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WCDT 15-19 November 2010 (1796-1800)
akronnick:
Seven pages!
And it's only Tuesday!!! (1 am EST on Tuesday even.)
This thread is like trying to drink from a fire hose!
I woke up today at about 8 pm and have been trying to get caught up, we were on about page 4 then.
I almost had it too. Then Jeph posted today's comic!
WOW!
My thoughts...
Both are at fault, both are going to regret what happened and what was said, but the relationship itself may not be salvageable.
What happens next? Only Jeph Jacques knows... we'll find out tomorrow, but I don't think this is going to wrap up this week, It's only Tuesday, usually big heavy shit happens on Friday. Which makes you wonder, what does Jeph have up is sleave that today's strip is merely part of the set up.
If you read Jeph's twitter feed, he's clearly angsting about what's too come.
My 13 pages estimate may have been a low-ball figure.
Warning - while you were typing 8 new replies have been posted. You better learn to type faster or you are NOT going to make it!
Penquin47:
In this fight, Dora was in the wrong to begin with. There's "I don't get why this is such a big deal to you, can we talk about it?" dealing with not being allowed to see his porn, and there's "If you won't show it to me openly, I'll sneak behind your back and look at it anyway." Marten may have flubbed the "joking" warning, but he was pretty clearly not comfortable with it.
Marten messed up when he brought the previous fight into this one. Still, it explains his "your apologies don't mean anything, so why bother listening" position.
Both of them are in need of some cooling-off time, some friendly advice, and a good hard kick in the pants - Dora for not realizing that this is quite possibly the only time Marten's said no to her aside from in the middle of the fight, and therefore it probably IS a pretty big deal, and Marten for letting his anger over her constant "GRRRR I'M MAD, oh I'm so sorry I'll try to change, lalala we're fine now" cycle reach this point without bringing it up with her when they're both calm.
If this doesn't break them up, it should still lead to a complete reexamining of the relationship - which may end in a "this isn't working" realization or it may not. At the very *least*, I hope to see Dora in therapy, even if it's unofficial "talking to Sven and Faye and Marten and Hanners" style.
sirisaacnuton:
--- Quote from: Kazukagii on 15 Nov 2010, 22:07 ---
Agree 100% I don't think this is the start of Marten/Faye, far from it. Faye has moved on from Marten, I think that moment that she patted Marten's head after her date solidified that. Were this simply the end of Dora/Marten and both of them we back to being single for awhile, I would be one happy reader.
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I agree totally, with the addition that while I think that it solidified that Faye has moved on from Marten, the look Marten gave afterward combined with the follow up panel definitely says that Marten is not over Faye, and he may not even have realized it until that conversation and head pat.
And dammit, I'm still convinced that simmering way down deep in the id is a little piece of Marten that's still pissed that Faye got over her relationship hangups in time to hook up with other guys and not him...a guy that has a little bit of jealousy toward Angus (and hell, Sven), and just a little bit of bitterness toward Dora for making him miss the Faye window. Perhaps that little guy is here today, shoveling an extra little bit of fuel onto the fire.
What I'm actually kind of expecting (if Marten/Dora ends here or soon) is some period of time where Marten is regressing a bit in his infatuation over Faye (or jealousy over her relationship) while trying to be cool about it and supportive, and dealing with fallout from Dora.
LeeC:
Yeah Dora has no place to go unless she sleeps in the coffee shop. She might have to stay over Sven's and talk to him about it, and Sven already knows about the other fight (whether Dora knows he is aware of the previous fight remains to be seen) so he may have some sound advice.
Chances are Marten is going to go talk to someone next comic, or Dora will storm into the coffee shop and talk to faye.
sirisaacnuton:
--- Quote from: Irenfrea on 15 Nov 2010, 22:04 ---
--- Quote from: Kugai on 15 Nov 2010, 21:59 ---And at this point Dora will be kidnapped by a group of rampaging Canadians
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Either that, or Marten gets mangled by Vespavenger.
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Totally beat me to the Vespavenger reference. Though I was more picturing her taking Dora to task and Dora having an epic Scott Pilgrim style fight with her.
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