It’s not a Hickey from Kenickie…. It’s a Blood-Spill-Thrill from Nil. lol
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I’m starting to wonder if she really will break up with Nil. Her hormones are obviously out of control and it’s not like she has another guy waiting in the wings.
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So who thinks she’ll really dump Nil and who thinks they’ll stay a couple?
Okay, well that was a legit unexpected reveal . . . Nil must be a lot more aggressive than he seems if Bernice still has a hickey after two weeks (unless this happened more recently while we were in the middle of that snoozer Privacy Hut arc).
Hmmm okay it’s about breaking up with Nil and there is the neck hickey? Notice that different of generations call it a hickey, others a monkey bite, and I’m as sure others. Never got or gave one and glad I didn’t. How does this complicate a breakup? Should it? No Nil and Bern are made for each other, but we shall see
BREAKING NEWS: a woman in college got a hickey from her lover. So the boy gave you a hickey. whoopdee doo, not like you gave him your virginity and he knocked you up.
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I can’t believe we have to deal with this stupid girl for the next two weeks. She can’t admit to herself that she might actually want to try and have a relationship, but she can use a PowerPoint for a breakup? This is why Nil deserves better, if you are not willing to give him a proper chance then you definitely shouldn’t be constantly making out with him. You are so selfish!!
Still attracted to him. She wants to break up with him to get her control back. She doesn’t like that she loses it when she is around Nil. That is her reason for wanting to break up.
Trying to leave a reply to Ivlax but keep getting neverbound whom I flagged so this is my comment generally: I don’t think they will, or given how Bern gets the shaft often (although she often is clueless that she has been) if anyone does the deed it will be Nil. I hope not because with her fragile ego (as drawn) but how that ego will be crushed if he does. It won’t be pretty. Luann I think you will be needed
Luann, your best friend is a fool who wants to break up with a great guy, who really loves her and cares about her, because she doesn’t like to lose control over herself. She’s unable to speak with him normally because her heart wants to be with him but she doesn’t want to use her heart, only her brain. This is so different from Luann, that broke up with a guy she liked because he was changed, he started putting his career first taking her for granted and leaving him was the only right thing to do. I hope this situation will finally cause Luann to open her eyes, begin to dislike Bernice and go away from her. Leaving her to rejoice in her world of rational loneliness.
Nil is no alpha. It’s merely Bernice’s female hardwiring working in her subconscious, steering towards a breakup. She still wants Jack. Meanwhile, Nil keeps getting a little bit more. She is indeed getting what she wants, but not from the guy she wants it from. This has become a kind of classic Western female thing, but I am not here to dispense red pills. Nil is not on the good side of the so-called rule of 80/20, like 4 out of 5 guys.
That right there is the basic set of numbers behind “nice guys finish last;” they get “settled-for” by bitter wives. The ones with a lot of money just go younger, further embittering the gals who played the field and couldn’t lock down a guy until the pickings got too slim, or who stayed single. Welcome to the dating landscape of your own making, ladies. Equality ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, sometimes. The ladies wanted hookup culture, now have it, and are miserable, but are also reacting crazily to the thought of it being reigned in at the state level via the overturn of Roe. The point is that women have always had a choice; many modern gals have simply not made the best of choices at the start of the process, and thus feel the need of an extreme remedy.
Back to 80/20; the guys in the 20% have too many options, won’t commit, and are thus the men that many women on Tik Tok videos “hate.” (Chad won’t commit; or at least, not to them.) Morality cannot be directly legislated successfully, but an overturn of Roe would have much of the same effect, among some women. Perhaps that is the real intent of the effort against Roe, to begin with. Not my monkey, not my circus, thank goodness. At least Bernice is trying to let her upper brain win. That may be the object lesson that the Evans intend with this arc.
Bernice actually got a “hickey”? No wonder she feels the need to break up with Nil. If that relationship continues, who know, she might get passionate enough to return the favor. And, from there romance novel cover time?
My wife and I stopped for breakfast on vacation and got seated in the restaurant next to a group of girls. One of them was telling the rest about her romantic date with a fella. Funny!
She told Nancy that he’s interesting but not the one, and it’s unfair to him and untrue to herself to lead him on. I think she’s trying to convince herself more than Nil. I hope he prevails.
