done being a free man once this is all over.
No, he is not done being a free man if someone (Blaine) opts to post his bail. In Indiana you can get bail for any crime other than murder. Even attempted murder is eligible for bail. In fact, I read about a guy who shot up a bar earlier this year and his bail, initially set at $100,000, was reduced to $40K, which meant his bail was $4,000.
The answer is simple, Blaine goes with him. I mean, at this point he’s at least aiding and abetting, if not straight up conspiracy to commit a felony, and that’s ignoring the stuff Mike shouted about. I can’t remember if he’s under some kind of restraining order, but I can guarantee ToeDad has to be under some form of injunction to keep away from the school’s premises after his stunt.
Wow, Ross when from from joke to threat in 2 comic strips. If they kill Mike the two will be in jail for a long time since killing a generic hateful white guy seems more punisheable than the kidnapping of a lesbian woman. Mike was right about our culture forgiving white people so easily.
Becky has too much spotlight to just brush her off like that. It’s actually insanely stupid of them to think they could do anything to her and it not be all over the news after how much of a show she’s been put on by Robin, and knowing her, Robin would lead the attack just for the votes. Thing is, we don’t know what they’re planning, so I’m just assuming kidnapping so he can runaway to attempt to “re-educate” her.
Maybe. Murder is generally treated as more serious than kidnapping, so there’s that. As far as the law or even public opinion goes “generic hateful” doesn’t really matter, since the general public won’t know about that.
And honestly, kidnapping a white woman (especially a teen) often does get a lot of attention – but more so when it’s assumed to be a sex crime and a lot less when it’s a family squabble. “Missing white woman syndrome”.
Even non-electric cars can have fairly impressive noise dampening. Some hybrid cars run on electric only some of the time.
It’s also hard to hear somebody in a car when you’re yelling.
Last but certainly not least: It’s a city. There’s cars *everywhere*. They may not be as common this late at night, but most people learn to filter out ubiquitous noises.
Or so I’ve been told. Some of us on the autistic spectrum have difficulties with this.
Hell, Ross is (apparently) being smarter than Mike, which is pretty disturbing. I mean, Mike may be an asshole, but he’s usually a competent asshole. I’m holding out hope that Mike’s ultimate plan isn’t as dumb as it currently looks, but it’s getting harder.
I suspect we may get around to that. It’s what’s going to come between Ross and Blaine. It may take a while though, like once we are even further down the rabbit hole of their evil plan, and everything seems hopeless, and then Ross is going to have a crisis of faith (not in God, but in Blaine), and it wont be enough to repair all the damage with Becky, but she might keep.him.on her Christmas list.
Oh, I don’t think it will change his opinion on Becky, but it might change his opinion on the best way to respond to Becky’s lesbianism – something closer to “God has a plan and I will let Becky sort it out with God” than “I am using my gun to run interference on Becky’s lesbianism.” With some nudging from Hank, of course. And like I said, I see this as one possible scenario, not the definitive outcome.
Remember, there were 2 witnesses that saw Mike and Blaine arrive on campus (at the same time Mike was yelling about being “chased by a mob stooge”). Hopefully they contacted the police to alert them that “something’ was going on, and they can intervene before Mike is injurred further.
Dunn’s Woods is a forested area of campus; it covers an area of roughly 4 x 4 city blocks, and is located just east of that entryway/walkway, known as the Sample Gates, that Mike and Blaine were passing through in yesterday’s comic. It’s about five blocks directly east of Read Hall, which is where Mike and the majority of the DoA cast live — so maybe Mike isn’t as cunning as we’re giving him credit for and was merely making a beeline home … and inadvertently leading Blaine straight there as well.
My only question is when did Ross get so savvy about the layout of campus that he knew just where Dunn’s Woods were and how to get around it so quickly that he was able to cut off the chase at just the right location?
It certainly looks the same as Amber’s step-mom’s car, and it stands to reason he’d be using it. The one Toedad was driving during the kidnapping and Amazi-Girl chase/rescue was undoubtedly damaged in the crash, and is either still in the shop or has been impounded by the police as evidence.
Toedad was at Blowjob Cat when Blaine met up with him, right? I don’t know or care how Ross got there — he could have used a portkey for all the difference it makes, but Blaine undoubtedly drove there, and I’m guessing that he (Blaine) left the keys in the ignition when he got out to confront him.
