While we never see it happen “on panel”, the IDW comic CLEARLY SHOWS that they can both change their colour schemes from one to the other, possibly at will. You never see them both the same colour at the same time, though, because that would be embarrassing.
I tend to think his Shortpacked love interest probably didn’t actually like Transformers. He just didn’t bother commenting on it, sort of like my wife’s ambivalence to *looks at massive shelves of toys* everything.
Glad that knew enough about old movies when I met the Wizard of Oz geek who is now my wife. (And this was before the internet.)
Chris Phoenix
Hah. For my wife and me, it was Bloom County. She says when I said “Legs shaved?” and she said “Halfway,” that was the moment when – in hindsight – she knew we’d get married.
Charlie Spencer
Okay, that reference I got.
So Ravage is a Transformer?
Zee
If Ethan says a word you don’t recognize, it’s probably a transformer
Punaparta
If Punaparta says a word you don’t recognize, it’s probably a Pokémon.
“Goddamn it, Ravage is a cat”, said Ethan, sensual energy charging every word
“Babe”, said Thad, penisly, “Ravage was only in the original cartoon that ended nearly two decades before I was born, you’re going to need to give me some slack that I’m even humoring this conversation, let alone that I vaguely of know what you’re talking about.”
Ethan sighed lustily, fiddling with the buttons on his shirt “He was also in some of the Michael Bay movies. Didn’t you read the Shattered Glass comics?”
Thad unveiled his thick, throbbing truth in Ethan’s face “Dude, “mainstream” American comic books haven’t been culturally relevant since the Raten administration”
“D….did you mean the ‘Reagan’ administration?”, asked Ethan, quivering.
“Yeah, whatever, high school history only goes up to reconstruction”
Spiderman famously lost his first love interest to the Green Goblin. Gwen Stacy stayed dead except for the awesome Spidergwen in an alternate universe–unlike every other character in comics ever.
Secondly, because they felt the character was aging too much by being married and having a kid, Marvel comics had a supervillain kill off his baby daughter (or kidnap her–its unclear) then erased the marriage entirely by having Peter Parker make a deal with Mephisto.
He’s talking about One More Day, happened during Civil War.
TL:DR–Spiderman got soft rebooted without his marriage to MJ–the event just before it was AMAZING. the follow-up fell horribly, horribly flat.
Basically Spiderman took Iron Man’s side in the Civil War, flipped sides, then decided to run.
Kingpin put a hit out on Parker (who had outed himself, crashing the entire internet [including the porn sites] as billions of people searchd for him online), Aunt May got hit instead.
Spiderman took up the black costume, and Peter Parker (not Spiderman) beat the shit out of Kingpin, promising that if May died, he’d be back.
…….then Mephisto showed up, showed him alternate Parkers, and the daughter-that-wasn’t-yet was wished away by Peter/MJ saying “Save May” instead of their marraige, which led directly into the shitty-ass reboot that retconned 20-30 years of marriage away and was a disaster IMHO.
Personally it would have been a more interesting story if May had been allowed to die. I love May, but she’s been 80-90 years old for what, 40-50 years now? Exploring the consequeces of her death would have been….fascinating.
It’s a weird effect if you were a long time Spidey fan from the 80s and 90s and saw Into The Spiderverse. You see the adult, 37 year old “Peter B. Parker” and go, “Oh hey, I haven’t seen you in awhile. You know, we used to be friends. What happened to you, man?”
I thought after all these years of searching around
I’d found my soulmate finally
But one day I found OUT she actually owned a copy
Of “Joe Dirt” on DVD – Oh, no!
121 thoughts on “Ex”
Doctor_Who
What really sank that ship is the argument over what colors Frenzy and Rumble are.
Wars have been fought over that.
Touchfuzzy
FIBRIR
Dark
They’re green.
Catman
Now, my first exposure to G1 Transformers was a viewmaster™ that my parents had, and in it the cassette friend with the thumpy arms was purple.
Where do I stand in this war?
Undrave
RIBFIR side.
