238 – Dork
I don’t know about you guys, but I always feel irritated when I show someone an old picture of myself with other people, and they think I’m someone else in the photo. Especially when that someone looks nothing like me.
And yes, this is the same Catan game Clementine was considering buying way back in strip 121.
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You might not believe it, but the main highlight of this strip is actually Clementine’s new hairstyle, which is awesome.
Also Clementine should know by now that glasses are the most certain way to tell girls from boys.
It’s not new! Clementine had her hair up once in chapter 5.
And sadly, she has no 4th wall breaking powers, so she doesn’t realize those things.
It may not be new, but it looks really nice, especially after not having see it for a while.
I didn’t notice her hair because the ponytail was always against a dark background.
Yeah, I only noticed it by the fourth panel. And then happiness poured over me.
Chloe was a Bifauxnen? I wonder what M-N looked like back then.
Chloe was a kid. Not everyone develops secondary characteristics at the same pace. ^^;
I think she was just a tomboyish kid.
She’s probably 12-13 in there, and her boobs aren’t quite there yet.
My tits came pretty early… damn gynecomastia.
Having had long hair and been mistaken for a female on multiple occasions when I was younger, I shouldn’t have fallen for this, but I did.
Happened to me too, only I took it personally and decided to keep my hair long out of petty pride. Ended up having to grow out my muttonchops to stop getting hit on by fratboys…
Happens all the time to my brother and his long hair and prepubescent face.
Ha ha. That’s me and my sister back in middle school. She had beautiful waist length hair and I had a short, messy, “what the heck was 13-year-old me thinking” haircut. People who didn’t know us sometimes assumed I was the dorky younger brother (rather than the older sister.)
Waist length? Ugh, that must take forever to dry after a shower… Shoulder length was bad enough for me. ^^;
At least she didn’t go for the bowl-cut, nobody but Moe can pull that look off.
Their hair is kind of a giveaway, but from Frédéric’s smirk in panel 2 I suspect he’s expecting Clem’s mistake…
Guh, writing out a name with more than one accent still feels weird.
I actually wonder why those accents made it to the English version of the site. I never use them in the English version of the comic itself. Must be a mistake. Feel free to call him Frederic. As long as you don’t call him Frederick, I’ll be happy. ;)
Well, now the comic is showing up in French!
It’s not! I fixed it an hour ago.
*chuckles* I thought as much. ^_^
Well, when children are still young, it’s sometimes difficult to tell their gender.
Dude, you did that on purpose, right? Giving Fred a shirt that looks like Chloe’s current one and his hairstyle looks sort of like hers, too, while she had to wear green of course. I totally mixed them up as well.
Chloe actually wore green back when I first designed her, so Teenage!Chloe’s design is a little shoutout to my old artwork. :)
So it made sense to have Fred in red instead. :)
Now it looks a little bit like she copied some of Fred’s style. But that might not be unusual when siblings get along well. Plus her Mario star makes sense on her present-day shirt.
Saw this one coming, but it’s still funny. And yes, Clem is very cute with a ponytail.
Yeah, kinda hard to tell in the cartoon world when mostly everyone have the same face.
I actually heard a piece on NPR about Settlers of Catan recently.
The game is popular around the world, but the strangest part of the piece was the fact that Sony Pictures has optioned the rights to make a… make a movie based on Catan. How? Why?
I feel so unworldly not knowing any French. Is there an english version of the comic?
It’s usually in English (here in the U.S.). At the top you can switch between French and English. I think there was a mistake made when it was uploaded in French only.
Oh, so it’s not only me :)
Dez will probably fix this soon.
But does everyone else here speak (or at least understand) French?
No problem, I understood enough of the French to get the point anyhow :).
Pas de problème.
Non, je ne parle pas Francais et je comprende seulement un petit peux.
(I had to look up “seulement”, and not quite sure about the grammar.
I did have to take French a few years in middle/high school. But I can’t remember a lot more than how to say I don’t speak it and only understand a little.)
Augh!
I’m so sorry. There was a typo in the French version, and I ended up reuploading it on the English site like a idiot. Serves me right for not checking.
It’s all fixed now.
Strange, I can only see the French version (which I visited first).
Also, I’m going to hide in a dark corner. I loooove ponytails and didn’t notice…
Yup, all of a sudden this version has turned French. It was English yesterday.
Also, should I take offence at the fact that “dorky” in French is “nerd”? ;-)
“dorky” means silly/stupid/foolish.
There’s not a proper word that I can think of in French for either concept, so I went for the English word “nerd” which is part of our familiar language, unlike “dork”, which most people who don’t speak much English won’t know.
What about ‘dweeb’ and ‘geek’?
Where is the English version? I only see French.
Also, isnt that Chloes original look way back when as Maki? Eeee! So cute! Love that short haircut.
Ugh. Sorry about this. It’s fixed now. And yup, that’s Maki!Chloe indeed. :)
Ah, that’s where I saw her like that before. I thought it was in the comic, but it was in the filler.
It’s funny cause when I first read this comic and got to that panel I thought “He’s not that dorky looking. Somewhat cute actually. No, wait that’s Chloe, I saw her like that before.”
it looks like there is a mistake in the english version. in the last panel Frédéric says ” I’m the on on the left”. he should either be saying “I’m the one on the left” or saying “I’m on the left”
Ugh. I ended up reuploading an old version of the comic when I tried to fix my previous mistake. What a shitty week. Thanks for noticing.
meh meh meh. Nopon not mind. Dez comic amaze.