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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
keithcurtis:
--- Quote from: valis_kr3 on 27 May 2018, 17:19 ---Other - Martan gets the band back together with some combination of Hanners (she comes back), Sven, Amir, or other person (I know the cast doesn't need to be bigger but I stand by this statement.) I feel like Martan play'n in a band was suppose to be a bigger deal and it never really went anywhere.
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Good addition! Although I really don't have an emotional or dramatic investment in the band subplot, I do feel that Marten needs to step up and grow in some direction.
MrNumbers:
I think the problem is Flanderization. Claire's experienced negative character growth because she and Marten have been reassigned as background characters. When that happens, their most exaggerated quirks tend to be more pronounced. A good comparison is Tai.
Marten has neither hills nor valleys to exaggerate when this happens to him: He's just a cool, nice guy. With Tai it works because she was already an exaggerated character template: She was born a tattooed-punk-stoner-poly-lesbian-erotica-author-librarian. Fantastic character, inherently suited for the role. She can have those exaggerated moments without sacrificing anything.
But Claire? Claire was an intern promoted to Marten's love interest. When she's playing that active role she's a more nuanced, balanced character with subtleties, because she was born for the romantic-drama plotline. But now that that arc is over, we can't afford for her to have the subtleties in the scenes she's in, where she's used as a comedic character like Tai. So you fall to exaggeration to make that work.
I really want to see her have an active story again, for a while, just to bring her back down to Earth. But that would mean other characters losing the spotlight, and they're more interesting to me.
EDIT: Old Goat cites intellect, trans and being a nerd as the reasons she might rub people the wrong way, and I strongly disagree.
We don't actually see Claire be that intelligent in the comic. We know she is, but it hasn't been the forefront of her character in a long time.
Likewise, I find it very hard to imagine people in this forum specifically being annoyed by nerdism -- One Of Us, One Of Us! -- or her gender.
Zebediah:
Comic’s up.
No, I really don’t think Claire could tolerate that. Nor could Clinton.
Meadomancer:
I just want to throw out there that the "widespread property damage" line is possibly the most romantic thing I've ever heard.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: mgrayson3 on 28 May 2018, 09:28 ---
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 28 May 2018, 09:05 ---She has a hidden darkness though
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I'm not sure about that scene. It *is* a great scene, but I'm not sure it's "Claire". Similarly, Emily's rant to Clinton about people thinking she's weird is great info about her character, but not necessarily how "Emily" would have said it. Yes, this is all horribly subjective, and may be simply my own misunderstanding. Some characters - PintSize - cover a huge range of expressive modes while still being themselves. Bubbles and Faye, both, have been growing and changing, but staying themselves. It's been a true delight of the comic.
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If you're unsure about that being "Claire", then apparently you don't know very many librarians, because that is totally a librarian thing to do (my Mom was a librarian for 40 years... I know).
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