Shortpacked! by David Willis
Toys are serious business.
Convention appearances:
Calgary Expo Calgary, AB: April 26-28
Phoenix Comicon Phoenix, AZ: May 23-26, 2013
BotCon San Diego, CA: June 28-30
San Diego Comic-Con San Diego, CA: July 18-21
SPX Bethesda, MD: September 14-15
Phoenix Comicon Phoenix, AZ: May 23-26, 2013
BotCon San Diego, CA: June 28-30
San Diego Comic-Con San Diego, CA: July 18-21
SPX Bethesda, MD: September 14-15
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Sorcery 101
Templar, AZ
The Transformers Wiki
Hail to the Slash
80 page GIANT
Axe Cop
The Book of Biff
Butt-Taco
Comics Curmudgeon
College Roomies from Hell!!!
Diesel Sweeties
Dinosaur Comics
Dr. McNinja
Dresden Codak
Fans!
Fleen
Gastrophobia
Girl Genius
Girls with Slingshots
Goats
Hark, a vagrant
Hijinks Ensue
Intrepid Girlbot
Legend of Bill
Medium Large
Not Invented Here
Octopus Pie
Overcompensating
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Power Nap
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Schlock Mercenary
Sheldon
So Far Apart
Something Positive
Two Lumps
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I’d tap it. Twice.
I’d double tap it and press X.
Down A! DOWN A!
YOU FOOLS ANY KINGDOM HEARTS FAN KNOWS THAT YOU MUST USE THE TRIANGLE BUTTON!
SPAM THAT TRIANGLE BUTTON!
I have the Kinect Version!
…
…
…What do “I” do?!?
Pelvic thrust!
But that drives them insa-a-a-a-ane!
I guess you can just air-hump.
A barrel roll.
USE THE SORANGLE!!
Dooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeet…
No, no, no! You turn it sideways to tap it. Then you use the mana it generated to cast Explore and put down a second land activating your Lotus Cobra and ramping into Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary setting up your next turn.
At least that’s how card gamers do it.
But God damit she cast a mana leak and we’re tapped out!
You standard players are clearly doing it wrong, gotta Force that leak something fierce!
No, no. Wait for missle lock and double-tap circle.
But you only press X to not die.
GUYS GUYS GREAT NEWS!
You don’t have to do anything, the cutscenes are non-interactive!
Did you pick your name from the Hork-Bajir Chronicles?
O-O I am hoping you mean the Hork-bijr Chron as in Animorphs, because that book series, while awesome, kept petering out on me… And I could never find two books at the same time with numercal correctness! (20 and 22, sure. but where the heck is No. 21?!?!) Animorphs was great, but the shocktroopers for the parasites- head aliens, woooo!- were always my favorite.
Ermagerd, Animerphs…….
*ahem* seriously though, I have like every one of those books in my attic somewhere. They were my favorite series
See, the kid knows what’s up!
Apart from himself.
Has that kid appeared before?
He is a pretty awesome kid.
A bit too savvy, if you ask me. Kid probably pretends to be a lesbian online. Probably runs an English-language Austrian blog called “A dyke in Osterreich”.
I tapped your mom twice.
FOR A NICKEL.
She giving a two for one deal?
Comment made even cooler because of the icon. Hell yes.
With the economic downturn everyone is trying to bring in some more business with more competitive rates.
Is it still cockteasing when your target doesn’t have a cock?
CIn that case, it counts as clitteasing.
You and I have very different definitions of ‘clit-teasing’ . . .
To me, a clittease is just the gender inversion of the cocktease.
I believe the term you are looking for is “twat-taunter”.
That sounds like a device you hook up to your electric guitar to make it sound weird.
Kids say the darnedest things. Also from the mouth of babes.
Nah, he’s just genre savvy. Kids knows full well Shortpacked!’s got a cast full of gay.
Leslie’s making the “Walky sees Dorothy” face!
Oh, I’m sorry, we’re supposed to call it the the “Walky sees Dorothy” FAAAACE!
A face… in the FAAAAACCCEEE?!
Aww man, I was missing that FAAAACE but I just don’t think it looks as good on Leslie.