Daibhid C
While we never see it happen “on panel”, the IDW comic CLEARLY SHOWS that they can both change their colour schemes from one to the other, possibly at will. You never see them both the same colour at the same time, though, because that would be embarrassing.
Ana Chronistic
Well YEAH, that’s a deal breaker right there ?
Undrave
It’s one thing to disagree on RIBFIR vs FIBRIR, but this is basically someone being insane!
foamy
Damnit Ethan.
DarkoNeko
Ethan.. priorities…
timemonkey
Are in order. Something are more important than a 45 minute long relationship.
DarkoNeko
I guess Ethan want to ravage a dog
C.T Phipps
I tend to think his Shortpacked love interest probably didn’t actually like Transformers. He just didn’t bother commenting on it, sort of like my wife’s ambivalence to *looks at massive shelves of toys* everything.
Or how I feel about the Bachelor.
woobie
Gotta have standards, right?
Doctor_Who
Ethan’s Tinder profile says “Trukk and Munky” on it.
ValdVin
I…I have no idea who Ravage is. As much as I like Ethan, I don’t know how many guys he wants to just pitch out like this.
ValdVin
I have nearly witnessed a bar fight between the Rodgers and Hart faction and the Rodger and Hammerstein fans, however.
Doctor_Who
This is Ravage.
As his personality in that panel makes abundantly clear, he is a kitty cat.
C.T Phipps
Could be a robotweiler.
ValdVin
Thanks.
Glad that knew enough about old movies when I met the Wizard of Oz geek who is now my wife. (And this was before the internet.)
Chris Phoenix
Hah. For my wife and me, it was Bloom County. She says when I said “Legs shaved?” and she said “Halfway,” that was the moment when – in hindsight – she knew we’d get married.
Charlie Spencer
Okay, that reference I got.
So Ravage is a Transformer?
Zee
If Ethan says a word you don’t recognize, it’s probably a transformer
Punaparta
If Punaparta says a word you don’t recognize, it’s probably a Pokémon.
3oranges
And I here I thought Ravage was an alien robot.
Madock345
In my experience this is only barely an exaggeration
Nono
Ethan/Thad slipshine???
JessWitt
I think Ethan said nothing sexual happened in the last panel so unlikely unless it’s an April Fools panel…
ValdVin
They were snogging a bit in public (not in a dorm bldg); so unless they made fairly direct steps in the 45 minutes, no Slipshine.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/flashing/
ESM
“Goddamn it, Ravage is a cat”, said Ethan, sensual energy charging every word
“Babe”, said Thad, penisly, “Ravage was only in the original cartoon that ended nearly two decades before I was born, you’re going to need to give me some slack that I’m even humoring this conversation, let alone that I vaguely of know what you’re talking about.”
Ethan sighed lustily, fiddling with the buttons on his shirt “He was also in some of the Michael Bay movies. Didn’t you read the Shattered Glass comics?”
Thad unveiled his thick, throbbing truth in Ethan’s face “Dude, “mainstream” American comic books haven’t been culturally relevant since the Raten administration”
“D….did you mean the ‘Reagan’ administration?”, asked Ethan, quivering.
“Yeah, whatever, high school history only goes up to reconstruction”
AntJ
“said Thad, penisly”
hahahahaha
Needfuldoer
Wouldn’t that be Evan and Chad in the Julia Gray universe?
Keulen
You need to continue this. This is the best.
Deathjavu
A+, ““said Thad, penisly” is a masterwork of hilariously bad “literature”.
Stephen Bierce
*the hacked Muzak plays a live version of David Bowie’s “Young Americans”*
Needfuldoer
The “he coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang” part gets a Transformers reference awkwardly shoehorned in.
Tacos
Goddammit Ethan.
ShinyNeen
Aww. I guess Ethad was too beautiful (or, um, non-Transformers-fact-friendly) for this world.
At least it’s sinking was relatively peaceful. Casual Ethan is pretty great!
RacingTurtle
Farewell, Ethad! At least you didn’t break my heart like in Shortpacked!
