Shortpacked! by David Willis
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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
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College Roomies from Hell!!!
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Historical Jesus is very Genre Savvy
I love Lucy…..seriously she’s awesome…..Willis, you will add me into this comic so my fictional character can date Lucy
Black don’t crack.
and crack is wack!
I thought crack is cocaine?
*SMACK*
Damn! Plasma sure is one bad –
Shut your mouth!
I’m just talkin’ bout the Plas.
We can dig it.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
I didn’t want to interfere with the ongoing thread, but I want to say it’s fucking incredible.
When I said it’s natural for people to get fat, I don’t mean all of them.
Malaya’s so jealous right now.
Man, I hate Malaya.
Shout out to people with Melanin! WHOOOOO!
So… anyone who has been exposed to sunlight?
Anyone who isn’t albino pretty much.
Well you can always outrun Malaya.
“Attention whore”
Uh, Malaya? Lucy’s not the one who rants to people who don’t like her constantly and practically begs everyone for their attention. That would eb you.
Psst! It’s called “hypocrisy.”
I think in this case, it’s called “projection.”
You’re asking for logic from Malaya.
Logic.
From Malaya.
Now go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done. Then come back for pie.
Mmmm, pie.
Bickendan, it’s humble pie. While it is moist, it’s not the most flavorful. Anyone who Mmmms over the thought of humble pie hasn’t gotten any in quite some time.
But what if it’s covered in deliscous sprinkles! Sprinkles of denile!
It doesn’t matter how many denial sprinkles you put on it, it’s still gonna taste like wounded pride.
Well humble pie is actually quite appetizing (low in salt and sugar) if you never had any of that sweet sweet revenge, served cold mind you and all you mostly have to survive on is the better dregs of defeat most of your life. It also washes down quite nicely with the milk of human kindness.
The pie is a lie! Just like the cake!
She dresses as Batgirl. Any woman who dresses as Batgirl is an attention whore. Just ask Tony Harris.
It depends on if she does it regularly or it was a one comic joke.
What if she was dressing as batman?
I want to see her just try to pull this on Robin, go on, I dare you MAlaya to try to brawl the seasoned millatary veteran who singlehandedly defeated the legion of evil once (or whatever Yus’s gang is called) come on, it will be hillarious.
Robin is in her 30s so her even bringing it up to her would be kind of dumb.
Robin’s in her 30s and still skinny. That alone might be reason enough for Malaya to pick a fight.
Robin’s a speedster, hyper metabolism comes with the territory.
That alone would make her not worth confronting. Confronting Robin would be admitting that it’s a personal problem and not something “everyone goes through”.
Malaya seems to be a idiot. She can be pissed just cause Robin is more popular with Leslie then Malaya is.
And Malaya has two friends and one of them is a CAR
I would love to see a fight between malaya and robin. or maybe I couldn’t see it.
Has it ever been established how fast Robin can go?
Not in specific terms, no, but when she changed Mike into his tux at his wedding she did it so fast you could see his regular work clothes still in the process of falling when she was done, so I’m thinking pretty darn fast.
The real question is, is she in touch with the speed force?
Remember the time she ate a bowl of Cadbury Eggs and woke up a Senator?
She has the Skittles Force, which is like the Speed Force but with rainbows instead of lightning bolts. Also, tastier.
On the other hand, Malaya got in a fight with a car and fought him to a standstill. A car. Who should just be able to roll over or drop himself on her, and that’s it.
This is a comedy series. Rules of comedy, not any notion of objective “power levels” determines how a fight goes. Robin utterly dominating Malaya in a fight would lack humor or dramatic tension, so don’t expect it to happen anytime soon.
I can’t say I agree. It would certainly lack dramatic tension, but funny depends entirely on the set-up.
Agreed. Willis can make most anything hilarious.
Oh, you mean like Malaya stripped, bound, but not gagged and buried up to her neck in a giant bowl of Cadbury Cream eggs while being slowly water tortured by low fat enriched milk?
HA! Suck it, Malaya! On the downside Lucy’s probably going to get carded for alcohol WELL into her thirties, so win some lose some.
I just turned 28. I look 18. Someday I’ll be happy about looking younger than I am, but last Friday when the pretty lady at the bar called me “junior” was not it.
It begins when you turn 30, but it isn’t all that noticeable until 32-33. Every single time thereafter, you really appreciate it. And it has a yearly compound interest. Every time someone cards you then, you just run as far as you can with it.