Please please please don’t bring that shit to Shortpacked! -_-
i dont want to see her go down the darkside, the lightsaber gets a cooler color, and the force powers are more fun, but the drawback is no robin. on the other hand, i’d love someone to ship leslie, robin, and malaya (is that wrong?)
Only if you are into that whole epic LOVE/HATEFUCK scene.
You mean, like, Kismeses?
(For those who don’t know/remember what that means, see http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Troll_Relationships#Kismesissitude.2FMating_Unfondness.3F_.E2.99.A0)
I never considered Trolls to have relationships as such, my eyes have been opened.
It’s not refering to “internet trolls”, it’s refering to the race of aliens in the other universe of the very good storyline of the comic. Who just happen to be called “trolls” and . . .
Well, I’ve got moms to get to. You should read it, though.
didnt know about that myself, but i suppose if trolls do have relationships, that’d be the way to go about it
Say what you will about Malaya, the chick knows what she’s doing.
Panel five: Leslie appears to be learning from Walky in the DoAverse.
Is this the NEW FACE of PSL?
Well, it’s definitely not the face of ED…
It is times like this when Leslie wishs she had some ‘tapping’ equipment.
RATTA TAP TAP
Who says she doesn’t? She probably keeps it in her underwear drawer, battery powered and hits 300 rpm at full speed.
SIDE BOOB!
There needs to be an underboob tag.
Out of curiosity: When is management going to have a very overdue talk with this twit about proper workplace language? Seriously, that girl’s mouth needs a bar of soap, STAT! >.<
Language and changing in public…she should be fired at this point. She won’t be, because, y’know, Galasso, but she SHOULD be fired.
Just about everyone who stars in this comic would have long since been fired from their job if they acted the way they sometimes do IRL.
The entire cast, save for Ken and Mayala, would be in PRISON if this was real life.
If this was real life, the only ‘mother’ Mike will be doing will be a 300 pound man with ‘mother’ tattooed on his penis, except that Mike will be the one getting done…
For a pack of smokes.
Sure, Malaya should be fired, but the rest of the cast should be in jail. I really think she’s pretty near the top of the Shortpacked heap, morally speaking, right behind Dhalsim.
You mean Ryu?
Nevermind that time Amber spent the entire day in the store in her underwear.
Mike assaulting customers (sometimes even under orders from management). Ethan pestering the customers with his views on nerdlore instead of serving them. Robin just really being unprofessional in general. Ninja Rick being unhelpful in non-ninja related toy concerns as well as just plain creepy. Amber spending the first few years (estimated) of her time here being far too shy to really engage the customers. Ronald Reagan being the reanimated corpse of a former president.
Let’s be real. If people were getting fired for their behavior we wouldn’t have a comic here.
I don’t think being a dead president qualifies as a behaviour.
I’m pretty sure being dead is a fire-able offense.
And Faz…just, well, Faz.
How did I for even a moment forget about Faz?
Cuz we try so very hard to forget him.
The owner of the store tried to breed his creepy slutty manipulative but delusionally naive daughter WITH A HORSE to create a freaking centaur heir. He has no idea what is and is not appropriate in a toy store.
This.
No Joeing, even (especially?) from G.I. Joe.
Um, no it doesn’t. Not everyone has to adhere to your Victorian sensibilities.
You’d be amazed how quickly a “family friendly” place of business can get shut down over behaviour like that.
Yeah, they kind of do have to adhere to those sensibilities. There are consequences if they don’t. Heck, even if they don’t get shut down having a toy store with the employees engaging in excessive cursing is gonna drive away a lot of the parents who don’t feel their children should be exposed to such language at an impressionable age. It’s not good for business.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with swearing in front of children, but from a strickly business standpoint there’s a reason that kind of behavior gets you fired and it ain’t the manager’s Victorian sensibilities.
Yeah, I don’t work at a toystore I work at a pool… for a christian organization, but according to the employee hand book there is to be no swearing ANYWHERE on premises. We of course swear when it’s just us fellow employees around but if we were to swear in front of the kids we would be fired on the spot. I’m pretty sure this would apply at any of the other pools I have worked at as well, swearing around kids at your place of work=bad
My “Victorian sensibilities” (which I do not -possess-, nice job on assuming =P) challenge you to a duel!
