I…had a thought
That mike is going through with his plan
To sleep with Ethan to drive the final piton into Amber and Danny’s remaining relationship
Or maybe get Danny jealous and acting upon his feelings. Or just…ok y’know being mike.
Commodore Jeep-Eep
I would imagine one possible end game for him is a threesome involving Mike and Danny, for extra mind screw value.
My guess? Already, but backing out would hurt his image way too much at this point, so he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place 😉 oh god why did I put that winky in there I have become what I fear
Yeah, but I’ve never really seen him as enjoying the pain of others so much as enjoying the CONSEQUENCES of the pain he inflicts on others, especially when those consequences come in the form of retaliation.
If Michael Bay wanted to complete his dark work and drive the fandom truly mad, he could put a red robot and blue robot who look like Frenzy and Rumble in his movies, and not say which is which.
But he’d never do that. Why use red OR blue and recognizable character models when they can be gray and look like a roll of aluminum foil going through the garbage disposal?
Everything I’ve seen about the most recent bayformers (that was /released/, not the upcoming one) suggests that, in fact, Michael Bay put a /lot/ of thought into Transformers.
I’m of the opinion that he made that movie to make fun of everyone who gave him money.
vlademir1
My take on him and this franchise has always been that he seems to know plenty about the canon of the franchise, but also fails to understand why it’s as popular as it is and possibly considers the franchise somewhat beneath him so takes a trolling kind of mentality when making these films.
Further toping this is that he engenders a lot of relevance and makes a lot of money making Transformers films compared to his entire remaining directorial oeuvre. The four existing Transformers films have grossed about $3.8 billion at the box office while his other eight films in the director’s seat have grossed around $2.1 billion since 1995. His first Transformers movie garnered about the only real critical praise he’s seen and his name is rather well known to the general public due to the franchise.
My personal take on his career is that he’d be great as just a cinematographer but has no business having the kind of creative control he generally does as a producer and/or director.
HeySo
Given that he’s outright told people to shut up and that he refuses to listen to any criticism “because he makes films that he’d like”, I think it’s safe to say he doesn’t care what a fandom thinks about any franchise he touches.
[PS: TMNT was an atrocity in line with an Uwe Boll film, but with better action sequences. Then again, paint drying has better action sequences than an Uwe Boll film.]
Honestly, if it was developer integrity, I’d respect that, but all he cares about is flashy sequences, and to him plot is just a thin series of breadcrumbs to tie the action sequences together. And he fails to get character depth at all, often seemingly insulting the depth of development of characters in the franchises he touches (Raphael in TMNT was especially bad, making a very simple, very childish joke of the emotional challenges he faces in the comics or original live action series.)
In the end, Bay has the same mentality as Boll- “Shut up or I’ll punch you, I can shit on the floor, and it’s okay, because I like the smell.”
There’s no consideration either to the franchises involved, to the expectations of the fandoms, or to developing oneself as a director. It’s just a mindless repetition of the same self-indulgent design, without any effort put into it.
Well, we’ve famous actors that get by with just playing the same simplistic role over and over again and not ever developing their acting skills, as well.
In the end, such things are inexplicably popular, so there’s really noone to blame but the general population for supporting it..
Though among fans of an IP, it’s always troubling when we support the continuation of such things ourselves, through our financial contributions to them. If we want better movies, we gotta hold out for them, or we’ll only keep getting more of the same thing we’re agreeing to pay for.
Leorale
Pretty sure he’s interested in making piles of money. With explosions.
You’re right, why risk shaming people for having cumbersomely large phalluses that will no doubt cause their partners uncomfortable strain.
Seriously though, phallus size as a measure of masculinity has gotta be one of the most ludicrous concepts I’ve ever come across. Any competent or intelligent individual will tell you that the ideal tool matches to the size and shape of the task at hand [think screwdrivers], and carrying a larger tool than needed to a task is likely just to make things awkward and more difficult than necessary.
Add in that there’s enough anecdotal commentary among females and males alike that outside of a social expectation framework, large sizes aren’t favored..
Add in that in the end, it’s just another part of the human body, and the entire special preference it gets is due to a very peculiar obsession with a single form of interaction..
