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5450 No. 5450 ID: 3c4869 watch
C.C. unrelated.

Now, as far as I know, this will mark the beginning of the end - the final chapter of Better Days.
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>> No. 5453 ID: 1b8fcb
Or the end of the beginning - what with Lol New Better Days x20 coming up.
>> No. 5455 ID: a89b17
>>5453
If these were the "Better" days, I'd hate to see what comes after.
*rimshot*
>> No. 5456 ID: 3c4869
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5456
And here...we...go.
>> No. 5457 ID: 1b8fcb
Well. At least we get facial expressions.
>> No. 5458 ID: 4d1281
>>5456
Looks like we might have a reason for not seeing anything in the background this time.
>> No. 5459 ID: 06b2fe
Sailing out aimlessly into the white abyss seems like a fitting conclusion. XD
>> No. 5460 ID: 3c4869
Naylor posted >>4626 on FA along with this text; emphasis is mine:

As the final chapter of Better Days begins this Monday, I think I can start slipping out little peeks and bits about the new comic without them being considered spoilers or anything. I drew up this quick outline of characters from what will be the new comic, and keeping track of their family structures. This isn't an extensive list by any means. I know the text is small and hard to read, but it was mainly designed as a reference for me in my sketchbook.

Thank God, it's coming to an end.
>> No. 5461 ID: 6df89a
>>5456

Wow. It's like they're sailing across limbo.
>> No. 5462 ID: 692c47
>>5456

Well, starting off on a better note than last chapter, at least.
>> No. 5463 ID: e6ee99
>>5461

Well since this may be the last time we ever see Beth and Aaron that is a fitting analogy. But face it. The entire comic takes place in limbo.
>> No. 5464 ID: e6ee99
>>5461

Well since this may be the last time we ever see Beth and Aaron that is a fitting analogy. But face it. The entire comic takes place in limbo.
>> No. 5465 ID: 418f6a
Wow. He typed "One year later..." So, the only time he clearly indicates time passing is in the last chapter of the comic? Figures. Not during that road trip with Persia, or when the twins graduated from high school, or when Elizabeth was magically married and had a job.
>> No. 5467 ID: 5f125c
>>5460
I particularly love how he pretends he didn't have "Fisk and Elizabeth get married and have kids" planned ever since drawing that "hypothetical" picture. And how he still offers no explanation as to why Tom's last name is suddenly Erikson.
>> No. 5468 ID: bcff5e
>>5467

Does it matter why his last name is Erikson? Was it something else before?
>> No. 5469 ID: 3c4869
>>5460

Wait, I just noticed...

>I think I can start slipping out little peeks and bits about the new comic without them being considered spoilers or anything.
>new comic

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF--
>> No. 5470 ID: 418f6a
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>>5468
Well, Rachel addressed his mom as "Mrs. Peterson." It's possible she just kept her last name, but considering that Naylor felt like presenting his parents as obsessive Catholics, I think it's more likely he just forgot that.

Not that I really remembered. I just remembered where I figured a last name would come up.
>> No. 5471 ID: 524477
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>>5469
>> No. 5472 ID: 692c47
>>5469

We, uh… We've sorta known about a new comic for a little while now.

Haven't we? Kinda seems that way <_<
>> No. 5473 ID: 68827a
>>5456

Hopefully they're sailing into the Bermuda Triangle. Naylor once again showing his wonderful continuity by making Aron buff instead of his stocky nerdiness, unless he spent the past year working out.
>> No. 5475 ID: 5f125c
>>5468
It was Peterson before.
>> No. 5477 ID: 035d53
>>5456

Seems Aron and Beth have ended up at World's End. I assume Captain Jack Sparrow is below deck drinking up all the rum while an army of crabs moves the boat through the white sand...
>> No. 5478 ID: 5baf3b
>>5456

Yes, sail to the edge of Jay's artist table, escape! ESCAPE!
>> No. 5480 ID: 8dfbca
>>5456
Christ, couldn't Jay even copy-pasta the fucking background for two more frames? Lord knows he does it enough with faces and everything else. Shit, what an unbelievably lazy wanker.
>> No. 5481 ID: 13c0dc
>>5456

Whoever it was who called the "Last chapter will be a tacked on 'Where are they now,'" wins the game of Wheel of Naylor!
>> No. 5482 ID: f92dd1
Every time you visit Naylor's site and read the words "Better Days", you must stand up and applause.
>> No. 5483 ID: 9e2214
>>5456

Ah ha! The most daring and clever ONE YEAR LATER technique. Why, I haven't seen it used so badly as a plot device since season 2 of Battlestar Galactica.