*throws down spiked metal gauntlet, somehow misses the floor and gets C’s face*
You do remember that she doesn’t really want this job in the first place, yes?
No bra at work?! She’ll be jigglin’ around for sure. Temptress.
DON’T DO IT LES!
Rebound sex isn’t as rewarding as it should be…I mean you think it is
It is if you can keep setting up multiple richochets on each shot.
I see what you did there.
Leslie and Robin are done. Frankly, I’d hate it if Leslie took Robin back, seeing how Robin hurt her.
That being said, Leslie and Malaya is just going to be poison and I really do worry about Leslie. Malaya is just a straight up Bitch, with callous disregard of other peoples feelings. I fear Leslie’s not going to realize that until it is far too late.
As I said yesterday, Malaya and Robin are actually very similar. Leslie’s falling for someone who’s very similar, so that ship might not be sunk yet. Robin’s just going to have to work very hard, and I don’t know if she can pull it off.
Then again, she could just have a type. Malaya hasn’t shown herself to be quite as hyperactive and childish as Robin yet. She is also a bit more angry.
She’s a Bitch, you mean. I can see it now: Malaya gets Leslie in bed for a night, and the next morning Malaya’s posted a video of the event all over the Web and is taunting Robin with it. All the while completely ignoring Leslie, as she’s served her purpose.
Seriously, Galasso has a bigger heart then this soulless woman.
That would require Malaya to show a level of caring we’ve yet to see from her. Apathy has been a defining trait thus far.
She cared enough to already taunt Robin with the mere fact that she was walking/talking with Les a few strips ago.
Apathy measures the difference between grabbing a handful of cookies from the cupboard when you’re hungry and cooking an actual meal.
Maybe not hyper and childish but I’m becoming more and more convinced that she has super speed as well.
Having a type, as Danny pointed out, is not always a good thing. If you are still so hung up on your ex that you can’t work with them, you probably shouldn’t try and date another person who is just as impulsive and cares just as much about anyone’s feelings as your ex.
The biggest difference I’ve seen in the two characters is that Robin doesn’t realize that she’s hurting someone’s feelings and will try to apologize, and Malaya just doesn’t care that she’s hurting someone’s feelings.
Nah, remember Leslie technically was the one who broke up with Robin to allow her to seek out a night of wild monkey sex with a guy. Then Robin got greedy and filmed it. Then screwed up the file save and ended up sharing it with the Internet.
Bad enough you know a person you love is out shagging someone else without having a feature length presentation about it.
I’m not sure I’d agree with that. Robin was selfish and callous, but with her, it was due to extreme innocence that her actions affected others on deeper levels. With Malaya, she just doesn’t give a damn. She thinks everyone is beneath her and while she knows that her actions can negatively affect other people, she doesn’t care because it doesn’t affect her personally. Robin at least we can blame the fact she has mind set of a child with a limited understanding of the world around her.
Why is it that people use “she has the mindset of a child” to excuse Robin, and use “she’s immature/childish” to condemn Malaya?
Or, to quote Garfield: “Why is it, when we say a killer has the mind of a child, we lock him up…but children are allowed to walk the streets?”
I never said Malaya was childish or immature. I said she didn’t give a damn and am basically implying that she’s tries to be a bitch.
See, most children, often have points where they do or say something where they don’t initially realize it’s hurtful. Once explained why what they did was wrong, they’ll feel bad about it and actively try to avoid a repeat of events.
Malaya however knows what she says is rude and offensive. She swears constantly, looks people in the eye as she insults them, and then says “Whatevs” when someone explains to her why its bad. This isn’t childish behavior. This is just being a jerk.
Obviously a big difference.
Robin didn’t give a damn either, or she wouldn’t have done it. The biggest difference between the two is that Robin tries to apologize when she realizes she’s done something wrong, and the one time Malaya realized she did something wrong, she did apologize in her own way. But she’s only actively tried to piss one person off. The similarities between these two characters in personality and actions is staggering. But we haven’t seen Malaya have her heart broken three times. We haven’t seen her panic about anything. We haven’t had time to build any sympathy for her.
In all honesty, had Robin been introduced setting up a pool in Amber’s apartment after breaking in and buying a whore for Ethan, would you really be anymore sympathetic for her than you are being for Malaya?
