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WCDT - Sept 5 to Sept 9, 2022 (strips #4866 to #4870)
gprimr1:
I shared this in the other post too, but I think this was a missed opportunity to add a little drama. I know it would ultimately resolve, but just having Martin confess some concerns about the move would have added a little drama.
hedgie:
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The nice thing about dating yourself is that you never have to worry about scheduling conflicts. 8-)
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Yeah, but the breakup is no good.
DaiJB:
"We'll jump into a hot air balloon and float away right as you say your vows."
If Cubetown is anything like as wild as I think it is, Marten will take out a remote device, press a button, then he and Claire will disappear as the teleporter activates...
Then the teleporter will malfunction and they will re-appear minus their clothes...
Ravenswing:
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 07 Sep 2022, 21:26 ---I shared this in the other post too, but I think this was a missed opportunity to add a little drama. I know it would ultimately resolve, but just having Martin confess some concerns about the move would have added a little drama.
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Yeah, but it may just be that Jeph wants to give the strip's original protagonist a gentle, quiet sendoff. Twenty years, after all.
BenRG:
Interesting suggestion made on the Salty Subreddit:
What if Marten and Claire aren't leaving the strip but rather the strip is moving to Cubetown and Northampton and its residents are being sidelined or even written out? So, we have Marten and Claire living in a weird semi-Culture futuristic AI collective with lots and lots of AIs with them acting as 'straight' characters to support all the jokes and the audience's point of reference for the extreme sci-fi? Today's strip could be as much seen as Dora's farewell to Marten as vice-versa.
It's not inconceivable. Almost all of Jeph's attempts to make new character groups and running arcs in the Northampton settling have fallen a bit flat and even the interesting characters like Roko and her friends seem to have run out of story to tell.
Jeph has always fancied writing himself a bit of hard sci-fi and this might be him taking the leap.
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