And that ends the storyline proper. You know the drill! That means M-W-F gag strips until the next storyline. Monday’s strip is about everybody’s favorite sentient vehicles. You know the guys. They’re the ones that’re somewhere in the 30%s on RottenTomatoes.com.
This break in story hits just in time, too, ‘cuz what with me moving in a few weeks. That’ll be fun! ahahahaha no
The exception is “not you” =/
where “not you” means “not anyone from Street Fighter, even the chicks”
Ascended Meme anybody?
It’s not really an ascended meme if it’s used in the comic, given that the place where the whole thing got started was, you know, in the comic.
Birdie ain’t never gonna get lucky!
Could be worse, Robin could have called him Cammy.
Or Chun-Li.
or E. Honda
or Gill *shudders*
This strip is missing the “t-hawk” tag.
At least we know now that they didn’t forget to invite Bison!
(Also Malaya’s face after the cheek kiss was d’awwww)
A second comic where Malaya wasn’t acting like a jerk to some degree. WOOOOO!
she only had one line and she was whining (admittedly a very valid complaint, but still).
its not that big of an improvement
Still, it’s refreshing to see Malaya-with-a-crush again, after the “competition” with Robin that made both of them insesitive jerks.
Leslie’s been really the only likeable side to Malaya we’ve seen so far, so it’s nice to see more of that and know it isn’t all gone.
Just how old is T-Hawk, Blanka, Guile or whatever his name is anyhow?
Probably not so old that working in a toy store is overly pathetic. So probably somewhere between 22 and 28.
So anything from just a bit younger than Robin to practically a Toyboy.
Early twenties, a year or two out of college.
DANKE!
Danke? You must mean Blanka
No, they meant Danke. They were saying “Thank you” in German.
Way to not get it.
There’s no point in swinging a an obvious ‘ball’. It’s best to just let it go by.
I will gladly “not get” the joke when it comes to continously bringing the “Oh crap what’s his name, something from Street Fighter, right?” Seriously. It’s done to death. No more blood from this stone. =P
Sure there is. M. Bison doesn’t seem to mind.
Yeah you’re right, it’s way better to explain over something that you knew was a joke rather than just roll your eyes and move on. Whatta douche
I think that fails to rise to the level of douche-hood.
This comment string just gets worse as you read down it… oh no I clicked reply
“To bad you [a public figure the press consistently refers to as "bi"] are a lesbian, ‘cuz maybe we could hook up and make them [neither of whom have shown any sign of being attracted to men] jealous.”
…I think Chun-Li’s been tying the brocades too tight.
…What about Amber, then?
Well obviously Robin’s actually Bi, but I doubt Robin is that self aware to have thought about it.
Nah, she’s just a homophile
I think this is a highly-perfect example of Robin struggling with her sexuality, still trying to hold on to that concept of the ‘Straight Robin’ she has.
Also Ken is entirely terrible at the art of seduction.
Looking back and reading it again, I’m not sure it is a serious attempt to seduce. I think it might be (mostly) awkward misplaced humour, to lighten the mood and cheer Robin up, and make her feel wanted. Can’t be sure though.
Well, it seems to me like “Hey I’ll make this a half-hearted joke but if it works sweet and if it doesn’t I can pretend it was just a joke, eh?”
Better than not trying at all. Then you’d never know.
He just needs to exam some of Faz’s diagrams…
*sigh*… i miss faz
But according to the Word of God, she lies more on the straight side of the spectrum. Or she did at one point, at any rate.
75% into dudes and 25% into women is still Bi, no matter how you slice it.
It’s really not possible to divide your orientation up so neatly and precisely. I’m not sure how someone would even come up with those percentages. lol.
Sounds like a job for Science! Robin better get “experimenting” to find out!
Generally bisexual people (or at least myself and a few others I have known)
while liking both sexes tend to have one they prefer more. We just give a percentage to give you an idea of if we like girls or guys more.
That might just be me and the other bi’s I know but yeah.
I’m bi …and like women more…but I don’t think I could divide it up so precisely like that.
“bi” = likes both, it could be a tiny bit, it could be equally, it could be “with the exception of *name*” but it’s still demonstrating being bi.
From a scientific point of view, everyone could be “Bi”, but the exception to their straightness or gay preference is near to impossible, they consider themselves exclusively straight or gay until that exception occurs, if it ever occurs.
