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WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
Kingy_who:
--- Quote from: ibanix on 05 Feb 2015, 22:59 ---We're rapidly getting close to comic 2900, and comics divided by 100 seem to often have some major plot development....
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Like we haven't had enough of those recently.
Natswash:
A: Go Marten!
B:Thank you Jeph for actually confirming what happens (while it's still kinda a letdown to actually know and all)
C: Now THIS is probably the most risque thing he's ever drawn
Initiating squee in T-minus...
Loki:
Meh.
It may be because I read the comic right after waking up and am thus a bit cranky, but I don't really like it.
Like, I can totally see where Jeph was going with this, but to me the comic seems to focus on an issue which I feel would better be solved by the "fade to black" so famously discussed on the forum yesterday amd by the two appearing obviously happy in the morning.
That said, apparently the trans folks are happy, so who am I to judge :3
efrumttr:
I don't know. On the one hand, squeeeeeeeeeeeee! On the other hand, I just don't find today's panel realistic at all. Yeah sure, it's every transwoman's (mine included) dream scenario where you find someone you have feelings for and they can instantly accept you physically, but this scene? I mean, maybe Claire doesn't have dysphoria to the extent that I do, but I can never ever ever ever ever (x47^8) picture myself doing what Claire did here, no matter how much I trusted the person I was with. "This is me?" I just think it's cringey. So far I've loved Clarten because it's had the sweetness factor but with that necessary dose of realism, where Claire's insecurities (do we need to talk about this, this, and this?) and Martin's enthusiasm have been a nice blend. But this strip is a little too sunshine and rainbows for me to swallow.
AprilArcus:
I think I like this?
Marten's shirt is off in panel 1, and Claire is still fully dressed. Did she undress him? His facial expression is unreadable. Blinding lust? Is he pulling her into bed while she pushes him away? Was he trying to escalate? Or is it spiritual exhaustion? Is she pushing him into bed while he prevaricates about escalating?
And then this totally, intensely awkward record-scratch where she stops the flow of foreplay and suddenly they are having a completely different conversation entirely. Why does she choose to undress herself in this kind of prosaic, unsexy way instead of inviting him to undress her?
It is fascinating that Marten makes her feel confident enough to do something this bold, but not so confident that she feels like she doesn't have to. Weird, tender, shaky-new-relationship excitement and terror. His face is agog in panel 5; "She just stripped in front of me?" And then panel 6, those bags under his eyes, it's like he is so tired and barely dealing with any of this.
It's so strange and awkward and unsexy. It feels like it could be true for a 24 year old virgin, but it feels so far from my experience I barely know how to relate to any of it.
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