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by David M Willis on May 24, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – Of Mike And Men
└ Tags: amber, ethan, mike

Discussion (161) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    May 24, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    “I… may accept video if writing is too much for you”

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      “Roz will let you borrow her setup for a 10% commission.”

    • Arawn
      Arawn
      May 24, 2018 at 2:19 am | #

      I hope it wasn’t the videos that were on the thumb drive. Maybe it was just Dawn of Buttstuff instead.

      We may never know.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      May 24, 2018 at 8:34 am | #

      “Better yet, let me record it for you. So you can focus on – *AHEM* the stuff I ‘Don’t Want To Hear About’.”

  2. SailorCakes
    SailorCakes
    May 24, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    I love how she is just hiding in the background xD

    • smashman42
      smashman42
      May 24, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

      Amber’s peaking blush face! I died!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      May 24, 2018 at 8:10 am | #

      Basically, Amber voted for the Slipshine.

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    May 24, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    I choose to believe this is how their entire life together has been. Amber getting mad and walking out only to text Ethan immediately afterwards

    • Skittylover3
      Skittylover3
      May 24, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      Yes I declare this canon despite not having the Authority to.

      • Zathras10
        Zathras10
        May 24, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

        We each have final authority over our own headcanon.

        It’s what separates us from the lower primates.

        • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
          ǝ snow ʍousɐ
          May 24, 2018 at 9:07 am | #

          But what if my headcanon is that the lower primates also have final authority over their headcanons?

          • Zathras10
            Zathras10
            May 24, 2018 at 1:18 pm | #

            If your monkey has strong feelings about which Highlander movies “count,” listen to your monkey.

  4. doomska
    doomska
    May 24, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    I appreciate that she can’t help herself but doesn’t want to give Mike the satisfaction.

  5. QueerCat
    QueerCat
    May 24, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Accurate representation of me when my friends do the do

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 24, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

      By the by do they do the do by you?

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        May 24, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

        Yeah I’m going to bed now

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      May 24, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      Yeah, likewise.
      Well, apart from the texting. I basically just say that to any of my friends who are with new partners.
      “DETAILS!” – me.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        May 24, 2018 at 8:13 am | #

        Details or didn’t happen

        And it did happen rite so DETAILS now, plz NAO

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        May 24, 2018 at 10:45 pm | #

        so.. that’s not just a tv thing?

        by the time I was old enough for dating to be more than “omg we held hands!!” my closest friends were guys, so talking wasn’t really going to happen.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 24, 2018 at 1:42 am | #

      What about when they do the Dew? Do you want to watch them pull off stunts on their skateboards and bicycles?

      • Betty Anne
        Betty Anne
        May 24, 2018 at 4:09 am | #

        I do! Hilarity typically ensues, as well as fail videos for YouTube. :3

  6. Warcodered
    Warcodered
    May 24, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    I need to know…for science.

  7. Mr D
    Mr D
    May 24, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Soooo who was here yesterday saying that she was protective of ethan and disapproved of it?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      May 24, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      She probably would be if she realised there was more than just casual boytouching going on.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      May 24, 2018 at 12:36 am | #

      She pretty clearly does not trust Mike’s motivations, but she thinks the mental imagery is really hot, so she’s conflicted about it.

      She definitely doesn’t like how Mike is talking to him. That’s why she points out the almost-negging in panel 2.

  8. Nono
    Nono
    May 24, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Ethan is the most teenage girl ever.

    • Jago
      Jago
      May 24, 2018 at 7:38 am | #

      So he doesn’t suck that hard at being gay? (Which, now I see how Amber could get suspicious, that wording is quite something.)

  9. Ivy
    Ivy
    May 24, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Is amber…not gonna sit with her friends now?

    • Emily
      Emily
      May 24, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      She’s going with the voyeur tactic

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        May 24, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        Optimal peepin’ positioning.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      May 24, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      Well, she didn’t seem to keen on sitting with them last strip either, so

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        May 24, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

        sitting with mike? I wouldn’t want to do that either.
        especially given amber’s mental state lately.

  10. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    May 24, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    And nobody knows what goes on Behind Closed Doors…

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      May 24, 2018 at 8:59 am | #

      No one else was in the room where it happened

      • StClair
        StClair
        May 24, 2018 at 3:37 pm | #

        the room where it happened

  11. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    May 24, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Amber needs to optimize the slash fics of them she already wrote

  12. @zombieundergrnd
    @zombieundergrnd
    May 24, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    How much did Willis get paid by Nike for using their slogan?
    I guess tomorrow we will see some Nike shoes.