I’m also assuming that when Toedad couldn’t get the scooter started, he went back to the car, found the keys in the ignition, and took it from there.
Other possibility is that Ross used the car — with or without Blaine’s permission — to get to the party site with Blaine following and arriving on foot…. so Ross already had the keys.
Damnit Mike, don’t you know Rincewind’s first rule of running away? Never look behind you. All it does is distract you from the important business of running away as fast as you can and not tripping.
Hey Ross, JK Simmons called… he wants you, your banged-up cars and your s*** driving skills to be in his next Farmers Insurance commercial.
Bom-ba-dum-ba-bompbompbomp!
+10 points for basic lateral thinking, -50 for going to the place the guy blatantly trying to goad and manipulate you wanted you to go, even if you arrived in an unexpected manner.
This is why I carry my poor man’s mace substitue on me. Don’t care about glasses, the smallest bit of a mix of iodine and table salt gets in your eyes and scareams begin.
Soooo…this is a universe where every college campus ISN’T blanketed with security cameras and every student reflexively pulls out their phone and records every moderately interesting thing that hoves into their field of vision? Blaine and Ross really are dumb as rocks, aren’t they?
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I feel like Mike’s endgame is indulging this weird masochistic fetish he has
Quite possible
I suspect that would push Toedad well into gay panic headspace and hasten his death…
I really hope he did dent his car etc. Traceable evidence…
They’re both dense
I hope Mike’s Endgame is better than Tony Stark’s.
“And I…fucked your mom.”
“For a nickel!”
Mike is self destructive, especially when depressed
Isn’t he always depressed?
“That’s the secret, Cap. I’m always depressed”
Wouldn’t it be weird if actual toes turned out to have brains?
Ross believes firmly in Intoelligent Design.
I only know what that means because of that one episode of Touched by an Angel with the mom who had cancer
I’m picturing feet with Eistein hair here, and I’m not sure this is where you were going with this.
No, that’s pretty much where I was going.
I think he’s a lot smarter than everyone actually considers him to be, but he’s so consumed by grief and religion that he just doesn’t use those smarts.
Ross is a man of below average intelligence. Blaine is an average intelligence man who thinks he’s a genius.
I would argue that the latter is the stupider one.
As is usually the case.
I’ve known some actual geniuses who could be outsmarted by the Forrest Gumps of the world, simply because the latter do what they know needs to be done with the very limited resources they have, while the genius sits back and tries to work out the perfect way of doing things endlessly, without actually *doing* any of it.
They’re Toe-Dad and the Blaine!
Yes, Toe-Dad and the Blaine!
One is an idiot…
The other’s insane.
Well fuck. So, uh, no matter whether AG shows up or not, he’s gonna need a hospital.
It’s hard to think of Mike as lucky in the last panel, but he’s lucky he didn’t already maim himself in the collision.
I’m not positive, but panel 3 makes me think that Ross pulled in front of him and he hit the car instead of the car hitting him. Those scooters aren’t super fast, so it might not be too bad.
Still clearly sent him flying though. Wear a helmet, kiddos!
Also don’t provoke murderous assholes in the hopes that a vigilante superhero will show up, kiddos!
I also think that’s what happened.
But if we’re talking 20 feet per minute (14mph), unexpected, and no gear, there’s a lot of damage you can incur before you even hit the ground. Head- and teeth-first, even.
On the other hand, two weeks ago my brother fell off a bicycle at low speed and suffered and intertrochanteric fracture of his right hip. Sometimes you don’t need to be going fast, you just need to fall badly. (And on the gripping hand: do this when you are nineteen, not when you are 67.)
Motie reference, Agemegos? Wow, i forgot about those books, can’t even remember the author’s name. I do remember reading one on my first smartphone, with a 3.5 inch screen. That was painful.
Niven and Pournelle
At Tanagra?
You can see the motion lines to suggest that Toedad pulled in front of Mike. Funny thing is, in order to do that he had to drive on footpaths to get there. I am a little confused, though, as while one of the pathways in Dunn Woods does empty out in front of Kirkwood Hall, Mike got hit on the back side of the building.
