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by David M Willis on January 8, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – It's The Love I Haven't Got
└ Tags: asher, ethan

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 8, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    TOTALLY can’t relate in the extremely narrow sense of being able to identify specific late 1960s Ford Mustangs after Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with a supplement of Gunsmith Cats

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      January 8, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

      leading to an incidental ability to identify Chevy Camaros due to, “Hey, that’s a you car!”
      “No, that’s a Camaro. You saw Transformers.”

    • Jo_Cubstar
      Jo_Cubstar
      January 8, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Saaaaaaaaaaame. That’s very much my fave car

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      January 8, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      I wasn’t expecting a Gunsmith Cats reference today.

      But yeah, for years I wanted a Shelby Cobra specifically so I could drive the same car as my lesbian idol, Rally Vincent.
      I have no interest in racing or vintage cars, and it was a flex that literally no one I knew IRL would get, but damn I wanted my lesbian power car.

      Now I just buy cool t-shirts with a lesbian-pride-flag colored kitsune.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 8, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

        Gotta reread that manga again. Fucking love it.

      • milu
        milu
        January 8, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

        Damn yeah i have some teenage Gunsmith Cats feelings too

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        January 8, 2024 at 1:43 pm | #

        I totally get being into a car because of Gunsmith Cats (which I need to watch again — been ages). My dream car is a Duesneberg because Fred Astaire talked it up in an old RKO musical.

        So far I’ve had to settle for a Matchbox model.

        • Scoutinthenight
          Scoutinthenight
          January 8, 2024 at 2:07 pm | #

          I also want a Duesenberg, but for me it was because of the book Vintage Stuff. I’m not sure where my matchbox model wound up.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 12, 2024 at 3:01 pm | #

          If you want something bigger and more detailed than a matchbox car, Monogram and Hubley both made model kits of various Deusenberg models.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 12, 2024 at 3:03 pm | #

        Well, a Cobra replica would be doable, you would have to be mega rich to be able to afford a real Shelby Cobra.

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      January 8, 2024 at 2:38 am | #

      All you people with your fancy American cars. I always dreamed of owning a Daimler Double Six. Now they’re WAY out of my price range.

    • JepMZ
      JepMZ
      January 8, 2024 at 9:20 am | #

      Not me tho, I was driven in a Miata convertible, for 4 years, and realized years later this was Sailor Uranus’s car

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        January 8, 2024 at 10:59 pm | #

        I later realised that’s a Ford Mustang in The Goonies

        weird ’80s-’90s models

  2. Mym
    Mym
    January 8, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    If only we could all be so normal

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 8, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      so very normal. just like Jennifer.

      (swap out Transformers for Star Wars in that last panel and yeah. as someone said a few days ago, dude has a Type.)

      • Firseal
        Firseal
        January 8, 2024 at 6:52 am | #

        Kit Fisto approves!

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      January 8, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

      The normalest!

      • Casi
        Casi
        January 8, 2024 at 4:42 pm | #

        I read that as Normales like Morales and thought “oh this is what miles’ super hero name would be if he didn’t have spider-man powers”

    • anon
      anon
      January 8, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

      Time for malaya to pop in and call him ‘fakey’ XD

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 8, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Jokes on them. All cool people are secretly dorks. Not so secretly either. For example known cool person Sal is a choir nerd dating a guy with a ukulele.

    • James
      James
      January 8, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      The trick to being actually cool is being sincere about your particular dorkiness.

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        January 8, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

        Tell that to Jennifer. . .

      • Nono
        Nono
        January 8, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

        Wait, so Danny is cool?

        • AGV
          AGV
          January 8, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

          As of right now? Kinda, yeah. He leans towards that side.

          • Council
            Council
            January 8, 2024 at 6:22 am | #

            He would be coolEr if he didn’t pick the ukulele specifically to stand out and find himself

            But he is leaning into that sh*t so hard you kinda respect it

      • Steelbright
        Steelbright
        January 8, 2024 at 2:47 am | #

        You know, this might be the best advice I’ve ever heard in a comics comment section, a place but usually well known for wisdom

      • Felian
        Felian
        January 8, 2024 at 6:56 am | #

        Absolutely this.
        What makes you cool is being unapologetically yourself. Everything else is just acting.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          January 8, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

          advice echoed in great books
          from Lord of Light
          to Graydon Saunders’ Commonweal series

      • Felgraf
        Felgraf
        January 8, 2024 at 3:26 pm | #

        This is one of the secrets of the Monks of Cool.