That is the weirdest shaped hickey that I’ve ever seen (and the only one I’ve ever seen in a comic strip!). Greg continues to push the boundaries of poor taste. Apparently he’s never given or received or even had a close look at a real hickey – that Rorschach inkblot on her neck looks shaped like a bat to me. Gawd, Nil’s teeth must look horrid…
WOW. That is just more information that what I needed today. It feels really distasteful and sleazy…yech. Now Luann is going to wonder what it’s like to get a hickey. Then Bets will decided to teach Gunther how to do it. Then Tara will write a manual on it. Then Tiffany will offer counseling for it. We could be discussing hickeys for the rest of our lives.
By the time I was her age, I had learned how to suck on a girl’s neck without leaving a hickey, but turning her on just as much! My girlfriend had a domineering mother.
Nil doesn’t fit Bernice’s concept of a button-down world. So many try to find order within chaos. Love is chaotic. Much of the world is chaotic. Most find a way to go with the flow, the ones who can’t, end up as micro-managers or helicopter parents or worse. Self control is one thing, trying to control others usually ends in disaster. How many of us have seen a relationship where one is constantly trying to control the other? Did either party look terribly happy? I rest my case.
lvlax over 2 years ago
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I’m starting to wonder if she really will break up with Nil. Her hormones are obviously out of control and it’s not like she has another guy waiting in the wings.
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So who thinks she’ll really dump Nil and who thinks they’ll stay a couple?
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
how else?
AnyFace over 2 years ago
Physicality was never the issue. ✨
linus82 over 2 years ago
Bernice can apply Amber Heard’s, cover it with makeup
sallymargret over 2 years ago
Why does she want to break up with him?
J. Scarbrough over 2 years ago
Okay, well that was a legit unexpected reveal . . . Nil must be a lot more aggressive than he seems if Bernice still has a hickey after two weeks (unless this happened more recently while we were in the middle of that snoozer Privacy Hut arc).
Tyge over 2 years ago
Ooooo… Trying to break up face to face is hotter even than PDAs apparently. 8^ )
alasko over 2 years ago
Break up because Nil sucks?
beb01 over 2 years ago
A hickey or a strangulation mark? Maybe Nil doesn’t take break-up kindly.
Joe1962 over 2 years ago
Bernice if you going to show off your hickey you don’t want to end things. You go Nil !!
Tyge over 2 years ago
Now she’s just bragging!
Uncle Kenny over 2 years ago
FWIW, my first girlfriend when I was in high school dumped me because she was having sinful thoughts while we were making out. Broke my young heart.
Brdshtt Premium Member over 2 years ago
I love rhyming games!
Sooooo, Bernice – did you give him a hickey on his
Mordock999 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ooo.
It appears that Nil is in CONTROL, of this “relationship.”
A “guy in control” is a “bad sign” in THIS Strip.
Hence Bernice’s desire to “break-up.”
Either that, or Nil’s a vampire. ;-)
Pointspread over 2 years ago
Now Luann will get jealous.
ronaldspence over 2 years ago
Just tell him it sucks to be with him!
Rhetorical_Question over 2 years ago
I blame this situation on Bernice’s Mother?
STEPUP over 2 years ago
A monkey bite, big deal!!!
luann1212 over 2 years ago
Hmmm okay it’s about breaking up with Nil and there is the neck hickey? Notice that different of generations call it a hickey, others a monkey bite, and I’m as sure others. Never got or gave one and glad I didn’t. How does this complicate a breakup? Should it? No Nil and Bern are made for each other, but we shall see
gnmnrbl over 2 years ago
BREAKING NEWS: a woman in college got a hickey from her lover. So the boy gave you a hickey. whoopdee doo, not like you gave him your virginity and he knocked you up.
beb01 over 2 years ago
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GirlGeek Premium Member over 2 years ago
I can’t believe we have to deal with this stupid girl for the next two weeks. She can’t admit to herself that she might actually want to try and have a relationship, but she can use a PowerPoint for a breakup? This is why Nil deserves better, if you are not willing to give him a proper chance then you definitely shouldn’t be constantly making out with him. You are so selfish!!
capricorn9th over 2 years ago
Still attracted to him. She wants to break up with him to get her control back. She doesn’t like that she loses it when she is around Nil. That is her reason for wanting to break up.
luann1212 over 2 years ago
Trying to leave a reply to Ivlax but keep getting neverbound whom I flagged so this is my comment generally: I don’t think they will, or given how Bern gets the shaft often (although she often is clueless that she has been) if anyone does the deed it will be Nil. I hope not because with her fragile ego (as drawn) but how that ego will be crushed if he does. It won’t be pretty. Luann I think you will be needed
kenhense over 2 years ago
Yes – Life gets complicated when somebody else impacts on your train of thought.