Still, between Mike yelling all over and Toedad driving on the walkways, I cannot imagine how Blaine and Toedad expect to assault Mike and NOT get caught by the cops before they can get away. They are on campus now, after all.
I think Mike had a goal of getting Blaine and Ross to follow him onto Campus. I don’t know if it would be a bigger violation of the restraining order, and so he hoped for the intervention of the Campus authorities. Come to think of it,Toedad is probably supposed to stay away from Becky as well.
It’s hard to document or prove these shmoes were lurking around an odd campus apartment. It’s hearsay. But if they’re caught performing an act of violence on Campus, that’s documented.
Actually Mike’s testimony would be considered eyewitness testimony, and he observed them near the apartment. So, more than ‘hearsay’. (However, I should point out that in many cases hearsay actually is allowed as evidence in criminal cases.)
Plus, with an eyewitness, the cops would probably investigate further (there would be records from the hotel they were staying at, probably various video footage from security cameras, etc.) Blane/toedad would have to either provide an alibi, or explain why they were both located in a city that they did not live in, that contained ‘victims’.
If Blaine gets caught violating IU’s restraining order against him, he’ll get arrested.
If Ross is caught on campus, or gets arrested while out on bail, he’ll be taken back into custody and his bail money will be forfeit.
It’s too early in the arc for either of those things to happen yet, but I sure hope they do.
Do we actually know of a restraining order? Or that Ross’s bail terms include staying off campus?
Pretty sure Ruth said he wasn’t allowed on campus anymore but I don’t recall directly where.
Neither Blaine nor especially Toedad are allowed on campus, so at the very least they are trespassing at this moment, though since both have a history of kidnapping people and are chasing another that isn’t a good look.
I am alive today because when a car and my bicycle crossed paths at a 90 degree angle, the car hit my front tire instead of hitting me. A fraction of a second more and my body would have dented his car instead of my front fork denting his car.
And yes, I was wearing my helmet, and I’d probably be dead without it. Wear your fucking helmet, folks.
I’ve been hit by a speeding taxi when I was younger head on, and the only injuries I sustained was a badly bruised leg and a little bit of blood in my urine. Getting hit by a vehicle could kill someone or leave them relatively unscathed, it really depends on how they get hit and how they land and how the forces get distributed between those two impacts.
I have a badly dented helmet as a reminder. Thank you, EPS, for sacrificing youself for me.
To me the angle looks like the car clipped the back of the scooter.
Sometimes you can get hit by a car and be fine. Maybe Mike’s just a little scrapped up from hitting the ground. (Okay, you probably SHOULD go the the hospital following being hit by a car, but it’s never turned out to be necessary for me.)
The problem is if you don’t go, you don’t know if internal stuff is okay until it’s too late.
Mike did sustain a little bit of road rash in the collision. Look closer at his left elbow and right wrist in panel five.
Yeah, I saw that. I just meant, maybe that’s the extent of his injuries.
He doesn’t look too bloody for being hit by a car.
I think Ross cut him off and Mike hit the side while he was distracted.
My current record in death matches against motor vehicles is 2-0-1. I walked away from the first two that got totaled out by hitting me, but wasn’t as lucky the third time I got hit. I had to be removed from the scene by ambulance, the truck managed to drive away from the scene because it was going fast enough to keep on driving for a little while after it was used to hit me. I have had numerous other encounters that did not end with the weapon vehicle getting declared a total wreck. In none of my wrecks was the presence or lack of a foam hat a factor in my survival, but it did result in fewer abrasions in the last wreck. My face looked horrible, but without the helmet holding the side of my head away from the pavement I would have needed much more plastic surgery.
*clings to Willis’s “no major character deaths” rule like a light in this cold, cold darkness*
Just bear in mind that word of god in this comic is not necessarily immutable or unchanging.
Yeah. The vital import of DamnYouWillis’ statement is that you comic is not going to spend six months or so dealing with the main cast’s anger and grief over the death of somebody close. People in universe who the main cast don’t know or care all that much about are dying off-camera all the time, and it’s possible that someone member of the actual cast might get so alienated or estranged from the main cast that they could die without de-railing the comic.
I don’t think Mike is at that point, though. Blaine or Clint might be. Even Asher.
