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September 28, 2023

Moved

by David M Willis on May 23, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Up All Night to Get Vengeance

└ Tags: dexter, mike, monkey master, walky

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  1. AHR
    AHR
    May 23, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Come on Mike, no need to be petty. Just cause Walky left you for someone prettier doesn’t mean you need to take revenge.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      May 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      haha Gravatar win

    • thecanvashat
      thecanvashat
      May 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Prettier than Mike? Ha!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Clearly screwing mothers for a nickel just doesn’t excite him quite the same way as getting some of that caramel goodness does.

      • newllend
        newllend
        May 23, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        He could get that from Sal if he wanted,No really if it ment screwing with someone’s head he would do it for That reason only.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 23, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          But Walky radiates uke which suits a seme like Mike a lot better.

          • sps48
            sps48
            May 23, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

            Are those typos or something I’m’na hafta look up?

            • PrincessCarlos
              PrincessCarlos
              May 23, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

              I wouldn’t if I were you.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              May 23, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

              Uke: BL fan slang for a guy who is the ‘bottom’ when engaging in gay sex.
              Seme: BL slang for a guy who is the ‘pitcher’ when engaging in gay sex.
              SEMME: The name of the top-secret organisation that SP! Mike served in.

              • gangler
                gangler
                May 23, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

                That’s some quality punsmanship.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  May 23, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

                  Danke! A day without puns is like a day without gums, harder to sink your teeth into.

              • Ancestral Hamster
                Ancestral Hamster
                May 23, 2014 at 1:35 am | #

                Actually, I thought “uke” was the noise the bottom makes while his bottom is being plumbed. “Uke uke uke.”

                Re: caramel goodness. Mike: Bring me another Walkerton, this one’s full.

              • Parnifia the Bastard
                Parnifia the Bastard
                May 23, 2014 at 10:54 am | #

                Actually, “seme” and “uke” are general terms, not just BL. They may have started as BL terms, but now they encompass any Character A X Character B pairing. (To my knowledge, anyways.)

                • John Cabot
                  John Cabot
                  May 23, 2014 at 12:51 pm | #

                  Not exactly, but if I try to describe how it’s a thing with built in ‘personality traits’ and shit my brain starts screaming and I have to go do something else. The uke is meant to be small and weak, the seme big and strong and it’s a very heteronormative porn trope from Japan.

                  It keeps getting applied to characters that weren’t designed for it, which leads to things like weepy Iolaus in Hercules’ arms.

                  Aw dangit, I explained it anyway.

                  See also: Lemons, limes.

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  May 24, 2014 at 7:04 am | #

                  JC: Just so. It’s “but which one is the man?” all over again. Because actual new, non-binary gender roles would make so many heads asplode.

      • Noel Schornhorst
        Noel Schornhorst
        May 23, 2014 at 5:23 am | #

        Now I want Mike X Walky to be the next Slipshine thing!

  2. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    May 23, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Even when he’s helping people, Mike can’t stop screwing someone else over.

    • Nunc Pro Tunc
      Nunc Pro Tunc
      May 23, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

      And thus the balance of the universe if kept in check.

  3. KingMabel
    KingMabel
    May 23, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    In his defense, those DVD’s have the interviews with the cast AND…

    Korean captions.

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      May 23, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

      Even then, those Korean subtitles are just a hidden distress signal from the overworked animators and not a true translation.

      • KingMabel
        KingMabel
        May 23, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

        I can’t think of a number big enough to give you for this…

    • ZORK
      ZORK
      May 23, 2014 at 3:08 pm | #

      Wait, the Blu-Rays lack those? Do they come with any other extras instead? I mean, I only have the DVDs because I don’t have a Blu-Ray player (well, except for my PS3, but I use it solely for games).

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    May 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Mike’s face in the last panel gives me pause … there needs to be snow slowly falling outside.

    • KingMabel
      KingMabel
      May 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Or maybe his shock allowed him to see the word bubble.

