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by David M Willis on July 19, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: mike, pajama jeans, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    July 19, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    DAT MIKE

    =/

    • G-Viral
      G-Viral
      July 19, 2012 at 1:07 am | #

      Mike is a fucking puppetmaster.

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        July 19, 2012 at 7:20 am | #

        Batman wishes his gambits were that awesome.

        • Nee Hou
          Nee Hou
          July 19, 2012 at 12:11 pm | #

          The JOKER wishes his gambits were that awesome!

          • Jadedcynic
            Jadedcynic
            December 26, 2014 at 2:24 pm | #

            wishes his gambits were this awesome.

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      July 19, 2012 at 11:41 am | #

      Chuck Norris wears ‘Mike’ pajamas.

      • das-g
        das-g
        July 19, 2012 at 5:55 pm | #

        ‘Mike’ pajama jeans.

        • Iggy
          Iggy
          July 19, 2012 at 6:48 pm | #

          ‘Mike’ action jeans. http://www.denimology.com/2006/09/cn1.jpg

    • Volkai
      Volkai
      July 20, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

      Just as planned.

  2. Usayasha
    Usayasha
    July 19, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    We love you, Mike.

    • PhysicsLB
      PhysicsLB
      July 19, 2012 at 3:17 am | #

      And I love your mom.
      For a nickel.

      • Tan
        Tan
        July 19, 2012 at 7:19 am | #

        Did you already know that was your icon, or happy coincidence?

    • PhysicsLB
      PhysicsLB
      July 19, 2012 at 3:19 am | #

      By the by, i see this as an opportunity of growth for walky, and a much improved roommate for mike.

      • Mirefrost00
        Mirefrost00
        July 19, 2012 at 11:19 am | #

        Bingo. Mike is “helping”, and gets to thoroughly enjoy being a dick about it.

  3. Mister Mercy
    Mister Mercy
    July 19, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Is he gonna cave?

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 19, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    HE KNOWS!

  5. Luke
    Luke
    July 19, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    The nose does not lie. I called it.

    • Tucker
      Tucker
      July 19, 2012 at 2:02 am | #

      And the other shoe drops.

  6. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    July 19, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Well, of course he would throw salt into the wound. He is Mike.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 19, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      Mike threw his Salt into your mom’s wound for a nickel…
      I think that works.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 19, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      I think the effect would have been better if Mike swiveled around in his chair as lightning struck.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 19, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

        whoops.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 19, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

        Mike needs to grow a Lincoln style beard and sport a pair of orange glasses.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 19, 2012 at 2:07 am | #

          Aw baby.

          Also, that is an amazing gravatar, despite me not knowing who it is.

          • Caffienated
            Caffienated
            July 19, 2012 at 2:13 am | #

            heh, and it’s a guy too XD

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              July 19, 2012 at 3:10 am | #

              You have to admit, it’s incredibly colorful.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              July 19, 2012 at 4:36 am | #

              @Caffienated: So you knew that today’s grav was Ringo the crossdressing teacher from Uta No Prince-sama eh?

              GROOVY! 😀

              • nitpicker
                nitpicker
                July 19, 2012 at 11:19 pm | #

                Damn. Thought it was Daphne.

              • Caffienated
                Caffienated
                July 20, 2012 at 2:35 am | #

                AW YEAH! \m/

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 19, 2012 at 4:56 am | #

            Thanks, it’s not often that I can such a warm colour scheme even with my default Spring Green backgrond.

  7. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 19, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    “No punch.”

  8. quix
    quix
    July 19, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    It’s weird seeing Mike being played as a tough-love force for social development

    • JK9000
      JK9000
      July 19, 2012 at 1:44 am | #

      Is that what’s happening? All I see is Mike being a tremendous asshole.

      • LaurelRaven
        LaurelRaven
        July 19, 2012 at 2:17 am | #

        Actually, I think for a change, he may be doing this to help…I would explain my line of thinking here, but it gets kind of twisted, and I’m not really sure what to make of it; however, I believe in The Mike!

        • Dice
          Dice
          July 19, 2012 at 4:29 am | #

          The “social development” here is Walky not wearing pajama jeans in public, and the quickest way to achieve that would be to not buy them for him in the first place.

          Nah, this is an abusive prick exploiting someone’s failings to make them suffer – either because they’re an easy target, or so he can feel like the blame is theirs for having those socially unacceptable failings rather than his for bringing them up.

          • phlebas
            phlebas
            July 19, 2012 at 6:10 am | #

            No. The development is Walky attaining some awareness that maybe pajama jeans aren’t all he really wants in life, and that maybe sometimes it’s worth compromising such things.
            If he never had the PJs, he’d still worship the idea of them.

