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Asshole
Posted on January 15, 2022 by David M Willis

194 thoughts on “Asshole”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    oh no the FEELS

    1. Thag Simmons

      hook it directly to my veins!

      1. The Wellerman

        Not me. Sticking with edibles, thank you.

        1. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Dude carefull! The instructions are in the name. You gotta eat edibles. Do not, I repeat, do NOT attempt to take edibles intravenously!

        2. The Wellerman

          I meat drama edibles silly! What did you think I meant?

        3. Shen Hibiki

          That you were injecting drama edibles, of course!
          That’s what they implied!

        4. Taellosse

          Exactly! Surely the concentration is much too high!

    2. Doctor_Who

      Want to make it even worse?

      Imagine that this is like the ending of an episode of Scrubs, that throughout this scene we’ve still been hearing Sal sing Welcome to the Black Parade the whole time, and that she just got back to the line “Your memory will carry on”.

      Would that not fucking nuke your soul?

      1. Thag Simmons

        That might depend on how good Danny is with his ukelele

        1. Lingo

          I got nuked by the uke!

        2. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          Better than getting uked by the nuke. Probably.

      2. AbacusWizard

        Scrubs was sooooooooo good at being a magnificent tearjerker

      3. Furie

        Yeah, but then Danny’s gonna pipe up with “Why’s his dad leaving him a bantam anyway?” and it becomes a whole thing where they’re explaining how he got the lyric wrong all those years ago and now Carla’s there and she’s asking what a bantam even is despite blatantly knowing.

  2. Sirksome

    Will we ever see ghost Mike again?…Maybe.

    1. King Daniel

      Willis tweeted a few weeks ago about how they’d forgotten to remove the shading on Mike from an upcoming strip presumably months in the future and had to go in and fix it, so I’d bet it’s not the last we’ve seen.

      1. David M Willis

        That strip already came and went.

        1. Doctor_Who

          Know who else came and went? Mike with everybody’s mom.

        2. Azhrei Vep

          You mother fucker.

          You’re just determined to make everyone else look bad aren’t you? How is anybody supposed to match up to that?

        3. Reltzik

          By using the phrase “mother fucker”, completely by accident, totally not-at-all recognizing its double-meaning in this context?

        4. ValdVin

          I think it’s both. Schrodinger’s motherfucker: We won’t know if it’s literal or figurative until we open the box.

        5. Casi

          We know miked opened every mom’s box.

        6. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Wait… Are we still talking about DoA or have we moved onto the Beastie Boys?

        7. Shadowsnail

          How did Mike do your mom? Let me count the ways:
          1. Like this
          2. Like that
          3. With a wiffle ball bat

        8. Bleuryder

          Just to comment that I will be adding yhe phrase “Schrodinger’s motherfucker” to my vernacular.

          Carry on.

    2. Mollyscribbles

      next strip with Joe: HELLO NEW FRIEND

      1. Sirksome

        That would be both hilarious and very concerning for Joe’s mental health!

        1. Fay

          Plot twist: it’s the comic shifting genres into supernatural horror.

        2. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Mike’s shifting your mom into a supernatural whore!

      2. Ryan

        Brilliant

      3. Decidedly Orthogonal

        Only 5lbs of pressure to break a skull, from the _inside_. ?

      4. Max

        Then Joe gains a superhero persona
        Sexo Loco

    3. DJTsurugi

      he’ll be back… for a nickle. ~<3

  3. The Wellerman

    Wonder if this means he’ll never appear again.

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Well, there are all those moms he has to sleep with in the afterlife…

      1. Thanatos

        Women all over the world are experiencing sudden and unexplainable orgasms. As if one by one, women are being ravaged by an invisible sex master. This phenomenon only seems to be affecting women who have previously given birth. Women are now frantically engaging in sexual activity hoping to get pregnant so that they too can experience this. Experts have named this Mother’s Inexplicable Koochy Explosion or “MIKE” for short.

