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WDCT 10-14 January 2011 (1836-1840)
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 13 Jan 2011, 00:06 ---Pah! Lifejackets aren't necessary, this thing is unsinkable!
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I'll alert the Coast Guard.
azurite:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 13 Jan 2011, 01:31 ---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.
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THANK YOU. :-D
Was she going to come in and take over his life, putting his ex's lights out, getting his career path on track, establishing some better boundaries in his still impressively convoluted relationship with Faye, finding him a new honey, maybe catching up on his laundry and darning his socks? THAT would've been irresponsible mothering, and really annoying, besides. He's an adult. He can darn his own socks. And he can deal with his own heartbreak, too.
Of course, at no point IN THE ACTUAL STRIP did I get a sense that she was coming to visit Marten to become the co-dependent fixer of his life. Marten didn't seem to be operating under that assumption, either, unless I missed a few panels. This latest strip, he's actually starting to talk about the breakup in constructive language, too, which I think might be evidence of what his mother's visit has done for him. Her going to CoD was actually very smart--it gave Marten an opportunity to see Dora vicariously and opened the topic for conversation in a different way. It also kept Dora human, avoiding that particular brand of drama some breakups take on: "s/he whose name can not be spoke, the hell creature that lives across town."
I'm puzzled as to why so many posters think Veronica is being a terrible mother. She's listening, keeping a healthy distance, trying to give him some perspective and probably adding a few years onto the longevity of his liver by distracting him from multiple rounds of binge drinking, besides. Micromanaging him or his situation would be way more damaging right now.
I've enjoyed this storyline and seeing Veronica again, too.
westrim:
I went to sleep early so I missed everything said since and before this comic was posted, but my impression is hell, it's about time. They're finally acting like something happened in his life, not ooh, mom's visiting and embarrassing him and wacky hijinks hyuk hyuk hyuk. The aforementioned hijinks still haven't been addressed, but hey, if the writer and characters want to ignore them (aside from bringing up the Dora visit), I will. Also, why is hijinks not in Firefox's spell check?
steveb:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 13 Jan 2011, 01:31 ---
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.
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Absolutely right! I'm so glad you said that.
Actually I think Marten IS starting to deal with this. Asking how Dora was doing rather than asking what she said is a good sign in my book. Describing the break-up as something they did jointly is also good.
Border Reiver:
Always a hard thing to admit as a parent that you don't have all the answers - or that the ones you do have may not be the best.
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