            • Reiku
              Reiku
              July 19, 2012 at 4:44 pm | #

              To go a step more, it’ll make walky realize not only the thing with the Pjeans, but that he puts too much stock in the tiny, wacky things, instead of whats really important.

  9. wynne
    wynne
    July 19, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Uh oh. That’s a fighting face.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 19, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      or a crying face.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 19, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

        hateful teary face

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 19, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

          or he’s slowly evolving into a wobbuffett.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 19, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

            That would seriously reduce his move pool.

            • MikeSpader
              MikeSpader
              July 19, 2012 at 1:15 am | #

              But he’d be able to retaliate like none other.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                July 19, 2012 at 5:00 am | #

                Unless he goes against another wobbuffett.

                • Noel Schornhorst
                  Noel Schornhorst
                  July 19, 2012 at 7:24 am | #

                  Ah… Wobbuffet vs. Wobbuffet– not since the glory
                  that was Metapod vs. Metapod has a battle rocked
                  the Pokemon world to its very core!

                • Mister Mercy
                  Mister Mercy
                  July 19, 2012 at 8:25 am | #

                  What’s funny is that it used to be one of the most used pokes in competitive play during fourth gen. UBERS TIER with Arceus and Kyogre. It dropped in 5th gen but still

                • Aeonitus
                  Aeonitus
                  July 19, 2012 at 8:30 am | #

                  One does not know true pain until one switches Wobbuffet
                  into Wobbuffet and both pokemon use Encore.

  10. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 19, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    That pink curtain behind Mike emphasizes his evilness.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      July 19, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      That pink curtain behind Mike emphasizes his eventually becoming That Dude in the Suede.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 19, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        Pink? Looks more like a pale violet to me.

        • marr
          marr
          July 19, 2012 at 4:11 am | #

          Which would be called Mauve.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 19, 2012 at 4:48 am | #

            The tone seems paler, closer to being like a mauvette from what I can tell.

            • CWR
              CWR
              July 19, 2012 at 6:08 am | #

              Sounds like boys trying to describe beef curtains to one another…

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                July 19, 2012 at 7:27 am | #

                AKA Gateway To Her Guts.

                • Hannover Fist
                  Hannover Fist
                  July 19, 2012 at 2:10 pm | #

                  That is the least appealing euphemism for female genitals that I’ve ever heard

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  July 19, 2012 at 5:04 pm | #

                  @Hannover Fist: I borrowed that euphemism from a Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson song “You Cant Say conga In Canada”

                  Excerpt of the lyrics.
                  Now, you can’t say ‘conga’ in Canada
                  Why wasn’t I surprised
                  When they said gash, pussy, poontang, beef curtain, burger, gateway to her guts
                  …Gateway to her guts? What was I smokin’ when I wrote that one?…
                  Split whisker, beaver, long-eye, front bum, growler, hairy lassoo
                  No, you can’t say ‘conga’ in Canada
                  ‘Cause ‘conga’s’ considered pretty fuckin’ rude

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 19, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      Didn’t you hear? Pink is the colour of evil.

  11. SkepticJ
    SkepticJ
    July 19, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    That right there deserves an uppercut.

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 19, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    I think the effect would have been better if Mike swiveled around in his chair as lightning struck.
    o3o

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      July 19, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      Mike’s good, but his evil Weather Dominator is still in beta over at Cobra Command.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 19, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        All he really needs is a thunder sound effect on his MP3 player and some loudspeakers.

  13. Joebo
    Joebo
    July 19, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    I can feel your hate. It makes you strong.

  14. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 19, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    So will Walky choose the girl or the pants?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 19, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      He and Dorothy should just share pants.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      July 19, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      “I’ll give up my pants if I can get in yours”.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 19, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

        That’s a classic PU line if I have heard one.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 19, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      Can’t he pick both?

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      July 19, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      The choice is pretty goddamned obvious to me, really.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 19, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        for real…them pants are way more important than some girl

        • LaurelRaven
          LaurelRaven
          July 19, 2012 at 2:20 am | #

          Absolutely! I mean, PAJAMA JEANS!!! Right?

          • lordphulish
            lordphulish
            July 19, 2012 at 4:25 am | #

            Solomon Grundy want pants too!!

  15. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 19, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    So, that was Mike’s plan all along? Genius.

    • Melizza
      Melizza
      July 19, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      Yes, Mike is an evil genius….so smart and evil, I don’t know why he’s not the main villain of ALL comic books.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 19, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

        He is. He’s actually tricked them to think that they’re doing all the evil and he’s just giving the heroes the advice to make the villains lose.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 19, 2012 at 4:52 am | #

          Sounds like an inversion of the Batman Gambit.

