Not like that
on May 12, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: Caught in the Act
Characters: Danny Wilcox, Mary Bradford
Location: Joyce and Sarah's dorm room
Mary. Mary Mary Mary.
The answer to that question is you were witnessing to him. Duh-doy. I mean, come on. You don’t gotta go all manic-desperate-entering-the-panel-horizontally. You were so cunning earlier, keep it together.
(It occurs to me, while writing this, that Mary was actually loosely inspired by a Christian girl I knew. We were Bible study peers in high school, but allegedly in college she was using the downstairs-tackle-tango as an icebreaker for leading dudes to Jesus. Apparently it was pretty effective on this one guy, to the point that after a while he decided he should abstain from sexual Sin, much to her frustration.)
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Vaginas for Jesus sounds like an effective campaign.
Also sounds like a reasonable band name.
Yea, too reasonable, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that is has already been used.
If it’s Joyce & Sarah’s room… why did Mary shower there? (and why did Danny go looking for her there? Doesn’t she have her own dorm room?)
Mary’s the new roommate for SECOND year. Joyce isn’t there anymore.
Isn’t it their final year? I’m pretty positive it’s not their second at the very least.
It’s Danny and Joe’s second year–they’ll be shown graduating in 2001. Sarah’s a year ahead of them, Howard and Billie are a year behind, and I honestly can’t remember what year this is for Mary though I suspect she’s a freshman.
This would be Danny and Joe’s third year, Howard and Billie’s second year, and Mary’s first year.
Ah, right. Forgot my timelines there.
Yes, and that would be Sarah and Mary (previously Joyce and Sarah)’s room.
Oh no, now she’s lost Danny’s respect! Mary’s life is over!
Mary would make a terrible saboteur. I mean, come on, don’t crack until you’re up against the wall =B
Judging by that last panel, her feet are up against the wall.
maybe she’s falling out of the closet
I actually kind of love how quickly Mary is panicking in this. Like, her trying to discredit Billie as a witness is horrible, but she also feels guilty about having sex and Danny’s casual questioning makes her feel way more pressured than she really should be.
I’m not sure that it’s guilt so much as ‘Oh god he’s going to find out I’m a hypocrite, that would be unpleasant’.
I think this is well in line with Mary’s earlier planning, actually. If she had just waited till the next day to claim that Billie was drunk, there wouldn’t have been any evidence of either of their stories, and anyone who cared about whether Mary was having sex would probably have believed her over Billie. Instead she sent Danny straight to Billie, giving him a chance to establish that Billie is (basically) sober, and her the motive and opportunity to spill the beans immediately. Mary’s creating all her own problems here.
Aaaand just like that I’m up to todays strip… How long till the “It’s Walky!” Remakes?… Hmmm
I just remembered the sort of “epilogue-y” story for this, but I guess that’s chronologically further into IW! proper… it’d be kinda soon to do before IW!…
…Mary looks like a hand puppet in the last panel.
(insert joke about something up her ass)
Wow, so Mary can walk on walls, impressive. Is she really Spiderwoman?
Was Mary secretly an aspiring pornlord too?
“Why tell you what we did… when I could show you?”
Originally posted:
October 21, 1999