        1. Pilgrim

          Sorry, no. If Mike slept anyone, let alone someone’s Mom, he’d make damned sure the only orgasm was his. Unless he needed to record it for something like a marriage proposal.

        2. eh, whatever

          So, always.

        3. a/snow/mous/e

          props for the backronym lmao

    2. Sirksome

      People were wondering that the first time too. I am at least hoping his disappearance means Amber fell asleep cause she needs it. Plus there’s always Walky’s comic.

      1. The Wellerman

        Who knows, Amber might just summon him again but only as a dream-sex apparition like she did with him and Danny that one time.

        1. Sirksome

          That would actually be the worst, which maybe makes it more likely to happen.

        2. The Wellerman

          This NSFW of Amber’s only gonna get more relevant, isn’t it?

          https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/thewellerman/super-amber-69

        3. Durandal_1707

          Newgrounds still exists?

          And people apparently still post stuff to it?

          Huh, didn’t expect that.

        4. The Wellerman

          HELL YEAH it exists!

          And it’s a good thing too!

          The censor-bots can suck my octagon!

          Also, if you haven’t already, create a Newgrounds account! It’ll be awesome, trust me!!!!

        5. Spencer

          Not only does Newgrounds exist, a game came out called Friday Night Funkin’ that is basically a hotpot of Newgrounds nostalgia.

          In the face of the early 00s now getting its nostalgia throwbacks, we may need to accept that we are extremely old.

        6. Needfuldoer

          I tried that game and my old man hands failed miserably.

          I’ll just go rewatch B.

        7. RassilonTDavros

          Amber has Imaginary Brain Sex with Imaginary Brain Mike, neither of them use Imaginary Brain Protection, and neither of them are aware that Robin has switched her Imaginary Brain Birth Control Pills with Imaginary Brain Breath Mints by mistake. Imaginary Brain Hijinks ensue.

        8. King Daniel

          And Imaginary Donna is born.

        9. Jamie

          Immaculate Conception was never so weird.

          And it’s pretty weird.

  4. alongcameaspider

    This has been a long time coming and it will ultimately help lead Amber to a healthier place

    Still hurts though

    1. StClair

      Yes.

  5. Kyrik Michalowski

    Maybe Joe’s simple suggestion actually got through to Amber. Either way, for Amber’s sake I hope this is the end of Halluci-Mike. So how is Amber going to help Joe with Joyce?

    1. Rabisch

      Amber the wingman! Can’t wait to see that.

      1. The Wellerman

        Oh my. A mutual symbiosis where Amber fulfills her warming up as bridges and helps Joe at the same time.

        It might just work out TOO well.

  6. bogeywoman

    Healing hurts

    1. Doctor_Who

      “It has to hurt if it’s to heal”.

      That line from Neverending Story always stuck with me as a kid.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        Which was, appropriately enough, about depression

  7. RassilonTDavros

    …jesus christ, brain mike

  8. Thag Simmons

    This sort of coming-to-terms with losing someone you had a complex relationship with is great drama, love it

    1. alongcameaspider

      I’m glad she’s willing to admit that Mike was an asshole, it would be boring if she only focused on the good parts (and it provides a nice contrast between her and Ethan)

  9. Too Old To Be Cool

    Amber needs a good cry.

    1. Needfuldoer

      Like I said the other day, she’s been fighting to keep it together but what she really needs is catharsis from letting herself fall apart.

      1. The Wellerman

        And then a nice dream ?

  10. june gloom

    As someone dealing with… all kinds of grief, this hurts.

  11. BBCC

    This is hard but it might also be one of the things that helps – Amber knows that despite how complicated her feelings could be, she cared about Mike, he cared about her and he knows she cared.

  12. Fart Captor

    …and then Mike died again ?

  13. Nayann Martinelli

    Grief is a terrible thing to go through, but being stuck in it can really mess up a person, as I have unfortunately seen it happen more than once

    1. Sam

      I haven’t seen it personally, but after reading AITA threads on reddit, some people in grief literally turn into monsters.

