Yesterday was Monday, which means it was time for another Welcome To The Fuck Zone page! On the first week we got a NSFW pin-up of Walky and Dorothy, last week we get Sarah, and this week we get Ethan! These stand-alone artworks can be accessed by Slipshine subscribers and there'll be a new one every week!
Next week: Marcie! Good men
Yesterday was Monday, which means it was time for another Welcome To The Fuck Zone page! On the first week we got a NSFW pin-up of Walky and Dorothy, last week we get Sarah, and this week we get Ethan! These stand-alone artworks can be accessed by Slipshine subscribers and there'll be a new one every week!
Next week: Marcie!
160 thoughts on “Good men”
Ana Chronistic
still doing better than… hmm, would Ethan reply to Trump Tweets?
@realDonaldTrump: “Bumblebee is great, but I like Transformers that don’t get captured.”
Ethan: *foams at mouth*
Moose
@realDonaldTrump: “I know more about Decepticons than Optimus Prime. Believe me.”
Jay Eff
Well, I mean, it takes one to know one…
Anorak
I chuckled at that
Foxhack
Megatron would execute Trump at the first opportunity.
Mortartarsaus
Hey, we see how long he kept Starscream around despite better judgements; maybe Trump could eke through if he proved useful enough.
EvilMidnightLurker
If you kill Starscream you just get a possessing ghost. It’s safer to have him hanging around trapped in his own body.
Foxhack
Starscream has actual fighting and scheming skills.
Trump… well…
Cholma
@realDonaldTrump “Starscream is a nasty Decepticon. Join me and we’ll make Cybertron great again.”
Reltzik
@realDonaldTrump: “Yeesh, what bee got in your bonnet?”
@realDonaldTrump: “No, I wasn’t SAYING that you had them, I was ASKING if you had the original Optimus Prime’s small hands.”
@realDonaldTrump: “Geez, mellow out, obviously you lost them too.”
TheAnonymousGuy
@realDonaldTrump “star scream is my favorite autobot, and the Michael bay movies are the best representation of the characters.”
@realDonaldTrump “Yes, even the 4th one”
AnvilPro
Mike actually isn’t enrolled in any classes, he just goes where he chooses and the school is too scared to tell him to leave
inqntrol
One day a school inspector comes: “What with that boy wondering the halls?”
The principal looks at him, Mike staresback menacingly.
“Boy? What boy?”
tim gueguen
Nah, he’s been hired by a sociology researcher to help in some sort of research. Maybe on assholeism.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
He is a calibration standard. The guy everyone hates so you have a boundary condition.
Reltzik
Huh. Mary is employable.
Adam Black
But Mary is hateful in a way that 48% of society votes for,
or overlooks
Reltzik
…. and Mike isn’t?
Pablo360
Mike is hateful in a way that even the people who like him hate because that’s why they like him. Mary is just an asshole who’s liked by other assholes and gives God a bad name.
NZA
18% a lot of people didn’t vote
buckybone
Those people overlooked it, for one reason or another.
Tacos
Meanwhile I heard that something like 14k people voted for fuckin’ Harambe. A goddamn dead gorilla. I am disappointed in America.
rectilinearpropagation
A gorilla killed to save the life of a small black child when tranquilizers didn’t work.
The people pissed off a gorilla died instead of a black kid weren’t ever going to vote for Hilary.
Clif
My head hurts.
Kamino Neko
~47% of those who voted. ~23% of those who are of age to vote. ~18% of the population as a whole.
How many of the ~44% of people who could vote, but didn’t, or the people who are not yet eligible to vote, might agree with them are harder to gauge from the election (though polls suggest ‘not many’), but this election didn’t validate Trump’s stated policies, especially since slightly more people voted for Hillary. (Thanks,
ObamaElectoral College!)Kent17
Not everyone hates Mike, your mom loved him last night… for a nickel
Clif
Always worth remembering.
JepMZ
Sounds like the Belief in Rim jays
Mr. Mendo
Oh Mike, never stop stirring that pot, bud. ^_^
inqntrol
Oh look, Shortpacked Ethan is back.
Tawdry Quirks
The real question is if Ethan’s online nemesis in the Dumbiverse is also Willis.
tim gueguen
To be fair Willis is the nemesis of every DoA character at one point or another.
DarkoNeko
But evil never triumph permanently. They loves monologues too much.
Sheason
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
AngelBadman
I read comics, makes the world go faster, so the evil is just a blur.
Reltzik
Does that include the evil that is a Willis cliffhanger?
fillerusername
Is this the beginning of Mike’s seduction of Ethan?
Jason
He is standing awfully close to him … Ethan can feel Mike’s breath on the back of his neck … so warm ….
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Playing Don’t Stand So Close To Me on hacked Muzak.
