Least I Could Do/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Anvilicious: A story arc that blatantly compares George W. Bush to Emperor Palpatine...published in 2011, three years after Bush left office.
  • Awesome Ego: Rayne.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: The Frog King was never drawn in the webcomic, and existed courtesy of a Mondegreen induced punchline. The store, however, sells a t-shirt and a plush toy in his image.
  • Jerk Sue:
    • Take a wild guess...
    • His brother isn't much better. He must have the same "lawsuit free" bubble around his blatant malpractice and Dr. Jerk routine that Rayne has around his sexual harassment.
  • Love It or Hate It: The comic, especially compared to Shomer's other works.
  • Marty Stu: Rayne could certainly qualify, especially early on, however Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not that's a good or bad thing. Sohmer has said that as he grew older, Rayne became more and more a character very different from himself. (Which most likely means that Rayne simply started being far more of a Wish Fulfillment character for Sohmer than he used to be.)
    • In one early series, Rayne sicks the guys from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Mick. When Mick tries to turn the tables, the Queer Eye guys just fawn over Rayne and tell him not to change a thing about himself.
    • It's become more blatant over time. Rayne's friends used to look annoyed/frustrated when he would insult them or behave like an idiot. Now they all smile and say how much they enjoy him mocking their lives.
      • That's evolved over time too. Now, half the time, they look like they barely tolerate his presence when he's acting out -- especially Lissa.
    • Rayne's "power" even extends to the rest of the cast; the characters who act like Rayne (Ashley, "Gayne", "Munch"[1]) get to be selfish and rude while coming off smelling like roses just like he does.
      • And the lesbian employee hunt came not long after he'd announced an office-wide orgy (that no women showed up to despite his vigorous campaigning to Issa at least) and that was after he'd childishly made a bunch of racist Native American jokes out of jealousy against his boss's boyfriend. He got absolutely no comeuppance for any of these acts, despite him being a walking Title VII suit for his company, and he even ended up befriending the victims in each case. Stu powers, activate!
    • The TED arc and the BP oil spill arc both show the author's need to feel accepted intellectually through his character's very silly mental stumblings.
      • His BP oil spill solution is a high-and-mighty hindsight suggestion.
      • And the TED talk one is just... pathetic. It came directly after Ryan Sohmer was turned down for the real thing... and suddenly in the comic, Rayne Sohmer gets invited to give one and starts it out with "Well it's about damn time."
    • A large part of the problem with Rayne's character is this: he will act like a selfish brat for the first 90% of any given storyline, edging about as close as he can get to the moment when any form of sympathy for the character is destroyed. Then, about three to five strips before the end, he'll have a Pet the Dog moment that makes the other characters forget or forgive all the rude/offensive/destructive/etc. things he did before. In other words, the classic Author Avatar Mary Sue. The problem, of course, is that the readers aren't inclined to let the occasional good deed make up for all the crap one has to go through to get to it.
  • Motive Decay: Rayne's original reason for getting a job with IDS was because he saw a news report about Marcy (a very attractive and rich CEO) and made it his personal goal to bed her. The last mention of his quest was during the vacation arc in early 2007. Briefly reversed in by arc in September 2011, where Rayne gets jealous over Marcy's new boyfriend and he admits that he was interested (which she responds to by saying he should have done something, and that his inaction meant he missed his chance).
  • Reverse Funny Aneurysm: This comic when compared to the LICD ads that portray Rayne as occasionally wishing his partner were Chewbacca[2]
  • Tear Jerker: "Unca?"
  • Unfortunate Implications: In this video, the song randomly starts encouraging the listener to ignore the preachings of Christianity. In a song that decries bestiality.
    • Depending on who you ask, this one might be a little... rape-y
    • Specifically asking a jeweler for blood diamonds. For a wedding ring.
    • Let's just say the entire comic is not very funny and constantly relies on "humor" that belittles people. For instance, one arc in 2012 was about Rayne demanding to see the "hot lesbian working at the office", who he basically wants to find because his porn fantasies were disproven by Rosie O'Donnell. Part of this involves hauling all the hot women into his office to look at pictures of male & female genitalia to see which they prefer.
      • This ends up being the reason why the first artist quit the comic as he could no longer stand the sexist humor.
  1. ↑ the lesbian IDS employee from the December 2011 story arc
  2. ↑ in the comic it's based on, the second-to-last panel reveals that he's talking to Baby, but Chewbacca's spooning him.
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