      Saddest comment I read was one by a therapist about how a client had a house full pictures of her dead daughter and mentioned her loss within minutes. There were none of her still very much alive daughter that also still existed.

      1. Fay

        I feel like oftentimes grief can accentuate the worst aspects of someone’s personality. It can be a lot harder control your negative behaviors when you’re dealing with something like that. And for some people, it’s definitely a way to excuse like any negative behavior.

        1. Sam

          I tend to process very quickly compared to most people so it is absolutely wild to me when someone is like ‘AITA for [insert behaviour that is absolutely an inappropriate unhealthy expression of grief that they are not entitled to do or a request that is unreasonable to ask]’ and then a comment reveals it didn’t happen recently or even in the last decade but something like 26 years ago.

          Some people get stuck in the identity of being unhappy about a loss. And that is it. Their identity becomes ‘unhappy about loss of X’. And they don’t choose to take steps to be happy again or process to live with the moments of pain without being consumed by it or pay any attention to the still alive people around them. What was once a feeling becomes a permanent embodied identity of who they are and it is so weird to me.

        2. zee

          There’s actually a diagnosis for that. It’s called prolonged grief disorder and is a relatively recent addition to the DSM-5
          https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/professionals/complicated-grief-professionals/overview/

        3. The Wellerman

          We all heal and grief at our own pace. Why the hell is THAT a mental disorder too?!?!?! ?

          Seriously, at this point I suspect the DSM dipwads are disease mongering.

        4. zee

          I mean if it’s consuming years of your life and greatly impairing your ability to function I’d say that’s a pretty fair point to pathologize. Either way a person suffering this greatly would need professional help, there’s nothing wrong with trying to further understand it

        5. The Wellerman

          I mean, I guess?

          But what exactly is “greatly impaired ability to function” anyway?

          Vague things like this are somehow up to the judgment of clinicians, who surprise surprise have a hell of a lot of bias.

          Getting to the meat of it, you can’t have a concept of mental disorder, of “incorrect” functioning, without a concept of “correct” functioning. Who and in what society and context gets to determine what size fits all? Very strictly speaking, I’d reckon that determining what counts as mental “disorder” is really an exercise in power.

        6. thejeff

          In a way, yeah. Technically, I guess that’s basically true.

          But something’s really do mess you up. Ruth lying in bed saying dying sounded nice isn’t something to handwave off as “biased clinicians just wanting people to fit normal ideals of correct functioning”.

  14. Schpoonman

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

    1. BubbaFett

      Yeah I don’t really get all this type of ‘he meant well’ stuff or whatever.

      You are how you act, not always but mostly.

      1. C.T. Phipps

        The big revelation about Mike was the fact he THOUGHT he was a warrior therapist encouraging people to be better versions of themselves by standing up against bullies. That he was boosting them because he had a misanthropic confrontational worldview.

        When he discovered, no, it just made him a monster, he either committed suicide by Blaine or tried to do everything to stop him.

        So I think it’s interesting that Mike’s bullying was never motivated by an actual desire to HURT people.

  15. Nono

    So with Amber’s pillow, I’ve noticed she definitely has a bit of a colour scheme (blue and yellow).

    Joe has green and purples.

    Anyone else? Joyce has a lot of pastels, Sarah uses quite a bit of purple, and obviously Dina has a bunch of green.

    1. Rotunda

      Ruth has dark blue as a Maple Leafs fan.

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        And also being deeply depressed. But that might have something to do with being a Maple Leafs fan.

        She’ll blame the blue on the team rather than the depression, though.

    2. BarerMender

      Dorothy likes purple.

    3. Fay

      Joyce also often has the blue/orange combo, Carla really likes red and pink, and Danny usually wears blues and grays.

    4. Inbar Fink

      Jennifer tends to wear a lot of yellow, especially paired with black or a very dark blue. IIRC that was also the color of her highschool cheerleader outfit.

