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Daisy needs to shit herself?
also I’d say Mike has all kind of Trump supporters to crush, but a bunch of them wouldn’t know about an online, huh
If what I’ve seen is representative, they know all about Facebook.
I mean, the whole “alt-right” is a fundamentally internet-based movement. (There’s a reason Richard Spencer was talking about his Pepe lapel pin when he got decked.) Claiming Trump supporters don’t know about the internet just feels like tired knee-jerk classism to me.
It’s entirely possible to be on the internet and know less than nothing about computers or how the internet works. Just ask my mom.
Or, ask the guy I saw the other day, who thinks literally wearing a tinfoil hat boosts his WiFi signal and prevents him from being hacked.
That won’t work, though it may make him slightly more difficult for the aliens to control.
that decking was beautiful. Anyone know if that hero is in prison or soemthing? I want to send a medal or possibly bail
Unfortunately identifying people who are fighting the regime is a bad idea.
It might be more ageism than classism I think. But some of both of course.
Everybody’s got their something
How are you so fast, you magic person
Patreon. And practice.
It’s really not that interesting.
I’d actually love to see Mike vs a Trump supporter and see if it was even possible to get through to them
Well, of course it is.
Human skin only resists so much pressure.
Especially if his arguments are sharp enough!
(there should be no doubt about that)
I have encountered many Trump supporters online. -.-
And they were all Mike, trolling you.
Are you implying Mike isn’t single handedly responsible for Trump’s victory?
Oooo. I hadn’t considered that possibility. It’s the only logical explanation I’ve heard.
I mean, that is one reason she might need a bathroom.
She needs “time to herself” in there because she doesn’t want people to hear the grunts of constipation that are DEFINITELY NOT moans of pleasure
Knowing Mike, I’d suspect him of verbally sniping the people who *didn’t* want Trump to win.
Mike definitely targets the same kinds of people as various alt-right troll groups. Whether he shares their ideology or he’s just doing it 4 the lulz, I don’t know and it doesn’t really matter. The effects are the same. He targets the vulnerable and could do real damage.
Mike basically is just an alt-right shithead.
Naw, people adopt the alt-right side because they’re stupid and humanphobic. Mike is keenly intelligent and just hates all of you fuckers, including me. He doesn’t do awful things because he’s an awful person; he does awful things because he deliberately and with malice aforethought wants to fuck with you. Which, yeah, is pretty awful, but it’s a very different kind of awful from the people are just stupid phobic fucks.
“I hate everyone equally” is something I trotted out when I was 13 and at my most edgelord.
Mike’s a shithead who calls women sluts for kissing boys, shamed a gay dude back into the closet, and told an abuse victim she was doomed to become her abuser. He is an awful person through and through.
The difference is: he doesn’t do it because he believes those things are true. He does it because those are the things that would hurt those people the most. He’s, in this very strip, trying to casually seduce the unsuspecting Ethan to make Danny jealous mad, and cause relationship drama. All awful things to do! But not exactly “alt-right” (that’s the proper way to write those words, btw) – he’s not aligned with any ideology except maximum human suffering. If supporting abortion and gay-rights and being nice to people was what would hurt his target the most – he’d do those things with equal committment – the difference is simply in how those actions “look”
I fail to see the difference when the alt-right movement seems entirely based in fucking over everyone as hard as possible.
Either she’s been outside the house too long and has to pee.
Or she’s been fantasizing about leslie and robin,
and needs another kind of release.
they know all about stormfront, obviously
Oh Daisy, your brief appearances are nothing but joy! ^_^
Oh boy it’s time for more of Mike the creepy ass sex predator.
Can’t wait to be helpfully reminded about how much of a cool dude he is for attacking people over their trauma and calling Dorothy a slut.
Sorry about your privacy teach, guess all we can do is play you a song…
https://g.co/kgs/S9fhLg
Now how did that get here?
I’m just as lost as you are tbh
I guess it was kinda nifty hearing that song I hate up against a Civil War music video.
Awwww, thanks for sharing.
Sideways “Warriors” refs FTW!
Hey Daisy, long time no…
…when Daisy finally finds a nice girl, it’s going to be visible from space.
How could Daisy possibly find a girlfriend? There’s like zero queer ladies in the cast.
