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Wait, what?
Steve:
Run, Marten, run! Run away from the crazy lady! (Yes, I know I said run toward her. Sometimes I'm wrong?)
I was looking through the reactions of both Dora and Marten in all the panels:
1) Dora's furious. Marten's some sort of mix of terrified and befuddled.
2) Dora's accusative, and Marten's getting annoyed.
3) Dora's still cranky. Marten can't believe he has to deal with this crap again.
4) Dora's sulking. Marten... I'm not sure what this is, but it looks like he's trying to take her BS seriously.
5) Dora is almost over it, but perplexed... Marten doesn't want to have this conversation (cf his reaction in panel 3!)
6) Dora's pissy again. Marten is apologetic, even though he really didn't do anything wrong.
I almost think Marten is going to need to break up with her over her constantly freaking out about this stuff. The guy needs to stand up for himself a little more. He's the most loyal guy there is, but if this keeps up, I'm not so sure that's going to stay true forever...
I'm of the opinion that if something significant happened to him that day, it would have been that he hooked up with the library chick in the stacks. Now that would qualify as "significant!" ;) But getting asked out in a completely unmemorable way, turning someone down, having it be completely clear that nothing even remotely happened... man, I'm the biggest change-hating OCD control freak I know, and even I'm not going to let something like that bother me.
Superkid11:
Marten wasn't getting all apologetic because he thought he did something wrong, he was just recognizing that he made a bad guess when he tried to avoid freaking Dora out, and explaining his actions. (A "Can you really blame me?!" would have made that more apparent) Plus he may consider it an easy way of ending the conversation... where he may be right but easy doesn't mean healthiest.
I don't think they're going to break up over this though. ... well, they're either going to do that or they're both going to learn to cope with it. Dora's going to mellow out as time goes on, and Marten will learn to fortify his backbone when necessary or generally how better to deal with her when she gets like that.
Learning how to deal with each other's flaws is a pretty important step in any relationship.
Surgoshan:
Yeah... fuck Dora.
He didn't mention it because it wasn't important to him. She's getting upset because he should have recognized that it would be important to her... Why is he not allowed to get upset that she isn't realizing that it wasn't important to him?
Yeah. Double standard. Fuck Dora.
Siibillam-Law:
FUTURE EVENTS SPOILER WARNINGS OMG
Dora and Marten (or "Martin" as people have gotten to know him as) split up, in a brilliant story twist by Jeph
Load of QC are all like "Omg they split! The world will never be the same again!" and everyone sends Jeph angry emails
Jeph can't handle it, and shoots himself
QC is taken over by Jim Davis and gradually becomes less and less funny
Then QC readers shoot themselves and no one wants to clean up the mess so they shoot themselves
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: Siibillam-Law on 26 Jan 2009, 21:51 ---QC is taken over by Jim Davis and gradually becomes less and less funny
--- End quote ---
"Gradually"?
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