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WCDT: 2826-2830 (03 - 07 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
snubnose:
--- Quote from: Natswash on 05 Nov 2014, 01:07 ---I dunno if it's just me, but Hanners, Claire, and Marigold seem to be very similar characters to me. They are deeply nuanced and unique but they seem very similar and I can't put my finger on why
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I think ALL of Jephs characters have a certain lightheartedness to them. Even if they all have their issues, on a certain level they are deeply relaxed, ever able to made the trademark jokes of Jeph.
Somnus Eternus:
The way Jeph's drawing him, Marten's eyes make it clear he's so into her that it's giving me warm and fuzzies and I'm starting to worry it might actually be heart problems.
Does anyone have an aspirin? I want to head this off before I get the tingling down the arm.
--- Quote from: osaka on 05 Nov 2014, 05:52 ---It makes sense that it's a dense bit of story telling, there are at the very least 3 storylines going at the same time right now (QCSS Clarten setting sail to the horizon, Steam Paddler FAngus crashing down Niagara falls, Angus moving to NY and having Marigold looking for roomie). Granted that Marigold's "struggles" are more of a background thing that has just been noted, but this is still a webcomic loosely based on strips and that limits the possible Progress per Unit of Comic (tm)
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You're forgetting the most important one - Pintsize and Winslow: Entrepreneurs.
Blackbird:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 05 Nov 2014, 04:50 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 05 Nov 2014, 00:40 --- if Claire was a normal woman
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CLANG!
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Giving snubnose the benefit of the doubt, Claire is NOT a normal woman. She's an anxiety-ridden nutbar with questionable social skills (I should know, we can smell our own). There's room for the comment to be alot more innocent than it comes off as at first.
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: Blackbird on 05 Nov 2014, 06:22 ---
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 05 Nov 2014, 04:50 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 05 Nov 2014, 00:40 --- if Claire was a normal woman
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CLANG!
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Giving snubnose the benefit of the doubt, Claire is NOT a normal woman. She's an anxiety-ridden nutbar with questionable social skills (I should know, we can smell our own). There's room for the comment to be alot more innocent than it comes off as at first.
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Without trying to be the thought police or nothin', I think the word 'normal' used to define a set of criteria that someone does not meet (no matter what the criteria are) is problematic.
Claire has a set of challenges that makes otherwise boring situations interesting (sometimes in the way of the Chinese curse) is another way of saying it, I guess.
I don't think there's any malice intended, so maybe just nod wearily and chuckles all around.
We'll get there. :-)
bhtooefr:
You know, lot_jockey's post actually really bothers me.
I'm 26 years old, and I've never kissed anyone, and have no dating experience whatsoever, and don't really know what I'm doing in that regard. While the reasons for that are rather different from Claire's reasons (mine is caused primarily by my anxiety issues and the social structures of my upbringing, whereas hers was caused by her transition primarily and her explicitly not wanting to date while she was still figuring herself out), the end result is the same. So, what is someone in their mid-20s with zero dating experience supposed to do, date high-schoolers (which absolutely is creepy - according to age / 2 + 7, 19 is the youngest Claire could date with it being socially acceptable)? Or is Claire supposed to exclusively date people in situations like hers, and if she wants to date someone more experienced than her, sorry, she's too old to be inexperienced and date someone experienced even if (or especially if?) they're really quite close to her in age? (And, it's well within the age / 2 + 7 rule - I'll note that she could date someone as old as 34 and it wouldn't be creepy under that rule.)
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