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WCDT: 2656-2660 (March 10-14, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Coffee_Kaioken:
Alcohol sometimes does a 180 on your mood. You can go to a bar after a shitty day at work and then come home feeling better, then you can drink to celebrate something and feel like crap after the fact.
Yes, drinking hard liquor while grieving is different than a few beers after an awkward hookup and then a friend putting an ironic twist on it, but still.
Method of Madness:
Keep in mind all the times Marten's gone to the bar and had a few beers and got fancy. I'd imagine it'd be closer to that than post-breakup.
Throg:
Marten seems...brittle. Usually he's all chill in a genuine way, but this rings false.
Laying money down that we'll see Marten get drunk and then his facade of chill cheerfulness comes crashing down.
HeavyP:
I will say that I think he's honestly chill about it - the laughter in the last strip was the dam breaking. At some point, when bad things keep happening, you will eventually reach a tipping point. I think Marten has realized the absurdity of everything that keeps happening to him, how little it matters in the overall scheme of things, and is finally like "Y'know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna have some beers with my friends, then enjoy my evening and tomorrow because why not?"
I realize that from the outside looking in, he doesn't have a bad life and what's raining on his parade is fairly minor, but the miracle of perspective can make that seem a lot worse when it's happening *to you*
Tova:
I'm with HeavyP on this one. I think he genuinely has been able to find some kind of resolution, even if the people around him can't understand why.
It doesn't have to make sense to anyone else but Marten.
My theory is that the realisation that Marten himself was the one who got weird when Tai said that she thought D might get weird has not only tapped his funny bone but has also given him some much-needed perspective.
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