Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: February 16-20, 2009
D:
There is a pun to be made about Sven's shirt, I just can't decide what it should be. And as sad as this was, I'm glad that it happened because I've still never liked this couple.
Miche:
I haven't posted since the Sven-Faye... well, it was before the hookup. Foreshadowing the hookup.
I'm wondering if Sven told her because he cares about her or just because his conscience of an intern made him feel like crap about keeping it from her.
Faye's reaction to Sven's infidelity is very telling. What's the point of beating sense into someone when you're no longer invested in him/her? Knowing her ways, there will probably be alcohol. It would be more worrisome if there wasn't. Someone already mentioned her being totally blasé, and if that's true I can see her telling Dora not to bother destroying Sven. And didn't she warn her about him? Rebound? Eh, doesn't seem likely, to me. After something like that, she probably feels too... anti-hookup to bother... hooking up with somebody. Unless she's drunk and stupid.
Which is entirely possible.
I'd hypothesize about Sven, but I have no frikkin' clue. Maybe affected by this, but brushes it off and goes on a string of blonde one-night-stands.
...
And then when nobody expects it...
Faye punches him in the nads!
Everybody wins.
Guido Sarducci:
I tend to think he would have weasiled out of telling her and it would have bit him upon both cheeks. Remember The fight Marten and Dora got into over not being honest? I tend to think Marten would be drawn to the drama of busting Sven...
SuperSUGA:
Good strip today, makes me eager for tomorrow!
What worries me is just how many people here are focusing on Dora or Faye getting violent with Sven. All (I think...) of the times we've seen violence between main characters in QC before it's been as part of a joke or as joking threats. This little arc doesn't strike me as one that's going to be crammed full of violence-gags...
raoullefere:
Oh, Sven, you're facing the music* wonderfully. At least until you cringe in fear of your beating.
Superb.
This is awful of me, but I lmao at that part of this strip. It says volumes, to me, about Sven's maturity. And anyone (including Jeph himself, I suppose) who thinks Jeph can't do facial expressions is blind. Rarely, here and elsewhere in QC, have I seen so much conveyed by so little. Let's face it, Jeph uses fairly minimal lines to draw the characters' faces, but gets, to me, a full range of emotion in them nonetheless. Take this strip: Faye happy, Sven trying to decide what to do, then deciding to take the music. And Faye then looking like a whipped puppy as Sven cringes for the beating he probably wants more than that expression.
I'll say something else: nobody who's engaged in casual sex gets the look Faye has in panel 4. It makes me feel bad for her, and evil that I recently said I wished she'd get run down by a semi (even though I was referring to the pre "The Talk" Faye). And all with no dialogue.
So Jeph's managed to make me laugh and feel bad all in one strip, nay, in one freakin' panel. So don't tell me he doesn't get much into the faces. No, it's not Neal Adams or Joe Orlando, but to me, that's a different sort of drawing then this. This art fits the material, and it's damned good.
*I detest the phrase "Man up." Sounds like either an erection or baseball, neither of which seems relevant.
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