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Sven and Dora have a talk

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I wanted to apologize for being such a control freak.

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Dora, it's been MONTHS since I hooked up with ANYBODY.

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Well, I rescind my apology then. Hey, no takebacks!

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Really? It's been MONTHS? Yep.

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Because of Faye? I dunno... partially? It was a bunch of things.

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How do you feel? Horny, mostly. I meant EMOTIONALLY.

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If horniness isn't an emotion, I've got more to learn than I thought.

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What about you? Get any action? ...I shouldn't be seeing anybody but my therapist right now.

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Play the field a bit... I don't think slutting it up would be "good for me."

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Why do you care if I'm getting laid or not?

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Legend has it that if a year goes by without a Bianchi having sex... (Dad and grandpa's got us covered)

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I don't mean to be pushy. I just want you to be happy, sis.

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Talking to you tonight helped, I think.

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My balls are so blue Pantone wants to license the color....

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Can we NOT talk about your junk while we're hugging, please?

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Padma just replied to "Skinnysaurus"

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She's doing okay, and she's sorry it didn't work out.

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It'd be pretty hypocritical to get all emo over it now... tryin' to get my mack on with that Lieutenant.

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I was totally gonna say something, and probably punch you in the arm as well.

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Total Members Voted: 26

[jwhouk]

And yet another week in the books!

[Carl-E]

Literally.  Jeph tweets, "Making notes for QC volume 3, and whoo boy am I missing a lot of strips. Time to go dig through some old hard drives."

[iduguphergrave]

Not to make more work for him but I hope that means he'll have to redraw some of them like he did in book one; I liked seeing older strips in the current style. 

[Redball]

My memory is that he was learning dialog as well as drawing skills; I like the early art, and dialog, because it tells a story but also shows his fans how far he's progressed.

[jwhouk]

For Volume 3, he's got a pretty significant number of "guest strips" in his archives in the 600-899 range. Wonder if he's gonna go all the way up to the arrival of HannerMom.

[Milesb]

I've actually bought two of the QC books as a presents (but never had time to look through them properly either time...)

Do guest strips appear in the QC books?

[jwhouk]

No; however, he did provide a few of the ones he did for other artists/strips.

[jwhouk]

*Sigh.*

[DSL]

Baby steps, Dora.

[Shadic]

Holy fuck yes, Sven.

Less Marigold and Hanners, more Sven and Steve please.

Goddamn I didn't realize how much I missed the man.

[Is it cold in here?]

How much of this is due to Faye?

He may have been growing up already by the time they had their affair. He treated her better than he treated Genevieve, for example.

[RyanW1019]

I think the big thing that started Sven changing was Faye calling him out on a lot of his BS, which made him take another look at a lot of the feelings he'd been suppressing. Also, did the art change slightly? I feel like something changed for the better but I can't figure out what.

[WAYF]

Gee, I'm starting to like Sven.

[Method of Madness]

Thanks to Sven, I now know of Montreal exists. Interesting.

[JohnTheWysard]

Okay, Faye - you can recall that apology.

But now you need to prepare another one...!

[Tellusora]

You do mean Dora, right John? I think Faye's got nothin' to 'pologise fo'!

And MoM (heh, mom), seriously? I know Canada's like the land of myth and legend, surely you'd have heard of Montreal!
Speaking of which, Sven shouldn't be wearing that shirt. Misrepresentation of identity! D:<

[TinPenguin]

Method is talking about the band, of Montreal, on Sven's shirt.

Hm, they're from Georgia, I wonder if our peachy friend got him into them...

Holy fuck yes, Sven.

You mean "fuck no Sven", right?

[Welu]

Yay! Happy to see Sven. I've missed him.

I wonder if this will lead to some Faye discussion.

[Mr. Doctor]

Sven is right, no takebacks allowed, in fact... Dora probably needs to make another apology just because she didn't bother to ask before.

[Akima]

You mean "fuck no Sven", right?

Or perhaps "No fuck Sven"?

It takes a secure man to wear a shirt as pink as that.

[pwhodges]

It matches the highlight colour of the main menu above, too.

A century ago, pink was regarded as the male colour, not the female:

An article in the trade publication Earnshaw's Infants' Department in June 1918 said: "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."  From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary.  Since the 1940s, the societal norm was inverted; pink became considered appropriate for girls and blue appropriate for boys, a practice that has continued into the 21st century.

And pale pink is a common colour for shirts in a formal office to this day.

Incidentally, the term "pink" for a huntsman's red jacket comes not from the colour, but from the name of the maker who originated it.  Pink's is still a respected tailoring firm.

[Welu]

I've been seeing a lot of discussion about men wearing pink lately. I'm blaming Cracked.

[Near Lurker]

It takes a secure man to wear a shirt as pink as that.

Listen to some of Montreal, and the fact that it's pink will be the least of your worries.

[iduguphergrave]

Take away the band name, and what you have left is a femmy dude in a pink shirt talking about his decreased interest in sex with hot chicks.