    5. zee

      Willis pointed out a few years ago that amber tends to wear amazi girls colors. Billie also wore blue and yellow bc Go Dragons! Joyce tends to dress thematically to her emotions for the story; red sweaters in the first post toe dad arc when she was still very angry, black and white now when she’s seeing and treating things in a very black and white way.

  16. DailyBrad

    Exorcism.

  17. Stephen Bierce

    I know too many breakup songs.
    Be glad I missed the “dead teenager” trend in pop music.

    1. The Wellerman

      It’s not quite a break up song, but I think Bleach’s “Creeping Shadows” would go perfect with this.

      1. Opus the Poet

        There’s always “The Breakup Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLFfSDEA26o

        1. Pilgrim

          Weird Al is the primary reason anyone remembers the Greg Kihn band. Is being a two song wonder twice as good as being a one song wonder?

          Not that I’m knocking it as I’m a no song wonder.

    2. butting

      Wash your mouth out! Tony Robinson on a Sinclair C5 as The Electric Leader of the Pack was a classic.

      1. Pilgrim

        How about Jimmy Cross’ I want my baby back the song that killed the entire genre with malice aforethought
        .
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0x8S1U7O3w

  18. Merle

    Mike 🙁

  19. EpochFlame

    Goodbye, Mike. You’ll be missed.

  20. Imogen

    This is the first comic in which I’ve really appreciated Mike as a character. Goodbye, Mike.

  21. Sirksome

    This is obviously a summation of Mike’s character and it makes me ask if Mike’s one major good made up for all the times he hurt people intentionally or otherwise. Mike did some real damage to people (in Joe’s case quite literally) and he didn’t have the opportunity to die for them. Even Amber and Ethan hold damage from knowing Mike in ways they probably don’t even realize he had a hand in. Is it all okay now that he’s dead?

    1. Zatar

      I would say no. I think that Mike was moving to a place were he might have grown and been able to do good but then he died doing one good and that’s the tragedy of his character.

    2. Ereb

      Eh, if you go by the overall good, it’s not his death but the fact that Ambers’ dad was stopped that did any good.

      The trauma of Mike dying on them hurt most of the characters in the cast worse than his asshole deeds.
      Your question would be relevant if we speculated on whether Mike’s existence as a whole did more good than bad.

    3. Fart Captor

      It doesn’t. But it DOES at least make it clear that Mike really did care and that Amber mattered to him, even if he was an incredibly shitty friend who often made her feel like shit. Amber’s feelings are no doubt even more complicated as a result

      1. BBCC

        ^ this. Maybe they could have built something better after Mike’s revelation but they’ll never get to do that now because Mike died. That’s tragic and inevitably going to colour her thoughts for at least some time.

    4. Keulen

      Likely not, which is why I would’ve preferred that Mike didn’t die so he could’ve had a chance to try to make things up with at least some of the people he hurt.

    5. thumb

      I’d say the point of this strip is that there’s no “making it okay”. These were a bunch of aspects of their relationship and now he’s gone. That’s it. There is no point or goal or arc to it. And it’s okay to miss him. He didn’t have to be a good guy to be a friend, or to be missed.

  22. Amós Batista

    My only hope is Mike stopping have power in Amber’s life.

    1. The Wellerman

      It’s like an old band-aid, I guess.

  23. Dark

    This would be better if I didn’t know that Ghost-Mike is just a PTSD-induced hallucination of Amber’s and that she’s just claiming that Mike was as friendless as she is, with little actual basis for that thought.

    But I do know that. So…

    1. The Wellerman

      I heard Tibetan Buddhists did something really similar with something they called the “mind form”; I don’t know the details, but it has been alluded to several times in anime like DBZ and Avatar.

      Who knows? She might just turn lemons into lemonade.

      1. Shadowsnail

        When life gives you Mike, make Mike fluid.
        (It’s what your mom did.)