But sticking labels on people is a foolish thing since not everyone wants a label, and more to the point, there are those that will defy any label you put on them, on purpose.
These things you call “labels” I call “words”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
Faz even has a chart to prove it.
At this point we’ve seen her attracted to two males and two females. I’d say she’s pretty evenly cut, if you want to go on that.
She was attracted to Amber? Why?
Probably for the same reason many people find Velma more attractive than Daphne. Curves and brains are great.
Well, that was guaranteed to go nowhere. That’s weird, I thought Robin was straight and Leslie practically had to scheme and connive to be with her, yet she is willingly attracted to Amber…lol.
Plenty of Amber to be found on de Nile.
Has she ever admitted her crush on Amber to anyone? To herself, even? If so, I have forgotten it.
To herself, sure. She had a guilty Amber-flash when Les asked her who the first girl she liked was. (Damned if I can find the strip in question, though.)
I think Leslie knew too, that was why Amber and Mike had to leave the house
I’d forgotten about that. Was that the only reason, or did she have others, too?
Besides the fact that Mike is, well, Mike.
Did they have to? I thought they wanted to move out and get their own place.
So they could have private time and not be a couple sharing a house with 4 or 5 other people they work with.
Leslie didn’t kick Mike out, though. She kicked AMBER out. Leslie doesn’t seem to have as much of an issue of Mike being a dick as her feeling threatened by Robin’s feeling for Amber.
Heck, it likely didn’t actually have anything to do with Amber, though, now that I think about it. When you are having relationship issues, one of the first things one considers is if there is some outside factor that can be changed before you have to make more personal ones.
Here’s the comic in question. http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-11/02-the-relationshipocalypse/raremoment/
Poor Ken
Good luck with the move!
whos ken?
He’s the guy Robin’s talking to. You know, Zangief.
Ryu’s friend/rival/heterosexual life-partner. Jeez! Have you never played Street Fighter?
Isn’t that Akuma?
Thank you for giving me the image of Ryu, Ken and Akuma catching a movie together.
oh yeah. that muscular blond girl right?
Oh Ken, you oblivious bastard.
Is Ken a new character? All I see is Robin and C Viper.
Maybe Robin can go drinking with Sonya of Menage A 3
Let’s throw in Emily from Misfile, and we’ll have a party.
Emily’s too young to drink though.
That’s why we got root beer.
Yeah, I definitely sympathized with Robin in this storyline. It’s not her fault she’s completely dense sometimes. Well, not entirely. And in any case, Leslie was the only one to love Robin despite her idiocy, and now that idiocy has driven her away, and now Robin is one lonely idiot. Tragic.
“Yeah, I definitely sympathized with Robin in this storyline. It’s not her fault she’s completely dense sometimes.”
Actually, I think it kinda is. We’ve seen that she IS capable of intelligence and foresight when she really wants to. And she was acting a lot less crazy before the Drama Tag got pulled, both in the early days of Shortpacked and in the late days of It’s Walky. I believe Robin has deliberately been acting dense and zany in a futile attempt to direct the comic toward comedy rather than drama.
I dunno. The more times a person is mindwiped, the more mentally unstable they become. And the abductees have all been mindwiped repeatedly over the course of their lives. They’re all completely batshit by this point, Robin included. Seems unfair to blame her for having been mindwiped dozens of times.
Between that and the probable PTSD from the war (which was routinely pretty gory), plus a long list of shattered hopes and dreams, and a superpower that exacerbates her short attention span, I’d say she’s actually doing pretty good!
Okay, yeah, I don’t think women who boink other women are straight, and I say this as a non straight woman.
You can choose not to label, but calling yourself straight is problematic, especially when you’ve been in an actual relationship with another woman.
I like the look on Malaya’s face after Leslie kisses her on the cheek. She looks kinda smitten. Maybe she’s for real after all?
It’s a well-documented media phenomenon. I don’t know how to make links, but just google ‘If It’s You, It’s Okay’ to find the titular TV Tropes article.
How true to life it is would be an entirely different subject, though.
I am familiar with it…I think it’s bullshit.
I don’t know that I agree. I’m attracted to a lot of women and a very, VERY small number of guys. I refer to myself as straight because, honestly, to most intents and purposes I am. If you’re a guy, chances are overwhelmingly that I don’t find you attractive at all. Using bisexual gives an impression of finding men and women equally attractive, and it’s a hugely misleading impression in my case.
I’m in favor of calling oneself what one feels describes oneself best.
