17-05-18 In your friend zone
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:49 am
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I'm not an especially attentive follower of the comic book industry, but do recall reading that several issues from the Big 2 had come into existence after Mà3's debut and ended well before now; so, point being, this really is the little webcomic that could!LegendaryKroc wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 8:59 amWell, now. This is a fine turn of events. Very few are those whose webcomics live this long. I've seen big-time comic book runs that haven't lasted this long. Congratulations Giz.
And Dave too, I suppose. But you're not off the hook for Dangerously Chloe and all the associated ridiculousness. Just so we're clear about that.
I think that this is a slightly complicated matter of multiple interacting forces. Zii's feelings for Gary involve lust (and just as importantly her attempts to deny it), friendship (which she tries to treat lightly) and curiosity and jealousy about the damn swirly (which she just finds annoying). (Love, lust, and vanity are something of a classical triad, I believe.) She wants to think that those three are often in conflict; she couldn't goink him or investigate the swirly without imperiling the friendship, investigating the swirly would make denying the lust much harder, and so on. But now, she's finding all three pulling in the same direction. Gary's speech about friendship actually reawoke her libido, which was doubtless quite enough to make her consider ripping his pants off; now, he's even offering to assuage the curiosity and resolve the jealousy...OllieOrOlly wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 9:01 amIt isn't quite clear whether the tank is overloaded because Gary's swirly technique is "legendary" enough that Zii is thrilled at the prospect of receiving it, or if she is finding her libido break limits because she is simply excited at the prospect of mastering such a legendary move.
I think that Zii is currently so confused that she can't even get her explosions right...worldshaking00 wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 11:26 amIsn't the normal explosion "Ka-Boom", not "Ba-Koom"? I guess it depends on the explosives (Acme, anyone?) Either way, haha.
Good point. There may well, in Gary's mind, be a natural (and indeed obvious) way for him to do this thing while neither rendering Zii unfaithful to DiDi nor forcing himself into yet more meaningless sex. Of course, Zii doesn't have to know that. It'd be careless of him not to make the idea clear straight away, but hey, comedy.worldshaking00 wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 11:26 amNow the set-up for the joke, on how Gary will teach her. Remember, he was taught it as a kissing technique. Is Gary going to pucker up at the same moment she drops trou?
Dude, "kissing" isn't "sex" in most people's vocabularies. It just isn't. Many a virtuous maiden in the most chaste of romances shared a good snog or two with her beloved well before heading up the aisle while wearing white.Lokitsu wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 12:04 pmI don't get it. Is Gary that naive or is he justifying "teaching the swirly" as an excuse to sleep with Zii? He just finished explaining how he wants a committed relationship rather than casual flings and he even mentions that Zii is with Didi in this strip. Even if he only teaches zii thru kissing, it's still sex. This feels like he just spun 180 degrees.
That's kind of a stretch. She outright said that she saw him as a brother in one strip. Just because she didn't see him as sexual doesn't mean she thought he was a loser. It just means she wasn't attracted to him at the time.
You forget, that Gary learned the swirly through kissing. He doesn't need to sleep with her, to teach it to her. Infact, if all it was, was sleeping with her, to teach it to her, all the women he taught it to would know how to do it (they haven't seemed to show they have).Lokitsu wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 12:04 pmI don't get it. Is Gary that naive or is he justifying "teaching the swirly" as an excuse to sleep with Zii? He just finished explaining how he wants a committed relationship rather than casual flings and he even mentions that Zii is with Didi in this strip. Even if he only teaches zii thru kissing, it's still sex. This feels like he just spun 180 degrees.