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Weekly comic thread 2010 September 27 - October 1

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foolsguinea:
Wednesday Question:    What are Faye & Angus doing right now?

~Silly, Faye's still at CoD, & he hasn't arrived yet!    7 (15.2%)
~Oh, no, Angus was there, just off-panel. He's waiting for her to get off work.    0 (0%)
~Angus was there, hiding under the counter. He & Faye are now ripping each other's clothes off in the back.    4 (8.7%)
~Angus just showed up after Sven & Hanners left.    2 (4.3%)
~Angus is waiting in a bubble bath with rose petals strewn about. Faye needs to check her messages.    11 (23.9%)
~Faye & Angus are having a big fight.    1 (2.2%)
~Actually, they broke up earlier, but the strip is going Hannelore-centric, so Jeph skipped it.    3 (6.5%)
~They're both still at work; calm down.    6 (13%)
~Sexing    3 (6.5%)
~Texting    0 (0%)
~Sexting    4 (8.7%)
~Watching Sven & Hanners through the window    2 (4.3%)
~Angus is planning an even finer date than the Sven/Hanners date.    3 (6.5%)

Total Voters: 46

innermoppet:
No ones mentioned it, but if Sven misses Faye's curves and not Faye, it wouldn't be hard to go out and tap a girl with comparable body type. He's in denial. I don't think he's IN LOVE with Faye, but I think they had something special and he misses HER but he's still not admitting it. He is focusing on her body as a way to disconnect from the actual emotions he may be feeling, like guilt and hurt and even anger. I mean he did try to take her out on a real date and she shot him down. She wanted it strictly booty call and then got mad when he treated it as such. I'm sure part of him is angry and a bit bewildered.

BryanP:
Sven has finally realized the truth: skinny women just aren't all that interesting.  

Even the three little pigs knew the truth:  If you're going to spend a lot of time inside something you don't build it out of sticks.

steveh11:

--- Quote from: akronnick on 30 Sep 2010, 01:55 ---
--- Quote from: steveh11 on 30 Sep 2010, 01:13 ---Anyone notice Hanner's piercings?

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Do you mean the ones she's had in all day?

Or are you talking about the ones she's always had?

(Yes that really is the very first appearance of Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham, with the long hair, and the cigarettes, and the not freaking out when a stranger whips out his junk and takes a piss right in front of her!)


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Yes, those.  The ones that Jeph orginally forgot to put in...
http://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/25960423634
 :-)

Tergon:
I think that Sven is being perfectly honest in that he says what he misses about Faye is their physical relationship.  While it's maybe a bit of a jerkass thing for him to say, the simple fact is that you can't miss what you never had, and he and Faye did not have an emotional or romantic connection.  They were, quite bluntly, fuckbuddies.  They didn't date, they didn't hang out, and from what we saw, they very rarely spent time together unless they were going to have sex.  Aside from pillow talk and a few half-hearted gestures on either side, it really was a purely physical relationship.  And, let's be fair about this, Sven enjoys sex and finds Faye attractive, and she's apparently not bad in the sack.  Him saying that he misses Faye because they had great sex makes absolutely perfect sense in every way.
That being said, while there wasn't any acknowledged emotional connection, it's also blindingly obvious that by the time they broke it off, a connection had formed.  Sven didn't want to tell Faye he slept with someone else, and even though at the time he claimed it was for selfish reasons (he didn't want to lose his booty-call), I think we all agree it was mostly because he was ashamed and didn't want to admit he'd "cheated".  And when he and Faye did break it off, they obviously both felt like complete shit as a result of it.  The whole developing-feelings thing snuck up on both of them, and neither wanted to admit it.
That's why I think Sven is being honest with what he says to Hanners in this comic - he's refusing to admit any real feelings he developed for Faye, not just to Hannelore, but to himself.  He's spent so long telling himself that since he and Faye only had a physical relationship, that's obviously what he misses, and it's definitely not anything else, that I think he's even managed to make himself believe it a little.  It's easier than admitting that he actually cared about her beyond the sex.
So, in essence:  I think that technically, he's telling the truth in this, but it's decidedly less douchey than it seems at first glance.

I do feel sorry for Hanners, though.  Not the date she was expecting... unless, of course, she decides that this IS what one's supposed to do on a date, and she talks about boys she's had a crush on in the past.  Which seems limited to Monk, random firemen, and possibly Marten.

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