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Aziraphale:

--- Quote from: mazzlebeast on 12 Mar 2015, 21:32 ---{snippage} They hung out together less and less..and when she could have told Faye to get help or else she couldn't  come back, or write her up and give her an ultimatum. .she fired her. Now she feels hurt that Faye doesn't apologize or confide in her or..whatever. Maybe she blames Faye for her breakup with Marten still, even if she knows it is crazy . I don't think Faye is a easy person to get along with, and I don't think drinking on the job is alright.. but it just didn't seem like the right thing to do unless there was some underlying reason.    {further snippage}  She was visibly drowning and her best female friend wrote her off.

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Nope, nope, nope.

Look, I've taken issue with some of the things that Dora's said or done, but what you've written here makes me wonder if you've forgotten huge swathes of this comic. Did she write Faye up? No, because it's not that kind of business (Dora runs a pretty loose ship). But she did warn Faye not to drink on the job (there's your ultimatum), and Faye drank on the job anyway (there's your underlying reason). Dora didn't write Faye off. She drew a bright red line, and Faye waltzed right across that fucker.

Oh, and by the way: the first thing they tell you when you're trying to save a drowning person is not to let them drown you. What Dora did was painful for both of them, but it was the right thing in the end.

plusorminus:

--- Quote from: Gladstone on 12 Mar 2015, 21:31 ---
It's just a weird feeling, is all.  Faye has been working at COD since before the comic started (although she probably hadn't been there long at that point), and having her first get fired and then cut all ties to the place is a major change in the strip, more than anything Marten's been through, I think.  Even if Jeph has plans to continue QC for another 5-10 years (fingers crossed!), the thought that COD won't be the major setting it once was, after nearly 3000 strips, is quite a big deal.  End of an era indeed.

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In a lot of ways, I think this is the end of a particularly long digression. At the start of the strip, Marten and Faye's interactions were drawn out a bit until the intro of CoD. I think I would feel differently about it if we were introduced to Faye in a similar way that we were introduced to Angus, that is, taking place within CoD. If Marten and Steve had walked into CoD in strip one instead of being at the bar, and Marten saw the cute brunette in glasses, then I'd feel more like this was the end of an era. As it was, we jumped in, in media res as far as CoD was concerned.

It reminds me of some ways of the start and end of The Sopranos (with notable exceptions, of course). We don't get Tony Soprano backstory going from his childhood on in episode one. We start at what is going to be the most profound plot point of the series, and that is a mob boss seeking therapy. We start QC with what will prove to be the most profound plot point of the series, and that is Marten and Faye meeting. Everything else is situational. The situation with Faye and CoD is at an end. I figured that once that happened, it would signal a shift in the comic to other pastures that the two main characters are exploring. For Marten that is Claire and for Faye it will be sobriety. I would not be surprised if a new "gang" springs up as they've shed the old one at CoD (with Hanners excepted because ... Hanners, and probably Cosette excepted as long as Marten is nominally friends with Steve.)

Gladstone:
As long as QC doesn't end like The Sopranos, too.

Just as Claire is setting up her greatest pun yet.

Or just a butt joke.

Mr. Skawronska:
I was having a kind of blah day until I saw Faye's heavy sigh.

I think I'll go pop some popcorn.

Warning - while you were reading a new reply has been posted. You may wish to consider not posting at all and instead going and doing something productive. 
Hmmm...nah.  Nothing else productive to do.  Proceeding.

Tova:
This is the best thing that could possibly have happened to Faye.

Fear of change has limited and damaged Faye's life. Now, change has been involuntarily been visited upon her.

Maybe now her life can move forward.

And maybe one day in the future, Faye will recognise the enormous favour Dora has done her.

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