  13. tyranidswarm
    tyranidswarm
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    She needs it for the fanfiction.

    Oh who am I kidding she’s probably already writing the first draft.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 24, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      I think she already has multiple volumes of Ethan/Mike she’s been writing since the 6th grade.

      She’ll let the borrow a few if they run out of ideas, though heaven knows how they’re going to replicate the thing with Unicron and the rubber chicken.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        May 24, 2018 at 1:50 am | #

        I bet she spends the extra 57 minutes of that CompSci class tweaking a deep learning AI model that’s trained on her existing library. The end goal is to be able to input a couple names and a setting, and have freshly minted smut pop out.

        • The Chosen One
          The Chosen One
          May 24, 2018 at 4:17 am | #

          Even a simple markov chain generator trained on enough amateur smut will actually produce slightly better amateur smut about half the time by sheer chance.

  14. Pablo360
    Pablo360
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Half expected the Amazi-Girl tag

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 24, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      It would be great if she switched identities to properly ogle this.

      Amber: “I totally disapprove of this, and will have no part of it!” (flees toward phone booth)

      Amazi-Girl: “I come bearing coconut oil and helpful diagrams!”

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        May 24, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

        A great use of a secret identity, or the greatest use of a secret identity?

        • jeffepp
          jeffepp
          May 24, 2018 at 7:19 am | #

          It seems to work for Bat Man.

  15. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    She’s very gently pushing this ship into the water. 😛

  16. Yumi
    Yumi
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    The website BBCC.com became relevant to my life today, and I felt that was something I needed to share with someone here.

    • Bathymetheus
      Bathymetheus
      May 24, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      The Birmingham Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce? I’m sensing a story here.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        May 24, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

        Your story senses may be off, because if there’s anything that could be considered a “story” in this, it’d be really boring at best.

        But I did do a double take at the link, like “Hey, I know her!”

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      May 24, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      Shit, has my secret identity been exposed? 😛

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        May 24, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

        You were really a Chamber of Commerce this whole time! And not even a Canadian one!

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          May 24, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

          I want my lawyer. You can’t prove anything. 😛

  17. Kyle Lees
    Kyle Lees
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    That is some expressive Ethan, very nice work!

    • Lilyliv
      Lilyliv
      May 24, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      Seconded, his expressions in this one made my day. (…night? Early morning? Who even knows anymore?)

      • Liquid Len
        Liquid Len
        May 24, 2018 at 9:42 am | #

        Subsequent 24 hour period… 🙂

    • Ainara
      Ainara
      May 24, 2018 at 8:45 am | #

      Agreed, his expressions in panels 3 and 6 are fantastic

  18. Keulen
    Keulen
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    That was not in the slightest bit surprising. I’m sure Amber has already written several slash fics of Mike and Ethan by now.

    • Axel
      Axel
      May 24, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

      erotic friendfiction

  19. Bathymetheus
    Bathymetheus
    May 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Writing sex scenes is notoriously difficult. She needs the information to improve her slashfic.

  20. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    May 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    See, this is why Ethan and Danny are being silly about not dating because of Amber. She’s not going to be mad, she’s going to get horny. You can’t have a negative reaction when you’re too busy masterbating.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      May 24, 2018 at 6:31 pm | #

      Well, you could, but you’d look ridiculous.

      • The Other Mike
        The Other Mike
        June 3, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

        Yeah, hatesex is one thing, but hatemasturbating…

  21. AeromechanicalAce
    AeromechanicalAce
    May 24, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Honestly, given how bad of a mental state Amber’s been in lately, this is probably the healthiest response possible for her.

  22. Some1
    Some1
    May 24, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    While I do not care, wouldn’t a normal person find Amber asking for details on her gay friends sexual exploits just a wee bit creepy. I mean, if I was to ask a lesbian to text me details about her sexual experiences, I would not be surprised if she decided to go to the campus police.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      May 24, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      Not if she was your best friend. She still wouldn’t do it, but you’d probably get the same reaction Ethan gives Amber.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      May 24, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      The fetishization of queer people is not ideal. It is very Amber, though, and Ethan knows Amber, so he’s probably not surprised. They’re also close friends, so it gets into the aspects of their relationship as well, and it probably at least feels more okay between them than between strangers or casual acquaintances.

      • Jago
        Jago
        May 24, 2018 at 7:30 am | #

        By ‘fetishization’, do you mean like straight people watching gay porn? Or vise-versa? I see that term, but I don’t really know what people mean by it.