C.T Phipps
Ethan’s love life will be like a wonderful gay Spiderman’s, except without the horrible death and Satanism.
Catman
Uhhhhhh explanation?
I mean I’m about to Google it but what?
C.T Phipps
Spiderman famously lost his first love interest to the Green Goblin. Gwen Stacy stayed dead except for the awesome Spidergwen in an alternate universe–unlike every other character in comics ever.
Secondly, because they felt the character was aging too much by being married and having a kid, Marvel comics had a supervillain kill off his baby daughter (or kidnap her–its unclear) then erased the marriage entirely by having Peter Parker make a deal with Mephisto.
Aka Satan.
Catman
I found nothing please explain
Spaz
He’s talking about One More Day, happened during Civil War.
TL:DR–Spiderman got soft rebooted without his marriage to MJ–the event just before it was AMAZING. the follow-up fell horribly, horribly flat.
Basically Spiderman took Iron Man’s side in the Civil War, flipped sides, then decided to run.
Kingpin put a hit out on Parker (who had outed himself, crashing the entire internet [including the porn sites] as billions of people searchd for him online), Aunt May got hit instead.
Spiderman took up the black costume, and Peter Parker (not Spiderman) beat the shit out of Kingpin, promising that if May died, he’d be back.
…….then Mephisto showed up, showed him alternate Parkers, and the daughter-that-wasn’t-yet was wished away by Peter/MJ saying “Save May” instead of their marraige, which led directly into the shitty-ass reboot that retconned 20-30 years of marriage away and was a disaster IMHO.
Personally it would have been a more interesting story if May had been allowed to die. I love May, but she’s been 80-90 years old for what, 40-50 years now? Exploring the consequeces of her death would have been….fascinating.
C.T Phipps
With great power comes great “duck the consequences of your mistakes by making a pact with Satan.”
thejeff
With decades of publishing come horrible editorial decisions.
BBCC
Honestly, Civil War was pretty shitty too, but One More Day did not improve it.
C.T Phipps
It’s a weird effect if you were a long time Spidey fan from the 80s and 90s and saw Into The Spiderverse. You see the adult, 37 year old “Peter B. Parker” and go, “Oh hey, I haven’t seen you in awhile. You know, we used to be friends. What happened to you, man?”
“Quesada.”
BBCC
Always Quesada.
Delicious Taffy
There is a hyphen.
C.T Phipps
I mentally assume hypenated Spider-Man is when you’re being formal. 🙂
Vabolo
Oh my god they were roomates
UniqueSnowflake2
No, roommates. “Roomates” means that they share a pouch.
Deanatay
Sooo… ‘Roomies’ actually means ‘Brothers From Another Marsupial’?
Stu
Methinks he took Weird Al’s “Close, But No Cigar” at face-value – https://youtu.be/PtMU8nvZzOs
Deanatay
I thought after all these years of searching around
I’d found my soulmate finally
But one day I found OUT she actually owned a copy
Of “Joe Dirt” on DVD – Oh, no!
timemonkey
Now, Ethan, just find a nerdy guy who will care about your interests and learn these important facts.
C.T Phipps
But…nerds can be nerdy about DIFFERENT THINGS!
Spaz
The Dumbiverse NEEDS CATMAN!
timemonkey
Maybe the real Catman.
BBCC
Oh, Ethan. Honey. You dork. I love you.
tim gueguen
What’s even worse is that Thad thought they were talking about Ravage 2099.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravage_2099
BBCC
An unforgivable sin.
Chris Phoenix
“He’s so un-hip, when you say Dylan, he thinks you’re talking about Dylan Thomas. Whoever he was. The man ain’t got no culture!”
DailyBrad
Ooh, Jacob, looking cool in the Miles shirt.
BBCC
I know! I love Jacob’s Marvel nerdy and am pleased to see it reappear.
3-I
What’s UP, danger?
Bagge
That’s fair
Antonio Tyler
I had tons of exes. Some of them I even dated.
thebatman22
Sometimes Ravage looks more like a dog than a cat. Depends.
Meta
Oh my god they were roommates
miz