          • Heimdallw32
            Heimdallw32
            July 19, 2012 at 8:17 am | #

            Augh, TVTropes, my only weakness! Alongside bullets, blunt and sharp objects, electrocution, etc…okay not my only weakness, but there’s an hour I won’t get back. xD

            • N0083rP00F
              N0083rP00F
              July 19, 2012 at 1:50 pm | #

              Don’t forget – wooden stake through the heart – is a documented weakness of the Nosferatu and me as well for some reason ….. Do I get those extra power points to my build now?

          • Jackson
            Jackson
            July 19, 2012 at 1:43 pm | #

            I’ll bet Mike links to TVTropes.

      • BigMadDraco
        BigMadDraco
        July 19, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        It’d never work. Mike doesn’t want to rule the world or burn it, he just wants to laugh at it’s misfortune and/or do it’s mom.

  16. Lumino
    Lumino
    July 19, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    Mike knows the Xanatos Roulette well.

    • NCP19
      NCP19
      July 19, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

      Dude could be the new trope namer with just a little more work.

  17. Jetstream
    Jetstream
    July 19, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    That is AMAZINGLY predictive dickishness.

    Mike is Clairvoyant.

  18. Cholma
    Cholma
    July 19, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    “You’ve got to be cruel to be kind, in the right measure…”

    Follow the lyrics to their logical conclusion and we find… MIKE LOVES WALKY.

    I ship it.

    • AidenRyan
      AidenRyan
      July 19, 2012 at 12:56 am | #

      Does it date me when I say I only know those lyrics from 10 Things I Hate About You.

      • Linkara
        Linkara
        July 19, 2012 at 1:04 am | #

        Only in that while that was also the first time I heard that song, their version is a cover of a song much older. XD

        • Mrelegos
          Mrelegos
          July 19, 2012 at 4:36 am | #

          See, for me, it was all about Letters to Cleo from that film… Excuse me, I’m gonna go watch 10 Things I Hate About You

          • Cholma
            Cholma
            July 19, 2012 at 8:54 pm | #

            Okay, now *I* feel old since I don’t know the references you guys make AND I know the song from its original version. (Nick Lowe, 1979) 😀

            • Animal
              Animal
              July 19, 2012 at 10:40 pm | #

              Oh, cry me a river.

              • Cholma
                Cholma
                July 20, 2012 at 8:08 pm | #

                It’s not my fault you’re even older than me, ya Old Fart! 😀

  19. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 19, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

    MIIIIIIIIIKEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! *pan out shot of the dorm* MIIIIIIIIIIKEEEEEEE!!!!!

    • LaurelRaven
      LaurelRaven
      July 19, 2012 at 2:25 am | #

      He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him! I’ll chase him round the Moons of Nibia, and round the Antares Maelstrom, and round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        July 19, 2012 at 2:58 am | #

        KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!

        • lordphulish
          lordphulish
          July 19, 2012 at 4:27 am | #

          From hell’s dark heart I stab at thee!!

  20. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    July 19, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    BAM

  21. narmenduke
    narmenduke
    July 19, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    So, a question (possibly inspired by the beach banner above). If Walky eats Fifty. McNuggets. (and all the tacos), how does he look like he’s sculpted out of caramel? Crazy metabolism, perchance?

    • Blur
      Blur
      July 19, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

      Those bastards exist. I’ve seen them.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        July 19, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

        My boyfriend comes to mind. Bastard.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 19, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

      My theory is tapeworms.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        July 19, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

        Explains his lack of allergies

    • AidenRyan
      AidenRyan
      July 19, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

      I know a guy who can eat more than me, yet weighs around 100 lbs less.

    • Dr.Z
      Dr.Z
      July 19, 2012 at 9:44 am | #

      My soon to be brother in law is like this.

      I hate his guts.

  22. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    July 19, 2012 at 1:11 am | #

    Wow… Meet Mike, Evil Genius.

  23. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    July 19, 2012 at 1:13 am | #

    From the day Mike was leaning against the door frame and watching Mike and Joyce…….bam! Pj jeans. And I’m thinking Walky will stay sculped caramel on his eating diet …until he hits 30…instant caramel beach ball.

  24. CJ_Deadman
    CJ_Deadman
    July 19, 2012 at 2:06 am | #

    Mike, not only does he know just how the butterfly needs to flap its wings to make a tornado, he knows exactly when and where said tornado will hit. True evil genius.