Caldonia over 2 years ago
Put a “privacy hut” in Brad’s room so she’ll worry about getting caught with Nil all the time. That’ll get her going. (??)
Caldonia over 2 years ago
Looks like mascara, really.
Aladar30 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Luann, your best friend is a fool who wants to break up with a great guy, who really loves her and cares about her, because she doesn’t like to lose control over herself. She’s unable to speak with him normally because her heart wants to be with him but she doesn’t want to use her heart, only her brain. This is so different from Luann, that broke up with a guy she liked because he was changed, he started putting his career first taking her for granted and leaving him was the only right thing to do. I hope this situation will finally cause Luann to open her eyes, begin to dislike Bernice and go away from her. Leaving her to rejoice in her world of rational loneliness.
Brdshtt Premium Member over 2 years ago
Bernice’s Biology professor was wondering whey she wanted to borrow several of the leeches for the weekend.
Chopped Fowl over 2 years ago
LOL …. so …. what do you think, Puddles?
jmworacle over 2 years ago
Thinking with the wrong part of the anatomy eh?
Susan00100 over 2 years ago
What IS that—a hickey??
Or did Nil cut her?
c001 over 2 years ago
Darn… what’s “Knutschfleck” in English, again?
OneTime59 over 2 years ago
Physical passion is too pleasurable now to simply walk away from. Reading over the past two weeks, we see why Kip can’t leave Steffi.
atomicdog over 2 years ago
(Peppermint Patty voice) “Nil, you sly dog, you!”
akachman Premium Member over 2 years ago
Domestic violence starts in elementary schools for some girls. Just ask some of us. Gets worse in high school. College:even worse.
mindjob over 2 years ago
Nil will leave her a going away present. That runs on batteries
joegeethree over 2 years ago
Nil is a vampire?
Purple People Eater over 2 years ago
Nil’s a vampire and he bit her on the neck.
Lord Hearteater over 2 years ago
Nil is no alpha. It’s merely Bernice’s female hardwiring working in her subconscious, steering towards a breakup. She still wants Jack. Meanwhile, Nil keeps getting a little bit more. She is indeed getting what she wants, but not from the guy she wants it from. This has become a kind of classic Western female thing, but I am not here to dispense red pills. Nil is not on the good side of the so-called rule of 80/20, like 4 out of 5 guys.
That right there is the basic set of numbers behind “nice guys finish last;” they get “settled-for” by bitter wives. The ones with a lot of money just go younger, further embittering the gals who played the field and couldn’t lock down a guy until the pickings got too slim, or who stayed single. Welcome to the dating landscape of your own making, ladies. Equality ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, sometimes. The ladies wanted hookup culture, now have it, and are miserable, but are also reacting crazily to the thought of it being reigned in at the state level via the overturn of Roe. The point is that women have always had a choice; many modern gals have simply not made the best of choices at the start of the process, and thus feel the need of an extreme remedy.
Back to 80/20; the guys in the 20% have too many options, won’t commit, and are thus the men that many women on Tik Tok videos “hate.” (Chad won’t commit; or at least, not to them.) Morality cannot be directly legislated successfully, but an overturn of Roe would have much of the same effect, among some women. Perhaps that is the real intent of the effort against Roe, to begin with. Not my monkey, not my circus, thank goodness. At least Bernice is trying to let her upper brain win. That may be the object lesson that the Evans intend with this arc.
Decepticomic over 2 years ago
Alright, I’m out. So long, Luann. Maybe someday, you’ll… continue being a background character in everyone else’s story.
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
Bernice, is there something that you’re not telling us?
lmuller7 over 2 years ago
" He’s about a loser! Hey Hey Hey "
Null Island over 2 years ago
So, Nil is a vampire. OK.
StoicLion1973 over 2 years ago
Bernice & Nil are living that classic from George Benson, “Lady, Love Me (One More Time)”.
Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago
Oh, come on. I remember showing off my hickey in high school when I was 15. This is college.
WilliamVollmer over 2 years ago
Bernice actually got a “hickey”? No wonder she feels the need to break up with Nil. If that relationship continues, who know, she might get passionate enough to return the favor. And, from there romance novel cover time?
