Meh some folks might be ok with being a “kept man or woman” It would drive me batty, but there’s famous examples, even in the White House right now. (I think, Maybe I heard she isn’t living there?)
Pretty sure we stepped along that path when we started saying “No, you don’t get input in the state or health of yourself, and I will make it illegal for you to do anything about it”. Seriously, there were texas laws that put rewards out for reporting. But, blatant illegal activities get spun and spun and diverted with nonsense. Now we got Alligator Auschwitz, replaced the showers with gators. My mother’s side is from Germany, and I’m pretty damn sure this isn’t what they mean by “Getting back to your Roots”…
I honestly can’t see any supervillain vibes. All I see is a woman trying to control the situation in a very dangerous way. The “call me asap” text and then “you called in 30 seconds, that is too long, you’re cheating on me,” is a short ways away. She might be super, but there’s nothing in my mind that is signalling this right now. All can be done with classic psychology. Ethan’s desperate for companionship, nor is the most mentally strong, making it relatively easy. What are the vibes that are telling you it’s a super? I really can’t see… Read more »
It seems like you’re approaching the situation from a real life point of view instead of a comic book life point of view. In a comic book, blatant personality red flags often hint at a super villain trying to act “normal” and/or they’re used in building a backstory between a villain and a hero. In real life we don’t even begin to think super villain unless the person with the huge red flags is also super rich, CEO of a corporation with a bad rep, military dictator, etc.
That’s…a stretch. In comic books, personality red flags can hint at a super villain identity, but that’s far from a given. Take J. Jonah Jameson as a case in point. He’s practically the poster child for obsessive, toxic antagonism. He lies, he smears, he stirs public panic. But he’s not a supervillain, and he’s not in league with them either. He’s just a petty man with a long-running grudge…and a regrettable mustache, which even Captain America felt compelled to comment on. See also Liz Allan, Flash Thompson, Debra Whitman…(Spidey really has suffered more than his share of toxic interpersonal dynamics,… Read more »
J Jonah Jameson not being in league with supervillains? Seems like you have some required reading to do. Suffice it to say, even your exception isn’t an exception at all. Comic book side characters, even if they were originally designed to be Jo Schmo-McNopowers, almost always end up either getting some kind of power temporarily or permanently, and/or entering the superhero-supervillain spectrum. Hell, the original poster-boy normal-friend-of-superhero, Jimmy Olsen, ended up with his own comic where he got so many different superpowers it was downright silly (though that was the vibe they were going for). And let’s go back to… Read more »
Not a villain but a superhero, possibly one that is used to being in control and a woman with independence etc. Willing to bet that this is more or less the arc that eventually gets Lucas to *forgets name now* the reporter who’s in the original comics as his love interest. Man…. it’s been donkey’s years since I read the OG….
(P. S. Your depiction of narcissism and control is on point, Tim. I’m intrigued to see what happens when she goes full DARVO. 👀 Sad thing is, it happens IRL. A lot. 🥺)
True, though it feels like this time around Tim’s going for the serious angle, which I’m all for. I feel like this touches a subject that doesn’t get talked about enough – and needs to be talked about.
I just hope Ethan will listen, and not start a fight over it.
… I give it pretty good odds that Nicole has predicted Lucas pulling Ethan aside and has been working out how to either a) manipulate Ethan after the conversation or b) have Ethan defend her, starting an argument.
As an aside, I was _really_ hoping she was just pushing for a one-night stand that would leave Ethan alone, upset and confused after the fact, but in a place to get over it. This looks *worse*.
I’m glad it’s jumping to (hopefully) Lucas warning Ethan fairly quickly. This is a bit uncomfortable to read.
JozMk.II
29 days ago
I doubt this is the case, but it almost feels like Tim is making Ethan’s latest relationship endeavor intentionally painful, in order to make Lilah seem more appealing to people like myself who otherwise dislike her. It’s certainly having that effect to some extent.
Mostly that she was just kind of there in CAD 1.0, as a love interest and at-times mom figure for Ethan, without otherwise having much else to stand out as her own character. Plus I personally prefer more of the superhero arcs and less of the relationship/romance drama, and worry it’ll shift even more toward the latter when Ethan and Lilah inevitably end up together and perhaps even marry somewhere down the road.