        • Zach
          Zach
          May 24, 2018 at 9:57 am | #

          They mean when straits watch gay porn.

          It’s troubling because it reduces people to objects, and because the phantasy boils down to either wanting what you can’t have or not wanting to view someone of your own gender because it makes you feel gay.

          Also, holy shit. Read a yaoi and get back to me. It’s always got that top bottom thing with horrible gender roles, and always with the rapy take on S&M.

          • CoMa
            CoMa
            May 24, 2018 at 12:19 pm | #

            A friend brought me to yaoi in my teens, and there weren’t that many available yet, and I read a bunch of relatively short, unfinished ones. Recently revisited one of them and was horrified by WHAT the heck kind of story plot I had actually enjoyed reading (namely, what you mentioned), usually happening, like, in the first chapter.
            But then again, some of the shojo I used to read was also rather bad in that regard (I mean, the forced kisses by the ‘hero’ are still a ‘relatively innocent’ cliché, I believe). But there are also a few good out there (romantic Manga in general, but also BL), with good storylines, deep characters, that don’t resolve to such low plot points (such as romanticised rape).

            • CoMa
              CoMa
              May 24, 2018 at 12:21 pm | #

              *some of the shojo were

              and also, I kind of grew out of the yaoi phase relatively soon, but my friend tells me about them from time to time, because she enjoys reading them still – though she’s very selective).

            • Inahc
              Inahc
              May 24, 2018 at 10:49 pm | #

              to be fair, older western media is also full of romanticised rape (or similar no-means-yes issues). >.< I tried to watch Rocky once and didn't get all the way through because of that 😛

          • CJ
            CJ
            May 24, 2018 at 11:58 pm | #

            With manga, I sometimes get the feeling there are more warnings about “adult content” on the ones that depict connected good sex than on those that depict actual rape.
            I started reading Yaoi because Yuri was few and far between and with Yaoi, these’s the chance I don’t get turned off by obvious power imbalances. A slight chance. Gave up again on it recently because the constant “the first time will hurt” cliche annoyed me no end.
            Though I admin I was confused when I found my public online lending library has a series of pornographic novelettes around twin gay tweens, one of whom is into great love and the other one is into having sex wherever he can. I don’t think that book was aimed to be read by teenage gay boys…

        • Ainara
          Ainara
          May 24, 2018 at 1:21 pm | #

          It’s a bit of a complicated term and everyone would give you a different answer, but imo it’s less about watching porn (which is more private) and more about letting that color how you view gay people IRL. Like, yknow, lesbians getting told to make out for a male audience because it’d be hot, or taking their relationship less seriously than a straight one and only valuing it for its “sexiness” (hence why most lesbian couples in media tend to be femme/femme, since it’s assumed to be more attractive for the majority of the audience). So, viewing gay people as a porn category rather than people, really.

          It happens to gay guys too, just, on a different scale I guess? I’m not one so I wouldn’t know.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            May 24, 2018 at 3:09 pm | #

            Yeah, that makes more sense to me. To some extent all porn is objectifying, but straights and gay porn doesn’t have to be especially so. What turns you on is personal and not really under your control.
            It’s when it gets outside of that private level to affect your real life views that it’s a problem.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      May 24, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      I’d be a bit creeped out too. I can see that Amber means it as a friendly ‘I want all the details’ type thing but still….no thank you.

    • Nono
      Nono
      May 24, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

      Would it be different if it was straight couple friends that Amber was dishing for details?

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        May 24, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

        *slightly* less creepy. but still creepy.

        • CJ
          CJ
          May 24, 2018 at 1:11 am | #

          I don’t know. If those two were both female, cis and het, wouldn’t be “I want *all* the details” be counted as an expression of how close they are?
          And how much of those details besties share turn them on?
          Amber might be turned on more than average. Still, though it’s slightly weird territory, I wouldn’t say it’s creepy.

          • Lena
            Lena
            May 24, 2018 at 3:46 am | #

            Not sure if Amber wants details cause they’re friends or cause she has a long history of being iffy about fetischizing gay couples. Like, there’s a subgroup of straight women who do it and it’s gross.

            • CJ
              CJ
              May 24, 2018 at 4:01 pm | #

              Does being turned on by seeing gay sex already make a fetish? Or what does make it a fetish?

              • Inahc
                Inahc
                May 24, 2018 at 10:57 pm | #

                I think it’s less about whether it’s literally a fetish, and more… what Ainara said? “viewing gay people as a porn category rather than people” – like, treating real people as objects for your entertainment is bad.