  25. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 19, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

    Wow. Mike, as always, finds a way to take dickishness to new extremes.

  26. Resne
    Resne
    July 19, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

    Cause it’s so easy when you’re evil…

    • Zakrael
      Zakrael
      July 19, 2012 at 1:05 pm | #

      … he does it all for free.
      Your tears are all the pay he’ll ever need.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 19, 2012 at 3:44 pm | #

      You’re mom is so easy regardless of how evil mike is being to her.

      • Resne
        Resne
        July 19, 2012 at 6:03 pm | #

        *Your

  27. Prodigal
    Prodigal
    July 19, 2012 at 3:00 am | #

    Well played, Mike. Well played.

  28. TexasUberAlles
    TexasUberAlles
    July 19, 2012 at 4:00 am | #

    Mike is a machine. A beautiful, beautiful machine.
    *weeps*

  29. tahrey
    tahrey
    July 19, 2012 at 4:08 am | #

    Wait, OK, everyone. Everyone who’s been commenting so far.

    Is Mike either:
    a/ psychic
    b/ just really insightful
    c/ presumptive
    d/ actually ignorant of what’s happened and would be saying the exact same things if Walky had come in looking chipper having not broken up with Dot
    e/ the overseer of a campus-wide network of spies who tweet him up-to-the-second information on what’s going on in the semiprivate lives of all his acquaintances
    ???

    Because unless he’s been watching through a telescope and listening with a gun mic from a window with an almost suspiciously convenient angle onto where the two of them had the argument, how is he to know they’ve broken up at the point which Walky comes into the room? He could be bummed out for all manner of other reasons, upto and including the corner store being out of his favourite flavour of cheez-its.
    (yeah, double “ou” there, mofos)

    He’s machiavellian, and quite possibly earth’s ultimate non-murderous jerk… but, clairvoyant? Nuhuh.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      July 19, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

      Mike does not need clarivoyance. One would assume he has a cell phone, we know he has Twitter, the breakup was public. Yea, I’m pretty sure he has the means to have the knowledge.

    • Saru
      Saru
      July 19, 2012 at 4:42 am | #

      Presumably the whole reason he was so nice in buying Walky Pajama Jeans was that he knew
      a. Walky would wear them in public
      b. Dorothy would not stand for them.

      on a sidenote, did he start helping Walky with the pajama jeans before or after Walky started hooking up with Dorothy? I can’t remember.

      • Jason
        Jason
        July 19, 2012 at 1:06 pm | #

        Mike bought the pj jeans on a Saturday. Walky and Dorothy hooked up the next day.

    • icepyrox
      icepyrox
      July 19, 2012 at 12:55 pm | #

      Even if Walky had not seen Dorothy at all, Mike would have said the same thing. The fact that nobody would think they are as awesome as Walky thought they would be means he would have been disappointed on some level, and that would have lead him to have a reaction to his statements. It’s called Xanatos Roulette because no matter how it lands, same outcome.

  30. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    July 19, 2012 at 4:28 am | #

    They are better then dating a control freak.

    • Raoullefere
      Raoullefere
      July 19, 2012 at 7:08 am | #

      Exactly. If not pajama jeans. it’s going to be the wrong shirt, or taking the wrong class, or getting the wrong grade, or something. Walky’s always going to have to measure up to Dotty’s standards, and sooner or later, Mike won’t be around to embarrass her arrogant ass into relaxing them.

      There are people’s Moms to do and puppies to be kicked, after all.

  31. Plan D
    Plan D
    July 19, 2012 at 4:40 am | #

    Whoa… does he… does he know? Does he know what he did? Does he have magic jerk powers, like original flavor mike? Is he just guessing? Or does he just have great timing?

  32. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    July 19, 2012 at 4:41 am | #

    MISION ACOMPLISHED.

  33. PinkiePiecrust
    PinkiePiecrust
    July 19, 2012 at 6:16 am | #

    The ‘forward buttons’ under the webcomic are broken for the last few pages.

  34. Henry
    Henry
    July 19, 2012 at 7:12 am | #

    Oh my God, he was planning the whole thing. Mike’s powers are truly already manifested in college.

  35. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    July 19, 2012 at 8:10 am | #

    I wounder if Mike is trying to manipulate poor Walky into going back to Dorothy, knowing fully well their relationship is doomed and this will only add to their combined misery.

  36. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    July 19, 2012 at 8:11 am | #

    I also hope Walky punches Mike out cold. ‘Cause it’s always awesome watching Mike get his.

