Have you already seen the following two blog posts that I posted last weekend?
- Larisa: Landon, do you think my new skirt is too sexy?
- Landon: Glurk
- Larisa: Thomas, do you like my new belly button piercing?
- Thomas: Sprotz
- Larisa: Boys for Beginners, lesson 3: Deep down inside they are all the same.
- Sandra: Whenever I’m around you, I learn more than I wanted to know.
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Larissa’s going to end up breaking more than a few hearts by the time she’s finished school… hopefully not her own while she’s at it!
For the third comment in this comic, I say:
NEVER forget which side has the power… XD
Plus, I like Sandra’s “Seriously?” look.
Larissa: breaking hearts, minds, and decency (in terms of high school, anyway), one boy at a time. XD She’s beginning to remind me of some of my friends.
I bet she will be shocked when that doesn’t work :3
Oh dear, it appears Larissa has broken the neck of the school’s star quarterback with her shiny bellyring! What will become of the season now?
Such a sad comic today. Poor Larisa. Who are you trying to fool?
such a typical schoolgirl: flirty
@RJF: i hope no one’s heart gets broken
Tsk tsk, Larisa. Already your messing with other boys (indecently I might add) while you already have Justin (unless you broke up already). My guess is that the man you will eventually try to get will be the man who can’t stand you. Knowing this, you will do everything in your power to try to get him to like you to no avail and ect, ect, ect. Glurk and Sproz are cool interjections.
Ah, young, misguided love. Those were the days… NOT. Those were the days where I hid in my locker at the first mention of dating and stayed WELL out of any romantic entanglements. Man, this will NOT end well for Larissa.
Here’s my question: could you imagine Larissa’s response if one of them actually responded coherently? 😀
I believe it was mentioned (and definitely implied) that one of Larisa’s hobbies was boys. Flirting with them, teasing them, lighting them on fire…
The sad truth about this strip is: we guys are so transparent a girl like Larisa already discovered our secrets, but we can be married for 50+ years and women are still incomprehensible to us.
man, a girl would need more tham a small skirt and a navel piercing to get my heart, mainly because those are normal sights here in rio de janeiro.
Larissa: Melkior, do you think my new skirt is too sexy?
Me: No, it still covers everything it should.
Larissa: Uh…..? (stares blankly before walking away)
Me (thinks): What’s up with her? She asked a question and I answered it.
😉
Or how about:
Larissa: Melkior, do you like my new navel piercing?
Me: What the heck possessed you to get that? Piercings are stupid.
Larissa: Ohhhh…. (glares daggers before walking away)
(repeat last line of previous conversation)
🙂
Women, don’t ask me a question unless you want an honest answer. 🙂
On the down side, that might be why I’ve never even had a serious girlfriend (sigh). But I’ve accepted the very strong probability that I’ll die alone and it no longer bothers me. Most of the time (sigh again).
Aren’t the characters in this ELEVEN!
Well, I wasnt like that at that age, having to spend most of the time in the psychaitrist and brainscans make you think you know more (about what I dont know) and this little things made no effect in me, in fact I dismised that behavior without knowing that most girls found that atractive (or anoying).
And the girl I always tried to impress didnt care about me, In retrospective while I knew better than my friends I still didnt know how to work an aproximation, I end up alone cause I thought I was better.
PD: Landon and Thomas look like Theo and Benjamin
Two words: No, no. That’s right Larissa. It’s not too sexy and I don’t like the ring. So there. HA. …I’m such a sham…
No, seriously, what Larisa awesomness lesson are we on? It’s like an aft form or something.
Not interested.
Bah, I guess maybe I am one of the only girls here? I wasn’t like this at 11 but a few of my friends were (though I don’t think anyone used the word sexy) and I was terrible by 15 😛
Finnally, someone who i can relate to! I’m way too honest too. People are always looking for honesty and when they find it, they hate it.
PS: Deep down, well, i guess we’re all the same… yeah…… uh…..