Bah, I’m 33 and I’ve got that Reed Richards grey-temple thing going on, I keep a beard and I still get carded. I think it’s just a reflex on the part of cashiers half the time.
I don’t know where you are, but here in Indiana, they train people to card if you look under 40 now.
I can believe that, I heard that in some nightclubs in Queensland, they will even card senior citizens.
A policy of “card EVERYONE” isn’t entirely unheard of. It’s probably the most equitable way to go about it.
I turn 32 tomorrow, and I was carded last week buying beer at my local package store. And I got the suspicious “look from the license to my face several times”, like they genuinely thought I was trying to fake them out. People keep telling me I’ll appreciate it someday, but that day has yet to come.
Possible in a store/bar context, but this does not explain why I was carded at the animal shelter at the age of 26. I was carded for an R-rated movie last year at the age of 30. My mother wasn’t in the clear until 40 and she roasted in the sun as a teen while I didn’t because I’m freakishly pale, so…..
The hilarious part is that when I was 12/13 strangers were *shocked* that I wasn’t old enough to drive. Apparently my family zooms to looking 17 and sticks there indefinitely.
That was me too. I passed as over 21 at Atlantic City when I was 13/14, never got carded anywhere, until my 21st birthday. Now I am 38 and I still get carded everywhere. Always makes me happy!
Yep..I got that, too…first time I was mistaken for 16, I was 13. The last time, I was 31.
Nope, younger than that. Basically as soon as your appearance catches up with your age, you instantly wish you could go back to looking younger.
I know from experience.
Tomorrow: She hurts someone standing behind Historical Jesus.
Friday: She hurts Historical Jesus.
Monday: She hurts the world.
Tuesday is, of course, cancelled. MURDER SPREE HOORAY!
“What are we gonna do tonight, Malaya?”
“The same thing we do every night, Ken. TRY TO HURT THE WORLD!”
But tomorrow IS Friday!
Yeah, I really shouldn’t comment when severely sleep deprived. But eh, that’s never stopped me.
Malaya: I’M GONNA WRECK IT!
Biblical Jesus: I can fix it!
Lucy: You wouldn’t hit someone with Bibilical Jesus, would you?
Malaya hits Lucy over the head with Biblical Jesus.
Lucy: I see what you did there.
BLASPHEMY. Ralph is a nice man. YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. Screw Malaya, she needs smacked with Ultra car. I don’t mean by. I mean WITH. Mike needs to pick up Ultra Car and smack that whiny, self centered, ego maniacal, sociopathic little wh**e with him.
“Yes. Now, the Biblical Jesus, maybe…” *punches out Jesus*
Meh, Biblical Jesus will stand there and let you kill him. Feel free to go through him to get at somebody else.
Malaya, I think you need to find a healthy outlet for your anger issues. Maybe a good fighting game or joining an underground fight club, perhaps.
…No way. Underground fight clubs will lead to Malaya becoming a terrorist.
What if Lucy is Malaya’s other personality?!
Or what if Malaya is DeVito to Lucy’s Schwarzenegger.
“People are always asking me if I know Malaya…”
As long as we’re in agreement that Ultracar is Amazi-Girl
No, let’s run with that. It amuses me.
IIRC, we’ve only seen Lucy and Malaya together in the following situations:
1) Confronting each other alone.
2) In the presence of surreal, equally dubiously real characters like the historical Jesus.
3) In large crowds, not really interacting with each other.
4) Malaya watching Lucy be flirted with by two nerds.
The first three are self-explanatory. The last one could be Malaya’s way of distancing herself from the her only real way of gaining affection, by becoming what she hates. Like she’s watching it from the outside. This explains why Malaya is so fixated on Lucy getting the guys by “putting up a front” of nerdity. It’s rage at herself. Lucy’s debut story could be repressed memories of her own childhood flirt with comic books before she was socialized to learn that nerds are terrible.
(Not that I believe any of this, but it’s fun. Try and see if anything disproves the theory that Lucy is Malaya’s nerd Tyler Durden in a way that can’t be rationalized.)
Her Tyler Nerden?
Underground fighting clubs are for nerds, you know they meet the same time every week? It’s all about patterns.
You calling guys beating the ever loving crap of each other nerds?
It’s probably an edition war.
It’s a joke on Malaya’s defintion of nerds… geeze.
Considering she’s already crossed over into the realm of physical assault, let’s drop the historical Jesus thing and just BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF MALAYA AT THIS POINT. Really, it should’ve happened when she laid a finger on the Lucy and I’m REALLY surprised it didn’t happen when she did it to Ethan.