This webcomic needs to stop shoving these darned straight characters down my throat! Don’t get me wrong, I’m no bigot, I don’t hate people with the alternative hetero lifestyle, but It isn’t normal!
Panels 2 to 4: an appreciation of looking up Ethan’s nose.
“I want pictures! Naked pictures of Spider– wait.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if Deadpool has some. Not photos though, strictly fanart.
Then again, he probably has fanart of himself commissioned when he has extra money lying around.
Ha! I also went straight to J Jonah Jameson.
It’s not a different gender studies teacher, Ethan. Trust me.
i have proof.
Ethan can’t see that link. Only Mike has a VPN connection to the real world Internet.
not sure if this is just a segue but if so that was a very cute 4 panel scene
I struggle a lot with reconciling how reprehensible Mike is with how adorable he is.
That’s just college students in general :c
:3
I’ll date Daisy
Someone get Daisy a Slipshine subscription, stat!
I’m pretty sure they have basically what she’s looking for over there–
*plays “Dirty Laundry” on the hacked Muzak*–and let it be known that I have always HATED that song.
After you’ve been in the news business a while, you come to appreciate it.
Sorry about your privacy teach, guess all we can do is play you a song.
https://g.co/kgs/S9fhLg
shit, that was my favorite song back in high school. Still is in many ways. Fun. was awesome. What ever happened to them?
No idea, I just use this song for motivation when I am working out. Our Senator’s dilemma kind of reminded me of it.
I honestly completely forgot about Daisy. Sorry, Daisy!
Publishing real person fic in a newspaper is okay if it’s the kind the editor likes.
Make something up … we can always retract it later.
“I NEED PICTURES OF SPIDERMAN, and some time alone in the bathroom,”
-J. Jonah Jameson
Daisy knows about Willis’s “Fuck Zone” series on Slipshine?
She wants a comic of herself! Unfortunately, if she gets one it will be of herself by herself.. T_T
Take a day off, Stephen Bierce, I’ve got this one.
*Plays Don Henley’s “Dirty Laundry” on the hacked Muzak*
Daisy this is why you can’t get a date.
Daisy, her my plan okay, go help Leslie sneak out of her house and she’ll be grateful enough to have coffee with you, and then you can drag it up a notch and sleep with her.
Dude, Daisy. I get that you’ve had a dry spell, and I get that like much of the human race you are sex-obsessed. But watch some lesbian porn, read some lesbian slashfic, and have all of that out of your system by the time you’re in a place to wield your job-authority, because doing this stuff to your staff is just creepy.
Heck, there’s even some lesbian porn out there that aren’t made specifically for a male audience these days!
If Daisy was real, I’d sponsor her a “I Feel Myself” membership now so she would spend all her time watching that instead of making a creep out of herself in public.
yeah
Daisy’s ‘had a dry spell’ in the same sense that the Sahara Desert has.
Given how she behaves, it’s easy to understand why.
How does she behave?
Painfully desperate and needy.
Damn, Daisy REALLY needs to get herself a girlfriend and get laid already.
I think she needs at least 5 girlfriends…by the time she’s satisfied her need, any single specimen would be drained of her life force and vital fluids.
Shame there isn’t a group of five young ladies known for keeping the fluids flowing on campus…
oh man
her absurd libido will create a transdimensional portal and summon Squadron 48 to the Dumbiverse
Sounds plausible. Wonder how Sal, Marcie, and Malaya will react if/when they find out Walkyverse!Marcie can talk.
Daisy is that fangirl that scours the internet for doujins whenever she finds a new lesbian ship.
Panel 4: Mike appears NOT angry … is that possible?
it’s for the greater bad.
So they know that it’s a teacher from the university, and unlike these kids, the faculty knows who it is from the picture alone.
This bodes not so well for Leslie?
Why would they care?
Because quite often, university administrations hates scandals. They absolutely hate scandals more than anything ever. Even when they do the right thing, it’s mainly to avoid scandals than because they really believe in it.
I sincerely hope Daisy finds a date, as fun as it is to watch her frustrations.
Saaame.
Panel One: Oh joy, more of Mike trying to get in Ethan’s pants so he can subsequently destroy him and make Danny jealous, because that’s not horrible and abusive and predatory at all.
Also, really Mike? Out of sad online dorks to argue with? In THIS day and age? Step up your game, it’s clearly very weak.
