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God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship: Thoughts on Marten, Claire, and the Future
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph mentioned having done a lot of research before he felt qualified to write about Claire's back story.
Theinternetsurvivor:
I honestly hope that Jeph will decide to eventually do some changes on the character's lives soon, like for example, Marten reunites the Deathmole band and they perform in some places and a carrer starts to be a reality, Faye getting some great feedback with her skills with metal, Coffee of Doom turns out to be even more successful at the point of being a bigger company with more places being set in other locations, a more brief story of Sven's carrer maybe, and also Angus' (why not?) and among other characters.
Gladstone:
Shameless bump!
Sorry, but this discussion was getting too close to the bottom of page 2 for comfort, so I thought I'd resurrect it. And since the long-awaited (and long overdue?) time skip has happened, it's probably as good a time as any to bring it back.
--- Quote from: Theinternetsurvivor on 12 Jul 2015, 22:30 ---I honestly hope that Jeph will decide to eventually do some changes on the character's lives soon, like for example, Marten reunites the Deathmole band and they perform in some places and a carrer starts to be a reality, Faye getting some great feedback with her skills with metal, Coffee of Doom turns out to be even more successful at the point of being a bigger company with more places being set in other locations, a more brief story of Sven's carrer maybe, and also Angus' (why not?) and among other characters.
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Honestly, I have no idea where the comic is going now. I really thought that Faye's firing and subsequent joblessness would be a much bigger factor in the future of QC than it turned out to be--as in, her job search would be much less fruitful, leading to her having trouble with that month's rent, and Marten struggling too since he had recently (in-comic) blown his savings on a new guitar. I figured that, combined with a bit of egging on from Claire, would lead to him having serious thoughts about his future at the library and cause him to become more serious about Deathmole. Instead, Faye had no trouble getting back on her feet and finding a new job, in a way that felt too easy and far-fetched even for a comic as weird and far-fetched as QC can sometimes be. And maybe it's just me, but Bubbles still feels like a character who belongs more in Alice Grove than here. Probably just me.
So, several months after Marten and Claire started dating and Faye lost both Angus and her job, Marten and Claire are still together (and possibly living together?), Faye's employed, Claire is no longer interning at the library, Coffee of Doom hasn't been burned to the ground by Emily, and...? We'll probably find out more throughout the week. As for me, I'm fresh out of predictions. What do the rest of you think?
RetroRefractive Noodle:
One could argue that having one's mind shattered is not always a bad thing.
So you just had sex with a person who transitioned from one to the other... it blows your mind. You just realized 1) It's not an issue after all 2) you're ok with this bit of information 3) the sex was satisfying for both parties and holy s*it what was the question again?
Marten never came off as homophobic, he stated that he just wasn't into guys. He never stated that he was transphobic either, he's simply stating sex with a trans-person would be a mind-shattering experience.
In many ways it has been. He's done the horizontal demolition-derby (or equally creative euphemism) with Claire and look at that -- his worldview has been altered. He's much happier and less mope-ish.
Gladstone:
I did not revive this discussion thread so we could have THAT discussion again. Ugh.
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