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I hear that.
I did inventory for a small, southern department store that no longer exists. Best (and first) job I ever had.
Worst job? Also working for a department store. A much larger and more infamous one, that shall remain nameless. Also for exactly one month.
Neither of those ever makes it to my resumé.
More accurately, you are expected to curate your resume and tailor what is included to highlight the skillset that best matches the job you’re trying to get and shows off other traits that will make you an asset to the specific organization (be that company, campaign, nonprofit, etc) you’re trying to get that job with and nothing superfluous. Being able to do that well is one of the things that they look for as part of the hiring process when an actual resume is expected as part of the process.
Off-topic: The Maple Leafs were eliminated tonight, so we can continue making jokes about Ruth’s hoodie and shirt. Okay, her complete taste in hockey teams.
To become a Leafs fan one would really have to like Ruth and have a masochistic streak. And not like the one I have, in which I’m waiting for the Quebec Nordiques to come back.
It’s no different than being a Cleveland Browns fan, it’s just part of life to expect the worst, hope for the worst, but realize that the team will always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory*
*spoken as a Red Sox fan who has lived futility prior to 2004
Super Bowl III…AKA the Chiefs of the AFL beating the NFL champions.
there’s a lot of teams that have no right to joke about Super Bowls, especially ones whose teams have never appeared in one(Jaguars, Browns, Lions, and Texans) or won one(Bills, Vikings, Falcons, Bengals, Panthers, Cardinals, Chargers, Cardinals, Titans).
Surprise: I have been living in CT all my life. Nutmeggers can’t do without their regular infusion of Whaler merch; it outsells all the other NHL stuff here combined.
She’s retroactively been posting with Robin’s permission from the start. It’s almost true even – her first post was with Robin’s knowledge and tacit permission.
She should get back pay. That would make it official.
Dorothy, I think she should still have respect enough for her current job to give notice to them. And if she isn’t sure that Robin can win then not quitting is a good idea.
That being said, Becky you way underestimated what this was going to entail. The comment section would like to say we told you so.
You know what I legit wonder what the reaction would be in actual media news covering this reveal. No really imagine it’s 2020 if someone like Ted Cruz doesn’t manage to hire anyone for his campaign and then he comes out with an announcement.
“Everyone I would like to introduce to you my new campaign manager, this random homeless kid.” God knows what mockery would come next.
To be fair we would need a politician who also fucked up and subsequently fired all their staff first for this scenario to happen. But yeah I would still expect mockery.
‘This random homeless GAY kid’, I might add. The Repubs would be looking at him like he’d lost his damn mind and the Demos… would be looking at him like he’d lost his damn mind. And then some would get cautiously optimistic.
Absent everything else, it would probably be seen as a desperation move from a failed candidate.
In context, it might get even creepier. Let’s say Cruz had been caught smooching a guy, reversed his positions on LGBT rights and then took a gay teen boy “under his wing” as campaign manager. There will be assumptions made.
Then again, Becky will be happy to inform them that she has an awesome dinosaur girlfriend and until they marry there will only be handholding and smooching because anything more than that is against god’s word. People wouldn’t know what to think.
I wonder if Robin leaning in on the “homeless” bit means that Becky didn’t opt for lodgings in her “pick two out of three” negotiation. I was worried that maybe she chose not to make Robin promise to change her policies for real, since she thinks they’re going to lose anyway.
But “taking under my wing” suggests that Becky might be living with Robin now and she chose against the agenda. After all, Becky doesn’t think Robin will win. Why make a pinata vote differently if you can make it give you housing? If Becky was serious, she may have picked housing as #2, thinking the agenda wouldn’t come up after she loses in three weeks. But now this could backfire…
Personally I would have gone with the home because if you already believe that Robin would betray the campaign that got her elected then can you really trust her to keep any verbal promises?
Also you got to wonder who’s watching this coverage right now. Everyone back at the campus? The Brown family and the rest of her home town? Her dad? (They still allow TV in prison right?)
For some reason that made me imagine Becky trying to conceal her involvement with Robin by maintaining a disguise/alter ego during public events, and I’m a little sad we didn’t get to see that happen.
I mean, it’s wildly unrealistic and narratively unnecessary, but… it’d be peak hijinks!
“ALLRIGHT, STAFF. Which one of you is the lamp and which one is the lesbian?”
“…I’m the lamp?”
“Great! I’m offering you a promotion. I see a bright future ahead of you.”
“Change the channel.”
