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WCDT Strips 3216 to 3220 (9th to 13th May 2016)

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blt:
Psssst... Barry. Quit looking into the fourth wall.

Kugai:
I wonder if he can interface his hand with his Smartphone via a WiFi connection if required

Lucid moments are fairly rare with Barry

ankhtahr:

--- Quote from: Random832 on 11 May 2016, 10:35 ---Sure, but I'd always assumed that they're designed to detect a specific capacitive signature, which is why the styluses you can buy have rubber tips.

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They mostly have rubber tips so people don't scratch their displays. In school I used to operate my smartphone with my closed stainless steel fountain pen. It worked really well.

Persephiroth:

--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 09 May 2016, 21:26 ---Based purely on her hair length, we can reasonably assume that she began her transition at least four years ago. (Assuming a growth rate of about half an inch per month.) If I recall, Jeph has said that he's not going to reveal how much (If any) surgery she's had, but I don't think it's implausible that she could have had some work done in that time. Unless I'm going mad, I do remember it being mentioned that she's taking (Or took,) some level of hormone something-or-another. Looking at Clinton, if he had long hair and had been taking estrogen for 4+ years, I think he'd be able to represent himself as a cis woman as well.

Your point about media portrayal is still fair, I just think it's justified in Claire's case.
(This is irrelevant, but I *did* notice that, from her first appearance in comic 2203, she's gotten *Significantly* more adorable. (At least, physically and in my personal opinion.) Chalk this up to Jeph not knowing how to draw her yet.

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Since she's a grad student, unless she has a lot of money from other sources, surgeries are quite unlikely. They're hella expensive (something that upsets me irl). In MA, insurances are required to cover SRS nd breast implants, but they can often weasel out of it by loopholes. So she may have had some done, it isn't entirely impossible. Not that I want to dwell on the surgeries much--too much focus is placed on that with trans folks.

I dunno. I just think that I'd enjoy the portrayal of Marten and Claire's relationship if they had to experience some of the actual hardships of dating a transwoman. The stigma against it, dealing with morning facial hair--the first time a partner sees you without makeup. For a slice of life comic, it seems unrealistic to not include some of it, though that's really Jeph's purview.

TheEvilDog:
Bear in mind that many writers tend to keep themselves reined in on certain topics, not because they do not want to or do not respect those who might be connected but because they feel that they might not be able do the topic the justice it deserves. It might be one thing to introduce a character who is trans, but to capture the sense of the daily struggle they go through without making it look like something from an after school special can be quite difficult. I can't speak for Jeph with regards to his story, so who knows.

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