Mike's in one of those moments when you really feel like having a nice talk with your hostage.

As for Jack, if you need a reminder, he seems to be referring to his experiences in the Magi-Net story arc!

NOTE: On the advice of a concerned reader, I'd like to clarify that the attitudes expressed by certain vampires do not necessarily reflect opinions held by the management of this comic. In other words, I'm well aware that what Mike is saying may be offensive to some. I hope it's understood that he's a bit of a jerk, and that his flaws have been exacerbated by the vampiric condition. Remember, Rebecca needed time and humility to analyze her altered conscience and adjust.

But Mike isn't really the humble sort.

Furthermore, I'd like to state plainly that neither he nor Southpaw as written are meant to encourage negative views of men, women, or transgender individuals. Just negative views of villainous vampires and varcolacs. Varcoli. Varcola?

Speaking of which, I'd also like to state that Southpaw is not meant to be a commentary on real-world gender issues. Actually, I think they're more suited to be a representation of an abusive relationship. It's just Mike's whim to equate their grotesque nature with a perceived battle of the sexes, but in truth they're "messed up" for reasons which have more to do with the state of two people who NEVER should have gotten together being forced to share the same space.

But, this guy. You know. Gotta make everything fall in with his little world view.

Thank goodness there aren't people like that in real life.

-Joe

Poor tomie... :(

you really shouldn't let a wizard start talking, Mike.

1: Do not monologue.
2: Kill the Hero.
3: DO NOT Monologue.

Oh no. I think I see where this is going, and I'm really excited.

Looks like Lack's go'na go plaid mad on a vamp.

He's warning him that he'll ascend isn't he?

Mike is about to know worse than death... Bye Mike...

Use wixard* magic to telepathically contact Zandra.
Ask her to set you on fire with her mind.
Freedom.

*Everything's better with an X.

Mike is about to find out what happens when you get caught Monologueing.

Somehow I think that if Jack could have escaped he would have without too much effort. Did Mike do something to him? Either Jack's critically injured and can't fight back, or he's waiting for something as well...

Either way, Mike monologued. I'm sure Sam could give him some pointers... but you never monologue around a wizard. Say g'night, Mike. You're going to die. And die screaming, at that.

Are we gonna get a Harold 2.0?
>:]

Mike's definitely one of the least likable characters in the comic for me. At least Bloo and even her creator have sympathetic sides to them, despite being clear out and out villains. Mike's just an arrogant, cocky asshole who thinks the world deserves to be handed to him on a silver platter because it "owes him" something or that he's entitled to things because he's just so clearly special. Zandra already called him on it, but his behavior was clearly never going to change. People like this in real life always piss me off, so I am going to be very happy with the comeuppance that's clearly coming his way.

As a side note, I love the subtle way that the blood is splashing across the claws and shoulder that are digging into Jack. Nice way to remind everyone that is in fact sadistically hurting him even while he's being the dumbass who monologues instead of killing their victim.

Jack needs to do what he promised so long ago....banish him into a hoary netherworld.http://www.zebragirl.thecomicseries.com/comics/75/ No super fight. No great ending. Just Mike trapped somewhere unpleasant....entirely alone.

Nobody puts Tomie in a corner. I mean, attic.

No need for a reminder, that arc defined Jack as we know him and was IMHO one of the finest chapters in this story.

I'm guessing this is leading to another threat about how the guy who did it is eternally where he doesn't want to be.

I stopped understanding Mike the moment he seemed to be so focussed on getting at Zarah that he threw his life away, plotting that stupid vampire circus with Bloo, using her and his fellow monsters just to annoy the shit out of Zarah so she can finally destroy him. Now he is known to me as Mike the Drama Queen of the Undead.

"But, this guy. You know. Gotta make everything fall in with his little world view.

Thank goodness there aren't people like that in real life."

Woof.

I love where Mike went. It's incredibly realistic- oh hey, that person who seemed cool! And they're actually interested in you too! And you're lonely and you really really hope this could be what you've been hoping to have!

But you don't actually know that person yet. Nothing guarantees they aren't actually a piece of crap. And this is important.

Want to be clear that it was personally clear to me Mike is one individual with a pile of shitty views. Think you've done a good job otherwise making it clear that his is not the dominant attitude :)

Mike absolutely reads to me as a d-bag with his head so far up his own ass that he can't tell what's going on around him. We ALL know him talking to Jack will end with his butt on the ground (and I am going to enjoy it so much), so everything he says comes to me through that lens.

Plus, Zandra read him like a book when it came to Becky/Rebecca, and can any guy that self-important to think everyone's crushing on him actually be a good guy?

I never thought he learned his lesson after that first meeting with Sandra where he hurt her by disrespecting her privacy. Every single thing turned into being about him after that, like he needed to prove to himself that he wasn't REALLY a bad guy.

The post-Halloween conversation was a prime example.
"Hey, I really like you but I don't want you near me because I don't want to hurt you."
"I'm fine with being hurt!"

She didn't want him to be around her, so he goes and gets vamped so she has no choice. Then, when he finally gets her in bed like he's fantasized about for years, it's like Zandra says, conquest. His ultimate goal is to have her devoted to him, mind and body... but she's her own person and he just cannot handle that. It'd mean that he was indeed wrong, has continued to be wrong, and then threw away HIS LIFE to be vamped because he went so far past Wrong he's cliffdiving into evil.

Im glad Mike is in the last story arc, I like him despite him being a jerk. There are jerks in real life that arnt all bad, and he helps to contrast the other characters. I hope there is a bit more to his suicidal attitude, but again the comics almost over and there ia so much to tie up Ill just be happy he didnt just fade into the backround after Halloweenn.

Wow, that really takes me back. It's been a long time since we've seen Jack and Crystal wearing giant trilobites on their foreheads!

I'm a bit concerned that we've hit the point where people have to be reminded that not all the characters in a work of fiction are authorial mouthpieces--and somebody's moral alignment should not be determined by such things as their sexuality or gender.

That said, I do appreciate the clarification on Southpaw's situation. I find that I actually consider Bloo less of an unreliable narrator than Mike. So...just to make sure, he's accurate about Southpaw being two people sharing a body?

boop?

About this page... Look at number 728. Zandra read him like an open book!