You have an excellent memory! I don’t remember this strip at all.
Yawn. QC girl character hits boyfriend for “flirting”, film at 11.
Cosette has a creepy little jealous streak I see.
It looks like Tai may be seeking to lick where Marten jizzed.
Actually, Milholland offered, because he had an idea in his head & Jacques had been mumbling about filler art for the day anyway. That was clearly the idea.
So, really, it’s up to the reader whether this or another round of Sweet Tits was the better.
Just caught up on them last night. Man, Dora turned into a raging bitch goddess.
For what it’s worth, I’m rereading some of the really old ones and on at least one occasion, Marten asserted himself.
Marten’s too passive (which is more of a life issue than a people issue) and bad at conflict. That said, I don’t think he’s actually been shown to be the marshmallow he’s often made out to be. He’s stood up for himself a few times and even attacked once or twice. (with mixed results)
Does this feel like a ‘chapter end’ to anyone else? Seems like we’re checking in with everyone . . .
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Actually, I’m reasonably sure that’s never happened before. Faye hits people when they’re inside her personal space, but refrained from Takahashi-esqe revenge punching. I think the score is Martin 2 (drunken pass and ‘totally worth it’), Dad Harder 1 (he would, presumably, not find it ‘worth it’), Raven 1 (overreaction to Sneak Attack!), and one fight with Penelope off-screen, though I might have missed a few. Dora’s the only woman who’s shown any real jealousy before this, and she’s only attacked verbally. Plus one non-envy-based punch in the arm when Martin was joking during a crisis. And a death-glare at Cosette. But Cosette death-glared her roommate a few strips later, so that’s fair.
Or maybe it’s a cycle-of-implied-comedic-violence type of thing, and the roommate will death-glare more and more people, until it reaches the Lifetime movie stage.
How did Cosette even know about the flirting? She wasn’t there for that.
Marten was probably still complaining about it and she overheard. Marten and Steve seem like they’d bicker like an old married couple.
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I do like the new art tweaks. With Hanner’s wide stare and eye-bags, and their new hairstyles, she and Dora no longer look like twins.
Good point.
Check it out. I think this is the first Faye/Marten punch. For a really lame reason. Leaves a hell of a bruise next comic too.
Wow…Jeph’s improved more than just his art over the years. I’d forgotten how stilted the dialogue was back then.
Some of that is because of Faye’s former inability to use contractions, which was later quietly dropped.
Huh. I’d forgotten about that, too. HOW long have I been reading this comic?
I’m always surprised when I realize I’ve been reading a particular webcomic for years and years. Usually it’s the ones that I discovered very early in their runs, and suddenly I’m seeing “Five year anniversary” announcements. There are a couple in my list that are going on 10 years.
Heh. My very first webcomic was Sandra K.'s Boy Meets Boy, something like 12 years ago. I’ve actually followed her through the end of BMB, through the whole of Friendly Hostility, and I’m still reading her current one, Other People’s Business. Most of the webcomics I was reading 12 years ago are over…Queen of Wands and Psychic Dyslexia Institute are defunct (I was LJ friends with Scix and Aeire for pretty much ever, and Scix is one of my Facebook friends now). Sluggy Freelance lost me back when Abrams started that godawful timeship arc. Half of my comics now are online reading of newspaper comics, and that’s mostly to facilitate reading Comics Curmudgeon.
ETA: My memory jogged. I’m still reading Something Positive, so that’s probably my longest continuously-read webcomic now.
The oldest comic I’m actively following right now is Schlock Mercenary, which started in June of 2000. It had already been running for some time before I found it, though. Something Positive was the first web comic I ever started reading regularly, and I jumped into that one about a year into its run. One thing I love about S*P is that you can show someone the very first strip, and even though it’s nine years later, they’ll still pretty much instantly know exactly what sort of comic they’re dealing with.
Kevin and Kell started in 1995, though I only started reading it in 1998, and stopped reading around 2004 (hmm…about when it regularly started appearing in a newspaper), and only recently picked it up again. Although the creator, Bill Holbrook, is syndicated (On The Fasttrack and Safe Havens are both syndicated through King Features), K&K has always been an online comic. I think it may be the oldest surviving one…
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1887
Oooookay.
I guess that means Faye’s cured then.
Possibly NSFW.
Possibly.
All I’ve got to say is hubba hubba Goodyear rubba!!! 