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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: March 22, 2012, 11:42:13 am »

I rather think he simply sold it to some pawnbroker for cash for booze and the girls and maybe he seems to be a bit ashamed about it
Maybe Polly will help Ben here since she knows this land much better in current times than them.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: March 17, 2012, 01:56:42 am »

So will Bern now change her class from 'knight' into something else?
So we will get flashbacks of this guy's past as a knight?

I hope that May will meet Polly too in this chapter.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: March 12, 2012, 05:49:22 am »

But the cover looks for me like flashback of this guy's younger days, not current time, so he should be using two.

Edit:
Seeing the update, well the simpliest explenations seems to work the best than trying to find some crazy theories
So the guy thought that in fire the mother and also little Bern lost their lives, so no wonder he gone from there, and become a drunk...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: March 10, 2012, 02:27:06 am »

I hope the guy won't say something in style "I like them young! And I wanted to do you in time so I visited" or something like that

But really the guy seems to be surprised too, so maybe Bern's mother didn't tell him, and she told to Bern she had a great knight father while in reality he was just a failure who knocked a girl up by accident...
Would strip some delusions, not Grant the Geat Knight, but Grant the Nobody.

But then again that old knight seemed to know him, and his fighting style to suggest Bern to go after him for second sword...
A farce for Bern to learn the truth?
We see in cover that the guy uses one sword, not two.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: March 02, 2012, 11:41:36 pm »

So my assumption that he would think Bern is some prostitute is true?

Hearing all that from her own father, who even doesn't recognise you in his kinda drunken state, damn, indeed, Bern happiness in the comic is a lacking thing.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: March 01, 2012, 11:59:05 pm »

Seems so, or he is so drunk he doesn't know what is he saying anymore...

Saying to your own daughter "Make yourself at home, babe" is rather insulting, and if I knew no better maybe he thinks Bern is a prostitute he ordered...

If she looks like her mother, and maybe the guy has some drink trauma about her and is ordering girls looking like her to use from time to time would explaing quite a bit.

Bern should be rather glad she didn't get May to see this, I got the feeling that Polly will be the one this time who will comfort Bern after this first encounter with the father.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: February 24, 2012, 04:22:05 am »

Oh god, this so fits the chapter name...

So Bern father became a dirty drinking hobo?

Totally anticlimax.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: February 20, 2012, 05:16:57 am »

Hmm I wonder what will Bern see...

The title of the chapter is Anticlimax so no father/father is dead already scenario too could be plausible.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: February 15, 2012, 04:36:04 pm »

Oh we finally get to see the big evil Thin Man himself!
Long hair and kinda big lips?
I wonder if he reminds anyone we saw already in the comic.

Also seems Melter planted some magical tracking device in Inverness head to check somehow on May, or maybe he through it will control Inverness to bring some distraction.

I wonder what he would do if May suddenly would disappear in the portal going to where Bern is, or maybe that situation would give him a possibility to try to capture her.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: February 06, 2012, 02:33:53 am »

So we shift to Bern now.

In such situation I expect that Bern will first meet her father new family, maybe she will have a little sister and/or brother now, than meeting her father first...

I can't wait to see how this will develop, and I wodner if she will try to contact May so she would be with her on this event through the ring.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: February 02, 2012, 01:40:15 am »

Today's update basically summarise all of this into this clear trust argument, which for sure many readers, like me too were affected by.

I still can't understand at all why May thought it would be a good idea to tell her life story on this contest and reveal the truth behind her character/personalities like that, instead of some private talk just between friends, where also maybe Bern too would be included to soften the blow(I assume Bern knows about this in most part).

She is not an inexperienced kid, she should expect that people, especially closest to her, would react with negative attitude for such declaration.

It is indeed like it is, if once you tell all you are wearing many masks and try to fit your personality to people you meet so they would like you, and then show that your true self is some kind of emotionless entity, then she should not be surprised about this.
All of us wear different masks daily and act a bit differently if we deal with people from work, friends or family, for us and I assume other Flipside characters that's natural ability to do which we all learned through socialisation process, while May seems to be a person who simply couldn't achieve this naturally, just had to use such method as she used to get similia results as normal people which she brought to extreme.

The time mends all so I think in current situation that's the only solution to this, nothing which May will do will convince Crest, since he can easily turn every of her honest action into pretending made specially for him so he would start liking her again.

This kind of events will be harder for May to resolve than escaping from Bloody mary hideout.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: January 26, 2012, 12:51:03 am »

It looks kinda funny how May seems to not being able to comprehend what Crest problem here is with her, after all she tells him now the truth and acts like he wanted, and he is still unhappy.

We see Bern on the central spot on the cover, so I wonder if we wil shift to her finding father adventure soon, or maybe will get her talk with May about this.
Or maybe Bern explaining May condition to Polly later how she sees it from her side.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: January 23, 2012, 03:32:58 pm »

Love the glaring contest, and May with her serious emotionless face looks kinda scary.

