3044 They Look Like Big, Strong, Hands, Don’t They?
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This is one of those pages where a character kind of gets screwed because the next page isn’t there until two days pass. So for the time of its original posting the scene doesn’t play out and they look worse than the full scene makes them seem. At this point I’m basically used to it, but I do sometimes wish I could work a little bit faster so I wouldn’t have this happen quite as much. Regardless, Jess is a flirt and she’s going to do that because it’s in her nature. Mike is kind of getting a nice day where a few women give him way more attention than he’s used to. He clearly yearns for female attention, but often when we get something we want we aren’t sure what to do about it out of shock.
Anyway, I’m too tired to write a giant essay about whatever nonsense is in my head at the moment. I’m gonna maybe take a little nap before I do some more work. I will bring you more comic on Monday. Until then have a nice, safe, weekend.

26 Comments
Rullette is going show up to flirt with Mike, isn’t she?
RUN Mike!
{That IS his name, right?}
if we believe what the cast page says, yes (actually Miguel but they all call him Mike)
aaaand here we go lmao
Jess has already given Thomas an invitation….. Just how many of those does she have?
As many as she wants, which may be perhaps more than she needs.
Monday’s update should be just three panels of Mike emanating smoke out of his ears.
Like, the after-sex scene in the movies, when the man is smoking? That would have to be some… well, smoking hot sex, if Mike would emanate this much smoke, and on his own no less.
Also, things would have to progress really fast for that to happen. ;)
Joking aside, if Jessica is being serious and not just play-flirting or messing with him, that begs a question, how does Jo feel about open-ish relationships? (or alternatively threesomes, but Mike is her boss, so the problem with that one would be obvious, even if she’d actually be up for it)
I recall a strip forever ago where Jo had a bunch of people with hearts around them in her head or something?
So I feel like she’d be open to it, at least conceptually.
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Lol, I feel like the existence of gals like Jess can partially justify the existence of guys with anime protagonist levels of density with regard to reading potential interest from women.
“Does she actually like me? Nah, she’s probably just messing with me.”
*19 episodes into a series about another girl trying to flirt yet failing to get the guy to understand she’s serious about said flirting.*
Having the dense dudes grow up around a friend like Jess would go a long way towards explaining why they’ve learned to just assume any sort of flirting is just friendly platonic banter.
Plus it’s just plain safer for a guy to assume anything short of an absolute yes is an absolute no. Protective ignorance. Miss can use her Big Girl words if she wants more than banter.
And all the kvetching and shaming language in the world coming from people a safe distance away from said situations who are also not the ones paying the price of a guy being wrong will change that.
“who are also not the ones paying the price of a guy being wrong will *not* change that.”
Sigh, wish we could edit our own comments to fix errors.
Nice ref to The Neverending Story in the title.
Jess has used that look (eyebrows in the third panel) before and is well-practiced in it.
No Mike! Leave Ed’s sister alone!
Oh, oh no. Mike can in no way even handle flirtation from Jess. Abort, Mike, abort!
Looks like Ed needs to come by with a spray bottle…
Enjoying the mixing of characters that we’ve had going on, and Jess is a true flirt: never skip an opportunity if one presents itself haha
Go Jess! If she only knew what goes on in Jo’s head…lol hang in there Mike don’t blow a fuse now!
…And Jess gives Evrina shite for being around Ramone? Don’t flirt with Mike, he has no defenses…
She gives he shit because she’s utterly blind yo hoe she feels. Jess knows exactly what she’s doing with make so it’s different.
Yeah, great, she’s flirting with a guy she hardly knows, who’s lonely and looking for a girlfriend, while she herself is in a relationship. Jess is just in it for attention, and doesn’t think about who it affects—look at how she’s using James.
Mike strikes me as the kind of guy who isn’t necessarily clueless, he just doesn’t know how to handle flirtation so he just kind of ignores it, or politely deflects it.
He just likes alliteration.
Mike has dabbled in:
Manual Labor
Management
Monument Making
and of course
MPRPG
and if Jess gets her way, he may try a little
MFF
Hee, hee, hee! :D
“Perfect planning makes perfect performance”.
And- the saying I’ve invented is:
Athletic arms make ardent admirers. :)