Nor does yours matter much by itself, either. And I’ll presume you’re referring to Nicole as having the narcissism vibes, which I can certainly see. Whether I like Lilah or not, I have to admit that Ethan would be a lot better off with her than this red flag-covered fruitcake.
Gonfrask
29 days ago
Well, Lucas clearly knows.
Darkhorse
29 days ago
At least she’s interested in him. More than I can say of some. Further red flags: – Brought food for Ethan and not for Lucas, while there’s a big chance he would be there. This puts him last in her ranking order. – She barely acknowledges Lucas, and interrupts his initiation of further conversation to spend her energy on Ethan. – Further controlling Ethan by commenting on his clothes. Basically she’s saying he’s dressed like shit, and wants to control even what he wears. Some other red flags could be that Ethan doesn’t know what to feel yet, which can… Read more »
*Is* she interested in him? Or is this a game to her, enjoying pushing his buttons and making him dance? It honestly feels like the latter to me.
Though I’m not the best at social cues, heh.
Interested might not be the right word. What I mean is that at the very least he’s a focal point in her life. There’s some investment, while in some cases they only want to be invested in.
There’s a good chance it is just pretend at the start, flipping the script soon enough. Like you say, it might just be the hidden levers and buttons she likes to push.
Yep. Narcissists often have very low self-esteem, and controlling people is how they find joy in life. The emotion of love for a narc can be… odd.
Amy
29 days ago
NGL the vibe I’ve gotten the past few updates is that she thinks Ethan is transfemme. I think she’s reading his comfort sweatshirt as a dysphoria hoodie.
So. Trans woman here. If a woman came to me and gave me a hoodie to hide my body without me outright explaining I have body dysphoria, I would be kind of weirded out.
Like, even if that was the case (very very likely not). This all is still horrifically controlling and covered in red flags.
Matt Braddock
29 days ago
OK, how much are y’all willing to bet she’s Captain Prime?
I swear that half the commenters are playing a “wrong answers only” game. Ben is obviously not Deathblood and Nicole is obviously not Captain Prime. And yet every time one of them shows up, we’re made to suffer these “guesses”
Some of us don’t have photographic memory of every character and every event, nor the skill to find specific pages in the archive to test a hypothesis.
It’s been a while since I read strips with Captain Prime, but I remember that she talks differently than Nicole. I remember Cpt Prime being more direct and practical in her wording, while Nicole is a bit more… carefree and sing-songie here. So, I’m curious.
Troll knows about Analog, he doesn’t know about Ethan.
He’s also in jail, has other things going on (if the last Elijah page is any indication), and this really doesn’t match Trolls style.
Seriously, why is it so impossible to consider the possibility of new characters simply being new characters? Just because chat is incapable of making up characters doesn’t mean Tim is.
Even Dr. Eldritch seems more likely, if only barely.
Captain Prime isn’t a control freak, she’s just extremely impatient with people she considers rank amateurs screwing up (such as when she bailed them out from ZK), or showing her up, like A+D did with The Black Hat. I’d say her thing is just being against unregistered vigilantes in general.
ZFTX
29 days ago
This is just weird, especially from my [female] perspective!
Oyee
29 days ago
What I’m curious about is what she plays and if she rages. When can we see that trainwreck? 😀
Happywyvern
29 days ago
TFS Goku: Is this a Red Flag?
TFS Piccolo : Crimson…
There’s a good chance she’s some sorta cape. My first through was Captain prime, and while the hair style and build match, i’m not sure the colours do, but that could just be the lighting from Prime’s first appearance. Captain Prime also has some facial scars that aren’t present on Nicole, but that could also just be the author not wanting to do that.
Ah yeah, I knew she appeared a second time but couldn’t find it off hand, thanks for dispelling that.
Lily
29 days ago
I wouldn’t be too harsh on her, while she seems assertive and maybe even a bit dommy, she hasn’t done anything wrong. Ethen has gone along with everything so far, and so he might enjoy it. He did say he was a Teemo bottom after all.
Ethan is certainly capable to displaying dislike for something, he complains about things all the time. He didn’t complain to Lucas, while alone with him either. So saying he secretly hates it and is being rolled over, is taking it a bit too far.
Sure it’s unhealthy and toxic, but being a narcissist is not a crime and so far Ethan seem to cooprate. So far, she still didn’t do anything really bad on purpose.