Yeah… see I have trouble agreeing with you because Robin was under the influence of a sugar rush so massive that she doesn’t remember doing it, and she does feel genuinely terrible that she did it. In ANY other situation where she wasn’t high on sugar, I couldn’t see Robin intentionally cheating on Leslie. And the fact she felt so immensely guilty for actions she doesn’t even remember acting out on, shows a higher level of character than Malaya so far. I’m not saying the sugar excuses her actions, but at least she knows what she did was wrong.
And yeah, if Robin had bought Ethan a hooker or set up a pool in Amber’s apartment upon her first introduction, I would have probably still found her an enjoyable character. Because in both situations they were bizarre, funny and I’d be wondering who this character was, and why they were doing what they were doing.
Malaya however… Yes, she still a new character, but her introduction did not involve wacky hijinks or interesting plot twists. It was Ken handing her a job application, and her insulting him with profanity, insulting the job with profanity and being strong armed into applying for the job because she was mooching off her roommates all the while using profanity. She insults everything that doesn’t directly interest her, and where has she actually genuinely apologized to someone having felt REALLY bad for what she’s done?
http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/02-the-new-girl/window/
She’s been forced into a job she doesn’t want, her roommates have probably been pressuring her for some time now, she lives with a guy who she obviously doesn’t like the way he likes her, and has probably been poor for some time, what with not having a job. No, it doesn’t give her an excuse for her behavior, but it probably gives a frame of reference to why she’s acting this way.
She insults toys and the cartoons which they are based on, but we’ve not seen her insult anything else in a similar style, and this can again be attributed to a job she didn’t want in the first place. She wasn’t intending to insult Ethan when she talked about transformers in such a way and he never said anything about it to her. Ethan and Amber have been shunting her away from everybody to keep conflicts from arising, so the people who are insulted by her she is not seeing, so she’s not even getting a chance to learn that she’s insulting them.
If no one but the one person she actually meant to insult shows in any manner that she’s insulted them, how is she supposed to apologize for it? That’s like saying Robin should have been sorry about getting into a fight with Leslie the moment she woke up. You can’t feel sorry for something you don’t know you did.
The point of the observation was to point out that both were impulsive people who would act selfishly and with little regard to others feelings until after it had been done. Saying one is enjoyable to watch when the other isn’t doesn’t invalidate the point, it just shows that Malaya has been shown in a largely negative light where Robin was put into a humorous one.
My fault. Ethan does reveal that he likes transformers, but since we’re not really getting the benefit of what a time lapse there is between the two comics and he doesn’t seem irked about it afterward, it could be anywhere from he was excited about Botcon to the fact that he recognized the situation like an adult and realized that she thought she was speaking to someone else who was just doing their job. There is still the fact that no one has confronted her about her insensitive actions.
Um, didn’t she put out those Dark of the moon toys before the official release date. I’m not sure of the official Shortpacked hours but in addition to being a retail no no (at least assuming that they were open when she started, would be maybe an hour’s work meaning to finish at midnight she started a bit ago) she could be less of a bitch about it. She doesn’t have an idea of why this system was there but she seems to have decided that the entire street date for toys was ridiculous and chose to ignore it. As well as store policy, most laws, and basic decency and common sense regarding changing clothes in public. Her intent was obvious but still, sometimes you need to put your libido aside and use your brain. If she didn’t want to go to a break room she actually could have just pulled her arms inside of the outer shirt and disrobed the undershirt without flashing children. Also she called it stupid as well as the products themselves. It is one thing to find a job menial or pointless but Malaya seems to have done it out of spite. I’ve had people offer me rides because they are outraged that I do not own a car. They have yet to see me to my destination as I usually get out at some point after they’re complaints regarding my transportation known as “feet” tend to drag me down into that anger. What I am saying is if you do something that you would consider nice don’t be rude about it.
i agree. malaya is exactly the opposite of what leslie needs right now
Love? Sweet love?
The thing is? I don’t think we _know_ Malaya yet. She’s being horrible here… but we haven’t really seen much of her character yet.
