Phew. I returned home to a desktop computer without a functioning wifi card, so drawing tonight’s comic involved drawing it on my wife’s Cintiq, using a Flash drive to run it over to my computer for dialoging, and then Flash driving it downstairs to my laptop so I could upload it.
In case you haven’t noticed, this is a storyline week. It was gonna get its own new storyline title, but “Daddy Issues” still described it more aptly than anything else I thought up, so I kept it.
They’re both so stylish.
this is probably the start of the best story of 2011
Possibly.
AWKWARD! All because of hairstyles.
Not “Daddy Issues II: Gender Boogaloo”, huh?
Please, please let this be the official title of this story.
Seconded
I third it
Thirded!
Oddly, I quad this.
Fifdeth…? Whatever. I support this decision.
Fifthed?
Sexth!
Now that sounded wrong. And yet so appropriate.
SEVENTHED! =D
OHGODLOVE! EIGTH’D!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQal-lJrSLI
NUMBER NINE
NUMBER NINE
NUMBER NINE
NUMBER NINE
Tenth’d? I suppose? How about I just say I’m the tenth person to want this as the title?
Wow. Just wow.
Oh. My. God.
I heart Galasso right now XD
I wish I was still in college so I could raise my hand and tell the TA to “Surrender your information or you will suffer.” XD
I am SO going to use that phrase next time I have to collect papers for a prof.
Especially since I’m a librarian, and that’s really not my job.
But the difference is, Leslie makes it WORK.
Lovin’ her totally appropriate reaction in panel 4.
I wonder if Galasso has Apperceptive Prosopagnosia?
And now I know why I don’t recognise people! Associative prosopagnosia totally explains why I hate shows like Mad Men – a whole cast of white guys in suits, I literally can’t tell them apart.
So cool there’s a name for that! Other than finding Mad Men boring.
I hate it when they do that. Throw multiple people of the same age, race, body type in the same outfit with the same hair. Like Alan Shore and Brad Chase of Boston Legal. Took me ages to tell them apart.
Not that I have the condition or anything. I just don’t get why TV producers sometimes seem to go out of their way to make these characters look exactly the same. Would it kill them to set one of them up with a dye job, or glasses, or a differently colored suit, or a wacky tie, or something. They have options. Why would they deliberately go out of their way to put two identical looking characters on one show?
That would be the best ever.
Could this be why so many people look alike to me? Thank you so much for sharing this information.
What makes this strip for me is Galasso’s look, in panels two and three, that suggests, “I am giving you my full attention even though I do not understand what you are saying.” It’s that he wants to understand but just can’t.
“is could get awkward”
Yes. It is could.
Galasso’ got it totally wrong. The difference between boys and girls is that girls have eyelashes and bows in their hair.
And sometimes girls wear skirts!
Cartoons taught me so much.
Galasso isn’t human and Conquest is either adopted, created in a test tube, or some other kind of shenanigan. I’m also mildly suspecting he is involved with alternate time-line Head Alien somehow.
Galasso merely forgot how reproduction and his “pee-niss” work because it has nothing to do with world domination. Via owning a toy store.
This story arc is about Ethan getting a gay fauxhawk or Leslie getting a lesbian fauxhawk.
Someone’s getting a fauxhawk.
wrong
they’re both getting fauxhawks
Fauxhawks for everyone!
Is it just me or has there never been a second floor? I obviously missed it because now there’s an escalator.
Shortpacked is kind of like the House of Leaves.
Until an actual floorplan is designed, it can be as big or small as it wants/as is convenient.
The (partial) second floor and escalators were part of the Great Remodeling while the store was closed.
Ah! You know what? I remember the comic, but when I saw that, I just thought it was support beams or walls instead of an escalator. Never considered a second floor. Just means Willis is a regular Frank Gehry!
Maybe they should take him to a shop for that kind of thing and get the professionals to explain it…
I’m calling it now:
Galasso tricks them into mating with each other.
Thus the drama decagon would be complete!
Wow, so many great expressions in today’s strip. I think my favorite is Galasso’s “I’m so confused” look in panel 5. I just want to pat him on the back and say “Its okay, you don’t really need to know the difference in order to rule the world.”
I can’t put my finger on why, but I’m really loving both Leslie and Galasso in these last few strips. This is new; both of them had been sort of space-fillers to me until now. It’s like they’re both coming into their own… Leslie, more her own character now than ever because of the breakup, is reacting to things the way a person would who’s still not quite hip to everything in the group consciousness but is juuuust about caught up. She’s comfortable enough to have honest, open reactions, but removed enough to be surprised by the absurdity others take for granted. And Galasso’s character is finally getting some exploration in a direction that isn’t just another variation of “absurdly tyrannical boss.” His schtick never did much for me before, so I’m happy to see this new tangent.
Also, I vote against any variation of the “Boogaloo” meme on principle.
Also also I totally noticed the hairstyle thing yesterday and almost commented on it then. One more regret to add to the list.
seconded
Ha, got an extra laugh out of that last panel after yesterday…
This is extra funny because Leslie teaches gender studies in the DoA universe.
Poor Willis, having to resort to SneakerNet. Get yourself a USB wireless card and keep it in a drawer as a backup. They’re getting cheaper all the time!
Galasso probably donated sperm in order to finance his mighty toy empire.
Donate? The mighty Galasso? I’m sure he charged for it.
Easier to sell than Terminator Salvation toys, that’s for sure.
I’m HOPING the store doesn’t stock anatomically correct dolls or puppets. OK, that was awkward.
Thanks to Mike’s impressive salemanship, the Your Mom action figure is quite a seller. The $.05 price tag certainly helps.
A bit of a stretch, but you make it work. Well played, good sir.
Clearly Ethan is the Male. He’s taller.
Hasn’t Galasso referred to Conquest as his daughter on more than one occasion? Doesn’t that denote some knowledge of gender?
On the other hand, he might just think all offspring are called “daughters”.
He’s been shown to be aware that some people are boys and some people are girls. He just doesn’t know the specifics of what makes someone a boy or girl, and what the implications and applications of this are.
Similar to how a young boy will accurately claim that the person with long hair wearing a dress is a girl. Ask him why though and his reasoning will only go as far as what was listed. Ask him why two boys can’t have a baby and his response will vary from bewilderment, remarks about how boys can’t marry eachother, mentioning that the mommy gives birth and not the daddy, or other such displays of ignorance depending on his background.
Gallaso seems to be in the same boat. You can’t be exposed to any level of human interaction without becoming aware that there are genders. Plus, if he’s speaking English then it would just be confusing if he used gender neutral speech exclusively. The language isn’t suited for that. That’s still only a very shallow surface understanding of the concept though.
Perhaps someone informed him that Conquest is a daughter, but he needs a son to inherit his empire. That could explain a lot.
This–This is a shocking revelation. Galasso….You poor, poor man.
Does that talk count as porn?
This was the best SP strip in a long time! Awesome!
I totally did not notice the hairstyle thing.