Marigold, Nooo
noooooo
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I really hate this new art style. The characters look exactly the same as each other face-wise. There is no creativity behind the facial expressions anymore.
Is this poorly-executed sarcasm or just really half-assed trolling? All can tell for certain is that you aren't very good at it
Run, Dale. Being in a relationship with someone who doesn’t communicate is a horrible place to be.
This is her first relationship. She's not doing it because she's unwilling to communicate, she just doesn't realize she's making this harder on herself
It's still your butt he wants to touch, you doof!
Jeph's favourite character, folks. *sigh*
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Aaand Dale wins this week's 'Oblivious' prize. Please report to Union Robotics to collect it from the previous holder!
I wouldn't say 'Oblivious'. He could just be a friendly guy who's definitely into his girlfriend and wouldn't knowingly cheat on Marigold, ever. Dale could've noticed and is either waiting for Marigold to come out with it or to get over it. Of course, this probably the first serious relationship either have had, so mistakes will be made.
Noooo, Marigold, focus on the presents!!!
Oh Dale, you haven't learned anything, have you....
He's learned that pulling your crush's pigtails by trying to humiliate her in WoW is not a good seduction technique. Beyond that...?
Marigold's question in panel 3 was a big flag that Dale missed. He probably has not done any dating sims.
Conflict, yaaaay!
Conflict, nuuuu!...I mean, conflict’s good, but, nuuuu!
This is Marigold's first relationship, yeah? So she doesn't have what you'd call a lot of emotional experience.
It's Dale's, too
If anything, we'd get a twist and Momo finds Sven again.
Sigh. Hanners is stable and off exploring. Pintsize is beyond redemption. Marigold is the most obvious arc for character development. But, damn. It looks to be a long while before I'll have anything to ship.
It hasn’t been THAT long since we’ve had a Faybles strip has it? :)
Cue Marigold being quiet and anxious, Dale being confused, and May and Momo having to team up to cut through the tension via a medium of a road trip with a truck full of performing seals.
Team May and Momo!
SOME good totally CAN come of this if it leads to more strips with Emily in them. But other than that, this is bad. If she were blowing up about it, then at least Dale would know what was wrong :(
Ah, nerd relationships #nostalgia
Dale: Wait a minute, I know where you're going with this. Look, I like Emily a lot, but I'm not willing to share you with her, and I'm not comfortable with the idea of you hooking up with her.
Nope, just a connoisseur of the absurd. :)
Dale has no idea how to handle insecure women. He should have spent more time playing dating sims as well as WoW. Then he'd be ready for this moment.
Unless Marigold turns into a match-3 puzzle, I don't think those would have helped, either
In my experience, you don't answer that last question with facts. You answer it with a non-enthusiastic answer, like "eh, I guess so. haven't really looked at her like that... just as a friend."
Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, don't internalize the doubts Marigold. It never ends well.
Personally, I'm not really a fan of this storyline, but I admit that it's pretty realistic. I mean, Dale works exclusively with pretty women, and Marigold has been known to have self esteem issues. She was bound to eventually get irrationally paranoid about him cheating on her with someone there.
His glasses should be flashing red with a warning at this point!
Which should also transmit a signal to Momo. Her <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1573" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">social protocol database</a> would be raising all sorts of red flags, as well...
Rule #74: THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON.
Marigold, honey, you need to talk this stuff out!
Probably not a fight. But brooding fear and resentment.
That's worse
Marigold and Dale's first fight is about to happen.
Well it would be their first fight as a couple. Before they started dating, all they did was fight.
Marigold, noooooo...wait, crap.
Mmm early comic