You are required to have this music playing while reading that page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBHpLPHYUF8 (ignore the video).
>> No. 5484 ID: 9e2214
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5484
>>5456

<-- Clarification
>> No. 5485 ID: 035d53
>>5484

I still maintain they're trying to sail a boat stuck in the sand of a desert. I'm sure it has something to do with Beth being a woman driver too.
>> No. 5486 ID: 7365fa
>>5461

We all know Naylor is not that creative.

Too bad he's not like some Japanese animation directors who like to take a relatively benign slice of life world and plunge it into the oblivion of the metaphysical just to give everyone a mind rape.
>> No. 5489 ID: 882034
>>5456

Is it weird that I find Aron (Aaron) the only moderately somewhat likeable male in this comic? I mean, at least he has some weak jokes. No other dude does that in this comic.
>> No. 5490 ID: 9508df
hah the last chapter is called "Better Days" how original. Oh well I guess in some abstract way it works. I just want Naylor to bring it home so I can finally stop abusing my brain.
>> No. 5491 ID: 168d06
>>5490

Yeah right, like we're not gonna sit around and abuse the new one too.

Naylor has us at least that much in his trap. He probably sniggers to himself about it as he goes to bed... right before he curls up, weeping about his loneliness.
>> No. 5492 ID: 41edaa
>>5456
wow, is it talk like a pirate day already? oh wait, no, I guess that guy's just an idiot.

also, even from a top-down view of a boat in water, he still doesn't do a background. would it be too much to ask him to at least half-ass some waves?
>> No. 5493 ID: 68827a
Why is it that when I look at Fisk's kids, I get the vision of 'Little Archie' in my brain?
>> No. 5494 ID: afee12
>>5459
Reminds me of a short story based in a world where the 'flat earthers' were correct. After a rousing speech about all the awesome things they would discover in the new world, the boat sails right off the edge of a turtle and plummets into the waiting maw of a gulper eel encircling said turtle.
Best. Shaggy dog. Ever.
>> No. 5495 ID: a89b17
I'm...sailiiiiiiing awaaaaaaaay....
Set an open course...
for the virrrrrgin seaaaa...
>> No. 5496 ID: 6bd5ad
I'm thinking... Somalian pirates take over the boat requiring Fisk to drop a grenade from a hang-glider. Then crowbar Swine Flu into that somehow.
>> No. 5501 ID: 68827a
>>5496

While we're at it, let's have Fisk living in Thailand who is tasked with going into Burma to rescue missionaries from the ruling military.
>> No. 5503 ID: 66a6f9
so next update Jay will show fisk working at a porn studio?

come on... we all know that comic where fisk starts as janitor at ZigZags is Jay's wettest dream ever

(ofc MaxBlackrabbit would NEVER let Jay get near any of his characters... so jay would have to make up some shit on his own)
>> No. 5505 ID: c1758f
>>5503
>ofc MaxBlackrabbit would NEVER let Jay get near any of his characters

Do I need to post pictures?
>> No. 5507 ID: 376590
Stock expressions.. activate!

You could at least have Beth's ears arch back in annoyance.. you used to do that kind of "expression" in much older comics!
>> No. 5508 ID: 1b8fcb
>>5505

I think he means "Now".

Naylor hasn't drawn Zigzag in at least eight years. Dude has changed some since then.
>> No. 5509 ID: 035d53
>>5508
Probably

>>5505
Sure post em anyway
>> No. 5510 ID: 13c0dc
>>5505

Ugh, I remember the pictures in question, and I pray they are never given sequels from now.
>> No. 5541 ID: e71a09
>>5484

The whiteless, the endless-ness
>> No. 5542 ID: 692c47
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5542
"I MADE A JOKE. ISN'T IT FUNNY? HA HA HA."
>> No. 5543 ID: eeb572
>>5542

They're sailing in a vast white void, what is there to crash into?
>> No. 5546 ID: 7365fa
>>5543

