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WCDT: 2811-2815 (13-17 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
BenRG:
Sometimes, I think that Jeph must have recent British blood. He has a very British ironic sense of humour and I do think some people take his tongue-in-cheek pronouncements a bit too seriously. That comment about Marten's happiness being, of course, thumbing his nose at fans of more obscure ships (although I'd be fascinated to learn his original intentions for Sarah before he decided not to use her after all).
Now for a bit of Kremlinology: The last filler strip, Momo and May, covered an eight hours or so time skip between Claire putting sense before desire and Marten's awakening. I'll make a guess here and predict that we aren't going to see the end of Faye's talk with Angus but rather skip to the consequences, probably the next in-universe day.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Oct 2014, 00:10 ---They call me BenRG...
But I don't know why!
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Perhaps it's a portmanteau, complimenting you for displaying beneficent energy.
swapna:
--- Quote from: Tova on 14 Oct 2014, 16:09 ---I can't help but think that "stalker" and "harassment" tags - quite serious ones - get thrown around here very lightly.
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That I didn't mean to do, but I've been in that situation where people come back no matter how often you tell them they should stay away and that you're not interested, and think their 'persistence' will win them anything. Angus (and Dale) exhibit such behaviours, and while the 'law of romantic comedies' says that they end up with the girl they chose to stalk, it's not a very good example. Neither is Faye abusing Marten all the time, or Hanners stalking him or whatever, but in this case I was talking about Angus. Put yourself in Faye's shoes: that guy comes back after she physically assaults him for bothering her at the bar or in the coffee shop and very clearly states that she wants nothing to do with him. How is that not creepy?
Also: Love Pintsize after all that relationship drama ;)
Thrillho:
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--- Quote from: plusorminus on 14 Oct 2014, 16:17 ---Angus pushed the envelope. Faye wasn't into it and he was being a tiny bit of a creeper. Dale, likewise was being a tiny bit of a creeper to Marigold and they are boning every five seconds. Yet the women who exhibited behavior similar to this were not afforded that same luxury.
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Yeah it's really impossible to imagine Jeph doing something like, I don't know, portraying a female character engaged in domestic abuse against a physically weaker target for 500 strips and playing it off as a slapstick, odd-couple gag because haha gender reversal is funny. That would basically be a different comic!
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I'm presuming you weren't actually making this as a proper point, but I feel it's worth noting to other people that I think most would consider the early days of the comic to be from a time when Jeph might have been less aware of the implications of this violence being used for comedy.
BenRG:
I'm wondering if this filler strip is covering a change of venue. Faye might not want to have a discussion in a public place (have a screaming argument in the middle of Coffee of Doom). She knows that Marten and Claire might be at her apartment but that, given it's a weekend, Marigold is probably with Dale. So, I think she and Angus are going to meet at his apartment to 'discuss' this matter a bit more in privacy.
The discussion will be in the next two strips and, for some reason, I can see the last panel of Friday's strip be May and Momo sticking their heads in to ask the two humans to be a bit quieter as they're trying to do stuff themselves.
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