So, a new week is upon us.
I've said this before but I'm more confident than ever that this week could see a time skip. There is not much else to deal with immediately except, perhaps, Marten taking Faye home, sitting her down and them having The Talk v.2.0. However, given how Jeph has been turning off of lengthy dialogue exposition of late, he may not want to do it. After all,
we know more-or-less what Faye's problems are and arguably there is little to be gained, in story-telling terms, by having her repeat them to Marten in a week's worth of strips. The only other available thread I can identify is what happened to Pintsize and there is no compelling reason to spend too much time on it unless you want to address Faye's relationship with Pintsize.
So, what could happen? Much like the last of last week's
Alice Grove comics, I've been increasingly been getting the feeling of an end of a chapter. A phase in our characters' adventures has come to an end and I think it's plausible to pick these up some time later, perhaps a few weeks into Smif's autumn term. Possible features:
- Claire the student is having to juggle her relationship with Marten with her MLS studies; this causes... stresses; on the flip side, she's enjoying being a centre of jealousy for being the one who seduced that nice Mr Reed in the library;
- Faye has decided that CoD is the past as well as being symptomatic of her personal stagnation and unwillingness to grow as a person; she's trying to move on being alternately helped and hindered by her well-meaning friends;
- Tai's 'adventures' in trying to help Dora get over her deep and near-depressive guilt about driving Faye away; this may evolve into Dora confronting her wider issues with friendships and family;
- May is fed up with a subsistence-level job; the AI Cloud instructs Momo to train her to be a Personal Companion AI on the grounds that, if Pintsize can do the job, anyone can do the job;
- Something totally out-of-left field; maybe Hannelore has a secret that will be alluded to many times but we'll have to wait to find out what's up in her life; or maybe there can be a "Wham!" declaration from a character to another (e.g.: "Dale... I'm... I'm pregnant!").
I'd really like to hear what everyone else thinks.