“Shut up, MacIntyre. This is interesting.”
“CHANGE THE CHANNEL.”
“Huh… Becky MacIntyre… a relative of yours, ToeJerk?”*
“JUST TURN OFF THE BLOODY TV.”
Given the circumstances under which Robin lost the RNC’s endorsement, I’m pretty sure that this will cement in the eyes of Carol Brown and those who think like her that there is some kind of devilish conspiracy afoot!
Aww, Dorothy. I love that she’s all “You’re everywhere I want to be! How are you not set for life!?” to Becky. It’s familiar and, um, maybe a little sobering? Hmm.
A quick message to Mr David Willis, I had to close the tab with DOA in it 3 times on my mobile before I could actually read it cause a giant Optus (Australian telecommunications company) ad popped up. Couldn’t shut it down, so had to close the tab and try again…
To be fair, Robin’s district was redistricted to favor Republicans but not overly so (the current real life Congressman, Trey Hollingsworth, got only ~55% of the vote the last two elections having a ton of outside money getting spent in advertising and actively choosing to run in this district using his family’s business connections. Seriously, he literally moved into the district explicitly to run for office the following year and made no real effort to hide the fact that he did so in order to buy that seat.
The fact that a carpetbagging empty suit like him doesn’t get a larger share of the vote (and the fact that a Democrat occasionally wins in the district despite the inherent advantage crafted by the GOP) suggests that motivating some of the more liberal voters who don’t usually vote to show up at the poles might not be the worst strategy. Sure, Robin is hamfisted about it, but that isn’t a deal breaker in this district, even in real life.
It wouldn’t be a deal breaker for a Democrat, but it should be for a Republican. You really can’t switch platforms completely last minute in a race and expect to have a chance. To call back to her first appearance the peeps who keep her in office now think she’s a hell-bound slut and the more liberal voters this might appeal to will at best be split between her and the Democrat.
If Manley’s running as a conservative Democrat, Robin might pick up some more leftist voters – especially those who don’t normally pay much attention, but she’ll lose far more on the Republican base side. And they already didn’t trust her – unmarried 30ish Latina? That’s suspicious.
Sometimes politicians can survive a party switch, but it’s usually from moderate Republican to moderate Democrat or vice versa. And it usually only works if you’re a long-time incumbent.
Robin was running as a Trump-ish Republican prior to this (promoting a hashtag directly inspired by Trump’s slogan, having several Trump-esque Twitter incidents before Becky took over her account, not to mention stuff like Sal mentioning how Robin’d deport Marcie’s parents if it got her more votes), so Democratic voters would be even less likely to trust Robin now.
The damn you willis principle dictates that the angstiest possible outcome for the characfter is often the most likely to occur using this i predict that leslie and dina will NOT be happy abt this
Congratulations, Becky, from this point forwards it is all about you. All the 24-hour rolling news stations agree! So do all the Talk Radio celebrities who will all be lining up to demonise you or canonise you depending on their political bent!
The minute this arc began, I was pretty sure that Becky was in for a steep learning curve or two!
Time passing? In DoA? Impossible! No, we’ll go back to Dotty and Becky tomorrow and we’ll eventually catch up with this some 3 or 4 real-life years later.
Hard disagree with panel 3. If she continues with politics, then yeah obviously she won’t need it on her resume, but she still needs a job for various expenses (and textbooks) once she’s done, and will need other less fancy jobs if this tanks her chance at further political jobs, or she doesn’t want them, or, especially likely, doesn’t have time for such an involved job while studying. And although resumes are a thing, it’s more about still having work in three weeks than about building a resume.
Yeah, I probably should have lead with not wanting further political jobs in that list (though I stand by the ‘especially’ being not having time, because it’s true regardless of if she wants them)
I’m pretty sure either would work. Like, stealthy is better for saving face, but Naruto kinda ninja would mean she could blow up her audience. Or clone herself and be the double gay.
Actually, ninjas tended to dress in normal clothes because it helped them blend into a crowd. The all black clad ninja may have existed for night time missions, but it’s image in pop culture is largely thanks to Japanese theatre, where stagehands dressed all in black. Ninja characters dressed in black to hide amongst the stage hands until it was time to stab somebody.
Yup. And the way Naruto portrays ninja seems to be based on some older movies where ninja were portrayed as having super powers and wore colorful outfits as they jumped around and unleashed cool-looking jutsus.
