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WCDT: 2811-2815 (13-17 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Bologna:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 16 Oct 2014, 07:35 ---While the phrase "living well is the best revenge" pops to mind, that's not really what's going on, but I think this can lead to some serious development of Faye as a person in her own right, not necessarily dependent on a boy to make her happy. She may even eventually find someone through her art, or not, but she'll be able to look back at how her time with Angus helped her overcome her crippling issues by providing a level of emotional normalcy that she'd been missing for a long time.
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I would love to see Faye develop her artistic skills, and I hope this is the way things go.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Oct 2014, 05:29 ---Then, the very last strip next Friday being Angus stepping onto the bus, waving to Faye and then disappearing within. Then the bus drives off and Faye breaks down on Hanners' shoulder.
FAYE: "I... I'm sorry, I'm getting your coat dirty!"
HANNERS: "My coat I can wash. My friend's heart needs more attention right now."
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That would be one of the supreme moments of the entire strip.
Neko_Ali:
Do I want them to break up? No, not really. But I've seen this writing on the wall since the arc started. They are good and happy together, but what they want out of their lives right now are very different and incompatible things. Angus wants this, he needs this. This job is what he has been working for, and it would be extremely unfair to himself to not take it. Faye not only doesn't want to, but she is not in an emotional place to leave Northampton right now. If she were to move with Angus it would undo a lot of the emotional healing she's done over the last year or so. It would be unfair to herself to go with Angus. They talked about long distance relationship and making it work, but I think they both knew it wasn't going to be. It was just an emotional bandaid. If Angus didn't get the job they could have sighed and gone back to the way things were. But now that it's a done deal, Faye has to face the fact that she really wasn't ready for this, she can't do the LDR thing. That's what I'm getting in the last two panels. "I thought I could do this, but now that it's here, I realize that I can't." The only thing fair to both of them is to break up now. It will hurt, there will be sadness. But it will be quick and done instead of drawing out and lingering for weeks and months, making the end result even worse. Sometimes you just have to take the least bad of your options.
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 15 Oct 2014, 17:29 ---Breaking News Alert!
A paddle steamer has been spotted at the edge of Niagara Falls. The question that remains is how many Youtube views it will get.
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Ooh, nice one. (At least 1,000,000. At least.)
But yeah, this is probably going to be a sad one. Probably with a Friday cliffhanger, too.
Mafarfloune:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 15 Oct 2014, 21:57 ---Nobody's perfect, either IRL or in fiction, so it'd be silly to expect perfection from him or anybody else. But compare him to pretty much everybody else in-comic besides, say, Penelope. Each one of them is a hot mess in some respect, but they also have something -- a skill or talent that sets them apart, or at least makes them bearable. Marten's indecisive as hell, but is a good friend and confidant, and could probably do something with his music if he had the confidence to pull it off. Faye's slowly getting the confidence back to get into her sculpture. Raven, bless her ditzy self, has intellectual gifts that are at odds with her image. Sven's a lothario that you wouldn't want within a country mile of your daughter, but writes mega hits practically without trying, in much the same way that even Jimbo manages to crank out bestsellers even though we only ever seem to see him on the verge of weeping into his yellow beer in dive bars. Try as I might, I can't see anything similar for Angus. Sure, we're told he's witty, but we haven't seen it.
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Goes on to list every characters' artistic talents. Conveniently ignores Angus' considerable acting talent, which is the reason he's leaving in the first place.
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