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WCDT: 2826-2830 (03 - 07 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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MooskiNet:

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--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Nov 2014, 06:37 ---Wait a minute! If she's a Disney Princess, she needs a cute talking animal/magical creature comedy sidekick! Where's her comedy sidekick? ((Someone points at Emily)) Oh... yeah...
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Um, I think maybe this instead.
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Nah, Pintsize is Marten's comedy sidekick. Fortunately Tangled and Frozen establishes that a Disney male protagonist can also have a comedy sidekick or an animal straight-guy, so this need not raise issues about Marten's role in the strip.

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There's that.  Yeah, I guess Emily's the best choice.

Edited to add: 

Looking at today's comic (again), I have to say I'm impressed with the subtlety in panel 4.  Not only is she smiling (yeah, I was one of those who was waiting to see her smile again), but she's moved closer and her body language is more relaxed - she's sort of leaning into him.  I use the word 'awesome' a lot - maybe too much - but that's an awesome panel.

BenRG:
Oh, and following up another point from a few threads back, I suggested that Claire is a bibliophile. It's only anecdotal but in this strip, Claire is wearing a shirt for something called "ReaderCon" back in 2009. This is a guess, but I suspect it was a convention for book lovers.

So, yeah, if Marten wants to show he's picked up on Claire's personal interests, a trip to a book store might work out at least once.

Rimwolf:

--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 06 Nov 2014, 06:32 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Nov 2014, 06:07 ---Because Claire is behaving very out-of-character by dancing and singing down the hall.

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Hello? She's a _Disney_ princess. They're always singing.

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Yeah, Jeph may not own up to it, but the truth is revealed in one of the guest strips.

Thrudd:

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--- Quote from: Kugai on 05 Nov 2014, 18:36 ---Just so long as there's no Gladius Throwing, it should be alright.

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Throwing swords is another first date no-no

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But what about dwarf throwing?

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Nobody tosses a dwarf

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Not without the dwarf's active consent.

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Or a hefty dose of ipecac ~ Smaug



--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Nov 2014, 06:37 ---
--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 06 Nov 2014, 06:32 ---Hello? She's a _Disney_ princess. They're always singing.
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Well, can't argue with that...
Wait a minute! If she's a Disney Princess, she needs a cute talking animal/magical creature comedy sidekick! Where's her comedy sidekick? ((Someone points at Emily)) Oh... yeah...

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If she is a Princess then I pick the Leia archetype but instead of a blaster pistol she is armed with Puns.
Leia had Chewie which was Solo's sidekick as well as R2D2 and that toddling **** C3PO, so Pintsize would fit the same role but with a whole new meaning to the epithet "shag rug".

RealityXcursion:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Nov 2014, 07:22 ---Oh, and following up another point from a few threads back, I suggested that Claire is a bibliophile. It's only anecdotal but in this strip, Claire is wearing a shirt for something called "ReaderCon" back in 2009. This is a guess, but I suspect it was a convention for book lovers.

So, yeah, if Marten wants to show he's picked up on Claire's personal interests, a trip to a book store might work out at least once.

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ReaderCon is a real convention in Boston, which focuses on speculative fiction literature. The shirt actually indicates, not just that she's a bibliophile, but that she's a sci-fi/fantasy geek.

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