Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT Jan 19th-23rd
michi-love:
--- Quote from: Blackcat Moebius on 23 Jan 2009, 14:20 ---
--- Quote from: Mallli_kite on 23 Jan 2009, 13:50 ---The difference might be that she KNOWS Hanners. Honestly, can you imagine Hannelore having SEX, much less hitting on someone else's guy? If Hanners was possessed by, say, Jackie Collins and suddenly vixened all over Marten, when she came to she'd practically kill herself with guilt and sanitization efforts. Dora wouldn't have to do a thing but watch and maybe give Marten a place to hide.
Dora was ok with it because Hanners is COMPLETELY safe.
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I dunno... Dora's been suspicious, even of Hanners, in the past.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.
Can't find Exhibit C... it was another case of Dora warning Hannelore off Marten.
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Right, yeah, because Dora was totally serious in those cases.
Honestly, if Dora was actually warning away/feeling threatened by Hannelore, she would be more RAWR (hi, see the two most recent strips for what RAWR-Dora looks like in case you've forgotten) and less her easy-going, slightly-sarcastic jokin' self. And while she may have, in "exhibit B", been subtly marking her territory, she wasn't very concerned with it, even though Hanners had confessed to stalking him.
Mallli_kite:
--- Quote from: Blackcat Moebius on 23 Jan 2009, 14:20 ---
I dunno... Dora's been suspicious, even of Hanners, in the past.
Exhibit A.
Exhibit B.
Can't find Exhibit C... it was another case of Dora warning Hannelore off Marten.
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I don't think the first example supports your argument. It IS an excellent example of Dora showing she's aware of her own insecure tendencies and making fun of them, which pretty much indicates a lack of serious threat.
The second one is certainly more vivid and detailed, but Hannelore's reaction is most likely EXACTLY what Dora was going for. A woman cowering in abject terror at an even joking reference to being beheaded isn't likely to jump on the SO of the person making the threat.
And considering Hanners can't even envision using someone else shower http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1321r (pardon the lack of HTML, I'm dangerous to myself and others with any code)
And then there's this one
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1315
And even in the infamous popped boob confession strip, Dora admits that Marten doesn't have much chance of cheating on her
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1314
Of course, he came right out with that one because he felt guilty about it. He didn't feel guilty about turning down the girl in the library and most likely did the guy thing with an unimportant detail and forgot it.
Then again, Dora is just maintaining in the face of her insecurities.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1300
I think Jeph has a handle on his characters and isn't going to fly that far off into insecurity land without some reason more solid than 'Marten Blows Off Girl Who Asks Him Out Because He's In a Good Relationship". Of course, I've seen writers/artists do unreasonable stuff with their stories just because they felt like it so there's no predicting, but so far he's done a good job so I'm gonna say past performance will predict future results.
In the mean time, I'm hoping someone rescues Steve from further episodes of "As the Bottle Turns" and that Will comes back with at least a little of his innocent idealism (and his virgin ass) intact. I'm worried for Will.
Norton Quintessential:
You know, Angus' departure is actually beginning to grow on me. Every time I think of "Born to Run", I see Angus in the next to last panel here: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1310
SuperSUGA:
People acting irrationally and inconsistently is pretty consistent with human behaviour, if that makes sense :-)
Bushbr:
First off, long time reader first time poster.
moving on, why are you all acting like Dora completely ripped off Martens head? She didn't over react, she was a bit pissed, but she has some right. considering the fact she jokes around about beheading people and such, think how she would act if she really were pissed at marten. look at the comic itself Jeph did not change the style of words when Dora was talking to indicate anger (aside from a few bolded words, but who hasnt heard a mom or g/f stress some words when they are scolding you) nothing ended with an exclamation mark. I don't think she is reacting that dramatically to this. This isn't how dora acts when she is angry. when dora is angry everyone knows it. its not insecurity as much i think it is with annoyance. marten was annoyed by guys hitting on her, as most guys would be, and she is annoyed now that marten is becoming eye candy
So ease off Dora, she's not a bitch....right now....
I also agree that RandomCollegeGirl should become a staple character maybe she can sleep with sven and send faye back over the age, or maybe she will lesbo up with library chick *name escapes me* and hanners.
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