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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
TheEvilDog:
Dang.
That's all I've got.
Ravenswing:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 25 Jan 2015, 14:17 ---Wait. He does know what's going on. He knows about her and Angus breaking up - and that she's doubting herself over it.
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You're a lot more sanguine about third-person omniscient than I am.
Consider: this is a hard-drinking crowd. The gang routinely gets blitzed. Note that Dora didn't do more than bat an eye at the concept of Faye showing up to work hung over and with booze on her breath. What I expected from Friday's strip wasn't "OMG my friend is dying!!!!" so much as "(sighs) This is no good, I'd better start getting her cleaned up." That first panel tonight was, I figure, Jeph's way of letting us know that Marten was finding her unresponsive, and THEN freaking out.
Consider twice: So Faye just had a messy breakup. But why would Marten figure on it being a five-alarm emergency? Okay, it's been a long time as far as we readers are concerned, but the actual timeline of this comic hasn't advanced very far from Day One. In real time, I don't think Dora dumping Marten is as much as a year, and it could be a good deal shorter an amount of time than that. Of course he'd be concerned for Faye, but I don't think with his history he'd approach it as a shocking, dismaying development.
Zalder:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 25 Jan 2015, 19:48 ---I hope that's what happened.
Pretty sure Faye's not gonna die here, but this is really scary.
If it's NOT Faye who punched Marten, who did? Angus? Sven? Dora? Claire? Dora's the one with the history of punching people, but the one with the least justification. Not that there's any justification for punching Marten for this, but you know what I mean. (Okay, "because I'm in a lot of pain and he's there and it makes me feel a little better" is KIND OF justification.)
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It looks like the strip is being narrated though Faye's POV (fading in and out), so it looks like it was she who punched Marten. I'm sure there is gonna be a lot of discussion after about what that punch meant.
mustang6172:
Has everyone forgotten that Faye punching Marten was a running gag in the first 500 strips?
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--- Quote from: aphanisis81 on 25 Jan 2015, 19:16 ---Is there any narrative universe in which trailing-off beeps in a hospital setting doesn't mean death?
Holy. Shit. This comic.
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Holy balls, I read this comic so different...
first - Marten finally did the right thing and instead of chatting with his girlfriend and finally checked on Faye.
second - Faye is concious for short periods of time (which is, considering... well, it's not bad. It could be a lot better, but it also could be way worse)
third - she punched Marten, apparently. Not great, but it explains her drifting off into unconsciousness; it means they're not only treating her alcohol poisoning through the IV line, they also gave her a rather strong sedative (Nobody wants to deal with a violent drunk person)
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I think the beeps would be more indicative of death if they became further apart. Literary folks call this a "cliffhanger."
bears!:
I spent the weekend re-reading the comic from the beginning, and I'm amazed at how much Jeph's art and writing has progressed. This story is so much more powerful than even strip 500 (which was a punch to the gut in its own right). The look of concerned love on Marten's face in the first panel is so obvious and masterfully done.
It's also interesting to see how the writing Jeph does about alcohol has changed since the strip started (and since his sobriety). In the part of the comic I'm in now, Faye's drunkeness is treated as a punchline and never really that much of a cause for concern. There's even a strip somewhere back in the 600s where she gets drunk at work behind Dora's back, and we never see any negative repercussions for her doing that. It's obvious that this plotline is highly influenced by Jeph's own brush with drunken self destruction. I think we're getting a glimpse into just how messy and terrifying that night was.
I don't think she's dead. (Fuck, I hope she's not dead.) My hope is that this storyline will lead to a "Faye goes to AA" plotline (that possibly features Jimbo and/or Steve). Not dead Faye. That would be too terribly sad.
I wonder who's going to tell Angus. I hope none of the group takes it out on him.
--- Quote from: swapna on 25 Jan 2015, 19:38 ---third - she punched Marten, apparently. Not great, but it explains her drifting off into unconsciousness; it means they're not only treating her alcohol poisoning through the IV line, they also gave her a rather strong sedative (Nobody wants to deal with a violent drunk person)
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Not sure how sedatives would interact with the alcohol in her system, though. Not saying you're wrong, I just know that there are mixtures that are dangerous and should never ever be done (alcohol and tylenol, alcohol and xanax, etc).
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