… I’ve been practicing my groin kicks way too much this week.
Well, who’s gonna? Certainly not Lindsey. No one was awake when Lucy was nearly throttled.
They could sic Ninja Rick on her, but I doubt he’d beat her up.
I’ve been practicing my dirty moves combo for years. For those who wanted to know, the move consists of a kick to the nuts, a poke in the eyes, another kick to the nuts and the chop back to the neck.
Except for possibly the poke to the eyes, that sounds like a very effective combo! Listen to your heart, Aizat!
What if your opponent has no nuts? Or worse, Balls of steel?
Well, if that happens, the nipple twister would replace the kick in the nuts.
but what if they like it?
Jeez, these are a lot of philosophical questions about beatin’ someone until they can’t hurt you no more… I’ll just throw out the standard Frantics response: BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Ah The Frantics ….. how I miss thee ….. I should work on my aim mire XD
Malaya? Liking stuff? In the same sentence?
A kick to the poon hurts pretty bad too.
The most poetic way to physically defeat Malaya would be with the ultimate nerd fight technique, “The Kirk,” a blow to the gut, followed by a double axe handle to the back.
Genetics: It’s a lottery after all.
Sometimes, you hit the jackpot. Other times, you got stoned. And by stoned, I mean getting hit by thrown stones.
Only He who is without Sin can cast the first stone.
Jesus made Malaya fat?
She ate historical Jesus!? D:
No, not historical Jesus. It was Jesus, the guy who runs the taco truck she usually gets lunch from.
Yes it is, and we’re all better off for it.
Whether or not one is the “fittest” has to do with how well one plays with the hand they’re dealt rather than the hand itself, and I don’t see any signs of Malaya making plans to run her ass around the block a few times, be thankful to be more well-endowed, or anything, but scorn others for not failing at life as much as she has up to this point.
Mmmm, looks like my Dad’s side of the family has a long lost Filipino branch that moved to San Francisco…
I wonder if the end of this story arc will have Malaya collapse in upon her own hatred and create a strange new singularity. A form of cosmic bitchitude.
She’ll become a black hole of bitchiness through which no common decency can escape.
Then, should we exile her of planet before she became a black hole? I hear Pluto is the best place for exile in this time of year.
Diddn’t you here? Pluto dosen’t exist anymore.
Really? Mickey is gonna be bummed.
WHAT? PLUTO DOESN’T EXISTS ANYMORE? Well, there goes my stash of ice.
Really? What are those whacky Mi-go up to now?
Wow, two homonyms in one thread!
a.) “Off planet” not “of planet”
b.) “Hear” not “Here”
c.) Pluto still exists; it’s simply no longer considered a planet. Instead, it’s a dwarf planet, 2nd largest in our system, of which we know there are at least 40, but may be as many as 200.
… And knowing’s half the battle!
G.I JOE!!!!!!
the pluto thing was a joke
It’s so hard to tell, these days.
…But then what’ll happen to Cosmo’s corn?
Poor poor Jesus…
I don’t really think beating up Malaya will solve everything. She feels like a victim; as if she’s been replaced by someone cuter and more prone to friendship than herself and she’s feeling self conscious. So she projects these insecurities onto others to knock them down so she doesn’t grow to hate herself. Beating her up will only make her win in the end because she will now be JUSTIFIED as the victim and everyone else becomes the bad guy. She’s like a schoolyard bully. She feeds off the reactions she gets out of other people. Everyone keeping calm is probably what pisses her off most because it reinforces the fact that her opinion is, in fact, not important.
She choked Lucy.
She’s a schoolyard bully.
I don’t really care if it would help Malaya change–as soon as she lays hands on someone, she gets a self-defense beating. Whether she changes or not is irrelevant–gotta look out for yourself. Ain’t thinking about solving. The line is physicality.
I agree, although there is a difference between being victimized and being punished, but the self centered way she thinks of herself the brusin’ she is cruzin for probably wouldn’t do any good for Malaya.
Probably not, but it would be a hell of a lot of fun for a lot of other people.
Well, she needs to change her attitude. The world doesn’t revolve around her and she needs to learn it either the easy way or the hard way. And she best hope it’s not the hard way.
What and give her the easy way out?
Malaya is so jellyyyyy
Glad to see that Lucy has adjusted well to the weirdness of the store. There only two months, and she’s already using the Historical Jesus Christ as a human shield.
