Topic: WCDT Strips 3211 to 3215 (2nd to 6th May 2016) (Read 55461 times)

BenRG · « **on:** 01 May 2016, 13:07 »

Okay, I thought: "So, why not?" I've got a feeling that Bar Lady is going to have some coming screen time so I think that what happens next with Clinton. I know a few of those options look silly; option 4, for example extending from the suggestion made that Bar Lady may be Sam's mother.

Personally, I voted option 8. I've just got a feeling that he just needs someone to verbally slap him upside his head. The date with Emily shows that he can be unexpectedly spontaneous under the right circumstances. Who knows just how he may take her attempt to get him to stop telling her his troubles? "Do something instead of bitch about it!" for example could have an unpredictable outcome!

BTW, Wednesday is Star Wars day!

TinPenguin · « **Reply #1 on:** 01 May 2016, 14:14 »

I wanted to point out something that I don't think came up at all last week: Clinton and Emily's encounter in the park (their 'second date') was also set up by Claire. That time Marten was involved too. That time it all went to plan, and no fuck offs were to be had, in comic or forum. But I wonder if that's why Clinton was so quick to turn on Claire when he realised she was setting him up - because it clicked that this wasn't the first time she'd tried to manipulate his lovelife.

Rghfrgl · « **Reply #2 on:** 01 May 2016, 17:21 »

Supposed 'filler, but canon' strip tonight.

I'm hoping we go back to the cuddlebugs cuddlebugging.

RyanW1019 · « **Reply #3 on:** 01 May 2016, 17:45 »

I expect Clinton to have 1 beer, get extremely tipsy off it, and give the bartender his whole sob story. Whether she sympathizes with him and gives him helpful advice or just continues to regard him with disgust is still up in the air, but I am leaning towards the latter. Jeph loves a good downward spiral story, and I feel like Clinton's night is going to get worse before it gets better.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #4 on:** 01 May 2016, 18:27 »

Prediction: A two panel comic. The first panel sees Clinton downing a beer, the second sees Clinton in full French Foreign Legion uniform, having signed up while drunk. Off one beer.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #5 on:** 01 May 2016, 20:04 »

Hopefully the bartender is less of a terrible person in tonight's comic.

cesium133 · « **Reply #6 on:** 01 May 2016, 21:37 »

Poor Barry.

celticgeek · « **Reply #7 on:** 01 May 2016, 21:46 »

Poor Dolphin Jack.

danuis · « **Reply #8 on:** 01 May 2016, 21:49 »

Bartender? More like dreamkiller. Ayyyy.

Undrneath · « **Reply #9 on:** 01 May 2016, 22:26 »

But, why is the rum gone?

Channelore HellicottAtham · « **Reply #10 on:** 01 May 2016, 23:09 »

Barry "Dolphin ~~Jerk~~ Jack" lost his wispy goatee in the final panel, and kind of looks like a deranged Hanners..

Timemaster · « **Reply #11 on:** 01 May 2016, 23:19 »

Poor dolphin....

TM

BenRG · « **Reply #12 on:** 02 May 2016, 00:09 »

This is why it's a bad idea to talk to complete strangers in bars. The probability of them being a crazy person is just too high, statistically speaking! There are those that would call this filler but I have no problem imagining that this really did happen to Clinton that night!

Meanwhile, in the park, Bubbles is learning that an AI's ability to determine perceptional shape patterns (what humans call 'that looks like a...') doesn't in any way prepare her for Faye's very, very odd imagination. She never realised that so many clouds looked like human erogenous zones! She'll be glad when Faye gets back to talking about her personality problems at this rate!

TinPenguin · « **Reply #13 on:** 02 May 2016, 00:18 »

Quote from: BenRG on 02 May 2016, 00:09

This is why it's a bad idea to talk to complete strangers in bars. The probability of them being a crazy person is just too high, statistically speaking!

That's why it is the BEST idea.

mad hands murphy · « **Reply #14 on:** 02 May 2016, 00:18 »

keep drawing the comic like this

oeoek · « **Reply #15 on:** 02 May 2016, 00:37 »

'chu chug chug' Oh yeah, this is going to end well... After seeing the comic, I could only vote for the drunk tank. Especially because this is not the kind of bar where the usual barfly's would take kindly to watered-down beer.

zmeiat_joro · « **Reply #16 on:** 02 May 2016, 03:52 »

Steve Buscemi cameo!

BlueFatima · « **Reply #17 on:** 02 May 2016, 06:10 »

Hahahaha! Look at Clinton go. The question is will he stop at one?

