- Student #1: Hey, dweeb! Rumor has it that Larisa’s made you her little boy toy.
- Landon: So what?
- Student #1: So what’s the secret of your success?
- Landon: I’m sorry, but that’s confidential!
- Student #1: Come on! Give us a few hints!
- Student #2: It’s just not fair how these nerds always get the hottest chicks.
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Nerd ne sais quois.
Those other students look a little to old for Larisa.
StrifeSilver wrote:
Nah, Landon is just a shortie…
Trimutius wrote:
Or not.
Aargh, Zoey and her jealousy!!!
She sure doesn’t know how and when to quit!
Too bad that that the world they’re living in is good old earth and not Hyrule, or else I could have sent The King after her!!!!
………………………………………
I Wonder what’s for dinner?
Well a good thing of being a nerd…
He knows they cant call his bluff… LARISA WOULD GO ON RAMPAGE. And well he is smart enough to know better… Larisa is honest as anyone could be.
She is no deceiver.
@ Paeris Kiran:
She’s a seductress, not a deceptioness!
If only! 😢
Bet those guys were ALL ROASTED by Larisa…
Just not the “ROASTED BY FIRE” way that everyone was expecting… =P~
I like the artwork in the second panel. Whatever the hell it is.
He’s keeping quiet to avoid humiliating them.
@ Dina Kitty:
The tendrils of envy.
Well played, Landon…well played!
@ Atsuki:
Pride had the tendrils, Envy had the shape-shifting ability. Plus that budget-busting cgi monster transformation which ended up being completely useless.
Q: Why do nice guys finish last?
A: That’s how they keep their ladies happy.
And since nerds are more often nice guys than jocks…the complaint expressed in the third panel could have an easy solution.
Step 1: Don’t do mean things to people, such as calling them “dweebs.”
I find these nice bullies more unrealistic than a talking racoon.
Heh… John Hughes, eat your heart out. 😀
I really hope Larisa and Landon break up soon. 😛 I really feel that he has outstayed his comedic potential, and jokes with him are just going on repeat…
I do feel his character is very dull compared to the rest of the cast…
It doesn’t even have to be a bad breakup. Could be that with his parents getting divorced, him and his dad have to move into a smaller house in another city or dad gets a job in the other end of the country?
I feel,like something heavy is gonna drop in this arc.
@ Fex:
More like “desperate.”
And Landon could actually give away the big secret: “I care about her, and treat her accordingly.” I doubt it would make much difference to these guys. But we could always hope. 😉
Anon Y Mous wrote:
No they can’t change like that. Landon could have said, “For that trick to work, you have to be me.”
StrifeSilver wrote:
They kind of have to. The joke requires them to look like tough guys and it’s hard to make someone both look like a tough guy and 13 (or 14/15 for that matter), so a compromise was probably necessary.
kinda starting to get an idea what kind of people the guys behind this comic are 😛
Wait… Larissa is popular with hot guys?? I thought everyone knew by now that she’s a sociopath!
IPutTheAceInDisgrace wrote:
Hot guys like sociopaths.
@ IPutTheAceInDisgrace:
Well, she specializes in hot…
oledakaajel wrote:
Of course they do. Why do you think a lot of guys like Harley Quin?
badbloodkiller wrote:
I’m dying
@ badbloodkiller:You know, that’s a very fair point.
Secret is: stop shaming women who prefer a physical relationship over an emotional or romantic relationship.
When women are socially afforded the same consequence free privilege of “playing the field” as men THEN you get to be the boy toy.
And don’t expect to receive any more commitment than what you’d give to the away team’s cheerleaders in a one-night-stand at a seedy pay-by-hour motel.
She still won’t choose you if you are an asshole or unattractive slob. This isn’t her fault and blaming women will get you nowhere but further from your goal.
@ Wolfhowl:
Guys in this comic in general tend to get less in the way of character development, Cloud being the exception because he’s always skirting the issue.
@ MidoriLuna:
That doesn’t excuse just how dull he is. 😛 Or just how pointless the relationship is since it doesn’t really cause any character development in Larisa or himself.
At least some of the other male characters are a bit interesting or fun to begin with. Woo, Sid, Shadow, Larisa’s dad, Sandra’s dad, Cloud…
Landon is so absolutely pointless because his only function is being a nice geeky guy (and there are plenty of those in the story already) and Larisa’s boyfriend. But he doesn’t add anything to that in terms of comedic potential or personality…
MidoriLuna wrote:
OUCH!
I agree that his agency is completely informed by his relationship with Larisa. In some ways he’s almost an inversion of the Beschdel test.
Maybe Larisa likes mousy nerds rather than jocks.
Like Edda Burber (9 Chickweed Lane).
Maybe Larisa is (at least) part lesbian.
Tomana wrote:
The greatest deceivers are the ones who tell lies by telling truths.
the greatest succubi can tell you the harsh truth and still lie to you well enough that you will believe anything they say as long as you get to hear it from them.
Crystalgate wrote:
Plus teenage girls at age 14/15 often go out with guys about two years older than themselves, because girls tend to hit puberty a little earlier than boys and thus have a headstart in development.
Soooo… Secretly all the big male bull(ie)s just want to be dominated and put to lick the rubber heel?
And not just force their interest towards the girl they want (not to be mixed up with liking) and mark them as dykes if they don’t respond the right way?
Kinda feels like there are some issues being worked through here… :/
Ahh, would that it were so.
badbloodkiller wrote:
A suicidal urge?
Stupidity? Or some combination thereof?
They should consider becoming tigers. Girls love tigers.
Have you tried *lifts sunglasses and gives the look* Conversation.
It comes down to two things:
1) In general, they’re nicer.
2) They’re more likely to know what to do.
Dear thugs:
Girls observe you treating people physically weaker than you like shit.
They are aware that they themselves are, on average, physically weaker than you.
They therefore have some very reasonable concern that, the very moment things aren’t going quite as smoothly as you might wish it to, you will start treating them like shit.
They therefore very sensibly decided that staying in regular close proximity to you fits somewhere in the range between undesirable and extremely unsafe.
Your best bet for a girlfriend is to find a girl too stupid to realize what a terrible prospect YOU are.
…Or, you know, stop treating people weaker than you like shit for entertainment, forever. Your choice.