- Richard: Keep calm, Richard. This thing between Melody and you is solely based on mutual attraction. After all, you two have nothing in common.
- Richard: Melody surely sees it the same way.
- Melody: Hello, Sandra. I’m Melody.
- Sandra: Hello.
- Melody: I heard you like raccoons. So I translated the first chapter of Ulf Hohmann’s seminal monography “Der Waschbär” for you.
- Sandra: WOW!! THANK YOU!
- Richard: F.U.C.K.
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@ Steven:
I was interpreting it more as an indication that Melody has been so infuriating to Richard that he’s been complaining at home, so Sandra just has a bad impression of her.
Er, *had* a bad impression of her.
She only translated the first chapter. Which means if Sandra wants more then Melody has leverage.
@ Steven:
I think it’s more along the lines of Sandra having heard Richard complaining about Melody. I can guarantee that a kid certainly WILL be hostile to someone who has apparentyl been deliberately pissing off their parents.
Err….should that last word even by up here? I mean this IS a PG rated comic…
@ Steven:
Maybe the difference is that her father and mother were together when her mother died which was also when she was very young. If U reread the early S&W strip where Sandra and Cloud visit her mother, it may clarify how she (and more to the point all the real-life semi-orphans who feel similarly) feels about the remaining parent getting potentially romantically involved with someone else.
@ Hallux:
Correction: visited w Woo. (#025)
Flying United Country of Kings, she won over Sandra in an instant.
@ Dorje Sylas:
Noticed the same thing! Aww… They’re all growing up so fast! 🙂 Considering how often comic strip characters seem not to change, ever… Charlie Bown is I think still 8 or 9 for instance.
In one of the early strips she was barely taller than the doorknob, now she’s almost as tall as Melody who is almost as tall as her father. Sunrise, sunset, I guess.
@ Icarus:
Yes, but the title is the same, or at least very close. The German book is The Coon and the Italian book is The Raccoon.
Is F.U.C.K. a euphemism for “fuck”?
huh,
i am pretty sure thats the first time that words been used
Robert wrote:
Well, since the word originated as a Germanic word meaning to “Hit” or “Strike”, it’s obvious that Richards was really thinking:
“Strike Me Down Now and Get it Over With, God.”
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I mean, how is he going to compete with an Icebreaker Gift that awesome?
that expression on Melody in the last pannel. She looks like, super evil, to me
Woo! It’s back! 😀
TehTimmah wrote:
I was thinking the same thing though I’m not sure it’s so evil as triumphant. “Aha, Richard, I have your daughter and soon I will have YOU! Muwahahahahaha . . . “
Charles Bowditch wrote:
You…uh…might wanna go recheck your assumptions there with a binge, m’friend.
Frank wrote:
:-{)
Yep: Waschbär = “wash bear” = Raccoon; because they (often) wash their food as they eat. I loved that name when I learned it years ago.
@ Intelligence:
Why do people assume he is her superior? Nowhere had it been said.
Last panel. Melody seems to have that same look that the substitute teacher had way back during the Gender Domination arc. (I forget the actual title, but it was a bit polarizing and scary.) Or is it the angle that just makes Melody look conniving?
Itrogash wrote:
Personally, I assumed they were on the Same Level of the Corporate Food Chain.
Melody’s smart and attractive and despite their personality differences, I think Richard is falling in love with her. Is she going to become Richard’s girlfriend? Will she be a stepmom to Sandra? Only Novil knows.
This has been on my mind for a while. I always thought that Woo might slip up at some point in an unguarded moment and reveal his secret to someone in Sandra’s social circle, probably when Sandra and co. are chilling out. So I’m calling it: Melody will be the one to find out, won’t she? I was thinking Larissa and/or Cloud might be there, too.
Next, she’s totally going to turn woo against him, probably through multiple belly rubs.
SHE’S GOING TO START A WAR AGAINST RICHARD!!!
ok that look on her face at the end is a tad creepy reminds me of a drug dealer looking to hook a new “client”
I’ve finally re-read every thing and i must say this is one of my favorite web comics out there… good show jolly good show
Too late Richard, she’s won over your daughter.
Now you practically have to marry her.
Wait until Melody learns about Woo’s ability to speak…
@ Steven:
Because it can be very difficult for a child or teenager to accept a new parental unit in the family if there hasn’t been another one for years, especially if it is sudden, they have nothing in common, or they seem like an attempt to ‘replace’ a parent they loved and lost already.
It is a cliche specifically because it DOES happen in a lot of cases. It doesn’t happen in every case, but it does happen a lot and it is why inserting yourself into a family can be difficult. It is different being a step-parent than a biological parent because a biological parent will definitely share SOMETHING with their biological child like some traits, a sense of humour, an inside joke, an interest, something that connects them even if they are otherwise exact opposites – but a step-parent might not, and getting along with the child/teenager matters if you want a stable family unit.
It’s why Radio Rebel had Tara be awkward with her step-father until he knew she was Radio Rebel and they were able to bond over that.
It’s why Lemonade Mouth had that one guy being a jerk to his step-mother at every turn until someone called him out on it because she was genuinely sharing interests with him and trying to bond and he was pushing her away because she couldn’t replace his mother.
It is a cliche because it does happen in reality.
@ Dorje Sylas:
Yeah, I had to go back to the beginning and check. In comic 2, Sandra comes up to Richard’s elbow, now she’s nearly as tall as he is.
Has Sandra gotten older over the course of the comic? Or was it just for better framing in the panel?
@ TheWaffle:
D’oh! Went back a couple arcs–Sandra and her friends have been shown to be easily over 5′ tall with more adult proportions for a while.
The cast page says Sandra is 12… How old is she now?
@ TheWaffle:
She was eleven when the comic started and is now probably 13, definitely well into her twelve. I will say though that she was too short for being 11 back then, so art style change is probably most of the explanation.
Additionally, as any parent or elementary/middle school teacher can attest, the years 11-13 are when girls really spurt up in height. In the sixth grade it isn’t at all uncommon for the girls to be taller than the boys. However, by the eighth grade the vast majority of girls are as tall as they’re going to get while the boys keep growing clear up through high school. I grew another quarter of an inch in my freshman year in college.