Ménage à 3 Universe Comics

Last we saw of her, she was in a Lez-Hate relationship with Sonya.

Don't worry, Tracy has Ma3 intelligence and sensitivity. Guaranteed to evaporate the moment a joke needs it gone.

Specifically, those two were last seen in the shower, swearing eternal enmity while frottaging.

It's Zii who's vanished most completely. Smart money says she may be on her way home, so she can discover Gary up to his neck in naked girlies on his birthday, like she promised, and will probably be taking a call from Jung any moment now, asking her to come in and cover in the shop.

New Ma3 strip. Oops. Ma3 and SDB plotlines can now diverge again for a while.

Nice job breaking it, Chanelle.

Aww... I kinda feel bad for Amber now.

All she needs to do is 'phone Gary, or pass word through their mutual friend Zii, to at least have a chance of fixing this mistake. But she's evidently so intent on switching back to "normal" from her porn star lifestyle that she tries to follow dumb rules like "The guy always has to call the woman". And she clearly doesn't understand Gary, or she'd know that is a really dumb rule in this case.

So, as usual in Ma3, people dig their own graves.

To be fair, it's been shown that Amber and Chanelle have rather... unique misconceptions of what the prevalent social norms are.

edited 18th Oct '14 11:03:09 AM by MarqFJA

Yes, and Gary and DiDi have some radical misconceptions too. Sonya and Ruby are downright delusory. Kiley is obsessive. Dillon is a drama addict, and Matt is even more addicted to risk. Zii is commitment-phobic...

They're all their own worst enemies, for reasons that are probably not entirely their own faults. Doesn't change the basic fact.

Misconceptions my fundament; this is Ma3—where sexually related madness is the norm and you are but an aimless surfboard in the constantly self-sustaining tsunami of horniness.

New SOTR... and I stand corrected on the identity of the woman who tore and burned Sandra's picture in a voodoo-esque manner.

Odd that this page was posted on the same day as the MA 3 and SBD pages, and yet nobody here noticed over the past three days since then.

edited 20th Oct '14 12:57:52 PM by MarqFJA

Actually, it only appeared yesterday (Sunday). I forgot to post a heads-up here when I saw it.

New SDB.

It looks like Ray is probably straight after all. I'm still not sure if he knows whether Dillon is gay. I'd be puzzled by the idea that Dillon managed to keep this secret from him throughout high school; he seems to have been pretty well established in his Dillon-ish-ness by the time of his one failed heterosexual experiment.

However, the main thing that strikes me is that Dillon still hasn't recognised at least one problem with his own behaviour; he still looks happy at the prospect of getting up close and snuggly with a handsome straight guy, despite the fact that this is (a) creepy, (b) a good way to piss off someone like Ray if he works out the truth later (not all men being as stupid as Andy or as compliant as Gary), and (c) basically just taunting and frustrating himself. Ruby may have to roll her eyes and talk to him again.

Also, we know that Amber is now on the way to the set, which implies a chance that she'll meet handsome, straight Ray. Chance of sparks there? Does he know her past work? Would Amber get annoyed if Dillon attempted to block her from another cute guy, even if it's just by his usual passive aggression?

New Ma3. Dang, but Giz can draw attractive characters.

Anyway, Tracy's ideas about first aid seem a little eccentric, but who's complaining? Presumably, she reckons that Gary's jaw muscles have gone into spasm, and just need to be eased back into function while Gary is distracted from any transient discomfort.

Meanwhile, Zii continues her descent into madness, weighted down by cognitive dissonance.

But will she break her promise to Chanelle?

Even if she's prepared to do so, she probably reckons that Gary needs to get over this minor trauma first. Plus, she knows that he has a hundred bucks and orders to buy her dinner with it. And she appreciates his cool game system. Looks like time to hang out and get some context about this interesting guy.

New Sandra. Someone is having a nice dream...

I didn't notice until now that Gary's lockjawed mouth has actually been in the same position for the past several strips.

Also, Tracy = expert doctor.

Possibly in the sense that Kiley = expert psychiatrist. But hey, I wouldn't be complaining in Gary's shoes.

New Ma3. Hints of some unimportant backstory, but mostly, the long process of disintegration continues.

Also, SDB readers will note that Dillon looks set to deceive Ray about an important fact for no good reason.

I enjoy the Lampshade Hanging in the final panel. :P

That's not Dillon intending to deceive, that's the ma3-verse 'heard half a conversation, drew wrong conclusion, didn't ask for clarification' special. Other universes have faster than light travel, radiation induced super powers, or bizarre vampire variations. We have this. The One Big Lie that makes the universe works.

edited 23rd Oct '14 3:22:18 PM by Daremo

Sure. But you can bet that Dillon won't correct Ray's mistake, even if and when he gets every opportunity to do so. Because being clear would endanger his chances of getting snogs with his first big crush. Even though this will make things worse when the truth does come out.

That's not necessarily true. Or are we forgetting how Gary learned the swirly in the first place?

I'm not going to jump to assumptions about Dillon.

I too liked the lampshade.

Gary knew that Dillon was gay from the start, and talked himself into the lessons. Ray doesn't currently know that Dillon is gay, and has already said that playing romantic scenes with him will be difficult for him; it's a fair guess that it'll get even harder if he knows that Dillon is gay (i.e. this isn't all pure fakery, somehow), and he may well be hurt or angry that his old school friend hid stuff from him. Plus, he may even (rightly) suspect that Dillon didn't say anything because he wanted those clinches - which makes the eventual inevitable reveal much worse.

Anyhow, new SDB, and Ruby scores a new first for the setting.