    2. Awaiting Moderation

      As somebody who liked Mike way more than most people seem to, I can safely say there is a lot of basis for the idea that he doesn’t have a lot of friends. So much basis.

    3. Seventh-Sandwich

      I’m pretty sure anyone who even vaguely knew Mike would know that making friends isn’t exactly his specialty.

      1. Rani

        He seduced a football player into catfishing a teacher he wanted destroyed. Making friends is his bender art.

        1. Sirksome

          He also seemed to jump into casual sex with Eric (Finger guns guy) very easily so I don’t think he had a problem making friends, but just chose not to, and it’s also hard to classify who he considered friends besides Ethan and Amber since he treated them both equally awful most times.

        2. Devin

          He definitely had no trouble getting other people to associate with him in ways he wanted them to, but I don’t think we ever actually witnessed him opening up or making himself vulnerable in a way that would imply friendship going the other way.

          This is not to excuse anything, just an observation.

        3. Jamie

          What Devin said. Please don’t conflate “can get people to do what he wants” with “has friends”.

          I also think that comparing his behavior with Ethan and his behavior with Amber to figure out “is/isn’t friends” is also wrong since everyone explicitly agrees they’re *both* friends. You’d want to compare his behavior with Ethan to his behavior with Eric, or Danny, or Joe, or whoever.

        4. thejeff

          But remember that even Ethan said he was only maybe 50% sure they were friends.

    4. Inbar Fink

      Well, Mike’s last words were “You were good friends. My best friends”, so I think there’s some basis to Amber’s-subconcious-manifesting-as-Mike’s claim.
      Mike certainly had the charisma, confidence and social skills to make friends (especially when compared to Ethan and Amber), but he purposefully kept the world at arm’s length by being a huge asshole. It’s not that much of a reach to consider Amber and Ethan to be those he was closest to.

      1. RassilonTDavros

        …dang, now that you bring that up, Brain!Mike saying Amber was one of his only friends feels like Amber’s low self-esteem can’t comprehend anyone considering her one of their best friends unless it was purely by default.

    5. Keulen

      I doubt someone who was a huge jerk to most people like Mike would’ve had a lot of friends.

    6. thumb

      Or she’s acknowledging that Mike was also a lonely kid rather than some implacable force of assholishness. The sort of clarity you rarely get about other people before their story is done. She takes that in and what they were to each other, and then she can understand the whole of it. It’s a painfully real thing.

      1. thejeff

        I’d hesitate to suggest that Amber now has clarity on Mike. Or that him dying leaves her with any great insight into him.

        She’s certainly got a huge filter of guilt that she’s viewing this through and that’s likely to skew anything she thinks.

    7. C.T. Phipps

      Well we know Amber and Mike are both products of the God-Willis’ mind so yes, it can be that he is actually speaking to her.

  24. Twig

    ??????????????????????

  25. Straximus

    I love that Mike has no shadow.

  26. Tsa

    In general I’m able to keep Walkyverse and Dumbiverse separate in my mind, but this one, man… this one hits hard, knowing they’re married in another timeline.

    1. Audkitten

      That’s what I’ve been feeling too.

    2. RassilonTDavros

      YEP

    3. Needfuldoer

      [Scruffy the janitor]

      Second.

    4. Andi

      100%

    5. BBCC

      DON’T REMIND ME I’M FRAGILE.

  27. Rabid Rabbit

    I was sort of hoping Brain Mike would stick around, just because it occurred to me that he was DoA’s version of Mike and Amber getting married in the Walkyverse. Oh well, they’re teenagers, those relationships don’t last very long anyway.

    1. saltchocolate

      I came here to say that seeing them on the bed together in this strip is the least good way to bring back some really great Shortpacked! memories.

  28. OBBWG

    What a coincidence (really)! Mike and Wilbur (Mary Worth) gone in the same week both with a good chance of coming back to totally mess up a character’s life.

    I feel like I did when I witnessed the Barney the Dinosaur balloon deflate during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Happy to see it, crowd cheering, but you know he’ll be back.

