Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT March 8-12 2010
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: westrim on 10 Mar 2010, 23:54 ---...Faye? I don't see how Dora was responding to Faye at all. It was all 3rd panel Marigold ("ooh we hit a nerve" notwithstanding, that is clearly what set Dora off). And that "coming through with the nice" is exactly my problem with her. She shows an incredibly nasty, vindictive, jealous personality that is clearly under how she usually appears- but a strip or 5 later it's all hunky-dory again. This, the intro for Cosette... you and Jeph may be fine with it, but it disturbs me greatly. Also (read here, Is it cold), there's courtesy and then there's reflexive apologizing and putting yourself down, which is what Marigold did and has done before. She didn't say anything dumb, she made a truthful, accurate, and not at all hurtful statement- complimentary even. It was solely on Dora. She threw herself in Marigold's bike path (to stretch the running over a toe metaphor). If Marigold had the spine in the 1st panel that she showed in the second, her response would have been very different- defense, not prostration. On Dora, it's not that this is a big thing, it's that it's yet another thing.
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Faye set the confrontation up. Marigold would never have gone to the website, or, if she happened upon it by accident, have likely kept her mouth shut if Faye hadn't been asking her opinion. I suppose I should have said "responding to Faye's tactic of needling Dora by using Marigold."
I have to go with Is it cold. I've known quite a few insecure people, and most of them don't let things go or, god forbid, admit they were wrong, and that's basically what Dora's doing in panel 2. Dora has these switches that bring out that behavior, but it's not the core person she is—it's more like a suit of armor she put on a long time ago (Thanks, Sven, and Bianchi Mom and Dad!) and can't get out of. She said something about needing therapy and probably does. But I balance that with these behaviors. She tries to help out when she can, she doesn't hold grudges, she defends her friends, and, best of all, she's not addicted to the "I told you so" that it would have been so very easy to use on Faye after the Sven affair blew up; when better to be vindictive? I don't think Dora's a saint by any means, but she is a nice person.
On the other hand, Faye knows how Dora reacts and has to have some idea of what her triggers are, and I think it's driving her a little squirrelly not to be able to tear into Marigold the way she does everyone else. But again, I think I'm painting her as too much of a Machiavelli. At least I hope so. There's not much worse than someone who enjoys setting up conflicts, then standing on the sidelines and watch the fur fly. But hopefully Faye was trying to engage Marigold in Faye's idea of a 'group' activity.
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 10 Mar 2010, 21:01 ---So... do we mention anything about that other, not-as-well-drawn comic with too much drama and toy obsession?
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Sure we can bring it up - it's not like it's the first time they've shown up here.
SigPig:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 11 Mar 2010, 04:16 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 10 Mar 2010, 21:01 ---So... do we mention anything about that other, not-as-well-drawn comic with too much drama and toy obsession?
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Sure we can bring it up - it's not like it's the first time they've shown up here.
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Huh. That comic looks a little too familiar to this one. The only difference seems to be the artwork (To which Jeph's is definately superior) and the names.
douggerel:
Jeez, with Hannelore and now Marigold hangin' around, CoD should be called "The Coffeehouse of Misfit Girls."
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: douggerel on 11 Mar 2010, 06:42 ---"...Misfit Girls."
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That IS Doom.
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