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I must say, it was a fantastic misdirection to keep me guessing with Fatboy taking an interest in Fatty. It simultaneously mimics the common indecisiveness of a teenage mind, but also replicates how one can't automatically know what someone's thinking, i.e - Does Fatboy have an affection for Fatty, or is he trying to get the ball rolling with her and Muddy?
Obviously, I'm going to assume it's the second one, but it's still interesting. The strip you uploaded on January 5, 2009, was a point where I was thinking that the pairings were clear and were going to go somewhere from there, or at least wouldn't be changing.
Cyn and Tilde, Muddy and Fatty, Queerboy and Ric, SP and Brother (does he have a name yet?), Fatboy and Ugly.
A friend I linked the forum to last week had said something along the lines of how the comic made his 'inner shipper' thrash about, with the different pairings that he felt should be canon in the comic instead of what there was. I had disagreed with him at that point, saying that I thought they were fine and that I couldn't really picture them changing (yes, I will actually get to the point in a sec).
Then, of course, with the new strips at lunch, I was reminded that perhaps the pairings aren't as clear cut as that. After all, Spaz was still trying to make something happen with SP, so anything could have happened. What I wasn't expecting to actually /happen/, though, was Fatboy's move.
Whether it was him just trying to help Muddy be a little less oblivious or not, I then rethought my stance on the pairings; and came out with conflicting emotions.
On the one hand, Spaz and Ugly are, as you point out, social counterparts; they're the 'other kid'; no one really /wants/ to associate with them and when factoring their interests in, they're about the same person with a genital swap.
On top of that, Fatboy and Fatty are both, well…fat (though I don't see Fatboy as being that fat, to be honest) and when making the logical pairing of Ugly and Spaz, the desire to have everyone end up with someone puts them together, and with him taking an apparent liking to her, it fits even more. /Logically/, anyway.
But on the other hand; hmm, how can I put this… Y'know when you want to explain why something is correct — like, for an example that practically begs for someone to get pissed at me, with religion — and you end up just saying something along the lines of "It just…feels right *mumbled and slurred "I don't know"*"
I mean…it's one of the very, very, very, very, very * 10 ^ n sparing times that I would ever use the phrase "It's meant to be", but it's just meant to be. "Movie Night" just made me unwaveringly convinced that those two are supposed to be paired like that.
I guess if I were reviewing the comic (which I'm not, despite the length of this and how much it's talking about more than just the one strip) I'd wrap up my comments thus far by saying that a measure of how good the comic is can be determined by the fact that I'm this emotionally invested in the characters that don't exist; that I'm all but shouting at the images of UG/Spaz/Fatboy/Fatty to advance their relationship.
It's really just an astounding comic. I'll likely write an actual review of it at some point in the near future (before the year ends, at least) but for now, I will simply say that even the short time that I started reading it — two weeks ago, from a chain of barely related links to one another — I feel the same sort of sympathy and empathy for the characters that I do for real people and TV shows that I've known for years without feeling the same sort of way.
There's too much for me to say here (mostly because I've gotta be somewhere soon) that accurately describes what I think of the comic in its entirety, but I feel like I've conveyed my love of this collection of pictures enough already.
I'll let you know when I've written my review. Until then, I wish you the best and hope that the update schedule remains regular again; I'm incredibly glad I started reading right as you started weekly strips again.
I must say, it was a fantastic misdirection to keep me guessing with Fatboy taking an interest in Fatty. It simultaneously mimics the common indecisiveness of a teenage mind, but also replicates how one can't automatically know what someone's thinking, i.e - Does Fatboy have an affection for Fatty, or is he trying to get the ball rolling with her and Muddy?
Obviously, I'm going to assume it's the second one, but it's still interesting. The strip you uploaded on January 5, 2009, was a point where I was thinking that the pairings were clear and were going to go somewhere from there, or at least wouldn't be changing.
Cyn and Tilde, Muddy and Fatty, Queerboy and Ric, SP and Brother (does he have a name yet?), Fatboy and Ugly.
A friend I linked the forum to last week had said something along the lines of how the comic made his 'inner shipper' thrash about, with the different pairings that he felt should be canon in the comic instead of what there was. I had disagreed with him at that point, saying that I thought they were fine and that I couldn't really picture them changing (yes, I will actually get to the point in a sec).
Then, of course, with the new strips at lunch, I was reminded that perhaps the pairings aren't as clear cut as that. After all, Spaz was still trying to make something happen with SP, so anything could have happened. What I wasn't expecting to actually /happen/, though, was Fatboy's move.
Whether it was him just trying to help Muddy be a little less oblivious or not, I then rethought my stance on the pairings; and came out with conflicting emotions.
On the one hand, Spaz and Ugly are, as you point out, social counterparts; they're the 'other kid'; no one really /wants/ to associate with them and when factoring their interests in, they're about the same person with a genital swap.
On top of that, Fatboy and Fatty are both, well…fat (though I don't see Fatboy as being that fat, to be honest) and when making the logical pairing of Ugly and Spaz, the desire to have everyone end up with someone puts them together, and with him taking an apparent liking to her, it fits even more. /Logically/, anyway.
But on the other hand; hmm, how can I put this… Y'know when you want to explain why something is correct — like, for an example that practically begs for someone to get pissed at me, with religion — and you end up just saying something along the lines of "It just…feels right *mumbled and slurred "I don't know"*"
I mean…it's one of the very, very, very, very, very * 10 ^ n sparing times that I would ever use the phrase "It's meant to be", but it's just meant to be. "Movie Night" just made me unwaveringly convinced that those two are supposed to be paired like that.
I guess if I were reviewing the comic (which I'm not, despite the length of this and how much it's talking about more than just the one strip) I'd wrap up my comments thus far by saying that a measure of how good the comic is can be determined by the fact that I'm this emotionally invested in the characters that don't exist; that I'm all but shouting at the images of UG/Spaz/Fatboy/Fatty to advance their relationship.
It's really just an astounding comic. I'll likely write an actual review of it at some point in the near future (before the year ends, at least) but for now, I will simply say that even the short time that I started reading it — two weeks ago, from a chain of barely related links to one another — I feel the same sort of sympathy and empathy for the characters that I do for real people and TV shows that I've known for years without feeling the same sort of way.
There's too much for me to say here (mostly because I've gotta be somewhere soon) that accurately describes what I think of the comic in its entirety, but I feel like I've conveyed my love of this collection of pictures enough already.
I'll let you know when I've written my review. Until then, I wish you the best and hope that the update schedule remains regular again; I'm incredibly glad I started reading right as you started weekly strips again.