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Tinrac · Joined: 07 Jun 2012 Posts: 36 Location: Japan

Where`s comic zombie guy (i forget what you guys call him) No friends yet? (ToT) he could have been included in the corner with his picture filled stolen books
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Miss Magenta · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 1448 Location: Ohio

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2718

Ambaryerno · Joined: 31 Jul 2012 Posts: 44

I'm of the impression that Slick and Devil Slick are two separate entities. Somehow. We've certainly SEEN Devil Slick acting independently of regular Slick in at least one strip.

TragicallyUnhip · Joined: 30 May 2012 Posts: 41

So - apparently the only way we can be happy is to never desire sex and be totally infantilized in a childish playground setting?

The thing is the strip consciously deals with Very Serious Issues now in a Very Serious way, and so there is now always a Very Serious Message. The actors are child-sized and proportioned, and the props and surroundings and activities of the "Friend Zone" are all grade-school appropriate. So, what other message are we to get here than a desire to retreat from sexual adulthood and regress to an imagined state of childish innocence? That's fine and dandy, but what about actually being grown-up about the whole thing? Where is there a genuine, healthy adult relationship amid all this fantasy preachy stuff? What's the real solution to sexism other than the construction of a Patriarchal boogeyman that needs to be taken down by granite-faced little girls on Big Wheels?

Just a thought.

EmptyOnion · Joined: 13 Aug 2012 Posts: 56

Sisterhood jokes seem cool... but what about the Brotherhood? I need to go buy an assassins creed game one of these days.
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KDX · Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 321

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ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 5252 Location: California

boy, some people are really threatened by the idea of relationships between males and females that aren't based on power and sex

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2718

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2718

But really, its the same thought error that has people worried about gay marriage ruining the sanctity of marriage. If relationships that aren't about sex and power and romance aren't featured in the comic, all those relationships are devalued don'tcha know?

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2718

It's also completely unfair that there isn't a straight, sexual, "good guy" male character, because yknow, heterosexual males don't get enough media time.

Monkey Mcdermott · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2718

But also, Tat isn't living up to his governmentally mandated requirement for equal time in points of view in the comic, and since it's obviously a news site a lack of being "fair and balanced" is a definite negative.