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WCDT Strips 3256-3260 (4-8 July 2016)
Thrillho:
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--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2016, 00:10 ---I'm not cold hearted but to me Faye is just an irritant in an otherwise excellant comic, if she could just sort of go away and only ever be seen occasionally then this comic would be a lot better and more time could be devoted to more interesting characters
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That being said, she is a well-written character -- so much so that she reminds me of real people. Whom I still will not associate with.
Ironically, today's strip is probably the first time I can wholly relate to Faye - beating the everloving dogshit out of a heavy bag because like fuck.
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For me its her behaviour towards Marten has always seemed to me to one of a bully and an abuser and while I get that Marten has brought it on himself there were also times when she'd start to bully Claire and all because Faye Had A Traumatic Experience, whereas I'd rather see more stuff like Marten dealing with the issues of dating Claire
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Quoting this so I remember to reply in the morning
comicalArchitect:
Honestly, no QC character has really rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah, they've all been jerks at times, but I pretty much always tend to empathize. I guess the one exception would be Marigold and her at-times ridiculous immaturity, but part of that's because she reminds me of myself.
DashaBlade:
--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 06 Jul 2016, 17:53 ---Honestly, no QC character has really rubbed me the wrong way.
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Conversely, every QC character has pissed me off. That's why I like this comic though - it lets me read about fictional people who piss me off, and then I get over it and start to like the character. That's completely unlike the real world, where the people who piss me off seem to keep on doing it and I rarely get to move on to the "start to like them" phase.
Tova:
You don't usually get the kinds of opportunities to get to know and understand people who piss you off that you get reading QC.
mikmaxs:
See, if anything, the character I dislike the least is Dora. Faye's trauma just seems far more relatable and sympathetic. Additionally, her toxic behavior has (mostly) just been self-destructive. Her story is depressing, sad, and all-too familiar. I can feel a lot worse for a character when they truly seem to be a victim rather than an antagonist. (And yes, before anyone points it out, I know Faye can be prickly and rude, but how often has she actually tried to hurt someone (Emotionally or physically) when it wasn't in the defense of one of her friends? Arm punches and snippy jokes don't count.)
Dora, on the other hand, leads a (relatively speaking) charmed life. Her parents are cool, she's running a very successful small business, and the biggest real grievance in her life is that her brother is more successful than she is. So while she's not just prickly but toxic to those around her, she's vindictive, (to be fair, she's gotten less bad in more recent comics,) she's just not a character whom I care for at all. (Also, not to rehash this discussion, but: While she was in the right for firing Faye, the way she handled that situation was just terrible.)
If anyone had to get eaten by an Allosaurus and disappear from QC, I'd take Dora any day. Faye has problems, but they're the kind of problems that make her sympathetic and make her story sad, not the kind of problems that make her an irritant. (In my opinion.)
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