I guess it’s just a matter of few panels, tho
She hasn’t crossed any lines yet. There are people who are legitimately into strong assertive people like that. There really isn’t any way to know until he says he doesn’t like something, then seeing her reaction to that. Until then people are just assuming the worse.
A lot of your argument is basically “He hasn’t clearly said he hates it yet” to defend her showing all telltale signs of an abuser and tbh. That worries me for several potential reasons. It’s really obvious, that Ethan is insecure about the whole situation. He is unable to answer Lucas’ question although it’s a simple one He gets completely steamrolled by Nicole and his reaction to it isn’t one of delight. AT BEST it could be read as “I’m into it but shy”. But more likely it is something along the lines of. “I don’t really know how to… Read more »
Tomn
29 days ago
I’m kinda amazed how many ridiculous contortions people are willing to go through to justify Nicole being potentially Captain Prime when it’s incredibly obvious they’re not the same person or even ethnicity. “Maybe it’s just the lighting at night”? My guys, Lucas and Ethan are both as lily-white as Nicole and didn’t look like that at night.
Like, what, you can remember only one other notably assertive woman in the comic so it must be the same person?
This is how old superheroes could get away with using a domino mask to hide their identities.
No, I mean I’m pretty sure he’s been changed from 1.0 Davidowicz to having a Spanish last name and he has darker skin now.
Crestlinger
29 days ago
Ironically the ‘insert controller into port 2 so psycho mantis can’t read your moves’ Is Very appropriate for how to deal with the controlling nature of this one. On further rumination ‘psycho mantis’ Fits also as the females bite the heads off the males when mating at a certain percentage.
Paula
29 days ago
I understand if you are running in the morning you need to wear comfy sporty clothes, but I find hilarious that she is talking about what Ethan is wearing (and about buying him new clothes) when she herself is dressed like that.
Apart from that, the whole scene was weird and I loved Lucas’ face.
Very much a “do as I say not as I do” type of control. I’ve been with people who are very similar. It’s not nice. Took me a long time to break away from that type of abusive relationship
WAhydrohead
29 days ago
Run
Richard Weatherfield
29 days ago
Okay this is starting to creep me out. If the roles were reversed here and Ethan was dong this to Nicole this would definitely not be okay.
You don’t have to reverse the roles for this to not be OK. It already isn’t.
The comic is not even pretending it is.
Nik
29 days ago
Run Ethan.
Run away now.
Daniel
29 days ago
And now she knows where he lives. Well, the good news is that Ethan can quite easily fake his death
wilddeath
29 days ago
so many red flags…. its a field of red…
some guy
29 days ago
Okay, by this point all the red flags are starting to have baby red flags.
Caldress
29 days ago
The moment she pulled out the cookie I immediately thought she was trying to do Pavlovian conditioning on Ethan like he was a dog.
foducool
29 days ago
uh oh, red flags
Willess12
29 days ago
Guys, hear me out, I know it’s a little far-fetched, but I have a theory.
I think Nicole is actually Ben.
It would explain why she ignores Lucas, she doesn’t want him to figure out the truth. And Ben is a cop, so an authoritative personality makes sense for him.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, but hear me out: that mustache Ben has is definitely fake. That’s why he never heard it called a pornstache before. If you remove the mustache, he kinda sorta almost vaguely looks like Nicole.
Clever! However, I think Nicole might actually be Lucas. It’s actually pretty obvious once you think about it. Lucas is the only person that knew Ethan would be dating on that site. Lucas was the one who helped set up Ethans profile, and since Ethan doesn’t know the site that gave Lucas the opportunity to secretly set his profile to private, which explains why Ethan didn’t get any other dates in the meantime. Note how Lucas was fine with the lack of detail from Ethan on the date. After all, he doesn’t need the info, he was the one picking… Read more »
It definitely sounds more plausible than her being Prime.
Carlos
29 days ago
I see some of y’all saying she is giving you the villain vibes… but maybe we’re reading a bit ahead of the comic?
I mean, she is clearly someone trying to control Ethan, I don’t think any of us would disagree with that.
But what if… she isn’t a villain… YET?
Maybe eventually her relationship with Ethan doesn’t go where she wants it or how she wants it, and, somewhat quoting the Joker, that is her “bad day”, which leads her to snap and eventually become a villain of sorts?