You kids these days and acting like you were five years older than you actually are…
Lesson 3… what’s up with 1 and 2?
Also love Sandras expression: “Seriously?”
XD
I thought that too.
And I think (and hope) that will be the topic of a strip or even a story arc one day…
A guy not losing his head that way might actually be interesting for her.
And that would be a turn of events.
Not exactly what I’d say but I have the same opinion ^^
Piercings: You pay money for having a hole in your skin and a foreign body in it… woohoo >,>
If I were there and that age… (and so on) I think I’d simply say:
“well, actually, no. If you ask me: Your navel and the rest of your belly would look better without that thing. … Just my opinion.*raises an eyebrow* ”
I don’t think so. Just keep going ^^
I am honest over all (well, at least I think so o,ô ) and that’s what my girlfriend likes most about me.
/wall of text (sorry 😛 )
Kay two things.
a) Where are the previous lessons, I’d love to hear those too. XD
b) Larisa’s right aboot us, but she doesn’t know that it goes for girls as well. X3
P.S.: I can understand why is Larissa like this with boys and life all in all considering her “state”. If ya think aboot it long enough it’s quite touching.
•Larisa: Landon, do you think my new skirt is too sexy?
•Landon: Glurk
•Teacher: And just what do you think you’re doing?
Ah, but this is so true! You can pretend to be a saint all your life, but when a woman comes along, you’re already on her leash 😀
Okay, there IS another girl on here …
Yes, I knew people like Larisa when I was 11. I was pretty much always Sandra. It ended badly for the Larisas in my life; I hope this one makes out better. But this strip earns a million bajillion points for capturing us so well. Hang in there, Sandra!
Btw, I adore this strip and hereby beg for more collections.
I like how Larissa tailors her temptations to the psyche of the particular boy she wants to shock at the moment. 🙂
When I was 12, a girl in my class insulted the outfit I was wearing on the last day of school before summer holiday… by saying it wasn’t really sexy. And that was 10 years ago.
Thinking back to when I was that age, I would have probably reacted different because I wouldn’t get the “GIRL! signal” – back then, at that age, a female classmate just wasn’t a “GIRL!”… yet. She could however have been the closest reachable alternative to a “GIRL!” and that would have influenced my answer to her.
So if I thought from Larisa’s usual behaviour that I would have a chance to spend time with her, then my answer would have been happy and honest. If I thought she was unreachable and taunting me with it, it would have been an angry “Haha, very funny!”
If it was neither, I would likely have assumed she was trying new things out, and my answer would have been sympathetic and honest. (I would have probably asked first whether the belly button ring hurt before commenting how it looks)
If Larisa would actually have spent time with me, I probably would have been totally Kyon for her, until the day she dumped me.
And never ever in whatever scenario of the above I would have guessed how little time she has left.
Aren’t they a little young for that?
I would say they’re old enough to have left the “ew girls” phase and be curious and maybe have simple fantasies about kissing Larisa or seeing her in a swimsuit – but too young for everything else.
“Shippou, do you think my new skirt is too sexy?”
“A bit short maybe.”
“Shippou, do you like my new navel piercing?”
“It’s OK, I suppose. Not sure why you need one there.”
Seriously, aren’t the characters 12? I know it makes for interesting story, and that Sandra and Woo isn’t the most realistic thing possible, but all the pre-teen romance always strikes me as odd.
I think Larisa’s getting into a new kind of evil. XD
Hm, for the “they’re too young” – crowd… I think You might underestimate how much things have changed 😉
Or I overestimate it.
But in any case: How about some willing suspension of disbelief? It’s fun to read, and cute, just let them =)
~Sylv
its sad but true
Ok, never have I commented before but that does it…
I wonder what’s wrong with you! This is a webcomic, whose characters are supposed to be young teenagers, and they do all sort of tiny teen thingies aaand… WHY do you feel the urge to take the moral ultra-high ground about it all???
