18-08-15 You have changed

[Shouri]

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

[Azrael]

Have some dignity, man! Oh, wait...

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[Don Alexander]

Now I await Nathan to come out the door, just about to say "Next!", only to see Jordan up to the hilt in Dillon...

[themacnut]

Have some dignity, man! Oh, wait...

Yep, this is Dillon we're talking about. He who has long forgotten the meaning of "dignity". Wonder if Jordan will take him up on his offer.

[Spidrift]

I suspect that Jordan would be laughing too much.

But to be fair to Dillon, while dignity isn't his style, he's managing a little more self-control with regard to his sexual behaviour. It's his love of theatre (and his own theatrical career) that turns out to be his real weakness.

We also note that Jordan is a still a smartass with a good eye for other people's personalities.

Anyway, after all this, the role more or less has to go to a third party. I'm now almost assuming that Ray will walk into that room in the next strip.

[brasca]

Having Ray get the part has a lot of potential. I would not put it past Nathan to turn him against Dillon, but if Jordan got the part then it would keep him in this strip as well as provide a professional rival in Dillon's life

[Spidrift]

I don't see how Jordan getting the part would keep him in the comic; it would mean, by definition, that Dillon wouldn't get the part. So unless Dillon got a secondary role as a sidekick or love interest or enemy or something, the movie would get made ungraced by Dillon's presence.

Ray getting the role, or at least seeming to respond to Nathan's advances, has plot potential, though. We'd have Dillon simultaneously horribly jealous and trying to protect an old friend from bad decisions and inexperience, and having trouble sorting his own motives out when he tries to say anything, possibly leading to a falling out with Ray. We could also have Amber, worried for Ray while trying to sort out what she thinks about someone screwing Nathan in order to get a part in a movie, and thus trying to decide how far she thinks using one's body for money is a bad thing. And with any luck, for a bonus, we could also have Ruby getting increasingly snarky as the others say more than they wanted to about their past careers (while also very interested in knowing exactly what Ray was getting up to with Nathan).

But this is all wild-assed guessing. As I've now typed all that, Ray will probably now not appear again in the comic for years.

[Schmorgluck]

I'm genuinely unable to process Dillon's current behaviour into my morality mill.

[Spidrift]

Good. Life is supposed to be complicated and ambiguous.

[Bambikles]

I missed so much large ham Dillon.

[LegendaryKroc]

Dillon demonstrates a signature trait of characters from the MÀ3 verse: his character development has a net result of 3 steps forwards, 2 steps back. In Matt's case, that was admitting he had a combined superiority-inferiority complex for Gary and working with Kiley to get past it, but then arranging for a competition of sexual skill that cost him the closest candidate for a truly viable long-term relationship with him because of his ego. For Gary, it was gaining the confidence/ability to kiss his way out of lockjaw, but holding onto his open-mouth-insert-foot tendencies. For Dillon, it's wanting to land the role he's after fair and square and not sleep with somebody to advance his career again (the same guy, no less!) but not having the stones necessary to not cave under the pressure and start begging. Oh, well.

[Spidrift]

Nitpick: Dillon's problem probably isn't lack of courage so much as it is lack if self-control. He just can't resist being melodramatic.

I reckon that Dillon could probably win medals for courage under fire, if he just had an audience for his bravery.

[LegendaryKroc]

Nitpick acknowledged and accepted. Even so, the problem in question still is (or at least has the potential to be) detrimental to his overall growth as a person and his livelihood. It just so happened that his little demolishing of the fourth wall during that Detective Comics-set play he was part of way back in Chapter 2 was to the play's benefit; it was pretty obvious the director was expecting it to do to them what an iceberg did to a certain cruise liner. Not sure about him playing dress-up to steal kisses from Gary as that could be melodrama or just regular old delusional...-ism? Is that how you say it? Anyway, right now it's just entertaining us with how he's a total prima donna guy, but begging someone and saying "I'll do anything!", even if it's just hyperbole, isn't the best way to imply that you've got a handle on the situation.

[wiseguy]

rea; tears or crocodi;le ones?