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WCT Dec 20-24, 2010 (1821-1824)

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Mr_Rose:

--- Quote from: someone1074 on 22 Dec 2010, 16:58 ---Check out the transformation of her hair from panel 1 to 4.  Probably done on purpose, but still humorous.

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I do so love Hanners' psychomorphic hair - it's also one of the things I think they did quite well w/Tonks in the HP films.

Also, is anyone else getting a distinct Velma vibe off Hanners' jumper there?

Is it cold in here?:
That would be "very vivid Velma vibe".

In 980, Hannelore seemed at peace with the notion that she's a nutjob.

Armadillo:
...and Marten's slow-motion tumbling descent down the world's largest flight of stairs continues.

It seems strange to feel this badly for a fictional character, but I can't help myself.  Dude's been absorbing chain-nutshots for a good few weeks here.

Nodaisho:

--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 22 Dec 2010, 03:33 ---Except those social skills classes kind of do not apply to the woman who gave birth to you and raised you from childhood, and applied to her they are pretty passive-aggressive. I guess if you have a really bad family situation that shit applies? Maybe? I don't want to fucking go into that. Marten, the person who matters here, has a mother who loves him and who walking off on would be shitty and childish.

It's also, to me,  pretty clear Veronica was doing it to get a reaction and make him stop stewing in his own BLUH BLUH, which is what he wants to do.

If anything, Marten's reaction here is a good one--he goes "Mooooommm, GOD", and she goes "oh shhhh" and that is how things work because she's his mother.

 If it was one of his friends doing this? Sure, walk away! But it's his mom.

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Actually, the only time those social skills classes work is with people that you are really close to. Otherwise you generally need to apply a firmer hand to not get walked on. And no, it still doesn't count as passive-aggressive. It still doesn't fit the passive part or the aggressive part. Aggressive would be threatening to go back home and drink another bottle of whiskey, passive would be not doing anything. Passive-aggressive would be not doing anything until he gets home, at which point he gets blackout drunk again. Asking politely but firmly for her to stop would be assertive.

Aggressive would also be pretty ironic, given that emotional blackmail is supposed to be how parents keep their children in line, not vice versa.

If your parents think that the right way to make you feel better immediately after a rough break-up is making your day even worse, I'm very sorry.

That said, it's a comic. It's not supposed to be realistic.

ysth:
Ha!  I thought, I bet there'll be an early comic tonight.  But that was much earlier than I expected.

Nice work with the fingers in every panel.  I hate fingers.

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