They might crash into reason or a good story.
>> No. 5547 ID: 68827a
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>>5546
>> No. 5549 ID: d919c3
>>5542
Come on Naylor and get on with the story (if there is one).
>> No. 5550 ID: 68827a
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>>5549
>> No. 5551 ID: f45db7
>>5542
Good god. Is this the kind of anti-humor that Betterer Days is going to be full of? Naylor seriously needs to stop thinking he's funny.
>> No. 5552 ID: 376590
OH THAT ARON HE SURE IS A WACKY GUY

we get it, jesus
>> No. 5553 ID: 5baf3b
Jay's characterization ability isn't so much "one note" as it is "holding down one key infinitely and never letting up"
>> No. 5554 ID: 7365fa
>>5553


Does it happen to be the 'f' key? One big long ffffffffffffffffffffffffff?
>> No. 5555 ID: 4a62a4
WE GET IT, BETH AND ARON HAVE A BOAT AND SAIL OFF INTO THE HORIZON AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

Unless he's actually going somewhere with this (or he just really really wanted to draw Beth and Aron more, considering we'll never see them again,) this really didn't need more than one page.
>> No. 5556 ID: d919c3
>>5555
We already had a "sight gag" with Aron and his "pirate day" on the previous page. What was the point of this page? Like I said, Naylor needs to move the story forward, rather than repeat himself here. The dialogue needs to reveal the next plot point.
>> No. 5557 ID: 55e6b3
>>5556
Ahem. Naylor. That is all.
>> No. 5560 ID: 6f289c
Maybe they're sailing out this far so that Naylor can have a contrived reason for them to run into Hyena...sorry "Somali" pirates.
>> No. 5562 ID: 8dfbca
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>>5543
Naylor's ego? Fucker's sure big enough
>> No. 5563 ID: dc2fa3
>>5555

Ten bucks says the next page their conversation will be exposition for what happened to everybody else.
>> No. 5564 ID: b2abaf
>>5563

You saying that made me realize that the last chapter had no real point to it. A lot of disconnected stuff happened, but there was no point.
>> No. 5566 ID: 035d53
>>5542

Oh my mistake...Captain Jack Sparrow isn't hiding under the deck...he's possessed Aron and given him the same obsession with a similar hat.
>> No. 5567 ID: 68827a
>>5563

Truly, this 'conclusion' will be a train wreck if that happens. With so many unanswered plot holes over the last 10 chapters, it's safe to say that at the end, these will still be left unanswered. We should just make up a memorial board for all the characters, plots and such that have gone unanswered/unresolved.
>> No. 5568 ID: 3c4869
>>5567

Somebody make this thread idea a reality.
>> No. 5569 ID: 6bb752
>>5567
FUND IT
>> No. 5572 ID: fcb85c
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5572
"Where are they now?" checklist:

✓Aron and Beth
✓Persia and Flounce
-Amy and/or Austin
-Robert and Jessica
-Rachel and Alex
-Nikki
-Sparky

Doubtful those last two especially will get any sendoff, but eh. Any others I forgot?
>> No. 5573 ID: 8d9eaa
Maybe we'll get to see Nikki x Amy!
>> No. 5575 ID: 869e61
>>5572

I don't understand the joke on this page...I don't even know if its a joke...I don't even understand what is going on!!
>> No. 5576 ID: 0c5f7c
>>5575

I guess since we have established that the computer-using, nerdy men are the submissive ones in the relationship, allowing their women to make the decisions and pay the bills, Flounce is attempting to raise his son in his image from the cradle by putting in a computer.
>> No. 5577 ID: d919c3
>>5576
I don't understand. I thought Flounce was gay. Are you telling me that he drilled Persia and she had his kid? Jesus...Naylor...
>> No. 5578 ID: fcb85c
>>5577

You're new here, huh?

First Flounce was gay. Then he met Persia and became straight, because Naylor says so, and he knocked her up.
>> No. 5579 ID: 8d9eaa
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5579
>>5577
>> No. 5580 ID: 035d53
>>5577

You see according to Naylor, nobody is REALLY gay. They're just filling the void until a penis or a vagina becomes available to them again, depending on their gender.
>> No. 5581 ID: d919c3
>>5578
No, not new. IIRC, Fisk dropped Persia off at his house (which was next door to Flounce's house). So apparently Persia has the power to turn a gay man straight? All because Naylor can't be consistent? Must be saving that for one of his pron portfolios (unless I missed it)...
>> No. 5582 ID: 8d9eaa
>>5581
Not rly. Remember that they've been a pair in pr0n comics for quite some time.
>> No. 5583 ID: 8c39c2
I thought this comic was actually cute and funny. (At least if you don't object to Flounce being bisexual.) He's giving his infant a laptop in hopes that he'll learn IT at an unusually fast pace, to remove the pressure from Flounce to be an authority figure and provider.
>> No. 5584 ID: 869e61
>>5576