If she’s going to be an all-around b****, then Leslie isn’t the type to stay enamored with her for long. And if she’s not, then we’ll just have to see what happens
I agree. Malay took a job that she needed but didn’t want (I know I have certainly been there), she could be nicer about it but nobody’s perfect. Ethan has not shown enough of himself for her to fully realize that she has hurt his feelings, Ryu is quite obviously smitten with her and she doesn’t feel the same way and she has actually been pretty nice to him about it considering, and she hates Robin for doing something so hurtful. I don’t feel that we have any reason to call her a b*tch yet.
YOU GONNA TAP THAT OR WHAT? = I can tell you are hot for her & I saw me some boobies.
That totally looks like a Walky in admiring horror.
I’m suprised nobody else has pointed out that she just left her sopping wet undershirt on the shop floor. Over one of the display shelves no less
faz has already removed it. and smelled it.
Makes sense, Amber smells shithouse today.
actually really good point. I may not be to the point of hating her as a person but seriously I am not liking her attitude as a worker, even compared to the other employee’s at the store. I don’t know if what she has done so far is that much worse or if it is just things that are my own pet peeves or if I just have gotten to know the other characters but what she does at work really bugs me.
She’s got just the right work attitude for someone who doesn’t give a damn if they are fired.
I thought the “Fuck Face” tag was for the kid. Had to do a double take.
Kid Jeph Jacques knows what’s up.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
So its official that Kid Jeph Jacques lives in the Shortpacked universe?
Good question, Kid Jeph Jacques.
ARE you gonna tap that, Leslie?
Three posts in a row and I had to check to see if “kid jeph jacques” was a tag on this.
I’m pretty amazed with the 3fer myself.. Here I was thinking I was original and instead I tied for first.
The lizard is like “mommy??”
Kid is happy. Leslie is happy.
Iguana doesn’t care.
I love iguanas.
You know, Leslie’s taste in women is kind of self-destructive.
Bad girls has the same appeal as bad boys I guess. Personally anything “Bad” is only as appealing as one-time-only-offer than anything resembling long term (unless they have redeeming qualities to consider anything long term).
I’d be tap happy.
We now know three things: Todays comic has the most titillating set of tags ever, Malaya doesn’t wear a bra, and I now have a fetish for “behind-boob.”
Thank you Willis, thank you.
I would tap that…call in sick for work and tap it again
But overall…is there a real place like this I would love to work therer
I’d tap it, too – if she swings both ways. Filipino chicks are HOT! Plus, I’ve heard them called “little brown fuck machines.”
I have a Filipino friend who goes both ways, too – I asked him, “What do you call a bisexual Filipino? A Flip-flop!”
…you know being an actual Filipino living in the Philippines for all my life (and not just someone who lives in the US)…I am kinda offended by that. :-/
As a white English guy living in the UK, I’m also quite offended by that.
With no regard to my regional affiliation, agreed.
Being a sentient Roomba I am also offended by that, but I can’t stick around because I have to go clean the carpet and recharge. Goddamn it.
Well if your offended that’s your problem but from where I see it that was clearly an innocent joke. If you can’t learn to laugh at yourself then humor has forsaken you.
It was offensive and absolutely nothing “innocent” about that. And if you can’t tell the difference of a good-natured joke to something as crass as that, then I’m just going to chuck it as “cultural difference.”
There’s also time and place to consider. If I started making sexual crass jokes about blacks or white people preferring child love in an international forum, I bet you’d be accusing me for being a racial prick. The thing is these kind of jokes are reserved for your buddies sharing a beer (preferably not within earshot of someone who might get you stabbed in the kidneys) rather than here.
I’ll admit the first half was a little much but the last part of that we were told that it was a joke that was told to his “friend”.
Honestly, I am half black and have refrained from commenting on the borderline racist comments about black people here, but what you said is absolutely racist, disgusting and sick. Past my limit, had to say something.
Never commented before, but saw this comment, then all the other comments, and I’m a quarter black and a quarter asian, and I laughed my head off.
Suck it, offended people.
AS a Honky decented from mostly Poms and Frogs, I say that was an old very groan-worthy pun.
I don’t get offended too much anymore, my skin is just too-thick.
How did this become about being mixed race?
It started with what was essentially a lame corny pun involving a less than an acceptable racial target & went on from there.
Now i see why he is called fuckface. He straight does not give a fuck about anything.
