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WCDT 2937-2941 (13 - 17 April 2015)
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 17 Apr 2015, 13:32 ---I suspect it may have its roots in Claires Transition.
Maybe back in the early days Clinton was confused over what his then brother was doing/going through and wasn't as supportive as he is now (what happened to his hand may figure into that as well).
They may have somewhat sorted things out between them now, but there may still be some remaining, minor confusion and resentment on both parts from that period.
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Or it could be smoe kind of residual baggage from their father's affair, depending on how things went down and whether either of them took "sides."
--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 17 Apr 2015, 14:06 ---gah. i like Marten, I like Claire. I even like the idea of them together.
but I am so sick of it. Show us something else. Anything else. Fuck, give us 20 strips of Steves moving story eating a bowl of cereal.
I don't know what it is, Marten and Dora didn't make me feel like this, but I don't think that Marten and Dora are better suited than Marten and Claire. I just went back and reread a bunch of those strips.. and i can't put my finger on it. The overall energy is different, in a more appealing way. Maybe its because the story jumps between a lot more plotlines much more quickly.
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I think there's something to that. They're a cute couple, but for a while now Jeph's been doing more sustained story arcs instead of jumping among stories or breaking it up with one-off joke strips. On one hand, it allows for a bit more depth in the story that might be harder to pull off with the jumps, but on the other, it means long doses of certain characters and some others (like Dora, Marigold, and Dale) who we've seen very little. I think if the earlier strips had been "edited" differently -- the same stories, but different pacing and less alternation -- you'd probably get much the same effect.
Radium_Coyote:
Clinton's not programmed for interpersonal violence. Few of the cast are, actually. All bets placed, I consider that a good thing.
Clinton's shaping up to be an interesting dude. "Fuck it" carried him a long way.
vforvancouver:
I just noticed something about Clin-ton's shirt:
--- Quote ---2015. Special Order for dress in new Dr. Manhattan spin-off fabric. Viscous fluids between two layers latex, heat and pressure sensitive. Customer young girl, Italian name. Never collected order. Said shirt looked ugly. Wrong. Not ugly at all. Beer and blood. Moving. Changing shape… but not mixing.
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Clin-ton's shirt is made from the same cloth as Rorschach's mask.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 17 Apr 2015, 14:12 ---
--- Quote from: TRVA123 on 17 Apr 2015, 14:06 ---gah. i like Marten, I like Claire. I even like the idea of them together.
but I am so sick of it. Show us something else. Anything else. Fuck, give us 20 strips of Steves moving story eating a bowl of cereal.
I don't know what it is, Marten and Dora didn't make me feel like this, but I don't think that Marten and Dora are better suited than Marten and Claire. I just went back and reread a bunch of those strips.. and i can't put my finger on it. The overall energy is different, in a more appealing way. Maybe its because the story jumps between a lot more plotlines much more quickly.
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I think there's something to that. They're a cute couple, but for a while now Jeph's been doing more sustained story arcs instead of jumping among stories or breaking it up with one-off joke strips. On one hand, it allows for a bit more depth in the story that might be harder to pull off with the jumps, but on the other, it means long doses of certain characters and some others (like Dora, Marigold, and Dale) who we've seen very little. I think if the earlier strips had been "edited" differently -- the same stories, but different pacing and less alternation -- you'd probably get much the same effect.
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I think that's pretty much it. The arcs back during Marten-Dora were much less involved, and as such we saw both characters acting independently, outside of being a couple, and therefore we were less prone to being sick of them. Their occasional 'couple cuteness overload' strips were there (mind you, far less saccharine than Marten-Claire), but it was really only a strip, and then back to business as usual.
With the current setup, all we've seen is the two together almost exclusively since they got together, since there's very little time progression happening. It feels like they've ceased being individuals, and are now -the couple-, which obviously isn't true, due to the aforementioned lack of progression. Maybe once we can get outside of the 3-day span that the past insert-number-of-month's worth of comics have covered, time can start moving forward again and we can start seeing Marten and Claire independent of one another again.
Least, that's my take.
hedgie:
It is, however, not uncommon for couples in the early stages of a relationship be "joined at the hip". At least in my experience, it takes a while for both people to get tired of the other's company, and need their own space.
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