He didn't. He chose to lie. Jerzy is, it seems to me, someone who always wants to have his cake and eat it - to have a cutely flaky drama queen boyfriend without allowing for the inevitable consequences; to remain friends with the equally flaky Angel, who has a proven record of obsessive jealousy and unjustified possessiveness; to call himself gay and deny being bi while screwing men and women.Fluffy wrote:But why did Jerzy have to lie in the first place?
He looked cool and likeable at first glance, but he's proved more stupid and self-indulgent with every choice he's made.
And yet, he asked, and let himself be restrained. Or rather, he didn't have to; if you look at that strip, Ruby never lays a finger on Dillon - rather, he grabs her arm. Ruby is too nonplussed and distracted to restrain anybody.Fluffy wrote:And yet, he was struggling hard not to- he actually had asked Ruby to hold him back in order to prevent him from chasing after Gary and acknowledged he still desired him.
Dillon's character development doesn't mean he's no longer tempted; it means that he sometimes resists temptation. Which, as Ruby more or less tells him later, is what matters. There are definite breakpoints at the key conversations with Ruby, though - the point where Rudy threatens to blackmail him, and the "Oprah" conversation. He seems to have taken her advice to heart both times.
Uh, yes. Kind of understandable that he should be elated, when you put it like that, isn't it?Fluffy wrote:As far as Ray goes - seduction was probably the wrong word to use. But you can't argue that Dillon was elated at the idea of being alone with his boyhood crush with the added bonus of kissing him while giving acting lessons.
An even better Dillon would have the sense to avoid temptation, but he had the slight problem of not knowing how Ray would react. The fact that everyone in these comics is pretty liberal-minded about homosexuality maybe masks the fact that coming out isn't always easy or 100% physically safe.
Who knows? So far, though, so good. It's not like he converted Ray's discovery of his bisexuality into an excuse to go further, which would have been easy enough.Fluffy wrote:True, Dillon hesitated after that first kiss; but given his discussion with Ruby minutes later, how far would things have gone if Ruby didn't accidentally interfere?