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She didn't realize why Riley was calling her That Woman. To Scout she was just this cool famous lady her Dad was staying with temporarily. Now she actually understands, and agrees that Shelly is so terrible that you don't even want to call her by her name. Besides she always called Shelly "That Woman" to Riley, Tim, everyone but Shelly. So it's not like they're noticing a difference. Scout just means it now. Edit: Has she actually started calling her That Woman? I looked and couldn't find anything after when Scout told Riley "That Woman is having a baby" and she was still friends with Shelly at the time. Galvanik fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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I thought that Riley wasn't afraid to vent her thoughts about Shelley to Scout because of this strip and this one. Scout looked way too hostile when asking if Shelley planned to marry Tim, and that had to come from somewhere. From how I see it, Riley's stories to Scout didn't go into details about what Tim did while placing all the blame on That Woman and how she is the worst. Then it took Scout finding out Shelley wrote the Tibkins books for her to give Shelley a chance. Like Riley lets her feelings be known to Scout on such a regular basis that Scout thinks she couldn't be openly friendly with Shelley. Honestly, I just feel bad for Scout being caught up in the middle of the adults around her. 
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Sep 6, 2017 11:27
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Granted, I haven't been in or near a similar situation in real life or anything but... shouldn't Tim be doing something to actually address the problem here? Outside the looming threat of Pa Beckwith, he seems pretty content to just work in a startup, live with Shelley, and be more or less completely absent from his daughter's life. Even before the affair with Shelley, he didn't seem that sad about just loving off to live in the woods, talking to nobody.
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Sep 6, 2017 15:05
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To be fair he is a terrible person.
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Sep 6, 2017 15:38
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Tim does need to make some decisions, but the first one is going to have to be "should I move towards a permanent relationship with Shelley or try to mend fences with Riley?", which is not an easy decision to make.
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Sep 6, 2017 15:53
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I'm still waiting for Ryan to finally fill up his rage meter and clock Tim a good one. It's about the most sensible thing anyone's done up to this point with regards to Tim.Rand Brittain posted:Tim does need to make some decisions, but the first one is going to have to be "should I move towards a permanent relationship with Shelley or try to mend fences with Riley?", which is not an easy decision to make. He could do both and have a friendly relationship with Riley, maybe. What makes Tim terrible here is that he has to know that Riley and Scout have moved to Tackleford by this point, and yet he chooses to stay away from them.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:00
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I mean, Scout's been coming to visit. It's only Riley he's avoiding.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Granted, I haven't been in or near a similar situation in real life or anything but... shouldn't Tim be doing something to actually address the problem here? Outside the looming threat of Pa Beckwith, he seems pretty content to just work in a startup, live with Shelley, and be more or less completely absent from his daughter's life. Even before the affair with Shelley, he didn't seem that sad about just loving off to live in the woods, talking to nobody. Tim kind of handles any form of responsibility disastrously. The best possible outcome of him deciding to man up and address the problem here is that he accidentally makes Shelley explode somehow
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Rand Brittain posted:I mean, Scout's been coming to visit. It's only Riley he's avoiding. Ah, good point. It's just that the strips made it look like Tim didn't spend much time with Scout when she visited. Though I'm not sure if Scout visited Tim and Shelley when she moved to Tackleford. Someone pointed out a few pages back that Riley had manipulated Tim into moving with her and cutting off his contact from his friends, which is why I seriously don't like her. When I read the comic back then I thought it was pretty messed up that she got away with it scot-free.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:16
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The thing was that Tim figured it out himself and agreed with her.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:55
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It's also possible that Scout is still just pretending in front of her mom because the fact that Shelley and her were friends is a secret. I never had the patience to go back and read through the old Scary Go Round archive, so I don't really have a full context for these characters, but I'd like things to turn out well for them. I have a lot of sympathy for Tim because he appears to be a cursed man who unleashes some sort of unspeakable evil whenever he does anything. He even hosed up being a hermit, despite making some real nice smoked meats.
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Dabir posted:The thing was that Tim figured it out himself and agreed with her. That doesn't really make it not an emotional abuser's tactic. EDIT: Riley is kind of an interesting character, because her original story role was "the normal person who has no time for all this fantasy-comedy-mystery nonsense." This puts her in a sort of weird position now that the comic has done a mild genre-shift into "let's take this a little more seriously and see how all these manic pixies cope with some real problems."
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Speaking of the Bobbinsverse, Ken Lord showed up in Giant Days and he was terrible.
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The redhead teacher's husband?
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Yep, he's in #29 and he's a big old horrible creeper. And due to the time skip, this would still have been 2 years before Mrs Lord even joined the school, so he might even have got worse in the intervening time.
