Naw man, i don't think it's necessarily bigoted to build a character up in your mind. That's why comics are so compelling. They make you work to fill in the blanks. As for me, Victor sounds like this Romanian guy I worked with for a while.
It is 2/25/2016. I am re-reading this comic from the beginning years later because I like to do that sometimes and I am flipping out because I just saw something I hadn't seen before:
Victor has just spent the last few strips hearing musings/petitions for help/needs to be heard, etc. And now he's clearing the bottles off the counter–so he can take the messages from all the people he's just talked to, put the messages in the bottles, and send them out through the proper channels, out into the world, when he disappears the next day.
And THAT is why "Message in a Bottle" is playing, and THAT is why the lyric "I hope that someone gets my (message in a bottle)" is playing at the moment that Victor is taking his collected bottles out of the room. Victor is the messenger. I'm not drunk.
30 thoughts on “#359 – victor”
Nigel-63
… “I know. It’s okay. Maybe when you’re in a better place”…
… yep… yep… yep…
JohnD
OMG, talking
JohnD
irreparably attractive?
Don't fix it man, just let it lie there as a warning to others.
The Doctor
Victor, the test results are back. You're… attractive.
I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do.
Heavy
Get behind me, Doctor.
Damien Walder
Did Victor just come back from some kind of workshop or retreat in the desert?
Biodome 3?
Carl-E
Somehow, "irreparably" sounds exactly right for Marigold.
But I can't help hearing Victor with a Mexican accent… I know, prejudicial, but it's *my* head, after all.
joey
i heard it pretty clearly whenever he said yes hahaha
Simon
Naw man, i don't think it's necessarily bigoted to build a character up in your mind. That's why comics are so compelling. They make you work to fill in the blanks. As for me, Victor sounds like this Romanian guy I worked with for a while.
Junka
Dude victor has the whole … "I'm the fifth unknown beatle" feel and accent in my mind
Ironica
He's The Most Interesting Man in the World, huh?
Cancer Cowboy
I must wonder just what 'a better place' is, or if Vic is just spouting nonsense…
frostyplum
I'm guessing a place where she's not passive-aggressively bitching about her boyfriend in front of guys she likes.
joey
this is also a favourite hahahaha
Arsnof
There goes my bet that he didn't speak english.
ribbs
love the eyes in this one..
Severn
It's the 'stache. That's the source of all his powers. I gotta grow me one of those.
Khosatral
I totally know how Marigold feels, just not about Victor. But totally there.
David
Victor is the second coming.
Almost Literally
Hmm…in my head he sounds like Johnny Depp in Benny and Joon.
Alexa Burks
Somehow this panel made me view Victor as a metaphor for a drug of some sort. But now that I think about it, that's dumb.
Fady
I can't be the only one who thinks Victor is East European, can I? I mean… 'Victor'.
Higgy
I picture victor as sounding nerdy and quiet if that makes any since. Just soft spoken.
Charlie
Damn, dude is so smooth!
Kat
Somehow I thought of Victor having an Irish accent. Or maybe Scottish.
Emily
"I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone get's my… Message in a Bottle!" By The Police.
HA!
Nice one.
gkhgfkhjg
Is it just me, or is Victor like Chuck Norris?
Danielle
Give a guy a flannel shirt, a cool name, and a ninja personality – you've just created a hero.
oldjeangallagher
It is 2/25/2016. I am re-reading this comic from the beginning years later because I like to do that sometimes and I am flipping out because I just saw something I hadn't seen before:
Victor has just spent the last few strips hearing musings/petitions for help/needs to be heard, etc. And now he's clearing the bottles off the counter–so he can take the messages from all the people he's just talked to, put the messages in the bottles, and send them out through the proper channels, out into the world, when he disappears the next day.
And THAT is why "Message in a Bottle" is playing, and THAT is why the lyric "I hope that someone gets my (message in a bottle)" is playing at the moment that Victor is taking his collected bottles out of the room. Victor is the messenger. I'm not drunk.
Tab
does that mean Will didn't get to see him because he's the only one whose go his stuff together?