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Marigold’s going to get a terrible neck cramp like that. I wonder why they didn’t put her in her bed, considering this is her apartment. Presumably because that would require slightly more thought as to the staging of the scene.

Also, nothing happened on this date. The relationship neither advanced nor reversed. It’s in the exact same spot it was two weeks ago. Why are we doing this?

Incidentally, has anyone been reading Lucky Penny, another slice-of-life style comic with QUIRKY girls in it? It’s also been having a date sequence, coincidentally. But since it’s writer isn’t trying to kill time until he can retire, stuff’s been happening in it. Not super exciting stuff, but stuff. Things. Events. They made out for the first time, his car got towed, and he’s staying the night in storage room she illegally lives in (and some exposition about a muscle girl got dropped, which presumably means we’ll see one later). It’s been going on a while, so comics are building off each other. In addition to the “Penny lusts for Walter’s cock” angle, there’s the possibility that her home will be attacked tonight by the kids who tried to fuck with her the last two nights, while Walter is there. There are balls in the air, and thus a mild tension in these comics as they build towards a resolution that is presumably coming.

None of this is mind-blowing or even really laudable. It’s fairly basic storytelling. The most basic kind of storytelling possible, in fact: A story about events that occur in a sequence. You’d think it’d be impossible to have a comic that failed even on that level.

And yet, here we are, Jeph. Spinning our wheels in a pointless scene.