        “The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.”
        ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 8, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

      It’s shocking how many people are in denial that sports team fandom is still fandom.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        January 8, 2024 at 8:06 am | #

        I know, right? They even do cosplay, only they’re allowed to do it in public without people passing comment.

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          January 8, 2024 at 8:15 am | #

          It occurs to me that I should elaborate on this point, because I don’t know how common it is outside the UK.

          Going out in a Glasgow Rangers scarf and hat is the equivalent of me going out in a Doctor Who t-shirt. It’s not cosplay.

          Going out in a full Glasgow Rangers kit with your favourite player’s name on the back, which I have seen, is surely the equivalent of me going out in my Seventh Doctor costume.

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 8, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Just a little doodle
    Been in kind of a rut artistically.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      January 8, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      Cute.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      January 8, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      If it’s any consolation, this is a sign that’s (probably) no longer the case ☺️😳💦

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      January 8, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      Nice, but I kinda want to see Dorothy doing the seducing with that pair.
      Not a critique or a request.
      Just an observation of my personal desire that I didn’t know I had until seeing this.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 8, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      Oh hey now, fantastic stuff as usual.

    • Bo
      Bo
      January 8, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      oh man, well, speaking of *rut*

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      January 8, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      Oh dang I’m sorry to hear about the rut, but you still got magic, this is good, yeeeesssss

    • milu
      milu
      January 8, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

      Boop!!!

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        January 8, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

        i wuv that <3 i mean "rut"? come on

    • Dday
      Dday
      January 8, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

      Great minds, Yoto 😉
      https://i.imgur.com/F4f9HpF.png (SFW somehow)
      Drew this in response to yesterday’s conversation, sometimes it just puts an image in my head that has to come out

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 8, 2024 at 1:52 am | #

        YES YES that’s pretty damn great Dday! Love it.

        • Dday
          Dday
          January 8, 2024 at 7:26 pm | #

          Thx, urs rocks too

      • milu
        milu
        January 8, 2024 at 10:24 am | #

        what the FUCK that’s two days in a row that a new incredible (fan)artist pops up in these threads?!?

        that’s some mad expressive body language i love it <3 <3 <3

        • Dday
          Dday
          January 8, 2024 at 7:28 pm | #

          Thanks! I’m not exactly new, I’m the same guy that used to have a weird Faz pfp, I drew the one with Joyce and all the abs

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        January 8, 2024 at 4:57 pm | #

        Holy shit that’s awesome! Wouldn’t look out of place in a game like Pizza Tower or something 😃

        • Dday
          Dday
          January 8, 2024 at 7:30 pm | #

          Thanks! I was attempting to just emulate the comic but I definitely have similar drawing influences as the Pizza Tower guy

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            January 8, 2024 at 8:16 pm | #

            Yeah, you do a pretty swell job in fact, wouldn’t look out of place at all in a Dumbing of Age fan game, the likes of which I am coding for as we speak

  5. Wereg
    Wereg
    January 8, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    What is this feeling, so sudden, and new?

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      January 8, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      I felt the moment I laid eyes on you…

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 8, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

        My pulse is rushing

        My head is reeling.

        • Karadaga
          Karadaga
          January 8, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

          My face is flushing

          What is this feeling?

  6. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    January 8, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    The man has his hobbies.

    • anon
      anon
      January 8, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

      as one person said, being called ‘hobbyless’ should be more of an insult

  7. StClair
    StClair
    January 8, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    his dark seductiveness has withered away in the harsh, revealing light

    • Tan
      Tan
      January 8, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      Not withered, but blossomed into wholesome connection

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        January 8, 2024 at 2:06 am | #

        that’s worse!

  8. Nono
    Nono
    January 8, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh nooooo. He finds his dorkiness endearing.

    Asher has it bad.

    • Nicoleandmaggie
      Nicoleandmaggie
      January 8, 2024 at 12:10 pm | #

      Asher apparently has a type.

  9. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 8, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    It’s best he learn this now, Ethan.