So Roz would likely describe herself as “omnisexual”?
Willis, right now I wish you were using the IntenseDebate comment system just so there would be a thumbs up option next to that comment.
Because I would give you all of the thumbs.
On the one hand I agree, but on the other hand that can kind of bugger up communication a bit. I mean, if words don’t have meanings…then Obama really *is* a communist fascist!
The label’s a pretty new convention of the english language. There’s a strong case for the fact that the language hasn’t adapted yet to a society where there is a spectrum of sexual orientations. The meanings aren’t really set in stone and in time we’ll have more words with meanings better equipped to fit people’s various identities.
The communication was buggered up the moment sexual freedom and awareness arose as an issue by very nature of society coming to talk about things we hadn’t previously talked about. We’re still working out the kinks is all.
saying people should use the words they think describe themselves the best is a far cry from saying people should use the words that their CRAZY AS FUCK opposition party thinks describe them the best.
Agreed
Yeah, I have a friend like this and we’ve gotten into arguments about it. He does call himself bi but…he’s not totally honest about his level of attraction to men.
I would not call you straight, but…if you want to call yourself that, I guess you’re going to call yourself that.
Why not simply use the term “mostly straight” to describe the alignment?
Me, I consider myself bi, but to me that just means “some level of attraction to both sexes.” Doesn’t mean anything percentage-wise (at least, not to me); just means that as well as some guys, I also find some women attractive. Better to say I just find some PEOPLE attractive, and gender isn’t a very strong consideration.
Oh, and bisexual does not mean you find men and women equally attractive. I’m bisexual and I’m more attracted to women.
D’AAAWWWW.
“Monday’s strip is about everybody’s favorite sentient vehicles. You know the guys. They’re the ones that’re somewhere in the 30%s on RottenTomatoes.com.”
It’s gonna be about Cars 2.
Totally this.
I actually didn’t realise the two of them were coming out in such close proximity. Guess it’s the summer for sentient vehicles?
Now taking bets.
1-2 is that monday’s strip will be about Transformers 3
3-1 is that monday’s strip will be about Cars 2
9-1 is that monday’s strip will be about both
I could get an even percentage with that.
**Whispers “Rule 34″ and quietly sneaks out of the room while your mind shatters.**
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/11713#search=cars
and for both the straight people who read this comic
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/616682#search=cars
Why would my mind shatter?
Noooooooo! You just doomed us to films about the Gobots and the Love Bug that were filmed in secret and will only be announced a week before they hit! You fool, what have you done? ;_;
A gobot film might be awesome.
Especially without mass-shifting!
(Leader 1 vs Cy-Kill – taking bets now!)
Well, it could also mean there’s a surprise Kitt movie, dedicated just to him.
That would be awesome.
Also, kinda OT, but I LOVE GoogleAds: at the top is an ad for Transformers:
“Transformer Services Transformer Substation Maintenance, Construction, 24 hr Emergency Srvs”
WOW THEY GOT IT SO RIGHT IT’S ALMOST SPOOKY XD. I love it when the bots don’t get nuances…
i’m holding out for a “maximum overdrive” comic
I’m hoping for Knight Rider, Andromeda, or Yukikaze.
Or heck, maybe even Evangelion (since Evas are technically sentient).
Please not the Hollywood version of EVA – I saw some of the drafts and it totally F@#$%^d the whole story as only Hollywood can.
The preteens played by 20 somethings, teeth on the mechs, etc – ugh
Commenting on the fact that I find it adorable and heartbreaking that Leslie and Robin actually had matching masks. When every other character has been depicted as having an Optimus mask, Leslie and Robin got what look to be yellow Bumblebee masks.
Maybe Ethan thought it’d help them get back together, therefore making Amber’s job, who is undoubtedly his friend, easier.
I dunno… Ethan doesn’t normally interfere with the relationships of other people. I think its more likely that Willis was doing some kind of symbolism.
Not to mention, with his obsessions towards Transformers, I kind doubt he cares about anyone other than the giant robots on the screen.
he cares about ethan, but only if he keeps the mask on.
And it’s official that Robin has taken the Silver Medal for Leslie’s affection. Poor girl will probably be emo as hell for a while. We should get an IV of chocolate syrup to make sure she doesn’t collapse randomly.
On a side note, has anybody else noticed a lack of Galasso activity lately?
He’s at home with a bunch of homework on the difference between boys and girls.