    • LiaHansen
      LiaHansen
      May 23, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      with a very slight upward tweak of Mike’s eyebrows, that could be the most dramatic panel in DoA history.

      • StClair
        StClair
        May 24, 2014 at 7:09 am | #

        “I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

  5. Shanunu
    Shanunu
    May 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Classic.

  6. Gram91
    Gram91
    May 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    It’s been a while since we’ve had a Mike Moment.

    • newllend
      newllend
      May 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      We need more of those, we need to see more moments of Mike messing with everybody and I mean everybody.

  7. Gnoka
    Gnoka
    May 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Maybe the skateboarders are sale and friends and this is a plan to force walky to patch things up with his sister

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      May 23, 2014 at 11:24 am | #

      Skateboarders for sale!

  8. newllend
    newllend
    May 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    For a second there I thought he gave them to Joyce, then I thought he would haft to go over to her room to literally fight her over them, then again Joyce looks like she has more muscle mass than him.

    • JeremiahTheBulldog
      JeremiahTheBulldog
      May 23, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

      Evidently, you haven’t seen him nude.

  9. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    May 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    I don’t know. This seems pretty dickish, even for Mike. Isn’t it?

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      May 23, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      For most people, this is dickishness performed on a level that changed not only their lives, but the lives of those around them.
      For Mike, it is just Tuesday.

      • Iamnoht
        Iamnoht
        May 23, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

        So did Mike change his last name to Bison?

        • Alex
          Alex
          May 23, 2014 at 7:19 pm | #

          So that’s what the M stands for.

          … Wait, I knew that. Mike Bison was the original name for the boxer character.

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      May 23, 2014 at 9:37 am | #

      This is also something very commonly done by many parents of high-school/college-aged students. The moment they go away from home, even for a weekend, throw out all their comics and DVDs that they’ve spent years paying for and patiently collecting, because “now you’re an adult, you don’t need all those childish stories”.

      Many a potentially very valuable comic collection has been lost this way over the decades. My own dad had a largish collection of DC Comics (mostly Superman) from the ’60s. The moment he went away on a school trip for a week, his mum threw his whole collection of “kiddie comics” out.

      This completely ignores not only that such collections can appreciate in value over time, but even the more basic fact of how much money was spent amassing them in the first damn place. xD

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        May 23, 2014 at 10:52 am | #

        The thing I find most appalling about such behavior is a parent stealing and destroying the possessions of their own child. They wouldn’t do that to a stranger; they’d be arrested. If somebody broke into their house and did it to them they’d feel horribly violated. Parents who do this to their kids are both criminals and horrible people.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        May 23, 2014 at 11:25 am | #

        But you could argue that the remaining comics wouldn’t be worth as much, maybe not even rare at all, if not for this behavior.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        May 23, 2014 at 11:27 am | #

        Maybe the only justified example of this would be in White Teeth: when the kid goes to a book-burning demonstration to burn Salmon Rushdie books (I think), his mom burns all his stuff in the backyard to make a point to him about how wrong it is to burn books.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        May 23, 2014 at 3:15 pm | #

        Yea, my mom let her clients kids (she ran an in house ceramics business) read my comics when I went to university, needless to say, they were shredded. They also destroyed my plastic model collection.

  10. Chrissy
    Chrissy
    May 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    I don’t understand why people like Mike.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      May 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      I prefer Ike, personally.

      • arank11
        arank11
        May 23, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        Only true 50’s kids will understand this

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 23, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

          As a 60s born kid, I also understand it.

          • Heavensrun
            Heavensrun
            May 23, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

            I’m sorry, I didn’t read any of your words because your avatar makes it impossible to look at them long enough.

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              May 23, 2014 at 2:32 am | #

              Words?

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          May 23, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

          Or anyone who didn’t live under a rock during that weird PR stunt two years ago.

        • Rutee
          Rutee
          May 23, 2014 at 3:08 am | #

          Yer kiddin’ right? They were still selling Mike n’ Ikes when I was a kid, and they were popular enough.

