05-05-15 Well see ya around

[Giz]

New strip! http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-s ... _ya_around

MA3 will be a little late. Doing my taxes screwed my sleeping pattern. Should be done in another 5 hours.

[vampire hunter D]

Ok, that seems to answer the reson the mid keeps getting rehired. I feel sorry for richie now.

[Zippy]

Well, to be fair, the last (on-panel) firing was reasonable. This one, not so much.

[Krendall]

Angel should be in girl mode more often. She's less infuriating this way.

Also, her referring to herself as "girl me" makes me think of Ranma ½.

[Spidrift]

Well, to be fair, the last (on-panel) firing was reasonable. This one, not so much.

However, if Richie knew perfectly well that he wouldn't be permitted to make it stick, yelling "You're fired" may merely be one of the few ways that he can get through to an annoying kid brother, even briefly. Whether or not actually firing him was justifiable is irrelevant; he wasn't actually really doing so.

On the other hand, I now have no respect for any of that family. Richie is trying to run a business, but lacks the spine to stand up to his mother when she lumbers him with an annoying brat as a fixture of the shop; Jacob is a bratty kid who runs to mummy whenever he's pushed his older brother too far; and their mother treats her adult son's business as a babysitting service without regard for the problems of running a retail business. It's comedy, sure, but as with Gary in Ma3, it's comedy about people being useless and spineless.

And I'm no longer sure if Ruby will be wandering into that shop; this looks like a fairly self-contained plot strand now. However, it could be moderately interesting if she walked in and learned about this situation, given that she's got sibling relationship issues of her own, and possibly enough moral honesty to recognise the parallel.

[wi1dfire]

I kind of assumed Jacob and Richie were brothers, based on the dialogue on the last comic. That was such a little brother thing to say, and totally inappropriate if they hadn't been either siblings or as close as.

On the other hand, I now have no respect for any of that family. Richie is trying to run a business, but lacks the spine to stand up to his mother when she lumbers him with an annoying brat as a fixture of the shop; Jacob is a bratty kid who runs to mummy whenever he's pushed his older brother too far; and their mother treats her adult son's business as a babysitting service without regard for the problems of running a retail business.

The only logical explanation I could come up with is that Richie doesn't own the business, their mom owns it and Richie runs it. Maybe she's retired, maybe she owns several businesses, or an entire chain of pet stores, and this is her way of keeping both of her sons out of her hair. Still, your points are well taken, even if my wild guess turns out to be correct.

Hmm, she could be a handy contact for Ruby if that guess is true.

[Don Alexander]

Angel is really starting to look like Mrs. Jekyll and Mr. Snide...

[Spidrift]

I kind of assumed Jacob and Richie were brothers, based on the dialogue on the last comic. That was such a little brother thing to say, and totally inappropriate if they hadn't been either siblings or as close as.

In real life, yeah, probably so. In a comic, well, people can behave that notch more annoyingly because heightened reality, so they didn't have to be siblings. But yes, it all fits.

The only logical explanation I could come up with is that Richie doesn't own the business, their mom owns it and Richie runs it. Maybe she's retired, maybe she owns several businesses, or an entire chain of pet stores, and this is her way of keeping both of her sons out of her hair. Still, your points are well taken, even if my wild guess turns out to be correct.

Setting up a whole shop as a makework for her offspring ... is possible, although she'd have to be quite rich to manage that. If the shop is meant as a serious investment, well, she should treat it like one.

On the other hand, this could all be down to an established principle of the Ma3 universe; the older generation are bloody useless. We get exploitative jerks like Nathan and emotional abusers like Takeru, and we get the Larose parents who, having raised one nymphomaniac and one neurotic without apparently noticing what they've done, drop the latter on the former without even 'phoning ahead... I'd really quite like to see a significant character over the age of 45 get something important right some time. We're not all of us useless asses, honestly.

Angel is really starting to look like Mrs. Jekyll and Mr. Snide...

Angel has the kernel of a fairly decent personality, but it's been badly warped by her obsession with Jerzy. She's like an alcoholic who's basically an okay person when they're off the sauce; she looks great, but she'll fall off the wagon and make life hell for people sooner or larer. I get the impression that some real stalker-types are like that, actually.