  10. Switchchris26
    Switchchris26
    January 8, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Don’t worry Ethan, he won’t make fun of you, Dorks are hot and that’s a undeniable fact.

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      January 8, 2024 at 7:05 am | #

      as are certain people with dorks

  11. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 8, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    The only reason I know a Lamborghini on sight.

  12. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    January 8, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Asher thinks this is a gentle ribbing but it’s also feeding into Ethan’s newly discovered shaming kink

    • Nono
      Nono
      January 8, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      I mean, considering he was in a situationship with Mike… checks out.

  13. Dante
    Dante
    January 8, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    This is the most alive I’ve seen Ethan look in AGES, oh god please keep it going. (And Asher isn’t put off by the dorkiness? yisss)

    • anon
      anon
      January 8, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      the slight panic is endearing, i’m sure he’s thinking like “oh no he’s disappointed/only attracted to the brooding emo persona i have now”

  14. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 8, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    The Joker Gang’s cars in the 1989 BATMAN movie were not, as we thought at the time, AMC Matadors but rather Spanish-built Dodge Coronados, which were continuation models of the old Dart family as neither South American markets nor European ones cared to adopt the Aspen/Volare at that time.
    I’m sure you know that, Ethan. You just have to.

    • anon
      anon
      January 8, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      i’m sure it looked cool but to me everything’s either ‘car, truck or van’ lol

  15. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    January 8, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    This reminds me of when I got real depressed during lockdown.

    In a way I regressed significantly, buying tons of Lego sets, watching prowrestling, and catching up on so much stuff I had been into when I was a kid. I understand how someone could see a depressed person who is playing with toys and think, “oh, this is… new?”

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 8, 2024 at 7:39 pm | #

      I was depressed before I met my wife and I was married 46 years ago next month. I have always felt better when I get toys.

  16. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 8, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    For a second I thought this was gonna be the beginning of Asher’s Drew arc but Panel 4 has allayed those fears.

  17. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 8, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Not going to lie, this is the hottest I’ve ever found Ethan.

  18. Armadillo
    Armadillo
    January 8, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

    Oh hey, it suddenly feels like this relationship has more going for it than just physical attraction. That’s nice.

  19. M!a
    M!a
    January 8, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    Careful Ethan, you might see your shadow and jump back into your hole.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      January 8, 2024 at 6:14 am | #

      It’s Asher’s hole he’s trying to jump in.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        January 8, 2024 at 7:07 am | #

        again and again and again…

        –Dave, he’s dressed correctly for a timreloop manga, also

  20. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    January 8, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Asher and Ethan both thinking “wait a minute, is this attraction actually wholesome?” with incredibly separate emotional responses lmaoooo

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      January 8, 2024 at 7:07 am | #

      as they both reach up for the same memetic butterfly
      and have their hands collide

  21. M!a
    M!a
    January 8, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    (I have no idea why the bot thinks I already posted this)

    Careful Ethan, you might see your shadow and jump back into your hole.

    • M!a
      M!a
      January 8, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

      (Oh crap; it’s ’cause I did! Sorry) 🙁

  22. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    January 8, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    Now kiss.

  23. AGV
    AGV
    January 8, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Asher has pulled a Uno Reverse

  24. Karadaga
    Karadaga
    January 8, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    As much as the kissing is hot (and it is really hot), THIS is what I’ve been waiting for

  25. RedComet
    RedComet
    January 8, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    Asher likes em hot but secretly hyper nerdy

  26. Suet
    Suet
    January 8, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

    Being a goth and being a dork can somehow mix. Nonconformity by being way more invested in something than the average.

    Just can’t believe that’s all it took to break Ethan, it’s the revenge of the fallen!

    • anon
      anon
      January 8, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

      most goths i knew were also weebs. Misa from death note being a thing must’ve being great for the overlap/venn diagram of ppl who were also cosplayers too

  27. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    January 8, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

    It’s cool, Ethan. Lots of hot guys are secret and/or ex dorks.

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    January 8, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

    Ethan has spent the past week preordering Transformers.