So the change is portrayed with different iris style(for reader's conveniance)?

Looking at previous page we didn't get to see May looking like that during contest, so May can switch off at will her other personalities traits returning to her original emotionless one?

It is handy.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: January 20, 2012, 10:42:59 am »

I'm more affected by the situation why Suspiria is so tired now where she needs sleep...

Some delayed effect of her being tampered by that Thin Man assistant?

And knowing Crest he will get used to this new-old May quickly, we saw that May is good at befriending people knowing how she should act and what points press around different ones to maximise the effect.

If current May personality is a constant thing where she acts like she acts as a result of mixing all personalities into one depending on situation naturally, not doing it on purpose herself, then I think other will understand.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: January 06, 2012, 02:23:31 am »

I gotta agree with Regina here, even for me as a reader who followed this comic for years, this May true nature revelation made her a stranger for me, more than I would want or expect.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: December 21, 2011, 12:10:25 pm »

There are important things to cover, how other(Crest,Suspiria,Regina) will react to May confession, we can assume May will be given that position so she would need to stay here for a while, also Bern should have some important resolution of finding her father and also the whole deal with Polly, maybe some move in Crest/Suspiria situation, and of course there's also the guy who need to kidnap May for Thin Man, and Fata with Moss playing up May reputation here and there.
Not mentioning Bloody Mary and maybe some other deadly Thin Man creations showing up...
There's so many interesting things to cover.

Also Christmas strip update:
A) orgy
B) no orgy
C) become Saiyan (lol Crest)



Can I hope that next update/s we will get other characters Christmas wishes in similiar maneer?

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: December 17, 2011, 05:32:13 am »

To be fair if we would cut the extra chapter A story out, and just concentrate on last page of chapter 30 and then first pages of 31 it makes sense, since we didn't witness her telling the story just we got a narration of the scene where the judge says that May managed to sneak humor into it, and who knows it was funny, if in last part May uses her standard sexual jokes, then she could use it for whole time in the story, and by telling her personal story she got the real connection with the audience at what she aimed for, who aside of laughing at her jokes, had to be captivated by the story itself a little.

But I would agree with Bob here, it's a comedy club, so who makes the audience laugh more and longer wins, so in my understanding if there were performers who beaten May in this field, she shouldn't win, but it looks the story in form of Clay will turn this around about something grasping real connection with audience and not cheap laughs so May will win/get into another round.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 31: Discussion

« on: December 11, 2011, 07:02:41 am »

... Wow, I'm almost surprised the audience laughed at that last part. I know I'd be hard pressed to laugh after hearing over 30 min of someone's life story.

Maybe the other performers are REALLY bad? =/

Seems so...
Cause really listening to such life story we witnessed in chapter A is not something which would make me laugh in any way, that little sexual joke in the end may be just a little warm up for the rest of May's act here.

If that will be all then maybe May will win by doing the thing she did all the time, she established the connection with audience here through telling her life story, so they would remember her, and vote later, if all acts will be jokes, in the end you will remember than one rather serious story.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter A: Discussion

« on: December 11, 2011, 06:55:19 am »

Now you made me think that May is an artifical human creation, and Veranda role was to establish the emotional connection with little girl and then her disappearance was arranged so the girl would develop further by herself...

As crazy theories go

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Should I feel bad for thinking Crest is the most interesting?

« on: December 07, 2011, 01:56:16 pm »

I prefer the mixed cast of main characters who would rotate from time to time depending on who the focus would be directed.

Since I started reading this story seeing a banner about a nymphomaniac jester girl, and a female knight, not a kinda thief boy story, so in a way first chapters were a bit of surprise for me how much focus was given on Crest and his backstory.

I'm actually like that Crest stopped being the "main" character, we get the basics about the story from his perspective as readers, get to know May and Bern from a stranger look, when we learned the thing we had to to grasp the circumstances correctly regarding Bern and May relation, the focus was changed accordingly so we could start the real story.

I'm too one of the few who finds Bern and May relation a bit forced, but what can you do, that's love
On Bern place I would dump May 100 times already, someone says that Bern being her usual self is all the time all the same in her thinking and actions, for me that's actually a big plus, that she's doing in what she belives is right and try to stick to it.

But I too enjoy this time when Bern is not with May(and where May is not in direct danger so all thoughts of Bern wouldn't be focused on her), like other I think she needs her own alone time to shine a bit, spread her wings.

The same with Crest, to get of the May 'hook' for a while and get his own adventure.
Since chapter 31 title is Anticlimax no wonder it's Crest chapter, since I find his character a bit dull from time to time, like you get in stories a usual boy character into who majority of male readers could easily self-insert, sorry I can't do that with Crest too much

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter A: Discussion

« on: December 07, 2011, 09:46:37 am »

So this short story ended.