Now that sounds really awful if you don’t know the comic strip I am referring to :-/
Blur’s “Boys and Girls” got played on the store radio and it set him back years.
The funny part is I HALF expect to see him in the next comic now that I mentioned him. Sort of a ‘Random Person: have you noticed ____ isn’t around anymore? ____: Hi!’ The scenario where it’s there just to prove they aren’t dead.
or maybe hes using his new found knowledge to troll around in bars trying to produce an heir
He and Faz are currently retaking 6th grade sex ed classes… and for some reason when I picture them sitting in those tiny desks, I see Reagan teaching
Man.
Ken’s a douche.
he’s no where near as likely to get inside a woman’s pants
Full point.
Unless he’s a closet transvestite
propost
Sheesh. I never thought Leslie could be so… hurtful I suppose you could call it. I mean, its fine that she wants to move on from Robin, but this “date”… its just mean spirited. I mean, she slept with Robin of her own free-will (she could have turned down Robin’s advances, despite the sexy awesomeness) that very same day, and now she’s on a date with Malaya and acting all romantic, fully aware that Ethan bought tickets for everyone, and that Robin is probably there? I really have to wonder if Leslie is actually romantically interested in Malaya or if she’s just doing this to be petty towards Robin. The timing is way to questionable for my taste.
And Ken… dude, really?
“Petty” isn’t exactly a term that generally describes Leslie. I figure she’s just trying (too hard?) to move on and get over Robin.
I think this strip makes an exception.
Question. Didn’t Leslie make Mike and Amber move out of the house because Amber had been Robin’s first girl-crush? Sounds pretty petty right there.
Correct. I have no sympathy for Les anymore.
Actually from what I remember, Robin was the main decision maker on that. It was her idea so that Leslie didn’t feel bad that Robin was still attracted to Amber and could still be friends with her. It was much more difficult to ignore when Robin could potentially have cheated on Leslie with Amber virtually at any time. It’s not so much as petty as it is that Robin was looking out for her girl and Leslie being concerned about what Robin would do.
Moving on is fine and good. But NO ONE with a consciousness has sex with their ex who they admit to still have feelings for, then processed to go on an official date a few hours with another person, while in the company a group of friends that includes the ex who you just slept with. That’s not moving on. That’s taking a shot at your ex by basically going “haha, its been 4 hours and I’ve found someone one else. You suck.” Leslie could have easily waited a day and gone on the date with Malaya in private instead of lording it over Robin and their mutual friends. That’s the actions of a petty woman.
Um…no. Just, no.
ROBIN seduced Leslie. AFTER Leslie deliberately tried to resist, and politely explained why, only for Robin to keep pushing buttons until Leslie broke. While another girl was trying to make a move on her. Quickly followed by Robin give a very strong demonstration of why she’s bad for Leslie.
That’s not “lording it over Robin”. That’s getting manipulated, then heartbroken by Robin YET AGAIN, and deciding it’s time to move away for good.
Um…no. Just no.
1. Leslie was seduced, not raped. A person cannot be seduced against their will. If Leslie cannot (or is not willing) to make herself say no to Robin, which is what happened, she is as much to blame.
2. Whether or not Leslie is to blame, whether or not she is moving on, you don’t rub your ex’s nose in your new relationship unless you are trying to hurt them. It’s simple courtesy.
So you’re saying Leslie is weak that she couldn’t have said no and walked away from Robin earlier?
While Robin’s use of Princess Leia was a cheap shot, Robin did not force Leslie to sleep with her. Leslie made the conscious decision to sleep with Robin. Her decision was driven by lust and old romantic feelings and a childhood crush, but considering the causes for their break-up originally (Robin sleeping with another person), she had more then enough cause and reason to say no and stand by her guns. She DIDN’T WANT to say no though.
And heck, the fact Leslie could so easily allow herself to sleep with Robin (and she blew off Malaya at the time too as you’ll remember) is a MASSIVE red flag indicator that she is not ready to move on. Leslie obviously has a lot of unresolved issues towards Robin that she needs to deal with before she’s really ready to move on.
What Leslie did was text-book high school petty mean girl behavior. Robin hurts her, so she IMMEDIATELY (it’s been about 4-6 hours since the sex) hurts Robin by showing off a new girlfriend in FRONT of the Robin and in front of their mutual friends who are going to talk about this around Robin. Furthermore, Leslie asked out a girl who Robin has gone on record in saying she dislikes. Someone who going out with will obviously annoy and anger Robin, which only adds salt to the wound.