And good for Ethan for not just taking it.
Panel Two: No need for the quotes around ex, Mike. Doomed to fail or no, they DID date. She’s just his ex. Same as Amber. And considering your part in driving him back into the closet, you’ve lost your right to mock it forever.
And yeah, oh dear, Leslie is sooooooooooo not getting to ignore this ever. Sorry, Leslie. Not sorry, Robin, you had some sort of backlash coming.
Panel Three: Uh huuuuuuh. There are different gender studies teachers. So apparently Leslie’s name isn’t out there yet. That’s good for her. But yes, media circus and Robin’s credibility is likely shot. And Ethan and Mike are connecting it to Joyce’s class, which shows Ethan’s capacity for friendship and Mike’s capacity for remembering things about people he can use against them. As for Ethan, he’s definitely not overtly concerned – can’t possibly be the same one. (Yes, it can, everything in this story ties to them eventually).
Panel Four: Oh dear. So it won’t be long until they get a name for Leslie. And yeah, this is going to be a huge news day all around. Hopefully they end up okay. And by they I mean Leslie and her students. And Mike, no, you get out of Ethan’s face. Ethan’s a cinnamon roll who doesn’t deserve your evil schemes.
Panel Five: *snorts* Oh Daisy. Your hormones are driving you up the wall, aren’t they? And yeah, this story must be like candy to her. It’s everything she’s wanted – and a chance to bring down DeSanto? Oh my. Women liking women and the chance to take shots at the asshole making LGBT+ people’s situation worse? Yeah, this will occupy the IDS for, like, ever.
….Are we sure Daisy’s a student? I thought since she was senior editor she was a faculty member. If she’s faculty, can they go out? If not….sorry, Daisy. Maybe if things with Malaya and Marcie don’t work out? Sierra, maybe? There’s gotta be plenty of ladies who like ladies on campus.
Wasn’t Ethan using Mike as an attack dog against his (Ethan’s) Internet opponents re Transformers?
Yes, because Mike shut down one poster so he could start his seduction of Ethan to get between him & Danny.
…I try to avoid reductive, simplistic comments on characters. Particularly female characters, particularly LGBT characters, and especially when column A and column B mixes together.
It’s wrong, it’s stupid, and it can be hurtful.
But still.
Daisy? Damn girl, you really need to get laid…
It it’s any help, I’m 100% sure Daisy agrees whole-heartedly with you.
Dude, I think that is entirely what she wants here – her major issue right now is her sexual frustration.
I’m so sad for Leslie
This whole thing really blew up in the worst way possible.
I posit that Leslie’s name may actually BE in the article (the press knows where she lives, getting her name wouldn’t be hard), but Ethan simply doesn’t know the name of Joyce’s Gender Studies teacher.
Thaaaaaat is also possible.
Hadn’t thought of that, but it makes sense. Honestly, seems strange that they’d know “gender studies teacher” without a name.
Why ? That’s how I remembered most of my teachers when I still was a student: by what they taught and not by name. I knew some of their names because something made the teachers really stand out in a way or another, but that was it.
I think what they’re talking about is that it would be weird for the news article “to know ‘gender studies teacher’ without a name”.
Ooooh, thanks.
Daisy needs to at the very least get a Slipshine subscription stat.
Looks like great minds think alike!
In my head, she was replaced by J. Jonah Jameson.
That makes way too much sense…
So will Amazi-Girl start taking selfies and selling them to Daisy?
I’m now picturing Daisy with the JJJ Hitler mustache.
“AND BRING ME PHOTOS OF SPIDERMAN!”
“What kind of photos…?”
“YOU KNOW WHAT KIND!”
For me Paul Kligman, who did the voice of JJJ in the ’60s Spider Man cartoon, is the only true JJJ.
Shit. I forgot Robin and Leslie were besieged in Leslie’s apartment by the media.
Daisy has her priorities straight(pun not intended… mostly)
Daisy will be probably disapointed in the fact that the best she can ever hope is some fanfic. The paparazis will probably find a way to spin it thought.
Isn’t Daisy’s Ace Reporter Dorothy?
Only because Carla isn’t into journalism
:V
HEYOOOO
Is Becky+Daisy too obvious for some reason?
Dina!
Why not both?
