Something Positive

Well, we are talking about someone who likes to walk around in a plush kaiju outfit.

*snort* Leather Bear... this is golden stuff.

Something I've always wondered: Do you have to be fat and gay and hairy to be a bear?

Being into dudes is definitely a necessity. I think "fat" can be swapped out for merely "large", so, like, if you're muscley you also qualify. It's all to do with making a show of being masculine, to the best of my understanding.

But then, that's not a subculture I'm involved in, so I might not be the person to ask.

I like Vanessa more and more...

I hope Randy realizes he has to sell those things now. HAS TO.

Tagline of the comic:

"Coming soon to the S*P store... not that"

HAS TO.

Why isn't anything in the archives after 8/6? Has something happened to him?

There are things in his archives, but the navigation's junked up.

The Last Trick-or-Treaters has returned. I've always enjoyed these. They range from morbidly funny to creepy to just plain weird.

Has this been foreshadowed at all before?

Does it matter?

Hooray for Rory!

Just curious. It's a fun twist regardless.

Oh but speaking of twists...we're coming up on the end of the year now aren't we?

rory is about 12 years old just hitting puberty. it wasnt foreshadowed before because he was to young to actually develop genuine attraction to people

This is gonna cost Randy fans.

But fuck them, I'm intrigued.

Enh, I think most people who'd get offended wouldn't read this comic in the first place.

Indeed - Something Positive was actually one of the first things I ever read or saw that had any quality LGBT representation. I can't imagine that anyone who's stuck with the comic would jump off because Randy is now exploring a different facet of those issues.

The worst part is that he's growing up in Texas.

Absolute truth.

(My store would have been open yesterday, but none of the shift managers wanted to come in. Not even the store owner who wanted to open up yesterday.)

The worst story suggestions from readers in 2015.

Wow. All I can say is that I suppose it takes all types to constitute a readership. :/

That, and I'm surprised there weren't any requests along the lines of, "Please do another Helen story so I can whine at you for getting her wrong."

There may have been such suggestions, just that they didn't make the cut for "worst".

And regardless of the subject, the worst part is always its fandom. No exceptions.

Actually, I subsequently (and good-natured-jokingly) asked Randy via Twitter whether there were any such requests. He answered, "Oddly enough, no."

Old Familiar Faces: Good ol' Canadian trapdoor alligators.

D'aww...