These are not the actions of someone who has moved on and is emotionally ready for a new relationship. These are the actions of someone who wants to hurt their ex as much as they themselves were hurt.
Can’t we all just agree that they’re both wrong? I mean, I love em both but they’re both kind of being asses to eachother. It’s a breakup and they’re conducting themselves poorly. This is hardly outlandish shit here. Breakups aren’t generally sunshine and rainbows. On the scale of things they’re probably at a three or four, where 1 is the ideal and mythical breakup where we leave on good terms and everyone’s cool and ten is the absolute worst breakup where lifelong enemies are made.
Heck, it’s downright tame when you consider that things have to be exaggerated for the drama. Three or four on the scale of real breakups is pretty much a bare minimum for fictional breakups. If they got any more civil we wouldn’t even have a story, just an off-screen breakup between story arcs.
Willis, you’ve broken my heart.
Like, seriously. I was behind several days. And now, I had a horrible day and sat down to read my webcomics, only to find they were all depressing today. And I say, “well, at least there is shortpacked! Thats always good, and rarely too painful to read. Plus Robin and Leslie just jumped each other! Something good HAS to happen!”
And then we see Leslie throwing herself at a horrible rotten girl as if she is easy. And poor Robin is still to stupid to figure out how to simply say “I’m sorry.”
I’m going to go cry myself to sleep now seeing as everything about today was horrible.
“horrible rotten girl”
you know literally NOTHING about her, god damn it, what do you people have against asians?
She’s asian?
you don’t need to know a person’s life story to figure out if they’re an asshole.
“What do you mean, ‘you people’?”
Seriously, though, there was no call to pull the race card here, especially in combination with generalizing those that don’t like Malaya. Most of the objections I’ve read thus far have had to do with her attitude, with no relation to her heritage whatsoever.
lol Rasputin, we know nothing about her? Maybe if the comic started today we wouldn’t but it didn’t…
We know that:
-She lives with a bunch of dudes who she holds in contempt
-She doesn’t pay rent
-Because she didn’t have a job
-She also holds “nerds” in contempt. Her definition of nerd is the broadest one possible.
-She gleefully participates in slut shaming.
-She’s just not very nice to anyone she doesn’t have an interest in dating.
You’re the one who brought up race, you card wielding hack.
Thanks Vincent, Ryan, Zuche, and Shoeboxjeddy. You guys took the words right out of my mouth. I don’t have anything against asians. After all, part of my family is asian. But as shoeboxjeddy pointed out, we really haven’t seen anything positive about her.
Also, thank you guys for sticking up for me.
Well, it’s been a great week at Sluggy Freelance!
Until yesterday. That was downright depressing.
Your site scared the crap outta me Willis. Thing told me I was banned. I was about to start hunting for proxy’s when it finally refreshed.
“Here’s something you readers need to realize: Though we generally hope readers will like our stories, hating them is almost as good. Hating them so much that yours is the one book everyone is talking about now — well that’s golden. One can’t hate without passion and involvement. The one reaction we most fear is indifference.”
That’s a very useful, insightful quotation. Where did it originate?
wonderful quote. this is something that my teachers really tried to drive home in film school… indifference is death to an artist.
Thanks for that reminder of what a dumb fuck Bill Willingham is.
I’m still holding my comments on the whole “Robin/Malaya/Leslie” thing until that’s run its intended course… but I *AM* gonna say something about Ken – props for at least trying! =)
Not like there hasn’t been dumber things pulled from other characters… but at least he’s funny in a “somewhat clueless but not neurotic” kind of manner. I hope he stays as pure as he is right now… & the stigma of nobody remembering his name wears off soon.
- a_o_t_8.
Oh, his name is easily remembered. The problem is, too many readers now think that beating a meme into the ground until it’s become a dead horse-stone that they can’t squeeze any more blood out of, is “teh funny.”
There is no
Danaproblem. There is onlyZuulSparta.You think it’s bad here, you should see the Dumbing of Age comments. It picks up a new meme every five strips or so and They all are constantly run into the ground. It’s almost painful to read sometimes.
One man’s painful is another man’s “how many times can we squeeze this in.” At first it’s funny, then it’s overdone, then it’s just kind of routine, then it becomes funny again with how the Meme combos start building… it’s like Tetris Attack.