Honestly I was actually pretty interested in the Secretive side of Ninjas when I started watching Naruto. All that stuff about mind-games, researching the enemies and their corpses. All that clever stuff got me quite excited… And then it turned into Dragon Ball with different pajamas.
I don’t think their outfits are particularly unusual in their setting, which fits more with the ‘normal clothes’. But yeah, the focus kinda shifts to levelling up and new powers that aren’t that new later on.
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maybe no one will see that
(also, Dotty, you know you can CURATE your resumé, like… I don’t bother listing the one month I ironed pants for a company that no longer exists)
I hear that.
I did inventory for a small, southern department store that no longer exists. Best (and first) job I ever had.
Worst job? Also working for a department store. A much larger and more infamous one, that shall remain nameless. Also for exactly one month.
Neither of those ever makes it to my resumé.
More accurately, you are expected to curate your resume and tailor what is included to highlight the skillset that best matches the job you’re trying to get and shows off other traits that will make you an asset to the specific organization (be that company, campaign, nonprofit, etc) you’re trying to get that job with and nothing superfluous. Being able to do that well is one of the things that they look for as part of the hiring process when an actual resume is expected as part of the process.
“What am I bid?”
Common stock, prefered stock or laughing stock?
Soup stock.
stock photos
To the stocks with you!
I don’t put stock in these puns.
Taking stock of the sinventory
Mock my stock and I’ll clean your clock!
I dunno, Birken stock?
becky you idiot lesbian
Off-topic: The Maple Leafs were eliminated tonight, so we can continue making jokes about Ruth’s hoodie and shirt. Okay, her complete taste in hockey teams.
Leafs jokes are timeless.
Leafs jokes can make it into summer.
Unlike the Leafs.
No true Leafs fan expected any different.
It may still be April, but Fall has come for the Leafs.
It’s fall in the lower hemisphere, everything fits.
As I said in yesterday’s comment field: This is not a good time for Ruth to be able to have feelings again.
It’s October of this year in the strip currently, so the Leafs are just beginning their season.
I’m curious if any commenters here became hockey fans due to Ruth’s loyalty to the Leafs.
Hockey fans, or Leafs fans? Wiiiiide gulf there.
Hockey, I mean. Leafs would be too specific, among other things.
To become a Leafs fan one would really have to like Ruth and have a masochistic streak. And not like the one I have, in which I’m waiting for the Quebec Nordiques to come back.
Hence what I hinted at by “among other things.”.
It’s no different than being a Cleveland Browns fan, it’s just part of life to expect the worst, hope for the worst, but realize that the team will always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory*
*spoken as a Red Sox fan who has lived futility prior to 2004
I used to live in Kansas, and I remember one sports joke from that time period:
What does a Kansas City Chiefs fan do when their team wins the Super Bowl?
They turn off the XBox and go to bed.
Super Bowl III…AKA the Chiefs of the AFL beating the NFL champions.
there’s a lot of teams that have no right to joke about Super Bowls, especially ones whose teams have never appeared in one(Jaguars, Browns, Lions, and Texans) or won one(Bills, Vikings, Falcons, Bengals, Panthers, Cardinals, Chargers, Cardinals, Titans).
Bettman’ll put five teams in Florida before Quebec City gets a team again
But there’ll be a team in Quebec City before the Leafs win the Cup
Quebec will get a team before the Whalers ever return to Hartford!
Surprise: I have been living in CT all my life. Nutmeggers can’t do without their regular infusion of Whaler merch; it outsells all the other NHL stuff here combined.
She’s LGBT all at once.
A true child of the Millennium.
lesbian ginger blushing teen?
Where’s the Damon like button?
And the edit button? Damn…
That comment right there. That’s perfection.
Girl in a plaid shirt! Lesbian power!
… Of course.
So how much time has passed between panel 4 and panel 5?
And damn, this IS gonna affect Becky’s life.
Hmmm, maybe about 15 minutes? They did have to drive to the location, they just did that briefing stuff on the way to the stage…
The other 6 times Robin ate at Glaslows she had to figure out last second what her big announcement was, so she just went with whatever Becky last posted anyway…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/03-sometimes-the-sky-was-so-far-away/stunt/
probably a few hours? she had to finish her shift cause i dont see her asking to get out early.
If DOA Robin is anything like Shortpacked Robin, about 8 seconds.
Cover — blown.
Becky has perilously entered the maelstrom that is Robin’s life, batten down the hatches.
What’s the over/under on this cyclone sucking Leslie back in before it’s over?
1-in-3-ish, I’d say.
1-in-1, my guess.
