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WCDT Strips 3256-3260 (4-8 July 2016)
TinPenguin:
That's a pool of whisky that spilled from the bottle as Faye ejected it.
anahata:
--- Quote from: Y on 06 Jul 2016, 23:00 ---That almost looks like Bubbles is going to drink it.
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That's what I really thought at first. Just as Faye comes to terms with the fact that it won't help with her problems, Bubbles is wondering what it would do for her own...
Thrillho:
I have to say that this week of comics has probably been Jeph's greatest work to date. Faye's expression, the red eyes, the low-key way in which this all happened - that Faye actually used a tremendously weak excuse to go and buy some drink in the first place, but that is absolutely typical of an addict.
--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2016, 17:20 ---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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This post suggests to me that you've not spent a lot of time around people who are damaged, or if you have that they are people who have dealt with it extremely well. If my father had killed himself in front of me when I was a child I would doing all the drugs to cope with that information. That would cause tremendous psychological damage. People who lash out at others aren't necessarily just assholes. Few actually are at all. They've been through things that have caused them to push others away when they want to accept them. I work with at risk teenagers and I can tell you, I wish even half of them were as pleasant as Faye is as often as she is. Faye is in most senses still a teenager herself. Matter of fact she is mostly lashing out at herself rather than others. Other people are just collateral damage.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: anahata on 07 Jul 2016, 02:13 ---
--- Quote from: Y on 06 Jul 2016, 23:00 ---That almost looks like Bubbles is going to drink it.
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That's what I really thought at first. Just as Faye comes to terms with the fact that it won't help with her problems, Bubbles is wondering what it would do for her own...
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And then her memory database reminds her that alcohol ingestion causes short circuiting in her simulated digestive tract.
freeman:
Well half a cookie for me? (Because I think Jeph wont waste another comic to show Bubbles to pour it out, so it's impliet she'll stash it. Maybe even for sniffing purposes.)
It's better than if the bottle was in the same apartment as her, yet the gun has still been hanged on the Chekhov's mantle, just as I liked.
--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2016, 17:20 ---...whereas I'd rather see more stuff like Marten dealing with the issues of dating Claire
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Anything Claire must be served with an extra small spoon, or Jeph would need to lear to draw with his feet.
Jeph has been relatively masterful in dancing around this subject, with only little glimpses at the time. Someone would say he has painted a little too rosy picture and avoided touching the hard subjects of living with a Kathoey, but some other, less experienced artists, would have easily erred into over-anylyzing and over-explaining it, like I've seen one or two "trans" themed comics doing. Over all, he'll get a school grade of 8 from me. (By the European system of 0-10; 4 and below is improbatur.)
--- Quote from: anahata on 07 Jul 2016, 02:13 ---Just as Faye comes to terms with the fact that it won't help with her problems, Bubbles is wondering what it would do for her own...
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There is only one way how robots can do drugs and it would be putting an AA battery across her loading port. That would stimulate har circuitry like using dipping tobacco would stimulate humans.
(Kudos for the people who know the reference, because that is OBSCURE.)
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