Just sayin...



  /isuck

[Near Lurker]

Keep the band name, and what you have is a femmy dude in a pink shirt telling his sister about decreased interest in sex with hot chicks while wearing insignia of a man who performs songs of often incestuous psychosexual nightmares in heavy makeup, naked from the waist down in the tortured persona of Ziggy Stardust "Georgie Fruit."

[Method of Madness]

Method is talking about the band, of Montreal, on Sven's shirt.

Yep. In fact, last summer I went to Montreal for the first time, and it was awesome.  But I'd never heard of the band.

[Milesb]

Go Sven!

This is all I have to say about this strip.

[Blackjoker]

Ah Dora, one step forward, two steps back.

[FunkyTuba]

Is Sven pining for Faye? Is this setting up a Sven/Angus confrontation?

Schmaybe... schmaybenot.

[Mr_Rose]

Sven might be pining for Faye but, short of Gary showing up, he isn't stupid enough to actually pursue her again, especially not when she's otherwise occupied.

[Akima]

Is this setting up a Sven/Angus confrontation?

Cue epic brawl? Probably not; QC guys don't have hands and heads made of concrete.

[Carl-E]

I love how she tries to control her apology for being cotrolling by taking it back. 



I personally think she and Sven could use some little hatsssss ,yesssssssss............

[Method of Madness]

She should write down her apology on a tiny chalkboard, and atop that chalkboard place a little hat...yesssssssss.

[jwhouk]

Which of these is more likely?

Cute Overload - The Kawaii Reckoning    0 (0%)
Revenge of the Guest Strip Week    0 (0%)
Dora Drama Days    14 (32.6%)
Monty Python ("And now, for something completely different...")    5 (11.6%)
Jeph forgets to do strips because he's playing Diablo 3    6 (14%)
It's All About Clinton Week    1 (2.3%)
The Ultimate Superhero Team-Up: Pizza Girl, LOLbat, and The Pythagorean!    1 (2.3%)  <Bonus Points if you can name the other two webcomics>
Get the dickbrooms out, We're about to get a WHAM episode...    6 (14%)
Oh, come off it with that. It's going to be a great week.    5 (11.6%)
Space Ham, Waffles, and an Old Fashioned.    3 (7%)
Jeph forgets to do strips because OMG I HAVE TO REDRAW LIKE 300 STRIPS I LOST!    2 (4.7%)

Total Members Voted: 43

[akronnick]

She should write down her apology on a tiny chalkboard, and atop that chalkboard place a little hat...yesssssssss.

Have you been reading Surviving the World?

[celticgeek]

It looks to me as if they are drinking out of mason jars.  White Lightning?

[mustang6172]

It looks to me as if they are drinking out of mason jars.  White Lightning?

According to the blog, it's just red wine in mason jars.

And horny must be an emotion because I sure can feel it.   

[snubnose]

It takes a secure man to wear a shirt as pink as that.

Or someone naive. I once wore a pink piece of clothing in public and suddenly some man started hitting on me. Hu ! I like that color, but I dont wear it anymore.

[Mr. Doctor]

I only own one pink tshirt but it's not the kind of pink that hits you in the face with its pink-ness.

[Kugai]

I'm surprised that Sven hasn't exploded yet.

[iduguphergrave]

Hopefully he'll wait until Dora leaves.

[idontunderstand]

Hopefully he'll wait until Dora leaves.

OH YOU!

[cesariojpn]

It looks to me as if they are drinking out of mason jars.  White Lightning?

According to the blog, it's just red wine in mason jars.

You haven't lived until you drank some form of alcohol out of a mason jar.

[TinPenguin]

I drink mine out of a ceramic vase, how's that?

I love how she tries to control her apology for being cotrolling by taking it back.

I noted that too. This is the difficulty in trying to get in control of your control freak behaviour.

[snubnose]

You haven't lived until you drank some form of alcohol out of a mason jar.

Guess that makes me officially a Zombie (I never drink alcohol).

[jwhouk]

There's this old metal Cup I wouldn't mind swigging champagne from.

Too bad I'm not a Kings, Devils or Rags fan...

[Method of Madness]

You haven't lived until you drank some form of alcohol out of a mason jar.

Guess that makes me officially a Zombie (I never drink alcohol).

You should try it sometime.  That is, drinking out of a mason jar, it doesn't have to be alcohol.

[Border Reiver]

Drinkin' out of a mason jar isn't any different from drinkin' out of  any glass mug in my experience any way.

[jwhouk]

It has to be surrounded by a bunch of people wearin' overalls, sittin' on rockin' chairs on the veranda and speakin' in a dialect that uses heavy doses of "y'all" and "all y'all" and "fixin' to go".

Oh, and there has to be a cracker barrel.

[jwhouk]

I only own one pink tshirt but it's not the kind of pink that hits you in the face with its pink-ness.

That's the kind of pink shirt that would leave people to assume you left a red shirt in with your whites once.