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Ray's Gay Romance Novel Tuesday, January 2, 2007 • read strip Viewing 113 comments:

so thoughtful, ray!

Ray is pretty open-minded, once you get to know him.

It'd be great if this were actually what pornography were like for same-sex couples.

and hey, straight porn too

WHO WANTS TO GET THEIR STRAIGHT ON!

ONLY...if it involved such delicious sounding drinks.

Banana compote and BAILEYS!? Sounds divine.

just... FABULOUS!!

Don't you mean Faaaaaaabulooooous!

*high-five*

Man anyone who's ever high fived a dude or lady they were boning mid-bone is totally my hero.

I did once. Though to be fair I think she had he hand out to be held or caressed or something girly like that. But a high five felt more appropriate.

Woah, I totally predicted my own future here. I guess today I am my own hero!

...if only.

RAAAAAD! HELLZ yeah!

Rad Hellz indeed. Anyone notice how patternish Pats male pattern baldness is in this one?

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Yarmulke.

Alt text.

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"I have weird ideas about what it means to be a homosexual man"

Pat's male patterned baldness is nature's Rorschach test

I was more interested in how although Pat has cat ears on top of his head, his hair seems to arc over what would be the human ear location.

Looks like a bat taking a shit on a rock to me.

Some pretty flowers.

That's good! That's very good! I think you're showing some real progress here.

I thought it looked like the pelt of a rodent. Somebody cut a circle out of the back, perhaps to fashion a small, fur coaster.

I assumed tiny aliens had taken lawnmowers to his cranium.

Looks like some kind of goddamn religious icon

Two Bruce Waynes from the animated batman series, staring up in shock at another mans ass being lowered down on them from above.

Banana compote is pretty rad.

Also, I can't wait to use the phrase "do a Bailey's" next time I'm at a party.

Be prepared for Old Greg-related responses, my fuzzy little man-peach.

I can't do it now! You've made me feel all awkward.

who wants to get their gay on

cask-strength gay!

retardo wants to get his gay on with Onstad

It's funny because it's true!

FUNNY!
LOVE IT!
TRUE!

That phrase doesn't get any less funny no matter how many times I read it.

onstad loves the concept of romance novels. i wonder how many of them have appeared in strips.

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dogg this is a straight up novel

You got no right man YOU GOT NO RIGHT

...I humbly retract.

man you are terrible a terrible man

Ordinarily yes but this is at least 234 pages of single-spaced text. In terms of man-hours that is worth like 763 homemade cards.

*sighs, sadly tips the carefully chiseled solid gold statue of overmedicated into the trash*
I guess it'll have to be a gift card this year then.

(do people chisel gold? Is that a thing that works?)

That is pretty much the opposite of how it works. Also, solid gold is extremely soft, a solid gold statue is not a great idea.

*sadly tips the carefully cast gold statue of lamboyster into the trash*

Goddammit I need to stop buying so much gold. The man on the television told me it was a good investment.

I love how Ray thinks gay guys yell loudly about "getting their gay on" while preparing gourmet food. The names are also pretty gay. If you knew a guy named Thaddeus, you'd think he was gay.

I do and I do

I also know a gay Thaddeus- an example of the name making the man? Or, we just know the same guy, which is also weird.

In pubescence, I know a gay Thaddeus whose mom tried to beat the gay out of him. Coulda saved the world a lot of pain, had she read To Shave a Sailor before his birth.

Bruce, Lance, Julius (Julio)

This is not the first gay romance novel .

But it's the first one that speaks to me on a personal level.

Also, it mentions food. Excellent food. Bad taste in booze, but excellent food. Gays have excellent taste in clothes and food, but I have no idea how good they really are booze. I suspect they pretend to understand wines just like the rest of us do.

Two words: Coconut rum.

Customers who bought this itme also bought:

Discreet Young Gentlemen by M.J. Pearson

fucking, item *

I can't believe you have not been drowned in chubbies, that link is AWESOME. I wondered for a moment if Onstad had somehow created it as a hoax.

"Gaywyck, the first gay gothic romance, treads firmly in beloved territory"... if you know what i am talking about

Gaywyk!
makes you want to say it out loud but later, not at work.

It's the first one sold with the dust jacket reading How To Weep The Weepy-Weep Way .

