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May 12, 2026

New leaf

by David M Willis on September 5, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Birthday Pursuit
└ Tags: amber, mike

Discussion (128) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 5, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    yeah, can’t say this sounds super consensual, Mike

    “who said it was”

    um

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      September 5, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      (sorry, idk how to joke about trauma bc it’s really not funny Mike)

      • Br44n5m
        Br44n5m
        September 5, 2019 at 1:19 am | #

        You didn’t do as bad as some, I applaud you for being minimal creep

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 5, 2019 at 1:20 am | #

        Walky needs a jolt to get him going for his own good. By this point Mike knows Walky’s weaknesses. Mike is definitely the man for the job.

      • Zee
        Zee
        September 5, 2019 at 8:32 am | #

        You get good at it when you’ve been through trauma dw

    • lightsabermario
      lightsabermario
      September 5, 2019 at 6:26 am | #

      To be fair, the act of waking someone up is never consensual in the moment.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        September 5, 2019 at 11:26 am | #

        idk, I love when cats do it

        • ego
          ego
          September 5, 2019 at 10:20 pm | #

          and by happy coincidence i have cats who love to do it. what is your mailing address, ana?

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            September 6, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

            if your cats are like what I’m thinking instead of like my departed Gabey:

            Abu Dhabi

  2. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    September 5, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    “How traumatized will he be?”

    “He will still put out.”

    Awww, they’re longtime friends.

    • Dana
      Dana
      September 5, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      He knows her priorities.

  3. LeslieBean4shizzle
    LeslieBean4shizzle
    September 5, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    “He will still put out.”
    Criteria met. All is satisfactory.

  4. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 5, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    No, no, Mike, you back off. You gotta prove those new leaf bonafides first before you can be trusted with not being a humongous asshat.

    • AeromechanicalAce
      AeromechanicalAce
      September 5, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      Oh, he’ll still be a humongous asshat regardless. The new leaf is him being a CONSTRUCTIVE asshat.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        September 5, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

        Pass. Give it to the dog.

        • SillyGoose
          SillyGoose
          September 5, 2019 at 4:11 am | #

          I initially read your post as “a humorous asshat”.
          …still an improvement.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 5, 2019 at 8:16 am | #

        Given that half the commentariat thinks he always was a a constructive asshat and that he’s established as hugely deceptive and manipulative, I’m going to need a lot more than his word that he’s turned over a new leaf.

        It’s possible that’s his character arc, but we’ve got to go farther with it.

        • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
          anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
          September 5, 2019 at 8:53 am | #

          He may have turned over a new leaf but is it exchanging Nettles for Poison Ivy? Mind that is still an improvement compared to going the Gympie Gympie route.

        • Lailah
          Lailah
          September 6, 2019 at 6:09 am | #

          Ehh, referring to the narrative while pretending to drop your omniscient viewpoint is for the birds. It’s pretty clear his arc will include him making a good faith effort. Whether he’ll succeed is anyone’s guess.

          Note: I have basically never liked mike and expect I will still not.

    • JetstreamGW
      JetstreamGW
      September 5, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      If Mike wasn’t a humongous asshat, he wouldn’t be funny anymore.

      Ass-on, Mike. Ass-on.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        September 5, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

        I don’t find a lot of his assholery funny anymore, so I’m afraid I can’t relate.

        • Pongles
          Pongles
          September 5, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

          I’ve always thought of his assholery more as a plot device than funny.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 5, 2019 at 1:09 am | #

          I’m sorry you don’t enjoy Mike. Hopefully the other characters make up for it.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            September 5, 2019 at 1:24 am | #

            Sometimes he can still be funny, but most of the time I want him to fuck off. I love most of the rest of the characters though, so yeah, more than made up for.

            • SillyGoose
              SillyGoose
              September 5, 2019 at 4:14 am | #

              I’m with you, he’s long past “endearingly prickly” (that would be Sarah) and now firmly into “kicking supposed friends when they’re down”.
              I’m all for him getting his own redemption/”new leaf” arc. Let’s see this, Mike, we know there’s a real person inside, now give them some screentime and put that awful persona away.

              • JetstreamGW
                JetstreamGW
                September 6, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

                Y’all need to learn the joy of schadenfreude.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 5, 2019 at 8:11 am | #

          I could probably still find him funny if I wasn’t reading the comments. 🙂

          The constant drumbeat of “Mike’s doing good by being an ass” really cuts into my enjoyment. If we could just let him be a jerk and a foil for the others, I wouldn’t have a problem.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            September 5, 2019 at 11:36 am | #

            This.