Hmmm… I wonder if Malaya has any friends outside of work……… Just kidding I hope her enemies punch her in the nose so her ugly can be seen on the outside. On that note I hope that it is Mike who is the one to do it, he is the person who can do mean right!
Dddouble post!
I can’t condone a super human bunching a 23 year old woman in the face.
Mike could probably set it up as to where she runs into his fist and make Malaya feel bad about it for not respecting his fist’s personal space.
poor historical jesus
The fact that Lucy is hiding behind Jesus tells me that she lacks the bitchslapping skills needed to put Malaya in her place.
Her Pimp hand is indeed week.
She needs the God Hand.
We need Jesus to go into ‘temple-vendor’ smashing mode.
She needs the Power Glove…It’s So Bad.
That was nerdy. Malaya will now strangle you.
So is this an experiment to see whether Malaya hatred remains directly proportional to Lucy liking, or are we just building up to a spectacular Malaya/anti-Malaya explosion?
Well, when you put a positive and a negative charge next to each other, sparks fly.
I think that’s what we’re seeing here.
Also if you put a positive and a negative together they attract so…
I love how, even when Malaya is getting fucked over, people are saying she should get punched in the face.
She’s getting humiliated in the worst way possible for her. Bad things are happening to her in a way she can do nothing about. What more could you want?
That’s what I’m sayin’ TJ. Cut the girl a BREAK.
It’s like nobody’s even noticing the tremendous amount of suffering she’s been having this arc.
Oh, I think people notice. It’s just that her general personality, her attitude and her actions have removed all possibilities of sympathizing with her for most people. Especially if they disliked her in the first place.
I ain’t gonna post any hate towards her, but I’m having difficulty feeling sorry for her. Part of my mind is still going “serves you right”.
yeah…because she has suffered SO much!
Malaya’s been nothing but a bitch the past while
and so she “finally” gets served a wake up call
and she Decides No…i’m not gonna learn shit!
she has not suffered enough!
This right here. I’m not gonna say I want violence inflicted upon her but damn, she totally deserves all the anguish she’s dealing with right now.
Maybe we would if she cut everyone else one. Or at least stopped acting like everyone owes her two.
Obviously they also want her to get punched in the face.
Touche.
Bad things are happening to her in a way she can do nothing about?
…Pretty sure you can exercise to combat losing youthful metabolism.
“Oh, the cure is worse than the ailment!”
“But exercise makes you sweaty and do you know who are the sweatiest people around? NERDS!”
The fact that Malaya can call someone else “attention whore” with a straight face is really funny to me for some reason.
It’s the pot calling the kettle high in melanin content.
Malaya is obnoxious, but I find myself craving some character development for her. We’ve seen that she’s not entirely a horrible person in the way that she stood up to Leslie’s mother and she is nice to Les. I think that being taken down a peg will be good for her.
This is character development. No more Little Miss Sunshine, remember?
Not everyone learns and grows as they get older. Some people just get progressively more horrible until they push anyone who would associate with them for their lives. I, for one, eagerly await this development for Malaya’s character.
I agree. I still think this will help her turn around eventually. At the very least it might knock her vanity down a bit. I mean sure, she was very aware of her looks, but she explicitly said on her date with Leslie that she didn’t appreciate being seen as no more than that.
But it would be a boring story if she just packed on a few pounds and then immediately thought “Gee, I’ve been mean, maybe I should learn a lesson”. It’d be like if Scrooge mended his ways right after Jacob Marley showed up.
Granted, she did that because she wanted into Les’s pants and the only reason why she continues to be nice (“Nice” being a relative term here) to her is because she hasn’t yet realised that Leslie is just as big a nerd as anyone else who works in the store.
Malaya’s actions reminded me of a certain grass ogre. Unlike the grass ogre, Malaya’s obnoxiousness does not release a gas that could ward off whywolves.
On the plus side, if you get fat enough, you don’t end up all wrinkly.
On the down side, if you get fat enough, there’s a slight problem of mobility.
But forklifts are pretty mobile.
Down size, Wrinkles don’t happen…but sagging does.
Or, wrinkles still happen. They’re called jelly-rolls. Then there’s stretch marks and cellulite..
We all love you Lucy, but only Dick Clark doesn’t age.
Dick Clark signed a pact with the demon Astoroth for eternal youth. To maintain it, he must perform an annual ceremony just as the old year dies, which takes the form of a golden ball descending from on high while intoxicated people chant, to signify to eventual fall of God before the sins of Man.