So…you wrote both fuck and f*** in the same sentence – are you constrained by the MPAA?
Okay. I get it – automatic censor doesn’t activate for fuckface. Also I realized that it wasn’t in the same sentence.
Ofcourse he doesn’t care. He is a Lizard. Only Mammals care about mammaries. Oh and perhaps proto mammals, excluding pelycosaurs…
Only therapsid pelycosaurs.
Haven’t read the comments, so someone’s probably already said this and I don’t even care:
Leslie’s face in panel 5… Walky’s secret half sister?
Nah… the face is just spreading. >D Soon the entire world will be performing the Walky/Dorothy Face!
“And I’m trying very hard to care.”
I’d tap it like a beer keg.
I’d tap it for 1 mana.
Amateur.
I’d tap it while “Singing In The Rain” was playing.
That’s a whole new level of weird.
It is what I am good at. ^_^
I’d tap it like a criminal making a phonecall.
That reeks of “on purpose”-ness. Seriously. I seriously think Malaya planned that.
You mean she deliberately wore that undershirt until it left her reeking with sweat, topped it off with a basking iguana, and waited until just the right moment to tittilate Leslie?
Nah. I don’t think she’s that cunning. I’ve known too many Whatever-people to believe she was anything but oblivious to the impact she was having.
I split the difference – I think she put on the undershirt from habit and not taking the temperature into account, but when she got to the store and saw undershirtless Amber and Leslie standing there she went ‘hey wait a minute’ and at that point formulated the titillation plan.
I’m going to guess that Malaya’s iguana really $#@#ing hates her/
I get the impression that Malaya is trolling Les. Or like someone suggest above, she’s using Les to troll Robin. Either way , it is going to hurt Les, and Robin will be furious about that alone, but Malaya won’t understand the actual reason behind her anger, thinking Robin is just jealous, which will be the Last thing actually on Robin’s mind…
Kid’s next line: “‘Cause if you’re not, I’m gonna.”
I find it amusing that both Leslie and Walky share the same expression today.
I’d tap that and then put Freed from the Real on top to tap and untap as long as I have mana.
Man, I’ve never felt anything in particular towards a webcomic character, but Willis has managed to make me really like one character and hate another.
NOOOOOOO WILLIS! DO NOT BREAK THE ROBIN’S HEART EVEN MORE!!!!!!!
And that’s why she had the undershirt on…
Damn, Leslie is uptight.
I am starting to like Malaya more and more. She just doesn’t give a fuck.
I hardly think any children will be traumatized by seeing a woman change shirts. It’s just the human body and it’s not like Malaya is totally naked or anything.
I hate how puritanical society has become.
Speaking as someone that had childhood nightmares triggered by my mother leaving a shower to tower over me in a soapy, naked mass of rage, I can tell you how very wrong you are.
Seeing Goldfinger at a drive-in theatre when I was five wasn’t exactly in my best interests either, though I have a better understanding of petrification kink than I’d like as a result of that.
Oh for fuck’s sake. Her being angry was probably half the trauma anyway, and she shouldn’t be standing over you naked. Malaya was just changing for a few seconds and she wasn’t totally naked anyway.
There are nudists, and their kids aren’t traumatized. I personally don’t think it’s good to walk around completely naked in front of kids, but there are studies showing it’s not necessarily harmful in a healthy, normal family.
Also, I’m sorry you were abused. I am talking to my friend right now, who was abused by his mom, and he has trust issues with women because of it. I’m really sorry about what you went through. I was abused by my stepfather.
Also, calling Malaya soulless is a bit premature, wouldn’t you say? Maybe she really does like Robin.
I think if Malaya’s intentions are pure (well, pure in terms of not using Leslie) she could help Leslie loosen up. She’s really uptight about sex. She needs to relax.
I’m sure that last bit wasn’t meant to sound anywhere near as creepy as it does.
Wow. Okay then. Nice talking to you.
Let me clarify. I don’t believe you used, “She needs to relax,” in the manipulative way I’ve too often heard it used, as shorthand for, “Just do what I want you to do.”
Surely, you’ve seen movies in which the sleazeball (or worse) says, “You need to loosen up/relax,” to his intended prey? Uncle Buck, for example?
