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WCDT 1-5 August 2011 (1981-85)
stoutfiles:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Aug 2011, 07:37 ---
--- Quote from: Throg on 02 Aug 2011, 06:46 ---a big part of why Dora broke up with Marten in the first place: frustration at indie-boy's directionless passivity.
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Dora made it quite clear why she broke the relationship up, and that was not the reason.
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Just because it was never voiced in a strip doesn't mean it's not a possibility. Dora being an ambitious business owner should be somewhat upset with her boyfriends total lack of direction and motivation to improve himself. Not to mention their relationship was founded on Marten striking out with Faye. Are there any ladies reading this? Do you consider Marten a guy you'd love to date?
All I'm saying is that Marten isn't much of a catch in my opinion, and until he decides to do something, anything with his life, then any breakups he has are justified by the other party.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
Marten's lack of direction has been hitting close to home for a few months for me, but Tuesday's comic could be a dramatic reinterpretation of a conversation I had in 2003 with an ex. Except if this comic were about me, in between panels 4 and 5 there'd be an extra panel that reads "8 YEARS LATER".
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 02 Aug 2011, 08:26 ---Just because it was never voiced in a strip doesn't mean it's not a possibility. Dora being an ambitious business owner should be somewhat upset with her boyfriends total lack of direction and motivation to improve himself.
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Should? That's for Dora to say, not us. The only time I remember it coming up between them she was amused by it, rather: 610; and he's not always passive, either: 697 is hardly turning her off him. Granted, those were a long time ago; but Jeph has not chosen to make Marten's aimlessness in life and work an issue between him and Dora, even though he has brought it into the comic a number of times.
Throg:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Aug 2011, 08:54 ---
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 02 Aug 2011, 08:26 ---Just because it was never voiced in a strip doesn't mean it's not a possibility. Dora being an ambitious business owner should be somewhat upset with her boyfriends total lack of direction and motivation to improve himself.
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Should? That's for Dora to say, not us. The only time I remember it coming up between them she was amused by it, rather: 610; and he's not always passive, either: 697 is hardly turning her off him. Granted, those were a long time ago; but Jeph has not chosen to make Marten's aimlessness in life and work an issue between him and Dora, even though he has brought it into the comic a number of times.
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I thought it had been made clear in 1962 that his passivity was perhaps not the primary issue, but was feeding into her other issues. Namely, in spite of being a small business owner (in her late 20's, yet!), she still had issues of self-worth, and, well, panel 3 in that comic: she's afraid that he's with her because it's convenient, rather than he really wants to be with her.
(oh god i'm getting sucked into the psyches of characters from a webcomic)
thatchickliz:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 02 Aug 2011, 07:58 ---That's not ambition, that's an uneasy feeling of directionlessness (is that a word?).
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pwhodges got it (aimlessness), although I think directionlessness could be a word if the dictionaries would update more often to reflect new words.
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