Topic: WCDT Strips 3141 to 3145 (25 - 29 January 2016) (Read 43550 times)

BenRG · « **on:** 24 Jan 2016, 12:26 »

So, as I think everyone is expecting that Faye will return to CoD to see if she can suture old wounds some time this week...

Oddly enough, even though I can see it happening and suggested it might be good for both of them some time ago, I'd actually prefer there not to be too much of a Dora/Faye angsty conversation, at least not as the first thing that happens when Faye arrives. It would be a lot more interesting for Faye to be our PoV for learning what's happened during the time skip. Dora can accompany her and offer some measure of commentary. Faye can talk to her about their own problems at the end of the mini-arc.

Kugai · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 13:42 »

It will probably be awkward at first.

electromgneticDstroyosaur · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 17:29 »

Imagine if Dora's not in today

Kugai · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 17:41 »

Or just after she reestablishes her connections with the others and is chatting friendly like with them Dora walks in.

And it's the last Panel in Fridays comic

DSL · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 17:57 »

Quote from: electromgneticDstroyosaur on 24 Jan 2016, 17:29

Imagine if Dora's not in today

Is that sack still around?

Gladstone · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 18:09 »

Quote from: DSL on 24 Jan 2016, 17:57

Quote from: electromgneticDstroyosaur on 24 Jan 2016, 17:29
Imagine if Dora's not in today

Is that sack still around?

Pretty sure Marten is still the main character, yeah.

comicalArchitect · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 18:49 »

I really doubt Dora would let Penelope ban Faye from the store.

cesium133 · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 18:52 »

I could see Penelope, seeing Faye and fearing she had come back for her old job, diving behind the counter in fear...

Zebediah · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 19:23 »

Comic's up.

Bubbles: "Why are you strangling my friend?"

SomeCanadianWeirdo · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 19:26 »

I'm sure Bubbles has onboard sensors that can determine if strangling force is being deployed or not.

electromgneticDstroyosaur · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 19:27 »

Dora: "She was my friend first."

CaptainFish · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 19:33 »

D'aww.

Good choice dropping the (probably perfunctory) text.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #12 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 19:38 »

Hmmm. Well, I can't really tell with out any text, but I think maybe Dora is glad to see Faye again.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:05 »

I agree that dropping the text was a good idea, and I feel kinda bad about only voting after the fact, but you know what? Thus far, it's only two people in the hug, and though that is, in a technical-sense, multiple people, I am aware that definition goes against the intention of the phrase. However, should there be more hugs tomorrow, or in the next few days, whilst we're still in the coffee shop, then I will consider myself right.

CaptainFish · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:08 »

All the humans hug and then Bubbles hugs that hug and goes around to all the places in town where their friends are rolling up more of them in a hug.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:15 »

Quote from: CaptainFish on 24 Jan 2016, 20:08

All the humans hug and then Bubbles hugs that hug and goes around to all the places in town where their friends are rolling up more of them in a hug.

Katamari Damacy-style?

CaptainFish · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:18 »

Quote from: chaospersonified on 24 Jan 2016, 20:15

Quote from: CaptainFish on 24 Jan 2016, 20:08
All the humans hug and then Bubbles hugs that hug and goes around to all the places in town where their friends are rolling up more of them in a hug.

Katamari Damacy-style?

You know it!

hedgie · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:35 »

Quote from: CaptainFish on 24 Jan 2016, 20:08

All the humans hug

You forget that Hanners is there. Hugging Hannelore Heralds Heavy Hyperventilating.

Squiddlywinx · « **Reply #18 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:35 »

No text title too?

Penquin47 · « **Reply #19 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:42 »

Has Dora always been that much taller than Faye?

I imagine the words were probably along the lines of "Faye!" "Uh, hi..." "Welcome back." Nothing we're missing in there.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:49 »

Quote from: hedgie on 24 Jan 2016, 20:35

Quote from: CaptainFish on 24 Jan 2016, 20:08
All the humans hug
You forget that Hanners is there. Hugging Hannelore Heralds Heavy Hyperventilating.

She's worked on it since that simple alliteration, and at least a few of her accomplishments have been shown in comic. Who knows where she's at now, with the time skip!

That said, all the humans, held together by Bubbles and rolling around town, picking people up, my god, if there's anyone out there who wouldn't start panicking, then I tell you, that person is not human.

