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And read Mikeys last speech bubble carefully.


What you're still reading this post?
Go <a href="http://www.theclassm.com">there</a> now, shooshoo!

There's another shoe to drop.

What a time for the forums to be clunky clunky!

Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...
Roo go bendy-bendy...


Poit!

Wow, at first I thought this was just going to be a misunderstanding (with each person thinking that they're talking about something different) and Mikey's big secret would be that he wants to be a pop star or something but now it actually seems like (as the esteemed Mr. Ecker so elequently put it) "Roo go bendy-bendy."

By the way, sorry about going MIA for the past while, I've been "busy" with rl issues. I'm back now. Yay!

Anyone else catch that part of his speech that goes something along the lines of "since I'm not attracted to girls then I must be gay"? Speaking of things not parsing...

I'm especially amused in that I wrote a letter to Vince nearly three years ago asking if, in fact, one of his characters was gay... but I had guessed Brad.

Dude, so did I! When Brad did that whole "secrets" thing with Kevin, I was *sure* the secret was that Brad wasn't straight. (As a matter of fact, I often sign my TCM posts with "Kevin/Brad shipper #0") Brad may yet turn out bent, from the look of things.

And, yes, Mike might be asexual from the available data, but I'm guessing he's got something else besides a lack of attraction to women as information. Otherwise, he'd just think he was weakly sexed.

That part with kissing Lisa was interesting. If Mikey had been comfortable with his sexuality, he might have been able to *act* like he was enjoying himself, but as it was, he was forced to deal with himself in a way he usually didn't have to, and he just sucked at it. (I'm thinking of a certain male tiger's against-the-orientation kiss as a model...)

But Conrad might just be gay. One can dream.

allan_ecker wrote:...and he just sucked at it.

Alfador wrote:

allan_ecker wrote:...and he just sucked at it.

ewwwwww!

Ah... so it appears there IS a bit more than non-female-reactive questioning going on...!

To quote a rather cute vulp, with slight adaptation...

Mikey's got a new boyfriend!
Mikey's got a new boyfriend!
Mikey's got a new boyfriend!

I wasn't planning on posting until I got my broadband back at UW, but this conversation is just TOO much fun.

Mikey's revelation is REALLY changing him for the better. He was so afraid of himself before that he was no fun at all. Now, he'll still be pedantic, but at least he'll be HUMAN..

Er, as human as anthropomorphic 'roos get.

And I just loved, loved, LOVED the second panel of monday's strip. DeLIGHTful. And the last one was really good, too.

I am having no end of fun with the cracks in Mikey's facade. Yaaaaay!

Oh, and one comment on the Volair/Mikey ship:

I would SO go for it, given a chance.

Mikey: How did you learn -pant- THAT one?
Volair: You -pant- wouldn't believe me -pant- if I told you.
Mikey: Try me.
Volair: You know -pant- how some people have -pant- prosthetic limbs?
Mikey: Yeah...
Volair: See, this guy, -pant- he's got a prosthetic body..



Oh, and while we're on the TCM topic, Saundra/Kevin would work out a little too well for me to comtemplate...

Only one problem:

Kevin: So, here we go; the ultimate, total solution. The UBERvehichle.
Saundra: Yes. It will have.. EVERYTHING.
Kevin: And the vehichle to base it on...
Saundra: Can only be...
Saundra: The original VW Beetle!
(Kevin, simultaneously): The Ford Explorer!
(Queue the violence...)

I smell... CROSSOVER! (Would Vince go along with this?)

Hm... how old would the CM cast be in the UH universe?

Late 30's to early 40's, WolfFur. The current storyline has gone further into PG territory than the 'high water' mark of Gridiron. UH, meantime, has been constantly at the edge of PG and dancing on the borders of R and NC-17. In light of that, I doubt Vince would go for it.

Hmm... Didn't we already see a gay roo in TCM? Oh yes! Mr. Mike Sopkins.

I think this is inconclusive proof of a trend especially taken in light of this, this and that.

To quote misquote one demented wool-peen-nay: Do all roos go bendy-bendy?

Must... find... asb...

that said, I love this story line.

okay, I probably didn't need to say that, as the bouncing gives it away.

::bounce::

I also regret not being around lately, I had decided I wasn't going to post here until I started a thread called Get this man a toaster

Video-toaster that is

TOS corrupted me, I bought a mac. I really am a member of an almost invisible minority population, looked at oddly by most.

The funny thing is, I've gotten more grief from my friends over the mac than I did coming out to them. wonderful people

And my mom, she's cool, but I've had it almost 2 weeks and she still hasn't figured out how to turn it on. 8)

I love this thing.

And as my mind turns to X-overs, failing tcm, imagine if you will
Rick/Sticks + Jake/Tessa.

R/S: they've just got that whole "love machine" thing going ::drool::

J/T: Well, I dunno, if it ever happened, I think Tessa's the kind of girl who knows what to do with Saran Wrap.

Just what was the "high water mark" of TCM?

Was it the Family Feued parody in the Valentine strips? I thought the paranoid delusion of lesbian come-ons was one of the best gags in the entire strip.

Or... was there something even more sinister?

"Class menage a tois", maybe?

Or maybe it's the current storyline, where Lisa is in dire peril due to a pair of drunken partiers, and Mikey saves the day (with assistance from Damon). That kind of dire peril (tack on a dose of nefarious innuendo of Art's plan from Gridiron [the original caption for that particular strip IIRC was "The plot sickens"]) could well be the watermark.

On another note, anyone else notice that this thread is labeled "page 2 of 1"? It might disappear by the time this post gets through...but it did! I swear it did!

Yeah, Alfador, I too noticed that the forum go buggy-buggy today. I hope it passes without a repeat of The Great Forum Crash 2002.

Gridiron was the previous with a conspiracy for drug induced date-rape; hardly a misdemeanor, that. The current story has attempted rape, assault & battery, assault with a deadly weapon, drunk & disorderly and that's just a list of laws violated by comic characters. Adult situations and violence would be the warning to parents under the PG rating for Duet to Me.

...so, yeah, sinister.

Before I say this, I should point out that I have not been a regular reader of TCM, but that after this thread was posted I went and read through the archives immediately. And now I wish it weren't ending...

Anyway, as for the possibility of a CM/UH crossover, I think you should take the generational difference and run with it. While it would risk turning UH into "TCM:NG", I think that some family connections could be worked out if you wanted them. There's at least one obvious possibility - Lisa and Volair - though just how they were related would depend on what you want to do with it and what Vince would accept. Another thought is that maybe either Ayla or Ping (or both - perhaps that's how they met?) had been the replacement for Algernon on Forrest U.'s Mascot team, and ended up with a grudge against some one from DeMontefort...

(The phrase "Uncle Mikey and Uncle Mike" comes to mind right about now, too, which means I have to beat the psychotic part of my brain back into submission again. Whack! Not that those two would ever hook up, of course. Even if they do come across as two halves of the same soul split between two bodies.)

OTOH, a romantic relationship between two people with a twenty year age difference is hardly unknown, though not particularly common. It doesn't seem too likely, but then again, Rick is almost ten years older than either Jake or Volair, so who knows.

Or perhaps the connection is less direct, such as through employment. For example, we could find out that one of the TCM characters is the head of whatever secret agency Volair works for (for some reason, I now have this image in my mind of a cross between Ryan Spotiswoode and Desmond Jones from FANS!, which is clearly a sign that I read too many Goddess-damn webcomics. Whack! Whack! Whack!). Or... well, there are plenty to ways to make it work, I suppose. The trick is to find one that doesn't sound hopelessly contrived, I would say.