    • David DeLaney
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      January 8, 2024 at 7:08 am | #

      hey babe, new euphemism just dropped!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 8, 2024 at 8:00 am | #

      And the week before that, and the week before that…

  29. anon
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    January 8, 2024 at 12:55 am | #

    –Looks at patreon preview bonus strip– …Oh no, don’t tell me joyce’s mom put the family dog up for adoption

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 8, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

      Most likely just dumped him at a shelter.

      I want to know what happens to him, but at the same time I also don’t want to know because it’s probably sad. 🙁 Sad pet stories get to me worse than sad people stories.

      • Mr. 2
        Mr. 2
        January 8, 2024 at 12:25 pm | #

        Dumped at shelter, immediately adopted by Joyce’s pharmacist.

  30. HueSatLight
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    January 8, 2024 at 1:17 am | #

    My neighbor has a Toyota Yaris hatchback.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      January 8, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

      but its not red, so I almost didn’t recognize it.

  31. Alongcameaspider
    Alongcameaspider
    January 8, 2024 at 1:54 am | #

    You know, if not for all the reasons why them hooking up right now is a bad idea, I’d say they’d make a decent couple

    • anon
      anon
      January 8, 2024 at 1:57 am | #

      i mean, you shouldn’t depend on a relationship to ‘fix’ you but other than asher permanently cutting things off with jen, i don’t think there’d be too much of an issue otherwise if they’re both willing tho ethan probably needs more therapy. tho a dating/relationship as a distraction could also be good for him, i iimagine most ppl don’t rush into it but i’m sure there are ppl who are depressed/grieving still entering relationships

      • Bash
        Bash
        January 8, 2024 at 3:32 am | #

        At this point I think anything that causes Ethan to interact with another human being is a positive for him.

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        January 8, 2024 at 5:53 am | #

        One bright side to a relationship would be that it could help Ethan to mourn and eventually let go of Mike. The situationship he had with Mike, who died shortly after, definitely is a big part of what’s got Ethan so messed up. Probably lots of regrets over ‘what could have been’ and so long as he’s single, he will mourn Mike like his lost Lenore.

        Though you’re still absolutely right that a relationship alone shouldn’t be all he needs to ‘fix’ him and he’ll have to do more to get past the mourning process. It’s also real easy to latch onto a relationship in an unhealthy way when you’re mourning, enough to overlook some red flags that would be noticed otherwise.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          January 8, 2024 at 7:10 am | #

          was not actually expecting a Poe reference in the comments to-day

          –Dave, but with Ethan being all goth-y, I ought to have. his telltale heart

    • Firseal
      Firseal
      January 8, 2024 at 6:50 am | #

      I can’t think of a single worse thing for either by NOT trying some sort of relationship with the other than the plethora of unpleasant things they are enduring in their current states.

      -thinks of Jennifer trying murder/suicide in a fit of pinque-

      … probably.

  32. Evil Midnight Lurker
    Evil Midnight Lurker
    January 8, 2024 at 2:42 am | #

    …yeah, it me

  33. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    January 8, 2024 at 2:44 am | #

    As much as this whole Ethan-Asher bad decisions spiral has me concerned, is REALLY nice to see different expressions back on Ethan’s face again!

  34. Sam
    Sam
    January 8, 2024 at 3:58 am | #

    Cute. No notes.

  35. The Other Mike
    The Other Mike
    January 8, 2024 at 5:05 am | #

    I actually bought a Hot Wheels Honda City Turbo because of Skids

  36. Taffy
    Taffy
    January 8, 2024 at 5:07 am | #

    So, Ethan ordering a toy is supposedly the dorky part of his behavior, not him talking like a hornier Ansem, Seeker of Darkness?

    • Firseal
      Firseal
      January 8, 2024 at 6:47 am | #

      They are freshmen in college – so yes, the toy is the dorky part.

      Video games leave no physical evidence and some versions of Ansem were quite cool.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 8, 2024 at 6:50 am | #

        That doesn’t make any fucking sense.

        • StClair
          StClair
          January 8, 2024 at 10:48 am | #

          a lot of stuff in this comic makes sense only if you’re 18 and/or horny.* see comic title.

          * redundant, I know, but also applies to some who are older and should know better, like both Leslie and Robin.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            January 8, 2024 at 10:52 am | #

            The comic title can remain unseen. Fuck the comic title.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 8, 2024 at 11:09 am | #

      Flirting with someone like that is only dorky if it doesn’t work, and it was working. (Historically, my flirting has just demonstrated my dorkiness.)

