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WCDT Strips 3286 to 3290 (15-19 August 2016)
mad hands murphy:
Renee is just super pushy all the time isn't she.
She's like neo Dora now that Dora is on her journey of self-discovery.
Tova:
--- Quote from: brasca on 17 Aug 2016, 21:22 ---It seems like Renee craves validation, but on her terms only. Brun devours an entire bag of her croissants in record time, but she's irked because she didn't get a verbal compliment about her it. Now she's complaining about not getting a pat on the head even though Elliot listened to her complaining about her Mom and when he offers to do so belatedly she refuses.
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If you take another look at the last two panels, you will see that she was not, in fact, complaining about not getting a pat on the head. That was only the way Elliot interpreted it*. She's trying to imply that Elliot wants to pat Brun on the head because he has a crush on her.
Now I've gone and explained the joke again. Sorry.
* Not only Ellliot, I guess.
jheartney:
The new page design needs styling. At the moment you have lots of loose type on white, with no structure to help organize it. A few tint boxes and/or rules in the right places would make it much more appealing.
BenRG:
So... Basically, what we're learning here is that Elliott has no real ability to express himself with women nor any instinct for it... at all. He also has a huge reserve of denial about his emotions and whether or not he is attracted to someone.
Actually, he is more like Marten than I thought. Indeed, it's as if Jeph took early model Marten's inability to deal with attractive women as anything other than sisters and turned it up to eleven!
FWIW, the main page is offline right now, although the archive page for the strip is up. Jeph's last Tweet was that he had been playing a video game and it left him unable to sleep so he might be working on the formatting of the new page design software a bit more. Aaannnd, just to screw with me, the main page starts working immediately after I post!
carnex:
--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Aug 2016, 22:12 ---
If you take another look at the last two panels, you will see that she was not, in fact, complaining about not getting a pat on the head. That was only the way Elliot interpreted it*. She's trying to imply that Elliot wants to pat Brun on the head because he has a crush on her.
Now I've gone and explained the joke again. Sorry.
* Not only Ellliot, I guess.
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If you take another look at it you can see her nearly equating her being pissed of at her mother to her friend losing her job, stuff and roof over head. That is textbook definition of unhealthily self centered. Even if it was to make a point on big guy not accepting his feelings, it's way, WAY to much.
And she didn't even refuse pat politely, she is drawn with clearly disgusted expresion. That drives the point even further.
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