That's Flounce? God, how has Naylor regressed...
>> No. 5585 ID: d919c3
>>5582
True, but not everything that occurs in the pron-folios ends up as canon in the series.
>> No. 5586 ID: 089084
Well if all this chapter is doing is wrapping up the fates of all the characters I sure hope its short.
>> No. 5587 ID: 089084
Also I want to bet that there will be at least one marriage proposal before this wraps up. Its either gonna be Fisk and Elizabeth or Lucy and Tommy.

Also. Arg @ the huge gab between where we last saw Persia to where she is now. Its like "oh look! She's married now. la de da so nice." The last time we saw her she was just seeing Flounce for the first time in her life. Talk about a huge leap in that relationship. But whatever. Since Naylor knows that we know what to expect. He is literally freed of all need to develop things correctly and just cut right to the chase.
>> No. 5588 ID: 035d53
>>5587

If this is true, he can end the comic friday with 2 panels. One being a shot of everyone's ass, and the second being a giant butterbean contest with all his characters at once.
>> No. 5589 ID: 869e61
>>5588

WHat's a butterbean contest?
>> No. 5590 ID: 5f125c
>>5572
What a shock. Flounce is suddenly 100% cured of TEH GAY and had a kid with Persia ASAP.
>> No. 5591 ID: 617112
>>5590

The main reason for Flounce turning 'teh straight' is because Naylor got hassled at cons to do commissions with Flounce and RandomGayFurry#485. He then insisted his character was NOT gay, though old art of him suggested otherwise, then of course he made the two porn folios which I guess he crappily threw into BetterDays?

Funny how he does this when he previous had a homosexual relationship with Matt Shear.(Sheer?)
>> No. 5592 ID: 5f125c
>>5591
No, it's just because he thinks no one is truly homosexual.
>> No. 5594 ID: 1b8fcb
>>5591

Even more hilarious is that people would ask if Flounce was underage, etc. It severely got on Naylor's nerves.

And then he turns around and draws Horklefucky Ann, which is pretty goddamn loli.
>> No. 5595 ID: 0a97c6
>>5572

I can't tell the difference between characters anymore.
>> No. 5596 ID: cd140b
>>5595
That's because Naylor only knows how to draw two faces: Fisk, and everyone else.
>> No. 5597 ID: 4a62a4
>>5591

Naylor is seriously thin-skinned enough to completely redo a character's orientation just to get people to stop bugging him about commissions? He could have just adopted the "sorry, I don't draw my characters fucking yours" policy that is pretty God damned standard among artists these days.

Granted, he's pretty anti-gay these days anyway, but still.
>> No. 5598 ID: 8dfbca
>>5572
Holy fucking hell, in no picture in that comic does Flouce look like anything but Persia's younger brother. If I had to peg ages based on appearance, I'd say he's about 11, she's about 15-16. Damn, that comic is so bad I wouldn't have known who the characters are without you all telling me.

Someone seriously needs to do some slash art of Flouce and Fisk's nephew (Leo was it?). Just a nice bit of man sex from the two "not gay" characters of the comic.
>> No. 5599 ID: 7365fa
>>5598

So what taboo sexual topic has Naylor not touched in Better Days?

So far we got incest, pedophilia, incestuous transsexual homosexuality(bunny slut's husband's thing for getting fucked by his brother while wearing women's clothing if I remember correctly)...
>> No. 5600 ID: 8c39c2
That's only incestuous transvestite homosexuality. And I think you've just listed all of Naylor's fetishes. (Besides guns, cheating, impregnation, and America, of course.)
>> No. 5601 ID: 5c68f3
>>5599

I know! Beast--oh wait.
Guro,Micro/Macro,Transformation,Hermaphroditism,Ovipostion,
Scat/Piss/Vomit/Sneeze -Fetish? Vore?

