Topic: WCDT: 2343-2347 (17-21 December 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (Read 52804 times)

Sidhekin · « **Reply #150 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 08:52 »

So, what I'm left wondering ... how'd the raccoon fare?

percivaltercy · « **Reply #151 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 10:17 »

Quote from: DSL on 19 Dec 2012, 06:17

ALSO: Sam loses grip just before the top of her swing, sword doesn't have enough vertical distance to travel to complete a tumble, point gets stuck in ceiling tile (or bottom of cash register in previous panel), mass of hilt carries it forward, resulting in angle depicted in 3 and 4. I've seen it happen with pencils (seventh-grade study hall was boring as hell).

That's exactly what I meant. Properly worded.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #152 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 10:19 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 19 Dec 2012, 06:59

Quote from: Binary on 19 Dec 2012, 06:26
perhaps one of the mods could mention it to him if it isn't fixed in a day or two.

We have no special access to Jeph; I just email him like you do (never had an answer). A year ago he once replied to me in the hidden moderators' forum, on a rare visit.

Ha, yeah, I saw this and went "wait, we can do that?" That would be pretty cool, but nope, we don't. We just run the place for him so he doesn't have to look at it.

Carl-E · « **Reply #153 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 10:22 »

"in loco parentis"

As opposed to "comletely loco parentis"

~~cesariojpn~~ · « **Reply #154 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 10:47 »

Quote from: DSL on 19 Dec 2012, 06:17

... so what happened to Sam's "I'm calling him right now" in the previous comic? Dora's making another call to Jim? Was Jim not picking up? Was Sam actually calling Oranges R Us for a delivery?

Maybe Sam couldn't get her dad the first time, so Dora is doing a follow up?

Lazurii · « **Reply #155 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 11:01 »

Quote from: musicalsoul on 18 Dec 2012, 21:37

I'm not sure I've ever read anything more accurate. I got my first cell phone when I was sixteen and the only reason I got it then was because payphones had begun disappearing and I needed a way to call my parents when I needed a ride. Now, at 25 I can't help but wonder how people ever got along without them. I mean, there's been so many times I've used mine because my car broke down, or I had an accident, or got stuck in a ditch (I have really bad luck with cars), and having a cell phone made things just, well not quite as terrible. I didn't hop on the smart phone band wagon until about two years ago when my flip-phone of over six years broke in half. And I could live without my droid, but it's so convenient.

The Hubby and I don't own cell phones. We get along just fine. We've had car troubles and such, just like everyone, but the universe seems to like us. It's always been something we could fix on our own (we always kept tools in the trunk) or someone would stop and help us out.

We used to have cell phones, but it was too expensive for the use we got out of them. Since getting rid of them we've had the pleasure of noticing that the world is a much friendlier place than we originally thought. It's been nice.

jwhouk · « **Reply #156 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 13:22 »

It's the end of the world as we know it!

I feel fine. 31 (44.3%) <== Michael Stipe may want residuals...
Oh geez, what did Pintsize do NOW? 7 (10%)
Wait, I thought those three girls and that big-boobed pixie from Minneapolis fixed that? 3 (4.3%)
Nyahhh! The meteor missed us! 2 (2.9%)
Is Raven doing theoretical temporal physics again? 7 (10%)
Not happening. Cassie showed us Dallas in 2013. It's all good. 4 (5.7%)
But... but I wanted to know where Pintsize sleeps! 2 (2.9%)
The global AI hasn't turned into SkyNet... YET. 1 (1.4%)
Personally? I don't really care, as long as there's waffles and space ham. 3 (4.3%)
Hanners hasn't read all the posts yet. 9 (12.9%)
Other (please specify in space provided; use back of paper if necessary) 1 (1.4%)

Total Members Voted: 70

Barmymoo · « **Reply #157 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 14:09 »

I can see the phone in Dora's hand in panel two, you can see the shape of her palm obscuring the majority of it.

jwhouk · « **Reply #158 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 14:48 »

Holding it that way, though, would mean Jim wouldn't be hearing her very well.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #159 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 15:34 »

Quote from: Sidhekin on 19 Dec 2012, 08:52

So, what I'm left wondering ... how'd the raccoon fare?

He ran out the door faster than Faye could catch him, went on his merry way, and eventually started up his own coffee shop. Unfortunately, the health inspector had a slight mishap during a routine inspection, saw an employee rat that was helping to grind beans, mistook it for an infestation, and shut the place down. The raccoon (we'll call him Barry) decided that perhaps the barista business wasn't his niche, so he went on to work as a bus driver for the MTBA. He earned acclaim for his excellent driving record, and went on to become a CDL instructor for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Along the way, he fell in love with a tanuki named Francine, and before long they were engaged. Not long after the honeymoon they tried to start a family, but doctors informed them that Francine was infertile, which broke their little hearts. They persevered, though, and with the help of artificial insemination and a surrogate badger named Susan, they will be expecting their first little bundle of joy within the next few weeks.

riccostar · « **Reply #160 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 15:42 »

Daw

Imagine the "mummy, why am I a badger?" talk though...

