I’m a little skeptical that Marten would actually do that, even drunk (referring to 1818).
I don’t like the way that Marten is being painted as the bad guy in this situation. If anything, he should feel liberated from a relationship so deep in bullshit the diversion of two rivers wouldn’t clear it.
But then, I’m biased.
People can do some really stupid shit while drunk, especially THAT drunk.
Who’s painting Martin as ‘the bad guy?’ Tai pointed out he was being a dick, when he was, in fact, being a dick, then gave him a hug when she realized how upset he was. Faye called him a dick only after he’d thrown old history in her face, for which she’d already copped to, apologized for, and been forgiven. Which is being a huge dick, even though his attack was pretty much correct.
He’s been feeling sorry for himself, but thus far, everyone’s been letting it slide, presumably because they think he has the right to feel sorry for himself. To a point.
The only one who’s been assigning blame (except Dora, who blames herself) has been Faye, and she (also) blamed Dora. Which was itself kind of uncool, as it forced to defend her instead of letting him talk about it, but abandonment issues+breakup requires a villain.
Which, now that I think of it, explains the milk attack. Doesn’t explain why everyone else laughed it off, but still . . .
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It would have been nice if she’d refrained from the clobbering in response to the pass, but it is Faye.
Apparently the laid-back understanding nice guy was just a facade that Dora managed to crack.
I think one of the hardest things to believe is that Faye would have gone off to Angus’ for a make-out session when her best friend just got dumped. Yeah, Hanners was there, but she was the ONLY one there. Faye showing up with some emergency bourbon would have been more in line with their friendship.
I didn’t really think Marten was being a dick to Thai. But it could just be that after Dora she annoys me the most.
But yeah, way out of line with Faye. The one time in the series that her punching someone was actually called for and justified. I wonder what’s going to happen tomorrow.
I still think he’s a good guy overall, but over the series he has been screwed over and has brushed it off. That stuff is bound to eat at you and because he doesn’t let it out it just sits and stews.
Called for and justified my BFHA. Faye shoulda carried on making out with Angus for all the good she did coming back - or she should have been home all along rather than just turn up when Marten’s already reached the bitter-objectionable-drunk stage. But as long as she was doing neither one thing nor the other, she should have kept her goddamn hands to herself as long as Marten was just saying unacceptable things. He’s been the one dependable rock in her life for ages and the one time he really needs her to give something back - and I don’t mean “put out”, as should be obvious - she gives him violence. No way that would get played for laughs the other way round even though it’s established in-story that a punch from Faye is serious business.
He wasn’t just saying unacceptable things. He was also hanging on her and propositioning her even though she was clearly communicating her disinterest both verbally and by physically pushing him away. Punching him went too far, but he went at least as far over the line as she did.
Obviously I disagree, and if Marten had punched Faye we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Hanging on her and propositioning her is not a punch-me-unconscious offence - it’s just another instance of Faye seeing problems as nails. Fortunately it seems that if someone’s drunk enough you can punch them out and they’ll have forgotten it in the morning, and everything’s peachy.
This may be a zombie thread, but I think the last few strips have shown us where Marten gets his weak personality from. His mom has trained him to be that way.
Seriously, yikes. I’m not one for bawling out my parents, but he needed to by yesterday.
Yeah, I was thinking the very same. No wonder he’s such a wimp, she has completely emasculated him. Yeah, he shouldn’t have been snarky to her in front of his friends but what he was saying was correct. Pretty much every scene she has with Marten embarrasses him despite his protests.
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Huh? The last post here was only about three weeks ago, on a thread that’s run for 8-ish months. The plot in QC moves at a glacial pace, so a thread discussing it must also. I hope this thread keeps going as QC drama slowly/sporadically happens.
Yeah, I guess it goes with the territory when your Mom is professional dominatrix. Oy.
Very true. I won’t feel bad about it, then. 
Damn you guys! I rediscover Questionable Content every time I encounter THIS thread…I then come up 3 hours later wondering where all the time went, and sad that I’m so damn OLD.
So this is what, the second time Dora kicked someone out of their house/bed?
It’s not clear to me if that’s an exterior or interior door. Probably exterior, as it’s not as funny the other way. But I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
I’m pretty sure she just locked herself in her room. The walls are the same color as the living room, and the door lacks all of the common features of exterior doors, such as numbers or peepholes - although there might be something underneath Sven’s word bubble. It’s got a weird corner thing on the top. Not sure what that’s about. I’d also expect a window on that broad expanse of wall to the right. Jeph usually does pretty detailed backgrounds, so I’d expect these things to show up if that were an exterior shot.
OTOH, the door knob is mounted on a tall plate with an apparent key hole, which implies an exterior door. Having said that, I agree that the rest of the drawing doesn’t imply very strongly that Sven is banging on his own front door.
The strip is titled “Leave House”, though.