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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)

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KOK:
If Faye's heart had stopped, the beeping would have ceased abrubtly. The fading must represent Faye sinking deeper into unconciousness, no lonmger able to hear the beeps. Also, if her heart were to stop, there would be people with the skills and tools to do something about there in seconds.

Tyrannosaurus Rex:

--- Quote from: aphanisis81 ---I've never read this other comic, but miscarriages are often quite unforeshadowed in real-life, so I don't see why that would be a point of criticism necessarily.
--- End quote ---

It wasn't just the fact that there was a miscarriage that was the point of criticism. It's the fact that the miscarriage was so poorly done. CAD began as a webcomic that was a gag a day comic that transitioned into a comedic comic about a socially bereft and character insert that was oblivious to his surroundings almost to the point of being a sociopath. Buckley attempted to make the webcomic more "dramatic" by randomly inserting a miscarriage arc, which was out of place entirely for the comic. It would be like having a science documentary all of a sudden change into a fictional sitcom.

The problems with Tim Buckley are many. From the characteristic B^U laziness to his many sins as a human being. I've been a QC reader since the beginning and where Jeph's talent increased over time, Buckley's if anything seemed to have the inverse property. All the crap he gets is well deserved due to his failings as as person.  I could honestly recite from memory his laundry list of offenses, but I doubt anyone here really wants to be bogged down with all that.

That being said, holy crap. For people who say that Marten may not have been alarmed because the social group tended to get plastered, I would tend to agree to an extent. However, I feel like even as a binge drinker, you'd know when there were problems. Maybe he saw that there were two entire bottles next to her and that she was passed out on her own. Maybe he checked that her pulse was weak. I know that if I had walked in on one of my friends looking like that, I would have called the paramedics. I for one approve of this, it adds a lot of gravity to a situation that would otherwise have been brushed under the rug.

What I imagine will happen now is that Dora will blame herself for this. She'll believe that she sent Faye straight into the end of a bottle instead of helping her. Marten will feel shitty for being so wrapped up in his own life he didn't notice how steep Faye's descent was. Her friends will ultimately suffer for something she honestly brought on herself. As proactive as her friends will likely be about her alcoholism, I really hope this is a turning point for Faye as well.

MooskiNet:
Replying to various:

- I thought Faye was under her own power based on the angle (nearly eye level with Marten, and she's shorter than he is).  A gurney does seem more likely, but I didn't know if the paramedics would allow Marten to be walking beside the gurney, so I opted for ambulatory until
- The punch is directed upward, but it's moving his face.  I think it had some power to it.
- As has been noted, there are drugs that can be used to sedate combative drunks.  After the punch, I'd guess she got one of them, because
- she did not appear to be restrained in panel 10, but her wrist was on the edge of the panel; could be wrong
- also, any drugs she was given would almost certainly be a push through the existing IV line, so there wouldn't necessarily need to be more than one

Call me Ms:
Omg so much. Going on / to say / reactions.

Like a few other long-time-QC-readers new to the forum, this arc *drove* me here. Kinda fascinating how intense emotional / narrative content almost compulsively compels us to seek connection around it, huhn?

...anyway at the top of my many reactions are appreciation and awe.  The artwork, narration (w/o narrating!), expressions, skill, realness and vulnerability Jeph's demonstrating are incredible. *Totally*, he's tackling some Heavy Stuff -- I disagree w/ some posters who feel that this is all just part of bizness-as-usual for a light-hearted comic -- It's an honor, i think, to be able to witness this stuff....

Yeah,  I agree with the person who said that "Close to Home" likely has multiple meanings (sorry, not sure I can search from within compose to find you, and wading through what took me two hours to get through in the first place = too daunting). 
I do think the title works both within the logic of the comic & on the meta: another stroke of J.'s genius. Beautiful.

bhtooefr:
That's another thing, QC has always had its hints of drama from very early on even when it was about the gags. So, when the drama hit hard (500), there wasn't whiplash.

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