Some of you seem to have missed seeing this list the first time, so here I am linking it for you all.
I came up with this style of pictoral thought balloons for a Dumbing of Age strip that I drew several weeks ago, and I really liked it, so I used it in this strip as well. As DoA has a muuuch larger buffer than Shortpacked!, meaning the original usage hasn’t shown its face yet, it’s a little weird to me that this second implementation is publishing first. Huh.
(Also, I felt kind of bad leaving the end of this strip where it is, as it suggests some unfortunate implications. Those’ll get cleared up in subsequent installments. Don’t yell at me yet!)
SHE WAS GOING TO CHANGE IT TO BANG A CHICK LESLIE!! i hope that’s true at least
that should be: chick, Leslie
Arjay you fool, do not summon perverse sexual chicken Leslies!
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..chickens?…have you been reading Tinkers of the Wasteland too?
ALSO! in the previous comic:
http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-11/02-the-relationshipocalypse/list/
the dream bang a dude was already crossed out. i think Leslie misread the situation, and i really, really hope it was Roz or another DeSanto we haven’t seen yet
I never thought I’d say this, but maybe banging wasn’t the answer.
Everyone assumes Robin is on the sex tape, but all the references have just said DeSanto –
Forgetting that Roz is also named DeSanto.
I’m thinking something IS going on with Roz but it has nothing to do with banging Manley. Think about it Leslie is so bad at Robin right now why would she let Roz stay there when Roz should remind her of Robin. Unless reminding her of Robin is why she’s still living there.
I get what you’re implying but it also makes me sad
It really will create world peace, ladies.
Josh Lesnick certainly thinks so too.
When did that last item get there? It looks new, which means she wrote it in after she and Leslie got together, which means she’s been dissatisfied for quite some time.
Sigh.
No, that was on there before she met Leslie. But she started the list when she was a kid, so the “bang a dude” was a later addition.
Wow, this is a depressing yet hilarious series of events.
Hrmmm…”Bang a dude” is crossed out. They’ve already had sex. So I’m guessing that Robin confesses to cheating?
That’s what I thought, but how come she wasn’t at inner peace yet if she already did it?
Jiminy Cricket was nagging at her?
Yep, she crossed that off when she shacked up with Leslie.
The list isn’t things she’s done, it’s things she wanted to do in the future. All the things crossed out are things she could or would never be able to do.
There’s a link to the original appearance of the list in Willis’s blog post under the comic.
Whoops. I misread that. I shouldn’t read comics at bedtime.
actually she crossed that out after she started to beleive it wasn’t going to happen or she started dating Leslie.
I cant remember 100%
Oh yeah! THE LIST! :O
God DAMMIT, this is NOT what I should have checked before going to bed.
AGGH
Hmmm…..could this be the final effect of the Drama Tag?
Non sequitur: My Alternators Tracks talks like the Sniper from Team Fortress 2.
The drama tag works retroactively?
Hmmm…. I think the sequence is Tag Pulled >> Robin/Leslie >> Everyone Moves In Together >> Sydney Gets Elected >> Cadbury Cereal
So while the repercussions of the Tag would have to be very long-lasting to be applied, they would not be not retroactive in this case.
I meant in terms of the list.
Well it did give Amber a horrible childhood.
I love how the drama in this comic is still ridiculous. It works great.
Thanks! I’m glad folks notice that even the darkest moments of this comic are still rooted in ridiculous origins. That’s how Shortpacked! rolls.
(Going back to the old apperance of the list). Did she suceed in stealing the autotuner?
She might have during her Cadbury Egg adventure. I mean, it seems like several months have passed. World Peace and hetero-sex surely couldn’t have been the only things she was worrying about.
Real source of this drama: Robin stole the autotuner from Glee, which made Leslie sad because she LIKED Glee and couldn’t watch it when all those punks were singing like shit.
Aren’t like half the actors on that show professional Broadway singers who’ve won Tony Awards and stuff for their singing?
Not the main cast, no.
The guy who plays the teacher has been nominated, but hasn’t won one, and most of the cast has zero Broadway experience.
Except Lea Michele, arguably the mainest of the main cast, who has a rather extensive Broadway career, granted mostly as a child actress, though she was in the original cast of Spring Awakening.
Also, Jenna Ushkowitz has some Broadway experience. Neither of them is award-winning, though.
I’m pretty sure Lea Michele (Rachel Barry) and the guy who played Jesse were both on Broadway. Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina) was an understudy for the same show, Spring Awakening.
My friend wants to chime in: “Zero Broadway experience doesn’t really mean anything. The Kevin McHale (Artie) was in a boy band. Cory Monteith (Finn) is a drummer for an indie rock band. Mark Salling (Puck) has two albums out. Heather Morris (Brittany) has been one of the lead back-up dancers for Beyoncé. Two of the newest members to the spotlight, Chris Colfer (Kurt) and Amber Riley (Mercedes) may not have a lot of experience but they have clearly proved themselves during the episodes of the show. Broadway experience isn’t everything.”
Her wanting to sow her proverbial wild oats shouldn’t necessarily end their relationship. Though it would probably cause so drama for a while.
CURSE YOU DRAMA TAG!!!
Beware the Darkness Turducken.
So blue ink turns red in time?
Probably just for emphasis.
Bang a dude was already crossed off as given up in the lists first appearance.
Jsyk
Yes, but she regretted doing it.
Of course, Robin! How will you achieve world peace with the Glee autotuner still up and running?