I mean, how could it not?
Becky: “Yep, that’s me up there. You’re probably wondering how I got here in the first place.”
Us: You stole Representative DeSantos’ phone.
Becky: “Well you’re no fun.”
No, she only stole her identity. Robin handed Becky her phone.
She’s retroactively been posting with Robin’s permission from the start. It’s almost true even – her first post was with Robin’s knowledge and tacit permission.
She should get back pay. That would make it official.
I believe Alucard Said it best:
You done Goofed.
Curses, foiled again.
If you deal with Becky there WILL be shenanigans. No exception.
Only… the same is true for Robin.
Becky is NOT used to be the adult in the room, is what I’m saying.
But who has a better chance of handling Robin?
I think we are about to find out how good (or not) Becky is at it.
I see that everything is going according to
plankeikaku.Cake? Where?
It occurs to me that reference loses something without being said by DBZA Goku. Oh well.
I got it!
(Shut it, Nappa.)
The keikaku is a lie!
Keikaku, huh? Does that mean Becky’s only way out of this mess is to obtain a Death Note and write Robin’s name in it?
Nah. All she needs is to take a potato chip. And EAT IT!
Damn, Robin didn’t lose any time on tokenizing her, did she?
This oughta be interesting. I want popcorn.
Dorothy, I think she should still have respect enough for her current job to give notice to them. And if she isn’t sure that Robin can win then not quitting is a good idea.
That being said, Becky you way underestimated what this was going to entail. The comment section would like to say we told you so.
I mean, the thing is, “give notice” usually requires two weeks, and by then this new job’ll be basically over.
“I’ve made a huge mistake.”
<>
**spittake**
You know what I legit wonder what the reaction would be in actual media news covering this reveal. No really imagine it’s 2020 if someone like Ted Cruz doesn’t manage to hire anyone for his campaign and then he comes out with an announcement.
“Everyone I would like to introduce to you my new campaign manager, this random homeless kid.” God knows what mockery would come next.
To be fair we would need a politician who also fucked up and subsequently fired all their staff first for this scenario to happen. But yeah I would still expect mockery.
‘This random homeless GAY kid’, I might add. The Repubs would be looking at him like he’d lost his damn mind and the Demos… would be looking at him like he’d lost his damn mind. And then some would get cautiously optimistic.
Dunno about the media but, with just that context? My first thought would definitely be “that poor kid!”.
What a position to be stuck in.
Context and empathy are not survival traits among my former professional brethren.
Absent everything else, it would probably be seen as a desperation move from a failed candidate.
In context, it might get even creepier. Let’s say Cruz had been caught smooching a guy, reversed his positions on LGBT rights and then took a gay teen boy “under his wing” as campaign manager. There will be assumptions made.
And when the media digs deeper and finds Becky is living with the teacher Robin was caught smooching …
Then again, Becky will be happy to inform them that she has an awesome dinosaur girlfriend and until they marry there will only be handholding and smooching because anything more than that is against god’s word. People wouldn’t know what to think.
“Live on CNN. What is a ‘kapoodle’. Experts disagree. Teenagers snigger.”
Barney Frank lived with a prostitute who ran a brothel out of his home. The media largely yawned.
I wonder if Robin leaning in on the “homeless” bit means that Becky didn’t opt for lodgings in her “pick two out of three” negotiation. I was worried that maybe she chose not to make Robin promise to change her policies for real, since she thinks they’re going to lose anyway.
But “taking under my wing” suggests that Becky might be living with Robin now and she chose against the agenda. After all, Becky doesn’t think Robin will win. Why make a pinata vote differently if you can make it give you housing? If Becky was serious, she may have picked housing as #2, thinking the agenda wouldn’t come up after she loses in three weeks. But now this could backfire…
“Under my wing” could also refer to the campaign, at least that’s how I read it.
Personally I would have gone with the home because if you already believe that Robin would betray the campaign that got her elected then can you really trust her to keep any verbal promises?
By the same argument, in three weeks she’d be homeless again too.
Unless you get an apartment paid up front until next semester starts.
But I assume she’s still living with Leslie.
Well, this is going to get screwy.
Going to get?
Robin is involved. She might not have super-speed, but hijinks will ensue.
Also you got to wonder who’s watching this coverage right now. Everyone back at the campus? The Brown family and the rest of her home town? Her dad? (They still allow TV in prison right?)
Robin picked a helluva a moment to stop calling her staffers “aide” and “you”.