          • Durandal_1707
            Durandal_1707
            May 23, 2014 at 4:49 am | #

            I think arank11 was referring to the Eisenhower’s “I Like Ike” campaign slogan, although the joke he was referring to probably was referencing the candies.

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        May 23, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

        So did Ice Cube.

        Things could be different now that he’s gone from rapping about malt liquor (and starting rap beef among brands) to having arguments with beer bottles.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      I think they like Mike more for what they remember from SP! than for what he has done in DoA.

      • Heatth
        Heatth
        May 23, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

        I like Mike from DoA before I even read SP!. I just find him funny. Sure, it is not someone you would like to hang out with, but it is certainly entertaining to watch.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 23, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

          I feel that way for a number of characters I have read/watched over the years, they’re awesome from an outsider’s POV but they would be annoying, sometimes even horrible people to actually deal wih on a daily basis.

          • Rutee
            Rutee
            May 23, 2014 at 3:14 am | #

            Most of them would be a huge pain to deal with daily. Mike’s entertaining as a sometimes food though, as an outsider.

            Mind you, while I’m at a loss to understand it, Mike is just another in a long line of folks similar.

    • newllend
      newllend
      May 23, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      Everyone like a charismatic asshole for example take: steven Hyde(that’s 70 show) Bender( futurama)kusco(emperors new grove) master shake(ATHF) DEAD POOL! everybody fucking loves Deadpool

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 23, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        That’s so true it hurts.

        • newllend
          newllend
          May 23, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

          I also forgot Blue from foster home, I’m also counting Stewi from family guy for that entire “where’s my money” thing , till this day that is still funny.

          • Chrissy
            Chrissy
            May 23, 2014 at 9:10 am | #

            That is a great, true list! But if Mike is being a total jerk to manipulate a situation and have it work out well for people, he shows no indication that’s what he is trying to do. I haven’t read SP! because I want the characters in DOA to stand alone for me, and I think I must be missing some human element with Mike. As far as I can tell, he doesn’t care if his cruelty works out to help people, he is just a huge dick that no one should keep around. If I were Walky I would be submitting a room change request

            • newllend
              newllend
              May 23, 2014 at 4:08 pm | #

              And like the guys I mentioned some of us think some of the things he done has had a reason. if he thinks his actions some how have a good effect on people then he isn’t just an asshole,but if he has no idea that he is secretly helping people find guidance and is just doing all this stuff just because then he’s just a straight up dick or he could be chaotic neutral. Stuff like this is the core of these kind of characters their like antiheroes of comedy.

      • Annie
        Annie
        May 23, 2014 at 2:02 am | #

        Also Dr. Romano from ER. He was awesome, but it was also kind of awesome and satisfying to see him crushed by a helicopter.

    • Cloverlock
      Cloverlock
      May 23, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      I have only followed the DoA universe, and I can safely say that Mike is my favorite character.

      Yes, he is a major asshole, but I firmly believe there is a point to everything he does. His douche bag-ery is not a collection of empty actions. Each one, I believe, can better the person they immediately affect. The problem with this is that we, the audience, are the only ones with a birds-eye view and comprehension of the various lives of these characters, so what he’s doing can not be internalized as a step in the right direction. at least not now.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 23, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

        A lot of people seem to think that Mike is some kind of Stealth Mentor with an asshole twist but I wonder if he really is or not.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          May 23, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

          It’s just another way that he can be an asshole. You never know if he’s helping or not.

        • Cloverlock
          Cloverlock
          May 23, 2014 at 12:49 am | #

          As annoying as his methods for mentoring might be, that has to be the answer. I mean, there have been many moments where characters did not reflect on their words or actions until they it was thrown in their face, along with mud, by Mike. We have yet to see him gain anything, even personal enjoyment, from being so hurtful or even brutally honest, leading me to believe that it’s meant to do something to that person, as if Mike is some pampadoured parent scolding his same-age kids for their emotionally-driven or irrational actions towards others.