I apologise for giving the impression that I considered you a sleazeball, of that sort of otherwise.
Like Magic the Gathering
I’m wondering if since robin used to be semme then does that mean she’s just as mentally unstable cause if that’s the case then might malayas hurting of Leslie set robin off on a “walkerton” rage.
If you don’t want it, I mean I’ll do it instead…
Well, that was a strange week.
You know, she could’ve just taken off her undershirt and kept the store shirt on. You just have to do one arm at a time and then pull it out the top, being careful not to mess up your hair …
Or stretch the shirt, not that I think Malaya cares. Then again, she doesn’t seem to care who’s looking or listening either.
maintaining his mythical ethnic balance probably matters more to Galasso than cursing in front of children. Besides cursing in front of children is educational.
She’s definitely not wearing a bra, which means she just flashed her tits in the store. I can’t really judge though. My class is freakishly hot sometimes, and yesterday I definitely forgot there were other people around me when I started pulling my shirt up.
Metal gear awesome reference
“Damn right I’m gonna tap that”
I’m not sure where I stand on the whole Leslie tapping that idea. I don’t really have an opinion of Malay as a person (as worker, yes, as a person or potential girlfriend for Leslie, no.) I do have to say the possible rebound aspect does make this a tricky situation.
Walkyface! And Malaya, you are a baaaaaaad woman.
…though it seems like being a bad person is the way to get relationships around here.
Well congrats kid. You’ve unlocked puberty and lesbian fantasies.
“No harm, no foul”, she says. This girl doesn’t think of anything other than herself, huh? I kinda hope the video cameras in the store caught that, and somehow make it onto the internet.
Wait a sec…
Was that kid in the room while Malaya was changing?
What toy store has rooms that aren’t offices? They’re on the sales floor, so unless he just walked in the front of the store (which would be really awkward for Malaya to be changing there), yes he was in the room.
I don’t know if Malaya is good steady girlfriend material or not, but Leslie really needs to get laid and Malaya seems interested, so if that really is the case, TAP HER SENSELESS.
God, I hate Malaya.
I like her. She’s like Mike, except you can actually believe that she’s a human being. Also, it’s good having a character that isn’t some kind of obsessive fanboy in the cast.
Mike is a dick for the sole purpose of being a dick. Malaya’s just a bitch.
What if she’s a bitch for the sole purpose of being a bitch? Does it make her better?
If that’s what she’s up to, she isn’t trying hard enough yet.
The question wasn’t to say she was. I asked, if she had only insulted everybody, would that be better. If she had called Transformers retarded and never said a nice thing to Leslie, would she be a better character.
The question was basically a why. It’s not enough to say that you hate a character, I want to know why.
Because she’s a bitch. What are you not understanding here?
But you defended Mike for being a dick.
I didn’t mean to direct the I was asking a question at you specifically, it was more of a self defense cause as I look at my posts up and down this page, I felt I was being antagonistic, and unfairly so.
Read what Phil said. I didn’t realize I have to walk you through my thought process. I’ll try to talk slower next time.
BTW, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I had to describe to you why i openly hate a character in a comic. May god help my soul.
I’m not sure why you had to openly hate a comic character in the first place. Did a comic character once push you down on the playground?
How dare I comment on a website with opinions, right? Darn me.
How dare all you people respond to this guy and ask for clarification on his point of view. What is this, a discussion board?
Mike does ridiculous, over the top mean things to people.
Malaya does mean things at a totally reasonable human level.
Over the top = funny = people like Mike
Reasonably mean = “like that bitch you know” = people dislike Malaya
In other words, she needs to turn up her Bitchitude right into Beyond The Impossible!
Wait, wait, wait…
Mike is supposed to be funny?
No, because it’s already being done by Mike. Malaya just sucks.
Welp, I’m not too fond of Leslie myself, but they’re both in the strip and neither of them is probably going away anytime soon. Big casts of characters are funny like that.
I’d tap that. With a two by four.
Yeah… see I have trouble agreeing with you because Robin was under the influence of a sugar rush so massive that she doesn’t remember doing it, and she does feel genuinely terrible that she did it. In ANY other situation where she wasn’t high on sugar, I couldn’t see Robin intentionally cheating on Leslie. And the fact she felt so immensely guilty for actions she doesn’t even remember acting out on, shows a higher level of character than Malaya so far. I’m not saying the sugar excuses her actions, but at least she knows what she did was wrong.