For some reason that made me imagine Becky trying to conceal her involvement with Robin by maintaining a disguise/alter ego during public events, and I’m a little sad we didn’t get to see that happen.
I mean, it’s wildly unrealistic and narratively unnecessary, but… it’d be peak hijinks!
“ALLRIGHT, STAFF. Which one of you is the lamp and which one is the lesbian?”
“…I’m the lamp?”
“Great! I’m offering you a promotion. I see a bright future ahead of you.”
Just imagining her buying a realistic looking parrot mask and going by that name “Tweety”…. God I’m just having fun with this.
Hah!
“Change the channel.”
“Shut up, MacIntyre. This is interesting.”
“CHANGE THE CHANNEL.”
“Huh… Becky MacIntyre… a relative of yours, ToeJerk?”*
“JUST TURN OFF THE BLOODY TV.”
I envision Toedad seeing the new conference and his head exploding like Richmond Valentine’s minions in “Kingsman: The Secret Service”.
Given the circumstances under which Robin lost the RNC’s endorsement, I’m pretty sure that this will cement in the eyes of Carol Brown and those who think like her that there is some kind of devilish conspiracy afoot!
Considering Joyce’s mom thinks Obama is the antichrist and that Trump is a “good person”… yeah, Carol is dumb.
Aww, Dorothy. I love that she’s all “You’re everywhere I want to be! How are you not set for life!?” to Becky. It’s familiar and, um, maybe a little sobering? Hmm.
Yup. Nothing like seeing your dream with outside eyes.
As a shy introvert this is fucking terrifying
A quick message to Mr David Willis, I had to close the tab with DOA in it 3 times on my mobile before I could actually read it cause a giant Optus (Australian telecommunications company) ad popped up. Couldn’t shut it down, so had to close the tab and try again…
If Becky is living at Robin’s house, no one in the world will believe she’s not fucking her.
Dina would.
Dina would wonder.
Dina knows she’s a rebound.
I love Becky’s dry comment in Panel 3, and it’s a good demonstration of how easy it is to be blinded by your own privilege.
For Dorothy, a job in this stage of her life is something she uses to hone her resume. For Becky it’s about survival right now.
Hard agree.
It’s for the best Becky has Galasso’s to fall back on when Robin’s plan takes a nosedive.
That’s right, alt-text. Smash cuts are never good news.
Mike related jump cuts are the exception.
Turns out Joyce was 100% right to be worried about Becky showing up on the radar of some governmental jerkhole who thinks she isn’t people.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/doi/
God damn, 2 years ago. Amazing how y’all remember this stuff lol
… I still have red flags waving in the back of my brain on Becky’s tuition.
The fact that Robin is introducing her like that makes me think Becky didn’t choose housing as one of the two choices she could pick from three.
Not necessarily. Could play up the “we gave a homeless person a place to live” thing later
Good. Consensus was that she should take the other two and keep hanging at Leslie’s.
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I’m kinda wondering what that banner or whatever behind Robin and Becky looks like full-size.
To be fair, Robin’s district was redistricted to favor Republicans but not overly so (the current real life Congressman, Trey Hollingsworth, got only ~55% of the vote the last two elections having a ton of outside money getting spent in advertising and actively choosing to run in this district using his family’s business connections. Seriously, he literally moved into the district explicitly to run for office the following year and made no real effort to hide the fact that he did so in order to buy that seat.
The fact that a carpetbagging empty suit like him doesn’t get a larger share of the vote (and the fact that a Democrat occasionally wins in the district despite the inherent advantage crafted by the GOP) suggests that motivating some of the more liberal voters who don’t usually vote to show up at the poles might not be the worst strategy. Sure, Robin is hamfisted about it, but that isn’t a deal breaker in this district, even in real life.
It wouldn’t be a deal breaker for a Democrat, but it should be for a Republican. You really can’t switch platforms completely last minute in a race and expect to have a chance. To call back to her first appearance the peeps who keep her in office now think she’s a hell-bound slut and the more liberal voters this might appeal to will at best be split between her and the Democrat.
If Manley’s running as a conservative Democrat, Robin might pick up some more leftist voters – especially those who don’t normally pay much attention, but she’ll lose far more on the Republican base side. And they already didn’t trust her – unmarried 30ish Latina? That’s suspicious.
Sometimes politicians can survive a party switch, but it’s usually from moderate Republican to moderate Democrat or vice versa. And it usually only works if you’re a long-time incumbent.