Truec · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:50 »

I can only imagine Dora's thoughts when that door opened up.

"Oh God Faye joined the Robot Mafia and brought one of their goons with her to make me an offer I can't refuse!"

chaospersonified · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 20:52 »

Quote from: Truec on 24 Jan 2016, 20:50

I can only imagine Dora's thoughts when that door opened up.

"Oh God Faye joined the Robot Mafia and brought one of their goons with her to make me an offer I can't refuse!"

That is not a case where you hug the person.

That is how you get dismembered by the robot mafia, taken out in a manner similar to the regular mafia. Difference is you get to sleep with the deep-sea diving AI. The fish are scared of the deep-sea diving AI.

St.Clair · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 21:06 »

Good call, Jeph.

neurocase · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 21:48 »

Yes, aw, aw, Dora and Faye, whatever. We're missing the important thing here.

FLOOFY POOFY HANNERS-HAIR

hedgie · « **Reply #25 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 22:27 »

Quote from: chaospersonified on 24 Jan 2016, 20:49

She's worked on it since that simple alliteration, and at least a few of her accomplishments have been shown in comic. Who knows where she's at now, with the time skip!

Time skip aside, as recently as strip 2597, she started panicking when hugged by Momo, and didn't calm down until reminded that she was a robot. All other canon instances of Hanners hugging without serious anxiety were when she had time to mentally prepare herself first. This is true in my own experience as well, albeit to a lesser degree.

neurocase · « **Reply #26 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 22:45 »

Quote from: hedgie on 24 Jan 2016, 22:27

All other canon instances of Hanners hugging without serious anxiety were when she had time to mentally prepare herself first.

Untrue.

Somebody · « **Reply #27 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 22:57 »

Is it just me, or does Dora look much more like herself than in her other post-timeskip appearance? She looked weird last time out.

Also... why is Hanners pulling her hair back when out walking in the cold, but not in a food/drink service job?

Quote from: Squiddlywinx on 24 Jan 2016, 20:35

No text title too?

What's happened is that he's dropped the entire text layer. (Apparently, he does both the title & copyright lines on the same layer as speech balloons. And didn't remember to fix before uploading.)

Per the archive page, the title is "Quiet".

TinPenguin · « **Reply #28 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 23:00 »

Quote from: neurocase on 24 Jan 2016, 22:45

Quote from: hedgie on 24 Jan 2016, 22:27
All other canon instances of Hanners hugging without serious anxiety were when she had time to mentally prepare herself first.

Untrue.

In that case, she was mentally prepared by being very, very happy.

Penquin47 · « **Reply #29 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 23:08 »

And also the one initiating the hug. I would think that would make a difference.

Radium_Coyote · « **Reply #30 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 23:09 »

Good call indeed. One of those instances where words would hinder rather than help.

BenRG · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 23:29 »

So, yeah, I'm thinking that Dora missed Faye. She missed her a lot. So much, in fact, that it hurts.

I'm wondering if Faye's grimace is due to surprise at the sudden hug, Dora hanging on too tight or the fact that she never really believed that Dora felt like this about her; that anyone would do so.

P.S.: Looks like Hanners still has mad random hair, rather than a new 'do. She's just let it grow out a lot.

wlewisiii · « **Reply #32 on:** 24 Jan 2016, 23:48 »

So.

That was obviously not the response that she'd expected from Dora. Prepped for catching grief that wasn't there. Yet not really ready for anything else. Rather almost like Hanners getting an unexpected hug from her body language. Coupled with the text layer being left off, that's really quite subtle for our fearless author.

Thank you, sir.

oeoek · « **Reply #33 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 00:00 »

I expect others to join into the hug one by one at their own time. And it will only start to become tearful once Bubbles joins in...

wlewisiii · « **Reply #34 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 00:10 »

They really are almost as cute a couple as Marten and Claire, aren't they?

And yet I have another thought.

What will Bubbles think of such an utterly without remorse acceptance of Faye by Dora? Terribly Christian and terribly unrealistic. Human's have a bad habit of holding really stupid grudges after all. Yet, once in a while? By now she (Bubbles that is) will know the story or she would not have gone as "moral support" if she didn't. Yet it's pretty obvious that Faye doesn't know a similar level of depth to Bubbles. What will it take to break her ice? I'm not sure us human's have such a vessel, yet if anything ever does, today's strip is a heck of a start. I doubt Jep will ever go into any real depth - he already handles this better than 99.999999999999999% of non-vets do - yet crossing that bridge, well, let's just say that would probably be his Arnhem...