And yeah, if Robin had bought Ethan a hooker or set up a pool in Amber’s apartment upon her first introduction, I would have probably still found her an enjoyable character. Because in both situations they were bizarre, funny and I’d be wondering who this character was, and why they were doing what they were doing.
Malaya however… Yes, she still a new character, but her introduction did not involve wacky hijinks or interesting plot twists. It was Ken handing her a job application, and her insulting him with profanity, insulting the job with profanity and being strong armed into applying for the job because she was mooching off her roommates all the while using profanity. She insults everything that doesn’t directly interest her, and where has she actually genuinely apologized to someone having felt REALLY bad for what she’s done?
oops, this was supposed to go up a few levels. Can someone delete this.
I do wish it would be possible to re-edit a comment for at least 5-10 mins after posting.
Children can’t see boobs! they could die!
I like how several commenters here assumed Leslie was talking about the F-bomb.
My mother understood the evils of exposed breasts on a child’s mind, that is why I was bottlefed when I was a baby.
Cleavage is the Devil’s playground!
No harm no foul?! YOU ARE CHANGING IN FRONT OF A SMALL CHILD YOU FREAKING SICKO! S’WRONG WITH YOU?
Poor Kid Jeph Jaques.
Poor? Just because he had the best trip to a toy store ever?
The poor boy will be tramatised by seeing Malaya’s chest puppies, he is likely to hide inside his room and abuse himself until he develops RSI.
She’s going to sag.
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I mean, honestly.
She’s not wearing a bra or anything.
Girl is gonna be hanging down to her knees by the time she’s thirty.
Wearing a bra doesn’t keep your boobs from sagging! That’s just the aging process, there’s no preventing it.
Bras don’t STOP the sag, but regular use slows down the rate they head south.
Hey to you guys defending Robin by saying “she doesn’t remember it and didn’t mean to because of sugar so its not so bad”. Got a quick question for you. If I go and do Ecstasy, cheat on my girlfriend and post a video of it onto the internet, pass out and forget about it, is it okay? I mean, I was hyper, under the influence, and didn’t mean to, I would never do that if I hadn’t been high. No it isn’t okay, it is still my fault and I’m responsible.
Its the same thing with Robin. She knows what happens to her when she does sugar, she losses control of herself as well as her actions and can’t remember what she has done. She still choose to use it. Just because she doesn’t like what happened doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, and just because she wasn’t in control doesn’t mean she isn’t 100% at fault. Just because you altered your mind doesn’t mean you don’t have to deal with the consequences of your actions, nor does it mean you aren’t responsible for them. Just because she didn’t mean to doesn’t change the fact she did. Robin was a terrible person in that situation no excuses, end of story.
There was no cheating. Leslie broke up with her before she banged the dude.
Not sure if this is a consistent thing with Malaya that I am just noticing… or if I am imagining it… but she has a very similar speech pattern to Robin. With her “yer”s and “fuckin’” and “takin”s!
I somehow skipped the comic where the iguana was introduced, so when I saw the “fuckface” tag I thought it was referring to Leslie’s expression.
Even though Willis has insulated himself from the charge of lezploitation by making one a fully rounded character and having used one relationship as a central storyline in the past…on some days you still end up close to lezploitation my friend. A bit on the cheap side.
Accusations of “lezsploitation”: 1
Comments from lesbian readers disappointed I don’t show more: bajillion
Malaya doesn’t have the physical resemblance to Robin that Dorothy has to Amber, but for some reason their hairstyles seem awfully similar to me.
Is that why Gamera is only friend to all CHILDREN? Once they have boobie he just doesn’t give a ****?
In this case the English word “friend” is a mis-translation of the Japanese term for “pedaphile”. (I think that’s how it’s spelled – the internet is the last place I’m going to research THAT word).
“Pedophile” is the common spelling in the US. “Paedophile,” possibly with that letter which looks like a a and an e slammed together, is also a possibility. I believe that that spelling is more common in places such as the UK, but I could be wrong.