Topic: WCDT: 2421-2425 (8-12 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (Read 63858 times)

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #250 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 10:18 »

I'm afraid Jeph has run out of things to do with Raven that interest him and that she's fading away.

Carl-E · « **Reply #251 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 10:57 »

Old physicists don't fade away, they just get more uncertain...

Oh, and honeybuns;

Basically a cinammon roll with a tad too much glaze;

However, there are so many other colloquial usages... not the least being a reference to a sweet derriere.

Dastardly · « **Reply #252 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 11:35 »

Is it just me, or does Faye seem smaller?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #253 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 11:44 »

Yeah, she's been shrinking for a while now.

TimO · « **Reply #254 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 12:28 »

They've clearly been popping her in the tumble drier, after she's showered.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #255 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 16:56 »

Well we know she's been exercising more.

RedWolf4 · « **Reply #256 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 18:22 »

Pintsize has probably been secretly siphoning fat off to make soap. How do you think he affords some of the crap he buys? I don't see Marten giving him an allowance.

westrim · « **Reply #257 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 18:58 »

Faye is losing weight because the comic is slowly looping back towards the beginning. Soon everyone will be stick thin, and Marten will be without a girlfri- oh no, it's already begun!

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Quote from: Sassafras on 12 Apr 2013, 01:50
Marigold more grounded
Hannelore more odd
Seems backwards to me.
Well then, I dunno what to tell you.
Sleep deprivation isn't odd, just bad for ones health.
Well, sorry, but I'm not going to track down 20 different links showcasing the variety of Hannelore's oddness, because it's always been a defining trait of her character. You're just being pointlessly contrary.

Hey, I wasn't arguing, just expressing that I had a different opinion. Living in your own filth with rats is a lot weirder to me than being OCD, etc. Disagreeing doesn't equal looking for a fight.

jwhouk · « **Reply #258 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 19:30 »

And your favorite non-sequitur comment from QC?

Cump. 14 (14.6%)
rghfrgl. 4 (4.2%)
DJENT DJENT DRDRDRRRDRRRRR 1 (1%)
YESSSSSS.... 11 (11.5%)
SSSSSH! 0 (0%)
Fluffy fluffy fluffy, fluffy fluff fluffy 3 (3.1%)
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang 20 (20.8%)
Ffffffff 0 (0%)
Beep boop. 6 (6.3%)
Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat. 34 (35.4%)
Other. 3 (3.1%)

Total Members Voted: 96

mtmerrick · « **Reply #259 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 19:48 »

Muskrat? Muskrat, Muskrat Muskrat! Muskrat!!!

(but seriously, little hats)

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #260 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 20:08 »

Quote from: Sassafras on 12 Apr 2013, 01:50

Claire and Marigold being more grounded while Emily and Hannelore are more odd.

There was, after all, that incident in which Marigold was grounded (by Hannelore!).

Kugai · « **Reply #261 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 21:50 »

Meiville is currently on assignment in North Korea for the DOKYA.

westrim · « **Reply #262 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 21:59 »

Quote from: Kugai on 12 Apr 2013, 21:50

Meiville is currently on assignment in North Korea for the DOKYA.

Department Of Kicking Your Ass?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #263 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 22:39 »

Yes, Steve's employer.

mtmerrick · « **Reply #264 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 22:50 »

We haven't seen Steve in a while, come to think of it...

westrim · « **Reply #265 on:** 12 Apr 2013, 23:20 »

Quote from: mtmerrick on 12 Apr 2013, 22:50

We haven't seen Steve in a while, come to think of it...

Last time was the lake party, I think. Perhaps he is now on a mission to examine Hannelores method of transportation?

RedWolf4 · « **Reply #266 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 00:24 »

Maybe Claire's ass-grabbery injured his gluteus maximus and he's been in recovery ever since?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #267 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 00:51 »

He was able to sit down for the cereal-eating strip.

mtmerrick · « **Reply #268 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 01:25 »

I completely forgot about the hilarity of the cereal strip, but if of two minds of that should actually count as an appearance or not.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #269 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 01:38 »

As far as Steve appearances go, the lake party would be pretty recent still.

LeeC · « **Reply #270 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 12:55 »

has Faye lost weight?

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #271 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 13:24 »

Or a limb?

You have her card key, right?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #272 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 14:06 »

She's now got a better way to meet her emotional needs than Pepperidge Farm cookies, so it's plausible character development. It's too bad Jeph has started getting irritated with questions about it.

SJCrew · « **Reply #273 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 21:42 »

It is now that I remember why I like Dora. Such a beautifully flawed fictional character. <3

Quote from: LeeC on 13 Apr 2013, 12:55

has Faye lost weight?

Jeph never seems to know how he wants to draw Faye. She started off thin with the old artstyle, and maintained that size up until the beginning phases of his current artstyle. Then, out of nowhere, she's thicker and I'm like "Wait, what? Since when?" Now it looks like the old Faye is making an appearance, though her upper body looks quite out of place with those thighs...