Phaet
29 days ago
Awww. She’s so nice 🙂
Mor
28 days ago
I can’t really say if this is bad for Ethan or not… 😁
AngryLittleMan
28 days ago
All right at first I thought sexy amazon woman. Now…I’m concerned, and see some red flags on the horizon.
Neon
28 days ago
Only missing that she wears a red flag on her shirt
Well if she was a ‘red shirt’ least we know she’d die easily lol (star trek TOS reference joke fyi for anyone not getting it!)
Fartsy
28 days ago
Oh crap ! the red flags are multiplicating !
Rossbane
28 days ago
Red flags over and over
T!J!
28 days ago
I can see why she is so attracted to Ethan. He’s a super hero without a super power. He’s built, buff, ripped, jacked. She must think he goes to the gym. And considering her size, she really wants someone who can physically please her, on a marathon endurance level.
Last edited 28 days ago by T!J!
knight
27 days ago
This seems like a “Sara” reboot from the first comics you ever did^^
Big with blonde hair and now even the split outfit xD
The Masked Platypus
22 days ago
I want to like her. I really do. Sexy strong woman. But we can’t ignore the plentitude of red flags. Maybe I’ll just ship Nithan like a tween fanfic writer and ignore all toxicity
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She gives me supervillain vides so much. Maybe a newly moved to the city supervillain?
Could be. Unfortunately, I’ve also met real people like this. The true supervillains of our real lives, you could say. 🫠
Meh some folks might be ok with being a “kept man or woman” It would drive me batty, but there’s famous examples, even in the White House right now. (I think, Maybe I heard she isn’t living there?)
Pretty sure we stepped along that path when we started saying “No, you don’t get input in the state or health of yourself, and I will make it illegal for you to do anything about it”. Seriously, there were texas laws that put rewards out for reporting. But, blatant illegal activities get spun and spun and diverted with nonsense. Now we got Alligator Auschwitz, replaced the showers with gators. My mother’s side is from Germany, and I’m pretty damn sure this isn’t what they mean by “Getting back to your Roots”…
I honestly can’t see any supervillain vibes. All I see is a woman trying to control the situation in a very dangerous way. The “call me asap” text and then “you called in 30 seconds, that is too long, you’re cheating on me,” is a short ways away. She might be super, but there’s nothing in my mind that is signalling this right now. All can be done with classic psychology. Ethan’s desperate for companionship, nor is the most mentally strong, making it relatively easy. What are the vibes that are telling you it’s a super? I really can’t see… Read more »
It seems like you’re approaching the situation from a real life point of view instead of a comic book life point of view. In a comic book, blatant personality red flags often hint at a super villain trying to act “normal” and/or they’re used in building a backstory between a villain and a hero. In real life we don’t even begin to think super villain unless the person with the huge red flags is also super rich, CEO of a corporation with a bad rep, military dictator, etc.
That’s…a stretch. In comic books, personality red flags can hint at a super villain identity, but that’s far from a given. Take J. Jonah Jameson as a case in point. He’s practically the poster child for obsessive, toxic antagonism. He lies, he smears, he stirs public panic. But he’s not a supervillain, and he’s not in league with them either. He’s just a petty man with a long-running grudge…and a regrettable mustache, which even Captain America felt compelled to comment on. See also Liz Allan, Flash Thompson, Debra Whitman…(Spidey really has suffered more than his share of toxic interpersonal dynamics,… Read more »
J Jonah Jameson not being in league with supervillains? Seems like you have some required reading to do. Suffice it to say, even your exception isn’t an exception at all. Comic book side characters, even if they were originally designed to be Jo Schmo-McNopowers, almost always end up either getting some kind of power temporarily or permanently, and/or entering the superhero-supervillain spectrum. Hell, the original poster-boy normal-friend-of-superhero, Jimmy Olsen, ended up with his own comic where he got so many different superpowers it was downright silly (though that was the vibe they were going for). And let’s go back to… Read more »
This is not super-villain vibes. This is regular, IRL villain vibes. Unfortunately.
She’s just an overbearing control freak
Not a villain but a superhero, possibly one that is used to being in control and a woman with independence etc. Willing to bet that this is more or less the arc that eventually gets Lucas to *forgets name now* the reporter who’s in the original comics as his love interest. Man…. it’s been donkey’s years since I read the OG….