I like the hand-drawn look.

Case · « **Reply #18 on:** 02 May 2016, 06:18 »

Soooooh, dolphins it is today?

I think I'll come back tomorrow ...

cesium133 · « **Reply #19 on:** 02 May 2016, 06:34 »

Quote from: Channelore HellicottAtham on 01 May 2016, 23:09

Barry "Dolphin ~~Jerk~~ Jack" lost his wispy goatee in the final panel, and kind of looks like a deranged Hanners..

He's Hanners' long-lost brother.

(Of course there's a reason he's long-lost...)

chaospersonified · « **Reply #20 on:** 02 May 2016, 07:42 »

Well. This is an unexpected development.

Morituri · « **Reply #21 on:** 02 May 2016, 10:37 »

Every so often, in dark corners of the Internet, one sees points where woo-woo "swim with the dolphins" stuff tips over that extra jar of creepy and starts to be about "how to have sex with dolphins."

And on the equally rare but somehow less-twisted corners of the Internet devoted to ocean swimming and surfing, there are occasional threads about "How to NOT have sex with dolphins," which is something of a greater challenge.

Perverted little bastards.

Kugai · « **Reply #22 on:** 02 May 2016, 14:49 »

At least he hasn't tried to jump a Shark.

cesium133 · « **Reply #23 on:** 02 May 2016, 15:42 »

You know... if you were an aquarium employee tasked with acquiring semen for artificial insemination of dolphins, this could be the best and worst icebreaker story ever.

DSL · « **Reply #24 on:** 02 May 2016, 15:42 »

An amusement park that once loomed large in my life used to have a dolphin show. One summer they tried to disguise it as educational and titled it "DolFUNatomy." I now wonder at the level of snrk behind the scenes.

Akima · « **Reply #25 on:** 02 May 2016, 16:20 »

Quote from: Morituri on 02 May 2016, 10:37

And on the equally rare but somehow less-twisted corners of the Internet devoted to ocean swimming and surfing, there are occasional threads about "How to NOT have sex with dolphins," which is something of a greater challenge.

It's the wet-suits... I mean, how would you react to an alien species entering your world wearing fetish gear.

DonInKansas · « **Reply #26 on:** 02 May 2016, 16:53 »

Quote from: cesium133 on 02 May 2016, 15:42

You know... if you were an aquarium employee tasked with acquiring semen for artificial insemination of dolphins, this could be the best and worst icebreaker story ever.

Your statement totally reminded me of this scene in Clerks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3zXJ7biqI

Case · « **Reply #27 on:** 02 May 2016, 17:01 »

Quote from: Akima on 02 May 2016, 16:20

Quote from: Morituri on 02 May 2016, 10:37
And on the equally rare but somehow less-twisted corners of the Internet devoted to ocean swimming and surfing, there are occasional threads about "How to NOT have sex with dolphins," which is something of a greater challenge.
It's the wet-suits... I mean, how would you react to an alien species entering your world wearing fetish gear.

Ummmmh, honestly? I'd start with the usual "count the number of limbs and divide by two" - and if the result is not a positive integer, I'd be very sceptic ...

Then and again, I'm not Charles 'Trip' Tucker the Third

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Sub-Commander T'Pol: I've run a check through the Starfleet database. You might be pleased to know that this is the first recorded incident of a Human male becoming pregnant.
Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III: Just how I always wanted to get into the history books.

Morituri · « **Reply #28 on:** 02 May 2016, 17:04 »

Quote from: Akima on 02 May 2016, 16:20

Quote from: Morituri on 02 May 2016, 10:37
And on the equally rare but somehow less-twisted corners of the Internet devoted to ocean swimming and surfing, there are occasional threads about "How to NOT have sex with dolphins," which is something of a greater challenge.
It's the wet-suits... I mean, how would you react to an alien species entering your world wearing fetish gear.

No, see, that wet suit is a fine example of something that is GOOD for avoiding sex with dolphins - relevant parts of the anatomy are well covered. It's the people who go into the water with flimsy cloth bathing suits or loose "jam" type shorts that have the traumatic experiences with dolphins.

Radium_Coyote · « **Reply #29 on:** 02 May 2016, 19:59 »

That is a very EFFECTIVE barkeep. I like her already.

celticgeek · « **Reply #30 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:04 »

Might be the most effective bouncer I've ever seen. Maybe even better than Elliot.

blt · « **Reply #31 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:16 »

I have to assume that we're going in a direction where Clinton getting drunk is played for laughs, rather than concluding this arc with some serious character development between him and his sister or an emotional downward spiral.

