Didn't someone call this in the last thread? That Claire is barely in the comic and that Jeph was most likely going to write her out by her going to a job in a different state.
Jeph had to tell his twitter followers that he wasn't ending or about to end the comic so it seems more like Marten and Claire are moving. A break-up would cause conflict and we can't have that.
My money's on a long-distance relationship, that gets rid of Claire with minimal trouble. Unless he also wants to take the opportunity to get rid of Marten because he's a "straight" (not really) white male.
Seems the thing to do is to get rid of both. A lot of anons have joked that Marten is no longer the main character of the comic, there's really no reason for him to be around anymore.
Jeph finally gets to write Marten out of his comic. It's obvious he's hated the character for years. Then it can be the troony/robot/gay show with no evil straight white males left
Didn't Jeph already do the whole "will they move away drama?" >Angus leaves for another city >Will Faye go with him? >Hanners leaves the city to go find herself >Back within a week of QC time
The interesting thing would be a new ongoing sketch at NOT-SNL where Angus writes that's shitting on the QC cast and them getting huffy at their own caricatures. The ideal way to end it would be: >"He's making fun of us on TV every week!" >"...wait you're calling to admit you're SadBoi and...wait YOU'RE FRICKING REAL? AND YOU'RE ADMITTING THIS? JESUS CHRIST."
Looking at the expression before reading the dialogue I thought Claire was going to change the subject because she wasn't happy anymore. The problem with the moving angle is this is the THIRD time he's done it.
>The problem with the moving angle is this is the THIRD time he's done it.
It's a subject that comes up fairly frequently in real life for people who belong to the demographic these characters are based on.
Yeah, but he's treating it like a new and exciting plotline rather than having somebody go, "look, we know people who have done this and our relationships with them haven't fundamentally changed, it's no big deal"
In fact, his exact words were "it's about to get wild," which isn't the first word that comes to mind when talking about a story that is being redone for the third time
>he's treating it like a new and exciting plotline
Is he? There's two panels devoted to it so far. It would be appropriate for this conversation to wrap up next comic, and then a second conversation to happen between Claire and Marten about it, then some resolution where Claire finds out that she's not getting the job anyway or decides against moving. I think it's certainly too early to say that he's treating it like a "new and exciting plotline", but this is a slice of life comic after all.
He's out of shit to say with these characters so he's going to move Marten and Claire to Canada where they can meet a whole new cast of gender queer non binary persons and robots with anxiety, and just keep introducing new ones to see which ones his audience resonates with, at which point they become the new main characters for a while
I think it's far more like Claire (and potential Marten) are written out entirely and the perspective stays in Northampton than having it move to an entirely new town. Marten's arc is ideally that he grows a bit of a spine and defends a life that he's comfortable with, and Claire's arc is that she burns every bridge she's ever had until she realizes she's a selfish and manipulative b***h and turns it around. Those arcs don't really intersect.
Marten may as well move to Canada seeing how he is practically out of the comic. Jeph moved there years ago years ago, probably some tax thing.
Didn't someone call this in the last thread? That Claire is barely in the comic and that Jeph was most likely going to write her out by her going to a job in a different state.
>call this
Is it really “calling it” if that was where the author got the idea in the first place?
Pretty sure the thread was keying off a prior incident when Claire brought up this kind of thing as a possibility.
Could that be the reason he got rid of her nose ring?
I am unfortunately two for two on saying Claire would pull an Angus and that Marigold and Aurelia would have a meet/cute in the coffeeshop by accident
that red headed monster wants to isolate him from his friends and family so he won't dare to ask for help. TERRIBLE.
Marten can handle a hockey puck. No warmup necessary.
>Ukraine flag
gay.
FSB, who let you through the firewall?
Post flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.
Here you are
So Marten's breaking up with Claire now. He'll find someone, Faye and bubbles have a split, AND SO ON AND SO ON
Jeph had to tell his twitter followers that he wasn't ending or about to end the comic so it seems more like Marten and Claire are moving. A break-up would cause conflict and we can't have that.
My money's on a long-distance relationship, that gets rid of Claire with minimal trouble. Unless he also wants to take the opportunity to get rid of Marten because he's a "straight" (not really) white male.
Seems the thing to do is to get rid of both. A lot of anons have joked that Marten is no longer the main character of the comic, there's really no reason for him to be around anymore.
It's really incredible that this still gets threads over a decade after it started
I came to the party when Martin fricked the shemale. Did this comic get daily threads here before that?
Almost 2 decades.
Jeph finally gets to write Marten out of his comic. It's obvious he's hated the character for years. Then it can be the troony/robot/gay show with no evil straight white males left
Marten hasn’t been a straight White male since 2011
he hated marten after claire became his self insert
Didn't Jeph already do the whole "will they move away drama?"
>Angus leaves for another city
>Will Faye go with him?
>Hanners leaves the city to go find herself
>Back within a week of QC time
The interesting thing would be a new ongoing sketch at NOT-SNL where Angus writes that's shitting on the QC cast and them getting huffy at their own caricatures. The ideal way to end it would be:
>"He's making fun of us on TV every week!"
>"...wait you're calling to admit you're SadBoi and...wait YOU'RE FRICKING REAL? AND YOU'RE ADMITTING THIS? JESUS CHRIST."
Looking at the expression before reading the dialogue I thought Claire was going to change the subject because she wasn't happy anymore. The problem with the moving angle is this is the THIRD time he's done it.
>The problem with the moving angle is this is the THIRD time he's done it.
It's a subject that comes up fairly frequently in real life for people who belong to the demographic these characters are based on.
Yeah, but he's treating it like a new and exciting plotline rather than having somebody go, "look, we know people who have done this and our relationships with them haven't fundamentally changed, it's no big deal"
In fact, his exact words were "it's about to get wild," which isn't the first word that comes to mind when talking about a story that is being redone for the third time
>he's treating it like a new and exciting plotline
Is he? There's two panels devoted to it so far. It would be appropriate for this conversation to wrap up next comic, and then a second conversation to happen between Claire and Marten about it, then some resolution where Claire finds out that she's not getting the job anyway or decides against moving. I think it's certainly too early to say that he's treating it like a "new and exciting plotline", but this is a slice of life comic after all.
> A very particular doctor
An oral surgeon?
Those are two gay boys.
He's out of shit to say with these characters so he's going to move Marten and Claire to Canada where they can meet a whole new cast of gender queer non binary persons and robots with anxiety, and just keep introducing new ones to see which ones his audience resonates with, at which point they become the new main characters for a while
I think it's far more like Claire (and potential Marten) are written out entirely and the perspective stays in Northampton than having it move to an entirely new town. Marten's arc is ideally that he grows a bit of a spine and defends a life that he's comfortable with, and Claire's arc is that she burns every bridge she's ever had until she realizes she's a selfish and manipulative b***h and turns it around. Those arcs don't really intersect.
Are Marten and Claire finally getting written out of the comic?
Marten was written a decad ago.