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WCT January 26-30
Tiney:
--- Quote from: Bushbr on 26 Jan 2009, 05:57 ---Dora isn't blowing this as out of proportion as you all think. look at her face in the 4th panel, she's scared. she doesnt want to lose marten.
especialy considering the whole *she stole him from faye* psychosematic brain fart mulling around in her head.
she's doing what just about any girl would do in her situation.
and as far as people not liking the more serious strips, get over it, its what makes a comic great. (not like 8-bit theatre which IMHO has started to go down the crapper.)
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Dora reaps what she sows as far as I'm concerned. I had a friend steal a guy from another girl and so she kept thinking some other girl would steal him from her. Horrible foundation and yep, they broke up after a year of constant fighting.
AnkhWL:
(this is not a response to anyone's post here, i just start out sentences really awkwardly)
So... Dora is showing the reaction Marten was hoping to avoid. :roll:
Honestly, I DO get Dora's side of the argument, but she's taking it really a bit too far. I'm pretty jealous and insecure too at times, but chances are I would've only went as far as the Coffee of Doom comic and left it at that. Especially after seeing that the girl was clearly NOT going to persue him.
Blyss:
Okay - being a guy that's had an ex-girlfriend (yes, there's a reason she's an ex) set me up in just the way the Dora did to Marten here - I HATE reading this particular story arc. It's a trap, plain and simple. If she didn't like the answer she got, she should have asked her question differently - instead of setting her boyfriend up for failure.
Mallli_kite:
Ya know, whenever you do something to try to avoid stepping on your SO's buttons, you will inevitably step on other buttons. I do it with mine and vise verse, and the usual excuse to me is "I didn't want to upset you" with the unspoken follow up of "so I did something else that will upset you twice as much". Of course, we've been button stomping each other for 15 years now.
That's the thing about buttons -- everyone has 'em and someone who gets close to you is GOING to step on them.
sitnspin had a great synopsis of the strip -- the thing is not about Marten and the other girl, but about Marten concealing something (as he admits). It only get worse when he tries to justify the concealment with "I was protecting you!". And, looking back at the actual strip where he was asked out, it wasn't a case of "not important/forgot" since he remarks on it to Tai. Plus, Marten has complained enough over time about his lack of action with the girls, so it wasn't an insignificant moment for him.
That said, yeah, Dora is having herself a full out insecurity tango here, which, if she wasn't in the middle of it she would see and stop dancing. Jeph's doing an EXCELLENT job of keeping this pretty real.
Also, one other thing that keeps coming up here -- that Dora "stole" Marten from Faye. I did a little retrospective reading last night. Faye did everything she could to push Marten and Dora together short of rent them a room and hand them the key. Now yes, she did this out of her own conflicts, but the "stealing" thing was pretty much in Dora's head because she actually puts her friends before herself (in the way of really insecure people). You cannot steal a person out of a relationship who wants to stay in the relationship, and in reality Marten and Faye didn't even have more than a platonic relationship, so there was no 'stealing'. There was just a lot of insecurities dancing around.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=120
On a slightly more meta-note, Wow! Jeph! Way to build the dynamics! A story without conflict is boring. For conflict to be interesting, it has to take place between characters about whom the reader cares, and it has to have something worthwhile at stake. Otherwise it won't work. That some people around here are uncomfortable with what's going on is sad for them, but a good indication of how well Jeph has written the story. Very cool!
lisavilisa:
I think it's not that Dora stole Martin from Faye (which she didn't) but that she thinks she did.
Ergo Dora feels guilty and thinks that Martin is steal-able.
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