BioYuGi wrote:How so? Teddi's stripping, but no touching's going on. Meanwhile he was basically hand-raped by a girl he was only kind of interested in. Teddi's clearly enjoying herself doing this.
Well correct me if I'm wrong but the handjob was entirely consensual between two ordinary humans of the same age without any otherworldy intervention, and they went from the school back to Teddy's house specifically to "fool around".
Meanwhile this is an underage minor stripping off in a sexually explicit manner in front of an adult audience. If this comic is indeed set in Canada, and Teddy being under 18 was doing this in front of a camera instead it would undoubtedly be classified as child pornography. I'm not sure how doing it on a stage is all that better.
Alice Macher wrote:Anyone remember when Dangerously Chloe had something resembling a story?
Seems every strip now involves showing one or more characters de facto naked for no plot-related reason whatsoever.
Can't believe this is written by the same guy who writes Ma3, SotR and the other "C"-verse comics. I'll happily continue reading those, but I'm done with DC.
Funny you should mention Ma3 since the last panel reminds me of the time Dillon and Zii went rolling in his collection of pictures.
We're definitely aligning our trajectories to launch ourselves over a specimen of the Carcharhiniformes order as of present state in the space/time-continuum.
She is indeed a wonderful artist who could doubtless turn her hand to anything, but from what I've seen, I don't get the feeling that she's very interested in depicting some of those bits in all their wrinkly Lovecraftian glory.
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Yeah, I think I'm done with this one for a while. The underage stuff, the whole deus sex machina thing with thr pheremones...but ultimately its that Teddy/Teddi seems sleazy as hell now. I miss the person he used to be.
There is room for debate on what consistutes "what is acceptable?" when dealing with a comic focusing on sex demons, however, it would be pretty safe to agree that Teddi's original character arc has gone - something that happened a while ago, but odd *rolling naked in money* activities seem so far removed from his/her actual self. There is such a thing as character development, yet this doesn't feel like that.
Would it make it better if it turned out that Teddy never actually became Teddi, and this whole thing has been a lucid dream in his head because of magical entity blood transfusion? Or would that be the ultimate trolling? Real or not, the dream aspect would help explain quite a bit of the character derailment.
So would genetic damage. Or chemical influence.
Teddi's hybrid body may very well be influencing her in ways she is not yet aware of, and it's addled her wits.
She is indeed a wonderful artist who could doubtless turn her hand to anything, but from what I've seen, I don't get the feeling that she's very interested in depicting some of those bits in all their wrinkly Lovecraftian glory.
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@OllieOrOlly : I really hope it doesn't go that way, "All just a dream/hallucination/illusion/etc." is probably the cheapest, lamest cop-out of any inconvenient plot development.
I dislike reset buttons in general, as there are often no consequences in-story for using one and they are rarely handled well, but the "dream" type is probably the one that gets on my nerves the most.
We had no indication before that Teddy could ever be interested in this lifestyle or its trappings. Rolling in a bed of cash wouldn't have done anything for a guy interested in clockwork ducks.
So, either this is a side of him we simply hadn't seen yet, or this is new, a product of the succubus blood sloshing around in her bloodstream. Does she perhaps have personality changes the longer she stays this way?
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What is so wrong with rolling around naked in a pile of money? I mean, besides the fairly risky hygiene side of things and maybe paper cuts? Heck, Scrooge McDuck used to *swim* in his money, toss it up in the air and let it hit him on the head! Okay, he didn't do it naked, but he's a duck! Which in some ways is even more weird and perverse!
X3N0-Life-Form wrote:@OllieOrOlly : I really hope it doesn't go that way, "All just a dream/hallucination/illusion/etc." is probably the cheapest, lamest cop-out of any inconvenient plot development.
I dislike reset buttons in general, as there are often no consequences in-story for using one and they are rarely handled well, but the "dream" type is probably the one that gets on my nerves the most.
Can it really be any worse than the story already ongoing? At this stage I'd accept any easy-out to get back to the status quo.
Personally I don't usually like "and then they woke up" narrative outs, they usually feel pretty cheap and unsatisfying. But at this point it is tempting as a way to explain away all the sordidness that has gone on this arc. And let's be honest, this comic used time travel as a narrative tool in the first (second?) chapter so it's not like it's entirely out of the question.
A point in it's favour is that when this arc kicked off Teddy did have that nightmare where he was being chased and then at the end was swallowed up by Chloe, so this could be a continuation of the nightmare. It could even be a near death experience from the ectoplasm.
A point against it though is the number of characters we have seen acting independent of Teddy being there, which seems odd for a dream with Teddy at the centre. There are also details like Gabby bullying Naomi that it doesn't seem likely Teddy would know.
As for Teddy's mind being affected, while I had hoped that would be the case as an explanation for his behaviour, my impression over the arc so far is that it is still supposed to be Teddy doing all this in his normal state of mind, maddening though it may be.
