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WCDT Strips 3596-3600 (23rd October - 27th October 2017)
BenRG:
Okay, any doubts that were raised yesterday about Sam being 'exploited' are gone. She's savvy enough to realise that she's stumbled backwards onto a money-spinner and she's already thinking ahead to her future business prospects!
Meanwhile, Bubbles is realising that she may never understand the Teenage Mind! :wink:
P.S.: I love Faye's expression in panel 2. This is one of those panels when Jeph really lets the feelings of the characters shine though. You can see how much Faye loves Sam and how proud she is that she's growing up to be an artistic personality.
Neko_Ali:
No, I don't think Faye kept the tip. Punkbot specifically said the tip was for the artist. Taking the tip would be outright theft as well as an exceptionally crappy thing to do to a friend. And $15 plus tip is pretty good to doodle on someone's back with a sharpie. To be honest, it's probably a better deal that most tattoo artists get when they're working out of someone's shop. Space rental, utilities, advertising and insurance isn't cheap.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Akima on 25 Oct 2017, 22:33 ---It's hard to be sure. Punkbot pays $20 plus tip, though the size of the tip isn't specified. I have no idea what is customary with tattoo-artists, but let's say 10% for the sake of argument, so a total of $22. Next Faye is contemplating the money and offering Sam $15, so unless she's already slipped the tip to Sam separately off-camera, it does look as if she's just giving Sam $15 out of the $22 total (68%) and keeping 32% for the shop.
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Hmm, you may be right. Initially I interpreted "Here's a little extra for the artist" as meaning he had already paid Faye and was just handing over the tip, but now I see he first says "You said twenty bucks, right?" Which means he hasn't paid Faye yet, because he wouldn't need to verify the price if he'd already paid. So maybe he did give Faye the $20+tip, and she gave $15 of that to Sam.
That still doesn't mean Faye kept the tip. If the tip was, say, $5, then Faye passed on the tip plus ten dollars from the twenty-dollar fee -- a 50/50 split, which doesn't seem unreasonable.
Edit: Also, I like Sam's "They're not tattoos, they're sprays. Learn the terminology." Yeah, Faye, jeez!
oeoek:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 25 Oct 2017, 21:18 ---Sam knows the word 'ectothermic'! So she -reads- about snakes too.
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Oh yes... take a look at her bookcase (I love these details).
BenRG:
I was reading some old strips a few minutes ago, most notably 3162 and 3163. Then I also factored in the similar levels of sass as well as fascination with robot anatomy and metalwork and then, suddenly, it all became very, very clear to me. Jeph has been making it quite clear since Dora and Faye baby-sat her at Coffee of Doom several hundreds of strips ago: Sam is Faye's mini-me. The affection that Faye shows her is for a surrogate baby sister and you can see a lot of it in the current arc.
I can't help wonder if a lot of Bubbles annoyance and confusion is partly because she's having a hard time dealing with Faye Mk2 in a different chassis! :-D
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