Like I was afraid initially that this was going along the lines of "Clinton gets drunk and has serious confrontation", but getting him drunk is so ham handed and forced it can only be for funnies now. Right?

Eversist · « **Reply #32 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:18 »

Because I love little tiny background shit, I want to point out the tiny gag on the poster in the backgrounds of panels 1 and 6. Jeph is the best.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #33 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:29 »

I'm so confused. I see the one that he claims to have replaced it with in Patreon, but the main site is still showing the shotgun version he said he replaced. Are people seeing harpoon or shotgun?

Leveton · « **Reply #34 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:31 »

That sure looks like a shotgun to me. Pump-action, tubular magazine. A surprisingly well-drawn shotgun, actually, even if it has a very short barrel.

RyanW1019 · « **Reply #35 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:42 »

Sucks to be Clinton right now. This entire day has reinforced to him that he doesn't have control over his life. Whether it's deciding whether or not to ask Emily out, what drink he gets at a bar, whether he's allowed to not drink his beer, even whether he can leave, other people are overriding what he wants and making his choices for him.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #36 on:** 02 May 2016, 20:51 »

It's really weird, because I've seen two different versions and the last two panels are really different in the two of them. (The fourth panel is the same in both, just with different weapons)

mad hands murphy · « **Reply #37 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:00 »

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angry young white men ARE quite dangerous

let's not give angry middle aged white men too much of a pass here or anything.

lawoot · « **Reply #38 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:08 »

I had the shotgun.

Random Wanderer · « **Reply #39 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:09 »

...No, that's definitely still a shotgun. Unless it got changed from a shotgun to another shotgun.

jheartney · « **Reply #40 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:30 »

Quote from: celticgeek on 02 May 2016, 20:04

Might be the most effective bouncer I've ever seen. Maybe even better than Elliot.

Possibly, but it's not convincing me based on intimidating a nebbish like Clinton. Especially if she has to pull out a firearm to do it.

A decent lawyer could get the place's liquor license pulled based on staff threatening unarmed patrons with a shotgun.

Akima · « **Reply #41 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:48 »

I'm still seeing a sawn-off-looking shotgun. It would be a short-cut

to an unfriendly conversation with the po-po here.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #42 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:51 »

Pulling a shotgun (a sawed off shotgun at that) on someone who's only crime is frowning into his drink. Hope that bartender has a good lawyer. Especially since that shotgun's barrel, while it's hard to tell without something to accurately scale to, looks at best 18 inches on the dot or possibly shorter.

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angry young men ARE quite dangerous

Fixed.

Dicrostonyx · « **Reply #43 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:51 »

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A decent lawyer could get the place's liquor license pulled based on staff threatening unarmed patrons with a shotgun.

In a universe where an independent AI with what seems to be PTSD is allowed to keep her combat chassis in civilian life, it's very possible the bar could lose their liquor license for not having weapons. If tea causes electronic hallucinations, what do bars serve AIs?

Mmeaninglessnamee · « **Reply #44 on:** 02 May 2016, 21:53 »

Comic 3211 (monday) has become the same as comic 3212 (the shotgun one) except in 3211 she's holding a harpoon. The hand drawn one is now missing.

As for pulling weapons on someone, it seems common in QC-verse, as the same has occurred at Coffee of Doom

Dust · « **Reply #45 on:** 02 May 2016, 22:12 »

Nautical theme, eh? So the "no water" policy is just an oblique reference to Coleridge. (Only seeing two harpoon strips, fwiw.)

Mordhaus · « **Reply #46 on:** 02 May 2016, 22:14 »

vodyanoi · « **Reply #47 on:** 02 May 2016, 22:18 »

This strip has some very amusing racism.

BenRG · « **Reply #48 on:** 02 May 2016, 23:19 »

There seems to be a pattern emerging here of female counter staff in drinking establishments preemptively threatening potentially-disruptive customers with melee weapons. Is this a 'Northampton' thing that I should be aware of before visiting the town?

This entire arc is giving me the taste of a Jack Nicholson film called Anger Management. I find myself wondering just how bizarre a journey upon which Clinton is about to depart due to Bar Lady's bad attitude towards him!

neurocase · « **Reply #49 on:** 02 May 2016, 23:30 »

Wow. I've strongly disliked characters in this strip; even come close to hating them. This is the first time I have actively detested a character. Really hope Bar Lady's presence in QC is incredibly short lived.

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