I’m, uh, just gonna read it straight up. 
Ignore anything too disorienting. This is Jeph’s second annual “who the fuck cares, I’m on vacation” strips that he does between XMas and New Years, featuring Sweet Tits and Yelling Bird. It’s only vaguely supposed to add up to much.
Ok, this time I feel like I’m missing something. (Not today’s, Monday’s)
Padma looks like she’s reacting to . . . something in panel 3, but I can’t figure out what. Marten’s line is about as un-upsetting as it could possibly be.
Was she upset that he was basically laughing it off? That would make sense, but she looked shocked, not hurt.
The only other thing I can think of is that she was hoping he’d offer to follow her, but that only makes sense from a storyline perspective.
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No boner shark jokes, please.
Me, too. I thought Jeph messed up and left out dialog or something. I think the intent is: Panel 2) Padma wants to say something “serious” to Marten. Panel 3) Marten is casual. Padma opens her mouth to say something. Panel 4) Padma swallows that thought.
Pish. Far too obvious.
Perhaps Wednesday’s comic will have some Forebodings…
(I think Jeph screwed up a bit in panel 3 above, too ambiguous)
Oh, I figured his feet were just cold.
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I took it that Padma was about to do some whining for sympathy about something (having to do with events over the past year). She shut up because she thinks Martin will be unsympathetic.
Well, the gesture does come right after he mentions that a year ago he was “way whinier”.
And no fair peeking, squeegee, we know the comic’s usually posted around midnight EST 
(though Jeph has warned the next few days it’ll be slightly off due to his being in Australia) … the title of the Monday strip however, was: “Sweet Oblivion” which may be what Marten was experiencing in more ways than one.
And did we just see one of the effects of the austerity measures required by buying Momo’s new chassis, in the attempt to buy one single egg?
I assumed she was just being very literal-minded and doesn’t cook “real food” very often (remember Momo offering to cook for her and Marigold rejecting it because she was sulking), so she just figured that one could buy a single egg, much like one might buy a single banana or something.
Huh, so Padma’s not returning Marten’s calls, he decides she’s well able to contact him if she wants and he’s not going to pester her if she doesn’t, and for this he gets dissed by the two chicks who have done more than anyone else in this strip to leave him more fucked up than they found him. Seems less than fair to me.
Wow, different perspectives. I interpreted it that when Martin said “you probably wouldn’t have liked me, I was way whinier then,” that Padma started freaking out because she’s having a hard time tolerating him now, and she was in shock that he could even be MORE whiny.
Though he hasn’t been shown to be particularly whiny with her, and she just handed him a complement. And this would not explain her unhappiness - why would it upset her if he’d previously been worse?
I know I’m coming late to this party — sorry.
If anybody still cares, I’d taken her reaction to be something along the lines of, “He was even whinier before than he is now? Holy shit!”
Yeah, given further developments, I think this is it.
That doesn’t make much sense. If she’s having such a hard time tolerating him, why would she wish that they’d met a year earlier? For that matter, why would she go to bed with him in the first place?
Like in WoW, perhaps, where you can just get a single item?
Wow, Marten aggressively blows off Padma, no goodbye and she’s maybe gone for good. And seems to realize he was a dick. I hope he catches up to her somehow, some way.
I don’t know, I don’t think he was being a dick. If I kept calling someone and they kept blowing me off, they can’t really expect me to jump for joy when they suddenly deign to grace me with their presence at the last minute.
Well, sure. But the way the comic presented it was that he wasn’t calling her and had declined to pester her if she didn’t want to see him (see #2098 yesterday). She made contact and he blew her off. I don’t know if that’s dickish, could go either way. I think the character is right to question himself about it.
Definitely a dick move. Not returning his calls for a week is bad, but not, “Fuck off out of my life forever,” bad. At least, not without giving her a chance to explain. If that’s all he had to say to her, why even answer the phone?
After this comic, I really, really want Faye’s theory to turn out to be correct.