If you just threw Rain into the comic you'd have a few already.
>> No. 5603 ID: 5b74ef
The Serval, or the dog character by DCS?
>> No. 5604 ID: 1b8fcb
Necrophelia.
>> No. 5605 ID: e92643
>>Necrophelia

I dunno, any semblance of personality in these characters died long ago, and he's been fucking it ever since, does that count?
>> No. 5610 ID: 7365fa
>>5600

I always get transvestite crossed with transsexual...


no pun intended. :)
>> No. 5626 ID: a94cdf
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>>5572
WTF is this shit! I agree with pretty much everyone else, Jay has got some serious conflicted sexual identity problems.
>> No. 5630 ID: 035d53
>>5589

I don't know? That's...not what I typed.
>> No. 5631 ID: 3c4869
>>5589

O-r-g-y

LOL wordfilters.
>> No. 5632 ID: 035d53
>>5589

After speaking to him, Freehaven says to ask Sechs about that one.
>> No. 5633 ID: 168d06
Awhile back, some idiots thought it was funny or were trying to force a meme or some stupid shit where every single time any Better Days strip was posted, they'd repeatedly say "zomg this would all be solved with an org-y!" It was approaching idiotic on a level involving a certain personal slangword invented by one of the bigger idiots on lulz.

So I wordfiltered it into a phrase using one of Jay's dumber and more recently-used sex slangwords at the time.
>> No. 5634 ID: 5f125c
>>5633
...Naylor actually used "butterbean contest" as a sex euphemism? WTF?
>> No. 5635 ID: f45db7
I have to say, every time Naylor refers to a vagina as a "butterbean," I get images of this disgusting, drippy, yeast-infected disease-hole with cartoon stink lines rising from it. Could he have picked a more idiotic euphemism?
>> No. 5636 ID: 869e61
A friend of mine writes erotic literature, and he often complains of "supermarket porn," i.e. using food as a sexual euphemism.
>> No. 5637 ID: 168d06
>>5634

No, he used the term "butterbean" to describe a girl's clit.

The "contest" was to reflect the group aspect.
>> No. 5638 ID: 5f125c
>>5635
Well, he is the guy who uses "dokey" and "cha-cha".
>> No. 5639 ID: 168d06
>>5638

I think those are his ideas of "latino" terms, much as butterbean was his idea of a "southern" term.
>> No. 5640 ID: 1b8fcb
>>5639

Which is ridiculous, because Southerners don't know what a clit is.

/Haha cuz they don't have sex ed.
>> No. 5641 ID: 5fb4d8
Sweet, Naylor!

Way to explain how a gay character you introduced in 1 strip turned out to impregnate a drug-addicted slut (female slut).

Fuck yeah, writing skills!
>> No. 5642 ID: 3c4869
>>5641

Uh, he DID (sort of) explain it in two pornfolios (True Love and Girly). There's really no explanation given for why Flounce suddenly went straight for Persia; a possibility is that he's actually bi, but Naylor's never said for sure if this is the case (as far as I know).
>> No. 5643 ID: 168d06
>>5642

Maybe Flounce is Naylor's true self-insert instead of Fisk, and him going straight for Persia represents Naylor's being "cured" of his bisexuality.
>> No. 5644 ID: 035d53
>>5633

So why don't we have a word filter changing any term for breasts to "Sweater Hogans?" :)
>> No. 5645 ID: a0ca83
>>5644

Because that would be dumb.
>> No. 5646 ID: 035d53
>>5645

It's a board about Naylor...wouldn't that be appropriate?
>> No. 5649 ID: 68827a
>>5646

No, it would give Naylor an ego boost that we'd be adhering to his terminology. Plus, who the fuck wants to talk like Stewie from Family guy? Jeez, the hypocrisy of Naylor using that phrase and then going on about drawing penises and blowjobs and so on is ridiculous.
>> No. 5654 ID: 5f125c
>>5649
>who the fuck wants to talk like Stewie from Family guy?

Stewie said "sweater cows" {which makes alot more sense}, not "sweater hogans".
>> No. 5656 ID: 68827a
>>5654

Well played. That said, who even says 'sweater hogans'?
>> No. 5657 ID: 869e61
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>>5656

All this talk about hogans had made me wonder what a "hogan" was.