There's this one comic in particular where Faye is wearing a yellow shirt at the CoD that highlights exactly what I mean, and my mind keeps coming back to it when I realize how inconsistent Faye's size has been. I think this is back when Ms. Pritchard was around. I may just end up looking for it.

EDIT: It's not this one. Big arms and gigantic breasts. I think we can pretend it was this one though.

Old Faye had a cuter head too. And those arms. <3

pwhodges · « **Reply #274 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 22:11 »

Jeph has said on various occasions (most frequently with reference to Dora, but also to Faye and others) that he has clear ideas of the characters in his head, but is still learning how to draw them; so he puts the variations down mainly to the evolution of his style and technique. In some cases, though, there was also a progressive change in the character (most notably early Hanners).

He also dismisses some comments about this as nit-picking that is beside the point.

Redball · « **Reply #275 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 22:37 »

I'm OK with how he draws his characters, since their personalities come through clearly enough. And Faye remains my favorite. The characters engaged me from the start, and so I look back at the early drawings and the criticism of them, including Jeph's, and meh. Can meh be a verb?

Loki · « **Reply #276 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 22:48 »

As we all know, language evolution is the most democratic thing ever.

Therefore, I vote for "meh" to be a verb.

So far, I am in the majority.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #277 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 22:53 »

I vote the "meh" be added as a verb, so long as we can all agree on how to conjugate it.

I meh,
You meh,
He/She/It mehs?

SJCrew · « **Reply #278 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 23:11 »

I'd agree with the integration of 'meh' in modern plainspeak if every one of the world's dorkwads hadn't already lazily adopted into their limited vernacular.

Say it aloud right now, then post a picture of your face when you realize there's nothing you can do to make it sound natural.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #279 on:** 13 Apr 2013, 23:20 »

Any noun can be verbed but the same may not be true of "meh".

westrim · « **Reply #280 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 01:03 »

Quote from: SJCrew on 13 Apr 2013, 23:11

I'd agree with the integration of 'meh' in modern plainspeak if every one of the world's dorkwads hadn't already lazily adopted into their limited vernacular.

Say it aloud right now, then post a picture of your face when you realize there's nothing you can do to make it sound natural.

I was going to work on plural conjugations, but you're right. I can't recall ever saying it before, and trying to say it, it sounded silly. The closest I've heard anyone get is "eh," and never alone- only at the end of a sentence, usually paired with "so" as in "so, eh," essentially short for "whatever." EHver- maybe that's the origin?

Also, I'll launch the new thread in 12 hours. I need to collect some information first.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #281 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 02:24 »

I say meh all the time. Also muh. And buh. And beh. And whfargglll. I make a lot of strange noises, to be fair.

Loki · « **Reply #282 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 04:31 »

What about asdf?

Zebediah · « **Reply #283 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 04:32 »

And muh would be a reasonable past tense for meh. Whfargglll may possibly be the past participle of rghfrgl.

If you're going to create new words, make them as irregular as possible, I say.

Akima · « **Reply #284 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 05:28 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Apr 2013, 09:25

He made up for it with "Mesopotamia", which is chillingly applicable today.

Ow! Isn't it just? I had never heard of that poem; thank you.

Redball · « **Reply #285 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 07:38 »

OK, if it's accepted, let me add that it seems to be intransitive.

DSL · « **Reply #286 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 08:20 »

And possibly intransigent.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #287 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 08:26 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Apr 2013, 23:20

Any noun can be verbed but the same may not be true of "meh".

I don't know, verbing weirds language after all.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #288 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 09:16 »

*ahem* It's "verbing enweirdens language", thank you very much.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #289 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 10:40 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 08 Apr 2013, 18:16

I wonder what the minimum age difference is for someone to be "old enough to be" one's parent.

Bit late to this party but in my experience? Between 14 and 45 years. In recorded history? Between 5 and 67 years.

westrim · « **Reply #290 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 11:15 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 14 Apr 2013, 09:16

*ahem* It's "verbing enweirdens language", thank you very much.

I can't not read that with German pronunciation.

DSL · « **Reply #291 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 11:44 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 14 Apr 2013, 09:16

*ahem* It's "verbing enweirdens language", thank you very much.

But that misses MoM's joke.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #292 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 11:59 »

Bill Watterson's actually

Bluesummers · « **Reply #293 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 12:12 »

That was from Calvin and Hobbes? I feel so ashamed now, to sully the great poet's work... ;_;

Method of Madness · « **Reply #294 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 12:20 »

Loki · « **Reply #295 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 14:08 »

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments...

bhtooefr · « **Reply #296 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 15:16 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 14 Apr 2013, 10:40

Bit late to this party but in my experience? Between 14 and 45 years. In recorded history? Between 5 and 67 years.

For women, yes, although men are physically easily able to sire children much later in life than that.

jwhouk · « **Reply #297 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 15:18 »

Generally accepted is 30-40 years.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #298 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 15:38 »

Depends on where you are. Some parts of the US, it's amazing to make it to 20 without having at least one kid.

TheCollyWolly · « **Reply #299 on:** 14 Apr 2013, 15:42 »

Am I the only one that can't get to the Swaggy GC or the Yelling Bird re-dub thing?

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