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Marten's fundamental character

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tomart:

--- Quote from: raoullefere on 14 Dec 2010, 06:21 --- Marten doesn't live, eat sleep and breathe each woman so much as he simply doesn't seriously consider others as possibilities. It's as though he won't allow himself to really 'see' them—to fully explore the idea of he and this girl as an item, if you will. He's involved with (on whatever level) who he's involved with, and that's that.
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Yeah, he's monogamous.  But now he's free again.

Many are saying (in another thread) that Marten should wait a while before getting serious again.  But look, he's got about the perfect job for meeting dateable women; one asked him out already.  

Perhaps the new dating drama in QC could be Marten not noticing/ fending off/ running from groups of hungry Smiffens who are smitten with the skinny indie boy, while he's trying to process and learn from the Dora disaster.

akronnick:
Unfortuneately, Marten will no longer be emitting the 'in a relationship' pheremone, and will therefore not be quite as attractive to the unattached ladies.

jwhouk:
I actually hope Jeph touches on this in a future strip...

Blackjoker:
@Olymander

I was one of the ones who was glad that Marten had stood up for himself with the whole thing with Dora. Not because he was, as you put it, 'being a selfish bastard.' I was glad because Marten frequently was the one who had to apologize when he did nothing wrong. He had to put up with a lot from Dora and when he set a reasonable boundary, and said clearly that he didn't want to discuss it, she ignored him and when she looked at it her tone was annoyed that it wasn't anything 'extreme' as if the purpose of the exercise was to find something to humiliate Marten with. He was angry, rightfully, because she ignored a boundary he had, one of very few boundaries, and this was after her constantly thinking he was unfaithful. I call what Marten did showing a spine because there is such a thing as personal boundaries, and when you ignore those that's kind of a big deal. Marten wasn't 'trampling' Dora in doing that, and was justified in being angry.

Olymander:
@Blackjoker

I agreed that Marten standing up for himself was showing a spine, the disagreement was in that his standing up for himself meant that he was taking responsibility for his life (as Boomslang was suggesting was the reason that other people were happy).  My annoyance was in, as you might recall, all the people that immediately took his standing up for himself into "Alright, Marten, now that you've laid down the line, go punish that bitch (meaning Dora)!"  Basically all the people that seemed intent on turning Marten into one of those "Alpha Goths" that Dora used to date ( I think... Solusar? is perhaps the better example of what bothered me about the whole thing).

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