          • JetstreamGW
            JetstreamGW
            September 6, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

            I’ve never understood why the opinions of random people on the internet ever mattered to anyone enough to affect their enjoyment of a thing.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 5, 2019 at 10:45 am | #

          Assholery usually fares better when it’s cartoonish assholery, or when (as in shortpacked) there was an endless flow of one-off douchebags who could alternate with the main characters as targets. This setting, which borders on realistic and where all the one-off douchebags have all been claimed by Amazi-girl, doesn’t show him off to his best.

          • Lailah
            Lailah
            September 6, 2019 at 6:15 am | #

            It’s an interesting thought that he’s going to try to hurt people helpfully for real, and when it doesn’t work, then have to make a decision. Because if this is a more realistic setting, then it should, indeed, not work.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 5, 2019 at 2:05 am | #

      Stinging nettle and poison ivy are also leaves, but which is his new one?

  5. Nono
    Nono
    September 5, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Ethan is too soft a bean to have these two as best friends and not come out a little jaded with the world.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 5, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      That’s intentional. He deliberately exposed himself to nuts like this to build up tolerance so he can survive more time on the Transformers action figure forums.

      Four years of high school with these two, and now when someone gets mad about a toy being aimed at children, or calls every primary color “neon”, he barely bites through his desk

    • drs
      drs
      September 5, 2019 at 9:49 am | #

      Ethan did avoid rooming with Mike.

  6. LeslieBean4shizzle
    LeslieBean4shizzle
    September 5, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Also, gonna reiterate my late comment from yesterday:
    Is it just me, or has Mike gotten hotter lately? Like, I don’t remember him being a super sexy character, but suddenly he’s super hot whenever he appears.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      September 5, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      He was always stated to be hot, so I guess this is just the art getting better?

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 5, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

      Username does not check out?

    • Steve C.
      Steve C.
      September 5, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      I dunno. Maybe he combed his hair and decided to wear something besides black?

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      September 5, 2019 at 12:46 am | #

      No, I think he has genuinely gotten better looking. He’s not my type, exactly, but I feel like he’s gotten better and better about translating to the art style of DoA versus Shortpacked, where obviously it was somewhat more cartoony.

    • Meagan
      Meagan
      September 5, 2019 at 1:43 am | #

      I was going to say that his features seem softer somehow, like he’s being humanized. His facial expressions seem less hostile and more possibly empathetic or kind (for him – less glaring). I feel like based on the art change we are supposed to be taking him more seriously now as a character, instead of him being a very one dimensional presence that provides nothing but hateful comic relief. I think this started ever since the flashbacks and especially since he hooked up with Ethan. Very subtle windows into his vulnerability (through those softer facial expressions).

      • Sunfish
        Sunfish
        September 5, 2019 at 11:44 am | #

        Insightful humanistic observation. Avatar checks out.

    • SillyGoose
      SillyGoose
      September 5, 2019 at 4:16 am | #

      Maybe it’s because he’s strarting to act like a person and you are in fact turned on as much or even more by personality than by actual physical features?

    • Jaime Sprague
      Jaime Sprague
      September 5, 2019 at 11:13 am | #

      It’s not really Mike. It’s his good twin.

      • darkgloomie
        darkgloomie
        September 5, 2019 at 12:53 pm | #

        Maybe he’s drunk

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      September 5, 2019 at 12:55 pm | #

      I don’t think I’m demi, but I can safely say Mike has never been hot because he’s been an utter shitstain since his Walkyverse incarnation. Take a future baby crossed between Jacob, Ethan, Joyce, and Grace, and you’d still have a bottom five most unattractive character if they had Mike’s personality.

      • Unusually Angry Hippie
        Unusually Angry Hippie
        September 5, 2019 at 8:17 pm | #

        Some people go for assholes, which is perfectly acceptable and can even be healthy as long as they know what they’re getting into.

  7. Woomy
    Woomy
    September 5, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Mike looks hot in the last panel

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      September 5, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      I know, right?

    • Madock345
      Madock345
      September 5, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      Mike is hot in every panel

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    September 5, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    *plays “Meat Man” on the hacked Muzak*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      September 5, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

      This was a DJ’s favorite on the station I used to listen to in Florida when I was a teenager.

  9. Shane Wegner
    Shane Wegner
    September 5, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    The important measures of functionality, really.

  10. William Leonard Reese Jr.
    William Leonard Reese Jr.
    September 5, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    . . .. I still can’t tell if these two are the best of friends or not. At the very least they have a very strong bond.

