Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 6-10 Dec 2010 (1811-1815)
iduguphergrave:
I do my best to not sound like an idiot when I'm on here, at least not intentionally. :-(
If I ever start to sound like a real troll please just ban me and I'll understand.
RE: Comic:
Nice. I like seeing Dora and Sven interaction.
And c'mon, who didn't kill a goldfish when they were little? Those things are like the easiest things to kill.
pwhodges:
True about goldfish, of course.
What's intriguing me, though, is just how Jeph's going develop the comic if the group does fall into two barely related sections. To me this suggests that some sort of accommodation between Dora and Marten is on the cards at some stage, though it may be that he hasn't planned it yet.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
I think it's also a possibility, though distant, that someone might leave the cast, but again, all depends on Jeph's plan.
Sven is being really awesome here, wooooo Sven.
Boomslang:
Yeah, this is really cute and all, it's genuinely touching, but I'd like to see just a smidge of concern for Marten. Really, Dora does not have any sort of right to feel sorry for herself, no one had any input or control over this besides her, and if she had gotten any advice from any of her friends, they'd have told her not to, or at least told her to do it way different.
I can assume she feels guilty over how much she hurt Marten right now, but it's not being shown. It really does feel like now that she's broken up with him, he no longer exists, and it's just poor little Dora alone in the world. It's only been a day, but it seems like she's 'gotten over' Marten the person already, and is only grieving for the way her life was before she decided to change it.
This is the problem with severely limited omniscience, there's a lot of stuff that's probably going on, but since we don't see it, it's hard to be sure exactly what exists and what doesn't except when the cast mentions it. And Jeph really is striking what may be the best balance of getting on with the story, cracking jokes, and showing what's going on. Unfortunately we can't get Jephs of different dimensions and have them draw comics in parrallel, which would be the only possible way to solve that dilemma.
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Dec 2010, 00:59 ---True about goldfish, of course.
What's intriguing me, though, is just how Jeph's going develop the comic if the group does fall into two barely related sections. To me this suggests that some sort of accommodation between Dora and Marten is on the cards at some stage, though it may be that he hasn't planned it yet.
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We have built our civilization upon a mountain of goldfish skulls. Or maybe a low hill, them being so teeny and all.
I was pretty sure an accommodation was in the cards before Marten started looking like someone you'd see pushing a grocery cart on the sidewalk, complete with freaky hat. I keep wondering how long it's going to be before he lines that thing with foil.
Then I remind myself it's only been what, a day? Three at the most? So sure, something's going to be worked out. But it may take months or more, our time. At least I know if someone accused me of lying to her and dumped me because of it (I know that's not exactly what happened, but it seems fairly close to how it must feel to Marten), I'd have to give myself a few weeks or maybe months to put it behind me enough so I'd be sure I could act civilized around her. Which wouldn't* mean we couldn't share friends—just that things would be strained.
Still, if Marten's deep-ending is a long-term thing, who knows? But, like I said, the way time flows in QC makes it hard to get a handle on this sort of thing, or at least it does for me.
Of course, why I think Marten will be in the driver's seat of this car is an entirely other discussion.
*Edit: screw up—missing negative. ANd I misspelled mountain and… To paraphrase Dave Bowman, "My god, it's full of typos."
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