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WCDT Strips 3806-3810 (13-17 August 2018)
OldGoat:
And the new comic's up. Jeph says, "Panel 2 MIGHT be the cutest thing I've drawn yet???"
May be, but dem abs. Damn!
BenRG:
For me, this panel is mostly about how Bubbles is as much Faye's support now as Faye is Bubbles support in other ways. Without any real conscious directly, Faye turns to Bubbles for comfort and Bubbles tries to comfort Faye.
That said, panel 4 does seem to suggest that Faye is asking herself: "Is my girlfriend a smartass or is she learning all the wrong lessons from life?"
Oh, and yeah. Bubbles would be over the moon to be considered a beneficial person to be around.
derris_kharlan:
Caveat for this post: I’m not yet a parent (though I hope to be someday)
Jim’s treatment of Faye is out of line. So far as we know (or at least that I can remember) he has never spoken to her about what Sam is/isn’t allowed to do in the shop. That’s on him. He seems to at least been aware that she is spending time there in which case he should have spoken with Faye and Bubbles if he is concerned. He can’t just assume they will mind read that he never wants his daughter to use power tools.
Meanwhile Faye SHOULD have waited until Sam had shown she was capable of safely handling the dremel before walking away, but it’s a dremel, it’s not like she left Sam alone with a table saw or angle grinder. And Sam didn’t have “an accident” with a tool because she was inexperienced (like she slipped while using it wrong), she was an idiot and used the tool in a completely dangerous fashion. That’s not Faye’s fault.
Meanwhile I think Jim is right to ban Sam, at least temporarily, from using power tools because clearly she isn’t capable of handling them in a remotely responsible manner. She needs to demonstrate some common sense first. THEN supervised use if she wants to learn.
But yeah, while Jim’s reaction might be emotionally understandable I don’t think it’s fair to Faye and I would love it if he apologizes.
Tova:
--- Quote from: derris_kharlan on 15 Aug 2018, 01:24 ---Jim’s treatment of Faye is out of line.
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You mean where he agrees with Faye's own words? Because I don't think he would have said anything like that otherwise. In fact, if Faye hadn't asked that question, the conversation would have gone no further.
I thought that his response to Faye's characteristic and unnecessary sass was appropriate and not at all out of line.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: derris_kharlan on 15 Aug 2018, 01:24 ---Caveat for this post: I’m not yet a parent (though I hope to be someday)
Jim’s treatment of Faye is out of line.
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Nah.
If anything Jim's reaction was too rational.
As you say, you don't have children, and whereas empathy is one thing, experience is another.
Example?
My daughter had to go to the dentist.
Dentist could not pull a tooth they wanted to.
MY daughter was becoming more and more distraught as this 'professional' hauled and hauled and hauled while she was under only a local anaesthetic...
It took every fibre of my being not to haul the incompetent fecker off of her.
Even more so when they then shrugged and said... "I can't get it out. We'll just have to leave it in."
My take as a parent?
A 'professional' in charge of my child's well-being failed miserably and caused her great pain and anxiety.
(A moment which scarred her for a long time and made every dentist trip a feat of logic over sheer dread.)
So, yeah... Jim in NO WAY over-reacted and certainly was NOT out-of-line.
(In a way, I kinda blame Jeph for making the 'accident' too easy. Ripping off a fingernail with a dremel would, I imagine, cause far more pain and distress than Sam showed... Which might explain the little backlash against Jim.
Had we seen Sam in a LOT of pain and anguish (as opposed to, what, a frame and a half?) then it might be a different story.... But then, we don't really want comics full of mid-teens in agony, do we!)
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