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      September 5, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      Their relationship is so fun to read.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      September 5, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

      imo their friendship continues purely out of momentum/nostalgia, and the way neither Amber or Ethan has the self-esteem to bring themself to actually cut Mike out of their life entirely

      • Madock345
        Madock345
        September 5, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

        I don’t think that’s quite true. They knew him before he was such an ass, and he shows a lot more of that side of himself with them than with anyone else. They’re genuinely friends, maybe just in an unusual way.

        • Helios
          Helios
          September 5, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

          I think that might be part of it but I definitely feel like part might just be that neither of them has the heart/spine/self-esteem/whatever to cut mike out.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        September 5, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

        I don’t think so. I think that Amber gets rightfully pissed at him, but she also counts on his honesty, because she doesn’t let herself get too close to Danny out of guilt, and Ethan’s not going to confront her on things, so Mike is sometimes her wakeup call, even if it can be a cruel one, which I do think he was somewhat remorseful about in the previous strip, but I am not really sure with this guy sometimes.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          September 5, 2019 at 1:58 am | #

          And I think you’re giving Mike’s abuse credit for things Amber did on her own.

          She doesn’t get too close to Danny because she thinks she’s poison and he’s better off. Mike repeatedly feeding her self hatred is not exactly something she seems at all grateful for

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          September 5, 2019 at 12:39 pm | #

          Amber called back something from Family Weekend (7 or 8 years ago IRL) that Mike said that was actually completely inexcusable. They are not friends with Mike, and they should not be. They tolerate his presence and he does theirs, except when he’s trying to hurt them.

          Fuck Mike, I hope that Amber’s and Ethan’s self-esteem both upswing enough that they realize they don’t need to keep emotional abuse in their pocket.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 5, 2019 at 8:19 am | #

        I suspect Amber would have and that it’s mostly Ethan keeping them together. He regularly hangs out with Mike and Amber almost never does, except when Ethan brings them together.

        And even Ethan isn’t sure they’re friends.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 5, 2019 at 1:09 am | #

      I am reminded of a Seventies-era poster: “We’ve been through so much together…and most of it was your fault.”

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        September 5, 2019 at 12:41 pm | #

        Demotivational posters at https://despair.com/collections/posters. Yes, that’s a real thing and they’re hilarious.

        Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.
        I believe that children are our future. And that terrifies me.
        Just because you’ve always done it that way doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly stupid.

  11. Megan Rivera
    Megan Rivera
    September 5, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

    #Priorities

  12. Miri
    Miri
    September 5, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

    I am curious about Mike’s “new leaf” – whether this is Ethan-related (either realising that telling somebody you like you wanna mess around with them because bored is a bad way of building intimacy, or just the epiphany that even a friend he can Slipshine with thinks he’s a jerk who doesn’t care about anybody else) or if he realised he crossed a line telling Amber she was just like her father, or if he’s screwing with her about the whole thing – why…

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 5, 2019 at 1:02 am | #

      In the comic strip Peanuts, every so often Lucy swears that this time she will hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick, and every time he falls for it, and every time she pulls the football up at the last instant and Charlie Brown falls on his butt.

      Every time someone falls for Mike claiming he’s turned a new leaf, that person is going to fall on their butt.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        September 5, 2019 at 2:10 am | #

        Then Charlie Brown goes right back to Lucy for advise and psychological help, for which she charges him a nickel.

        Mike is Lucy Van Pelt confirmed?

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        September 5, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

        Did you ever see this one, Marsh?

      • Zee
        Zee
        September 5, 2019 at 9:06 am | #

        Has he ever claimed he was though (genuine question, shitty memory)

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 5, 2019 at 10:42 am | #

          First time I remember. He’s lied about other stuff though.

  13. BearlyWrayjn
    BearlyWrayjn
    September 5, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    My money is on he’s started drinking

  14. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    September 5, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

    I’m feeling sad about Mike toning down is Likeness, there was so many characters I wanted to see interact with his personality. For instance there was that one time Willis teased us with a Mike & Ruth interaction or Carla since I wanted her to be reminded of how much of a novice she is in being a professional asshole.

    • Marisa Mockery
      Marisa Mockery
      September 5, 2019 at 12:37 am | #

      True, but he probably would have broken them. They’re tough on the outside but Ruth at least is squishy on the inside

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      September 5, 2019 at 12:42 pm | #

      Carla is infinitely more skilled at being a professional asshole. Mike is emotionallg and verbally abusive and next time Joyce takes aim at his shins she should recenter and kick him in the face.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 5, 2019 at 2:55 pm | #

        Isn’t “emotionally and verbally abusive” what you’re looking for in an asshole?

