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WCDT Strips 3286 to 3290 (15-19 August 2016)
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: brasca on 17 Aug 2016, 03:51 ---I would also add that she seemingly devoured a dozen croissants in such a short amount of time without any beverage on hand. That's quite a feat!
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If there is one word I could use for Brun, it would be 'focused.'
JimC:
Think we can be reasonably confident that Brun is not suffering from Hannelore's eating problem...
I'm sure there's a deliberate contrast there, even if I have no idea where it will go.
Now all I have to do is persuade myself I don't need the croissant that I seem to have a sudden urge for...
BenRG:
--- Quote from: JimC on 17 Aug 2016, 05:40 ---Think we can be reasonably confident that Brun is not suffering from Hannelore's eating problem...
I'm sure there's a deliberate contrast there, even if I have no idea where it will go.
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A possible future strip where Brun is sitting opposite Hannelore and coaching her on how to eat pastries without using your hands (a skill that Hannelore wants to learn for a variety of reasons, most of them hygienic)?
TheEvilDog:
I get the feeling that Brun didn't so much eat the croissants, as that she inhaled them.
jheartney:
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--- Quote from: Clubman8 on 16 Aug 2016, 23:34 ---
--- Quote from: freeman on 16 Aug 2016, 07:08 ---Random thought 1: We haven't heard about Margold and Dale in a while, I feel: pregnancy scare.
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You know, in over 3000 entries I feel like that topic is long overdue. As long as it doesn't end in loss.jpg 2016, we could have a good arc on our hands. With so many characters to dwell on, a baby wouldn't necessarily derail any progression in the overall comic.
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FWIW, I always got the impression that Jeph wasn't so much opposed to the idea as much as he felt that he couldn't write or draw a baby character in any way that avoided self-parody. However now he has a baby relative on the way (a niece or nephew; I don't think that's been publicly confirmed) he might have a different mindset and approach. QC has enough autobiographical elements that I could see him inserting a secondary-level character pairing (such as, say, Dale and Marigold) having a child just to reflect his own experience of unclehood.
Whether that happens? Well, that's up to him, isn't it?
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Babies are tricky to fit into a long-form narrative that hasn't had them before. Part of this is that real babies take a long time to develop any sort of individual agency, so their impact on storylines is kind of like a boat anchor. And even once they start being individuals, it's often kind of cutesy in a way that wouldn't fit with a story form hitherto dedicated to at-least-somewhat adult issues.
I could see a pregnancy scare for Dale and Marigold working with the fact that they (especially Marigold) are not at all ready for parenthood. We could see them wrestle with issues relating to their passage to adulthood, but at this point I think the only real choice would be for them to terminate the pregnancy. Not sure how you'd generate punchlines out of that, but if anybody could do it it'd be Jeph.
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