214: Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones… but Pretty Girls Hurt More
Mar12
Poor BJelvin.
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Cast
BJBJ, or Boyd Johnson, thinks himself the ladies man. He couldn't be more wrong, but that doesn't stop him from trying to woo the fairer sex when he can. Comics: 127 |
Holly SmytheHolly is Melvin's crush. After the genie incident, Holly is aware that Melvin likes her, but there is a little too much strangeness surrounding Melvin and his friends for Holly's liking. Comics: 76 |
KahinComics: 41 |
Melvin ClarkThe unofficial leader of the trio of friends. Melvin sees himself as the wise wizard of the party. Comics: 238 |
SaachiThis quirky, awesome girl, is Holly's best friend. The pair grew up together and have become more like sisters. Comics: 51 |
Tiffany "Red" ThorntonRed was a boy until a new genie tried to get Melvin a girlfriend. That's when the genie turned Red into a girl so Melvin could practice talking to girls, and forgot to turn her back before disappearing. Red is hopeful that her situation is only temporary. Comics: 217 |
Is Holly THAT clueless, or is she suffering the Lois Lane syndrome?
Yes
Clueless in what way? She assumes Melvin’s been mind-whammied by witches. Seems like a reasonable assumption, given what she’s already seen recently.
Can’t make out all the covered text, but it looks like Holly is all over the place with those questions/statements.
It wasn’t that great idea but apparently it worked good enough.
Aaaand not in RSS again.
I have no idea what to tell you about the RSS thing. That’s just supposed to work, and we haven’t changed anything about how the site works in years, so there shouldn’t be any behavior changes.
I turned off the plugin that was redirecting our RSS feed to Google Feedburner, which seems to be out of date for whatever reason. No idea if the “default” RSS feed will work properly, but it does seem to have this page on it, while the Feedburner one doesn’t.
Average male protagonist when watching female love interest in sexy clothes: Blush, panicking, nosebleed, stuttering…
Melvin in same situation: “(sigh) Is there ANYTHING you wanna tell me, Red?
Red appears to be getting taller. She was originally shorter than Melvin and BJ.
Comic #204 shows Red in fairly high heels, maybe a 4 inch or more. But, I’m fairly sure that Red was always taller than Melvin. Went back to the start of the series, Red has always been taller than the other two from the start of this comic. Now, when Jeanie first changed Red, they were all about the same height, but Red soon got taller than the other two.
Yeah, back on JB, she and BJ were around the same height (surprisingly few shots to compare to Melvin, but about the same I would say). On the Original Batchmann run, she was slightly taller than Melvin still. Now, in canon as far as my inconsistent proportions allow it, she is the second tallest girl on her age group, above the average height for girls her age, and about as tall as BJ still who is “average to slightly taller” for a boy his age. Melvin meanwhile, is rather short for his age, which stands out even more, besides Red.
Thanks, Carlos. I wasn’t sure if it was that, or just that the perspective in Panel 6 was weird.
By the way, it’s nice that you had Holly pick up on the similarity between female-Melvin and BJ-turned-Melvin. It would have been really freaky if she hadn’t noticed that.
Is this the beginning of BJ’s villain ark?
Didn’t that start right at the beginning of the comic? đ
I gotta say, I feel sorry for B.J. He just can’t catch a break. From anyone.
I hope the catgirl familiar who fought the witch hunters makes a comeback, so B.J gets his chance for a girlfriend.
Agreed, that would be cool. She’s been gone a long time, seems like a good time for a reappearance.
I love the cheerful expression on Saachiâs face as she declares him to be a creep.
I wonder if Holly will notice that “Melvin’s” eyes have changed color.
Nah. Probably not.
Just another proof evil witches must have done something to him.
You know, I just noticed that Red’s eyes are both normal through out this comic and yet she seems completely at ease with her current clothing situation.
Yep, she is fully a girl a this point and rapidly heading into full slut territory.
Does she have a choice? It’s either get comfortable with the outfit or take it off… and I don’t think the latter is much of an option (although there will be people that will argue with that).
Wearing provocative outfits (not even by choice) doesn’t make any woman a “slut”, you know?đ
Sorry – the ultimate end of girlhood is not âfull slut territoryâ.
Holly:
âOh God Melvin – you too?â
Does Holly think BJ is Melvin?
Itâs confusingâŚ
All the responses to her question sound like theyâre talking about BJ – is he supposed to look like Melvin?
And what about Evil Dick sucking out all Melvinâs powers and the Book – whereâs the F___ing Book!
So many questions!