Midwesterner · « **Reply #161 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 17:41 »

I love the way Dora phrased that first line, and I should have expected Faye to get the sword stuck somewhere semi-half panel.

Also, in the poll, on the "Cassie showed us Dallas in 2013" link, that's New York in the comic. Is that the joke I'm just missing?

Edit: Dang, Sam, that was you that got the sword up there?

jwhouk · « **Reply #162 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 18:36 »

Ah, yes, you're correct on that. Obviously she was visiting the Empire State Building at the time.

Y · « **Reply #163 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 19:05 »

I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #164 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 19:12 »

Quote from: Y on 19 Dec 2012, 19:05

I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.

I wonder if Raven is/was hiding in the vent.

Kugai · « **Reply #165 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 21:10 »

That would explain where she's been all this time.

Nice work though.

~~cesariojpn~~ · « **Reply #166 on:** 19 Dec 2012, 23:22 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 19 Dec 2012, 19:12

Quote from: Y on 19 Dec 2012, 19:05
I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.

I wonder if Raven is/was hiding in the vent.

Wouldn't there be blood dripping down?

~~cesariojpn~~ · « **Reply #167 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 00:03 »

Livestream link doesn't work again.

CrowFairy · « **Reply #168 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 00:34 »

I've been really lucky and catching the comic just minutes after it updates (Today was within a minute--completely by accident; yesterday was within 7 minutes).

That said,

I AM SKULLMASTER,

and I love Sam. <3

Carl-E · « **Reply #169 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 00:47 »

I have two grown daughters.

Been there, done that.

Have the emotional scars. Wear 'em with pride.

ysth · « **Reply #170 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:01 »

It doesn't seem like Faye to be helping Sam defy her father.

Could she be drunk? We haven't seen her show up to work snookered, have we?

Carl-E · « **Reply #171 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:03 »

I thought Faye seemed uncharacteristically silent...

Maybe it's because of the mask? Now that she's a skull, and Sam's the skullmaster, she doesn't have a choice?

WAYF · « **Reply #172 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:05 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 19 Dec 2012, 19:12

Quote from: Y on 19 Dec 2012, 19:05
I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.

I wonder if Raven is/was hiding in the vent.

I'm predicting that Sam's grounding is lifted a little in tomorrow's strip because Faye finds that Sam accidentally impaled a raccoon with the sword. Faye has a certain dislike towards raccoons hiding in air vents.

Moanerette · « **Reply #173 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:12 »

Faye doesn't have a relationship as such with Jim, does she? Whereas she likes Sam, and I don't think she'd want to let her down by saying "Fun's over" at an unimportant moment. Plus she is doubtless anticipating a rant from Dora once they are alone.

steveh11 · « **Reply #174 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:13 »

OK, it's official: Sam is my favourite character.

Soulsynger · « **Reply #175 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:25 »

"Skullmaster, master of skulls" seems a bit tautologic, doesn't it? °O

Regardless, I still don't get what the big deal is with Sam visiting Faye in the shop. ...
Was she supposed to be somewhere else?
Did she neglect her chores to go there?
Did she not tell Jim that she went?
...
On second thought those are all very plausible and possible reasons. I enlightened myself just now.

westrim · « **Reply #176 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 01:53 »

Quote from: Soulsynger on 20 Dec 2012, 01:25

"Skullmaster, master of skulls" seems a bit tautologic, doesn't it? °O

Skullmaster is one of the employees of our Department of Redundancy Department, part of our effort to make sure that we have a backup of everything necessary for the happiness of our citizens.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #177 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 02:14 »

Any (other) votes for Skull Druj?

Yarin · « **Reply #178 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 02:27 »

sam is my new hero

Method of Madness · « **Reply #179 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 02:50 »

We probably don't see Jim enough for me to say this, but it doesn't seem like him to be so harsh. Come on, dude, she walked down to the coffee shop.

LordVaughn · « **Reply #180 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 03:27 »

I think it's more that she got a sword stuck in the ceiling rather than the fact that she made it to CoD unattended.

percivaltercy · « **Reply #181 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 03:27 »

I don't see why Sam is grounded.
It's not like she took a sword by herself and caused mayhem.
She's been supervised by "an adult". Whether the adult will get written off by her boss or not, that's another issue...
Also, I don't think that Sam challenges her father like this usually. It's probably one of the side effects of being behind a mask, the anonymity and impunity...

