Compounding the potentially problematic stuff mentioned under yesterday’s strip, here’s Joe with an aside that frames this fight as For The Dudes. Hooray!
Compounding the potentially problematic stuff mentioned under yesterday’s strip, here’s Joe with an aside that frames this fight as For The Dudes. Hooray!
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maybe Joe’s wearing compression pants? lolololol
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So Joe can sense catfights miles away from his position. I wonder if the alien DNA has something to do with it.
His creeper sense is tingling.
On the plus side that’s probably my favorite Tony line
It’s quite useful in everyday life!
To be fair, it’s Joe. His pants could’ve gotten tight for any number of reasons. Probably including some sexy produce not too far away.
But not eggplant, cuz brah!
Do Joe and Tony have Dagwood & Blondie chairs?
Did Sal dodge the first time? Or is it because Billy doesn’t have her glasses on?
Billie wears contacts, so probably a dodge.
Billie apparently didn’t think that if Sal came there to fight her, she wouldn’t have knocked on the door and waited for her to answer.
I don’t think Billie believes Sal is there to fight her. I think she’s just trying to keep Sal from trying to take back Danny again.
Thought why Sal would ever want Danny again is still beyond me…
Problematic, sure, but that’s still one of my favorite punchlines in the entire series
Ha-HA! Dangly parts.
-Phil Ken Sebben
Oh dear; just the right thing to trigger Sal’s psycho killer side. I do hope that Billie comes out of this undamaged.
So does this mean that people with alien superpowers don’t have any sort of heightened endurance?
It seems weird that a woman who can toss cars around can even feel a normal human’s punch, much less actually get knocked around by one.
Of course, when you take superpowered punches and a normal human bodies resistance to several tons of force hitting them you end up with Savage Dragon or Invincible levels of bloody dismemberment, so maybe this is a question best left unanswered.
Dude, it’s JOE. He is definitely framed as an outlier when he’s acting like this. Hell, his outlier status is even the punchline here: Tony is standing right there to be disgusted. He’s allowed to speak for the sexual impulses that most of us don’t get to express through drawing a Slipshine, but he doesn’t get to “frame” the strip as being about anything. If he did, half the strips he has a speaking role in would be “for the dudes.”
Strong, athletic women who don’t take shit turn me on and I’m not afraid to admit it. At the same time, I don’t really get off on watching “girl-fights” once the novelty passes, because a fight means someone (usually two or more people) gets hurt, and the sight of people getting hurt isn’t sexy. There’s another part of me engaged by violence (c’mon, Thor, CUT OFF SPACE-TRUMP’S HEAD NEXT TIME!), but for me, there’s little overlap. Still, Joe has a bunch of fetishes that aren’t mine and I’m not particularly bothered by his “sensing” an attractive woman doing an impressive thing.
Danny would be bothered by it, if he knew the woman was Billie, but to his credit, so would Joe. That’s a line he doesn’t generally cross: if his female friends get involved with his male friends, they’re sexually invisible to him, or at least that’s how he wants it to be. This will become relevant.
At any rate, none of this bothers me as much as the fact that Billie has allegedly taken these months of self-def classes without learning things like “your first strike is the most important, don’t miss” and “go for the vital areas.” Nerves settling in because she knows she’s attacking a superwoman? Some attempt at a feint? No explanation quite does it for me. (THROAT, BILLIE! GO FOR THE THROAT!)
Bold move being willing to punch a wall though
I’m actually more bothered by Tony’s response. Why does he think a guy that has never indicated any interest in other men would want to touch any guy much less him specifically? Reminds me of all the people I’d meet that would include “I don’t care if you’re gay as long as you don’t hit on me.” as part of their introduction.
It struck me more as a “Don’t stand so close to me” kind of “you’re disgusting”