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Over/Under on number of Awkward Zone Initiations This week?

None at all.
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One or two.
- 12 (14.6%)
Three to five.
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Six to eight.
- 6 (7.3%)
Nine or 10.
- 1 (1.2%)
More than 10.
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It depends on how much those involved drink...
- 16 (19.5%)
...and on the amount of Spathe Ham consumed.
- 1 (1.2%)
I dunno, but I don't want to see MartenMom drunk.
- 2 (2.4%)
Nor Claire.
- 8 (9.8%)
10 tons of snow will suddenly fall on the cast, dropping the wedding into darkness.
- 6 (7.3%)
Be realistic: more like 5 tons.
- 6 (7.3%)
There are no waffles because you eat Pancakes on Fat Tuesday, so there. :P
- 4 (4.9%)

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Author Topic: WCDT: 2382-2386 (11-15 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 103353 times)

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You're sure? Cuz Marten!tongue. That or his teeth are super-curvy.
No comprende. His tongue is behind his teeth, why is that a factor?

I think they've already met, actually.  :roll:
Martenmom meets Sven

That's right, I guess I forgot about that. Of course, I try to forget that whole visit.

On the plus side, the attraction has already been noted!

Oh good. At first I thought they meant Clinton.
"They?" No one said it besides me.
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You're sure? Cuz Marten!tongue. That or his teeth are super-curvy.
No comprende. His tongue is behind his teeth, why is that a factor?

Try zooming in; there's a round line inside his mouth that looks to me like his tongue, only not colored in. Now that I'm zoomed in, I see Claire's got the same issue going on.

I could be totally wrong of course. Those could be sketch lines that weren't properly erased or something.
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So the casual sex is not meeting her needs.

This has got to be awkward for Claire.
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You're sure? Cuz Marten!tongue. That or his teeth are super-curvy.
No comprende. His tongue is behind his teeth, why is that a factor?

I think they've already met, actually.  :roll:
Martenmom meets Sven

That's right, I guess I forgot about that. Of course, I try to forget that whole visit.

On the plus side, the attraction has already been noted!

Oh good. At first I thought they meant Clinton.
"They?" No one said it besides me.
And I don't know your gender so I used the neutral they.
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Veronica could check to see if Sven is still single.

Or, well, a world of no.
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So the casual sex is not meeting her needs.

This has got to be awkward for Claire.

Seems like Claire's a bit too busy recovering from the scotch's savage kick.

Veronica could check to see if Sven is still single.

Sure why not, Marten's hasn't been embarrassedhumiliated enough by his mother's antics, seducing one of his friends should be icing on the cake.
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It might be the same drink!
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For me, it's more like the first time Marigold tried hard liquor.
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Try zooming in; there's a round line inside his mouth that looks to me like his tongue, only not colored in. Now that I'm zoomed in, I see Claire's got the same issue going on.
I could be totally wrong of course. Those could be sketch lines that weren't properly erased or something.
Still not seeing it, but that doesn't mean much- mine eye is not great at fine detail.

And I don't know your gender so I used the neutral they.
You know my (user)name.
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Very well spotted, though if I recall correctly, Claire is still doing better than Marigold did. I'm pretty sure the tear ducts got involved.

WELL NOW.
This is interesting.
And I'm calling it now: It's not going to have a resolution. Everybody's just going to have to put on a brave face for the happy couple's sake. Though props to Henry for noticing that something was wrong.

OH HEY, I just noticed when I was confirming that Henry's fiancée's name was Maurice,
Veronica has a habit of getting people's names wrong.

Jeph, if that piece of characterization was intentional, you are crazy good.
(If not, you're just agitated good, or whatever one step down from crazy is. :P )
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Mama Drama is the best/worst drama. 


Then there's Domme Momma Drama. 

Sorry, I just needed to say that. 
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Ok, now we've got to find Veronica a soulmate.
Because no-one should feel like that. In Vino Veritas.

Pintsize is the obvious choice.
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Totally called it. And no amount of literal manhandling is going to make the pain of loneliness any easier for poor Veronica...I really feel bad for her.

That is, until Jimbo comes along and sweeps her off her feet. :psyduck:
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I wonder if she's one of those performers who feels like they are always on stage and can never break character.