Wednesday’s and Friday’s comic, I made a reference that it reminded me of Sara from one of the earliest comics ever published (https://cad-comic.com/comic/priorities-man-priorities/).
Short-bottom t-shirt in this comic? Yep… welcome back Sara… I mean, Nicole! 😳 Poor Ethan… https://cad-comic.com/comic/yesm/
(P. S. Your depiction of narcissism and control is on point, Tim. I’m intrigued to see what happens when she goes full DARVO. 👀 Sad thing is, it happens IRL. A lot. 🥺)
Oh wow, I had forgotten all about her. That was back in the era where a super dominating gf and the passive gamer boy bf was considered funny.
True, though it feels like this time around Tim’s going for the serious angle, which I’m all for. I feel like this touches a subject that doesn’t get talked about enough – and needs to be talked about.
Such a blast from the past, and how Tim’s art style has evolved, crazy!
RIGHT?! O_O
Is first date not early for that behavior to show?
More red flags than a (insert spicy reference here) parade.
Communist?
Nazi?
I think the look on lucas’s face says it all.
He’s probably thinking “Oh shit, I see EXACTLY where this is going, I just can’t say anything with her around.”
I just hope Ethan will listen, and not start a fight over it.
… I give it pretty good odds that Nicole has predicted Lucas pulling Ethan aside and has been working out how to either a) manipulate Ethan after the conversation or b) have Ethan defend her, starting an argument.
As an aside, I was _really_ hoping she was just pushing for a one-night stand that would leave Ethan alone, upset and confused after the fact, but in a place to get over it. This looks *worse*.
Yup, that’s “aw hell…this isn’t good…”
The “I really wish I didn’t help him get that app.. and kept him on the one-night-stand apps.” look. XD
I’m glad it’s jumping to (hopefully) Lucas warning Ethan fairly quickly. This is a bit uncomfortable to read.
I doubt this is the case, but it almost feels like Tim is making Ethan’s latest relationship endeavor intentionally painful, in order to make Lilah seem more appealing to people like myself who otherwise dislike her. It’s certainly having that effect to some extent.
Whats wrong with Lilah?
Mostly that she was just kind of there in CAD 1.0, as a love interest and at-times mom figure for Ethan, without otherwise having much else to stand out as her own character. Plus I personally prefer more of the superhero arcs and less of the relationship/romance drama, and worry it’ll shift even more toward the latter when Ethan and Lilah inevitably end up together and perhaps even marry somewhere down the road.
Except your opinion doesn’t really matter that much.
Goddamn, but the narcissism vibes are strong here.
Nor does yours matter much by itself, either. And I’ll presume you’re referring to Nicole as having the narcissism vibes, which I can certainly see. Whether I like Lilah or not, I have to admit that Ethan would be a lot better off with her than this red flag-covered fruitcake.
Well, Lucas clearly knows.
At least she’s interested in him. More than I can say of some. Further red flags: – Brought food for Ethan and not for Lucas, while there’s a big chance he would be there. This puts him last in her ranking order. – She barely acknowledges Lucas, and interrupts his initiation of further conversation to spend her energy on Ethan. – Further controlling Ethan by commenting on his clothes. Basically she’s saying he’s dressed like shit, and wants to control even what he wears. Some other red flags could be that Ethan doesn’t know what to feel yet, which can… Read more »
*Is* she interested in him? Or is this a game to her, enjoying pushing his buttons and making him dance? It honestly feels like the latter to me.
Though I’m not the best at social cues, heh.
Interested might not be the right word. What I mean is that at the very least he’s a focal point in her life. There’s some investment, while in some cases they only want to be invested in.
There’s a good chance it is just pretend at the start, flipping the script soon enough. Like you say, it might just be the hidden levers and buttons she likes to push.
Yep. Narcissists often have very low self-esteem, and controlling people is how they find joy in life. The emotion of love for a narc can be… odd.
NGL the vibe I’ve gotten the past few updates is that she thinks Ethan is transfemme. I think she’s reading his comfort sweatshirt as a dysphoria hoodie.
Well this is certainly a case of viewing everything through a very specific and narrow lens.
So. Trans woman here. If a woman came to me and gave me a hoodie to hide my body without me outright explaining I have body dysphoria, I would be kind of weirded out.
Like, even if that was the case (very very likely not). This all is still horrifically controlling and covered in red flags.
OK, how much are y’all willing to bet she’s Captain Prime?
