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WCDT 2101-2105 (January 16-20, 2012) - A New Hope
PureLionHeart:
Yes Faye, Marten has ruined his entire life, forever, over this chick who was leaving anyway. Consequences will never be the same. If you can't successfully manage the grand romantic gesture of chasing after her as she boards the plan or drives out of town or whatever, you might as well just end it all. Pintsize probably has a gun somewhere.
Anywho, hopefully no more Padma, or that whole crew of clones for that matter.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 16 Jan 2012, 00:50 ---Marten tends to be the injured party, if he is the bigger man it doesn't tend to help him much and when he isn't he gets yelled at.
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And then everyone in the forum starts congratulating whoever it is that yelled at him, saying things like "good for XXXX, Marten needed that kick in the pants".
And on and on and so forth.
Now I'm not saying that Marten couldn't use a good honest talking to. I just think that he really doesn't need all the "kicks in the pants" that he's been getting, is all.
Do we really need to start congratulating people for kicking the strip's Charlie Brown after he's already missed the football?
Soulsynger:
Can't believe nobody saw that line of argumentation a mile coming...
Jeph must be SO so much smarter than us. °O
Welu:
After a mini-think, I guess this comic is a much more harsh version of the talk Dora had with Marten a while ago.
I don't really understand why this incident triggered Faye to full on blast Marten's life but I do think it would do him good to hear, "You could be doing so much more if you wanted to" again. If Marten was happy playing with the band once in a while, drinking coffee, hanging with friends and working in the library then that'd be grand. However so many times this has been said before that he's not fully satisfied.
Mini-note: My not-understanding of Faye's blasting is possibly just due to the last of Marten and Faye on screen hanging out lately. I love what the comic's been doing all the way through but I still miss them just hanging on the couch simply talking to each other.
There's a way to go about talking to people about big matters like this and I don't think this was the right way (if the goal is to not hurt feelings), although I can't say it's not effective.
Until the last panels I just read, "Boy was THAT waste!" as sarcasm, as in, "Yeah, trying is such a waste because it had such a huge impact on your life and got you to meet all your current friends and make your band."
As has been said though, life is a butterfly branching effect rather than a single chain so he could have ended up with a totally different or exactly the same life based on a lot of variables.
Also just because we were talking about it in the last thread, Faye's scar has a tiny appearance in panel 2B.
pwhodges:
Heh!
--- Quote from: jeph on 16 Feb 2009, 16:26 ---
--- Quote from: spinyhedgehog on 16 Feb 2009, 10:21 ---This may have been addressed but what happened to Faye's scar?
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It's still there, but I just forget to draw it sometime. it has faded and only shows prominently at certain lighting angles.
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