The only problem one could point out with Larissa naive slutting around is that sometimes the authors may be a little inconsistent with regards to the mental age of their characters – sometimes they behave like puppies, sometimes they behave like 17-something – actually, that’s the ONLY point.
I sometimes fancy doodling and scribbling comics myself and even if I’m not as good as O. and P. I’m happy when someone gives me advice about my drawing, or the scarce effectiveness of my narration, or about how my characters are constructed or why noone will ever like thin plots – it’s precious information. What really, absolutely and awfully VEXES me is when people say “ah, but children wouldn’t find a good lesson in your story, would they? You should change the way it ends” or “You should not write about politics/sex/religion/whatever because you know, PEOPLE do NOT want to read about it”.
I mean: how I write or draw it is one thing, and what I think or feel about the world is another.
If you really have to find a moral lesson in everything, mind: the character of Larissa can teach us an incredibly important thing… once that you know life is short, you have to learn to enjoy it fully. And indeed life is working, flirting, playing, joking, drawing, setting (small) things on fire or reading a funny comic for what it is and not like sort of ersatz Sunday school…
At 11, I was the guy going “Glurk”. Or I would’ve been, had any girl attempted that on me.
@ all the guys coming up with clever replies for Landon and Thomas: That’s not what you would have said when you were 11 or 12. I’m sure that most of you would have mumbled nonsense just like the two boys.
“They”? Only Larisa. Poor boys have no idea how to react to her teasing.
“Glurk.” is extactly the same word I would have used when one of the hot girls in our class ever did something like this.
Things have changed? Well, certainly not since my school time. So far Sandra and Woo has been tame in comparison to some of the stuff the other boys in my class did at this age.
best part of this strip: “sprotz” xD
I think I would have reacted like I described – due to me missing clear signals other guys would get. Once I went swimming to a nearby lake, I must have been about 16, and I was completely sure that a girl’s choice in swimwear had nothing to do with being interested in me, and that her sitting next to me was just because I was someone she knew from school – because she never said anything about liking to be with me. And so I refrained from staring at her and going *glurk* (after the first moment of surprise).
She was topless.
Are girls her age allowed to get navel piercings without parental consent? Eh, I shouldn’t be surprised if her parents are irresponsible.
Like I said, probably a lot people at that age have had experiences that made them belive they knew more, with that said cold mind and plain answers. Of course that also went to hell for me, cause smart answers only work if they are aimed.
Of course I replied things like “your boyfriend shure will like it” or “yeah you look beautiful” but not with an interest but just with an annoying sense of “they are teasing me” or “Why cant I be like them” cause the mumbling boys always got the girls (cause they got close enough to mumble).
Of course I never realized that a lot of girls at that age are really fond to the “he is ignoring me” type, I just didnt realize on time OUCH…
We’ve seen Larisa getting parental consent before, even for setting things on fire – not because her parents are irresponsible, but because she manages to make it look like the choice between two evils, and they choose the lesser one.
For the “They’re too young” crowd.
The modern philosophy on when someone is “Old enough” is actually quite a recent development in human culture. Not too long ago boys were adults at 16, and girls were considered marrying age at 12.
May sound pedophileish, but that’s just the way it was. historically.
We’re pretty much physically mature at 16, and we start getting along pretty quickly once puberty hits. most of the cast are in the right age group for this kind of thing to start hitting very soon. (if it hasn’t already)
Just my very loud two cents.
In strip related news, I bet the guy that gets her is the one that is not impressed. The one that just looks and says. “Very nice.” and goes back to whatever he’s doing.
Given that it’s Larisa, she probably pierced it herself. Or it’s just a clip-on.
Very true. Very true. It is fun to pretend we are eleven year olds with the maturity we have now…
It’s definitely consistent with Larisa’s personality.
And I think Larisa didn’t act this way for the boys, but instead just to impress Sandra (who finds the behaviour just weird). And that’s also consistent with Larisa’s personality.
And THIS is why Novil did not choose the setting to be a girls’ boarding school.