This is a hogan. It does have a bit of mammalian shape to it...
>> No. 5658 ID: 5f125c
Y'know what the phrase brings to my mind? Hulk Hogan tearing off a sweater.
>> No. 5660 ID: 035d53
>>5654

Well who the hell wants to talk like Horklefucky Ann?
>> No. 5661 ID: 5baf3b
>>5658

Exactly. Hell I'm even into history and I did not think of the Native American structure first.

Is Naylor just assuming that nerds are so esoteric in their slang that they'd use something that obscure to describe breasts?
>> No. 5662 ID: 869e61
>>5661

I actually thought of a sandwich, a "hoagie."
>> No. 5663 ID: ada961
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5663
*leans sideways into partial view*

Hey guess what? This pose is incredibly annoying and stupid.
>> No. 5664 ID: 869e61
>>5663

Cue the improbable amount of forgotten money storyline.
>> No. 5665 ID: f9335b
>>5663
I'm gonna say I kind of like her expression in panel 2.
>> No. 5666 ID: 9f73f0
>>5663
BUT IT'S WHAT YOU ALWAYS SEE IN EVERY COMIC AND ANIME EVER!
>> No. 5668 ID: 8dfbca
>>5663
And her pimps didn't get to it... right.

Unless Sparky was feeling extra guilty and funneled a crap-ton of cash her way, there's no way an ordinary account would accumulate OMGSOMUCH$$$$$ levels of interest in the, what, 2-3 years since it was last touched.

I guess Naylor knows as much about banking as he does about forced prostitution and the porn industry.
>> No. 5669 ID: a0ca83
Yeah, probably something about Sparky and royalties.

Because what's redemption in Randland without massive amounts of money?
>> No. 5670 ID: 68827a
WHERE THE FUCK DOES HE GET HIS DIALOGUE FROM?!

Oh yeah, you could replace Flounce with Beth with 'the leaning from outside of the panel to look over' pose.
>> No. 5673 ID: 869e61
>>5668

Granted, sometimes money you set aside and forgot about does pop back up (I personally had $800 pop up right when I needed a new computer early last year,) but its never going to be an amount that justifies insinuating that the Son of God was an avian.
>> No. 5674 ID: 68827a
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5674
Shut up, I tried.
>> No. 5675 ID: 869e61
>>5674

No "Oh, balls" BOOM? I'm disappointed.
>> No. 5677 ID: 1b8fcb
Probably porn, not prostitution.

Besides, she was probably not accessing that money while she was a ho. But then, if she was a ho for drugs, she could've just taken the money out of that account to BUY drugs in the first place.
>> No. 5678 ID: 8dcd11
>>5663
>sweet feathery Christ!

...Is the only line i could laugh at here- even a talentless bastard can get one once in a while.
>> No. 5679 ID: 035d53
Chalk up another Naylorism. Christ has feathers now?
>> No. 5680 ID: 5baf3b
>>5679

Apparently it were the chicken that came first before the egg...or something.

Anyway I'm going to put odds that Fisk is also now a master hacker and funneled the porn mafias holdings into her bank account somehow all those year(s?) ago
>> No. 5681 ID: 992820
I know this has been said before but, when the hell did Flounce turn into a cat!?
>> No. 5682 ID: 7365fa
>>5663

Blonde woman forgets about some apparently astronomical sum of money in an account she just got around to thinking about closing.

Only in the Naylorverse.

However, I do know of another story that had a similar thing happen, but Fry waited 1000 years for his $20 to turn into billions.
>> No. 5686 ID: fe721c
>>5682
But thats Futurama....doesn't count lol
>> No. 5688 ID: 1b8fcb
>>5682

1) I think the blonde joke aspect of this is not intentional. I don't think Naylor stereotypes his characters that bad - no, all his women are that dumb.

2) IIRC, Fry just had spare change in there, not a full dollar.
>> No. 5690 ID: fc3bd7
>>5663

I sometimes lean sideways into the partial view. But only when there's, you know, something to lean around.

Flounce is just standing in the middle of the room, leaning. My mind is blown.
>> No. 5691 ID: 41edaa
File: 124180205699.gif-(17.37KB, 268x276, flounce.gif)
5691
THAT FUCKING FLOUNCE!
>> No. 5692 ID: 68827a
File: 124180255998.gif-(114.63KB, 568x1099, 124175845199.gif)
5692
Don't tell me I didn't do you any favours, Wolf.
>> No. 5694 ID: 3c4869
>>5692

<3
>> No. 5696 ID: 5baf3b
>>5690

The characters are becoming increasingly self-aware that they're in a comic and are plotting to escape and brutally murder their creator with thousands of papercuts.
>> No. 5697 ID: 869e61
>>5692

This is the best one yet.
>> No. 5698 ID: 8584b9
>>5663

So many plot holes. I mean if she was getting lots of money from those pornos, wouldn't she be blowing her mind to jupiter? Or at least by now, ODing a few times. Oh rite, drug addictions only last as long as terroristic porno producers do.

