Dribbled and Scribbled by:

Steve Baird

Copyright 2006

Issue #1

Is It Fan Service When There Are No Fans?

Wednesday: February 10, 2006

Let's begin at the beginning, shall we? That handsome fellow on the left is Marco, my avatar on World of Warcraft. Well, one of them, the first actually. I've since abandoned him for the greener pastures of a non-ganking server.

The blonde chick is Stormi, the in-game persona of my good friend Revoemag. His real name remains a mystery to me, probably a witness protection program kinda thing.

The meat of this strip lies in the bosoms, literally. I'm fairly certain that Rev is a guy, yet he continually chooses character models that sport the curvaceous figure of the fairer sex. "He" says it's because girls get better treatment in the game. I say it's because he's a desperately lonely individual who will probably end up on a Dateline undercover sting.

This is the reason why I adhere to what I call my "Bubba Philosophy". For every girl I see in the game, there is a 90% chance that it's a 400 lb. trucker named Bubba sitting naked at a computer controlling her actions. This tends to offend the real life girl gamers when I tell them this. However, I find it better to piss off a girl than to succumb to the cyber-gesticulations of Bubba and end up living out the rest of my days in a glass jar in his basement.