Oh and Zanosuke, you’d have a much stronger point if it wasn’t also an in-strip running gag. Like, in this very strip. Please shut the up.
By using the words “in-strip running gag”, you have defeated your own argument of it being funny to beat it to death when it’s used outside the strip ad naseum the way it is. So no, I have exactly zero reason to “shut the up.” Bite me.
Out of the argument for the moment (consider this an aside like in Shakespeare) but… what? I don’t even get what you’re talking about? Running gags can’t be funny if they’re not in a comic strip? They’re funny in the comic strip but magically become unfunny the moment they’re uttered by a real person? Just… what? If you don’t think it’s funny in the comic either, okay neat. But again, that’s an opportunity to just, you know, deal with it and move on. Or rage quit the strip, whichever feels better.
They become unfunny when used ad naseum. In strip, it’s only happened a handful of times, and is therefore, funny. Here in the comments section, it’s become the equivalent of “I’m Rick James, b!+ch!” which was funny on the Chappelle show, but no longer nearly as hilarious when heard the umpteenth time out of the mouths of everyone who’d seen it. “Less is more” applies to comedy pretty well.
Okay, I get what you’re saying. But seriously, the jokes may annoy you, but I assure you that you saying they’re annoying is 1) more annoying than the jokes will ever be and 2) not going to get anyone to stop.
Its a good thing some women are willing to overlook bad first dates, otherwise I wouldn’t be engaged right now
<3
amen! happily married for 5yrs because of women like leslie (aside from the lesbian thing)
Sometimes, the strongest relationships start the first date with home cooking and end with a stomach pump.
>not making out with the sexy Asian guy
Willis is racist, all his Asian characters are disliked by the other staff members
Troll harder.
i’m serious, just look at the Comments
Ken: Everybody hates him for hitting on Robin, despite obviously joking. even if he isn’t, men are expected to ask women out, is asking somebody out after they have just broken up with somebody really that bad?
Malaya:Everybody hates her for “stealing” Leslie, because Leslie totally isn’t just using her to get back at Robin.
Faz: Everybody hates him, ignoring his traumatic childhood that has left him sexually confused and unable to properly comprehend women
what a coincidence that all these characters are Asian… now let’s see, well liked Asian Characters… NONE.
and Mike is a cunt, he’s a physically and emotionly abusive arsehole and yet everyone likes him
Glaslow made his daughter sleep with a horse and even he didn’t get this much hate
i don’t think Willis is doing it on purpose by any means, but this fanbase really comes off as disgustingly racsist.
Billie from his Dumbing of Age strip is half asian and she is not hated… plus for it to be racist the characters have to be hated BECAUSE they are asian, and that is not the case at all. Saying you hate the KKK does not make you racist against whites, Saying you hate a group of gangbangers who all happen to be latino or black or whatever does not make you racist against that particular creed.
the only person i thought was mostly unliked was malaya, and that’s because with the exception of leslie she acts like a punk. i noticed only a few comments berating ken in today’s strip, but that’s probably because of his poor timing. i’d say he’s mostly liked by readers. faz is an annoying idiot, but i don’t remember much genuine hate towards him. i think the guy is funny and look forward to all of his appearances.
Ken is not hated, just wished to be less clueless. Faz is not hated either, but rather, pitied. Malaya is disliked because she’s a negative little bitch.
Race has nothing to do with this. Now, kindly stop using your own personal hang-ups as an excuse to troll.
@Rasputin, People dislike every character. It’s just different from person to person. There’s tons of anti-Robin and anti-Amber comments whenever they get the plot. The fact that your brain only notices it when it’s directed towards Asian characters is a personal problem. Plus, writing a dislikeable Asian character isn’t racist at all if the character is realistically drawn. Oh and nobody hates on Mike because it’s just too obvious. It’s like disliking Snidley Whiplash because he refuses to race fairly.
Protip: everyone loves Malaya for being a total walking own-zone, all the time.
Damn, poor Ken. He totally misread Maya when he thought she was straight. I’d like to see more of Ken, honestly, though I think he could use a character redesign.
” I’d like to see more of Ken”
yes, there should be a nude wrestling scene with Ken, Faz, Ethan and Mike
pretty sure this scenario was covered in one of Faz’s diagrams…
Didn’t he already get a character redesign? He used to look more like Pat Lee.
