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WCDT: 2831-2835 (10 - 14 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
jwhouk:
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--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Nov 2014, 16:33 ---This is Marten we're talking about, though. He thought he'd have to fly up to his dad's wedding.
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And this contradicts the quoted line how, exactly?
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He'd be clueless if his mom had told him she would be returning to Cali to get things on day X, and return on day Y, or if she said, "Screw it, I'm just gonna have 'em empty the house out and send all my domme stuff to me, I'm staying here in the meantime."
Kugai:
You KNEW she couldn't resist, didn't you.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Nov 2014, 20:48 ---
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 12 Nov 2014, 18:41 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Nov 2014, 16:33 ---This is Marten we're talking about, though. He thought he'd have to fly up to his dad's wedding.
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And this contradicts the quoted line how, exactly?
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He'd be clueless if his mom had told him she would be returning to Cali to get things on day X, and return on day Y, or if she said, "Screw it, I'm just gonna have 'em empty the house out and send all my domme stuff to me, I'm staying here in the meantime."
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Marten has never been that clueless. Not knowing where a town in North Vermont is in relation to where you live is different from forgetting where your mother is. Sheesh.
Whatever caused Marten's reaction wasn't important enough to actually show, as the entire I'm dating Claire now, communication took place off screen. Unless your preferred view of events is "Hi, Mom." "Well, I'll leave you two to your business. Have a good night."
Of course it's all head canon, anyway. So anyone who wants to believe that Marten, Claire, and Veronica exchanged no information beyond hello and goodbye can't be argued with. Marten didn't blow up, nor did he seem overly worried about Veronica's behavior, thus the SUrprise Mom-selfie was actually a surprise. I'm gonna go with it being an extension of the Veronica-drops-in-without-(much)warning running gag, because that is actually a thing. I expect that thing to get worse, rather than better, with Veronica living in Northampton (Mom! What are you doing here? I'd thought I'd stop by. You could have called, and wasn't the door locked? You should have the landlord look at that. Mom! what are you doing here? I live across the street, Marten. *Facepalm* Mom! What are you doing here? It's my boyfriend's bakery.)
BenRG:
It's the fact that Veronica felt the need to get Marten and Claire off-guard and take them unawares that makes me laugh out loud. In some ways, Marten's calm demeanour and easy-going personality is understandable as a reaction to Veronica's spontaneity. I'm thinking that, after Henry left, he had to be the sensible one and keep his Mom grounded sometimes. She was probably more often a crazy teen than he was!
Claire's expressions are great. Panel 1 shows that she still has an automatic 'sub' reaction to Veronica's overwhelming personality, although I think that it's mostly shyness. Panel 3 seems to be nonverbally sating to Marten: "See? Not too bad, was it?" Goodness knows that he needs someone to keep him calm when dealing with his mother! IMHO, panel 4 is a classic Claire derp. I have no doubt that picture will end up online sometime soon!
It's obvious that a lot happened 'off-screen'. Claire's reaction might be because Veronica gave her approval and told Marten that she was 'such a pretty girl' or something similar. Marten seems genuinely surprised that things went so smoothly (so does Claire - she obviously remembers the wedding)!
Blackbird:
I know Claire is the favourite character of many of the forumites, so I'm trying to tread lightly, but anyone else already bored with this "OMG relationship" gag?
I guess its the fact that its bringing with it a grind-to-a-halt pacing that's bugging me. There have been 26 comics since their first kiss (such a squeeworthy event that I and others were driven to this board for the first time just to squee in good company). Half of these were other stories (10 were about Faye/Marigold reacting to Angus skipping town, two were Winston and Pintsize hijinks, and one was a Yelling Bird filler). The other half were all about Marten & Claire. ... except only 4 of them were actually about moving the relationship or the story ahead in anyway. The rest were all characters reacting to it, usually with unusually high levels of happiness or a one-panel filler strip because Jeph had a convention to get to. That's literally more than 2/3 of one storyline, which itself is taking up half the comic, doing nothing but repeating variations on the same joke. It's getting boring.
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