In the end, it’s only “cruel” to those that are in a specific situation where they find their arrangement doesn’t meet to their circumstances. In the end, we all have minor things, characteristic or genetic, that will limit what we’re capable of and how we interact with others. It’s no more cruel than any other disadvantage a person may have, such as not being talented with a favored musical instrument. We work around it.
Then of course there are those who think it’s cruel because they think it’s an attack on their character, but that’s reflective of a deep psychological complex, and actually has no inherent basis within the commentary itself.
Council
I appreciate your dedication to social progress, but maybe consider reactions to short jokes with seven paragraphs an excessive reply.
Roborat
They are probably compensating for having a small penis.
legobil
Yeah, didn’t Mike show you? Six paragraphs is enough, unless you are making up for missing footnotes.
Definitely where mine is, have you SEEN those abs? I’m bi, and Mikes the only male character in this comic that I have straight up crush on, none of the other guys who are into guys are anywhere near my type. Ethan and Danny are both too nice.
Actually, this has been a consistent failing to me in web-comics, which is a pretty progressive community, is that they seem like their trying to hard to give LGBT characters a halo effect. I understand why, to combat dangerous stereotypes, but it also makes many of the characters wholly unlikeable and not human enough to me.
Mike and Carla are two bright exceptions to this rule, and I find them both hot as hell compared to, say, Ethan and Danny or Becky and Dina.
Sounds like something you’d see on a Valentine’s card.
Rumble is red, Frenzy is blue,
I really like transformers,
But not as much as you.
I love the sight of ambiguous syntax in the evening. Looks like . . . work I don’t have to do.
HeySo
Rumble is red, Frenzy is blue,
I really like transformers,
But not as much as you.
..At least so long as you dress
just like that one bot, Aimless,
Because so long as it looks like a Transformer,
then I’ll feel my body getting warmer,
and if you can’t do that, then I may love you less.
250 thoughts on “Rubs”
Ana Chronistic
you brought it upon yourself, Mike
*looks at current Slipshine* …you brought it upon yourself, Willis
shadowcell
it’s what you get for asking us
Author X
No good deed goes unpunished.
HeySo
What’s the current SS pairing? 😛
Ryek Hvek
Tinkerbell and the Keebler Elf
Scar Man!!!
what is slipshine doing right now anyway?
Cathode
Mary jerkin’ it to a drawing of Ronald Reagan weeping before the cross. You know, the usual.
Needfuldoer
If Peter Paul exists in the DoA universe, I doubt he ever thought he’d have to compete with The Gipper.
BBCC
He does in fact exist! He showed up in a Patreon strip.
Scar Man!!!
who’s Peter Paul? some sort of fundamentalist male model from the original walkyverse?
Ana Chronistic
the hapless sap who originally hitched up with Walky!Mary
hence Peter Paul and MaryLOLOLOLOL DO U GET IT [prolly not if you’re the target demographic for DoA]
Strife
Oh, so I guessed right from the miniature.
Damn, that makes me a psychopath, right?
TrueVCU
I mean, it was too much to expect Mike to be harnessed for good but I’m still impressed Ethan managed to harness him for neutrality
Disloyal Subject
Has he? Has he really?
lia47
well lets just agree he’s harnessed him
Tan
Hey, woah, no spoilers for the upcoming Slipshine.
TrueVCU
And thus the seed is planted
TachyonCode
You guys are the reason I can’t give up on internet perverts. Thanks :3
HeySo
Please don’t go around sowing your seeds willy nilly. :X
AveryAves
I…had a thought
That mike is going through with his plan
To sleep with Ethan to drive the final piton into Amber and Danny’s remaining relationship
Or maybe get Danny jealous and acting upon his feelings. Or just…ok y’know being mike.
Commodore Jeep-Eep
I would imagine one possible end game for him is a threesome involving Mike and Danny, for extra mind screw value.
MM
So how long before Mike decides this plan isn’t worth it?
Doctor_Who
I give him until thirty seconds after Ethan starts going on about Pat Lee.
