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WCDT - December 12 to December 16, 2022 (strips #4936 to #4940)
Tova:
Plot Twist
We will learn that this research centre is a front for another organisation, and everyone that Claire has met so far are simply actors playing parts (risibly badly; perhaps even deliberately so). This entire arc might actually start to make some sense if this turns out to be the case.
Bonus Plot Twist
The Director turns out to be Yay. Another of Yay we haven't met yet. And they offer Claire a job. Just not the advertised one.
immortalfrieza:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 15 Dec 2022, 12:34 ---More than once, I’ve wondered whether the character in question is really as angry as they look or if it’s just a quirk of Jeph’s art style.
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I can't find it but I remember when Jeph redrew a couple comics and posted them on Tumblr. The original defaulted to snarky faces and the new ones were more varied expressions. I wonder if it's a new default to avoid the snarky expressions.
Edit: Found the link
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You know, if Jeph would go back and redraw most of his first... oh, 1000 or so strips I'd buy a book just of those. The comics as originally don't really get all that readable until after that point.
MrNumbers:
I don't think the problem is Claire seeming too angry now, but that it feels like whiplash. She's been riding along with all the cartoon shenanigans to this point and so there's no natural rise to this being her breaking point.
Which is to say, like, if I'd gotten this far into the interview - the car ride, "Ol Boaty", being greeted by an unethical social science project going wrong, and then show up and the head of security is hiding in my room because they panicked instead of just showing identification, saying what they were doing and apologizing? And that's your litmus test for your standard of colleagues and coworkers?
Not going to lie, if I was being asked to be involved in an incredibly bleeding edge research facility and this was the head of security? I'm running.
But you know. It's a story, it's a good way to get Claire to skip straight to meeting the director, it's a good narrative device.
JimC:
Does Evan really come across as any less together than Roko Basilisk when we first met her? And are they relations?
And for goodness sake Claire, you've met three Cubetown residents. Isn't it a bit early for the sweeping generalisations?
Cornelius:
Technically, I count five. Two of which seem to have positions of some responsibility.
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