Does she look like a past known example of Captian Prime to you? https://cad-comic.com/comic/analog-and-d-pad-05-08/
I swear that half the commenters are playing a “wrong answers only” game. Ben is obviously not Deathblood and Nicole is obviously not Captain Prime. And yet every time one of them shows up, we’re made to suffer these “guesses”
I have questions about their vision.
Some of us don’t have photographic memory of every character and every event, nor the skill to find specific pages in the archive to test a hypothesis.
It’s been a while since I read strips with Captain Prime, but I remember that she talks differently than Nicole. I remember Cpt Prime being more direct and practical in her wording, while Nicole is a bit more… carefree and sing-songie here. So, I’m curious.
Also, and it’s a minor detail. They look absolutely nothing alike. What is wrong with everyone?
… how much does the Troll know about Analog…?
Troll knows about Analog, he doesn’t know about Ethan.
He’s also in jail, has other things going on (if the last Elijah page is any indication), and this really doesn’t match Trolls style.
Seriously, why is it so impossible to consider the possibility of new characters simply being new characters? Just because chat is incapable of making up characters doesn’t mean Tim is.
Even Dr. Eldritch seems more likely, if only barely.
Captain Prime isn’t a control freak, she’s just extremely impatient with people she considers rank amateurs screwing up (such as when she bailed them out from ZK), or showing her up, like A+D did with The Black Hat. I’d say her thing is just being against unregistered vigilantes in general.
This is just weird, especially from my [female] perspective!
What I’m curious about is what she plays and if she rages. When can we see that trainwreck? 😀
TFS Goku: Is this a Red Flag?
TFS Piccolo : Crimson…
What episode or movie was that from?
TFS means Team Four Star. A YouTube team that has edited Dragonball Z….and hilariously so. Worth watching.
I know what TFS is, I’m a subscriber, just didn’t remember when they said that
Dragonball abridged. Episode 60 if I remember correctly.
Crapbaskets, I got beaten to posting this!
Oh, you guys say that too
There’s a good chance she’s some sorta cape. My first through was Captain prime, and while the hair style and build match, i’m not sure the colours do, but that could just be the lighting from Prime’s first appearance. Captain Prime also has some facial scars that aren’t present on Nicole, but that could also just be the author not wanting to do that.
https://cad-comic.com/comic/analog-and-d-pad-05-08/
This isn’t the only time we’ve seen her. We’ve seen Prime in daylight:
https://cad-comic.com/comic/coverage-p5/
It seems very, incredibly unlikely.
Ah yeah, I knew she appeared a second time but couldn’t find it off hand, thanks for dispelling that.
I wouldn’t be too harsh on her, while she seems assertive and maybe even a bit dommy, she hasn’t done anything wrong. Ethen has gone along with everything so far, and so he might enjoy it. He did say he was a Teemo bottom after all.
Ethan is a pushover who avoids conflict and wants to please everyone. I know that type because I’m one myself.
And let’s just say. This will end badly, because she’s the kind of woman who’d force herself on him and he’s not someone who’ll be able to fight back.
People underestimate just how bad this whole situation really is.
Ethan is certainly capable to displaying dislike for something, he complains about things all the time. He didn’t complain to Lucas, while alone with him either. So saying he secretly hates it and is being rolled over, is taking it a bit too far.
As a survivor of emotional abuse, I can say I saw the red flags on the very first panel of Nicole’s introduction.
If you think this is healthy behaviour in a relationship, especially a new one, you have issues
Sure it’s unhealthy and toxic, but being a narcissist is not a crime and so far Ethan seem to cooprate. So far, she still didn’t do anything really bad on purpose.
I guess it’s just a matter of few panels, tho
She hasn’t crossed any lines yet. There are people who are legitimately into strong assertive people like that. There really isn’t any way to know until he says he doesn’t like something, then seeing her reaction to that. Until then people are just assuming the worse.
A lot of your argument is basically “He hasn’t clearly said he hates it yet” to defend her showing all telltale signs of an abuser and tbh. That worries me for several potential reasons. It’s really obvious, that Ethan is insecure about the whole situation. He is unable to answer Lucas’ question although it’s a simple one He gets completely steamrolled by Nicole and his reaction to it isn’t one of delight. AT BEST it could be read as “I’m into it but shy”. But more likely it is something along the lines of. “I don’t really know how to… Read more »
I’m kinda amazed how many ridiculous contortions people are willing to go through to justify Nicole being potentially Captain Prime when it’s incredibly obvious they’re not the same person or even ethnicity. “Maybe it’s just the lighting at night”? My guys, Lucas and Ethan are both as lily-white as Nicole and didn’t look like that at night.
