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Drawing comics like this one in particular makes me very nostalgic. Maybe some of you can relate! Have a great weekend.
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40 thoughts on “#382 – 12-Floor Walk-up”
Mariam
ahhh yes, showers in the kitchen. good times on the island.
Close
Dude, I LIVE in one of these apartments. 🙂
Jay
Apartment pics please!
Nat
Yes, pics or gtfo.
Marv
Dude you're so god damned lucky.
Tyler
C'mon, we need proof
Zach
Oh man, I laughed out loud. Spot on.
Sparly
Jacob's pretty well-versed in plumbing ju-ju.
beedogs
good ol’ window-that-looks-out-to-a-brick-wall.
Plex
Eves' cute gap is back hooray XD
Andrew
No sir I would not like a boiled Marek, thanks.
Simon
Ug, that shower. *shudder*
Mike
I love the apartment's layout, I want to see what living in a similar one is like someday. Also, it's great to see frequent updates again, thanks much 😀
Fish
poor Eve… cute though
AlmostLiterally
Oh gosh. The sink and shower bit. That reminds me of my aunt's house. *Shudder*
Gin
“Nobody look at the sink”
*snort* hahahahaha
homodachi
Reminds me of the story about the 1896 killer New York heat wave on npr a few days ago.
A
The melting doorknob is a nice touch!
(that's a melting doorknob, right?)
Higgy
I'm SO happy about all these updates.
A, no I don't think it's melting it's just one of those door handles that you see on officebuildings and stuff. Not the round knobs but the horizontal handles.
Mr. Kapowies?
WEEEEEEEEEEE! UPDATES! SO MUCH WIN!
I love you I love you I love you and I’d probably stalk you if it wasn’t for the fact that I live very far away. The way yer drawin’ eve, particularly on dem first two, is quite a tad absolutely cuter and more stylized. Will looks like a douche wiz his new beard, but now that I think of it, he was always a douche.
Love from them evil tropics!
Matt Chaput
Never lived in NY, but this definitely reminds me of the apartments anywhere close to the campus in my old university town.
“Nobody look at the sink” is pure genius.
Athena
Justin seems like a guy who would walk a bike up 12 flights of stairs everyday and not even think about it.
Also, hooray for new comics!
Rosscott
This hits a little too close to home.
MerchManDan
$2500 per MONTH for apartments like that?! Somebody please tell me that’s an exaggeration, for clarification.
SevernFelix
Yes, PLEASE say that. I mean, the food can't be THAT good in New York, can it?
Sean
That apartment is horrific and hilarious. It seems impossible that places like that exist…except I've lived in some, in Southern Italy.
P.S. Two shirtless men in this comic! Me likey.
Taper
Oh, my God, that one ice cube slays me.
Brady
I’m looking for places to live around the city right now and this looks like most of the places that I can afford.
Mayday
Ah, the days we lived in an Atco trailer, and my dad would flush the toilet every time I showered. Sweet memories of boiling alive.
Rustin
Is it me or is there a roach on one of the pillows in the second panel? And yeah, folks, there are lots of places like this in NYC, some of them not even in particularly good areas by normal human standards. Otoh, 24 hr subways and bodegas should be worth *something* right? And yeah, that shower by the kitchen is spot on.
wykstrad
Ah, the legacy of rent-controlled NYC apartments… basically, the landlord has no incentive to fix anything or make it more comfortable, because if the current tenants leave voluntarily, he can convert it into a condo, and charge like 5X the rent, because there's no rent controls on condos in NYC. Is that more or less correct?
SevernFelix
I thought the point of condos was that you sold them outright?
Scooter
It is. Through a lease that makes you solely responsible for the rat-sized accommodations with the elephant-sized rent… aimed at students.
Me, for example.
Macks
oh my god, it's just like my SVA dorm.
microzen
I remember living there! The 1 ice cube is great.
Right now where I live, while it is a 1700 sq' apt, the water here is only hotter & hottest.
Snivella
Made me remember the episode 1-06 Heat of Hey Arnold!
duo
Is it me or is Justin the unicycle guy?
GeddoBlaster
YES! that's exactly what I thought, that pose he has in panel 4
QLL
I had one of those kind of showers. Not in the kitchen, but if you looked at anything the wrong way it went batshit insane. There were some really scary stuff you had to keep in mind before taking a shower.
Dollars
Always thought that first panel seemed kind of flirty