Willis LIES
WILLIES
Not lies, but changes his mind based on story needs, yes. Case in point: He originally said on tumblr that Faz was 17, but later in the comic he was confirmed to be 15.
Also Faz-related, he also originally had a statement out there that Amber was Blaine’s only biological offspring (unlike in the Walkyverse), but around the time that Amber brought up the possibility in-comic that Faz may actually be her half-brother, Willis said that he’d forgotten that he’d made the prior declaration and that it no longer necessarily applied.
Yep. Stuff happens, Willis changes his mind. He is a fickle, wrathful god.
Yup, one of the scrapped rough-draft comics in the back of Book 8 heavily suggests that Blaine is Faz’s biological father.
I’m feeling disconcerted by the current buffer date, which is March 15. It’s just a coincidence, and he’s not going to backstab us on the “no major character deaths” rule, is he?
I have to be reading too much into the Ides of March thing, right?
Well spotted!
*looks at Willis’ twitter*
Welp.
Lose Sight, Lose The Fight. (I think I said it about Ross earlier when Dina blindsided him. So unfortunately Ross DOES have the capacity to learn.)
Prattle, prattle, lose the battle.
Always look both ways before crossing the streets, kids!
Darn it, Toedad, how did I have any hope for your conduct improving???
Just when you thought they were too incompetent to murder a guy one of them fails upwards!
One part of me wishes I could afford a Patreon.
The smarter part of me is reminding me that there will probably be a jump to other characters tomorrow or something.
Honestly Patreon sounds like fun but being one update ahead really only changes when you feel the suspence.
Yeah there’s one day where you go “ooooooh I’m BREAKING THE LAW” and then you’re just waiting for the next update.
Especially on a 7 day a week comic like DoA. Questionable Content’s schedule feels really weird as a Patreon subscriber, since Jeph updates in the evening most of the time, so for what is nominally a M-F comic, you’re really looking at Sa-W.
Which is why I think he ought to have more Patreon tiers, each twice the cost of the previous tier and another day ahead.
Especially when you could do the reverse- fall one or more updates behind when there’s nothing particularly exciting happening storywise, then consume that self-imposed buffer later as a free read-ahead.
Not saying you shouldn’t financially support your artists, of course. But if “reading ahead” is what you care about there are other ways of tricking yourself into having that option.
Thejeff’s idea is deviously good, though.
Well then you would miss out on the comic section, but yea. To be fair by the same logic you should only buy books used.
I’m so used to Ultra-Car being the most commonly seen vehicle in Willis’s comics that Toedad’s car is reminding me of the other non-sentient robots in Short Circuit. It looks like UC but it’s soulless.
I firmly believe Carla will have her brain transferred into a car to save her life.
I don’t know if if this counts as idiot ball or not.
But now the guy who got thrown in jail for recklessly firing a rifle recklessly used his car as a weapon. He’s done being a free man once this is all over.
I think he’s beyond recklessness and well into “knowingly and willingly”.
The owners of those scooters are going to sue him so hard that his kids will be broke.
ScooterCo ™ will need to show it was Ross’ fault, when the dent might show Mike drove into Ross’ car.
Jokes on the owners, Becky’s already broke 😛
No, he is not done being a free man if someone (Blaine) opts to post his bail. In Indiana you can get bail for any crime other than murder. Even attempted murder is eligible for bail. In fact, I read about a guy who shot up a bar earlier this year and his bail, initially set at $100,000, was reduced to $40K, which meant his bail was $4,000.
The answer is simple, Blaine goes with him. I mean, at this point he’s at least aiding and abetting, if not straight up conspiracy to commit a felony, and that’s ignoring the stuff Mike shouted about. I can’t remember if he’s under some kind of restraining order, but I can guarantee ToeDad has to be under some form of injunction to keep away from the school’s premises after his stunt.
That’s not quite how it works.
The $4K is never coming back.
But Ross is already out on bail. Even in Indiana they can’t just let you walk out again when you violate your bail and get arrested again, right?
This does not count as idiot ball because Ross has been previously and repeatedly established as a dangerous idiot.
Ugh. Well, shit.
NO REGRETS
<3
NO REGERTS
aw SHIT
On the plus side, he has succeeded – for the moment – in pulling Ross away from Becky.
