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So is it me or...
kabukiman:
You are probably right. He didn't knew what to do with her at the beginning, so he use her to everything he need (including as a confident).
maddness:
Prying doesn't make you crazy and Dora seems pretty normal to me, so does Penny really. Sven isn't a wuss. I'm not sure about Marten. Will, don't know him well enough. He's shy, but being shy doesn't make you a wuss.
jedraft:
--- Quote from: Chorbalan on 17 Feb 2009, 00:52 ---Are the all the girls in QC land obnoxiously crazy and all the guys a bunch of wusses. By the way I like the comic as it is I am just making an observation. I mean if a girl who worked for you tried to pry into your business the way Sven's intern did would you not at the very least bitch her out if not fire her ass on the spot? If you look all the girls have some sort of crippling emotional crazyness.
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It's not just you. Frankly, Sven has bought into all the guilt-trippiness of the intern and everyone else when he didn't need to. He is what he is, and has never made any bones about it. Now all the women have the nerve to be surprised that he's acting exactly the way he always said he would. Frankly, he should have shown the little intern the door the moment she showed up, unannounced and unwanted. She has no input into his personal life, frankly, and the self-righteousness of "majoring as a good person" makes me just want to puke on her little twenty-something shoes. Hey - if Sven wants to change, that's fine. But the preachy crap is BS. Yeah, yeah, sex changes everything, oohh, the shallowness and unsatisfying quality of an empty relationship. Sure. Right. Got that. Sven is, or should be, an alpha male with no excuses - hell that's what gets the girlies in his bed. That's why assholes never have a problem getting laid. And then, naturally, some airhead always thinks it means he's in love with her and it's gonna end like "Retty Woman." Well, so solly, it didn't and doesn't. Now you're pissed off because you didn't get the bride's bouquet when you agreed to jump into the sack with somebody who told you right off that this was all it was.
What this is is a very nice little fable about how people can talk themselves into just about anything, including that their fuckbuddy is really Richard Gere in disguise. Guess Faye just finally got the message.
championofkhorne:
Faye is obnoxious and marten is a wuss. Hannelore is just crazy.
other then that they all seem to be on the relatively normal side. Little butch lesbian at an all girls college book store is normal in my book, so i guess im jaded a bit.
--- Quote from: jedraft on 17 Feb 2009, 09:54 ---
It's not just you. Frankly, Sven has bought into all the guilt-trippiness of the intern and everyone else when he didn't need to. He is what he is, and has never made any bones about it. Now all the women have the nerve to be surprised that he's acting exactly the way he always said he would. Frankly, he should have shown the little intern the door the moment she showed up, unannounced and unwanted. She has no input into his personal life, frankly, and the self-righteousness of "majoring as a good person" makes me just want to puke on her little twenty-something shoes. Hey - if Sven wants to change, that's fine. But the preachy crap is BS. Yeah, yeah, sex changes everything, oohh, the shallowness and unsatisfying quality of an empty relationship. Sure. Right. Got that. Sven is, or should be, an alpha male with no excuses - hell that's what gets the girlies in his bed. That's why assholes never have a problem getting laid. And then, naturally, some airhead always thinks it means he's in love with her and it's gonna end like "Retty Woman." Well, so solly, it didn't and doesn't. Now you're pissed off because you didn't get the bride's bouquet when you agreed to jump into the sack with somebody who told you right off that this was all it was.
What this is is a very nice little fable about how people can talk themselves into just about anything, including that their fuckbuddy is really Richard Gere in disguise. Guess Faye just finally got the message.
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looks like someone hit a nerve.
Sorry but when you make an intern into your maid and tell her about your life, you give her permission to comment on it. If he didnt want the judgement then he can 1. fire her. 2. Stop telling her about his relationships. 3. Get the fuck over it. or 4.Change. To name a few.
Rantmaster:
--- Quote from: Chorbalan on 17 Feb 2009, 00:52 ---Are the all the girls in QC land obnoxiously crazy and all the guys a bunch of wusses. By the way I like the comic as it is I am just making an observation. I mean if a girl who worked for you tried to pry into your business the way Sven's intern did would you not at the very least bitch her out if not fire her ass on the spot? If you look all the girls have some sort of crippling emotional crazyness.
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*snerks*
That's like saying, OMG! The people in the comic are... PEOPLE!
NO SAY IT ISNT SO
There are many possible reactions to what the intern said (dammit, I am forgetting her name), but considering Sven's changing temperment, what he did is completely reasonable. People forget, a million strips ago, Sven was just this recurring character whos raison d'etre was just being a shallow Lothario. But then, one day, Sven brought Marten into his world sufficiently that Faye felt the need to defend her friend. We don't know exactly why Sven paid more attention to her than any other woman that's walked through his life, but the point is, he started changing from that point. Not quickly. Slowly. He started by not having so much promiscuous sex. He started to think more about his actions. He started, clumsily, to work with the idea of having a girl as a friend rather than something to get sex from. That was, in a way, a setup for the eventual intern.
And now here we are. Sven is a more fully realized character, not as secure as he used to be, as opposed to a confident antagonist for Faye, or a source of comic relief and/or shadenfreude for the strip, like Angus McPhee (ooh, hey, there's someone that's not a wuss! He's still a confident asshole, right?)
Personally, I like the strip better for that. Is Sven still an asshole sometimes? Yes. Is Faye still an asshole sometimes? Yes. As Randy Milholland of Something Positive once put it, "the most interesting people are."
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