          • Annie
            Annie
            May 23, 2014 at 2:04 am | #

            This was great. Some how you found the words to describe how I feel about Mike in the DoA universe without knowing that’s how I felt.

        • newllend
          newllend
          May 23, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

          its Either a 50% chance he is or 50% chance he’s just on the nose of the problem all the time and he’s being an ass just because.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          May 23, 2014 at 2:17 am | #

          I don’t believe for an instant that Mike intends to be a stealth mentor. That’s some Draco in Leather Pants level crap there. The guy did not stick his books in Walky’s backpack due to altruism; he did not try to break up Dotty and Walky due to altruism; he did not ignore and quietly accept Ethan’s choice to make Joyce his beard out of altruism. Mike did all this just because people piss him off and he doesn’t care what happens to them. (Even his best friend!)

          • Cloverlock
            Cloverlock
            May 23, 2014 at 2:25 pm | #

            1) In regards to the whole “ignoring the beard” thing, I always just thought that was none of Mike’s business, and that, for lack of a good reason, he has decided to stay out of it for now, a left-field move considering his past actions (or maybe he truly doesn’t think that’s the right move right now, it’s Dave’s story whatever)

            2)I never said that Mike is following some doctrine of Altruism. I am not saying that he is some selfless saint. Far from it, perhaps. I wouldn’t be surprised if later on, we find out he gets some sick pleasure from seeing others reflect on choices they can’t change. what I was arguing is that these moments of dick moves might actually be beneficial to the development of the characters, something I considered when I noticed how the characters took to heart his harsh comments. If they were meant to be the words of just another asshole, I do not believe they would have so much effect.

  11. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    May 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Thank what now?

    • Mr K
      Mr K
      May 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Walky’s an atheist, so I guess he doesn’t want to say god.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        May 23, 2014 at 2:19 am | #

        But the Cheese is god! …Sort of. In a universe we’re not supposed to talk about here.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        May 23, 2014 at 3:47 am | #

        …hasn’t he already?

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          May 23, 2014 at 10:37 am | #

          He has. It’s one of those little things that come up when you’re an atheist using a language which has been steeped deeply in a religion for over a millennium. The word “god” means both “any sort of diety”, “that one particular autocratic diety”, and “shit!”; in the latter usage it’s not even a theistic term.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      May 23, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      He may not be a real (demi)god on this universe, but that doesn’t mean Walky can’t decide to use the D&MM character name that way.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      May 23, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Walky’s mom actually thought the audition was for a Cheezian evangelical video, not that weird little Christian cult.

      • Bill
        Bill
        May 23, 2014 at 2:39 am | #

        Well, it was a rather cheesy video.
        Or isn’t that quite what you meant?

    • Annie
      Annie
      May 23, 2014 at 2:07 am | #

      Am I the only one that grew up saying “cheese and rice!” instead of “Jesus Christ!” as a swear word? It took me forever to figure out that the use of “thank cheese” and such that’s often said in the SP! universe wasn’t an extension of “cheese and rice!”

    • Tobias
      Tobias
      May 23, 2014 at 3:14 am | #

      So The Cheese is a character in D&MM? Makes sense.

  12. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    May 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    On the plus side, those skateboarders are going to have some sick airtime.

    • Rybridge
      Rybridge
      May 23, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Bu-Dum-Tsh!!!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        May 23, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

        D-Did I make a pun unintentionally?

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          May 23, 2014 at 2:18 am | #

          If you did, I’m not sure what it is either.

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            May 23, 2014 at 9:46 am | #

            TV airtime

            (I did it, I explained the joke, oh no….)

  13. Izumi Ryu
    Izumi Ryu
    May 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    At least he’s honest about being an ass. Better than you can say about a lot of people.

  14. Mr K
    Mr K
    May 23, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    I bet the skateboarders are Sal, Marcie, Malaya, and Carla.