                I think I prefer my erotica gay (whatever the gender), but seeing an actual gay couple kiss is awkward and feels like I’m intruding on a private moment. (same as with any couple really)

    • Ainara
      Ainara
      May 24, 2018 at 2:42 am | #

      I mean, friends talk about their sex lives with each other all the time. It really depends on the person.

      Obviously irl it’d be creepy if it happened in the way Amber does it here (“I WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE IT’S HOT”) but, yknow, played ofr laughs

      • Ainara
        Ainara
        May 24, 2018 at 2:43 am | #

        “for”, even

        i swear i know how to spell

      • Jago
        Jago
        May 24, 2018 at 7:34 am | #

        Depends on where you live. Where I live that’s really not a topic you talk about to people. Maybe it’s just me, idk. 😛

  23. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    May 24, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time we’ve ever seen Ethan angry?

    And even so, he’s looking more irritated than actually angry.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      May 24, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      He’s not angry, he’s being fake outraged.

    • Nono
      Nono
      May 24, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

      Ethan and Amber have argued before, about when Amber wanted to be a social recluse and not talk to the other girls on her floor about Blaine. Amber shot back that Ethan shouldn’t have been re-closeting himself.

  24. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    May 24, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    Ah okay, Ethan is presumably still a virgin, then.

    As far as the main cast goes, that’s something of a rarity.

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 24, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      Joyce, Becky, Dina, and (presumably) Carla are too. (Although, sadly, Carla isn’t quite main cast. Yet.)

      • Zach
        Zach
        May 24, 2018 at 9:43 am | #

        Not Becky. I thought that she was caught in the act.

        • Yossarianduck
          Yossarianduck
          May 24, 2018 at 10:42 am | #

          Word of Willis suggests it was just heavy making out.

          *Obligatory “Of course, virginity is more a social construct than anything, I’m sure Becky and Dina have shared moments that probably wouldn’t have been any more intimate if they were doin’ the do.”

          • Pablo360
            Pablo360
            May 24, 2018 at 12:50 pm | #

            *I assumed that was implied. Plus at least half of us have read Girls with Slingshots.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        May 24, 2018 at 10:55 pm | #

        Is Carla? I suppose it’d stand to reason. She’s shown attraction to Malaya, but not a lot of interest in human companionship, otherwise.

        That does lead me into thinking, some of it comes down to who is considered a main cast member, and if we are just inferring virginity sometimes. Like, we haven’t seen Sarah have sex, not counting Jacob 2, but we also aren’t given a reason to think she is specifically a virgin, either.

    • Nono
      Nono
      May 24, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

      Don’t know if Ethan is an actual virgin, but likely, considering the circumstances of his coming out to his family.

      • Drunk Mike
        Drunk Mike
        May 24, 2018 at 11:00 am | #

        If I recall Ethan realized he was gay after haveing sex with Amber on prom night.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          May 24, 2018 at 12:10 pm | #

          It didn’t get quite that far yet, if I remember correctly.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            May 24, 2018 at 3:14 pm | #

            “while failing to have sex”, I believe.

  25. Zellgato
    Zellgato
    May 24, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    I appreciate her haha

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    May 24, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

    So…. no boffin’? Only Dilly-dallying.

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 24, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      It’s like oral sex squared.

    • Stellar
      Stellar
      May 24, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

      And a lot of shilly shallying, but no making nice nice.

  27. Pablo360
    Pablo360
    May 24, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    Who voyeurs the voyeurs?

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      May 24, 2018 at 1:28 am | #

      Us of course.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        May 24, 2018 at 8:26 am | #

        I believe Willis has already written a Shipshine about Amber masturbating to superhero slashifc, so, yeah.

  28. bearfuz
    bearfuz
    May 24, 2018 at 12:36 am | #

    … complete with dialogue snippets to add realism to my slashfic

  29. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    May 24, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

    So much desperation in one page, but I’m with her I don’t care about consequences anymore just do whatever you want even if it comes back to bight you.

    ( okay I’m lying I’m totally worried about the consequences)

  30. Tacos
    Tacos
    May 24, 2018 at 12:45 am | #

    Yes, illustrations. Amber needs those. Strictly For Academic Purposes of course.

  31. kitty
    kitty
    May 24, 2018 at 12:55 am | #

    ethan ahego

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      May 24, 2018 at 6:36 pm | #

      Double peace sign, homie.

