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WCDT Strips 3936-3940 (11-15 February 2019)

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OldGoat:
Birds of a feather and all that.  He's an asshole but so is Renee.  They deserve each other so much that I wonder if Jeph plans a long term dysfunctional relationship for the two of them.   Her kindness and care toward Brun is all we've seen that makes her  the better example of a human being.

BenRG:
I think that possibly Jeph is setting Renee up for a "I'm tired of casual hook-ups! I want to have a long-term relationship with Elliott somebody!" epiphany. Either that or he's setting up for Brun to ask Clinton and Elliott questions about adult relationships that neither of them are really ready for, especially without context!

I have to say that this is a world I have never personally inhabited and I find it hard to imagine that there is a whole sub-class of people who like insulting and alienating their partners as soon as the deed is done. I'm guessing it's a power trip thing but I'll never get it!

Tova:
Me neither. I think you're right, but I also think that the other benefit from their perspective is that it ensures that the person never contacts them again.

I mean, eh. I dunno. I'm not a psychologist.  :?

Scarlet Manuka:
This may not be a popular opinion, but I personally am disappointed that Jeph went down the relatively easy route of making it absolutely clear that Peter was a complete sleaze, rather than opening things up to the sort of discussion we've seen here by having him not intend to be a creep, with subsequent explanation and learning (perhaps even on both sides, though Peter certainly has more to learn).

Of course, Jeph is under no obligation to do any of that in the comic; but it's something he's done before (cf. Tilly) and would give these concepts a wider airing than last week's discussion in the forums can do. Maybe not worth the investment for what looks to be basically a throw-away character, I guess. And again it is of course entirely up to Jeph as to how he chooses to progress the story; I'm just trying to express my own reaction, not trying to say that he should have done things differently.

islan:
Hi, I'm wondering if someone could explain some social rules, or tell me if I'm picking up on the wrong thing.  I get that P-man was being a jackass and creeper to Brun, I got that much.  But in today's comic (3936), I kinda struggled to interpret when Renee said the line "He was hitting on you, in front of me, in the most deliberately shitty way he could think of."  The line "in front of me" makes it sound like there was some subtext I didn't pick up on that he was doing it deliberately to piss Renee off, but was it primarily from the first part ("he was hitting on you") or the second part ("in the most deliberately shitty way")?  It just seems odd to me that Renee would be pissed that he would hit on her roommate when she couldn't even remember his name (not an observation against her, just an observation of the seriousness of their relationship).  Or is this just one of the major rules of hook-up culture, that you don't hit on the roommate/family member?

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