Secret Sam: Part Five
Chapter: Season Three
Friendships (especially as adults) can be a complicated. Such is the case here and hopefully I am doing justice to the ups and downs of real friendship with Mel and Sam.
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Yes! Exactly like cheese. 🙂
This one is beautiful because you perfectly captured the emotions and reactions of real friendship here. I’ve been where Sam is and have said pretty much spot on what he said (even down to people invading my privacy). This one in particular hit home.
I can’t wait to see how this arc finishes and what is in store for this custom campaign.
He’s too nice, but Sam is awesome like that.
Can’t say I would be as calm and forgiving, especially after that line where she tried to pass off what she did as being worried. She should have outright apologized, full stop, no excuses or indignant responses.
I don’t think I would want to GM for her again. But Sam is awesome.
That’s not what i expected… and it’s just sooo right. I now love this strip in an emotional way i can’t fully explain, it’s really great and solved a very difficult issue in a wonderful way.
This comic just keeps on getting more and more awesome each passing day.
Like cheese.
This is a really nice resolution to their story (although I doubt this is the end of all that). I have to admit, I’m impressed he’s not more pissed off at her though. I mean, all the stuff that happened to and between them would probably weight a lot more on someone. Very well done.
Friendships are weird, complicated things. You’ve done a great job of capturing that. I’m not always the best at the whole friends thing (selfish, me), but seeing things like this makes me want to be better at it. Well done.
Haha, yeah. I gotta say, Sam handled that in a far more calm and emotionally mature way than I probably would have. How old is he, anyway?
I think this is my favorite comic to date.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!
I’m glad that Sam and Mel can get past all these bumps and still be friends. Only thing that needs to happen now is a real resolution with the Grey issue. I’d personally love to see Sam use the Narrative to make Grey take a swim in a black pudding, but I think it’d be better to see this resolved like it would be in the real world. It would be great if Grey could jump on the maturity train as well and maybe hash things out with Sam, but if Grey’s just the kind of guy that would keep assaulting people like that and not clean up his act, he really ought to be in therapy or prison.
Haha. It would be hilarious if he somehow made friends with the gang, and became a regularly recurring character. Bonus points if he thinks the whole “Douchebro” thing is actually funny and adopts the death knight as his D&D character.
C’mon, all you have to do to convert the average Bro into a D&D player is explain that it’s “just like Fantasy Football except with murder”.
Actually, that’s pretty much how I explained D&D to my stepbrother (he’s a bit more ‘bro’ than my side of the family).
“Ok, so.. fantasy football.. only instead, you only have ONE guy, not a whole team. Call it a tight end, or wide receiver. You’re gonna be doing his whole career, not just a season. You’ll have stats for him, of course: how does he run, block, kick, pass, all that. He needs to have gear to play, Pads, shoes, helmet. He can play with crappy Wal-mart stuff when he’s first starting, but he’s gonna want the best later. I know that’s not how it works, but bear with me. Now, he’s gonna need a buncha other guys to run plays with, obviously. So you get your friends who have other players. You then have one guy who runs the ENTIRE other team. You and your buddies run the plays, to see how they do against the other team. To see if that Hail Mary works, you roll dice, check them against your player’s stats, and what the other team is doing. You score enough points, you win the game. Win enough games, you score endorsements or move up to a higher league.
Ok, now take all that… and switch it with Lord of the Rings.”
He admitted he could see it being fun, but it wasn’t his thing, and sounded like a lot of math.
Gotta say that is a great way to way to explain RPG’s to the sports enthusiast. Well done, sir.
I dunno, this would be a major strain on a friendship. I value my privacy and can’t stand having that violated. It would put trust issues into my head and I have way too many of those as it is. Not to mention I probably couldn’t have maintained a friendship with Mel after the Grey shit. She never really seems to have Sam’s back when it counts from my perspective.
Amen to that.
Wow, I’m really happy to see this next step in story line. I’ve enjoyed the tangents that you’ve taken us on, but seeing how Sam matures is what hooked me in the first place. Nice job!
You really need to have these two switch glasses.
Bawwww. I’m gonna use that metaphor.
He isn’t pissed enough about her. Just find someone else and drop this chick. If people fuck you over, write them out of your life. You are too awesome to waste time with someone who screws you over. There are plenty of people out there you don’t need to appease them all.
A little bit of backbone and confidence with just a hint of arrogant for flavor. Beautiful. I didn’t think Sam had it in him.