Okay, I am confused. In this comic, Robin says that she’s a Lesbian and has a problem with c*ck, and now Robin says she’s straight with the exception of Leslie. Someone needs a continuity editor I think.
c*ck is the roadrunner… which is what she (as the coyote) was chasing until she met “her lesbian”. Robin is gay for Leslie (and amber to a lesser extent), but other than that she still likes guys. Otherwise she would not have made a sex tape with senator von whats-his-face.
The only guy she had sex with was under the influence Cadbury crème egg cereal, where as she more than once made a conscious decision to have sex with Les, at most she’s Bi. She crushed on Joe, Ethan and Greg, but nothing more than that. I just find it to be a complete Non Sequitur to say the opposite thing to Bison (also find it odd that he is not at all shocked by his “very straight” roommate Malaya getting kissed by Les) in the space of a couple of days.
I will consent on the Robin thing, she’s clearly bi… but when was it said that malaya was “very straight”? Unless I’m mistaken (and I may well be) it was assumed (by Ken?) that she was straight but never made fact.
http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/02-the-new-girl/dhalsim/
in this strip, she shows an immediate interest in Leslie… In the next one she even asks her how she found the strength to come out. I could not find anything about her sexual preferences predating this but did not look too far into the past.
Except, she did not run off to talk to Les until *after* she found out the Les use to date Robin (you know, just after she finished yelling at Robin and calling her a slut).
The smile on her face in panel 2 would lead me to believe she was smitten at first site, as she has not reacted like this to anyone else she had met… being able to spite Robin is just a bonus
Poor Blanka, strike two.
Huh. That’s weird. Feels like I have no emotional attachment to any of the Shortpacked cast anymore.
If you can only be engaged by perfect people who never make poor emotional decisions…there’s always Ultra-car.
who is secretly Amazigirl
Malaya looks genuinely happy.
This cannot end well.
Ken, Robin, his name is Ken. I have have a feeling that he is going to be called every male Street Fighter, and maybe even some of the ladies, because that would be funny.
.. who’s Ken?
Barbie’s
brotherbeardgentleman callerless popular male counterpart.It’s sad too, there’s such an easy pneumonic device to remember his name. He’s Asian and his name is in Street Fighter: he’s Ryu. Wait, shit.
I still kind of weirded out by the whole “let’s go to the movie we don’t particularly want to see with our friends and make out while in the middle of relationship meltdown aftermath” plan.
I think planning for making out while sitting with friends at the movies is kind of tasteless even when you didn’t just sleep with your ex.
I believe the phrase is “get a room”.
I think Ken should start calling Robin a rotating mixture of Nightwing, Spoiler, Red Robin, Red Hood, Batgirl, Alfred, Ace, or even ‘Batman Family ‘etc.
Just to make a point.
“What are you up to, Bison?”
“Just shelving some Legos, Jason Todd.”
KEN! That’s his name! I was thinking it was Blanka or something.
As someone who has always loved to see Robin and Leslie together (I started reading SP! because of them, in fact), this whole cinema scene has been really painful to watch. Although I can’t blame Leslie for what she is doing from a rational point of view, Robin’s situation just makes me really sad. Maybe it is because I find her really lovable (and she totally is my type), maybe it is because I’ve had at least remotely similar experiences.
I actually dropped a microscope slide I had been working on for hours when the image of Lesie and Malaya randomly popped up in my head.
God, I’m such a freak.
Strange question… but… did you go to Full Sail University?
No, I go to RWTH Aachen in Germany … Interesting question though
sorry lol I had someone named Isa in my class and thought “what are the odds?”
:Sigh:
Smooth one, Hibiki.
Aaaarrrrrrrrrgh!
This is what I get for Gay Pride day? Non-lesbian Robin?
To be fair, her hankering for Ethan for several years did seem kind of weird.
I think it’s time to get with the program, Doctrine Dark.
Panel six broke my heart :’(
Ahh, there it is in panel 6, the thing about Robin / Leslie that gets under my skin. Having been a self-avowed straight woman’s ‘exception’, screw that noise so hard. It’s like a great big “I SEE YOU AS MALE” subtext just rammed up under your fingernails.
SPOILER ALERT! …the movie was long.
So only an hour until I get to read a Go-Bots strip? AWESOME!
Okay whos with me for Robin and Leslie working out their problems and eventually getting back together, and Chun-Li’s friend being fired and replaced by Ronnie?
“I’m straight. With an Exception.” So Robin’s the Ianto Jones to Leslie’s Captain Jack Harkness.