Pablo360
My guess? Already, but backing out would hurt his image way too much at this point, so he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place 😉 oh god why did I put that winky in there I have become what I fear
DarkoNeko
Something gonna be rock hard, alright.
Reltzik
See, I think Mike values sadism highly enough that all this Transformers crap doesn’t really balance it out in the negative. Still worth it.
Pablo360
Mike’s not a sadist, he’s an asshole masochist. An assochist.
BagFaceMan
No, he’s a sadist. A masochist is someone who enjoys their own pain, a sadist is the opposite
Pablo360
Mike enjoys pain. There are many instances of this throughout both universes.
Reltzik
Mike’s both. It’s possible to be both.
Pablo360
Yeah, but I’ve never really seen him as enjoying the pain of others so much as enjoying the CONSEQUENCES of the pain he inflicts on others, especially when those consequences come in the form of retaliation.
Shade
Seduction is going smoothly I see.
Kris
Is that what’s happening? I thought Mike was just bored.
Fart Captor
It can be both
Doctor_Who
If Michael Bay wanted to complete his dark work and drive the fandom truly mad, he could put a red robot and blue robot who look like Frenzy and Rumble in his movies, and not say which is which.
But he’d never do that. Why use red OR blue and recognizable character models when they can be gray and look like a roll of aluminum foil going through the garbage disposal?
Kernanator
Because to do what you suggested would require Michael Bay to put a level of thought into his films that I don’t think he has.
By which I mean any thought.
Woobie
This.
Bay hasn’t a clue which is which. And doesn’t care. Because the movies make money anyway.
KSClaw
We’re talking about the same guy who gave a decepticon balls, so…
Lailah
Everything I’ve seen about the most recent bayformers (that was /released/, not the upcoming one) suggests that, in fact, Michael Bay put a /lot/ of thought into Transformers.
I’m of the opinion that he made that movie to make fun of everyone who gave him money.
vlademir1
My take on him and this franchise has always been that he seems to know plenty about the canon of the franchise, but also fails to understand why it’s as popular as it is and possibly considers the franchise somewhat beneath him so takes a trolling kind of mentality when making these films.
Further toping this is that he engenders a lot of relevance and makes a lot of money making Transformers films compared to his entire remaining directorial oeuvre. The four existing Transformers films have grossed about $3.8 billion at the box office while his other eight films in the director’s seat have grossed around $2.1 billion since 1995. His first Transformers movie garnered about the only real critical praise he’s seen and his name is rather well known to the general public due to the franchise.
My personal take on his career is that he’d be great as just a cinematographer but has no business having the kind of creative control he generally does as a producer and/or director.
HeySo
Given that he’s outright told people to shut up and that he refuses to listen to any criticism “because he makes films that he’d like”, I think it’s safe to say he doesn’t care what a fandom thinks about any franchise he touches.
[PS: TMNT was an atrocity in line with an Uwe Boll film, but with better action sequences. Then again, paint drying has better action sequences than an Uwe Boll film.]
Honestly, if it was developer integrity, I’d respect that, but all he cares about is flashy sequences, and to him plot is just a thin series of breadcrumbs to tie the action sequences together. And he fails to get character depth at all, often seemingly insulting the depth of development of characters in the franchises he touches (Raphael in TMNT was especially bad, making a very simple, very childish joke of the emotional challenges he faces in the comics or original live action series.)
In the end, Bay has the same mentality as Boll- “Shut up or I’ll punch you, I can shit on the floor, and it’s okay, because I like the smell.”
There’s no consideration either to the franchises involved, to the expectations of the fandoms, or to developing oneself as a director. It’s just a mindless repetition of the same self-indulgent design, without any effort put into it.
Well, we’ve famous actors that get by with just playing the same simplistic role over and over again and not ever developing their acting skills, as well.
In the end, such things are inexplicably popular, so there’s really noone to blame but the general population for supporting it..
Though among fans of an IP, it’s always troubling when we support the continuation of such things ourselves, through our financial contributions to them. If we want better movies, we gotta hold out for them, or we’ll only keep getting more of the same thing we’re agreeing to pay for.
Leorale
Pretty sure he’s interested in making piles of money. With explosions.