OTOH, this is a comic and wacky hijinks rule when Robin shows up, so the odds are good she wins.
Robin was running as a Trump-ish Republican prior to this (promoting a hashtag directly inspired by Trump’s slogan, having several Trump-esque Twitter incidents before Becky took over her account, not to mention stuff like Sal mentioning how Robin’d deport Marcie’s parents if it got her more votes), so Democratic voters would be even less likely to trust Robin now.
And before she was Trump, she was a mix of Cruz, Rubio and Palin. She’s hardly got reason to have Democrat trust.
Well, so much for that plan, Becky!
My one issues is that if things go south, in like a week or tow, we won’t get to see it before several months. Maybe even a year.
Yep, still on that political track.
Ugh, yeah, Smash cuts are the worst. The more characters in Smash Bros, the better.
The damn you willis principle dictates that the angstiest possible outcome for the characfter is often the most likely to occur using this i predict that leslie and dina will NOT be happy abt this
Congratulations, Becky, from this point forwards it is all about you. All the 24-hour rolling news stations agree! So do all the Talk Radio celebrities who will all be lining up to demonise you or canonise you depending on their political bent!
The minute this arc began, I was pretty sure that Becky was in for a steep learning curve or two!
For a second I thought she hired Mary for the drawing posters on the last panel
Time passing? In DoA? Impossible! No, we’ll go back to Dotty and Becky tomorrow and we’ll eventually catch up with this some 3 or 4 real-life years later.
Think this is supposed to be the same day. Multi-day skips have always been mentioned in the strip where they took place.
Plus Becky’s still in the same clothes.
Nonetheless, obviously a time jump of some duration (possibly to the evening).
Becky, you fucked up.
Good thing you already have a girlfriend, eh, Becks?
Hard disagree with panel 3. If she continues with politics, then yeah obviously she won’t need it on her resume, but she still needs a job for various expenses (and textbooks) once she’s done, and will need other less fancy jobs if this tanks her chance at further political jobs, or she doesn’t want them, or, especially likely, doesn’t have time for such an involved job while studying. And although resumes are a thing, it’s more about still having work in three weeks than about building a resume.
I don’t think Becky wants a political career at this point. I agree that Dorothy is oversimplifying here.
Yeah, I probably should have lead with not wanting further political jobs in that list (though I stand by the ‘especially’ being not having time, because it’s true regardless of if she wants them)
Well at least Becky can get cute groupies out of this, right?
Can she, though?
Being the gay doesn’t come with protection from awkward situations unfortunately. She should have dual classed as a ninja
Actual Ninja or High-Visibility, big bang Naruto ninjas?
I’m pretty sure either would work. Like, stealthy is better for saving face, but Naruto kinda ninja would mean she could blow up her audience. Or clone herself and be the double gay.
I hope actual. Naruto got worse the more it took from Dragon Ball.
Who would win, shiny Tron-lines Naruto or Mr. Satan?
Naruto would defeat the villain, but Mr. Satan would get all the credit.
Well, he would try. Depending on when this took place, Naruto might be far less gracious about that than the Z-fighters. XD
Actually, ninjas tended to dress in normal clothes because it helped them blend into a crowd. The all black clad ninja may have existed for night time missions, but it’s image in pop culture is largely thanks to Japanese theatre, where stagehands dressed all in black. Ninja characters dressed in black to hide amongst the stage hands until it was time to stab somebody.
Yup. And the way Naruto portrays ninja seems to be based on some older movies where ninja were portrayed as having super powers and wore colorful outfits as they jumped around and unleashed cool-looking jutsus.
Honestly I was actually pretty interested in the Secretive side of Ninjas when I started watching Naruto. All that stuff about mind-games, researching the enemies and their corpses. All that clever stuff got me quite excited… And then it turned into Dragon Ball with different pajamas.
I don’t think their outfits are particularly unusual in their setting, which fits more with the ‘normal clothes’. But yeah, the focus kinda shifts to levelling up and new powers that aren’t that new later on.
So, does this make Becky a “people prop”? http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/peopleprops/
It sure does. Any time now Robin will point at her and raise her fist half-clenched.
Whilst ‘America the Beautiful plays in the background.
I really hope this particular story stays in the wacky fun lane and not the drama bomb one. This is comedy gold, and sometimes I need that.
You had one chance! “That’s a yep from this Rep!”
And he used it:
“That’s a yep from my Rep!”
At this point I wouldnt be surprised if Robin hires Dave Strider to help with the economy. He had experience in two recent stories…