Well, fuck. Now it’s time to worry.
Is Mike gonna die? Cuz hes an ass, hes an ass who cares.
Wow, Ross when from from joke to threat in 2 comic strips. If they kill Mike the two will be in jail for a long time since killing a generic hateful white guy seems more punisheable than the kidnapping of a lesbian woman. Mike was right about our culture forgiving white people so easily.
Becky has too much spotlight to just brush her off like that. It’s actually insanely stupid of them to think they could do anything to her and it not be all over the news after how much of a show she’s been put on by Robin, and knowing her, Robin would lead the attack just for the votes. Thing is, we don’t know what they’re planning, so I’m just assuming kidnapping so he can runaway to attempt to “re-educate” her.
She does now. When bail was set and paid, she was still a mostly anonymous homeless lesbian.
Maybe. Murder is generally treated as more serious than kidnapping, so there’s that. As far as the law or even public opinion goes “generic hateful” doesn’t really matter, since the general public won’t know about that.
And honestly, kidnapping a white woman (especially a teen) often does get a lot of attention – but more so when it’s assumed to be a sex crime and a lot less when it’s a family squabble. “Missing white woman syndrome”.
act with integrity, insult the dude whose car you just drove into
No regrets, insult the mother of the dude whose car you just drove into.
mike insulting people’s moms in the middle of dramatic events really is a multiversal constant
I *knew* there was an alternate mode of transport involved here.
Also, Ross being the smarter of the duo is hilarious.
I don’t know if it’s smarter so much as it’s like a party in D&D overthinking their options and the barbarian just smashes it and it works.
Ross possesses a certain base cunning, I’d say.
RIP Mike he died as he lived, being spiteful and eating ass(phalt)
How the fuck is nobody hearing the car?
Electric cars are really sneaky, so maybe it’s one of those?
I HIGHLY doubt Toedad is the kind of guy to use an electric car.
Even non-electric cars can have fairly impressive noise dampening. Some hybrid cars run on electric only some of the time.
It’s also hard to hear somebody in a car when you’re yelling.
Last but certainly not least: It’s a city. There’s cars *everywhere*. They may not be as common this late at night, but most people learn to filter out ubiquitous noises.
Or so I’ve been told. Some of us on the autistic spectrum have difficulties with this.
Looks like it is not as dented as Maggie’s car, anyway.
He DUNN goofed.
Ross is actually being smarter than Blaine for once.
Hell, Ross is (apparently) being smarter than Mike, which is pretty disturbing. I mean, Mike may be an asshole, but he’s usually a competent asshole. I’m holding out hope that Mike’s ultimate plan isn’t as dumb as it currently looks, but it’s getting harder.
You and your big mouth, Mike.
I keep expecting Ross to accidentally do the right thing and he keeps disappointing me.
Ross, why are you my father?
I suspect we may get around to that. It’s what’s going to come between Ross and Blaine. It may take a while though, like once we are even further down the rabbit hole of their evil plan, and everything seems hopeless, and then Ross is going to have a crisis of faith (not in God, but in Blaine), and it wont be enough to repair all the damage with Becky, but she might keep.him.on her Christmas list.
One possible scenario, anyway.
I doubt it. Ross turning on Blaine because of Blaine’s shit probably isn’t going to change his opinion on Becky.
Oh, I don’t think it will change his opinion on Becky, but it might change his opinion on the best way to respond to Becky’s lesbianism – something closer to “God has a plan and I will let Becky sort it out with God” than “I am using my gun to run interference on Becky’s lesbianism.” With some nudging from Hank, of course. And like I said, I see this as one possible scenario, not the definitive outcome.
Remember, there were 2 witnesses that saw Mike and Blaine arrive on campus (at the same time Mike was yelling about being “chased by a mob stooge”). Hopefully they contacted the police to alert them that “something’ was going on, and they can intervene before Mike is injurred further.
Dramatically showing up in a car is like Toedads one trick that actually works so he milks it for all its worth
A one-trick pony toe, so to speak.
A one-trick toeny
In THEORY, the first rule of electric scooters is always watch where you’re going.
In PRACTICE, it seems to be never watch where you’re going.
In practice, it’s “do whatever you want because it doesn’t belong to you and everyone else will watch out for your safety”.
