Yeah, I need to go buy some new trousers myself, as most of the pairs I have now are “compromised” right up the inseam (finally giving out after much wear) and only suitable for wearing about the house.
I think that the important point is that the pair of pants that he is looking for only need not be 100% compromised, so that a 99.9% compromised pair of pants would be okay.
Oh, I may as well ask this question before I forget it again: Does the “dot” on Ljubjana’s forehead mean that she’s a [lapsed] Hindu or does it mean something in some other connotation about which I’m utterly clueless? Probably the latter. 😉
This isn’t relevant but I want to see if I’ve remembering correctly: Hugo (and therefore, one presumes, Dorado) is of Ecuadorian descent, right? Or not?
Going from standing up to his dad to being a lunch promoter offering discounts to patrons “fronting gang colors” and being a promoter for a supernaturally talented singer, this quite the seminal moment.
My wife had a band with some colleagues years back. They had a song derived from an argument a couple had far too publicly during a gathering. This strip reminded me of the lyrics:
I’m so alone and I hate your filthy bed
You’re stinkin’ drunk and you don’t know what you’ve said.
Apropos of little, but what is the internet for if not proclaiming your non-sequiurs to the disinterested.
I love how Hugo is drawn. Not only he is speaking with words, but he is speaking with his whole body. He is screaming with his arms, hands and legs to show the readers who he is. Again, I love this.
Did Ryan get those condoms from a skip?
Just want to say that I have really been enjoying this storyline.
Mr. Allison, you have been making my life brighter for two decades now!
Always comforting to see an achewood nod there
I thought ‘rude’ a couple of strips back was particularly Ray-esque too.
(You are certainly aware that John did a guest strip many years ago, right)
Okay, if “we kept going a little longer” is a reference to sex, I’m not at all sure what Hugo is apologizing for.
For intruding, of course. Still funny, though.
Panel 4 is a gold mine of messiness … entirely off-panel. Love the expressions.
Hugo’s posture is mysterious, is he recoiling, doing tai chi, dodging bedbugs.
All three?
Given the position Ryan is in while looking for his trousers I’m going to vote for recoiling …
Gotta be careful of those trousers compromised by circumstance.
His comment implies that his trousers get compromised by circumstances routinely. Ryan stumbles through a life I envy.
You seem to presume that such “circumstances” invariably involve the presence of another person. I do not think that is necessarily the case.
Yeah, I need to go buy some new trousers myself, as most of the pairs I have now are “compromised” right up the inseam (finally giving out after much wear) and only suitable for wearing about the house.
I think that the important point is that the pair of pants that he is looking for only need not be 100% compromised, so that a 99.9% compromised pair of pants would be okay.
“Compromised by circumstance” could be Ryan’s biography pre-Bad Machinery.
Oh, I may as well ask this question before I forget it again: Does the “dot” on Ljubjana’s forehead mean that she’s a [lapsed] Hindu or does it mean something in some other connotation about which I’m utterly clueless? Probably the latter. 😉
I’ve always thought it was some kind of small tattoo with Satanic significance, but that’s a guess.
I like the idea that she’s a Goth Hindu (or a Hindu Goth). You rarely if ever hear about those. “Logic” dictates that they exist, of course, but…
I think it means her look is influenced by Mister Sinister.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Sinister
I mean….the guy’s got a matching pillow/duvet cover set, that pretty good.
Yes indeed. And they probably don’t have bedbugs in them!
I dunno, I’m concerned by the colour of the duvet/pillowcases, and how it relates to the original colour. Did they all come from the same skip?
Maybe he found a big package of grey dye in another skip, and he dyed them all to match?
Actually, “the Hugo [I] remember” from SGR was significantly more verbose. 😉
Yes. It may be that this episode is where he stops being domineered by Dorado and becomes his own person.
His own third person.
This isn’t relevant but I want to see if I’ve remembering correctly: Hugo (and therefore, one presumes, Dorado) is of Ecuadorian descent, right? Or not?
According to Tackleford Wikia, that is correct.
Friend’s wife is Ecuadorian. It fits.
Going from standing up to his dad to being a lunch promoter offering discounts to patrons “fronting gang colors” and being a promoter for a supernaturally talented singer, this quite the seminal moment.
I thought the seminal moments happened the previous night and that Hugo wasn’t directly involved?
RIMSHOT!
His hair already looks different in this one, he’s starting to let it curl.
My wife had a band with some colleagues years back. They had a song derived from an argument a couple had far too publicly during a gathering. This strip reminded me of the lyrics:
I’m so alone and I hate your filthy bed
You’re stinkin’ drunk and you don’t know what you’ve said.
Apropos of little, but what is the internet for if not proclaiming your non-sequiurs to the disinterested.
I love how Hugo is drawn. Not only he is speaking with words, but he is speaking with his whole body. He is screaming with his arms, hands and legs to show the readers who he is. Again, I love this.
Hey!! Is that a little bit of squashed boob peeking out there?