Going on a rant here, but, it isn't as if she was whisked away to a foreign country and kept as a sex slave. Generally porn-stars have agents and well written contracts and shit. If she recalls any of that during her 'addiction' *cough*, she would have had access to those accounts long long ago.
>> No. 5699 ID: ada961
>>5698

It's not a plot hole yet. We still don't know where the money came from, or when it got there. For all we know, Fisk put that money there 17 minutes before the events on this page occur.
>> No. 5700 ID: 18d1cb
>>5698
>Oh rite, drug addictions only last as long as terroristic porno producers do.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't she go to rehab or something like that?
>> No. 5701 ID: 68827a
>>5700

Yeah, and Flounce was gay. Funny how things change quickly without much effort in BD, eh?
>> No. 5702 ID: 18d1cb
>>5701
Was it ever specified that he's just gay, or that he was bi?

Regardless, you are Canadian. You better go outside and make sure beavers aren't attacking your moose herd.
>> No. 5703 ID: 5baf3b
>>5700

For like one day if that and suddenly she was fine. Then again progression in time is a mystery to Naylor.
>> No. 5704 ID: 68827a
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5704
>>5702

THIS.

Although, to be fair, Flounce is bi.
>> No. 5705 ID: f45db7
>>5698
Regarding the drug addiction thing... Sparky said Persia was addicted to heroin, which is an extremely, EXTREMELY difficult habit to kick, and as I recall, she was cured by eating a cheeseburger.
>> No. 5706 ID: 8584b9
>>5700

No, as far as I recall, she went to a psychologist for some sort of 'mental issues', or something, then ate a cheeseburger. A long car ride from California to Virginia she never broke down needing a fix or anything.. just had some 'hack' moral talk with Fisk and-- yep, she was perfectly okay.
>> No. 5707 ID: 8dfbca
>>5705
Are you sure it was smack? I don't remember it ever being named.

I always though it was weed, or hash oil or some shit, as they were such a fucking low-rent mob. Persia just had the fucking munchies, hence the burger curing her.
>> No. 5708 ID: de4ece
>>5707

I think it had to have been a more seriously addicting drug. Otherwise Persia would have been pissed at Fisk for killing all of her employers for such a minute reason. Also logic would dictate that she wouldn't hang around at a job that she was miserable at for just some weed.
>> No. 5709 ID: 869e61
>>5707

It was a kind of drug that was addictive and scarce enough for Persia's employer to control her into pimping her out. Weed and hash oil, both non-addictive and easily available, wouldn't have done it.
>> No. 5710 ID: f45db7
>>5707
Sparky said something to the effect of "Persia started taking heroin, despite my warnings."
>> No. 5711 ID: ada961
It was heroin, alright: >>2086
>> No. 5715 ID: 48719e
>>5706
So, he used a flash forward, and it's assumed that nothing happened during that time?

Guize, I don't really care if you bash Naylor, but c'mon! In this case I can't really fault him as he's using a fairly standard literary technique. 'sides, there are much better things to bash him on than some of the nitpicking I've been seeing lately.
>> No. 5717 ID: 617729
I remember there used to be some early art of Flounce on Naylor's VCL account, including a couple images of Flounce with a female cat (not Persia). Apparently this was for a story Naylor submitted to Genus that was rejected because Flounce looks freakin' 12 years old.
>> No. 5718 ID: 7365fa
>>5715

Flash forwards are great tools to get past the needless crap like your character going to work. If it's not important to the story, no point in talking about it.

Persia's drug addiction was apparently(hopefully) important to the story and the flash forward seems like skimming the pages to get to the next chapter.