[brasca]

I kind of assumed Jacob and Richie were brothers, based on the dialogue on the last comic. That was such a little brother thing to say, and totally inappropriate if they hadn't been either siblings or as close as.

On the other hand, I now have no respect for any of that family. Richie is trying to run a business, but lacks the spine to stand up to his mother when she lumbers him with an annoying brat as a fixture of the shop; Jacob is a bratty kid who runs to mummy whenever he's pushed his older brother too far; and their mother treats her adult son's business as a babysitting service without regard for the problems of running a retail business.

The only logical explanation I could come up with is that Richie doesn't own the business, their mom owns it and Richie runs it. Maybe she's retired, maybe she owns several businesses, or an entire chain of pet stores, and this is her way of keeping both of her sons out of her hair. Still, your points are well taken, even if my wild guess turns out to be correct.

Hmm, she could be a handy contact for Ruby if that guess is true.

That all seems quite plausible and makes a lot more sense since most children Jacob's age who have jobs work for a family business. As such it is not a matter of Richie having a spine if their mother will countermand all firings.

While Jerzy is reluctant to declare him and Angel a couple she is making a date with someone else. If Ruby should stop by for more supplies she might find out and could unwittingly tell Jerzy if she sees him.

[wiseguy]

Jacob and Richie are MOST probably siblings BUT there is still a chance that Jacob is a cousin(his mom is aunt of Richie)

[Spidrift]

That all seems quite plausible and makes a lot more sense since most children Jacob's age who have jobs work for a family business. As such it is not a matter of Richie having a spine if their mother will countermand all firings.

Even then, if he's trying to run a serious business, he needs to make the point that it's a pet shop, not a babysitting service. If Jacob inveigles strangers into doing his job for him, and makes a point of embarrassing him and another, more useful employee in public, the kid's a liability; Richie needs to stand up for his right to run the place. And even if his mother wants to interfere in his operation of the shop, she could do it without yelling at him over the phone and making Jacob feel that he can get away with murder.

A meddler, a doormat, and a brat. Great family.

While Jerzy is reluctant to declare him and Angel a couple she is making a date with someone else.

That is dubious, though Angel may claim that it'll be no more than a friendly date. Still, it's exactly the kind of thing that Angel undermined Dillon by describing.

One wonders if Angel sees boy-Angel and girl-Angel as two distinct personalities, to the point that what one of them does doesn't count against the other.

If Ruby should stop by for more supplies she might find out and could unwittingly tell Jerzy if she sees him.

Or Ruby might end up telling Dillon. She's not a natural tattletale, but she's lousy at keeping secrets. Plus, while she personally doesn't have anything against Angel, she may now see Dillon as enough of a friend that if she has to pick sides, she'll automatically go with Dillon.

[TwoWayStar]

Even then, if he's trying to run a serious business, he needs to make the point that it's a pet shop, not a babysitting service. If Jacob inveigles strangers into doing his job for him, and makes a point of embarrassing him and another, more useful employee in public, the kid's a liability; Richie needs to stand up for his right to run the place. And even if his mother wants to interfere in his operation of the shop, she could do it without yelling at him over the phone and making Jacob feel that he can get away with murder.

A meddler, a doormat, and a brat. Great family.

Lmao wow that's a pretty harsh judgement! This seems like a normal family dynamic to me, business or no. When it's all in the family, the family relationships don't just suddenly disappear. And if Jacob was really meant to be as obnoxious as you make him out to be, he would be much more annoying and uncaring. He just has a mouth and, like normal children, runs it all the time.

[Spidrift]

Jacob also manipulated Dillon - a complete stranger who was doing him a favour - into doing his job, by emotional manipulation and lying to his face. The kid's a toad. Meanwhile, his mother didn't just quietly get on the 'phone to Richie to discuss giving Jacob his job back politely; she bawled her own, adult son out in her first sentence.

Like I said, it's comedy. But it's comedy built on three unattractive character sketches.

[Artemisia]

Is anyone going to talk about how Angel is actively plotting to cheat on Jerzy? Or the fact that Angel is basically doing what she tattled on Dillon for doing?

[wiseguy]

you right yet at same time you are not

supposedly Je-Di was a planned "commitment" while Je-An is for all purposes a "3 night stand"