Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2036 - 2040, Oct 17th - 21st 2011
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 21 Oct 2011, 04:30 ---For the record, personally I think Faye just doesnt like it that Angus isnt there.
Not that she's in any way upset that they said the words to each other.
--- End quote ---
When I read yesterday's comic, my first thought was also that she realised how much she would miss him. It's not insignificant that she realises how attached she is at the very moment he leaves her. Leaving for the weekend, yes, but nonetheless leaving her. She's now left with this sudden awareness that she loves him, combined with her trust/abandonment issues, and she is all alone. That is obviously going to trigger emotions that she would struggle to cope with. The point of a coping mechanism, however, is to let you cope. At the moment she is drunk off her face, much less inhibited, and is staving off her issues for the time being. So of course, it's not going to come through in her behaviour that there's anything wrong. She was drinking so that even she would forget anything was wrong.
And Marten is perfectly justified. He may be her flatmate and her close friend, but he's not her mother, and he's not her partner. Marten had plans for that evening, plans involving other people, and plans which from the sound of it also were to involve Faye. If she comes in drunk and rambunctious, babbling in faux-English-gentspeak, that's no indication that he is somehow obliged to cancel his plans, only that she is clearly in no fit state to go out.
Skewbrow:
I think that many of us raises hand are simply worried sick about the prospect of something horrible happening to Faye. Some of us want to blame Marten for not being an omniscient big brother to her at a time of need. Some of us want to rationalize it away one way or another. Some want to yell at others for not buying our pet theory.
Touching.
Really.
Hugs to all.
HiFranc:
As I understand it the "Pip pip" thing was something that appeared in British literature before the First World War (normally centred around upper class characters). I may be British but I'm not an expert on literature so I may be wrong. This discussion makes me think of a documentary I heard a while ago though I'm not sure if the phrase "Pip pip" turned up there.
El_Flesh:
Sorry, I don't see Marten NOT being resentful on some level that Faye simply didn't want him.
I can see him having enough of her eventually, and this is just a sign of it - to me, anyway.
Well these are characters, not actual people, so the story would go different.
Sure would be something for Marten to move away to follow a chick AGAIN!
How could you handle a double-coast comic???
rje:
...I'm starting to think I'm a terrible person because the only thought I came away with from today's comic was 'what bar doesn't let you in if you're already drunk??'
That was the only way we went to bars, you get toasty on cheap shitty wine & vodka beforehand at home so you don't have to spend as much at the bar to keep the buzz going/get drunker.
But on the real topic I guess lol
I am a bit surprised at Marten's reaction but I'll wait til Monday to see if there's a good reason for it
I will say Jeph might want to cut back on/lighten the lines under his eyes, they keep making him look upset/tired when I don't think he's supposed to be.
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