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Dinner Discourse

October 7, 2020 by Tim


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Bob
Bob
4 years ago

I have no idea what he referring to. It’s funny.

Kevin
Kevin
4 years ago
Reply to  Bob

Sony remastered Spider-Man and changed the character model from the stock one X-years ago to one that looks an awfully lot like Tom Holland.

KBABZ
KBABZ
4 years ago
Reply to  Kevin

It’s actually Jamie Foxx returning as Electro… and we’re not sure if it’s the same one or a new one.

JohnS
JohnS
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

I actually liked the Toby McGuire trilogy as well (emo/dance scenes excluded) and I think doctor octopus’ energy research could be a catalyst to find a way into the spider verse. It’d be nice to have a three of them

TomB
TomB
4 years ago
Reply to  JohnS

Would have enjoyed them if McGuire wasn’t so underwhelming and unpalatable. Holland was a zillion times better and even Garfield was though he was a bit too emo for me. I love Doc Oc as a character.

Axel
Axel
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

I burst out laughing when I read “Crusty Nutsack”.
Tim you are hilarious !!!!

foducool
foducool
4 years ago

quite the vibrant image right here XD

Scrysis
Scrysis
4 years ago

Please tell me that this didn’t actually happen. . .

Dan I
Dan I
4 years ago
Reply to  Scrysis

It did. Sony said they’re movies take.place in the MCU but won’t affect the MCU unless Feige produces the movie.

Ed B.
Ed B.
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan I

I think Scrysis was talking about the actual dinner conversation.

raven0ak
raven0ak
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan I

you mean their?, or you mean they are movies?

Pocket Astronomer
Pocket Astronomer
4 years ago
Reply to  Scrysis

I can totally see this conversation happening between Tim and his partner.

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 years ago

Another romantic evening at the Buckley household. Tim, you charmer.

Chris
Chris
4 years ago

There goes THAT romantic chinese carry-out-with-wine date…

Mastacheata
Mastacheata
4 years ago
Reply to  Chris

Sorry for nitpicking,: But he even spelled it out for you, it’s Thai food not Chinese. (-‸ლ)

Jacob
Jacob
4 years ago
Reply to  Mastacheata

Except many asian restaurants identify as Chinese despite offering Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese dishes. My local one “China Beijing” does amazing Pad Thai and Vietnamese spring rolls.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to claim Chinese has become the Band-Aid or Kleenex of asian cuisine.

Calibus
Calibus
4 years ago
Reply to  Jacob

I dont know where you’re from, but where i live we call Take out Thai food, Thai. We call veitnamese food, Pho, and korean food korean. Because they are distinct from each other.

Aichon
Aichon
4 years ago
Reply to  Calibus

Ehh, I could go either way on this debate. Our nearest Chinese place has items on the menu from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisines. The local sushi joint? Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese, and Vietnamese dishes. Our favorite Thai place? Well, it’s actually just Thai. They’re pretty on point. My preferred Korean takeout? It has Korean, plus one or two items of Chinese and Japanese origin. Our favorite Vietnamese place? Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai dishes. Point being, lots of people get “Chinese” without regard for—or oftentimes even an awareness of—where the cuisine originated. I’m not saying that’s a good thing.… Read more »

Bernie Margolis
Bernie Margolis
4 years ago
Reply to  Calibus

Where I live, we also have restaurants that brand themselves as “Asian fusion.” It’s not unusual to see Pad Thai offered on the menu along with Beef Bulgogi, Schezuan Chicken, and Pho.

Ben
Ben
4 years ago
Reply to  Calibus

These are the questions that matter

Esc
Esc
4 years ago
Reply to  Jacob

I’ve literally never heard of this before, so I’m extremely interesting in knowing what region you’re from.

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  Esc

It’s probably less to do with region, and more to do with size of the city/town and how diverse the population is. In my small Wisconsin hometown, the Chinese restaurant also had Thai and Japanese, just because there was no other competition, the locals just called it all “Chinese” anyways, and it attracted out-of-towners that were dying for good sushi.

Johnny 5
Johnny 5
4 years ago

Language.

Jeff CB Jones
Jeff CB Jones
4 years ago

Making the best seemingly innocent yet inappropriate comments at the worst time is a rare skill, but a truly wonderful thing to behold. If you can give the audience whiplash at a funeral but still not piss anyone off, you’ve got talent.

Rakshiir
Rakshiir
4 years ago

I love the look on her face. This “listening although I am not really sure what you are talking about because I love you” juuust till the last picture… vivid imagination can be a curse sometimes.

BakaGrappler
BakaGrappler
4 years ago

This comic… is the response to people saying, “Hey Tim, why not have your wife in the comic more…?”

Vafudhr
Vafudhr
4 years ago

Yeah, been there, done that to the wife… good times. 😀

Robert
Robert
4 years ago

*Eating curry my wife made*

Wife: “Oh, BTW /our toddler/ did a huge poop today.”

Stef
Stef
4 years ago

Based on real events?

Tim
Tim
4 years ago

I am not a native english speaker so I’m not sure :

Is it implied that *someone* actually put Nutsack in the food ?

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Nope; only that, at the moment she took a bite, he described it in an extremely disgusting and revolting way, which she then imagined.

raven0ak
raven0ak
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

when you have good imagination and listen very disturbing scene about food while you eat is certainly nasty thing to happen

Verdiekus
Verdiekus
4 years ago

Your wife is an amazing woman to put up with your shenanigans, make sure she knows just how much you appreciate her.

FITCamaro
FITCamaro
4 years ago

If you actually had this conversation with your wife and she didn’t smack you, your wife is kinder than mine.

Leon
Leon
4 years ago

Mentioning nutsackks during dinner…….

