Aaaah...

The Incredible Hatboy · Wed Jul 25, 2001 1:10 am

After days and weeks of serious wondering about marital stability, concern about Shannon and Melissa's relationship, debate on Brandy's and Shannon's goals and intents, we get a strip seemingly calculated to simply relieve the tension. All romance flies out the window at the innocent words of the Ginnish One, and something far more leerworthy siezes hold.Yay!------------------
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Zodo · Post by **Zodo** » Wed Jul 25, 2001 5:17 am

I dunno if I mentioned this before... Possibly not, because I've held my tongue on the issue on more than one occasion, but the way Shannon acts around Melissa kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe it's just me, but I have this thing about fidelity, and though Shannon doesn't actively do anything to split up Ken and Melissa, he seems to be waiting in the wings to swoop in and pick her up if she and Ken fall apart. Maybe even trying to impress her by being around, to show how much of a nice guy he is.I'm probably completely wrong about that, of course.Ideally, in my often flawed opinion, Shannon and Brandy would continue to have a rocky, and possibly adversarial friendship, until something happens to isolate them together, so they have no choice but to talk to each other, and learn about each other, and discover the beginnings of something more than a friendship. Brandy leaves Chet, who ends up getting beat up by Tonja, and Shannon wises up to realize that Melissa is happy in her marriage. Jackie and Victor hook up as well, and the Pig gets an extra helping of pellets.Then again, I'm just a sucker for happy endings. It's too bad that so many comic strips on the web feel that they have to avoid formula, and keep teasing at happy endings, only to pull them away and leave everyone miserable and/or frustrated.-Zodo
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Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Wed Jul 25, 2001 6:10 am

I would NEVER do such a thing!Oh, wait, off topic plug, my appologies.Ahem.Shannon is NOT trying to impress Melissa. He's just hopelessly smitten, and controling himself as best he can. He knows Melissa is impossible for him, and he is as comfortable as one can be with that, given his feelings. I'll go on to say that he was probably thinking about the prospect of one Melissa leaving her husband for him, you dirty minded people. (I should talk, considering MY strip.)And as for Shannon's behavior leaving a bad taste in your mouth, he's acting EXACTLY as one does around an unatainable women that you've tried your hardest to accept as unattianable.I know. I've been there.Fortunately for me, the object of my affections and I have been together for two years now.Yay happy endings!------------------
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Zodo · Post by **Zodo** » Fri Jul 27, 2001 5:00 am

Melissa loves her husband. That should be enough. Brandy doesn't love Chet.-Zodo

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Fri Jul 27, 2001 9:28 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by zodo:
and Shannon wises up to realize that Melissa is happy in her marriage. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Is she though? Would it be all right in your opinion for Shannon to stick around and wait for Melissa to get out of a bad marriage?What's the difference between Melissa leaving her husband for Shannon and Brandy leaving Chet for Shannon?And don't say "Melissa is married to her husband."