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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)

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BenRG:
Thank you Hannelore for telling May she hadn't dealt with this well (in a genuinely constructive way too). It tells you a lot that May is genuinely shocked by all of this. She really wasn't expecting her words to have that sort of impact. Indeed, I don't think that she really thought at all about what effects, if any, her words would have (beyond Winslow going away).

Panel 5 is... intriguing. May clearly has never been in this situation before, at least not with someone she so implicitly trusts and respects as The Daughter of the Creator. It's food for thought (as well as a moral shock) that I don't think that she's experienced before. She's had friends and enemies call her out for her shit but never before has the Daughter of God told her that her behaviour is unacceptable and that she needs to clean up her act. Maybe we might get a self-improvement arc out of this. Given her previous attempts to gain Hannelore's approval, May would have a motivation here that she's not had before.

Oh, and cookies. Cookies are good. I'm wondering if Hannelore bought those just so May can't make the 'disturbing me at work therefore I can ignore it' excuse. :laugh:

SmilingCat:
I think Hanners did it because cookies.

neurocase:
I can't quite interpret May's apparent utter shock in panel two. Which is she more startled by; that Winslow would do charity work, or that he wouldn't say so?

In any case, panel five reads like the beginnings of the "oh i'm a dick" realization that May sorely needs.

Cornelius:
It might be both. I don't think she's the kind of person herself, that would do something, and not tell anyone.


--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Aug 2017, 01:54 ---... It tells you a lot that May is genuinely shocked by all of this. She really wasn't expecting her words to have that sort of impact. Indeed, I don't think that she really thought at all about what effects, if any, her words would have beyond Winslow going away).

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Exactly, she didn't. And what did she ask of Winslow, when talking to Momo?


--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 23 Aug 2017, 02:02 ---I think Hanners did it because cookies.

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Cookies!

oddtail:
OK, so I think this is a great character moment - May saying that things are cool because Winslow apologized.

Specifically, the phrasing. May's line of thought goes, and she has no trouble saying it out loud "I yelled at someone, but THEY apologized to ME, so it's cool".

It shows that May is not particularly malicious, just... very self-centred. Judging by her reaction, it didn't even OCCUR to her that yelling at someone is a big deal. She didn't even think SHE should apologize.

I... actually really like today's comic. It's well-written. It kinda makes me like earlier strips much more, retroactively.

EDIT: I mean, yes, May says "sorry" to Hannelore, but she doesn't seem to be particularly upset, it seems like more of a polite "sorry" than a genuine apology. And she's still apologizing to HANNELORE, as opposed to the person she yelled at. Again, I think it's very "May" of her.

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