        Carla isn’t good at it, because even though she tries to project that image, she keeps showing signs of caring about people and even helping them, despite all her denials. That’s what makes her a lousy asshole, but a much better person.

  15. SchwanzPron
    SchwanzPron
    September 5, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

    We just assume that it happens
    But no one else is in
    The room where it happens

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      September 5, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

      Mike don’t care; he’s not going to miss his shot.

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        September 5, 2019 at 2:05 am | #

        Mike is non stop, and Amber is waiting to see which way the wind will blow. Meanwhile, Joyce is writing slash porn of Hamilton and Laurens.

  16. Marisa Mockery
    Marisa Mockery
    September 5, 2019 at 12:36 am | #

    Uh….I’m on S9, anyone else not able to pull up the alt text?

    • MLEst1
      MLEst1
      September 5, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

      I’m on the Note9 using Chrome and I can see it fine. Maybe you clicked the wrong spot?

      Either way, it says “how the sausage gets made”

      • Anna
        Anna
        September 5, 2019 at 3:32 am | #

        Which in this context might very well be a penis euphemism.

  17. Keulen
    Keulen
    September 5, 2019 at 12:39 am | #

    I’m both curious what Mike’s gonna do and worried for Walky at the same time.

  18. MidnaMajora
    MidnaMajora
    September 5, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

    I hope this (relatively) new leaf from Mike lasts. I’ve never been able to stand Mike.

    • poofdepoof
      poofdepoof
      September 5, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

      same

    • Lailah
      Lailah
      September 6, 2019 at 6:13 am | #

      I’d rather want to see more of what constitutes the new leaf before saying that, because I’m not really convinced this is more than just ‘mike buying into his extradimensional hype’ yet.

  19. fire_daws
    fire_daws
    September 5, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

    I’m torn between not wanting this to happen for the sake of Walky’s pysche and wanting it to happen very much for the car crash.

  20. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 5, 2019 at 12:53 am | #

    at least her plan 1 is not hacking the student reckord this time.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 5, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

      Mike vs more hacking. Hard choice

  21. Clif
    Clif
    September 5, 2019 at 12:59 am | #

    I predict this will go well.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 5, 2019 at 1:12 am | #

      Of course it’s going to go well. At least, as far as Mike is concerned.

  22. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    September 5, 2019 at 1:21 am | #

    Is the shoving strictly necessary?

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 5, 2019 at 1:31 am | #

      He is the pusher robot, and he is here to protect you! (Do not trust the shover robot!)

      • Dana
        Dana
        September 5, 2019 at 11:58 am | #

        Space has a terrible power.

        • StClair
          StClair
          September 5, 2019 at 9:18 pm | #

          Do you have stairs in your house?

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      September 5, 2019 at 1:33 am | #

      Im not sure it’s shoving exactly, I took it simply as him moving Amber aside.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 5, 2019 at 2:12 am | #

      Yes, it is; for the sake of her own peace-of-mind, Amber must not be present whilst Mike works his magic. Some things just should not be seen and heard.

  23. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    September 5, 2019 at 2:01 am | #

    Mike is going to do something awful that somehow will work. If you ask him to bring world peace, he would pull a Kiritsugu Emiya and cause a lot of damage for the greater good… now is that Mike or Walkyverse Sal?

  24. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    September 5, 2019 at 2:07 am | #

    A similar story to Dina and her triceratops hoodie:

    https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2209493001

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      September 5, 2019 at 2:22 am | #

      “You can wear anything you want for the wedding, as long as it’s black.”

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        September 5, 2019 at 11:21 am | #

        Hah! Nice.

        I’m trying to pinpoint the two leftmost outfits – RBG, I think and ???

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          September 5, 2019 at 7:37 pm | #

          Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Marlene Dietrich, Darth Vader, and Audrey Hepburn?

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      September 5, 2019 at 4:19 am | #

      “My sister is awesome and I genuinely was not kidding when I said she could wear whatever she wanted.”

      That’s a good story.

  25. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 5, 2019 at 2:11 am | #

    Could Mike’s destiny be to become the English-speaking world’s most unique motivational speaker?

