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WCDT Strips 3231 - 3235 (30th May to 3rd June 2016)

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theMarc:
"Today I learned how to join multiple speech bubbles in Manga Studio" -Jeph

It really says something that I never noticed the absence of linked speech bubbles in QC since Jeph started using Manga Studio.

Does it say more about Jeph's ability to work well with the tools at his disposal, or does it say more about my observational skills?  You make the call!

Mr. Doctor:
Urgh, it's seems like it's that Renee, then. Never liked that character. Oh well...

BenRG:
I'm thinking about how people have described The Secret Bakery as a sort of bizarre refraction of Coffee of Doom. I'm wondering if Jeph is planning to go back to that and re-address it in the light of Marten's relationship with Claire.

Think about it along these terms: The exact character stories will not be paralleled but the wider social group will have similar experiences. Consequently, we have Brun and Renee having an experience like Marten and Faye where Brun is made homeless by fire and thus has to move in with Faye-alike Renee (who is Angus's ex). We then have an 'odd couple' relationship of plain-spoken and stoic Brun with passionate and aggressive Renee (which may or may not have some degree of UST at first).

The next step would be for it to turn out that Brun had a disastrous relationship with the neck tattoo guy who we see talking to Elliott in the TSB introductory strip which is why Renee is so over-protective of her (parallels of Marten and Dora). That leads inevitably to Jeph moving on to:

* Brun getting a job at TSB (possibly by some bizarre qualification similar to Marten's knowing iambic pentameter getting him the gig at the library);
* Clinton's protectiveness turning into attraction (possibly with a not-a-date social interaction that ends with unexpected intimacy that both are initially reluctant to talk about until Claire shouts it out in a thoughtless moment);
* Ultimately, Brun turning up at Clinton's dorm block at UMass, announcing to him in her calm, rational and level-toned delivery that she thinks that there is something between them and then inviting him to be her boyfriend; smoochies follow (although Clinton's peers later admit not to understand what the hell had happened).

APersonAmI:
In my opinion, this is an inappropriate reaction to someone helping your friend when her apartment burnt down. It isn't ironic, because in the situation some of you called back to, Clinton did not yell at or threaten Marten, and while Clinton wasn't nice , it is in no way the equivalent of this scene. In addition, I also do not find it funny, because pointless harassment isn't funny to me.

Also, Renee keeps intentionally interrupting his sentences, which is a unlikable and unpleasant thing to do.

I'm also a little annoyed Brun just lets her friend act like this, but admittedly most of the threats happened after the phone was handed over. Primarily, it is Renee who is an ass here, that's not really Brun's fault.

*edit* Hm. Looking over my comment again, I could probably have shortened this to "Well. That was unfunny, pointless and unpleasant." and have said just as much, really. Oh well, hopefully I'll perfect the art of not being more verbose than I need to be eventually.

heyjames4:
I really like the art today.
1. I really like the art on Clinton today. The eyes, the hair, the wavery bubble line. So many emotions shown w/o words. Jephs doing good work.
2. Brun's 'bedhead' has a cowlick/ahoge. The artistic purpose of an ahoge is to supplement the dialogue and facial expressions in communicating the character's emotional state. But, Brun's ahoge isn't moving. Since Brun (for whatever reason) has a flat affect, her ahoge staying motionless makes total sense like on a meta-level.

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