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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:45 am |
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Love it!
Torg trying to get back on track, and Zoe making sham-rage over something silly. She's so not going to get a love declaration right now. (-;
The barraging of the door with her whole body, like a hockey/soccer goalie, would have spoiled the surprise if Torg was attentive - turns out he's wasn't, perhaps too busy about the past.
That's the first time I see Zoe trying to be somewhat manipulative that I can recall; she's overdoing like a real person not used to that would. This soooo savory!!
Oficially rated 6 out of 6 poings (potential poing #7 is busy preparing the party)
Still funny on re-read!
P.S.: Zoe is cute when she's angry.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:59 am |
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Rocketfox wrote: (Also, I'm kinda bummed as I've just realised I'm going away for Christmas, and ergo going to miss the Christmas Eve strip. Curses! As if having a cliffhanger-y Christmas break is bad enough! At least there'll be a week's worth of shiny new strips to read all at once when I get back.)
you don't have a computer at home?
How evil 
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:02 am |
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relax wrote: Love it!
Torg trying to get back on track, and Zoe making sham-rage over something silly. She's so not going to get a love declaration right now. (-;
The barraging of the door with her whole body, like a hockey/soccer goalie, would have spoiled the surprise if Torg was attentive - turns out he's wasn't, perhaps too busy about the past.
That's the first time I see Zoe trying to be somewhat manipulative that I can recall; she's overdoing like a real person not used to that would. This soooo savory!!
Oficially rated 6 out of 6 poings (potential poing #7 is busy preparing the party)
Still funny on re-read!
P.S.: Zoe is cute when she's angry.
Oh, Zoe has been manipulative before:
cf this strip: http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990213
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:22 am |
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is it just me, or does Zoe look younger in these past few strips?
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:51 am |
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Rocketfox wrote: Torg is acting more like his Torgish self in this strip, which seems a little too quick an adjustment for me. Still, I wait (im)patiently for Pete to reveal all. I have faith.
Really? How long has it been for him? Has it been days? A couple of weeks? A month or more? How long was he still in the DoL after Zoe2's death? (That I suspect was a week.)
The human species rebounds from things quickly. It has to. But I suspect we have Torg bolting upright in the middle of the night holding back a scream of "No!"... he rolls over, feels Zoe2 not there and wakes and holds back tears. Yes, he's wondering if he was just replacing his Zoe with Zoe2... and if she was just replacing him for her Torg... but that doesn't lessen the pain and loss.
And Gwynn's little "prank" undoubtedly also jarred him back into a sense of normalacy. He's seen it before (Gwynn and the book). And he's seen his own attempts to make things better backfire before. In a way... it's a sign that he's back home. All he needs is to wake up Christmas Day and find BunBun with a ribbon tied around his neck to make his Christmas complete. ;)
Still... I wonder if sometimes he sneaks a rice cake to eat. 
Robert A. Howard
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:49 am |
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The house has a chandelier? Actually, I can buy that.
The house has a chandelier intact?!
I miss Aylee. *sob
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:50 am |
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I still say pushing Torg under mistletoe will end any worries of coming up with distractions. :p
She looks a lot like oasis in the last panel. To me anyway.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:07 am |
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darnit kkiirrkk you stole what I was going to say. I would really like to see that. :)
This is a cute strip, I can't wait to see the Torg's perfect Christmas. So what happens with the boots?
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:07 am |
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CaffieneKitty wrote: Caesar Salad wrote: Monday gave me eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves, and a beer. What? Dude, don't mix your songs, it'll give you a worse hangover. And it's "a beer... iiin a tree" if you're mixing with the Bob and Doug Mackenzie version. I'd quote it at you, but it doesn't quote too well. And I can't find a page with just the lyrics. Actually, I was mixing the songs on purpose. And in the Bob and Doug version, they don't say "in a tree" until the fifth or six time. At first it's just, "And a beer!" This I know.
Torg...Alt-Zoë would never have stopped you from going into the dining room. How about that?
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:29 am |
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Oh, like the splashes of chirstmas colour.
This strip didn't click for me either, no idea why. Ah well.
I see Torg's still wearing black
--- Luke
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:05 am |
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:15 am |
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swingerzetta wrote: DSCrankshaw wrote: So, is there a fireplace in the dining room? Or is Zoe blocking more than just a dining room. It seems odd that there'd be no door directly from the kitchen to the dining room. yes, there is a fireplace in the dining room http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=011113 um, i believe there is a door from the kitchen to dining room... i'd say so, at least, judging by: http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021004It's not obvious to me in the first strip that that's the dining room. In the second strip, that does look kind of like the dining room--there being a table there--but that seems to be the room that Torg's in now. Hmmm. Tangent wrote: Really? How long has it been for him? Has it been days? A couple of weeks? A month or more? How long was he still in the DoL after Zoe2's death? (That I suspect was a week.)
Well, judging from what Torg says in this strip, " After a few days of gnawing through the fridge in a post-rice-cake-frenzy I've decided..." [emphasis added], it's only been a few days. Unless I'm misreading this or Torg waited a couple of weeks before starting his binge.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:31 am |
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:04 am |
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 Pish-posh!
What made me laugh the most was the image of Torg's post-rice-cake-fridge-frenzy.
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Post Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:37 am |
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No, poor Gwynn really can't get rid of the Book of E-Ville. She's tried in the past.
As for the chandelier-- the gang is living in a Colonial era house, remember. Chandeliers were common lighting fixtures in them, and were often replaced by modern electric equivalents when those houses were renovated. There was certainly one in the front hallwhen they first viewed the place. And colonials have fireplaces in almost every room; it's how they were heated.
How's this for architectural consistency? Thisappears to be the same room where Gwynn is sitting in today's comic.
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