    • newllend
      newllend
      May 23, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Now thats why I like DoA Mike so much, when the plot needs to speed he is there to do something about it in the best way possible, making it inconvenient for all other characters yet fun to watch for us. Wait Sal doesn’t have a skateboard its probably someone else.

      • LBD "Nytetrayn"
        LBD "Nytetrayn"
        May 23, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        Didn’t Marcie have a skateboard?

        • newllend
          newllend
          May 23, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

          Oh ya.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 23, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      I can imagine Sal gaining some measure of pleasure from ruining Walky’s anime DVDs.

      • newllend
        newllend
        May 23, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        Do What you want to a man but there are two things you do not FUCK with: his video games and his anime.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        May 23, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

        Since when is D&MM anime?

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          May 23, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

          “Anime”-tion = animated shows => only people outside Japan call Japanese animation “anime”

          SO THAT IS TECHNICALLY CORRECT IN A SENSE I GUESS

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            May 23, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

            only people outside Japan call ONLY Japanese animation “anime” dangit missed an only

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              May 23, 2014 at 10:41 am | #

              Is that true? Do english-speaking people residing in Japan and speaking or writing english refer to Ren and Stimpy by the word “anime” in their english sentences?

              • Chris
                Chris
                May 23, 2014 at 2:08 pm | #

                1. I think my brain just exploded. 😛
                2. Not if they’re speaking/writing 100% English. Even though in Japanese “anime” (アニメ) is just an extremely common abbreviation for “animation”, that is not true in English. But people speaking Japanese would call Ren & Stimpy “anime”.

            • 3oranges
              3oranges
              May 23, 2014 at 5:31 pm | #

              And panzer is just German for tank, but it would still be really strange to call an American tank a panzer.

  15. MightionNY
    MightionNY
    May 23, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Ah, the return of Mike-sourced dickery. I didn’t realize I missed it until it came back.

  16. Jay Eff
    Jay Eff
    May 23, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    *reads alt text*

    WALKY: “Oh no! My low-res special features!!!”

    • KingMabel
      KingMabel
      May 23, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Hey! It included a sneak peak at an upcoming spin-off series.

      That may only get one season.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        May 23, 2014 at 2:36 am | #

        What about the “you have to play a trivia game to unlock the deleted scenes” bit they took out because people watching BDs have better things to do?!

  17. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    May 23, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    Time to upgrade to BluRay.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      May 23, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      And I missed the ALT text the first time. Well played, Willis.

  18. arank11
    arank11
    May 23, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    I kind of feel like this is the most assholish thing Mike’s done in this comic to date. You don’t go around messing with a man’s fandom merch! That’s like if he gave Ethan’s Transformers to a guy to use in his diorama on the history of the potato or something, or gave away Joyce’s… I don’t know. Bible, maybe? You get the point. Never mess with a man’s fandom merch!

  19. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    May 23, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    Praise the almighty Cheese!

  20. ShaggyDonahugh
    ShaggyDonahugh
    May 23, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    Ah Mike, destroying other people’s childhood’s and masculinity on a daily basis. What would the universe do without you?

    • KingMabel
      KingMabel
      May 23, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      Have few nickles and more dissatisfied mothers.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        May 23, 2014 at 3:10 am | #

        p. sure Mike does not mint nickels.

        also so far the only person we’ve seen satisfy a mother sexually is Joe’s Dad (…also named Joe?)

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          May 23, 2014 at 8:15 pm | #

          Joe’s Dad’s name’s Richard.

  21. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    May 23, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    Is this the first time “cheese” has replaced “god” in DoA? I know it’s a staple in your other comics, but I hadn’t noticed it in this one until today’s strip.

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      May 23, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      He was a little churchmouse back in the day.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      May 23, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

      The Cheese might be the Dumbiverse’s equivalent to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, since Walky disbelieves in God.

      • David
        David
        May 23, 2014 at 10:22 am | #

        “Cheese” is an exclamation typical for a Crispian.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      May 23, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

      I was surprised to see that I had to scroll down so far for a post on this!