One of the main characters is Donough Gaylord, Lord of Gaywyck. Thas is simultaneously the most brilliant and most retarded thing ever.

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Actually, Roast Beef and Teodor discussed it at some length in the "Pat's Dad" story arc .

true that. ray is the only one who has said anything to pat, however, i thinks.

Cask-strength gay. Please dilute with Elmore Leonard before consuming.

30 years later, over a cod dinner

"You mean my father Ray Smuckles was R. Dorado, the first gay romance novelist?!? I should know stuff like this! Grandma!!!"

"I never wanted you to look for that ability in yourself."

I won't have you writing gay romance novels, grandson. Men die.

Three acres! Three days! Three THOUSAND men!

The above three comments all got a chubby.

THE GREAT OUTDOOR FVCK

it's ok you can say fuck here we're all grownups.

THIS is the saddest thing.

This book goes on for three hundred more pages.

Awww HELLZ yeah!

Some guy is totally rocking my can!

I never thought it would be like this!

That is pretty much how it goes.

Bless Ray, he tries so hard.

You nailed it. First impression of Ray might be douche in an Escalade - but when you get to know him he's the real deal - the cat's hard core upstanding.

Pat's male pattern baldness resembles a pinned-on yarmulke.

In Ray's mind:

Being Gay = (gourmet foods)(yelling about being gay) / (bad taste in booze). To the power of poncey names.

RAAAAAAAAD!

If you've noticed, Roland is actually Ray's self insertion character. Not because he's secretly gay, but just because he's so poor of a writer.

I love the indignation that Pat has at the fact that someone is knocking on his door, like it's extremely obtrusive. He's such an asshole.

Anyone else notice the uniqueness of Pat's male pattern baldness?

No.

R. Dorado.
Ray Dorado.
El Dorado.
It all makes sense now!

I pictured the "R." as standing for "Ramon"

it's Rick Dorado.

That was said with some authority.

I was pissed off .

And with good cause. I completely forgot about the strip where that name was introduced.

I'm sorry about this, ttttt Todd I mean tttt2

Wow, nice memory. The link.

Have we seen the back of Pat's head before?BECAUSE I THINK I LIKE IT.

Correct. You wanna cum.

like Pat has to bother saying that he didn't get Ray anything

this is beautiful.

I used to work at a used book store. People often had some pretty strange things to bring in.

Most relevant and highly notable, this book , with the tagline "Roman Officer Victor Decimus, the Vampire who loved Christ, is back. And he's bolder and sexier than ever!"

Not only gay romance, but gay... vampire... christian?... romance?

now that's a niche market.

[IMGS OFF]

What?
Is that...Rip Torn?

Eh, not too far off: it's Paul Lynde.

On re-reading my original comment again a few weeks ago, I was surprised to see it chubbied three times, as it seemed like the kind of thing Paul would say. That is exactly what his face would like after saying it on Hollywood Squares to much canned applause.

The chubbies are my canned applause.

#90 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Mystery & Thrillers > Gay

So gay they had to categorize it twice .

"So what makes it different than other lgbt mystery novels?" "Oh. Well, it's gay."

This is the most beautiful piece of homosexual erotica ever penned!

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Fuck! That, I mean.

Gloves and scarf but no shirt?

i like the contrast of the urban slang with the fancy-pants food(in the book). gays are quite teh complex.

are there gay dudes that talk like frat guys, all referring to each'n'other as bro, and such?

all frat guys.

I've read a lot of gay sex novels and that must be one of the rudest.

Ray's next work of erotic fiction would probably just reuse the same material, with the rationalization that each book would cater to mutually exclusive demographics.

Denise preceded Velma into the luxury rental suite. This was sad because Velma couldn't see Denise's rude titties for a few seconds.

"Awww yeah, we gonna sex it up in THIS place! WHO WANTS TO GET THEIR LESBIAN ON!"

Velma munched on some kind of food broads like to eat, I don't know maybe a small piece of cake shaped like a vagina, and did a cosmopolitan. "Awww HELLZ yeah," she answered. "Let's bust out some oils and other products such as women enjoy and show this room just how lesbian things can get!"

"Rad!" yelled Denise, turning on a bootleg copy of Cooter Dialogues as is known to get all the ladies prepared for hell of scissoring. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!"

bika, you are straight up gifted