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WCDT Strips 3131 to 3135 (11-15 January 2016)
Tova:
If you're really reading that into today's comic, I think a bit of serious self-examination into what emotional baggage you're bringing to the comic is called for.
One of them bought a new, cool bit of kit. They're both geeks. It's not complicated.
Edit: Almost forgot what I originally wanted to say. The perspective in panel one is pretty cool.
Second edit: Salt and vinegar chips are, indeed, the best.
HeavyP:
I came in here to say much the same thing, but I started thinking about it, and realized a few things.
1) For what it's worth, Sam knows Marigold well enough to have been to her apartment (in the company of Momo, to present Froglord and subsequently freak Marigold out) - I had to stop and think because my first reaction was "does Sam even KNOW Marigold apart from a brief meeting or two?"
2) While she's come a LONG way from when we first met her, Marigold is still socially awkward as F*CK, and I don't believe she has any IRL friends apart from the main cast. Her boyfriend is a dork, but I don't think anyone else in the cast shares her niche, so she may be irrationally excited about potentially having another friend she can really dork out with (her friends have been very accommodating, but there's "watching someone else enjoy their hobby" and there's "can actually discuss and enjoy said hobby WITH the person").
2a) As an addendum to the above, I really do not think it has or will occur to her that "unrelated adult hanging out with child/young teenager" is typically viewed askance - call it naivete or innocence, but I honestly don't think that level of "bad things happen sometimes" has ever occurred to her.
MrNumbers:
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That's exactly what I was thinking! Furthermore, this is what an adult should think whey they see another adult getting this excited about following a fourteen-year-old home. If Jim isn't home, Chris Hansen better be at the door.
Is this what it's come to? Clairten fertility jokes are off limits because they can hurt trans people, but implied pedophilia is perfectly fine? Not sure whether to laugh or cry at that.
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You're one of those people who I can find incredibly disagreeable, even when you're agreeing with me.
There's no implied pedophilia. Marigold is just incredibly socially awkward. Fertility jokes should be off-limits in a moderated forum because those jokes can seriously affect the lives of the people you're joking about, and while I don't disagree with the right to joke about any subject, Don't Punch Down is pretty much rule #1 of comedy, and that's about all you're doing there.
I'm going to point back up to Penguin47's answer instead.
Is it cold in here?:
We know for a fact that Marigold is oriented toward adults.
If you want to get disturbed, then pity Marigold for trying to recapture her lost teenage years by finally, ten years too late, making a teenage friend. The only things going on here are shared interests and awkwardness.
Now for one of my pet peeves. Teenagers should have adult friends. Nobody learns how to be a grownup by interacting with other children. William Golding wrote a novel about what happens when adolescents have only each other for company. It wasn't pretty.
DSL:
I was just coming in to post that Marigold has seemed to be drawn younger -- way younger -- in the last couple of strips, snd has found a new bestie.
"Implied pedophilia"? Really? This kind of discussion makes my sentient lady helicopter friend kind of cranky. Don't make her come over and explain runway numbering.
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