    • vividgrim
      vividgrim
      May 24, 2018 at 7:00 pm | #

      im glad im not the only one who thought it https://imgur.com/a/LbWnBMk

  32. nothri
    nothri
    May 24, 2018 at 12:55 am | #

    And pics, if possible.

  33. Ton
    Ton
    May 24, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

    Ethan: NO
    Mike: Here is the Slipshine link

  34. Thomas
    Thomas
    May 24, 2018 at 1:26 am | #

    Geez, Amber! Don’t creep on your friends.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      May 24, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

      Yeah, don’t be a Daniela Velasquez.

      • caesaria82
        caesaria82
        May 24, 2018 at 10:55 pm | #

        They love Dani though. She’s their family <3 (I find her whole obsession with gay sex slightly creepy too, but she is more than that)

  35. Griffin
    Griffin
    May 24, 2018 at 1:35 am | #

    Make your own written account, Amber.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      May 24, 2018 at 8:27 am | #

      If they won’t give you DETAILS, make up your own!

  36. Lingo
    Lingo
    May 24, 2018 at 1:52 am | #

    Ethan: “We’re not fucking! Where’d you get that idea?”
    Amber: “Look at where you’re sitting! What two people eat together eat on the same side of a table except weird couples?!? And there’s plenty of space to your left, yet you’re practically sitting on him!”

  37. BenRG
    BenRG
    May 24, 2018 at 2:00 am | #

    I think that Faz’s big problem is that he’s trying to muscle in to the emotional territory that Ethan has held for many years.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      May 24, 2018 at 2:18 am | #

      I could see that being anearly issue and the same thing could be said about Walky with Sal and Billie. Sal left for a few years so to cope he low key replaced her with Billie.

      Wow this went a little bit far off topic.

      • Clif
        Clif
        May 24, 2018 at 7:29 am | #

        Extrapolating a bit here, but I think the rest of Sal’s family low key replaced her with Billie long before Sal left for a few years.

        • JohnInCA
          JohnInCA
          May 24, 2018 at 10:36 am | #

          Pretty sure Sal had said something *like* that, if not those precise words.

          • Sunny
            Sunny
            May 24, 2018 at 2:44 pm | #

            I think Billie herself said it to Carla after she and the Walkertons had gotten cookies and stuff. When Billie was asking Carla to check in on Ruth regularly.

  38. Ainara
    Ainara
    May 24, 2018 at 2:38 am | #

    “And then he rubbed his thing all over my tummy…”

    “Ooohhh”

    • adam
      adam
      May 24, 2018 at 3:49 am | #

      Then Amber shares it with Joyce who illustrates it

  39. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    May 24, 2018 at 2:42 am | #

    Off.

    I just.

    This whole circle has so much to sort out

  40. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    May 24, 2018 at 3:28 am | #

    The Hungry Smut shipper demon awakened in her.

    • JohnInCA
      JohnInCA
      May 24, 2018 at 10:34 am | #

      “Awakened”? Want it just last week that she said she didn’t want to promote everyone to family because it made shipping awkward?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        May 24, 2018 at 12:08 pm | #

        In-universe, it was last night.

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        May 24, 2018 at 4:47 pm | #

        Well… it awakened from a nap?

  41. Odditude
    Odditude
    May 24, 2018 at 5:23 am | #

    Okay, this pairing is starting to get really fun.

  42. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    May 24, 2018 at 6:23 am | #

    Ethan is the Final Boy in the Amazi-Girl Slasher movie.

  43. Emily
    Emily
    May 24, 2018 at 6:28 am | #

    This whole interaction was a trainwreck in so many ways.

    • Clif
      Clif
      May 24, 2018 at 7:21 am | #

      Keep watching.

  44. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    May 24, 2018 at 6:40 am | #

    Man, I don’t like this storyline.
    Mostly because Mike is such a toxic person, and Ethan is such a nice and in some ways pretty naive person, and here he is being taken advantage of and messed with for no other reason than that Mike wants to cause him pain.

    • Clif
      Clif
      May 24, 2018 at 7:21 am | #

      Cause Danny pain. Don’t forget the end-game.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      May 24, 2018 at 8:09 am | #

      Welcome to a DYW comic.

  45. JBento
    JBento
    May 24, 2018 at 7:52 am | #

    How can she tell Mike’s negging Ethan? Telling people they’re not good enough is basically all Mike DOES.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      May 24, 2018 at 8:38 am | #

      You know, I had to Google ‘negging’ to see if it was a real thing and not just a misspelling of ‘nagging’. We’re only about two months into the semester. Setting aside for a moment that she is OK with, if not actually promoting a gay relationship, when did our Joyce — sweet, sheltered, naive, non-swearing Joyce — get so hip into the language and terms of social media?

