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WCDT Strips 3206 to 3210 (25 to 29 April 2016)
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Apr 2016, 05:03 ---This isn't the first time she's done this with Clinton and Emily, and the other times it's ended up well
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Plus or minus the cost of new designer glasses, a tattoo of a powerpoint, and/or a broken facenose (AKA boopsnoot)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Apr 2016, 05:03 ---Also, I think people are being way too hard on Claire. This isn't the first time she's done this with Clinton and Emily, and the other times it's ended up well and Clinton probably seemed grateful at the time. Why should she not expect it to work again?
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The problem is, or so we perceive in hindsight, that this whole strategy was a ticking time-bomb from the start. It was just a matter of time before she misread the situation (or, due to previous successes, decided that she didn't need to think things through) and we ended up in a situation like this.
In many ways, this is a nicely nuanced bit of long-term writing from Jeph. Yes, it worked before but, in truth, it was no nicer then than it is now. It's just that things worked out well enough that Clinton didn't complain about it (and Emily just isn't the sort of woman who would complain about it).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not casting Claire as the villain here. If she's guilty of anything, it's of overconfidence and, basically, thinking that she understands what her friends and family might want without actually asking them. IMO, that's very in-character for her.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Panel 2:
There is no Claire. There is only Hair.
aliensporebomb:
Wow. The new strip was like getting punched in the stomach. I understand the way Clinton is feeling but his anger let him go way over the top.
Analogy:
A thought just occurred to me about GLBT characters in fiction. One could devise a sort of GLBT version of the Bechdel Test, regarding how fully-realized they are as a character apart from their sexuality/gender identity.
What should the criteria be for a character to pass the Gay Literary Bechdel Test?
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