I’ll give Alan credit: his heart is in the right place… too bad his foot is now in his mouth after stepping in a fresh pile of it. Ah, such is the folly of youth, amirite?
House guests from out of town are back home, safe and sound, so hopefully no more ridiculous delays brought on by yours truly.
~Mace
0_0 she isn’t gonna turn him into a frog, is she?
*is looking for page 20*
not here yet? :'(
*staying in character*
A Dwarf is never to young to drink,.. 😛
*IRL*
In the netherlands you can drink beer when you`re 16,.. and the hard stuff when you`re 18.
In the US you have to be 21 to drink~ which I sometimes think is kind of wrong since you can drive when you’re only 16. One of my teachers back in high school thinks that those ages should be switched, and I kind of agree.
I think it’s better to know how much one can drink/handle BEFORE getting behind the wheel, especially since drunk driving is so much of a problem.
But yeah, enough of the social commentary xD
And, you can die for your country at 18! If that’s not reason enough to want to get snockered, I don’t know what is!
Haha, yeah my jchan has mentioned that fact as well~ i think it’s pretty silly.
and by silly i mean stupid :B
jchan? Wut?
Anon demands explanation for Anon is legion! (well actually I’m only one person doing all the anon commentary so far xD)
jchan= my fiancee <3
Lucky bastard I bet 🙂
Gratz on that btw
Haha, he tells me he considers himself lucky ^^
(been engaged for a few years now, lol~ can’t afford to get married)
As long as you love each other and can be together marriage is just a formal way of anouncing what you know in your heart to be true. i wish you luck and if you ever need a poem just give me a shout.
p.s. i know that this sounds weird, but i have made a hobby of giving poems as wedding gifts.
thanks, i hadn’t really thought of it that way but it makes sense~ we’re still in no real hurry to get married (tho my fiancee wants me to move in at some point), so it only sorta bothers me it’s taken this long, lol.
His heart is in the right place but the way he’s going around this is wrong. Getting to know her first; becoming her friend and then seeing how it proceeds from there would be the best course of action. He could however just let things progress as they are right now but we all know that’s not him.
Alan is like… “ZOMG WHO THE FOOK ARE YOU?!?” at first… then goes “OK cool… you’re a genie who’ll grant my wishes? OFF WITH THE PANTS!”
*later same night* “You know… it was really awesome and all but I think we’ll keep to the fulfilling wishes and not desires, ya know?” xD
Indeed on both counts.
This is a fairly whimsical little story with silliness and madcap meyhem when possible, but I do have moments of serious storytelling where I want to show Alan’s youth, inexperience and what that does to his perception of what exactly it is he thinks he’s supposed to do in any given situation. We all have been or are about to be 20 at some point. It’s a weird limbo-like stage of life where you’re too old to be a kid, but not old enough to drink.
Invariably, hilarity ensues. lol
Teh Random’s comment there made me lol xD
It would seem that Alan’s heart is in the right place… tho he thought with his ‘other’ head too early…
That seems to be the general occurence for males in the age group of 15 to 28, the older they get the more they think with the proper head… for a while.
They learn that to use the other head they have to use their proper head a bit first xD
PS Here in Denmark you can legally buy alcohole when you’re 18 (hah at your statement Mace, no such thing exists as ‘too old to be a kid and not old enough to drink’). I also happen to be 20 xD
PPS No… I don’t drink, can’t stand the taste of alcohole (and I swear I’m sensitive to that specific taste <.< Can taste it even when there's very very little!)
“…in the US.” *ka-Fix’d*
by the way,.. when do you usualy upload the new page?
It’s supposed to happen on Friday. I am usually the weak link here. >.>
Wonder why I can’t reply to the 2nd last of Tira’s posts… odd…
Anywho I use tard as a friendly insult to friends quite a bit while having a mental disorder myself, I don’t find it as an insult as such… depends on how and when you say it though…
That said I’m almost as normal as normal can be in terms of how I am to be around so it’s not something people notice 🙂
Threaded comments only go 5 levels deep. I upped it to 10, but there’s still a limit.
First off:
Nice comic (Y)
Cant wait to see the next page
Second:
So he`ll have another shocking experiance ? :S
maaayyyybe. 😉
if hell hath no fury like a woman scorned i bet not even heaven’s can match a genie’s.
*waves to new person*
Ship has already shown her ‘fury’ a couple pages back with lightning-zapping fun time!! xD
*waves back* the thing is she seemed just annoyed then, but now that he seemingly rejected her, like she isn’t good enough, it’s time to run for the hills.
Possibly… just because she’s a genie doesn’t mean she doesn’t have feelings!!
…. I’m really not sure what to think here besides ‘Pfft. that’s a cliffhanger and there’s no way it’s gonna stay that way’. Like Tira said, this is ‘eechi’, not hentai… (Damn straight i looked up exactly what the difference is… and since this is what it is – it doesn’t end there.)
also – lmao @ tags XD
Just had a ‘duh’ moment… He didn’t say ‘professional’.. he said ‘more…. professional’
meaning the whole thing could theoretically be a play on words and an emotionally over-reactive Ship and Alan has no intentions of doing anything different….. but i doubt it. He’s kinda tard-like, aint he?
We prefer the word “clueless” around the office. XD
you know as well as i do that ‘tardmuffin’ pwns ‘clueless’… also – you have an office?
i think he means where he works~
i tend not to use ‘tard’ at all since it’s an insult to people with mental issues/disabilities. And they’re not that way by choice.
i prefer the good ol’ DUMBASS for an insult xD
( or dipshit xD)
Actually, I was saying “between us”. lol
You’re saying you got something going on with Tira-chan? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH HER?!? O.O
normally i’d reply with something to the tune of ‘–so that’s where she got her inspiration blah blah’… but Tira pwns, and Mace is a professional.. so i’d imagine there is a semi-regular exchange of art for money or the promises of money soon… and lots of communication…
haha, me and mace don’t even live in the same state xD
we’re clear across the country from each other, actually~~
I’m sorry for Alan… well I am if he’s old enough to not be a dumb kid (see 18 years or older) but if he’s a kid… he just learned lesson 1: Don’t fuck someone then tell them you want to keep things professional xD
I so would NOT feel sorry for him if Ship were real though… MINE! xD
Alan is 20 years old at the outset of Ship in a Bottle.
I barely remember when i was that age xD lawlz
Poor Ship! That was a real dick thing to say Alan. “I don’t want you to get hurt so I’ll just use you as a whore and a wish-granting slave. That way we keep feelings out of it and everybody’s happy.” DX Hello? That’s no way to treat a lady kid! Guy has got to get over himself and start asking some serious questions here! He’s making far too many assumptions, and we all know what happens when you assume…
I’ll let some folks off the hook here. By “professional”, he was talking about the whole “master/genie” relationship, kinda like “employer/employee”. He misspoke because he’s young and clueless. XD
But of course Ship is most likely gonna take it the wrong way…
omfg i feel really sorry for ship…
thats the most idiotic thing to say after all that.
I think ship is going in to melddown mode and woop his ass XD.
well the page is nice and i like the way the last frame is made (not seeing her face but knowing what she thinks)
i would give it a 8 outa 10 (till now never given a 9 or a 10 for any comic (its a tast thing XP)
Signs point to “yes”. XD