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WCDT: 2296-2300 (15-19 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Redball on 18 Oct 2012, 10:22 ---I can't imagine a funny joke about a Japanese girl and her cherry: Japan is noted for its cherry trees and cherry blossoms, not the cherries themselves.
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Hm. I, too, apparently lack the context in which Schmorgluck's allusion makes sense. Personally, I think I'm actually happier for that.
dreed:
regarding speedos.
in europe 'speedos' are just regular swimwear. so its always hilarious (and a bit sad) how americans make a big deal out of them. especially how people say they are horrified that they can see other men bulge.
of course swimwear on Mediterranean is optional. so you scaredy cats... dont go there :)
Wintercode:
So if Jeph starts drawing at 7 - 9 am CET and if it takes him four hours to complete the strip that would make it anywhere from 11 am to 1 pm CET. That means tough luck for me since I can't possibly be online at those hours, responsibilities and all. Oh, well, guess I'll wait for January or something.
Anyways, this strip raises both the question of who else will come and who are potential dates for Marten. This being a major arc and Marten being close to main character etc. it is likely for his romance to be part of the arc. Today's strip certainly teases or at least plays with that possiblity. As for available "candidates" (though that makes it sound like late night dating show) or in other words, every single named female character that has appeared recently. Which would be
-Gabby
-Claire
-Emily
-Hannelore
-Marigold
Dora and Tai are in relationship, Faye's with Angus and Penelope's with Will. Raven is still in Texas or wherever, though I do hope she makes reappearance, her ditzy-ness (I doubt that is a word) is always welcome. Padma is permanently in LA and everyone else is either (currently) gone from the comic or dating someone.
As for the available ones
Gabby seems the least likely candidate, at least for me, simply because she has had the least amount of interaction, on camera at least, with Marten. Other then the time when all three interns were introduced and with few scenes on the street (if I'm not mistaken, when Marten asked her how old was she) she hasn't had any significant contact with him. The only way I can see relationship between the two of them would be if they get closer as friends on the party, start interacting more and then, sometime down the line, get together. Or, alternatively, get into physical relationship similiar to Faye and Sven, but I can't see Marten date someone just for sex, he seems like romantic type.
Claire, well, basically, much the same as Gabby. She has had more interaction with Marten than Gabby but not to a level where I would really consider them friends, not to mention lovers. Also, she doesn't seem to particulary care about dating or boys in general, or at least not from what we have seen so far.
Emily is the likeliest of the interns to make the leap but then, that seems like common shipping. Two characters are friendly to each other and are both single equals they both must be madly in love and finish together? However, having said that she would be interesting pairing for Marten and, in my opinion at least, the likeliest one. Not that means that they will end up together. She is funny and quirky and, unlike Hannelore and her anxieties and OCD or Marigold and her issues, her biggest issue seems to be that she lives with her head up in the clouds. Also, the way she invited Marten (and Tai and presumably others but that's not the point) would coincide with the love letter concept. At least according to animes/mangas (I have no idea about real world Japan) love letters are a common way of proclaiming love for someone. Then again, according to animes/mangas mechas are common and high-schoolers make the best pilots of said mechas.
As for Hannelore and Marigold, well,
Hannelore's biggest issue with dating are her neuroses, mysophobia and OCD and the fact that Marten in the past has taken big brother sort of parental role with him generally helping her with her issues and being her pillar of strenght (which made it all the more awesome to see Hannelore as Marigold's pillar) but Hannelore has progressed great deal since her introduction into the comic and even more so since her childhood (where she couldn't bear to be in physical presence of people) and especially in the strip where she arrivies via the invisible vehicle, she looked really confident and strong/brave. Is all that enough to start dating Marten and does she even want to date Marten (in her own words before her date with Sven "...I'm not interested in anybody romantically,..." Has her opinion changed significantly since then?
And Marigold, I just don't see it. I could write why but I'm tired. And this comment is already too long and dry of a read.
Sidhekin:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Oct 2012, 05:12 ---Does this mean Marten doesn't consider Sven and Wil to be his friends? Or are they coming later?
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Wil probably wouldn't go (or even be invited by Marten) without Penelope. And we already figured Penelope and Raven should be minding the business. Wil might even be minding his, at the Horrible Revelation.
Sven? He'd be yet another single dude, so Marten probably would have mentioned him along with Clinton. So he's not coming. Whether because Marten doesn't consider him a friend, or because he had other plans ...
Amir, now. No love for the band mate, huh? Or is he, somehow, busy?
Sidhekin:
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 18 Oct 2012, 09:21 ---
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 18 Oct 2012, 08:33 ---Padma was a strange Asian.
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That depends if you associate those of Indian descent to be Asian, which is a sticky situation as I think they're, and I could be incredibly wrong, closer to Aryan descent than Asiatic ethnic groups.
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Wow. I'm impressed.
First, Aryan? That's already a pretty racist word, further spoiled by the Nazis. For a modern audience, the least you could do is call us Indo-European. :-P
Second, Asiatic? "Asian" would be better (and, I'm told, less offensive), unless you're referring specifically to the Middle East (or even to the Asiatici orators of the classic) – and here you're obviously not.
Third, "those of Indian descent" (more than a billion) come in many wildly different ethnicities, some closer to this, and some to others – but all of them Asian, unless you consider the subcontinent of India separate from Asia ...
Fourth, while the word "Asian" may mean (be short for) "Far East Asian" in many contexts, as was demonstrated in recent discussions on this forum, TinPenguin obviously did not use it in this sense.
Mix semantics and racial theory, and you have a minefield. Still, it's impressive to hit four in 35 words.
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