comickal: stand by your ...boy...guy-pal ... thingie

[iainpj]

Aw....

So is the boy version a "below the waist gay guy"? Inquiring minds want to know! (Also, I would like to trademark that phrase and then license it to Dan Savage to watch the havoc he could wreak.)

For some reason, I really like this storyline so far. Which is strange, because I normally find that sort of character ... annoying, for various reasons. But we'll see how it goes. The story so far comprises four strips, of which this is the first. (By the by, the Regal Theater was sort of awesome. So awesome that apparently the area around it went into a severe economic decline when it was gone, and they built a new one called the New Regal Theater, meant to call back to the history of the demolished building. Of course, it's in an entirely different part of the city, but they could hardly demolish the brand spanking new Lou Rawls Community Center to put a new theater there, now could they?)

Um ... aw?

Seriously, what else is your typical sexist misogynist nerd/geek going to do in Vegas?

OK, I am impressed. He rickrolls us (and does it with audio, people! WITH AUDIO!), then he Righteously rolls us, and now he Snow-Whites us. Sort of. Although Snow probably would never have sung quite that version. Evil Queen might have, though. Would have made an interesting dramatic counter.

Well ... I don't think I know anyone who does.

OK, yes, the product placement can be kind of annoying (the Degree placement this week didn't even make a token attempt at anything remotely resembling subtlety) ... but last night's episode was all kinds of awesome ... eventually. (Though I really don't understand why she would have asked Carter to take her down the aisle. I mean, how blind can she possibly have been for the past three years? Everyone else in town knows, but she doesn't? But the groundhogsdayishness was done very well, and the end featured a nice little call-out to the Doctor Who episode "Voyage of the Damned". [After the repetition of that stupid "Doctor WHO" bit in every single time loop.])

Of course, you know that every single cat ever made thinks of themselves this way.

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The older black character who bestows his knowledge upon the younger generation, whether they want it or not (and granted, Jason's kind of soaking it up); it tends to shade very easily into Magical Negro territory if the writer isn't careful. But this seems to be working, I think in part because it looks like it's going to be a bit more complex than just that. Plus, the whole Chicago history aspect helps.