Sir Lancelot
on May 3, 2013 at 12:01 amSpeedbump #3: Danny expresses his sexual desires openly and without deep personal shame
This are the last of these extra high school years strips. I probably intended to go on to do some strips about Danny interacting with Sal’s family and establish with further sledgehammers that All Was Not Right With Sal. It would have been tedious. Instead, I abandoned this project and did some other crap instead.
I realize that nowadays I’m known as that guy with an insane work ethic who has like an accumulative twenty years of webcomics, but Roomies! was honestly the first thing I’d ever finished. I had dozens upon dozens of scraps of unfinished projects. This was one of them.
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Sooo, finishing this is going to be your next project after the Joyce and Walky wedding, right?
“By the way, why does the shadowing under our chins look all diamond-shaped?”
“Because we’re vampires.”
“Oh well I can-HAAAAAH?!?”
Also, didn’t that end tragically for everyone involved? Not exactly the kind of comparison you want to make.
It’s like how people think Romeo & Juliet is romantic, when it ended with the main characters getting themselves and a bunch of other people killed because they’re stupid teenagers thinking with their gonads.
EXACTLY! That always bugs me!
Any other stories that are seen as romantic, but really aren’t?
Not a story, but I’ve heard of people playing “Every Breath You Take” as the first song at weddings.
Oh jeez, that’s a warning sign if I’ve ever heard one.
Speaking of songs, piña coladas, getting lost in the rain…. It’s about two people being so fed up with each other they each send out a personal ad, with the express desire to cheat on the other. And end up meeting each other knowing what the other planned to do becAuse they…etc.
“You’re Beautiful” by Possibly-James Whatshisface, right? That’s basically a song about a dude who sees a girl on a subway who has a boyfriend (well, maybe not, but she was “with another man”) and goes all overaffectionate and weird.
There’s a song by Green Day that everyone remembers only for the line “I hope you have the time of your life.”
It’s a breakup song.
I have a friend who’s heard it played at weddings.
Yeah….
People get so mad when you point that out to them.
For bonus points, point out that, under the accepted theology of Shakespeare’s time, as suicides, Romeo and Juliet are going to Hell, where they probably won’t let them room together.
I also like that everything bad that happens is a result of both gonad-thinking and ridiculous impatience. If you’d have waited five more minutes she would have woken up, Romeo, you sack-brain.
(Romeo and Juliet is also a result of a play in which everything goes to crap due to bad postal service.)
Couldn’t Hell be *letting* them room together, thus giving them the opportunity to realize that they were acting like twits because of hormones and killed themselves for incredibly stupid reasons?
I don’t know, “corrupt” is kind of vague as innuendoes go. I mean, I *guess* it’s sex talk? Theoretically? Or maybe he’s just visualizing the two of them in a biker gang? SMOKING?
That’s probably still too much. Swearing and maybe stealing cable.
Considering it’s a reference to Sir Lancelot, the bravest of all the knights of the round table, whose sole evil deed was sleeping with King Arthur’s wife Guinevere, I’d say it’s pretty much entirely a sex reference.
Know-it-all mode: complete.
That affair was the direct cause of the deaths of most of Sir Gawain’s family, Mordred’s betrayal and by extension the death of Arthur and much of his court.
See, it’s these kind of consequences of temptation which Danny should be more concerned about than those regarding his soul. Just saying.
Holy crap! That’s why Sal’s parents were killed! Danny’s lust condemned them all!!!
Not to mention that in the original myths, it was kind of vague whether or not Lancelot and Guinevere were actually ‘doin’ the do’ or if Lance was just trying to protect a good friend from her husband’s slightly paranoid rage.
“You make babies. Here’s yours.”
Just change the context from “flirting” to “general concern”. Or even “general concern disguised as flirting”.
Their stripe-eyes make it look like they’re looking directly at the reader in the last panel.
Fourth wall-threesome!
They’re fourth-wall-eyed!
I have a friend who has told me that he has no sexual desires, but he and his girlfriend trade innuendo after innuendo. I imagine that Danny is doing the same.
Danny had sexual desires?
Also, this is an unusually long and rambling and disjointed diatribe Danny is going on. Yes, I know this is because other comics are being inserted in there for chronology, but Howard should be asleep by now.
…So Danny was comparing Sal to Elaine of Carbonek? After all, it was her tricking Lancelot into sleeping with her under the impression that she was Guinevere that set off Lancelot’s downward spiral and resulted in him and Guinevere actually having an affair instead of just pining. 😛