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        May 24, 2018 at 9:32 am | #

        My kids are a decade beyond this age and I know. Don’t want to know such a thing exists, but life doesn’t always give you a choice.

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        May 24, 2018 at 10:02 am | #

        That’s Amber, though.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      May 24, 2018 at 10:11 am | #

      That’s probably why she said “practically negging”

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 24, 2018 at 12:52 pm | #

      Mike has gotten Amazi-Girl involved in his masochistic kinkiness without her consent, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he was just always negging everyone all the time.

  46. Liliet
    Liliet
    May 24, 2018 at 8:28 am | #

    THIS IS ADORABLE

    and @jbento she can tell Mike’s negging him because Ethan’s going along with it

  47. Kater
    Kater
    May 24, 2018 at 8:47 am | #

    Slipshine title?
    Mike and Ethan’s Full Written Account

    • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      May 24, 2018 at 6:53 pm | #

      the Slipshine is just a text document

  48. Drunk Mike
    Drunk Mike
    May 24, 2018 at 11:27 am | #

    I’m wondering if Mike isn’t actually doing this for a scheme. The flashback they showed makes me think Mike and Ethan have been in love for a long time, and that’s why he was so hard on Ethan about going back in the closet.

  49. nlips
    nlips
    May 24, 2018 at 12:08 pm | #

    XKCD comic about negging:

    https://xkcd.com/1027/

    The idea is to give a sideways compliment or observation that hints at an issue that will make the target self-conscious.

    In the comic, asking a girl you’ve never met “looks like you’re on a diet, that’s great! How’s that fruit plate?” implies that the woman SHOULD be on a diet, which in theory undermines her self-confidence and makes her an easier target to “pick up.”

    It can be done very subtly. “I love your dress, I don’t have the confidence to show off my body like that” will get her thinking about her body and confidence and how she didn’t realize she was trying to show it off, she was just trying to dress nice, is this too slutty? and so on.

  50. Marisa Mockery
    Marisa Mockery
    May 24, 2018 at 12:19 pm | #

    I won’t know what to think if the first gay Slipshine is Ethan and Mike instead of Ethan and Danny. Like….find a way, Willis.

    • geno
      geno
      May 24, 2018 at 3:02 pm | #

      Technically Sayid and some other boy was the first gay slipshine

  51. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    May 24, 2018 at 12:43 pm | #

    I am usually the first one to defend these characters when someone says they don’t like them, but I seriously find myself liking Amber less and less with her every appearance and that makes me sad.

  52. MightyPinto
    MightyPinto
    May 24, 2018 at 12:59 pm | #

    Is it me, or does it look like Ethan got a few of his teeth knocked out in the first panel?

    • Ainara
      Ainara
      May 24, 2018 at 1:14 pm | #

      That’s what happens when one makes out with Mike

  53. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    May 24, 2018 at 1:08 pm | #

    Of course she is mad at Ethan and Mike, but she is also a slash fic reader and she can’t waster a chance of hearing how two men smooched.

  54. Roborat
    Roborat
    May 24, 2018 at 5:11 pm | #

    That Amber face peeking over the back of the seat in the last panel is perfect. So cute.

  55. Exilon
    Exilon
    May 24, 2018 at 6:10 pm | #

    I will also require a full written account and will not be opposed to an addition of graphical depictions of such event.

  56. some guy
    some guy
    May 24, 2018 at 7:02 pm | #

    *sees the extra text when hovering over the panel* FORESHADOWING!

  57. Corey
    Corey
    May 24, 2018 at 10:12 pm | #

    Well thats certainly creepy, but I see Im in the minority here. I believe there is a difference between freely sharing info between friends and demanding a written full report. Id probably drop a friend if I knew they wanted it to get off on too, my life isnt a substitute for porn.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      May 24, 2018 at 10:26 pm | #

      Definitely would be a bit creepy out of the blue, but it’s not out of the blue here. Ethan knows Amber’s interests. They’ve talked about it. He’s read the slashfic.

  58. whitt
    whitt
    May 24, 2018 at 10:21 pm | #

    Amber! TOO SUPPORTIVE!!!

  59. Tealjoy Grove
    Tealjoy Grove
    June 1, 2018 at 4:18 pm | #

    AMBER.

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