2015-07-21 Creepy Looo-zers

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Re: 2015-07-21 Creepy Looo-zers

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vancofan wrote:Christophe doesn't look like he has the build of an association football player. I would think that association football (soccer) would emphasize legs like ice hockey, and a mix of endurance and peak performance (as opposed to professional ice hockey skaters who play the game one 30 - 60 second shift at a time) unlike the stereotypical Greek God physique. That extra top weight seems like it'd be hell on his ankles.
I suspect Christophe is the all-athlete. He's the guy who carries every sports team, soccer, wrestling, track & field, etc. to all their victories, so he's not really built around any one sport - he excels at everything.
We had a guy like that at our school, large body, short limbs - didn't run that fast, but good luck stopping him. Owned the baseball, soccer and field (xxxathlon - HS equivalent of decathlon, but it wasn't 10 events) competitions. His base ball stats in senior year were sick, .567 batting 24 HR (in 20 games) 41 RBI - but at 5'10" he knew he'd never make the majors (6'0" min for catchers) so he blew off the baseball scholarship at Alabama for the soccer scholarship at Cornell where he'd get a degree that would wow interviewers. Cornell has a MUCH higher academic reputation than U of Alabama.

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Re: 2015-07-21 Creepy Looo-zers

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wm247 wrote:
Spidrift wrote:
lordoffiling wrote:As for comic, was the shortest arc of self-realization ever!
which makes him quite a genius by Ma3 universe standards...
You mean instead of jerk jock, we end up with Christophe as a genius bruiser? This is getting interesting, indeed. Marie, Alex, Christophe... and of course Penelope. After this, we need more of her background story, Eisu. Let me guess... she secretly dreams of world domination? :))
Jerk jock? Genius bruiser?

Methinks I smell a troper.

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Re: 2015-07-21 Creepy Looo-zers

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wm247 wrote:
Spidrift wrote:
lordoffiling wrote:As for comic, was the shortest arc of self-realization ever!
which makes him quite a genius by Ma3 universe standards...
You mean instead of jerk jock, we end up with Christophe as a genius bruiser? This is getting interesting, indeed. Marie, Alex, Christophe... and of course Penelope. After this, we need more of her background story, Eisu. Let me guess... she secretly dreams of world domination? :))
Tell that to Dave, he's the writer of the comic. I just draw from the scripts he makes ^o^

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Re: 2015-07-21 Creepy Looo-zers

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So, since this is France, why would they need to sneak hard lemonade? French law is 16 for that type of beverage.

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Parental rules?
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Author provincialism more probably.

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Possible, but the author is Canadian rather than American, so I wouldn't expect American alcoholiphobic assumptions.

To be honest, I think that this is just late-teen-comic assumptions. "Sneaking hard lemonade" is the kind of thing that teen characters do, whereas buying drinks perfectly legally just isn't in genre.
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Re: 2015-07-21 Creepy Looo-zers

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Penelope seems to be passing around the hard lemonade. Perhaps it actually belongs to someone else. :-?

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