      Ya, it’s a mouse reference. But has Walky been doing that the whole time? Inquiring, but to lazy to go back through the archives, minds want to know!

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      May 23, 2014 at 5:28 pm | #

      I thought maybe Cheese was a Dexter & Monkey Master reference, since they are talking about those DVDs.

      • Alex
        Alex
        May 23, 2014 at 7:12 pm | #

        Well, guess they need a hero to go against the villain protagonists. Then again, don’t think they need a hero to foil their schemes.

        I’d compare them to Pinkie and the Brain, but Dexter and Monkey Master don’t really line up with them well.

    • John
      John
      May 23, 2014 at 7:51 pm | #

      For the uninitiated: The Cheese was an entity of tremendous cosmic power in It’s Walky!, and some of the characters took to swearing by him where others might say, “Jeez” or “Jesus”, and some have carried the habit forward into Shortpacked!.

      (To quote Walky on the subject of God: “His name is the Cheese an’ he kicked my butt.”)

      I’m pretty sure this is the first time anyone in the Dumbiverse has said it. I think it’s unlikely to be a churchmouse reference; more probably the Cheese is a character in D&MM as he was in IW!, and Walky’s referencing that.

  22. Tealjoy
    Tealjoy
    May 23, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

    Wait is Walky and Joyce really the only one’s who haven’t figured out how Mike is?

  23. Black Bumblebee
    Black Bumblebee
    May 23, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    Mike’s right arm looks sort of odd in the last panel, as if it’s going straight down but also pulling back the curtain at the same time. Three arms, perhaps?

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      May 23, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      It would explain Walky’s shocked expression.

    • horrorshow88
      horrorshow88
      May 23, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

      Desk or some other sort of college dorm furniture in the background, below his sleeve.

  24. Ashley
    Ashley
    May 23, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

    Yeah, Walky seems like he’d be fun to tease.

  25. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    May 23, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

    Mike is a force of nature. He arrives, he screws you over, he’s gone.

    I agree that for the most part, Mike doesn’t seem to get any sort of gain from what he does. But, the ones he screws over eventually do come to appreciate/hate him for what he does.

    He pulled off a beautiful 4 way back in his Semme days. Never been equaled.

    Today, yup, it’s gotta be Sal’s crew riding the ramp over Walky’s DvD’s. A sort of poetic justice?
    Looks like Walky may be feeling a bit of what Sal felt when she gave up and walked out of the dorms on Parents Day, the day her mother never seemed to notice she was in the room, and her dad said she looked better with straight hair?

    • Chris
      Chris
      May 23, 2014 at 7:59 am | #

      Surely Mike gets a strong sense of satisfaction from doing what absolutely needed to be done. Hand of God type stuff.

  26. Quiwi
    Quiwi
    May 23, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

    Ah! Mike is still Mike.

  27. Shade
    Shade
    May 23, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

    I’m confused with Mike’s expression. It’s…..unusually soft for the subject matter. I don’t want to say that he almost looks like he regrets doing it, but…….

  28. WingedBeast
    WingedBeast
    May 23, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

    Uh, Mike, bad move. I know you’re all sociopathic sadist ‘n all, but this could actually get you a law suit, real consequences you can’t get out of. Literally destruction of property.

    That or just plain murder… ’cause, really, if you knew Mike personally, wouldn’t the thought strike you that it’s just saving more lives down the line?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      May 23, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

      He (and Joyce) managed to get away with repeated and severe acts of physical assault, so I don’t think this will be a problem for him.

  29. Pan
    Pan
    May 23, 2014 at 2:05 am | #

    Oh Mike, I missed you

  30. Blue
    Blue
    May 23, 2014 at 2:13 am | #

    All of you commentators are awesome.

  31. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    May 23, 2014 at 2:22 am | #

    That last panel: The most stoic you will ever see from Mike.

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      May 23, 2014 at 8:04 am | #

      Mike with the trap fully sprung and as much at peace as he gets.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        May 23, 2014 at 9:47 am | #

        -5 seconds past- Welp, time to go screw with Ethan.