And now you know.
And here I thought he just had a really ugly painting in his attic.
Really? I was thinking he had an orchard of golden apples.
My theory was that he fathers countless children who develop Progeria as he dumps his age into them.
That’s right, Malaya…you just keep on being a little bitch.
David, are you just trying your damnedest to make Malaya as unlikable as possible? If so, kudos on a job well done.
Mayaya’s problems are strictly her own damn fault. If she is suffering it ‘s because of her own behavoir. And yeah, now that everybody hates her, its about time for D.W. to drop a ‘horrible factoid about her childhood thats
turned her into such a self centered blame it all on the world young woman.’ Cause if he dosn’t she will be one of the few of his people who’ve not developed at all.
The only way this could be better: instead of all that, Lucy just responds in panel three with, “So?” Y’know, to not even give dignity to the accusation. But I like her specifciticy.
BIOLOG-OWNED!
LUCY WINS! BIOLOGY!
I have a feeling this is going to end up with a big wall of insecurities tumbling down in a hail of tears… there’s got to be more to her than this. People just don’t act that spikily without a reason.
‘Historical Jesus’ needs to start charging.
I assume you mean “charging” as in “getting paid”, but I couldn’t help thinking of it like “doing a charge” (attacking), kinda like a Krogan in Mass Effect
No, I’m pretty sure he means “charging” as in charging up, like getting ready to enter his spiky blonde-haired Super-Messiah Mode.
He’s gone Super Savior!
Bah, that’s last season. This season the big thing is Super Savior 2. It looks exactly the same thing except more sparkly.
So Jesus was the original Twilight style vampire??
He is kinda sorta undead.
‘Kinda’ nothing! The guy died, got up, and now walks around with gaping open wounds that do not bleed. That’s pretty much the textbook definition of a zombie, even before you get into the whole eating human flesh and drinking human blood stuff.
He’s the only zombie I know that millions of people eat on a regular basis.
Well, he always was all about converts. And how many zombies do you know who have got millions of people eating human flesh weekly, on the promise and hope of rising from the grave?
OVER 9000 LOAVES AND FISHES!
Nobody thinks about how Jesus feels.
Wait…way too much? Are threats of violence made that often in this store?
People hide behind Jesus all the damned time.
Just have then bonk each other and get it over with.
Can someone please “one-punch” this worthless gutterc*** and then toss her into a dumpster with the rest of the garbage?!? Or at least spawn a serial killer that shoots every s***head on this strip in the head with a .500 magnum?!? I don’t give a flying f*** if she gets off on this or she’s insecure, there is no reason to act like a f***ing tool towards everyone! Boo hoo! My candidate lost so now I’m forming a petition to form our own country like its the 1800s again! Waah! I’m a teenager with too much testosterone and no common sense and have a broken home and so on, so I’m gonna troll the Internet to make everyone’s life suck. SHUT THE F*** UP, YOU WORTHLESS PILES OF S***!! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT HERE, EITHER LEAVE, SEEK HELP, OR GO KILL YOURSELVES!!!
…Over react much?
I’m not sure what exactly he’s even reacting to.
O…. k…?
What.
Neither comic characters, nor political sore losers, nor trolls are worth that kind of self-poisoning anger. Really, no one is, especially people who have no real effect on anything.
What?
“I’m a teenager with too much testosterone and no common sense and have a broken home and so on, so I’m gonna troll the Internet to make everyone’s life suck.”
Oh…
I walked here from Tumblr just to make sure this comment was real. And it was, bizarrely censored curse words and all!
Me too!
Third. Also dude she’s a drawing Calm down.
Also checking this comment page specifically from tumblr. But to see what the heck he was responding to. Of which I still have no clue.
Followed here from tumblr as well trying to see what he was responding to. Just wow.
Twitter brought me here for it. By the Emperor’s Eyes, it was definitely worth the trip.
What the hell is is this guy trying to argue? At first it seemed like the standard anti-Malaya ranting, then it segued into that political thing that has absolutely no connection to anything going on in the comic.
Oh good, so it’s not just me.
Have you ever considered anger management?
Oh, god no. That show’s awful. I suspect it’d only make him worse.
Show?
… What. The. Hell.
After seeing someone on today’s comment board reference this one, I had to come see what it was all about.
*slow clap*
Am I the only one who likes Malaya but doesn’t like Lucy?
Yep!
