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Go back a strip - it'll lift your confusion.
This is Gary; so, it has to be geeky or video game influenced.
That's good but Spiderman 3 ruined it for me. I'd go with https://youtu.be/6egiLH_ag8k?t=51sHogan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:26 amConsidering Gary's current high spirits... my suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FphcAh3T8
Agreed on that. We tend to take the sheer quality of Giz’s character art for granted, and we shouldn't.OllieOrOlly wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:36 amLargely a body language-based update, which is totally fine.
To be fair, it’s a few days since she made what she probably thought of as a throwaway remark to Gary.worldshaking00 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:05 pmShe was still oblivious that it was her advice Gary used to exit James's place.
Without trawling through hundreds of strips of Gary just walking around — his slouch has always been a big part of his characterisation. (Confused by the times that other artists have drawn him, who don’t do slouching so well.) This is a fairly generic but effective “cool comics character” pose, and hence certainly not classic Gary.While Tracy's advice giving is the one in the spotlight right now, I can't help but also remember the advice given to him to not slouch. Other than being prone and having to look up because of it, has Gary ever been shown in a similar pose?
Not sure about that. Gary’s parting words to the pair of them in the last strip seemed to imply that he could see that their relationship needed work, but that it was probably worth working on — and her line in panel 1 this time suggests that she still defines her own value by how desirable James finds her. They’ve become a couple along the way, and now they have either to reinforce their coupledom or to consciously de-couple.James's parting words were just representative of how stupid he really is. Sorry, dude, but you've lost Tracy.
They ate dinner before getting down to sex. I assumed it was the dessert.I wonder if they ever got to the chocolate cake? Shame for it to have gone to waste.
I don't think Tracy has ever got to know Gary's "virgin loser" past. She has met him at porn star orgy and her various thought bubbles seem to imply she thinks he's some kind of sexual savant. Gary never had a chance to mention to her he was a virgin not so long ago and it's not usual situation for him so I don't think this comparison to Matt is very accuratte. Matt's whole beef with Gary was based on him not wanting to be out-competed by his nerdy friend.Spidrift wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 2:18 pmActually, Tracy seems to be rather like Matt in her attitude to Gary. She likes him, bears him no malice — but she can’t bear the thought of being out-competed by him. Because he’s just Gary, whereas she, like Matt, defines herself as a sexual adept. And vanity is a rather ugly vice sometimes.
Oh, they’re not identical. And based on their very first encounter, she might have thought of him as a savant (though she was having to help him with a paralysed jaw and a draconic landlady by the end of that encounter, so she probably didn’t think of him as exactly a perfectly cool dude). But on their second meeting, he made a fool of himself in the coffee shop and she ended up strangling him.Itrogash wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:16 pmI don't think Tracy has ever got to know Gary's "virgin loser" past. She has met him at porn star orgy and her various thought bubbles seem to imply she thinks he's some kind of sexual savant. Gary never had a chance to mention to her he was a virgin not so long ago and it's not usual situation for him so I don't think this comparison to Matt is very accuratte. Matt's whole beef with Gary was based on him not wanting to be out-competed by his nerdy friend.
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It may be much simpler.Spidrift wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 2:18 pmActually, Tracy seems to be rather like Matt in her attitude to Gary. She likes him, bears him no malice — but she can’t bear the thought of being out-competed by him. Because he’s just Gary, whereas she, like Matt, defines herself as a sexual adept. And vanity is a rather ugly vice sometimes.
Yes, that. Exactly.Error of Logic wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:46 pmIt may be much simpler.
"The guy I like and want to give everything to keeps pushing me away and dominating our fun times, but now he's willing to give his all to someone else! Right in front of me!"
Add extra angst if it bothers Tracy that James is willing to go to lengths he won't go to with her with a man.
