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WCDT: 2434-2438 (29 April-3 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Madmartigan:
Poor, Emily. Sometimes you gotta know when to give a bad pun up before something like that happens.
bhtooefr:
And Hanners was probably the single worst person in-comic to try that pun on.
(Claire at least got the pun, she just stole Emily's thunder there.)
And, count me in the "meh @ Emily" group.
starkruzr:
Do people ever actually get ANGRY at bad puns? Ever? Or is that just a comic strip trope? :psyduck:
westrim:
Emily has poor impulse control and boundary issues. Raven alternately presented brilliance and utter ignorance. Emily =/= Raven
CleoKat:
--- Quote from: Hybris on 02 May 2013, 06:15 ---The last couple of comics with Emily as a major focus have really cemented why I don't like her character.
Emily appears to be thick headed a bit like Raven is some respects but while Raven had skills that suggested that she was actually an intelligent woman who has a naive streak a mile wide.
Emily thus far seems to be thick headed with no signs of any skills or useful traits in fact I think it will come out soon that she has a mental disorder or two to explain her level of chaos.
It's been a long time since I have last posted but Emily has finally got me riled up enough to come back and post. :roll:
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I posted (last week, I think) that I really wasn't enjoying Emily because she's lacking any form of depth. She's just 'zany' and this whole pun thing is really tedious.
A 'mental disorder' is not why she is like she is. I'd be careful of thinking in those terms that weird must equal a mental health/dysfunction issue because it reduces people to a diagnosis and not a person. I trust Jeph not to use that storyline because he's written characters with various disorders and anxiety issues so beautifully before.
I mainly think that Emily hasn't been fleshed out at all. Maybe she has got issues but right now, she's just 'ha ha, oh Emily, you kooky chick!' and that's it. I don't care about her at all, she's a throwaway (with a kickass haircut). I've been hoping that the little hints that Emily's struggled to make and keep friends might be elaborated on (she's gone from loner to a group without much of a reaction/adjustment/trouble), or she could talk about/use her degree (computing stuff?) or perhaps she could have a conversation with someone that isn't played for laughs but so far that hasn't happened. I've come to write-off Emily updates and I'm sad about that because Jeph seems to love her.
Maybe the next update will be a Hanners and Emily moment where something real and tangible happens. Here's hoping.
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