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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)

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BenRG:
I've been thinking about what may happen next week. This is only a guess but we know three things, thanks to Jeph's Twitter feed:

* David M Willis (of Dumbing of Age fame) will really like strip 3302;
* Clinton is going to be awkwardly upbeat about something in this arc.
* Brun will be shown looking over her shoulder whilst walking awayOnly a guess but I think that, after getting her comfort croissants, Brun will text Clinton to either vent or ask his advice (Renee being either too busy or too unhelpful). I suspect that Clinton and Claire will just be exiting the tattoo parlour; Claire will initially be all atwitter about Brun contacting Clinton out of the blue so soon after their last meeting. However, after it becomes clear that she's in distress, she'll invite herself along to try to help. Claire might have something to say about understanding how people who don't fit into arbitrary definitions of 'normal' can sometimes have a hard time and say that she wants to help.

I'm basically expecting the next 5-10 strips to be the Augustus siblings' attempts to help with plenty of dry humour whilst Clinton redefines 'awkward' in his attempts to keep up Brun's morale. The eventual solution will arrive by accident. I'd still like for Brun to get a job at Smif or UMass; maybe working in a student facilities role (either the canteen or the dorm receptionist role). Someone with a highly organised and structured mindset would, IMO, do very well in the latter.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Eastrim on 01 Sep 2016, 09:25 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Sep 2016, 05:40 ---To my mind the Patreon comic was not necessary to make the main comic funny.  TBH, it was (in isolation) so meh as to be a failure as an advertisement for the benefits of subscribing.

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The problem for me was, the after text was basically "This is an in joke!, in order to be in on the joke, you must not simply be a faithful reader, you must also give me money, or be forever kept in suspense!"
Yes, he put a link hours later, presumably after people complained, and yes, once I could see the comic it turned out to still be a noodle incident between the two strips, but that can't change that initial interpretation (also visible in a different tone from freeman and cucumber error in their posts after mine). Jeph's Patreon was one of the ones on my "to support when I have enough money to throw some of it at Patreons" list and now it's not because that was a Not Cool move.

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It sounds like you and Brun both need a hug [no offense or malice intended].

I'm just glad it wasn't a large swathe of a chapter/story arc. I know there's a few webcomics that have done that sort of thing in the past. Though, 'Spinnerette' is the only one I can think of off-hand (some fluff/side stories to be fair, but also a few serious main-line ones as well).

This was one that worked as even if a reader weren't a patron, it still read just fine as a 'noodle incident'.

sitnspin:
I honestly don't know what people are complaining about. I read the comic and got the joke just fine. I didn't even know it was referencing another strip until I came here and saw people complaining about it. I just thought it was mentioning something that happened off camera, the details of which were unimportant to the humor of the joke. It was the reaction to the invisible incident that mattered.

themacnut:
Ah, the joys of job-hunting. As in there being none, the whole process sucks donkey balls.

Kugai:
I sense that Jeph is leading to something here - maybe a job at CoD or The Secret Bakery?

May be just me projecting.

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