JoybuzzerX wrote:Really? Did the writer say they wanted to get away from Gary?
Basically, yes. Or rather, they wanted to get
Dillon away from Gary and the interminable questions about when Gary would get laid again.
JoybuzzerX wrote:If that's all they wanted, they could have easily written Gary out of the M3 comic, as it doesn't have his name attached to the title.
Gary is an integral part of the concept of Ma3; writing him out of that would be a bit extreme. And more to the point, he does have his own following, and the Pixietrix crew aren't stupid; getting shot of him from there would endanger the Ma3 market too much.
But
Sticky Dilly Buns exists in part to be an Ma3 universe comic in which Gary is
not central, even if he does wander in and out once in a while for passing effect.
JoybuzzerX wrote:Also, a little testy for a comment, when the comics are a shared world and thus such comments are going to be made.
A little testy? Maybe. But there are four characters in this particular strip, all of them worth some kind of comment. Ignoring them to talk about a character who isn't there, and who doesn't feature much in this comic, seems downright weird; complaining that said character is hard-done-by because his long queue of potential girlfriends has been shortened by one seems downright ... unimpressive.
(Those four? Ruby has learned a bit but suffered some moral slippage; Dillon is preserving his honourable attempt not to resent Amber getting Ray, although he did rather
use Ray; Ray is doing okay for himself, but either not noticing or not complaining about the way he's been treated as a bit of a sex toy by the other three; and Amber seems to have all the luck in this comic, but may yet have problems with her lack of experience in normal relationships. Like I said, plenty to talk about in
this cast.)
JoybuzzerX wrote:Now, I didn't think Gary got screwed over, my thought was, if Gary learned this from kissing Dillion, and now Gary did, why didn't Matt.
Note that Dillon made conscious, overt attempts to
teach both Gary and Ray. If Matt experienced the swirly kiss - and I imagine he did - then it was strictly as a recipient. He'd presumably have had to ask "How did you do that?" - and given his appalling sexual vanity, I can't see him admitting that he could learn anything from anybody.
There, simples. Now, Ruby, Dillon, Amber, or Ray?