Ménage à 3 Universe Comics

Kittens are notoriously unreliable as placeholders.

New Ma3 strip. Warning; the visuals are SFW, but the dialogue is... Well, let's just say SFW but TMI.

(Funny, though. Mostly for Sonya's expression in the last panel.)

Wow, you know something is seriously wrong when you, a character of non-Japanese cultural upbringing, prove to be more knowledgeable about sexual kinks than a fellow character who is definitely of Japanese cultural upbringing.

Yuki has a goodie-goodie facade?

Anyway, Sonya is hardly in a position to judge someone for kinkiness, considering her participation in threesomes, and moresomes and pegging...

*horrified cringing laughter*

... Um, fisting is a whole different ballpark altogether from those things.

edited 22nd Nov '14 5:29:05 AM by MarqFJA

Not necessarily, depending on how it's done...

New Sandra. Which seems to be wandering off into a school story featuring tertiary characters and very Ma3-universe character humour.

I get that it's Author Appeal that Everyone Is Bi or at least is somewhere on the Kinsey Scale, but really, everyone?

Not so much "author appeal" as "makes it easier to write" I think.

Also, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say not everyone. Specifically, not Alex. Two comics in a row where being into guys is put on the table with no confirmation or even awareness on his part? The dude's straight and we're about to fall down a comedy mine shaft where he doesn't realize that everyone thinks he isn't.

We know it isn't "everyone", but it's a lot of people.

That is one extra dude who have just appeared in the story. That is the second time we have even seem Christophe, so I am not sure what is the big deal.

Well, "makes for a recurring gag", I think. The gag being that people who have at least a twinge of bisexuality freak out a bit when they discover the fact in themselves. It's a joke that these comics maybe repeat a bit too often, but, well, it fits their style, so whatever...

...and actually, Sandra on the Rocks may feature proportionally fewer bisexuals than the other two things in the setting. Senna is nominally bi but actually seems to focus on guys, Cammi, Eloise and Nadine seem to be Anything That Moves voracious omnivores, and the lead character has one (1) disastrous lesbian experiment in her past, but otherwise every presents as heterosexual (or presumed flaming gay, in the case of Fabien, though I still think he should turn out to be straight, married with kids, and a great believer in giving the clients what they expect).

I'm not saying any of this as based on my views on homosexuality, by the way (I'm an Ally, for the record). It just seems a bit disproportionate, mainly to make writing new characters easier, which feels a bit lazier. How many characters have recently been introduced with one of the first things you need to know about them is that they're Questioning?

...None?

Unless you count Nadine, I guess (although she is certainly not "questioning").

EDIT:Okay, I went as far back as January and I am pretty sure Christophe and Nadine are the only (possible) bisexual characters introduced in this period. There is also Eloise, but she was introduced last year.

edited 25th Nov '14 4:45:27 PM by Heatth

New Ma3. Well, that was a surprise.

New SDB. Ruby's brain has been scrambled by the yaoi, and Ray's characterisation and personal history needs some expansion for plausibility.

@Ma3 Update: Oh, for god's sakes you two, just f—oh, right.

New Ma3. Bedroom? That's Kiley's personal Room 101...

Poor Kiley. Will she ever get a break? Even with her eccentricities and emotional A-Cup Angst trauma, she's one of the most sane, rational, and morally sound characters in this setting.

Well, she is banging an underwear model while getting away with stuff that should be getting her license to practice preemptively suspended for about eighty years. And she's getting a DiDi picnic lunch.

But the road to her personal hell is definitely paved with some good intentions and illuminated by the radiance of the hypno-boobs.

Talking of which, new Ma3. Oh, dear.

So... Didi is smarter than we thought? I mean, what she said in the third panel and her expression in the fourth strongly implies to me that she knows that Kiley's "love" is just a form of (unconventional) psychological therapy for Didi's problem.

DiDi has slipped into stalker thinking. Whatever Kiley might say or even think, DiDi knows that Kiley actually loves her. So it would be silly to let Kiley somehow talk herself out of accepting that.

Oh, and now...

New Sandra. One has to get up quite early in the morning to get one over on Zoé.

New SDB. Somebody needsto hose Ruby down with cold water so she can get back to calling Dillon on his stupidity.

Man, Zoe still remains my favorite character in this strip. Tall, beautiful, smart, willful, snarky, ethical, and is not a jerkass for the hell of it (in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she eventually turned out to have a Hidden Heart of Gold somewhere).

... And Ruby is in la-la land, I see.