Well. I don’t really like Malaya all that much, but she is at least consistent in terms of her flaws and the shit she needs to sort out. Lucy is kind of striking me as “whatever makes Malaya look worst in the moment,” and I’m not so much of a fan.
Sort of a related thought:
Most characters in shortpacked!/dumbing of age have something wrong with them, something that makes them ridiculous and absurd, but still relatable or familiar. It’s a big part of what I like about the comic. Lucy doesn’t have that.* We only relate to her because of her good qualities and, to me, that’s actually far less interesting in a comic. I don’t like to get to know people under the condition that their bad qualities are hidden from me. It feels like she doesn’t have much room for growing or changing, especially not in relation to Malaya, and I wish/hope that she had been developed more as a character before (or in conjunction) with this thing with Malaya.
*to be fair, Leslie doesn’t really have flaws, either, but she has weaknesses which tend to put her in rather unique situations.
I can’t say that Malaya makes my blood boil, but I don’t really care for her.
I was rather surprised when Lucy first appeared and everyone started fawning for her like a stray kitten that just found a home. Sure, she’s a fun character, but nothing special.
Quite frankly, we haven’t seen much of Lucy. We’ve seen her:
1. Pride over her nerdiness.
2. Stand up to Malaya.
All of that said, I’m looking forward to seeing a character arc focusing on Lucy and who she actually is.
I think she’s popular because she first appeared in that one strip where Willis made misogynists really angry, and also because she’s nerdish in that time-honoured way.
Yeah, I mean Lucy’s fine and all… but I dunno sometimes she rubs me the wrongs way. I wouldn’t really call it mary-sueish, cause its not- but there is some feeling of ‘look at this girl she is good this is what girls who are good are like’. I think I’ll have a better time connecting with her once this storyline is over.
Yeah – she hasn’t been in the strip all that long and has been involved pretty much as an instigator for the Malaya Meltdown ™ story track.
I am looking forward to what Dave has in store (no pun intended) for her in the near future.
This is when it gets revealed Lucy is a Black Belt, isn’t it?
No; it’s when it’s revealed that Jesus is a blackbelt.
Kung-Fu Action Jesus?
yes plz
As someone whose weight DOES fluctuate, I really wish a woman’s worth in this culture wasn’t dictated nearly as much on how wide or heavy she is (or her mass, I guess if you want to get sciencey about it). 20 somethings have enough to worry about in this day and age without stressing over how people will perceive them because they have a tummy. It just makes me sad that Malaya’s first reaction to being insecure about her body is to go to the girl she likes the least (and is intimidated by the most) to make her feel bad about her own body.
The same can be said for guys as well. It is not a woman only thing though it is more openly talked about and being fought.
I am impressed with that background, Mr. Willis. Just sayin’ this so you feel like the massive amount of time it probably took was worth it. Cause *damn*, man. Shit’s pretty intricate.
He drew one bike and copied and recolored it a bunch of times. You can tell by the consistent fluctuations in line thickness and position.
On the other hand most wouldn’t even attempt that much, so it’s commendable that he’s actually assembled good-looking backgrounds at all, even if he didn’t draw each spoke by hand.
Ahh yes. Though the bikes probably weren’t the hardest part about that background. I think the racks would have been, especially getting the perspective correct as well as lining the bikes up into them correctly. Which is in fact harder to accomplish when copy/pasting. Faster but not easier.
Well, if it makes you feel better, Historical Jesus, people hide behind the non-historical Jesus all the time, too.
Well they do say Jesus is my shield. I feel really bad about saying that.
I’m a Christian, and I took no offense.
I am too I was just worried the joke would be bad. ^_^
Kick her ass Lucy!!!
Malaya oughta be fired for how she is harassing Lucy
Lucy? Malaya’s attacked customers already. She should ahve been fired ages ago.
to be fair she seems to have only attacked normal customers asking reasonable questions, not the sphincter-clenching simpleton fanboys who seem to make up most of the store’s repeat business.
Remember when Malaya insulted HER PREGNANT BOSS?
If she’s not been fired yet, she won’t be.
Actually, am I the only one who kinda wants a future story where Malaya and Lucy (through whatever means) eventually end up the best of friends? Like their interests may be worlds apart, but they will eventually respect and care for each other.
I think she has to get Lucy to admit that the destruction of her planet has left her emotionally compromised, and then they work together to stop Eric Bana’s giant ship.
Historic Jesus looks a little worried in the last panel.