Elephant Town Chapter 2 (pages 8-11)
Added 2020-06-29 15:14:20 +0000 UTC
On the bright side: sweet nerd cave.
Here are links to the last few pages, in case you wanna revisit!
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Every time I spent a day "researching," Luke would come home and ask gently if I needed a break. I'd tell him no, but then realize that I said it in a shitty tone, or immediately followed it up complaining about something petty, and realized, yeah, I DEFINITELY NEEDED A BREAK.
Danielle Corsetto
2020-07-01 19:21:07 +0000 UTCThat must have been difficult research to do. I snooped on an incel forum some time ago and it's... wrong.
Boum
2020-07-01 17:27:21 +0000 UTCYeah, after the research I've done for his character, this... is the least horrific thing he could've written, I think. It's brutal out there.
Danielle Corsetto
2020-07-01 17:19:36 +0000 UTCHah!!
Danielle Corsetto
2020-07-01 17:17:50 +0000 UTCHahaha I love that you noticed that!!
Danielle Corsetto
2020-07-01 17:17:42 +0000 UTCSo he's very down, very insecure, not that capable of seeing how to improve his lot, he does have the self control not to post the most shitty ways to formulate how he feels - not quite the self awareness to realize he's not invisible but rather making himself impossible to contact - or maybe he has, but that doesn't really make it better, crippling shyness and all - anyway. Not going to hate him yet; he hasn't yet shown that he would try to look for answers from various misogynist hate groups in the Internet, although he does show a tendency to externalize the responsibility for his own happiness to someone else, namely, his idea of a "dream girl", which could very well be any girl he finds beautiful, or maybe, girls / women in general - which is worrying. So, interesting to see what'll happen with him. Here's a lot of speculation based on a couple pages :D But we have a great storyteller behind those pages, so there.
Janne Peltonen
2020-07-01 13:20:09 +0000 UTCOh no, I hate him. Can’t wait to see what happens!
Nicki King
2020-07-01 11:16:31 +0000 UTCBut he didn’t say the completely shitty stuff... just the least shitty of the options.
Beck Archer
2020-07-01 09:36:26 +0000 UTCOooooh I knew I'd hate the guy from the first panel he showed up.
Boum
2020-06-30 17:24:47 +0000 UTCSnatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
Minzoku Bokumetsu
2020-06-30 03:20:59 +0000 UTCNerding out over that windshiellllld .... !
2020-06-30 02:10:38 +0000 UTCUm, dude. She noticed you. You were just a big ball of anxiety and missed that part...
NJGR
2020-06-29 23:51:23 +0000 UTCI was NOT expecting this!
Cab
2020-06-29 22:45:52 +0000 UTCUgh. I hate this guy already. From zero to yuck in just a few panels. Amazing!
Douglas Appelt
2020-06-29 22:37:39 +0000 UTCOh yeah, this’ll end well
John Smutko
2020-06-29 20:44:46 +0000 UTCBut...he wasn't rejected. He ran when she tried to speak to him. Dang, and I thought I used to be broken when it came to being around the opposite sex! Paul's telling lies to himself and online. That's horribly sad. (And a little creepy...I hope he's not going to out to be violent.) I'm also hoping he has someone else to go to in desperate moments.
Beth A. Kaplan
2020-06-29 20:38:11 +0000 UTC