Also, no one is ever cured of drug addiction. They learn how to control it. Most addiction starts at a psychological level, but drugs like heroin add a chemical dependency on top of the mental dependency that sparked the initial use.
>> No. 5720 ID: 5baf3b
>>5715

It's not so much that he used a flash-forward, it's more that he used a flash-forward that like all other timeskips are incomprehensible in length (except for the "one year later" chapter we're getting now I guess), added to the fact that the implication exists that Fisk basically cured Persia's heroin addiction with a motivational speech and one trip to Grace Jones Memorial Hospital.

Of course you are absolutely right. It's not important to the story. At least not the story Naylor was telling. Which was probably something along the lines of "Objectivism is the best form of rehab"
>> No. 5722 ID: 7365fa
>>5720

To add another point. Persia looks the same. She had what, a couple years maybe of whoring and drug abuse before Fisk rescued her? Tweaked out prostitutes don't look good. They don't. They look like they've been through the wringers.

Even after battling addiction, there is a mark that's left behind on an addict's physiology. It's not to say they can't "look good" but they don't look the same. Maybe the eyes sink a little deeper into the skull. Maybe they don't ever regain the weight they once had. Maybe scars from altercations that took place. Whatever it is, there's usually a permanent mark left behind that shows hardship.

Or I'm just completely wrong. lol
>> No. 5724 ID: 68827a
>>5722

Just look at Keith Richards or Ozzy for proof of that 'mark'.

I don't think it's not so much the use of the flash forward, but rather that nothing happened in the preceding chapter that warranted the leap forward, other than to 'get the story over with'. If that's the case, then Naylor truly knows nothing of how to write a good story.
>> No. 5726 ID: 8dcd11
>>5724
Maybe he just blanketly assumes that everyone will take the set up as if she were only on the drugs for about half a month and was drifting around California longer than she had been addicted.
>> No. 5733 ID: 035d53
>>5680

Funny, the scene where the government guys kill off Shelia's rapist made me think that in some way Fisk will once again be the All-American hero and have planted all the proceeds from Persia's abductors into her account.
>> No. 5735 ID: 5baf3b
>>5733

Something I too have hypothesized.
>> No. 5961 ID: 87583b
>>5679

My post not have gone through a week or so ago when I was going to say this.

In the Naylorverse or whatever you want to call this, Christ is likely a Phoenix, given the whole resurrection thing.
>> No. 5962 ID: 168d06
>>5961

Uh, in the Naylorverse, Christ wouldn't be anything, because Objectivism espouses staunch atheism, with the successful man as his own god.
>> No. 5963 ID: 7365fa
>>5962

Couldn't the successful man be further compacted down to a dune cock?
>> No. 5967 ID: 4f5824
>>5962

I think he meant that as the characters in Better Days percieve him, Christ is a phoenix. Religion's there in BD, slammed though it may be. Wasn't Tommy a Catholic at one point?
>> No. 5968 ID: 3c4869
>>5967

Yes, and he gave up religion after he started fucking Lucy.

Seriously.
>> No. 5969 ID: a89b17
>>5968
After fucking her he realized that no kind and loving god would allow a woman such as that to exist.
>> No. 5970 ID: d47276
>>5968

Tommy never quite went into detail why though did he? I think at one point he consoled a Priest and then the priest gave him some strange advice --or something.. but it seemed awful strange to give up a religion you were raised in and so apparently (before Lucy) devoted to.

Infact any mention of religion is either shown to be 'stupid' or 'barbaric', let us not forget the use of religion in the Haiku folios.

If the only way Naylor can prove his points is by demonizing something it only shows how much more wrapped up in that bubble he is.
>> No. 5971 ID: 1b8fcb
>>5970

Don't forget the religious fanatic arabian minks (cough muzlim terrorists cough) in New Worlds.

Or Nikki's lolmuslim child molester father. Or the black girl's lolmuslim dad in Horklefucky Ann.
>> No. 6003 ID: da0096
>>5971
All muslims are child molesters apparently.
>> No. 6005 ID: 69f010
>>6003

or terrorist child molesters
>> No. 6030 ID: f793cb
>>5970

Didn't Tommy go to the priest, and the priest turned out to have an elephant cock, so Tommy fellated the priest in the confessional?

I seem to remember this.
>> No. 6032 ID: 6bb752
>>6030
Uh, that was Rachel
>> No. 6045 ID: 1344b5
>>6032

They have the same face! Give him a break!
>> No. 6052 ID: 6bb752
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6052
>>6045
>> No. 9780 ID: dbc57a
>>5484
They're going for the Northwest Passage!
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