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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
Neko_Ali:
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--- Quote from: Sullivan on 19 Jan 2015, 02:34 ---Well, that happened a lot sooner than I thought it would.
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Almost too soon, like soap opera soon. "Oh no, Faye has a problem! Everyone help Faye!" "It's a very special episode. Wow. Very sad. Much drama." "Hurray, Faye is healed and everyone lived ever after."
I personally would have preferred to leave her stew in her own juices for a longer time. After all, real alcoholism brews for years, easily. Now, how it's portrayed, it's almost like how you got your first bottle of wine and tried to sneak out with it, but your own guilty damn face rat you out. (Early end to of that party, that time. :cry:)
Anyway, it's Jeph's comic.
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It only seems soon, because we're seeing it slightly before the characters are. That doesn't mean she hasn't been a functioning alcoholic for some time. As pointed out earlier, she's been using booze to try and cope or at least not feel the pain of Angus leaving even before he got the job. Or to be more accurate, the pain she feels that people she are close to are going away again. The comic doesn't follow Faye around 24/7, so this could have been going on for months or even years and everyone has assumed it was just part of Faye's personality. There have been hints of alcoholism around her for a long time. It's just that now we are seeing how bad it really is.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 18 Jan 2015, 12:48 ---
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OK, this did it. Many times I have read people claiming that something funny made them spit out what they were drinking, but it never happened to me. Until now. Fortunately it was plain water, and did not hit anything but the desk.
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 19 Jan 2015, 04:30 ---I just noticed the title of today's comic. Probably a joke reference to Faye's piss poor attempt at deception, but perhaps some foreshadowing as well. The question is, will she be hospital-bound after this because of violence committed by Dora or because of some tragic drunken accident (i.e. "accident")?
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If Dora carried out an assault that put Faye in hospital, she'd be shortly after put in jail.
Does that sound likely?
ReindeerFlotilla:
This comic had a punching intern. An intern whose duty was to be punched by other people.
He was seen with bruises and lacerations, so we aren't talking love taps.
Realism is not the order of the day. If Jeph think it would make a good punchline, it's going to happen.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 19 Jan 2015, 10:46 ---Realism is not the order of the day. If Jeph think it would make a good punchline, it's going to happen.
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Except that considering how close this particular storyline hits home for Jeph, I doubt there's going to be any real "punchline".
There's a lot that Questionable Content will make jokes about, but there are certain topics that are treated completely seriously and I would wager that Faye's descent into alcoholism is one of them.
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