Goddamnit…. I’ve been banging dude for years, and I still haven’t achieved inner peace yet much less World Peace! What position did they use?
Pole Position?
I meant to reply to Shift, and I missed the reply button.
Damn.
This kind of thing is why my people distrust bi-beasts like me. : |
Yeah, for some reason, if you tell your gf “But I’ve already banged LOADS of dudes, why would I want to go off and do it some more?” it doesn’t reassure her at all.
:p
The world would be a more understanding place if everyone was bi. (and open about it)
A Willis never forgets.
Les, you stories are weird. -Howard face-
I liked it better when there were jokes.
“Also, I felt kind of bad leaving the end of this strip where it is”
Really? It seems a tried and true method of story telling and given the limited space you have by which to tell your stories, cliffhangers seem perfectly acceptable (unlike books and movies). Are folks truly yelling at you for that?
Well, they are probably the fans. We already know that fans are irrational and incapable of critical thought. Obviously, they are your biggest sources of income so you must cator to their slavering needs but they are hardly worth an apology. Their minds are mercurial and they will not yell for long.
That’s not really what I meant. I’d say what it is, but I’d rather Roz speak to it first-thing in the following strip.
Has it occurred to anyone else that the “bang a dude” is in different handwriting? Roz obviously wrote it! Maybe that means something…
It was there the last time we saw the list.
Is your handwriting the same as it was when you were 6?
Noooooo
She’s going to go mad with power and try to steal all of the skittles in the world
There has to be more to why Leslie is upset. If my gf had sex with another man I’d just want to be sure she had enjoyed it and he wasn’t going to go “Glenn Close” on us. (If she proposed a threesome, I’d want to go out to dinner first with the guy.) Leslie has always seemed pretty reasonable and mature, making up for Robin’s total lack of impulse control.
Anyway just cause you are in a relationship with someone doesn’t mean you own them.
You’re not normal. Being cheated on has always been MORE than sufficient reason to be very very very very upset. Historically speaking, people have murdered over it, you know.
Some people are polyamorous. Others are unfortunately not.
Um…cheating on a significant other is usually considered reprehensible.
There’s a reason it’s called “cheating”.
Being monogamous and asking that your partner respect that isn’t the same as ownership. I don’t put down poly folks, I would prefer it if that was mutual.
Well, I’m sure Leslie would be fine with Robin sleeping with another man IF they had previously agreed that Robin was free to do that. However, since they might have not discussed terms of intimacy exclusiveness, it was generally assumed that their relationship would have them seek emotional and physical intimacy with ONLY each other. That’s why Leslie is upset. Robin and Leslie both had some understanding they would be intimate with only each other. Robin crossed the line so Leslie is allowed to be upset over that.
It would be different from your relationship because both of you may have discussed your boundaries.
And that’s a good thing to do, especially to avoid any unnecessary jealously.
I’ve finished the SP! archives! And now I have to wait to know what happens next! Oh, my… the waiting…
You have joined an elite many.
As no one else has yet said it. “Damn You Willis.” How could you cause Leslie such distress, making Robin an international fugitive for stealing all the skittles. (Oh yeah and the “SEX with a Dude” thing)
So, is Robin pregnant right now, or was she under the effects of the Cadbury cereal for > 9 months?
Leslie is not upset about the cheating. She could forgive her for a Cadbury induced affair. Robin has proven that she has inner peace with someone else. If not for Leslie holding her back Robin can save the world (Avatar cartoon quote). Leslie can’t take Robin back for Robin’s and the world’s own good. She loves Robin but can’t be with her. Leslie is in a no win situation. What is more important, World Peace or Leslie?
Robin is better with someone else. How do you look yourself in mirror knowing you mate is amazing when not with you?
Man, I might be about to invite some hate.
Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe Robin really shouldn’t have been with Leslie in the first place, because there’s an argument that maybe she’s not actually… sexually attracted to Leslie.
Leslie IS awesome. No, Awesome. Capital “A”. And she (at least previous to now) has loved Robin unconditionally. Being awesome, dependable, flattering, awesome, caring, nurturing, awesome… can sometimes make things confusing. Some gay people end up getting talked into marrying a nurturing straight friend. Sometimes that doesn’t work when years later they remember, “Oh yeah, I’m gay.” Heck, sometimes straight people marry straight people they aren’t attracted to because the other person is Awesome… just not physically/chemically compatible.
Way back in like July of 2009, Leslie and Robin were together but not really bangin’. In fact, I think Robin had issues with even being in an intimate bubble with Leslie, and she doesn’t strike me as somebody with a lot of physical hang ups. Roz shows up points out how dependable and emotionally available Les is, and Robin goes all licky style on Les. But after they sleep together, Robin asks Les a bunch of questions that all amount to, “You’ll NEVER hurt me, right?”
Don’t get me wrong, the entire story arc is VERY sweet. And I could be wrong. It could be about Robin getting over her anxiety over somebody earnestly loving her, learning to accept her own feelings and the genuine nature of Leslie… BUT there is room for doubt if you read it a different way. That could be a story about love of a different sort getting mixed up in romantic love. It could be a story about a young woman who’s never been on the receiving end of a love that powerful responding with… gratitude. And not realizing that.
I’m not even necessarily saying Robin is not gay/bi. BUT… I might posit… that she was never really honestly attracted to Leslie in the first place. I’m willing to let myself be convinced otherwise though.
That has actually always been my take on the situation. The storyline was cute, but I don’t think Robin made the best choice by choosing to be with someone just cause that someone wanted to be with her.