I just love how Mike and Ethan have found common ground over trolling the internet.
they haven’t. Mike is faking it
Nah, Mike is all over taking down people on line like it was your mother, for a nickel.
Mike’s only doing this so he can sleep with Ethan and humiliate him and Danny.
You know, because he’s a sex predator. That’s wacky I guess.
Yes. That he gets to take down people on line as part of the seduction process is just an added bonus.
I’m more than a little skeeved out that the reaction to this has been so tepid. It’s gross as fuck that there’s so much “lol this is so cute you go Mike” going on when his plan is take Ethan’s virginity and humiliate him when he’s on the cusp of finally normalizing his attraction to men.
Then again I saw the same when people were squeeing over Ruth forcing herself onto Billie so IDK what I’m supposed to expect anymore.
I don’t recall Mike planning on humiliating him. Causing lots of drama, yes. Seducing him, yes. But you know, Ethan has known Mike a lot longer than you or I. I suspect he’s not going to have any illusions about who Mike is.
But Danny is the actual target of the drama.
Ethan’s just barely come to accept his sexuality and still has fears that he’s doomed to be alone, fears that Mike has already exploited and is probably going to exploit again.
I don’t see how using Ethan as a prop to make someone else miserable makes him less of a complete piece of shit.
I think there’s a lot of “Yeah, it’s Mike being an ass again.” There was a good deal of reaction when Mike first laid out the plan. Now we’re just waiting to see the fallout.
I’m honestly not seeing a lot of happy squeeing here.
People seem more distracted by Daisy than anything.
What page was this? I’m having trouble remembering what exactly was said and I’d like to reread it.
Nevermind @ myself, I just found it. Dropping the link for other forgetful people: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/percent/
Wait, they’ve been holed up in there ALL DAY? Oh man, by now the DeSanto electoral campaign office will have been abandoned and stripped everything valuable (or incriminating). Meanwhile, all the interns/aides/minders have and have updated the CV’s with variations on “DeSanto campaign? Never heard of it, nowhere near it”..
*Meanwhile, all the interns/aides/minders have updated the CV’s*
(Darned lack of an edit function)
Ok, on the off chance that someone here reads Bloom County, the fourth panel reminds me of when Milo worked as a gossip columnist for the Bloom Picayune. “FACTS! I WANT FACTS! Oops, I mean INNUENDO! I WANT INNUENDO! “
Jeeeez, Daisy. Just get a slipshine account like the rest of us.
…OK, so at least two people have made that joke already.
IT’S A GREAT JOKE, DARNIT!!!
People seem to have taken a shine to slipping it into the comments.
…fine, you will have ONE slowclap.
What is the sound of one hand slowclapping?
Cccc….
…
…lllll……
Or possibly
aaaa….
…
…pppp……
(it depends on which hand)
Panel 4 seems quite…intimate. Am I wrong in reading it that way?
I don’t think so
I think you may be right – Mike’s setting this up for a seduction, keep in mind.
Blergh
I’d date her but i am pretty sure im the wrong gender
Bathroom? Uni bathrooms are never clean
And it’s about to get even less clean
Knowing Leslie and Robin, they probably really are just having a Steven Universe marathon. Knowing the press, the lack of actual information to report will make them simply start printing other people’s Tweeted opinions as if they were facts and urgently newsworthy.
You called it.
Willis give this newspaper girl a girlfriend!
She needs a hand.
Or at least a column.
…. no, I don’t know what I’m referring to there either. But admit it, it sounds dirty.
A column sounds like it would be a very large dildo?
There is a porn parody of 2001 in there somewhere
“In there”? Nope. Not touching.
Awwwww, come on, I practically handed it to you giftwrapped.
2017, a very personal space odyssey.
with “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (still) on the soundtrack. Tell me that wouldn’t be epic.
Then there’s the bit at the end where they’re doing it as they go through the stargate, which is literally (acid-)trippy.
Anything sounds dirty when you think about it long and hard.
She’s already got two hands. And probably great muscle tone in her forearms.
I’d date Daisy, but I think she’s only into girls.
Not shitting herself, exactly…
I’ll date daisy plz (despite my icon I am female)
It would be nice to think that the only “victim*” will be Robin’s future political career in this whole mess but given that the media outside where Leslie LIVES not to mention the photo I don’t think teach’ll get off that easy. It’s only a matter of time before it’s spread across the interwebs.