    1. Yumi

      I’m so into Mary Worth right now, courtesy of Willis’s Twitter.

      1. Needfuldoer

        So what do you think happens next?

        – Wilbur’s fish food

        – Wilbur’s been treading water this entire time, somehow

        – The ocean exhibits sentience like in Moana, throws Wilbur back on the ship and flips him off before receding

    2. King Daniel

      I don’t know if I’d rate Mike’s chances of ever coming back as “good”, unless we’re talking like in a dream or something.

      1. Fay

        That or as a side character in a flashback sequence. His main story seems over and done with, though.

        1. King Daniel

          Yeah, with Willis in the comments above nixing what I thought was an impending future appearance of brain-Mike by saying that it’d already happened, this does seem like it could be a series wrap for the character as a whole.

  29. Agemegos

    Why are we abandoning the word “few”? Why are we forgetting that “only” is an adjective form of “one”? That it means “alone in a category, making up a category of one”?

    1. BarerMender

      Well said. “One of the only” gets on my nerves.

      1. Clif

        It’s short for one of the only ones.

        Ones is a perfectly good English word on account of English is weird.

        1. Agemegos

          “Only ones” is not a good phrase because “only” pretty much means singular, and ought not to qualify a plural noun. Use “one of the few”.

        2. Clif

          I’d quibble about it, but we’re the only ones who care.

    2. Reltzik

      Nonono, OBVIOUSLY Amber had unrequited lust for him and Mike (being Mike) knew that, so he friend-zoned her JUST to be an asshole (as opposed to, say, not liking her or being opposed to sex with her in principle), and now he’s mocking her by pointing out they were ONLY friends. It’s the only way of parsing that sentence that makes sense!

    3. Needfuldoer

      It’s a perfectly cromulent turn of phrase.

      1. Spriteless Auntie

        You calling my mom fat? Thems fighting words!

    4. Ldot

      I agree that “one of my only friends” sounds a little grammatically weird, but I also think it sounds a lot more poignant than “you were one of my few friends”. So, personally, I’d consider it a case of artistic license. Still, I’m not that young anymore, so maybe my feeling for what’s grammatically correct isn’t up to date with the Youths’.

  30. Dana

    Mike went and Starbucked.

  31. Joshua Hollis Wright

    I really like how ‘mind figment’ Mike doesn’t have the same sort of shading as the rest of the room. The light simply isn’t hitting him.

  32. StClair

    “You won’t be forgotten.”

  33. StClair

    (and that was meant to be a response to Dana. ah well.)

  34. Rabisch

    HOORAY! HE’S GONE!!!! Joe has do a great job. He’s a great stepbrother ♡.

  35. 0kami

    Bye, buddy. 🙁

  36. Needfuldoer

    Is this the last we’ll ever see of Brain!Mike?

    Or did he just vanish to mess with her again?

    Who will he haunt next?

    1. King Daniel

      Anyone with a nickel.

      1. saltchocolate

        Anyone who’ll take a nickel

        1. King Daniel

          Or anyone who’ll offer one, the terms were never exactly clear.

    2. Eyebrow

      I have to assume that “I’ll leave you a phantom” is about more than the appearance of the song. This is Mike’s swansong and it’s sung by Sal and Danny.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Oh snap I didn’t make that connection…

  37. Arch

    Inb4 first panel of next comic has Mike reappear and be like, “Nah, I’m just fucking with you. You can’t get rid of me that easily.”

  38. RacingTurtle

    *cries*

  39. Queezle

    So yesterday was just a warning shot and the real attack on my feelings is today. Should have seen that coming.

    1. Needfuldoer

      Just when you think he’s done, Willis twists the phone.

  40. Anon A Mouse

    Thank GOD this might actually be the end if Mike in the comic. Killing him didn’t stop him, maybe resolution will.

    1. Heavensrun

      Nah, now Joe’s gonna start hallucinating him.

      What? He promised!

