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WCDT 14-18 February 2011 (1861-1865)
The Duke:
aw man, this comic made me feel hell of sorry for Marten and Elliott
congratulations, Jeph
you made me feel sad
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Black Sword:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 18 Feb 2011, 07:47 ---
--- Quote from: Black Sword on 18 Feb 2011, 07:04 ---I remember someone calling for a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Characters yesterday.
This strip has turned me from a skeptic of such a society to a full blown supporter. What the hell, man. I'd be perfectly happy not to see Marten for the next six months or so, so we can see other characters who are not being so religiously screwed over by their creator. There's funny, and then there's just pure unnecessary cruelty. Cut him some kind of break already.
Sigh. Please give Marten his bottle of bourbon and pop him back in storage for a month?
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...the fact that literally the first time he pays attention to a pretty lady she happens to be more interested in his buddy is hardly "unnecessary cruelty". Besides which, if Steve isn't a complete asshole (which he has so far proven not to be) this may yet turn out okay for our dear protagonist!
Cause Steve is already with Cosette and breaking her heart will earn him the same sort of punishment Sven got for the Fayetastrophe, I should hope...and Marten is Steve's BEST BRO, so perhaps he can put in some deliriously sicknasty good words for his bromo sapien.
And even if Padma doesn't work out, NoHo's a big town and a lot of the ladies so far think Marty's skinny ass is hot stuff. This is actually, to my knowledge, the first time we've seen Steve's classical hunk charms preferred by a girl.
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It's more a matter of "how much of a butt monkey do you have to be before your creator gives you a break." I feel like Marten's had it lousy enough already so should get a little slack. Not even relationship slack, just something nice happening to him. He finds a severely damaged Les Paul he restores to perfect health! His blog goes from 5 hits a month to 1000 hits a month! He beats Hannelore at Scrabble!
...ok, beating Hannelore at Scrabble is more like a Legendary Mode achievement, but you get the idea.
Skewbrow:
Jimbo the Wingman FTW! The only downside with Jimbo would be that the kind of watering holes they would visit might not be the best places for Marten to meet the Lady of his dreams.
jwhouk:
So why is Padma calling Marten over?
She thinks he's cute. - 25 (21.4%)
She needs rescuing from Renee's whining. - 5 (4.3%)
She needs rescuing from Elliot's moping. - 2 (1.7%)
She's gonna try to set him up with Renee. - 3 (2.6%)
She's going to try to set him up with Elliot! - 7 (6%)
She just wanted to say hi. - 28 (23.9%)
She wants the phone number of his friend. - 23 (19.7%) <--- Winnah winnah chicken dinnah!
To ask him if she knows this "Marigold" Elliot is pining for. - 9 (7.7%)
"You work with my sister, don't you?" - 4 (3.4%)
She wants WAFFLES, dangit. - 11 (9.4%)
Total Voters: 117
cabbagehut:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 18 Feb 2011, 07:47 ---
...the fact that literally the first time he pays attention to a pretty lady she happens to be more interested in his buddy is hardly "unnecessary cruelty". Besides which, if Steve isn't a complete asshole (which he has so far proven not to be) this may yet turn out okay for our dear protagonist!
Cause Steve is already with Cosette and breaking her heart will earn him the same sort of punishment Sven got for the Fayetastrophe, I should hope...and Marten is Steve's BEST BRO, so perhaps he can put in some deliriously sicknasty good words for his bromo sapien.
And even if Padma doesn't work out, NoHo's a big town and a lot of the ladies so far think Marty's skinny ass is hot stuff. This is actually, to my knowledge, the first time we've seen Steve's classical hunk charms preferred by a girl.
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I sort of agree. I mean, as far as we know, it's been a few weeks. Lots of good stuff could have happened in the intervening time. I guess I don't really see Marten as a Butt Monkey. Most of the stuff that happens to him is pretty average stuff, but of course it's exaggerated a little for the sake of comedy and interest. People break up, lose their jobs, get rejected, etc. I mean, Marigold just got rejected a while back by Angus, and that was a lot more painful. Penny got rejected by Will. Sven got rejected by Faye. There's tons of examples of rejection, oh my! And while Marten got the big rejection from Dora, that doesn't mean his life is going to go perfectly to make up for it, you know? Bad things tend to happen together, at least in my experience.
Padma wasn't mean about accidentally rejecting Marten. She clearly doesn't dislike him, and one can never have too many friends. I think that while it's sort of a brick-to-the-face moment, it'll pass pretty quickly. Marten's good at bouncing back and realizing that just because someone's not interested in him doesn't mean they are shitty people, so I think he'll be fine.
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