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nine-gear crow posted:If this is where she bites it, I think I'll be quite content because it means she went out the way she lived: a well-meaning short-sighted fool who thought she totally had this, when in fact she didn't have this. What gets me is that she saw him get knocked out, was explicitly told that he was knocked out, but still charged in there to do the "  I KNOW YOU ARE STILL IN THERE " cliché anyway.
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amigolupus posted:I thought that Riley wasn't afraid to vent her thoughts about Shelley to Scout because of this strip and this one. Scout looked way too hostile when asking if Shelley planned to marry Tim, and that had to come from somewhere. I'm pretty sure every parent in the world think they're about a hundred times better at not saying stuff in front of their kids than they actually are so these things don't NECESSARILY mean that Riley is venting about Shelley to Scout.
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Giant Days is also full of terrible people, with Susan taking the crown for the Most Terrible. But Ken Lord's appearance there is pretty baffling considering how harmless he was in his first appearance in SGR. Like he full-on pumped Esther with alcohol with the intent of having his way with her, and Mrs. Lord in SGR recently mentioned how he keeps cheating on her (presumably with college girls).reignonyourparade posted:I'm pretty sure every parent in the world think they're about a hundred times better at not saying stuff in front of their kids than they actually are so these things don't NECESSARILY mean that Riley is venting about Shelley to Scout. Now I can't help but imagine Riley constantly letting it slip during casual conversation.  "Now honey, brush your teeth before going to bed...also I hate That Woman."
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Didn't Mrs Lord meet Mr Lord in some sort of lecturer-student scenario?
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The Lords mention it in this strip. It sounds questionable, yeah, but it doesn't seem as terrible as in Giant Days where he's all "I'm going to get my student drunk and sleep with her". Also, loving hell, the new issue of Giant Days fully cements Susan's status as The Worst.
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Well he's not in his natural environment there, he's keeping up appearances. Plus there aren't any college girls around.
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Yeah, I get that. It's just a bit bizarre to me that Ken Lord was brought back after all this time, and that his creepometer was turned up to 11.
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Is Volume 5 of Giant Days out yet? Actually, Google informs me that it's been out for ages and I didn't notice. Better pick up a copy at the weekend. Pistol_Pete fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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amigolupus posted:Also, loving hell, the new issue of Giant Days fully cements Susan's status as The Worst.
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Bell_ posted:It kills me, because I really liked Susan Ptolemy during Giant Days' original run. I was going to say, it's been quite a while since I've read Giant Days, but I remember liking Susan a lot. What happened to put her into the role of "Just The Worst"?
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The Lord of Hats posted:I was going to say, it's been quite a while since I've read Giant Days, but I remember liking Susan a lot. What happened to put her into the role of "Just The Worst"? For some context, Susan and McGraw dated for a while but broke up due to different priorities. McGraw moved on and got together with new character Emilia. Meanwhile, Daisy got into her first relationship with Ingrid, a free-spirited foreign exchange student. Susan being terrible built up over the course of the series, with this as the main thread:
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I still like Susan, but she has been holding Esther's drama magnet lately. E: Did we know McGraw's given name before this issue? Also appreciated the inclusion of the hardware/etc store in the relationship chart. Roach Warehouse fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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We learned it when he first hooked up with Emilia, possibly earlier.
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Susan was my favorite character after having only read the first omnibus and now I'm super worried.
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Did Allison take the original Giant Days offline? I can't find many signs of Giant Days from 2011 because I wanted to share the panels of Susan's amazing cape, which wrapped up in an article of clothing much of what I loved about the character.
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Bell_ posted:Did Allison take the original Giant Days offline? I can't find many signs of Giant Days from 2011 because I wanted to share the panels of Susan's amazing cape, which wrapped up in an article of clothing much of what I loved about the character. Yes. Giant Days is a print-only mostly comic/twice-yearly graphic novel series now. Good news is you can usually find it in any comic book store, or on Amazon.
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Part 1 of the self-published run (fighting the popular girls) is included in the latest anthology, Not on the Test Edition, which also covers chapters 1-8. The Christmas special also had an alternate reality take on that same story, with more McGraw.
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The original 3 issues are $0.99/ea at Comixology under "Giant Days: Year One" https://www.comixology.com/Giant-Days-Year-One/comics-series/12162
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Is Lottie's use of NON-U in the last strip the traditional upper class/lower class designation, or does it mean something else in this wild new memetic universe I'm not aware of?
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Scaramouche posted:Is Lottie's use of NON-U in the last strip the traditional upper class/lower class designation, or does it mean something else in this wild new memetic universe I'm not aware of? Basically yes, although it might suggest the mystery girls have fallen under the spell of the Mitford sisters.
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I thought it referred to film classification. U is Universal, ie all ages.
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words poppy
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I think I like it, actually.
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