  32. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    May 23, 2014 at 5:27 am | #

    Damn, Mike. That’s downright cruel. I know you’re an asshole, but still. That’s just pushing the envelope.

  33. Katosen27
    Katosen27
    May 23, 2014 at 5:57 am | #

    Ah Mike, never change.

    Also, to those who think he’s crossed the line…you don’t know Mike, do you? This is nothing.

  34. GrandSavage
    GrandSavage
    May 23, 2014 at 6:46 am | #

    I feel a little uncomfortable knowing I’ve seen both their Junk

  35. Van Jealous
    Van Jealous
    May 23, 2014 at 7:24 am | #

    We’ve missed you, Mike. Welcome back!

  36. Valmore
    Valmore
    May 23, 2014 at 9:37 am | #

    Yay! Mike’s back! Finally!

  37. hof1991
    hof1991
    May 23, 2014 at 9:49 am | #

    Thanks Mike. Needed a break from all the feels.

    • Bilfred
      Bilfred
      May 23, 2014 at 7:07 pm | #

      Danke.

  38. Yatsude Hatte
    Yatsude Hatte
    May 23, 2014 at 10:12 am | #

    …is it me, or does Mike look like a pre-steroids Johnny Bravo here?

    • Jack Finch
      Jack Finch
      May 23, 2014 at 8:07 pm | #

      Oh….God.

      • Marc in MN
        Marc in MN
        May 26, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        You’ve seen it….now you can’t un-see it!

    • StClair
      StClair
      May 24, 2014 at 7:13 am | #

      Hoo ha!

  39. Clif
    Clif
    May 23, 2014 at 12:46 pm | #

    You realize that Mike is still messing with his mind, don’t you. He hasn’t given the DVDs away at all. Why make the effort when you can get just as much mileage out of his repeated belief that you’ve gotten rid of them just because you’ve said so. You get to savor his anguish again and again.

    It’s only when you reach the point of desensitization that you really get rid of them.

    • Bill
      Bill
      May 23, 2014 at 1:03 pm | #

      Of course not.  For Mike to give away Walky’s DVDs to prop up a skateboarder’s ramp means that, even though he was being an asshole to Walky, he was being nice to someone else.  And from what I’ve seen in the Dumbiverse, Mike just doesn’t roll that way.

      • cesium133
        cesium133
        May 23, 2014 at 8:27 pm | #

        Ah, but that’s the genius of the plan! The DVD cases will be too weak to hold the ramp up against the force of the skaters on it, so it will collapse under them.

  40. Sanguine Cavalier
    Sanguine Cavalier
    May 23, 2014 at 2:42 pm | #

    Was quite confused by many of these comments until I realised that SP! was not, in fact, a typo of S*P. It’s extra confusing because apparently Mike is webcomic shorthand for “a-hole, probably with blond hair”

    • John
      John
      May 23, 2014 at 7:50 pm | #

      CRFH’s Mike has black hair. And Between Failures’ isn’t even an asshole!

      And, yeah, punctuation is important. SP! is Shortpacked!, S*P is Something Positive.

      Amazi-Girl/Pythagorean team-up?

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        May 23, 2014 at 8:23 pm | #

        Captain Mike also isn’t an asshole.

  41. scabbert
    scabbert
    May 23, 2014 at 9:49 pm | #

    I realize that this is not true and Mike is just stringing him along, but this is the first setup where I can imagine Mike getting legit knocked on his ass for his shenanigans. You don’t mess with Walky’s cartoons. You don’t even joke about it.

  42. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    May 23, 2014 at 11:58 pm | #

    Mike is such a kind man helping those skateboarders.

  43. Dantas
    Dantas
    May 24, 2014 at 6:50 am | #

    What is SP! I get the sense that it is another comic that I would probably enjoy…

    • Jason
      Jason
      May 24, 2014 at 12:17 pm | #

      shortpacked.com. It’s another universe with the same characters. Prepare to be confused.

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