Pintsize could keep up with the peanut oil and trout, but she is likely missing an emotional closeness for which he'd be the wrong choice.

Very Weird Thought: why did Ms. Reed think of Claire as a Clarice? Has she perceived a potential hidden talent? The other Clarice is a librarian, after all.

This keeps making more sense: Claire can be completely assertive, and is good at sizing people up (Marten was a great choice to confide in).
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The veneer she's been wearing must've worn pretty thin by now.  One question from her son cracked the whole thing wide open. 
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For comic #2384...

1. I cannot remember the last time I had a drink of such good quality/age which gave me Clare's reaction.  Plenty of bad quality ones, though... :psyduck:

2. I liked panel #3, with Ms. Vance's face.  If you look a bit closer at the bottom of her eyes you can see her straining to maintain her composure before breaking down in panel #4.  Good art detailing there.

3. I look forward to seeing if Marten can rise to the challenge of dealing with his distraught dominatrix mother, given recent times & strips of Marten showing a lot of growth & maturity.
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He's there to support and help his friends, but you know you're grown up when you do that for your parents. 
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Claire could take over the family business.
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Dom-voice? Is that, like, a Bene Gesserit thing?  :-D

The veneer she's been wearing must've worn pretty thin by now.  One question from her son cracked the whole thing wide open.
One question and too much booze. Perhaps she's always been a maudlin drunk?

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One question, too much booze and her ex-husband's wedding.
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I don't know if I feel worse for Veronica, or Marten.

Relationship drama would hit pretty hard by her age (early to mid 40's, would you say?). She probably no longer feels satisfied just sleeping with someone, and wants someone to be with.

It would speak volumes of Marten's own maturity, if he can talk with his own mother through this.
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I can rater see how the whole thing is a wee bit damaging to Ms Reed's sense of self worth:

a.  Start with being a successful model and object of desire;
b.  Add marriage and child, I'm winning in the affirmation of self image here!;
c.  Hey, that partner you thought you had?  Not only is he no longer attracted to you, but he has rejected your whole gender!  (Well, maybe not, but it could have gone down that way - yes I know that desire is not a polar option - I don't have the space for a book here);
d. Hey look!  He's found a stable relationship that he's going to affirm, and all I've got is a series of one offs to affirm (for now) that I'm still attractive, but there's that void;
e.  Dammit! Scotch doesn't fill the void!

This one is going to be another interesting arc.
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For me, it's more like the first time Marigold tried hard liquor.

The vast chasm between "hard liquor" and "scotch that's older than you are."

Claire's reactions are hilarious, btw.
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I can rater see how the whole thing is a wee bit damaging to Ms Reed's sense of self worth:

a.  Start with being a successful model and object of desire;
b.  Add marriage and child, I'm winning in the affirmation of self image here!;
c.  Hey, that partner you thought you had?  Not only is he no longer attracted to you, but he has rejected your whole gender!  (Well, maybe not, but it could have gone down that way - yes I know that desire is not a polar option - I don't have the space for a book here);
d. Hey look!  He's found a stable relationship that he's going to affirm, and all I've got is a series of one offs to affirm (for now) that I'm still attractive, but there's that void;
e.  Dammit! Scotch doesn't fill the void!

This one is going to be another interesting arc.
That would give the whole "hey, isn't he a catch" line of conversation in her initial encounter with Claire an added dimension.  (And it does not even have to include the "gender rejection" part at all, specially for someone involved in nonconventional sexual expression anyway; just the sense that "what I bring is not what everyone wants".)

Henry recognized earlier than Marten that something was not quite right; casual observers thought she was being just her usual "I'm the one in control, do what i say" self when it was more of an "I'm trying hard to maintain and using the tools I know how to use".  When she earlier did the "I'll be at the bar" bit it was noticeable she was a bit off kilter... and we find her solidly parked at the bar by herself before and after dinner.  When she reflexively used the weirding voice against an innocent third party was when Marten felt he needed to follow up further.
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Hm... there there, Veronica. What about Sven? Is that still an option?

And btw. does anybody know Veronica's last name? Even the wiki lists her as a "Reed" but that was only Henry's last name... right? Right?!
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She may not have bothered to change it back to her maiden name after the divorce.

Especially given the circumstances.
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Why does everone bring up Sven? I can't imagine Veronica needs another boytoy, and certainly not that she'll find true love and everlasting happiness with young Mr. Bianchi...
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Raise your hand if you saw something like this coming.