  37. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 8, 2024 at 6:07 am | #

    Asher, somehow more turned on now

  38. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    January 8, 2024 at 6:21 am | #

    It’s a shame that there’s no transformers in VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE. Ethan would love Fifth Edition.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      January 8, 2024 at 6:54 am | #

      Yeah, if only Renegade Games had a TTRPG based on Transformers. Wouldn’t that be something.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        January 8, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

        I’m not sure that Transformers crosses over very well.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 8, 2024 at 10:50 am | #

          The joke is that they literally do have that exact product.

          • C.T. Phipps
            C.T. Phipps
            January 8, 2024 at 4:11 pm | #

            Yeah, I’m just imagining Ventrue Optimus.

  39. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    January 8, 2024 at 7:13 am | #

    Asher the bottom taking care of his top’s need for specific scenarios sand encouraging this

    –Dave, guess which side is usually in control of such things

    • Li
      Li
      January 9, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

      You appear to have conflated top with dom and bottom with sub, because there is no such thing as typical power dynamics wrt penetration.

  40. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    January 8, 2024 at 9:10 am | #

    At least this doesn’t seem like a suicide pact.

  41. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    January 8, 2024 at 10:01 am | #

    I mean yeah there is a toxic element, and Ethan is aware, to this but this first we’ve seen a flash of pre time skip Ethan.

  42. milu
    milu
    January 8, 2024 at 10:54 am | #

    @Li yesterday: no but i agree. it’s just like, this is normal around these parts to me. it is very annoying and i kinda never comment seriously here any longer because this happens. when i occasionally do, i’m either completely ignored (which is ok) or end up regretting it when folks engage.

    sorry yall, i luv u but u annoying af =P

    @UrsulaDavina no personal beef with you at all

    • milu
      milu
      January 8, 2024 at 10:57 am | #

      tbf i know i’m insufferable too in my own ways. this is just the most normalized way of being insufferable around here, imo

    • Li
      Li
      January 8, 2024 at 8:23 pm | #

      +1 on no personal beef with UrsulaDavina; just happened to be the comment that tipped me over. :/

      • Li
        Li
        January 8, 2024 at 8:31 pm | #

        And like. I get it. The Pact is part of the history of the ‘ship. It’s been discussed with varying degrees of seriousness by the comic itself. The characters involved are sometimes VERY cavalier about Ruth’s attempt. But when it hasn’t come up recently in the comic and someone you don’t know is just being happy to see Jennifer and Ruth interact and bounce off each other………..

        Bringing up that specific subject as part of your “don’t forget, they sucked as a couple” dunk — yeah. I don’t imagine Ursula meant anything by it, but I think it’s something we SHOULD hesitate to do.

  43. Furie
    Furie
    January 8, 2024 at 11:28 am | #

    Same Ethan, same. Also, I know one gun name by sight. Guess which…

  44. Yeet
    Yeet
    January 8, 2024 at 11:44 am | #

    Ethan, please.
    You were reasonably well-liked as a dork! All you had to do was show up and be nice to people and you pulled that off a couple of times.

    • Bash
      Bash
      January 8, 2024 at 3:51 pm | #

      He WAS nice but he was also incapable of talking about anything besides transformers, if I recall.

  45. GoblinBagsSumo
    GoblinBagsSumo
    January 8, 2024 at 3:00 pm | #

    2nd panel better become an avatar for comments

  46. Miafillene
    Miafillene
    January 8, 2024 at 7:55 pm | #

    I will take a Pontiac GTO for the win, please. ’63. But put on a heavy big block please. OG power plant was decent, but I want enough horses under the hood to trigger me ten feet away when it turns over.

  47. Bryy
    Bryy
    January 8, 2024 at 9:13 pm | #

    …… holy shit. Asher is going to get Ethan out of his funk.

  48. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    January 8, 2024 at 11:24 pm | #

  49. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    January 8, 2024 at 11:25 pm | #

    … okay, I dunno why the one link didn’t work. to Cadillac Heaven,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KF6pCME10

  50. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    January 9, 2024 at 4:05 am | #

    OMG, how long has it been since we’ve seen Ethan make a face like that?!

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