Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 30 Jan 2015, 02:57 ---He does have the notable flaw that sometimes he finds it hard to assert his own desires. This is an independent issue to his desire to help and support others, but the two do intermix. It can be hard to see where one aspect begins and one ends, but the simplest way to put it is: It begins where it helps his friends and ends when it hurts Marten. He's still trying to find that balance, and at times he has shown noticeable improvement. His dates with Claire, and how he's handling his new relationship, is lightyears ahead of what strip 1 Professional Indie Ogler Marten would have been capable of. That's character development.
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To the point that there have been several complaints that his latter behavior is extremely OOC. :roll:
--- Quote from: Halloween Jack on 30 Jan 2015, 07:38 ---Everybody needs a bear.
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That's what I said!
Beroli:
What is with the constant "X is leaving the comic!" theme on the forum? Neither Marten nor Dora left the comic when they broke up (despite all the predictions to the contrary). The comic has no one "center": not Coffee of Doom, not the apartment where Momo et al. live, not Marten, not any other single character. It may (or may not--Dora and Marten got back to being friends really quickly in terms of number of comics post-breakup) be a while before Faye and Dora can be in the same room without it being awkward again but they're both still main characters.
KOK:
Breaking up does not mean a character is leaving the comic. A steady relationship means that we see very little of the characters. Steve and Cosette are very rarely seen. So are Penelope and Wil. Even Marigold has all but disappeared (as has Dale, of course.) Marten alone is imune to this.
HamboneHFY:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 30 Jan 2015, 06:18 ---An alcoholic, to me, is somebody who drinks constantly, not somebody who drinks too much because of an immediate and current reason.
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Yep, that's been pretty constant.
And then she wakes up drunk, reaches for the bottle in her bed, finds it empty, throws it aside in disgust, finds ANOTHER bottle in her bed, drinks some of that, smuggles that into work, tries to sneak a drink at work to stay drunk, gets fired, goes home, and drinks that bottle plus another.
Having a few drinks to help you through a rough spot is one thing. compulsively reaching for three bottles of bourbon in a 24-hour period goes a long way beyond being a healthy coping mechanism.
Warning - while you were typing a new explanation why Dora is a total hellbitch has been posted. You may wish to give it marks out of ten.
eschaton:
Arguing about whether or not Faye is actually an alcoholic is silly, because alcoholism is a human-defined term with no intrinsic definition.
The bottom line is though she has a drinking problem, she (and everyone else) are aware of it, and she needs to stop - cold turkey preferably.
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