(Boy, that's a lot of raised hands...)
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Maybe Vance was her maiden name and she kept it as her nom de guerre for professional reasons after her marriage?
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I can't shake the feeling that Henry was a bit cruel to set Marten up for having to handle his mother's breakdown...
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Hm... there there, Veronica. What about Sven? Is that still an option?

And btw. does anybody know Veronica's last name? Even the wiki lists her as a "Reed" but that was only Henry's last name... right? Right?!

This post is quite ironic, considering the comic posted therein.
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I am the only one to think of Jim as a good match to Ms. Reed? I'm pretty sure that a professional dominatrix would like to have an assertive older man back at home... were it only to take a break from work :)
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I can't shake the feeling that Henry was a bit cruel to set Marten up for having to handle his mother's breakdown...

I don't think it's cruel. The man has known her longer than Marten has been alive and seems as sensitive to the moods and needs of others as his son. He's aware something's wrong, but he's aware enough to know that she probably doesn't want to admit it to him. He took the measure he could take, which was send their son, a person they both love and trust, to be there for her, just in case.

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What actually scares me is, in doing the numbers, I'm only a couple of years younger than either Henry or Veronica.  :psyduck:

I'd prefer not to ship Ms. Vance. I'd feel too cougar-y about it.
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Uhm, question?

When exactly did Jeph start drawing the strip?
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I wasn't objecting about down, I was objecting to the lack of the word "to". They say "I'm going down the shore", rather than "down to the shore" and it just sounds wrong.

I'm from Suburbian Philadelphia, I remember growing up, when speaking about going into the City, that it was always "Going Downtown". As far as where we went in the summer, it was "Downa Shore". And you could tell where folks were from in the Philly area by what Shore town that they would stay at...
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Stencil.

Think drill sergeant.



Drill Sergeant voices are more about giving orders to people in confused states.  A dom voice should be authoritative but not overwhelming.  This looks like a job for Times New Roman!
Bolded, of course.
A 'Command voice', such as used by LEO's and NCO's, should have tones that allow no option of refusial, in a Dom/Sub relationship, it is a voluntary obedience and exchange of power within the scene that allows it to be effective. Claire's reaction to it is rather telling about her personality...
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When exactly did Jeph start drawing the strip?

2003, I think.

Edit:
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Single malt Scotch often has that effect on me too.

Not Claire's reaction. Martin's mom's reaction.
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Awkward Zone Initiated.

Let's hope Marten can help her through it.   I think people are on track with Henry sending Marten after her... she obviously wouldn't open to him considering the circumstances.   

I'm quite curious to see what becomes of this.

EDIT:  Marten's face screams "MOTHER OF GOD WHAT HAS JUST HAPPENED."  Then again, considering what he knows of his mother, this likely isn't something that normally happens or that he's ever seen.
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Yeah when mom's a dominatrix you usually don't see her in the light of being weak or vulnerable in any way shape or form.

Oddly this is what happens to me on vodka mixed with self loathing as opposed to 21+ year old whiskey. I've been there Ms. Reed! Have another drink and push through it!
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I am the only one to think of Jim as a good match to Ms. Reed? I'm pretty sure that a professional dominatrix would like to have an assertive older man back at home... were it only to take a break from work :)
Older than her usual, perhaps, but still a good decade or so younger than Veronica, so I'm not sure "older man" really fits. :roll:
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I don't think Petula Clark was ever heard to sing about "uptown."

That's because she wasn't an uptown girl
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I'm not sure if it has been discussed already, but I can't decide if it's nice or cold of Henry to invite his ex-wife to his wedding. Is that common?
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I'm not sure if it has been discussed already, but I can't decide if it's nice or cold of Henry to invite his ex-wife to his wedding. Is that common?
It depends on their relationship. Everything we've been told indicates that they are good friends.
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Aw, Ms. Reed's face in the third panel.
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I believe Veronica used force asphyxiate on Claire.

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Totally called it. And no amount of literal manhandling is going to make the pain of loneliness any easier for poor Veronica...I really feel bad for her.

That is, until Jimbo comes along and sweeps her off her feet. :psyduck:

yes, Jimbo. There is no other option. 
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There is always another option...

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