It’s Marcie
on August 25, 2020 at 12:01 amBeen writing Dumbing of Age for so long that the idea of Jason/Marcie is just…. what? WHAT? no. No.
No.
Also, dang, Jason, when this whole post-IW! stuff started, you went on about how you were doing this smartly and by the book and whatnot, but I’m pretty sure this means you’re bangin’ your subordinate. That’s gonna require some paperwork!!!!
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HR took a holiday
a very long one
“so whatdja get me, scrawny”
As I am also reading the Guilded Age reruns, currently, I did a double-take at that…
I keep thinking I should get back to that one. I was reading it for a while, then stopped, for reasons that I no longer remember.
I seem to recall Marcie having sex with Joe earlier, so it isn’t that outlandish (assuming that her sexual preferences are the issue).
That said, I still like the Jason/Joyce ship my wife came up with.
I took it as more of just how they are so outside of each other’s spheres in DoA.
Also, the very concept of Marcie as a romantic rival to Sal in DOA is just… no. No, with a side order of no, and also no. Doesn’t work. Not that I think DOA Sal’s still interested, but since this Sal is the thought has to happen and I immediately respond to that thought with ‘lol, no.’
I don’t think they’ve even interacted since IW!
Dammit, my comment below should have gone up here.
Maybe he filled out that paperwork! You don’t know!
…well, I guess maybe you do.
Looks at Sal’s face in panel 2
Can someone give Sal a hug I think she really needs one
It’s Marcie! is the spinoff comic we all need right now.
And the domestic married life sequel, Jason and Marcie!.
The sex-with-a-coworker/subordinate is exactly what makes it connect to DoA for Jason, at least! He needs an anachronistic online dating app, STAT.
“My neck isn’t getting injured? ‘Kay, cool.”
That’s some dark foreshadowing, in hindsight. (Walkyverse Marcie isn’t mute, she just doesn’t talk much.)
So in this universe Marcie is dating Jason, while in DoA she wanted to be with Malaya. I guess she has poor relationship taste in both universes.
Wasn’t Sal also technically his subordinate for a couple of periods there? I guess when they hooked up, she wasn’t, but still.
The issues of power imbalance in a boss-subordinate relationship are well traveled, but these days they’re somewhat complicated by the number of people whose social life basically begins and ends with their jobs. I guess Jason could’ve met some one-night stand at a bar that turned into something more, but since his work is presumably classified and takes up so much of his life, that would bring its own separate set of issues. One way or another, his choices are basically near-celibacy or bending some rules enough to require that paperwork. And considering Sal’s everything, a certain level of rule-bending seems to be a turn-on for him.
Was this an excuse to draw Sal’s face while her world implodes? Here, audience have two exquisite representations of soul-wrenching devastation. Heart catching, but exquisite.
Once again we see that Jason’s superpower is a remarkable ability to maintain world-weary introspection under all circumstances up to and including high-speed impacts.
For those of us not around for the first time, this is a great ride. I never would have expected it.
Right now, Jason, she needs to be away from you and your completely asocial inability to understand her emotions far more than she needs to kill you.
I’m so used to Sal and Marcie’s friendship in DoA that this is just… bizarre.