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North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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LittleSin said:
I don't think that's fair, N_R.

He has gone on record saying that he is infertile. You write what you know...and he was a man that wanted children, couldn't have them and now has this on his shoulders.

I believe he has enough tact to be able to handle such a situation well...if not for himself than for his wife.

I don't see 'writing what you know' to be a weakness at all.
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I'm just saying that I'm not that hopeful he can pull it off. In the past he has written arcs where he has been really thoughtful and even showing glimpses of true emotion in his characters (such as Brent's dream about his daughter), but for the past few years... I don't know if he can pull that off anymore. To me it seems he's gone a little too deep in the "Sitwebcomic" end of the pool to really be able to elicit that kind of emotion anymore. I'm hoping I'm wrong... but I'm not hopeful.

I admit freely I might be projecting here, because of... you know... the things I've been told about my own reproductive capabilities due to the treatment. I just feel like having one of the few arcs in the recent past that has managed to make me hopeful for the characters hit such a wall... that would be just bullshit, if you ask me. It would basically be saying that Brent and Jade are pretty much stuck as a DINK couple, thus closing one pretty major venue of character development for them.

Just my €0.02.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Discovering you are infertile does not close off the development of your relationship nor make it impossible to have a family.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

LittleSin said:
I don't think that's fair, N_R.

He has gone on record saying that he is infertile. You write what you know...and he was a man that wanted children, couldn't have them and now has this on his shoulders.

I believe he has enough tact to be able to handle such a situation well...if not for himself than for his wife.

I don't see 'writing what you know' to be a weakness at all.
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If its not a weakness then he shouldn't have criticized Buckley for writing his pregnancy ark into a miscarriage. And don't say that its just because of the poor way he went about it. Before it happened I remember him saying "he better not make it a miscarriage."

In Kurtz's defense though, this hasn't actually happened yet.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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AshburnerX said:
They've tried the adoption road and were basically told that his job as a cartoonist wasn't stable enough to provide for a child.
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The draconian requirements of adoption always mystify me. It's as if we have a great paucity of children up for adoption or something. And the dissonance with having children vs adopting children is huge - we (our government) economically encourage those who can't afford to support children to have more and more and more, but to adopt, you practically have to own a mansion und a yacht.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

If my speculation is at all true, I can see him writing about 2 weeks worth of strips showing Brent and Jade being devastated by the news that one of them is infertile, then it goes to a very special LOLBat week and the story is never revisited again either to show how it effects them and their relationship or any steps they take to try to have a child or adopt. In my head it just seems to fit. I have no problem with people writing what they know. I just don't think he has the chops to pull off a subject like this.
 
Frank

Frank

blotsfan said:
If its not a weakness then he shouldn't have criticized Buckley for writing his pregnancy ark into a miscarriage. And don't say that its just because of the poor way he went about it. Before it happened I remember him saying "he better not make it a miscarriage."

In Kurtz's defense though, this hasn't actually happened yet.
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I think the difference is, Buckley wrote a terrible story about miscarriage while writing about how he was glad his girlfriend at the time miscarried.

He's kind of a gross person.
 
Norris

Norris

So Cole's going to think that Lucille and Max appear have a chemistry or something, Lucille will tell Cole that Max is obviously gay or Max will flabbergastedly come out to Cole, and Cole will either shag Lucille or be all "Whoa!"
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Today's was funny too, even though I have no idea what Diagon Alley is. Seeing Cole shove his geekness into a totally different social scene is good stuff.

Also, "its", no apostrophe.
 
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