  37. Lieutenant Dan
    Lieutenant Dan
    July 19, 2012 at 8:13 am | #

    計画通り

    • Raen
      Raen
      July 19, 2012 at 2:22 pm | #

      I was wondering when someone was going to make a reference to that.

  38. Jererry
    Jererry
    July 19, 2012 at 8:39 am | #

    Based on recent comments, I now ship Mike and Billie. May they be forever miserable.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      July 19, 2012 at 9:42 am | #

      I don’t know. Billie can certainly be mean spirited but she doesn’t show the ability to long term plan and I think lacks the detachment to be a true schemer which would make them a better match. But if you’re talking short term fling where Mike rips her heart out at the end I can ship that…

      • icepyrox
        icepyrox
        July 19, 2012 at 12:45 pm | #

        Billie is shortsighted enough that she wouldn’t see it as scheming and thus would do everything Mike wants her to do without fail. Both would actually be happy, Billie because she feels she’s accepted by someone who isn’t bad looking and not realize that he is the cause of her misery, and Mike who can always have a sucker for his schemes and/or someone to make them happen for him.

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          July 19, 2012 at 1:16 pm | #

          Heheh, now I can see it…

          It’s beautiful…

  39. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    July 19, 2012 at 9:52 am | #

    I wounder if Mike will now move on to Ethan as his primary target?

    • Erin
      Erin
      July 19, 2012 at 11:46 am | #

      Everyone is Mike’s primary target.

  40. Martigro
    Martigro
    July 19, 2012 at 11:33 am | #

    I have to admit, I did not see that coming.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 19, 2012 at 3:46 pm | #

      You’re mom saw Mike coming for a nickel.

  41. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    July 19, 2012 at 11:38 am | #

    There could be a heartwarming TV series called something like “My Name is Mike.” Each week, he teaches someone the error of their ways through cruelty and manipulation. At the end of the episode, his target has a sudden flash of insight and rushes round to Mike’s place to thank him. Gushy music playing an’ all. To find… well, moms and nickels are involved.

    • Maycroft
      Maycroft
      July 19, 2012 at 12:10 pm | #

      Mike would be awesome as Dr. House.

      • Lumino
        Lumino
        July 19, 2012 at 12:17 pm | #

        What an appropriate Gravatar.

  42. Spammy McSpamster
    Spammy McSpamster
    July 19, 2012 at 1:49 pm | #

    YAY

  43. Charles RB
    Charles RB
    July 19, 2012 at 1:53 pm | #

    Mike plays the long game!

  44. Arturo
    Arturo
    July 19, 2012 at 4:46 pm | #

    Mike’s like a self-help book written by Machiavelli. In arsehole form.

  45. mouseanderson
    mouseanderson
    July 19, 2012 at 5:45 pm | #

    Will Walky learn the error of his ways?
    Will Mike get a Beatin’?
    Will She take Walky back?
    Can I go on Forever?

    These and other question might never be answered.
    Back to you David

  46. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    July 19, 2012 at 9:51 pm | #

    I am disappointed by the sudden change of my avatar.

    • Jehosaphat
      Jehosaphat
      July 19, 2012 at 10:05 pm | #

      Did this fix it?

  47. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    July 19, 2012 at 10:55 pm | #

    Nice Batman Gambit/Xanatos Gambit combo there from Mike. Also nice to see that my personal suspicion that that ability had nothing to do with his powers in the other verse confirmed.

  48. Vanessa Johnson (@VredaJo)
    Vanessa Johnson (@VredaJo)
    July 19, 2012 at 11:17 pm | #

    Is it bad of me to lol at this comic?… cuz I did.

  49. brumagem
    brumagem
    November 27, 2012 at 5:01 pm | #

    REVELATION: the true purpose of Mike is to teach important life lessons through being an ass-hat.

  50. Taigan
    Taigan
    June 29, 2013 at 10:05 pm | #

    I’ve said this about Shortpacked comics, but it gets me that Mike seems to have ZERO interests of his own. Everything he does is about other people. Either to hurt them or (very rarely) to help. But he never seems to do anything just for him.

    • Rheios
      Rheios
      May 14, 2015 at 1:13 pm | #

      I think he gains a sadistic pleasure at the pain of their realizations, because he DOES make their enlightenment as painful as he can usually. So pretty much his interest and hobby is making other people hurt, uncomfortable, and potentially even self-loathing. That he has then manipulated them to change may even play into a power fantasy. Additionally he has to listen to less teenage drama complaining this way since he’s directed the trains to wreck in just the way he wants.

  51. newllend
    newllend
    August 14, 2013 at 10:50 pm | #

    Wow mike, your assholieness has once again given some a reality check

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