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WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
TheEvilDog:
And then Marten wakes up from his years long coma, having fallen down the stairs going to the bar in the first comic.
The previous 2890 comics have been Marten attempting to get back to the land of the living.
What? Sometimes I like to live up to the Evil part of my name.
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: Technetium on 06 Feb 2015, 08:08 ---Why would her brother explode with that kind of over-protection if the characters live in a world where everyone is accepting?
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Because this particular group of friends is an open-minded, generally respectful group with decent morals. We don't see the assholes because they don't hang out with them- doesn't mean they don't exist.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Technetium on 06 Feb 2015, 08:08 ---That said, I like this comic and a happy ending like this can be nice in a kind of sugary way, I just wish sometimes the comic would approach these issues in a more challenging way.
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We just had a harrowing story arc with depression, heartbreak, alcoholism and a self-destructive slide into near-death. And you think Jeph should go darker?
Zalder:
--- Quote from: lepetitfromage on 06 Feb 2015, 08:20 ---
--- Quote from: Technetium on 06 Feb 2015, 08:08 ---Why would her brother explode with that kind of over-protection if the characters live in a world where everyone is accepting?
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Because this particular group of friends is an open-minded, generally respectful group with decent morals. We don't see the assholes because they don't hang out with them- doesn't mean they don't exist.
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They live in a liberal college town in Western Mass, it might not be totally super 100% progressive but odds are likely that in a tight knit group like theirs, racist, homophobic, misogenyst dbags can more readily be avoided than elsewhere in the U.S
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
Re: Realism. In other words, the "Unrealistic Good Guy Marten", "Where's the struggle?", etc.
Marten first. I'm splitting this into two. "Unrealistic character growth" and "Unrealistic that anyone would be so perfect for this situation". With the latter, the bare existence of one such person would contradict it. We've seen people claim to be a-ok with the possibility of not letting it get in the way of understanding, attraction, and dare I say love? I suspect there is a sizable number of such people trawling this forum. If it's unrealistic that such a person should meet such a situation, I tell you to never underestimate the power of self-sorting. People find people who welcome them. As to unrealistic character growth, it's been months since Claire came out to Marten. He's had ample time to turn things over in his head and get over internalized shit as best he could. First for the sake of a friend, who he knew was no different because he's goddamn reasonable. Then, for deeper reasons more recently. Perhaps the wedding cuddle caused him to turn additional things over in his head some time before they started going out? What I'm saying is Marten's the sort of "think-before-I-act" person who would overanalyze shit to such a degree, it'd make half this thread blush as they see themselves in him.
And struggle? That gets back to self-sorting. They're in Northampton, she works at SMIF's library, and they frequent a coffee shop owned by Marten's bi ex-goth ex. They run in accepting circles in one of the most liberal parts of the country. If we get any information about struggle, it'll be a flashback or a retelling. She chooses who she associates with carefully by this point. A story about struggle would, by necessity, be a story about the past.
Holy hell. I didn't set out to write an essay, I swear.
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