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WCDT Strips 3811-3815 (20-24 August 2018)

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brasca:

--- Quote from: AlliedToasters on 21 Aug 2018, 10:37 ---I guess I feel a bit silly for over-analyzing this, but there's something about Marten in this series that just doesn't sit well with me.
He's going to work for Tai at Smif College, a job that he's openly passive about, and yet for some reason he's decided to start dressing up like he's back at the dead-end job we started the entire story with.
Add that to the fact that he's taking on the overly-assertive archetype of a working male who dismisses his partner's CLEARLY STATED DISTRESS. (I'm sorry but any response to "how was your day" other than "fine" or "good" or whatever is a red flag.) He's just not being cool.
There's no need to "engage" Claire at all. Just sit down, shut up, and listen.

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Maybe the reason he sees no cause to worry is based on his observation working at SMIF’s library.  Tai doesn’t put all that much effort in and she’s still enrolled.  How can Claire possibly blow this?

brilligtove:
Am I the only one who thought Claire's expression in the last panel meant, "That was exactly the unconditional support I needed"?


I was a bit distracted when reading the strip, and caught exactly 0% of the nuances being discussed here, and 100% caught entirely different meaning from their interaction. For example, it was my second reading - after being primed - that I realized Marten cut her off.


If his mental state is anything like mine, he noticed she was stressed and asked her about it. She said she was ok. He believes in her ability and her self awareness - she didn't become Claire by NOT having a strong sense of herself! He rolled into the apartment in a happy, hungry, distracted haze, (possibly even feeling good about being somewhat uncharacteristically proactive in checking in with his partner) and didn't hear what she was saying - not the words themselves nor the emotions behind them.


Some people who are constantly aware of the emotional landscape around them. I have to pay special attention to notice that people around me have emotions at all. The moms of my daughter and I took a long time to realize that almost everything they say is assumed to include significant interpretation and extrapolation, and almost every noise my CIS man face makes is just what I said and no more. (<aside>Our miscommunications have been quite amusing, in retrospect. "I asked if I could X. You said, 'Go ahead' and then we fought because X meant X to me, but it meant X=y±4a2+3 to you." </aside>)


TLDR Anyhoo, I identify with Marten here.

Inconsequential:
Truly, there was a mighty whoosh here as the clue-merang sailed past Marten.

I suspect there will be a "wait... I missed something here..." moment as the clue-merang comes back around.

Love Claire's "screaming inside" face...



Apropos of nothing, am I the only one waiting eagerly for a glimpse of Faye and Bubbles' heavy duty truck bed?

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: brilligtove on 21 Aug 2018, 15:57 ---Am I the only one who thought Claire's expression in the last panel meant, "That was exactly the unconditional support I needed"?


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There was a strip with Clinton in it that introduced that facial expression and assigned its meaning.

Storel:
Comic's up! And yes, Pintsize clued Marten in, with his usual subtlety.  8-)

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