Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2927-2931 (30 March to 3 April 2015)
KOK:
Who does the title text of 2930 refer to?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: KOK on 02 Apr 2015, 03:21 ---Who does the title text of 2930 refer to?
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I think that Jeph left that deliberately ambiguous but I suspect it's a reference Claire's need to tease.
Satan:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Apr 2015, 02:13 ---Okay, so this is how I see things going down. I'm probably wrong but I like this sceniario:
FRIDAY (six-panel frame)
PANEL 1: MARTEN is sitting between CLAIRE and FAYE; a barricade by choice or necessity? Who knows?
CLAIRE: "You know, you'd think that an artist would have a nice, intellectual explanation for her art!"
FAYE: "You know, you'd think that a good girlfriend would know how to treat her boyfriend's best friend!"
PANEL 2: MARTEN is now clearly trapped; FAYE and CLAIRE are leaning towards each other and getting red in the face.
CLAIRE: "For someone who's made such a screw-up of her life, you're full of advice for other people!"
FAYE: "For someone who's apparently been a wallflower up to now, you seem to know a lot about how to act!"
PANEL 4: Close up on MARTEN's face
FAYE (off-panel): "Maybe my roommate's new pet should learn respect!"
CLAIRE (off-panel): "Maybe my boyfriend's charity case should learn gratitude!"
PANEL 5: Same close up but MARTEN'S irises have gone red!
MARTEN: "That's..."
PANEL 6: MARTEN is throwing his hands up in the air. FAYE and CLAIRE are both reeling back, their hair is fear/shock spiky
MARTEN: "ENOUGH!"
MONDAY (four-panel frame)
PANEL 1 (half-height): Marten, glaring and pointing
MARTEN: "Okay, I'd hoped that I could avoid this forever but here goes!"
PANEL 2 (full height): CLAIRE, looking down in shame.
MARTEN (off panel): "Claire, I love you; you're beautiful, funny and intelligent but you've got to stop being so cruel to people!"
CLAIRE: "But..."
MARTEN (off panel): "Putting people down like that isn't cool and it isn't funny! It's unattractive Claire! It makes you look ugly and small!"
PANEL 3 (full height): FAYE, looking down in shame
MARTEN (off panel): "Faye, I love you like the sister I've never had but you can be the meanest person I've ever known!"
FAYE: "But..."
MARTEN (off panel): "I know you've had a hard life but you've got to stop treating it as a license to be a complete and utter shit to everyone you ever meet!"
PANEL 4 (half height): MARTEN is walking away from the couch as CLAIRE and FAYE look at him in shock.
MARTEN: "I'm not telling you to hug and make friends; you're both adults and you can run your own lives."
MARTEN (second balloon): "I'm just telling you to GROW UP!"
PANEL 5 (half height): FAYE and CLAIRE looking off-panel to the right
MARTEN (off panel): "I'm going to walk this off!"
SFX: DOOR SLAM
PANEL 6: FAYE and CLAIRE looking at each other fearfully
CLAIRE: "Wow! Talk about screwing up the best thing in your life in one evening!"
FAYE: "Tell me about it, sister!"
The next two strips on Tuesday and Wednesday would be a filler BUT would both have the last panel being Marten walking around or maybe leaning on a wall and rubbing the bridge of his nose somewhere in Northampton.
THURSDAY (six-panel frame)
PANEL 1: MARTEN unlocking the apartment's front door
PANEL 2: Close-up on MARTEN's face; he's wide-eyed
PANEL 3: MARTEN's POV - FAYE and CLAIRE are both standing in the middle room, looking embarrassed. Their eyes are suspiciously shiny
PANEL 4: FAYE and CLAIRE are both glomping Marten from different sides
FAYE: "MartyI'msorryI'msuchafuckupandabitchandI'msorryanddon'thatemeIpromiseI'lldobetterIswear...!"
CLAIRE: "MartenI'msorryIactlikealittlechildandI'mscaredofpeopleandpleasedon'tdumpmeIpromiseI'llstopandbenicerIpromise..."
PANEL 5: MARTEN is smiling reassuringly and trying to hug both teaful ladies at once
MARTEN: "Wow! Hey! Don't cry! It's gonna be okay! You'll see!"
PINTSIZE (Off-panel): "Wow! Is this a prelude to a make-up sex threesome? Where's my camera?"
PANEL 6: MARTEN, FAYE and CLAIRE all all glaring at PINTSIZE, who is standing on the arm of the couch.
PINTSIZE: "So... I'm thinking that the answer is 'No'. I'm going to lock myself in my cupboard now."
[EDIT]
Yeah... so I admit that there is a lot of my thoughts in Marten's rant
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You're missing the bit where Marten dislocates his jaw and swallows them both whole, boa constrictor style.
Neko_Ali:
The trouble is that Faye is regularly an asshole to everyone. This isn't the first time she's physically intimidated Claire for trying to interact with Faye the way she sees Faye interacting with other people all the time. Faye is like the poster child of 'can dish it out but can't take it' at times like this. The beer can incident can be set aside somewhat as Claire was clearly being unwarrantedly bitchy with her comment and it was taken mostly jokingly by everyone except Claire. In this case though she was clearly being aggressive and even threatening with the "I only put up with you, we are NOT friends and you do NOT have the right to do to me what I do to you and everyone else."
It can be said quite reasonably that Fay is just extra prickly right now because she's going cold turkey and stressed out. Which is true.. But it's also true that Fay is pretty much always like this. She cows and intimidates everyone around her. She sets up a pecking order by means of verbal barbs, threats and outright physical violence. Really the only ones who stand up and don't back down to her are Dora and Hanners. Everyone else in her circle, which is unsurprisingly small, is various degrees of 'resignedly putting up with it from a co-worker' to 'whipping boy'.
SeaWoodStage:
See, this is my problem with Faye. She’s never been my favourite character, and she’s never been a character I particularly like, but she’s always been a character I really want to like. I’d started to like her more, partly because what she’s been through recently evokes my sympathy (and I tend to like people whom I sympathise with), and partly because of the way she seems to have been handling it so far. Then she goes and does something like this.
I know, I shouldn’t be so invested in a fictional character in a webcomic, but I can’t help but feel disappointed when she reverts back to the behaviour that makes it so hard for me to like her in the first place (aggressive, overly sassy, bordering on bullying).
My hope is that maybe her aggressive stance towards Claire right now is her (Faye) sort of testing her own waters, in the sense of using a behaviour she’s very used to using, in a time of very high stress? Faye’s acceptance of the reality of her situation in the immediate aftermath of being hospitalised, along with her open and polite response to the support group, seemed slightly out of character to me, in the “too good to be true” sense. It must have taken either a genuine epiphany, or a lot of effort, for her to react in those ways, and I wonder if she’s feeling almost like she’s not herself anymore. Trying to lay the smack-down on Claire might be a way of sort of feeling inside herself to see if there’s something of the old Faye that she can grasp on to. Whether that’s to comfort herself with old behaviours, or to help convince herself that pre-hospitalisation Faye hasn’t disappeared, I have no idea. I just hope that she’s not going to revert back entirely to the prickly, snarky, frankly sometimes unpleasant person that she often used to be.
Ugh, I’m really not expressing myself very well in this post, but does anyone know what I’m getting at here?
ETA: Regardless of Faye’s motives, I don’t believe Claire deserves this harsh reaction. Claire may be feeling happy and comfortable in Marten’s affection, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t feeling awkward and insecure in Marten’s circle. How many of us, in similar circumstances where we want to be accepted, have taken an inexperienced step too far during an initial rush of confidence and immediately regretted whatever came out of our mouths? I know I have, many times.
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