DarkoNeko
Yeah, he’s totally getting into Ethan’s pants at this rate.
newllend(henryvolt)
Give a guy a inch.
John
… then give him the other six?
Council
That’s a pretty cruel metaphor/modified idiom to start trending when the average size is five.
newllend(henryvolt)
A inch into his pants I mean, you see I didn’t even make the effort to shit talk him this time.
John
Well, y’know, they say “write what you know”.
HeySo
You’re right, why risk shaming people for having cumbersomely large phalluses that will no doubt cause their partners uncomfortable strain.
Seriously though, phallus size as a measure of masculinity has gotta be one of the most ludicrous concepts I’ve ever come across. Any competent or intelligent individual will tell you that the ideal tool matches to the size and shape of the task at hand [think screwdrivers], and carrying a larger tool than needed to a task is likely just to make things awkward and more difficult than necessary.
Add in that there’s enough anecdotal commentary among females and males alike that outside of a social expectation framework, large sizes aren’t favored..
Add in that in the end, it’s just another part of the human body, and the entire special preference it gets is due to a very peculiar obsession with a single form of interaction..
In the end, it’s only “cruel” to those that are in a specific situation where they find their arrangement doesn’t meet to their circumstances. In the end, we all have minor things, characteristic or genetic, that will limit what we’re capable of and how we interact with others. It’s no more cruel than any other disadvantage a person may have, such as not being talented with a favored musical instrument. We work around it.
Then of course there are those who think it’s cruel because they think it’s an attack on their character, but that’s reflective of a deep psychological complex, and actually has no inherent basis within the commentary itself.
Council
I appreciate your dedication to social progress, but maybe consider reactions to short jokes with seven paragraphs an excessive reply.
Roborat
They are probably compensating for having a small penis.
legobil
Yeah, didn’t Mike show you? Six paragraphs is enough, unless you are making up for missing footnotes.
DarkoNeko
Thanks, I wasn’t sure how to put it.
OkamiKing
The second panel is the most expressive face I’ve seen in Mike in years
Jason
And I think this is the most words he’s ever said in a single strip. Possibly across universes.
HeySo
Mike.
Strip.
I see where your mind is at.
Pablo360
When you gaze into the void, it gazes into you.
Unusually Angry Hippie
Definitely where mine is, have you SEEN those abs? I’m bi, and Mikes the only male character in this comic that I have straight up crush on, none of the other guys who are into guys are anywhere near my type. Ethan and Danny are both too nice.
Actually, this has been a consistent failing to me in web-comics, which is a pretty progressive community, is that they seem like their trying to hard to give LGBT characters a halo effect. I understand why, to combat dangerous stereotypes, but it also makes many of the characters wholly unlikeable and not human enough to me.
Mike and Carla are two bright exceptions to this rule, and I find them both hot as hell compared to, say, Ethan and Danny or Becky and Dina.
Ashley
Run, Mike. Run.
Doctor_Who
See Mike.
See Mike Run.
Run Mike Run.
See Ethan.
See Ethan Talk About Transformers.
…Run Mike Run.
Reltzik
So long as I don’t have to hear Ethan talk about Transformers.
Andy
This may be Ethan’s plan – he may know that Mike is trying to pull a Mike, and is making it work for it.
Streeter
fibrir?
Kernanator
Frenzy is blue, Rumble is red.
Severing
Sounds like something you’d see on a Valentine’s card.
Rumble is red, Frenzy is blue,
I really like transformers,
But not as much as you.
I love the sight of ambiguous syntax in the evening. Looks like . . . work I don’t have to do.
HeySo
Rumble is red, Frenzy is blue,
I really like transformers,
But not as much as you.
..At least so long as you dress
just like that one bot, Aimless,
Because so long as it looks like a Transformer,
then I’ll feel my body getting warmer,
and if you can’t do that, then I may love you less.
:X
Rex Vivat
See that little thing called “research” that Mike mentioned? You can use it too, and it’s only a quick Google search away!
Streeter
Yeah, but just googling it isn’t very conducive for starting a conversation.
Furie
FIBRIR for life, bruddah!
Furie