From yesterthread:
Rembrandt36
July 10, 2014 at 11:38 pm
I’ve been to comic con. At least 1/4 of the people that go are cosplayers. Nice to see not one damn cosplayer in this illustration.
Happy now? Holly is initially taken aback to find Marvel supervillain Doctor Doom lurking behind her. Luckily for her, though, as one of the most intelligent humans in the Marvel Universe, the Doctor has already memorized all the comic book inventory on the floor, and magnanimously assists Holly in her quest.
Son of Stuck Funky 
Pretty fitting that Dr. Doom would be the first costume shown in this strip.
DSH and Harry carefully explained to her that #115 is a very rare and highly prized SJ issue. Yet there she is, pawing through rows of comics in the hope that it magically appears. If she had simply asked the last vendor one easy question she’d already have it. It’s like he takes a special joy in depicting Holly as a perpetually confused moron and I can’t understand why. At the start of this arc it seemed as if she’d gather more SJ knowledge along the way and part of the “joke” would be how she became a SJ “expert” but nope. She’s still as stupid as ever.
And not to stir up a shitstorm here but think about the five female characters he’s most prominently featured this year so far. There’s Cindy, who meekly accepted a huge demotion because her boss thinks she’s old and ugly now. There’s Cayla, ’nuff said. There’s Jessica, who abandoned her dream and opted to be a stay-above-Montoni’s-mom instead. There’s Rachel, who was married at Montoni’s and had a dog in her wedding party. And Holly, a blithering clueless idiot running around the country chasing comic books in a weird directionless haze. Not exactly a flattering cross-section of Westviewian womanhood if you ask me.
@Epicus Doomus, “Not exactly a flattering cross-section of Westviewian womanhood if you ask me.”
No matter how you slice it female, male, invisible gay, etc. TB doesn’t do flattering no matter how much he thinks he does.
I beg your pardon, Mister Batty-uck, but any mighty Marvel maniac worth his salt would be aware that Dr. Victor Von Doom in fact does help those in need, so long as his display of magnanimity can be lorded over his rival, Reed “Mister Fantastic” Richards. For further references, see “Fantastic Four vs. The X-Men” issues 1 through 4 (inclusive).
Excelsior to you, good sir.
Figures that a supervillain is more polite and likable than anybody in the main cast.
LOL! Thanks for the shout out.
@Epicus Doomus, “Not exactly a flattering cross-section of Westviewian womanhood if you ask me.”
Any woman with enough brains to find her ass with two hands and a flashlight would have left Westview and never looked back, and certainly wouldn’t be dumb enough to marry someone from Westview.
DOlz: True enough, TB is and always has been an equal-opportunity misery dispenser. But still, IMO the female character’s stories have been especially laughable this year. Maybe not offensively bad, but really weak nonetheless. I suppose it’s possible that I feel this way because I’m just completely defeated by day after day of Holly’s inexplicable idiocy, I don’t know. It’s just so relentless.
Epicus: At least he hasn’t maimed one of them this year, so that’s something.
haha nice
Not a bad Doctor Doom costume. There, I said something nice.
Now I’m wondering what that red flag is overhead is supposed to represent. I’m also wondering how many backpacks Holly brought out onto the floor, since this one is different from yesterday’s.
And the real joke is that Holly has no idea who Doom is.
How dumb is Holly? Dumb enough to shell out a huge chunk of change to fly to San Diego but not bother asking the sales people if they have the pathetic comic she came all that way to find! But don’t worry – some random cosplayer will take the time to ask her what she needs and help her find it. Notice it’s how she’s found every damn issue she’s needed – some man spoonfeeds her with the info she needs, and she stumbles through each transaction. I can’t imagine how she does her grocery shopping with the apparent IQ of a cereal box.
And another thing – did Kory even have a single issue of this stupid comic? It’s like he had three and she’s buying the rest.
If I’m grateful for anything in this arc, it’s that we didn’t have to suffer a week-long sub-plot showing Holly passing over the threshold of an aircraft.
Panel 3 Holly lost a lot of weight and 15 years!
It would’ve been cooler if Doctor Doom had been Masky McDeath.
Notice they are in San Diego, which means they’ll be able to go up to L.A. and visit the set of “Lisa’s Story’ and keep Les from killing himself over the script changes. Maybe they’ll bring Dr. Doom with them