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WCDT Strips 3211 to 3215 (2nd to 6th May 2016)
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 03 May 2016, 20:42 ---Dolphin Jack has always been canon to me.
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First a shotgun, then a harpoon, now there's a cannon? :?
:roll:
Martin:
Clinton gets all the cool anime-poses :-D
Timemaster:
Yeah, Barry! 8-)
The hand-drawn "Dolphin-Jack" strip is back up again, too. So welcome to the fold, my twisted-eyed-friend. I wonder if he knows Jimbo.
But what strikes me most, is that Clinton actually shows some backbone here. I assumed heŽll stay in the bar, intimidated by the bartender consuming a lot of alcohol he doesnŽt want to drink. But here he is actually standing up for himself. I like that.
The excuse of the bartender doesnŽt convince me at all and it shouldnŽt convince Clinton to stay either. But then this whole set of strips would be completely wasted, so I assume heŽll stay and weŽll have some more talking between the two (and Barry). I wonder where Jeph will take this after this bumpy (and controversal) beginning.
TM
BenRG:
I think I'm getting a handle on where Jeph is taking Bar Lady. She's sort of a redo of Faye - Confrontational, misanthropic and prone to over-reaction. However, in the end, she's fair and doesn't want to drive off a potential new customer.
I'm thinking that she's so used to dealing with assholes in the bar that she's started automatically assuming the worst about customers on first sight. That doesn't mean that she doesn't really have all the bad qualities I mentioned above. It's just that the whole "we only sell alcohol" and harpoon things did have something approaching a rational explanation.
However, she's still an asshole herself... and Clinton is the first person to stand up to her in a very, very long time. She's intrigued... and Clinton will soon be wishing that he'd not vacillated over asking Emily on a second date for long.
IMO, the possible new relationship is still on the table.
mikmaxs:
I'm a little late to the punch here, but I'm still gonna say it:
This whole situation is *not* the same as the various times that Faye, Dora, or anyone else threatened people in the past.
First off, a harpoon is somewhat more serious of a weapon than most of the comical stuff that they've brought out. Not always, and it's certainly not as bad as a shotgun, but it's generally considered to be an actual weapon. The malaysian fighting spatula really isn't.
Second, the way she brings out the weapon and the way she acts implies that she actually wants to hurt someone. For the most part, (Again, there were exceptions, but as a general rule,) the violence threatened was either so comical or otherwise implausible that it was obvious nobody would ever actually get hurt. Here, the bartender lady said he looked angry, told him not to try anything, and then drew a weapon before he could respond. That's not comical. (Which is I think another part of the problem people have been having, it isn't really that funny to see someone be threatened for no reason.)
Third, and this is the big one: Clinton didn't really do anything to set her off. Whenever the cast would threaten someone in the past, it was almost always because they were being a huge asshole, creepy, or otherwise instilling great annoyance and frustration to those around them. Clinton was... Unspecifically glowering, I guess.
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