Hmm...

USS Martenclaire · « **Reply #35 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 00:37 »

"...can't....breathe...."

BenRG · « **Reply #36 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 02:01 »

My suggested text:
PANEL 2
DORA: "F... Faye?"

PANEL 3
FAYE: "Um... Hey, Spooky... I mean Dora... I mean..."

PANEL 4
FAYE: "Dora... Please... Please say something!"

PANEL 5
CAPTION: "SIS-HUG!"

Schwungrad · « **Reply #37 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 02:24 »

Considering what words were exchanged the last time they hugged this way...

MrWoodchip · « **Reply #38 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 04:22 »

I was thinking about how, to me, this seemed like an excessive display of friendship, then I remembered that Dora has known Faye, as her boss, and presumably her friend for longer than the rest of the whole cast (minus Faye's family). I know if I hadn't seen or heard anything from an old friend for months, even parting on bad terms, this would be my immediate response the next time I did.

Maybe this is obvious, I don't do empathy good.

Lubricus · « **Reply #39 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 04:48 »

Quote from: MrWoodchip on 25 Jan 2016, 04:22

Dora has known Faye, as her boss, and presumably her friend for longer than the rest of the whole cast (minus Faye's family).

And Raven. Then again, she might not be considered a member of the cast anymore.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #40 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 04:59 »

"excessive display of friendship"

What does that even mean?

osaka · « **Reply #41 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 05:07 »

Off-topic: CoD's front door is huge. The average door I've seen wouldn't let anybody over 6'6" casually cross without at least getting their head down, yet it doesn't look like Bubbles is doing that.

Obviously this means nothing, but it's something I didn't expect.

neurocase · « **Reply #42 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 05:19 »

Quote from: osaka on 25 Jan 2016, 05:07

Off-topic: CoD's front door is huge. The average door I've seen wouldn't let anybody over 6'6" casually cross without at least getting their head down, yet it doesn't look like Bubbles is doing that.

Obviously this means nothing, but it's something I didn't expect.

My money is on Inspector Gadget legs.

Technoir · « **Reply #43 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 05:33 »

ok, not gonna lie. i'm a grown-ass man, and i seriously got a little misty eyed at the reunion panel.

I really need to see wtf is in my medication...i didn't used to be a weepy biatch.

Zebediah · « **Reply #44 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 06:21 »

Quote from: osaka on 25 Jan 2016, 05:07

Off-topic: CoD's front door is huge. The average door I've seen wouldn't let anybody over 6'6" casually cross without at least getting their head down, yet it doesn't look like Bubbles is doing that.

Obviously this means nothing, but it's something I didn't expect.

I'm 6'4", so I'm quite used to watching my head in doorways. That being said, 7' is a pretty typical door frame height. Bubbles looks like she needs to duck her head a bit to get through, but not too much.

Schwungrad · « **Reply #45 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 07:31 »

Most people instinctively duck, even if there's still a few inches of headway. Bubbles not doing that would fit her character, I think.

Mad Cat · « **Reply #46 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 07:32 »

[sings]Boris the hugger! twawawawaawa Boris the hugger! twawawawawawa [/sings]

Zebediah · « **Reply #47 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 07:41 »

Quote from: Schwungrad on 25 Jan 2016, 07:31

Most people instinctively duck, even if there's still a few inches of headway. Bubbles not doing that would fit her character, I think.

Yeah, Bubbles would quite calmly rip the door from its hinges, punch a hole in the top of the door frame large enough to accommodate her head, and then tell the owner of the place "You need to fix your door. It's broken."

Cattus · « **Reply #48 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 09:26 »

Quote from: Schwungrad on 25 Jan 2016, 07:31

Most people instinctively duck, even if there's still a few inches of headway. Bubbles not doing that would fit her character, I think.

I would think that an android or sentient robot would be able to size up the doorway precisely prior to passing through and would know to the mm. how much clearance it had, both vertically and horizontally.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #49 on:** 25 Jan 2016, 09:45 »

After years of having their door mantles smashed by overly tall androids walking into them, most business owners have opted for the oversized doors...

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