Near Lurker · « **Reply #182 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 03:30 »

Quote from: ysth on 20 Dec 2012, 01:01

Could she be drunk? We haven't seen her show up to work snookered, have we?

...yes? Many, many times?

gopher · « **Reply #183 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 03:32 »

The way I read it is she has already been busted previously and off-screen and so was grounded for a week. Breaking this grounding has now extended the punishment to a month.

crazdgamer · « **Reply #184 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 03:58 »

Quote from: Westrim on 20 Dec 2012, 01:53

Quote from: Soulsynger on 20 Dec 2012, 01:25
"Skullmaster, master of skulls" seems a bit tautologic, doesn't it? °O
Skullmaster is one of the employees of our Department of Redundancy Department, part of our effort to make sure that we have a backup of everything necessary for the happiness of our citizens.

Also, not the first time she's used the X, KING OF THE Y format.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #185 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 04:36 »

Quote from: gopher on 20 Dec 2012, 03:32

The way I read it is she has already been busted previously and off-screen and so was grounded for a week. Breaking this grounding has now extended the punishment to a month.

I read it that way as well. And he's remarkably good about the issue. Although I suspect that this will change in the not to distant future.

LittleKing · « **Reply #186 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 05:18 »

How old is Sam supposed to be?

I'd say a kid leaving her house without telling her parent where she was going or that she was leaving at all (which is what I assume happened) IS a big deal. Yes, she only went to a coffee shop, but how was Jim to know that? Dads worry and a lot of bad things could have happened to cause her to disappear like that (from his point of view).

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #187 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 05:36 »

12 or 13, depending on when Jeph is talking.

Not telling her dad where she was is bad, but since the coffee shop is a more or less safe place(*), it doesn't seem like grounds for getting seriously bent out of shape. Of course, it's a coffee shop, so Jim has all the grounds he needs.

Faye has been known to drink at work, on multiple occasions (search for "Emergency Bourbon"), but there were no drunk bubbles and her speech patterns didn't change.

(*) It's run by quasi-adults known to Jim.

techkid · « **Reply #188 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 05:56 »

I'm no dad (thank goodness for that), but I figure it's mostly for not saying where she is until after the fact. Being a smartass doesn't help her cause.

That being said, SKULLMASTER, MASTER OF SKULLS is all-out awesome. I predict that to make Moment of the Week (though it would be hard to say whether it would make Moment of the Epoch, if you want to take the whole Mayan Calendar thing into account...)

SomeCanadianWeirdo · « **Reply #189 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 06:09 »

If we ever see a QC spinoff, it must be a Skullmaster series!

jwhouk · « **Reply #190 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 06:51 »

Hey, where'd Akima go?

(Checks watch)

Oh, yeah, it's the 21st already down in Aussieland.

Overkillengine · « **Reply #191 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 07:04 »

Ah yes, tween rebellion. Jim better have taken his blood pressure meds, he's gonna need them.

DSL · « **Reply #192 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 07:14 »

If Sa -- er, SKULLMASTER, master of SKULLS mixes an Old Fashioned right now, things might be forgiven. But Faye can probably forget about future babysitting money.

~~Schmorgluck~~ · « **Reply #193 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 08:41 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Dec 2012, 05:36

Of course, it's a coffee shop, so Jim has all the grounds he needs.

Did you do that on purpose?

StevenC · « **Reply #194 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 11:59 »

Quote from: Schmorgluck on 20 Dec 2012, 08:41

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Dec 2012, 05:36
Of course, it's a coffee shop, so Jim has all the grounds he needs.
Did you do that on purpose?

He is PUNMASTER, MASTER OF PUNS

slydon · « **Reply #195 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 12:28 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 19 Dec 2012, 06:59

the hidden moderators' forum

The mental image I have of this is terrifying.

Redball · « **Reply #196 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 12:45 »

But how could it not exist?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #197 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 12:53 »

Where else would the hidden mods go to chat?

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #198 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 14:58 »

I wonder if Faye's silence is more to do hearing a father acting like a father, as in, laying down the law, than anything else.

Or maybe she's about to have some flash about her own father.

Or maybe we'll get a witty pun tomorrow concerning the Mayan calender.

~~mustang6172~~ · « **Reply #199 on:** 20 Dec 2012, 17:53 »

There is no Skullmaster only Zuul.

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Poll

And the final MOMENT OF THE WEEK for 2012 would be?

Author Topic: WCDT: 2343-2347 (17-21 December 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (Read 52804 times)

westrim

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