Star Strip page 90
bravo1102 on April 28, 2015
The face-off between Jenny and Vera. I owuld have loved to have this go on further, but Vera isn't one to go on and on. She says done and that's it. I surmise she's been thinking about this for a time and trying to put together something brief. Jenny is a result of her Aordian heritage. They are very accepting of break-ups and separations as all of their relationships are transitory due to their far-flung interstellar culture. They don't have exclusive monogamous long term relationships and marriage is ancient history. So how would that past have affected people's attitudes? Would they eventually break out of the behavior we see on our planet?
I'm not one for far flung far future societies in Science fiction that exactly mirror those on present day earth. It doesn't make sense to me. What if there was no Victorian Romanticism or Christian morality? There would be vast differences. Jane Austen romance wouldn't work in Ancient Babylon so why should it work in a culture as many years in the future as Babylon was in the past.
On those lonely dateless Saturday nights one tends to think a lot of other possible worlds because this one can be so disappointing.
Vera here refers to Doctor Franklin Enstine who she had a relationship at the end of Battle of the Robofemoids. It's also referred in the opening pages of this comic. As for Jenny being so certain three furries can't take her on? She might be over estimating her chances. She hasn't gotten a good look at Fluffy yet.
jerrie at 1:17AM, April 30, 2015
well damn, Vera! who needs ya?
Banes at 3:06PM, April 29, 2015
Vera's a blunt one. I feel bad for Jenny here. Putting myself in her place, I think the comment about being good with the tongue would take the sting out of the breakup quite a bit...
fallopiancrusader at 7:45AM, April 29, 2015
Wow, I wish some of my past break-ups could have gone down as (relatively) amicably and courteously as this one :O
El Cid at 5:34AM, April 29, 2015
Now that's a painful breakup!
plymayer at 4:02AM, April 29, 2015
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KimLuster at 4:02AM, April 29, 2015
Yow she's so blunt about this it's a little painful to watch! You're right about the differences in cultures necessitating different reactions to things like this... Reading the Iliad and Odyssey are separated in time from us and so are comparable to societies separated by space... I can relate to the characters to a large extent but in other ways (sacrificing your daughter so the gods will send some wind...) it's like an alien world!