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WCDT: 2377-2381 (4-8 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
Wow. That is a great point.
jwhouk:
+2 to that post.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: the transcript of Hannelore's very first appearance ---Smoking Girl: I'm a woman, and I've seen plenty of guys do just what you've done to yourself. Part of you likes the impossibility of the situation. You like not being able to do anything to change things for the better, because you're afraid.
Marten: 'Fraid? 'Fraid of what?
Smoking Girl: Change.
--- End quote ---
Carl-E:
People have hypothesized that, in the early days of the comic, Marten was a stand-in for Jeph. And I think that was true, to a certain extent. Jeph, as Marten, was scared of change. But after a few years, he did - quit the office job and went full time into comicking. Reading the old newsposts, it was probably one of the scariest changes he's made in his life.
But Marten hasn't changed, and as we've all noted, he suffers for it. It bothers him, and occasionally, the ones around him. He's a good friend to his friends, but not so much to himself.
The problem is, as I see it, he's also the steady-state center of the comic. Everything/everyone else revolves around Marten, greatly from Marten's point of view. He's the protagonist, and in a novel (with an ending), a protagonist goes through a change, reaches a new plateau. But this webcomic isn't a closed-ended story. Marten going through a change, reaching a new state, may well shift the foundations of the whole comic. As all of us who have gone through changes can attest, old friends are lost, new friends are made (with luck), family relationships change...
I don't think Jeph's ready to take it there. Marten's reluctance to change may well be Jeph's version of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". And for him, the comic's working fine...
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Faye ---This is why I don't like change. It changes things.
--- End quote ---
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