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WCDT Strips 3416 to 3420 (13th to 17th February 2017)
Perfectly Reasonable:
Flame detailing worked much better in "My Life as a Teenage Robot".
Kugai:
I still recon they'll wind up back at the Skate Park/Fight Club for the Repair Shop under Punchbot.
Though Hanners becoming involved is always a possibility.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: OldGoat on 13 Feb 2017, 06:26 ---"STFU Faye."
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The Bubbles and Faye arc has been a far more interesting character story than Marten and Claire ever was (that one just seemed to twist down a dead end street.)
I've little interest in Marten and Claire at all.
Now... getting back to Marten and Faye... far more interesting dynamic. :laugh:
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There it is in a nutshell. Mature people's stable relationships with each other don't provide much conflict to write about. Relationships involving Faye stay interesting because she's a well of emotional turmoil.
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Marten and Claire are like Dora and Tai or Dale and Marigold It was the getting to their relationship that was the interesting story bits. Now both couples have settled down into them, there just isn't a lot to drive a story unless something changes. In the end the comic is mostly about the various characters interpersonal relationships with each other, and those six are pretty settled now. So it's not to surprising that Jeph would turn to other characters, and introduce new ones so that he has something to write about. And honestly, I would prefer that than what some serialized works do and have something bad happen every time it seems the main character has a good thing going. Consider long running comic heroes like Spider Man or Batman who can never have a stable relationship without someone getting kidnapped constantly, dying or turning evil. I'd rather see characters rotating in and out of circulation than Marten being the eternal punching bag.
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I get where you're coming from.
But surely it's possible to have a long running strip with two people-in a stable relationship-that actually invokes some kind of funny/dramatic/emotional content that holds the attention?
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Three immediately come to mind, Moon Stone (NSFW), Between Failures (though there's other characters), and a third which I've forgotten the name of (it's been on hiatus for a year).
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 14 Feb 2017, 14:24 ---Flame detailing worked much better in "My Life as a Teenage Robot".
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It'd work better if Bubbles were a transformer.
Gyrre:
Well, that answers one question.
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