  26. Brotato
    Brotato
    September 5, 2019 at 2:23 am | #

    See… I’ve never thought Mike was a good guy, or that his tactics were helpful. I think that maybe HE thought his tactics were NECESSARY – if, and this is a big if, we are to believe that he ever meant well. But I have never cared if he meant well; just that he caused harm.

    With that said – sign me the [clap] FUCK [clap] UP for some Mike Redemption in the form of screwing over the Evil Dads Committee. They need to GO. And Mike needs to actually do something genuinely good for once in his life. Being woke is not the same thing as acting in the interest of others, and cynicism/pessimism doesn’t make you cool.

    Gosh golly gee gamma graham goodies, I’ll be tickled pink if we get Good Guy Mike.

    • PB
      PB
      September 5, 2019 at 9:34 am | #

      Yes! Yes to all of this!

  27. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    September 5, 2019 at 2:27 am | #

    Panel 5: To quote Walkyverse Mike, “Stand aside, pansies.” http://www.itswalky.com/comic/whoa-boy-down-boy/

  28. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    September 5, 2019 at 2:42 am | #

    He’s a hetero teenage boy, of course he will still put out as long as he’s conscious.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      September 5, 2019 at 2:13 pm | #

      Can we not?

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        September 5, 2019 at 10:23 pm | #

        Please don’t set yourself up for punchlines like that.

  29. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    September 5, 2019 at 3:13 am | #

    Amber, no. That’s the deal with the devil you are signing.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 5, 2019 at 4:27 am | #

      I’m not 100% sure of it. Walky needs a kick up the backside anyway and Mike may be the guy to do it. However, given what Ethan did to Mike (at Mike’s suggestion, let us not forget), he may be willing to approach life in a different way.

      I think that we’re going to have to see where this goes before we render judgement.

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        September 5, 2019 at 5:31 am | #

        Well I’ll stay in my bunker for a while longer and see how this plays out.

  30. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    September 5, 2019 at 5:36 am | #

    That was uncalled for, Mike. Amber’s done worse? Who are you referring to? Ethan? Danny? They’re not bad people, you know.

    • Aro
      Aro
      September 5, 2019 at 7:16 am | #

      99.9% of what Mike says is uncalled for.

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 5, 2019 at 9:33 am | #

      Ethan’s gay, so when it comes to dating Amber, he’s actually worse than Walky.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        September 5, 2019 at 2:16 pm | #

        I’m sure Ethan was a perfectly fine date. The whole “being gay” thing might have put a damper on any pants-down shenanigans, but I doubt he was unpleasant to her.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 5, 2019 at 3:15 pm | #

          It was still pretty traumatic to her when he came out – she was emotionally invested and suddenly finding the relationship wasn’t what she thought wasn’t easy. Not to mention that she then spent the rest of the summer helping him (and his family) accept it.

  31. goggleman64
    goggleman64
    September 5, 2019 at 6:21 am | #

    Man, it is so fun to see someone evenly matched with Mike – maybe because it occasionally puts him on his back foot, which gives his character some much-needed variety. Outside of the childhood flashback, this is his first interaction I can remember that hasn’t been “delivering sick burns” or “engineering suffering”.

    Though … I guess his plot to break Ethan’s heart never panned out? Given that Ethan’s his other longtime “friend”, maybe that was the start of this character shift.

  32. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    September 5, 2019 at 8:32 am | #

    I can’t believe I’m writing this, but GO MIKE!

  33. PB
    PB
    September 5, 2019 at 9:27 am | #

    Huh! Somebody check for flying pigs.

    • PB
      PB
      September 5, 2019 at 9:34 am | #

      Having read back quite a few comics and found this comment thread, now I feel sad. I had a feeling this had something to do with Ethan but I didn’t put together that this is Mike trying to keep one of his only friends.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        September 5, 2019 at 9:47 am | #

        Mike chose his fate without realising it. Now, we’re going to find out if he has what it takes to change it.

  34. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    September 5, 2019 at 2:51 pm | #

    I’m still not sure I believe the sudden magical Mike transformation…
    Any bets on when he’s back to his normal abusive self?

  35. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    September 5, 2019 at 3:27 pm | #

    Independently about the reasons of this new life thing, truth or not… Mike really, really dislikes Danny, doesn’t he?

  36. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    September 5, 2019 at 3:34 pm | #

    New leaf, new leaf… uh.

  37. Pocky
    Pocky
    September 5, 2019 at 9:02 pm | #

    priorities are on point

  38. Ohmsford
    Ohmsford
    September 5, 2019 at 11:34 pm | #

    I’ve turned over so many new leaves I had to flip an entire forest

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