“… Well, THEIR safety, but usually, it means you’re golden too”.
rule two of e-scooters: leave them in the middle of the sidewalk so as to best inconvenience any pedestrians
Someone once parked one right in front of my bike so I had to move it to get at my bike. Then I couldn’t get it to stop rolling and nagging my to pay.
Outsmarted by Toedad. That’s gotta sting worse than getting hit by a car.
What’s a ‘Dunn Woods’, and how did it tell ToeDad how to find Mike?
I know it’s a wooded area in the middle of campus, but I don’t understand the rest.
Dunn’s Woods is a forested area of campus; it covers an area of roughly 4 x 4 city blocks, and is located just east of that entryway/walkway, known as the Sample Gates, that Mike and Blaine were passing through in yesterday’s comic. It’s about five blocks directly east of Read Hall, which is where Mike and the majority of the DoA cast live — so maybe Mike isn’t as cunning as we’re giving him credit for and was merely making a beeline home … and inadvertently leading Blaine straight there as well.
My only question is when did Ross get so savvy about the layout of campus that he knew just where Dunn’s Woods were and how to get around it so quickly that he was able to cut off the chase at just the right location?
Isn’t Dunn’s Woods where he chased Becky and got attacked by Dina on his previous visit? Not surprising he might remember it.
It didn’t. Two sentence fragments.
“Dunn Woods.”
“Told me where you were going.”
Mike yelled out “better duck through Dunn Woods” a couple strips back. He told Ross he was going to Dunn Woods.
Oh, godammit. This left a pit in my stomach. I hope SOMEONE was looking out for Mike, but even that sentence sounds kind of far fetched. Ughhhhhhh.
Toedad just crossed the line from trying to murder disobedient children to running over rented scooters. That scooter belonged to a corporation!
But according to the 2010 United Citizens vs FEC ruling, corporations are people too. So it’s not such a big thing after all.
We’ve seen that car before!
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/yuri/
It certainly looks the same as Amber’s step-mom’s car, and it stands to reason he’d be using it. The one Toedad was driving during the kidnapping and Amazi-Girl chase/rescue was undoubtedly damaged in the crash, and is either still in the shop or has been impounded by the police as evidence.
Surprising that Ross has keys though.
Toedad was at Blowjob Cat when Blaine met up with him, right? I don’t know or care how Ross got there — he could have used a portkey for all the difference it makes, but Blaine undoubtedly drove there, and I’m guessing that he (Blaine) left the keys in the ignition when he got out to confront him.
I’m also assuming that when Toedad couldn’t get the scooter started, he went back to the car, found the keys in the ignition, and took it from there.
Earlier we saw both of them hiding out at a hotel.
The Toedadmobile was a Kia Forte Koup. This looks like a generic midsize sedan, maybe a Mitsubishi Galant.
Other possibility is that Ross used the car — with or without Blaine’s permission — to get to the party site with Blaine following and arriving on foot…. so Ross already had the keys.
Either way, surprised Blaine would let him get the keys. Or that he’d leave them in the ignition.
Ross has to become a genius just now?
I think someone is going to commit Felony Kidnapping.
Again?
Damnit Mike, don’t you know Rincewind’s first rule of running away? Never look behind you. All it does is distract you from the important business of running away as fast as you can and not tripping.
right….cars….i forgot about those.
So I guess campus security just isn’t a thing here, despite the semi-recent shooting threat? Neato.
Geez, hit by a car and he’s still talking.
Hey Ross, JK Simmons called… he wants you, your banged-up cars and your s*** driving skills to be in his next Farmers Insurance commercial.
Bom-ba-dum-ba-bompbompbomp!
His kid is Becky, and she’s already broke.
+10 points for basic lateral thinking, -50 for going to the place the guy blatantly trying to goad and manipulate you wanted you to go, even if you arrived in an unexpected manner.
Hmmm, good point.
This is why I carry my poor man’s mace substitue on me. Don’t care about glasses, the smallest bit of a mix of iodine and table salt gets in your eyes and scareams begin.
Soooo…this is a universe where every college campus ISN’T blanketed with security cameras and every student reflexively pulls out their phone and records every moderately interesting thing that hoves into their field of vision? Blaine and Ross really are dumb as rocks, aren’t they?