Disloyal Subject
I believe so, or at least an early stage of
Disloyal Subject
…escalation.
Damned phone.
Barf Ninjason
“With loving hands /
Knowing evil will prevail”
-The Flaming Lips
Nono
My thirst for that Ethan is real.
Fauna Sarcastic
if your thirst for that ethan isn’t real i don’t trust you
Splork
But Ethan isn’t.
Stephen R. Bierce
Well, you could have been anything that you wanted to
And I could tell..
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Volt790
I relate to Ethan on this all too well. Except with the canonical sense of Nintendo Game or various Game Mechanics
Wanderinglynx
These are uploaded months in advance. I wonder if Willis knew he was going to be prophetic.
I wonder if this is the start of Mike’s plan.
Zaidyer
Nobody ever went broke betting on there being flame wars after an election, but it’s the extra “evil triumphs when good men do everything” that’s the cherry on top.
Fart Captor
Mike has broken the fourth wall, and found a way to be a jerk to the readers directly.
Needfuldoer
Mike tweaked this comic while it was sitting in the buffer.
Kitschensyngk
Edmund Burke must not have been a Transformers fan.
AngelBadman
He movies are better than the cartoon.
begbert2
While The Movie was better on average than the G1 series as a whole (in part due to things like B.O.T and Carnage in C Minor), I’d dispute that Predacons Rising is better than the rest of Prime. Prime really holds up well as a series, pretty much objectively.
AngelBadman
Nope, Megan Fox > Prime
Jay Eff
*Reads alt Text*
Quick! Is John Goodman doing something right now??
inqntrol
Probably sleeping, considering it’s 12 am in sthe US (well in some parts of the US is 12 am)
Woobie
9PM here in Cali, where Mr. Goodman probably lives.
Opus the Poet
Where John Goodman lives it’s 9 PM.
kelticat
But John Goodman is relatively mature and probably is in bed by now. Especially if he is filming anything tomorrow.
Guairdean
Wait, doesn’t evil triumph when transformers do nothing?
Reltzik
I dunno, most evil seems to be the results of decepticons or predacons or vehicons or Unicron or some other transformer doing soemthing…
Deanatay
So, Decepticons triumph when Autobots do nothing.
SUGauthor
“evil triumphs when good men do nothing”
Damn still relevant. Did you time these strips for the election just in case?
Chris Phoenix
Something to do: wear a safety pin… and mean it. (And if you’re light-skinned, accessorize with a rainbow flag, Black Lives Matter pin, and/or something else a white supremacist wouldn’t ever wear.)
BBCC
? I don’t think I understand – what’s the safety pin significance?
begbert2
I believe it’s ether a show of solidarity for all the people terrified about the explicitly threatened oppression from the reich wing – or an explicit and active promise to materially aid such people, underground-railroad style, if the need should arise. I’m honestly not sure which.
I don’t personally have the resources (or physique) to physically defend anybody, so I don’t wear a pin. There have been no riots in my area and there is no sense of fear in this region that I’m aware of, so perhaps my milquetoastness doesn’t matter.
Leorale
Yep, the safety pin is a promise to make yourself a walking, taking safe space for marginalized folks, especially those targeted by Trump and company. Usually that means that if you see an uncool situation, you are prepared to step in and deescalate it, including, if needed, taking punches for somebody. You’re ready to put yourself in harm’s way, today. That is understandably hardcore so if that isn’t you, that’s totally cool, there are other important ways to help!
John
I’ve pinned one on the lapel of my duster. As a Vermonter who doesn’t actually get out around other people much, I doubt it’ll ever be anything but a show of moral support for my at-risk friends, but that has value in itself.
But if it comes to it… I’m a big guy with more than twenty years of armored combat experience. I can take a hit.
Splork
But I feel like it might be better to treat the safety pin as more of “I support you” rather than “I’ll take punches for you,” because honestly what’s scary (as a Jew) isn’t “someone might attack me,” it’s “would anyone even care if Jews started being persecuted? Would they sit back and let it happen like they did in Nazi Germany?” And not sitting back doesn’t necessarily mean physically standing in front of me taking punches. It could mean protesting an anti-Semitic government action. It could mean painting over swastikas. And, if push comes to shove, it could mean helping people get out of the country or hiding them (though I think Muslims are in much more danger of needing that than Jews are).
quarktime
It grew out of the post-Brexit concerns in Great Britain.
A man put a dish of safety pins out on his counter with a note to take one and pin it to your shirt as a promise that you are a walking safe space. All the usual reassurances about the various -isms that people are worried about, that you’ll be a nonjudgemental safe space for them.
Some think it’s charming. Others think it’s virtue signaling. At worst, it’s harmless, except for a couple of holes in your shirt.
Bluewind