Like, what, you can remember only one other notably assertive woman in the comic so it must be the same person?
This is how old superheroes could get away with using a domino mask to hide their identities.
Isn’t Lucas Latino?
as a latino, LOL
No, I mean I’m pretty sure he’s been changed from 1.0 Davidowicz to having a Spanish last name and he has darker skin now.
Ironically the ‘insert controller into port 2 so psycho mantis can’t read your moves’ Is Very appropriate for how to deal with the controlling nature of this one. On further rumination ‘psycho mantis’ Fits also as the females bite the heads off the males when mating at a certain percentage.
I understand if you are running in the morning you need to wear comfy sporty clothes, but I find hilarious that she is talking about what Ethan is wearing (and about buying him new clothes) when she herself is dressed like that.
Apart from that, the whole scene was weird and I loved Lucas’ face.
Very much a “do as I say not as I do” type of control. I’ve been with people who are very similar. It’s not nice. Took me a long time to break away from that type of abusive relationship
Run
Okay this is starting to creep me out. If the roles were reversed here and Ethan was dong this to Nicole this would definitely not be okay.
You don’t have to reverse the roles for this to not be OK. It already isn’t.
The comic is not even pretending it is.
Run Ethan.
Run away now.
And now she knows where he lives. Well, the good news is that Ethan can quite easily fake his death
so many red flags…. its a field of red…
Okay, by this point all the red flags are starting to have baby red flags.
The moment she pulled out the cookie I immediately thought she was trying to do Pavlovian conditioning on Ethan like he was a dog.
uh oh, red flags
Guys, hear me out, I know it’s a little far-fetched, but I have a theory.
I think Nicole is actually Ben.
It would explain why she ignores Lucas, she doesn’t want him to figure out the truth. And Ben is a cop, so an authoritative personality makes sense for him.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, but hear me out: that mustache Ben has is definitely fake. That’s why he never heard it called a pornstache before. If you remove the mustache, he kinda sorta almost vaguely looks like Nicole.
Pffft! Nuh uh! It’s obviously that Gameboy kid. They only look different because of the lighting!
Clever! However, I think Nicole might actually be Lucas. It’s actually pretty obvious once you think about it. Lucas is the only person that knew Ethan would be dating on that site. Lucas was the one who helped set up Ethans profile, and since Ethan doesn’t know the site that gave Lucas the opportunity to secretly set his profile to private, which explains why Ethan didn’t get any other dates in the meantime. Note how Lucas was fine with the lack of detail from Ethan on the date. After all, he doesn’t need the info, he was the one picking… Read more »
It definitely sounds more plausible than her being Prime.
I see some of y’all saying she is giving you the villain vibes… but maybe we’re reading a bit ahead of the comic?
I mean, she is clearly someone trying to control Ethan, I don’t think any of us would disagree with that.
But what if… she isn’t a villain… YET?
Maybe eventually her relationship with Ethan doesn’t go where she wants it or how she wants it, and, somewhat quoting the Joker, that is her “bad day”, which leads her to snap and eventually become a villain of sorts?
Awww. She’s so nice 🙂
I can’t really say if this is bad for Ethan or not… 😁
All right at first I thought sexy amazon woman. Now…I’m concerned, and see some red flags on the horizon.
Only missing that she wears a red flag on her shirt
Well if she was a ‘red shirt’ least we know she’d die easily lol (star trek TOS reference joke fyi for anyone not getting it!)
Oh crap ! the red flags are multiplicating !
Red flags over and over
I can see why she is so attracted to Ethan. He’s a super hero without a super power. He’s built, buff, ripped, jacked. She must think he goes to the gym. And considering her size, she really wants someone who can physically please her, on a marathon endurance level.
This seems like a “Sara” reboot from the first comics you ever did^^
Big with blonde hair and now even the split outfit xD
I want to like her. I really do. Sexy strong woman. But we can’t ignore the plentitude of red flags. Maybe I’ll just ship Nithan like a tween fanfic writer and ignore all toxicity