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WDCT 10-14 January 2011 (1836-1840)
pendrake:
Playing catch-up again with QC... How you people manage to post on every (or nearly every) strip makes me wish I had more time not spent working, husbanding, parenting, and trying not to accidentally (or purposefully) unleash Cthulhu or the zombie apocalypse.
1. It did make me sad to read strip Number 1838 and Jeph's comments, but nor was it anything particularly shocking either :cry: .
For #1839...
2. Artwork-wise, I really like strip Number 1839, panels 3 & 4 really show Marten's features from his mother's side. Like strip Number 1519 (panel 4) showed from between Marten and his father.
3. For Marten's feelings of relief and guilt over The Break-Up: Generally speaking, if you do have a strong &/or solid sense of relief, it probably does made you did the correct (if not "right") decision, regardless of any guilt :| .
4. Marten and Miss Reed talking about Dora as much as the break-up, I get a feeling Marten may be tentatively walking into Coffee of Doom to hang around the many girls he is fond of and bonded with once again, relatively soon (thinking by the end of January 2011).
Swedish Chef:
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--- Quote from: CEOIII on 13 Jan 2011, 01:13 ---OK, so Marten should call Dad?
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No. No, fuck that idea. In fact, I really should have called westrim out on this yesterday and it is starting to bother me that people don't get it.
What would Henry say that's any different? He's busy being in love and getting ready to get married! Hell, he'd be worse to have around; at least Veronica is focusing all her attention on Marty, not mooning over somebody and then looking back all "oh, sorry son."
Nobody can fix this for Marten. That is not how real life works. If you want to laud QC for realism you have to accept this too: welcome to the world of dealing with your own heartbreak. People can be there for hugs and sympathy and embarrassment and all that, but no one is going to wave a magic wand and fix this.
Or do people just want someone to come and punch Dora? Is that what this is? Not to be paranoid but I noticed that the time Ms. Reed's popularity really started dropping was when it became clear she wasn't going to fuck Dora up. Is...Are we that bad, guys? Tell me we aren't.)
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It would be a good idea to call him, there is a lot less luggage between te two involved and Henry can offer a reasonable, removed, viewpoint.
But granted, nobody can sort it out for Marten but Marten himself.
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Marten dark grey hood makes him loks like a young Padawan.
shlominus:
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3. For Marten's feelings of relief and guilt over The Break-Up: Generally speaking, if you do have a strong &/or solid sense of relief, it probably does made you did the correct (if not "right") decision, regardless of any guilt :| .
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this.
nevertheless i still think dora and marten might get together again. i don't understand why this possibility hasn't been brought up yet (maybe it has, but i don't read the whole forum.) it wouldn't be that unusual.
ps: i love the portrayal of a disfunctional mother/son relationship. poor marten...
rje:
Hey I was right! She does just suck at this. xD
You can kind of tell when even the moment she tried a supportive speech it fell into trite cliche'. She just doesn't know what she's doing ~ aw now I kinda feel sorry for her.
I understand why Marten didn't want her coming even more now. I wonder if he got the same sort of '::shrug:: idk...it sure sucks?' thing when his college girlfriend dumped him.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
Well to be fair, that trite cliché isn't exactly wrong! I mean, sometimes that relief is honestly good, and sometimes it's bad! Who knows? Only Marty.
And if you mean where she said that even though he and Dora didn't work out, things are going to turn out okay: well, that's pretty true too!
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