  41. cbwroses

    See ya, space @sshole.

    1. The Wellerman

      ? that was beautiful

    2. Spencer

      You’re gonna carry that weight.

      1. cbwroses

        Been awhile since I watched Bebop.
        I knew that phrase had meaning when you wrote it.
        So I did a search for it using Bing (yes, I use Bing), and a YouTube video came up.
        Now my head canon has this playing in Mike’s head when he tackled that sorry excuse for a father:
        https://youtu.be/rDZKTrhLRdU

        1. StClair

          If only there’d been a stained glass window.

      2. Needfuldoer

        A long time.

  42. Mr.Morningstar

    Gotta say, i love the detail that even though Amber is making creases on the bed while mike isn’t.

    It doesn’t look right, which mean it looks perfect since he isn’t there, she’s just having a very lucid (and self aware) hallucination.

  43. Plaaaa

    Either you miss them or you hit them

  44. Ron

    Bye, Mike.

  45. Garnakan

    Bye Mike
    (Unless its someone elses turn to face their losses)

    You will be missed

    1. Spriteless Auntie

      Scene change to emo emanciated Ethan.

  46. nightshade

    awww I know how this feels and it sucks……

  47. Spencer

    This is so sad. Alexa, play Baka Mitai.

    1. AGV

      Oddly fitting

  48. Beau Kirin Maysey

    like an asshole, just drops another bomb and VANISHES, maybe FOREVER now. Ugghhh, Mike, you’re the worst, come baaaccckkkk

  49. Eric

    ACTUALLY sad.

  50. AGV

    Man, what’s with douchebags making me cry when they being good for once actually kills them

    First it was Harry in Spiderman 3, then Shadow Weaver in She-ra and now Mike

  51. Decidedly Orthogonal

    As a non-tweeter, I can’t comment there, but your

    Optimus Prime van Damme is sweet!

    Or is it Jean Claude van Prime?

  52. deathpigeon

    Even as an introject he’s an asshole.

  53. C.T. Phipps

    The difference between Mike and Blaine was that Mike realized he’d horrifically mishandled his relationship to Amber and tried to make amends.

    Which is the problem because that actually makes it worse: because it lets Ethan and Amber know he WASN’T just a toxic person they could completely write off but someone who loved them.

    1. Axel_Grease

      I never much liked Mike but I could see his relationship with Ethan and Amber was complex.

  54. DarkoNeko

    wow damn

  55. chuckroast

    I once again wish every single Amber a very therapy.

  56. Puppet Pal Mitch

    Mike was my favorite character by far, even though he wasn’t as fleshed out as some of the others. This gives him a bit more depth, even though he’s an ethereal being at best now.
    So, who is the resident a-hole now? Carla?

  57. jdorr

    Well thanks, it wasn’t like I was using those emotions or anything

  58. Izzy

    oh man this is getting to me. I had a friend who died in college (well, I was in college, she wasn’t). It happened when I was 18 so it felt like the world was telling me “welcome to adult life!” in the worst way possible. She was also one of my only friends, even though I hadn’t talked to her in months. I’m still not sure if I can ever make friends again. (sorry for being depressing! I do love this storyline even as it’s destroying me)

  59. ziggy78eog

    Looks like Amber is finally on the road to recovery. It is fine to miss someone, even if that someone was a toxic bag of sh*t. For better, or for worse (hint, mostly for worse), Mike was in a significant portion of Amber’s life, her high school years. He was there for her, when she was down, just to kick her, mind you, but never the less. Amber admitting that she misses him, is the first step in letting him go, so that she can finally move on.

  60. Roe

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO [ face made by actor Aaron Paul playing Tobey Marshall, in the 2014 film adaptation of the game franchise Need for Speed. ]

  61. raker

    DAMN you, Willis.

  62. JasonAW3

    No matter how big an @$$hole he was, I still miss Mike…

  63. Bryy

    RE: the alt text

    Damn, Willis. Bravo.

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