Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3601-3605 (30rd October - 3rd November 2017)
TheEvilDog:
There's no doubt that Marten is able to survive by himself, but there's a difference between surviving and thriving.
Any time he's experienced growth during the comic has never come from him, but from an external action. He's never learned to do that.
Let's be brutally honest here, Marten and Veronica never had the conventional parent/child relationship. When Dora and Marten broke up, Veronica flew out....and embarrassed and belittled (to a degree) Marten and comforted Dora. When Marten went to his father's wedding, Veronica did an impromptu upskirt shoot at dinner, while Marten was there with Claire.
Granted, Marten has put up with his mother and her antics his entire life and is perhaps used to it. But now, his mother is starting a new life with what could be a new family and its perhaps painful to see his mother act so differently than she did with him. It could be a sense of betrayal for Marten, like "Why did I have to go all through that for my childhood and Mom is just sitting there, sipping wine like its nothing."
Marten is not someone who can deal with rapid change, and can be quite resentful towards it, for example his father regarding the divorce and his coming out. Its the change in Veronica that is affecting Marten and it raises the potential question of "Why her and not me?"
renfield1969:
Typical woman, trying to fix a problem when the man clearly wants to talk about his emotions.
I don't think Marten's the only fucker in that convo.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph did say once that he's never written an argument where one person was 100% right.
One of the key themes of the comic is screwed-up people meeting other screwed-up people and slowly, painfully, and inefficiently helping each other get better.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Akima on 30 Oct 2017, 01:34 --- It looks slightly odd too that the glasses in front of Sam and Jim look larger than those in front of Marten and Claire, despite their being closer to the "camera". Still, it's a bold and effective establishing shot.
--- End quote ---
Except that somehow Marten and Claire look like kids.
hedgie:
Well, they're certainly acting like kids.
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