Chris
Chris
4 years ago

Did they plan it carefully thou? Hulk didn’t work out so well so the Norton movie is just kinda in the MCU. Outside of Cpt. America and Avengers they didn’t really reference it outside of a little Name- / eventdrop. They added ultron a few month before Antman and therefore had stark invent ultron. they did Civil war without the X-Men and even spiderman was just written in afterwards as they got the rights to it and he didn’t have any major part in it. Was the end product good and entertaining? Were the last 2 avengers movie a worthy… Read more »

Mr. Casual
Mr. Casual
4 years ago

Somehow, and I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but SOMEHOW . . . I get the distinct impression you’re not terribly fond of the Sonyverse Marvel movies. 😛

Herald
Herald
4 years ago

There’s a panel missing with your wife’s reaction.

Eldest Gruff
Eldest Gruff
4 years ago
Reply to  Herald

“Ugh, god Tim, that’s disgusting, do you have to talk that way during our date night, now all I can think of is crusty balls when I look at my food” isn’t quite the rimshot punchline you’d want to end a strip.

Herald
Herald
4 years ago
Reply to  Eldest Gruff

Or “in the jar” and there’s a jar of money for everytime he does this.

“It’s a good thing you’re cute”

“You’d think I’d be used to this by now”

raven0ak
raven0ak
4 years ago
Reply to  Herald

face in 3rd panel tells all that’s needed; best of jokes tell little and show more

J.D.
J.D.
4 years ago

Or you can just play the game or watch the movie and not have to combine or compare them to each other, Just enjoy or not enjoy.

J.D.
J.D.
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Ah I thought you meant Sony’s spiderman games.

Jacob Bielski
Jacob Bielski
4 years ago

The MCU doesn’t really harmonize. There were cracks before, but things have just been blown open since Endgame. The way that movie ends with everything “back to normal” is just insulting to the theme of dealing with trauma that the movie started out with. Far From Home just brushes the whole thing off as a blip, that didn’t having any lasting effects on anyone’s psyche. Also with Far From Home, it turns out that Iron Man built a fleet of death drones that can kill anyone in the world at a single command; it totally flies in the face of… Read more »

FITCamaro
FITCamaro
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Agree completely.

But I’ll add that there’s very little about the future of the MCU that I’m excited about. Don’t really want to see Woke-vengers.

Merendel
Merendel
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Theres a difference between diversity and wokeness. Diversity is like a neighborhood full of all different ethnicity and modes of thought and everybody at least respecting one another even when they disagree. Wokeness is like a marching band with no musical talent clanging down your street at 1am. They assigned the positions and instruments based on an ever shifting metric of perceived oppression instead of talent and demand you come out and cheer for them or they’ll stand outside your house and play till you do. Anyone that has the gaul to complain that they need to sleep so they… Read more »

RblDiver
RblDiver
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

My view of wokeness vs diversity: Diversity is more “This black director has done historically black films in the past, and this brings a certain perspective which adds value to the film.” Wokeness is more “We have a black director because he is black,” or “This film should be considered amazing because we have a black director (not because of what filmography/talent/etc this actually brings.”

The Oscars have just instituted rules that nominees for “Best Film” (iirc) must have a certain amount of minority representation in the cast and crew. That’s wokeness, not diversity.

Merendel
Merendel
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

The MCU in particular has not been too bad. Maybe a hint or two of the crusty nutsack geting too close to the food in captain marvel but overall they’ve been more successful than most doing diversity right when they try than some other studios up to this point. For example Black panther, A+. Mostly black cast but everything felt natural, well as natural as can be for superhero fiction anyway. Nothing felt forced in there and it was an enjoyable romp. Captain marvel, C. Not the worst offender I’ve ever seen but borderline. Yes your an established character who’s… Read more »

Timmeh
Timmeh
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Sometimes I have difficulty reading the comment section of your comics Tim. I know you won’t read this (cuz more than 20 minutes have passed) but The respect I had for you has easily gone off the charts (up, like way up) for your analysis of media, race, and ethnicity. Thank you. I appreciate you so much more as a creator because of this.

Robert Loughrey
Robert Loughrey
4 years ago
Reply to  Merendel

The definition of Woke that I would use is that a person is aware that racial inequalities exist and that they themselves have biases. The Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Museum in LA has two doors going into it. One says “Biased” and the other says “Unbiased” The “Unbiased” door is locked.

owen
owen
4 years ago

You should create cards for Hallmark… jus’ sayin’…

Danmako
Danmako
4 years ago

I am a bit wary of Sony deciding to exploit this…I liked Toby’s but disliked Garfield’s (too mean) versions, but at the same time the potential of a live action Spider-verse is reeeeally cool. Seeing these guys come back and do their Spider men in a whole crazy multiverse mess up is a dream come true. Oh and in reference to someone above, who said they did not deal with the blip and its effects enough in Far from Home…I think it would take a lot of movies to really explore it properly, and there is the chance to do… Read more »

Wraith
Wraith
4 years ago

I know it’s been a long time but still hoping Ethan will navigate his way and return

Tim
Tim
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

You know, being in the future and all this stuff !

(:D:D:D:D)

SilverShadow4
SilverShadow4
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Not only is this a drawing of Tim, but that story ended a long time ago. If you look at the Archive you’ll see that Tim ended that story in November of 2012 and in the printed version he released shortly after. Any depictions of Ethan now are standalone or in the new(er) story Analog and D-Pad.

Mark
Mark
4 years ago

I LOLed, thank you.

MasterofBalance
MasterofBalance
3 years ago

No-one wants nut-sack in their pad thai…

El Guero Caliente
El Guero Caliente
3 years ago

Using forks to eat pad thai? Sacrilege! (I know, I’m focusing on entirely the wrong thing here!)