OK. So Reuben have you been reading Dennisās stuff and feel the need to emulate? troll? parody? Or is this sudden departure from political satire and random humor into semi-sweet adolescent reminisces just a new direction for you? Whatās going on here?
Every Louis comic Bolling does is so painfully true.
Iām surprisingly grateful that this comic didnāt start with, āDear Reuben, I used to think the stories in your comic werenāt trueā¦ā
I was guessing sly parody (of the strip, or of the concerned citizens, Iām not sure whichā¦), myself.
Of course, being a sensitive lad, my first impression was, āAww, thatās so true!ā
Funny how context and intent (?) can alter a premise.
Iām probably going to be ridiculed for asking this, but:
- Is Louis dreaming about the possibility of kissing Jessica in his own personal fantasy?
- Did Louis have some kind of encounter and is now daydreaming about it?
Either way, it sort of touched a poignant nerve, captures that way of thinking as a young teen.
As a kid, I read āThe Great Brainā series. IIRC, In the last book, The Great Brain Does It Again, the titular character of the books gets interested in girls, and loses interest in all the pranks and swindles that made him interestingā¦
So, it may be the end of an era for Louis.
Based on the Louis character, I have a pretty high degree of confidence that this is purely in the realm of deeply unrealistic fantasy
The juxtaposition of Boingx2 posting both this and that other real world stuff comic where the guy is daydreaming about having a hot girl sit on his face is somewhat funny.
Talk about pain. Here I was, thinking I was the only one who had Myronās sister come on to him. I thought I was special and Iām not. Apparently anyone who has a school project with Myron is fair game for Jessica. Hmmmf!
Iām fairly sure Louis has fantasized about girls before. Being interested in girls doesnāt actually start to make you less interesting until they start to pay attention to you, and something tells me heās a few years from that.
So youāre absolutely sure this isnāt how he experienced ācoloring the mantleā (yeah, thatās a peach-pole theme) and just culminating in or esconsed in an error like every other TtDB comic?
I think itās just fantasy, and the joke is more along the lines of āI Never Thought it Would Happen To Meā¦ and, in fact, it never did.ā
ā¦And by the way, I actually thought about it.
Heaps.
Wow, never heard of those before. They look great and pretty cheap on Amazon UK.
Totally unrelated to the comic, but whenever I meet someone from Utah I canāt resist telling them how much I enjoyed āThe Great Brainā books as a kid. So far everyoneās rolled their eyes and said something like, āYeah, we had to read them.ā But it seems like they enjoyed them too, and Iāve had one really interesting conversation about the non-existence of Adenville, and the real town it might have been based on.
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