MS72 over 2 years ago
My wife and I stopped for breakfast on vacation and got seated in the restaurant next to a group of girls. One of them was telling the rest about her romantic date with a fella. Funny!
rugeirn over 2 years ago
And where were his hands at the time?
lorenkinzel over 2 years ago
She’s not going to show Luann the other hickey.
Rick Parkhurst Premium Member over 2 years ago
It is like a convention of 1st year psych students.
brick10 over 2 years ago
Ah, a battle scar!
Airman over 2 years ago
Simple characters, with almost no backgrounds, exist in simple story lines . Sexually explicit Steff pursues Kip. Kip bangs Steff. Next day: repeat.
paldec over 2 years ago
She told Nancy that he’s interesting but not the one, and it’s unfair to him and untrue to herself to lead him on. I think she’s trying to convince herself more than Nil. I hope he prevails.
BuckarooDave over 2 years ago
I think Nil is going to surprise her somehow.
Call me Ishmael over 2 years ago
What ? He’s a vampire ?
marisas03 over 2 years ago
I love how nosy Puddles is.
4everbound2 over 2 years ago
That is the weirdest shaped hickey that I’ve ever seen (and the only one I’ve ever seen in a comic strip!). Greg continues to push the boundaries of poor taste. Apparently he’s never given or received or even had a close look at a real hickey – that Rorschach inkblot on her neck looks shaped like a bat to me. Gawd, Nil’s teeth must look horrid…
BlitzMcD over 2 years ago
The shameless hussy!
alexius23 over 2 years ago
You have been branded
Rick Smith Premium Member over 2 years ago
Wait until it gets even more “complicated.”
CynthiaLeigh over 2 years ago
Black mold?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 2 years ago
He’s a hickie making vampire?
The Pro from Dover over 2 years ago
He tried to do a tracheotomy on you?
danieljschmidt08 over 2 years ago
He shot her in the neck?!!
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
To Bernice,getting a hickey is like inventing the atomic bomb.
AndrewSihler over 2 years ago
Aw-w-w, she bit herself on the neck! I hate it when that happens.
comic reader 22 over 2 years ago
WOW. That is just more information that what I needed today. It feels really distasteful and sleazy…yech. Now Luann is going to wonder what it’s like to get a hickey. Then Bets will decided to teach Gunther how to do it. Then Tara will write a manual on it. Then Tiffany will offer counseling for it. We could be discussing hickeys for the rest of our lives.
kaffekup over 2 years ago
Wow, Bernice has a hickey!
Now they have to get married!
TravelinMan over 2 years ago
At least we know now that Nil wasn’t so ticked off after being unceremoniously dispatched from the DeGroots’ that he is eager to dump Bern.
Same2Ubuddy over 2 years ago
The thought of Bernice in maternity clothes is no laughing matter.
The Quiet One over 2 years ago
Oops.
OldsVistaCruiser over 2 years ago
By the time I was her age, I had learned how to suck on a girl’s neck without leaving a hickey, but turning her on just as much! My girlfriend had a domineering mother.
BearHamilton1 over 2 years ago
Nil doesn’t fit Bernice’s concept of a button-down world. So many try to find order within chaos. Love is chaotic. Much of the world is chaotic. Most find a way to go with the flow, the ones who can’t, end up as micro-managers or helicopter parents or worse. Self control is one thing, trying to control others usually ends in disaster. How many of us have seen a relationship where one is constantly trying to control the other? Did either party look terribly happy? I rest my case.
Tom Eisenmenger over 2 years ago
He smudged coal on her neck?
dlaemmerhirt999 over 2 years ago
HE PUNCHED HER IN THE NECK?!?X’D
CrzyDyeman over 2 years ago
Bernie got a burnie.
procentrum over 2 years ago
Let’s just say he isn’t equipped with an M777
MT Wallet over 2 years ago
Name, image and likeness.
jdsven over 2 years ago
Plot twist: He’s a vampire. Now Bern will be his bride and become Queen of the Night.
dtercho over 2 years ago
Capt. Kirk : [of Uhura] What d’you do to her?
Nomad : That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.
Spock : That “unit” is a woman.
Nomad : A mass of conflicting impulses.
Sisyphos over 2 years ago
A hickey?! Is that still a “Thing” these days? And, if so, does anyone care?
Anyway, it seems Bernie is not yet ready to give up on Nil entirely….
lvlax over 2 years ago
Forget the books, Bernice. It’s time to visit a real expert for all your psycological needs….
Lucy Van Pelt. The doctor is IN LOL