And by matter of time, we’re talking negative-hours.
Plot twist: Robin ends up dating Daisy. She becomes her new campaign manager.
they both move to San Francisco and the campaign is entirely run on marketing her sex appeal to lesbian and bisexual women
I’d totally offer to date Daisy, but she’d have to be pretty fucking desperate and also seriously lower her standards in order to take me up on that.
She seems pretty desperate, already…
Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If “needy” were a turn-on?
Out of curiosity, is Lesbians being desperate to comedic lengths a trope? No real fault to this comic, which itself features many others. It just seems kind of a familiar bit – but I can’t quite place where it’s come up.
Pretty much yeah. The joke is that they’re lesbians and obsessed with sex because wanting to bang someone of the same gender is gross and weird and therefore prime material for comedy.
Daisy is a cardboard cutout with the word ‘lesbian’ written in crayon, but she’s surrounded by complex and interesting queer women, so she becomes a lighthearted fun character rather than a dumb gag, the way she would if she were the only queer lady in the cast.
I’d imagine it also helps that she generally seems competent when not discussing wlw or pretty girls. She functions as Billie and Dorothy’s boss and so she has a role outside just ‘lolz lesbians are horny’. It’s just that because we rarely see her, her horniness sticks out more.
Daisy was pretty hardcore in It’s Walky! now that I think about. Unloaded a magazine into Beef and turned his face into hamburger meat.
I love Daisy.
It took me getting to panel 3 to realize that wasn’t Danny but Mike.
What’s wrong with me
You’re an optimist?
Wishful thinker and relentless shipper
Mike and Ethan chilling together would be so cute if Mike wasn’t, well…..Mike
willis
thank you for mikethan
bye
Name checks out.
I don’t think Daisy wants a date, Willis. She’s more looking for… what’s the term?
Ah, yes. A ‘ruinous mistake in a hotel dumpster’. THAT’s what Daisy is looking for.
Or failing that, a chest window
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/chestwindow/
How come no-one appreciates overdressed janitors.
If I ever end up working as a janitor I am definitely going to wear cape. And a smashing hat!
I enjoy the relationship dynamic between Ethan and Mike.
I too enjoy the story about a serial harasser preying on an unknowing victim that he drove back into the closet, grooming him for sex for the sole purpose of revealing he doesn’t actually care about him and was just out to make him and a friend miserable for shits and giggles.
Oh shit Mike is Getaway.
i understood that reference
Now we just need Becky’s holomatter avatar to warn Ruth to stop Ethan from killing Galasso before it’s too late.
Dammit Amber is way more Whirl than Becky. Shoulda gone with that.
I guess in this case Danny has to be Cyclonus but I stand by assertion that he’s a big purple robot version of Ruth.
You’ve said Tailgate is Dina, but I think he’s closer to Joyce. Being stuck underground for 5 million years IS kinda like being home schooled. And Ethan caught her up to speed on what she missed in pop culture, which is kind of like Ultra Magnus making you learn the longform of the Autobot Code.
And Joyce does have a knack for punching out dudes who are twice her size.
Today I learned that my nephew got a girlfriend before I did, so I’m feeling that Daisy Desperation.
(For the record, I am not actually jealous of an eleven year old’s relationship.)
You got the gravatar for it, anyway.
Subtlety, thy name is Daisy.
You know, ultimately I feel sort of sorry for Mike.
Later, I’ll feel sorry for Ethan, if this works and has half the splash damage Mike seemed to want out of it. And certainly my feeling sorry for Mike right now is not because I somehow think he’s not a bastard.
But there’s just something about the way that Mike keeps attacking anyone who tries to be his friend. Like, there’s just no interpretation of his character in this situation that isn’t profoundly sad to me.
I’m not saying anyone needs to feel bad for Mike. I’m not saying that, even should it turn out that all of this is motivated by desperate loneliness, it will somehow be okay, or make him less of a terrible friend.
This is much more in the vein of, if you keep driving your friends away, you eventually end up miserable and alone. Which is sad, even if it’s also sadness you completely deserve.
This universe only has, like, 12 people in it. Everything they do is somehow inextricably intertwined with everybody else.
Once they start realizing that, they’ll all start to slowly go insane.
Hi Michael Schur.