Really so Maytag is an empty container without any emotions who needs to be filled constantly so she could feel it, feel good?

And depending on situation and people she uses a proper personality so they would like her and so she could form new connections cause that makes her feel good/complete?

She saw that entertainers make an easy connection with a bunch of people and are mostly well-liked so she choosed to become one.
And also the whole nymphomaniac nature is May true nature or just a very good way to get really strong connections with more and more new interesting people?

So in a way remembering how her cheating habits gone even while having Bern love at disposal nearby, she's a junkie
Shouldn't true love be the strongest connection May can ever hope to get int he world to?

Makes me wonder if Bern knew about this, but I suppose we will learn that.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter A: Discussion

« on: November 16, 2011, 05:00:34 am »

Ok, that's actually reassuring.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter A: Discussion

« on: November 15, 2011, 03:06:48 am »

so thats what schizo means ... well i think she has most of the symptoms but again how much is an act if everything thus far is an act how can we tell truth from lies i think we saw maytags true colors when she visited crest in his room and she said she agreed with his statement about being scum but again that could have been an act as well. Because when you distance yourself from life far enough and you still know when to laugh and smile when needed when to say I love you when to laugh and when to cry and not truly mean any of it then can you really love some one like maytag says she does for bern. though I do understand maytag's point of veiw and can relate to acting how others want you to so all i got to ask now is who is the reall maytag is it a side we have yet to see or one we have only seen glimpses of through out the story.

That is a problem we have, when and where May was acting natural or simply playing out for other people/enemies to get a desired reaction from them?
Does May loves Bern, or all it's a lie/mirror response for bern feelings?
I think May under the spell told the truth, but knowing May strange strong willpower, what if she could cheat her way out of it too?

Which May is real, what part of her personality is real, and what are just lies?
Her outgoing nature and nymphomaniac tendencies are real or just her playing up so more poeple liked and thought how cool she is?
There are situations where we may see real May, emotionless, strong willed, who can't be broken by anyone, simple cause she may not feel any emotions.

Maybe May is a case of mirror syndrome, she feels with such kind of emotions which would make poeple like her, choosing an open jester work, would make more and more poeple like her, being shy and cute around her lovers in private life, would make them love her even more and want to protect.

Or she was brainwashed/conditioned/trained now which changed her emotionless empty child personality into being absurd open to people one.
But in moments of danger she uses her original personality traits.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter A: Discussion

« on: November 05, 2011, 12:59:42 am »

So trying a long shot, May is a psychopath?
 
This side story should be interesting, showing how it all started for May.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 30: Discussion

« on: November 02, 2011, 11:20:30 am »

"I want to be liked!"

A bit anticlimatic?

So she's a person who choose different personality for different people so they would care for her/like her?

So maybe she's faking it for Bern to so Bern would have a girl to protect?

Still as in many posts before, I have no idea why she thought this was a good moment to share this info with.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 30: Discussion

« on: October 31, 2011, 11:56:03 pm »

So for who else May become a total stranger?

I will hold waiting for next page to see May big reasons behind this.

If Bern doesn't know about this, then personally it's even worse than all this cheating May did behind Bern back.

I could see May doing it specially for Bern so she as a knight person would have a shy May to protect...
But that would be low.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 30: Discussion

« on: October 28, 2011, 02:07:05 pm »

Exactly.

Now as reader I learned that May I know from start was someone else, or rather like she said all was an act.
So from where we should know what was real in her behaviour and what not?
Do her behaviour around Bern is real or an act?
Did her act around Crest in beginning chapters were too just an act?

I'm kinda confused now to say the least, her jester side and her shy side are all just an act and in reality she's just a very confident person  by nature, so that mean her sexual behaviour is her genuine trait, or just crazy jester act?

Still I think her love for Bern is genuine, or at least I hope now that Bern is that only person who knows about true May, if not, then well Bern should just tie the knot with Polly and forget about May.

No weaknesses, no vulnerabilities, no flaws - nothing that she ever actually pays for, that gets in her way or affects her relationship with other characters for the worse.

I'll just say this... in the next chapter, you'll quickly see that this statement is very wrong.

I hope so that someone from this group will react to this somehow.
Still as others I can't understand the reason why May tells all this now to them all.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 30: Discussion

« on: October 27, 2011, 12:05:51 pm »

If this is an act and it was such a big secret so why May revealed it like that in front of so many people?

And really in her previous suitless accidents she really looked genuine, and Bern too looked as a person who would not think that was an act.

So I bet that Bern doesn't know about it if it's true.

But more real for me is that what May doing now is an act itself to show others and herself she's confidant.

If not then really I wonder what May is really doing.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 30: Discussion

« on: October 24, 2011, 01:01:41 pm »

May's secret?

What can it be?

I'm a nymphomaniac jester girl even without costume?

Or we will get classy "I'm hard in love!"...

Or in next page we will see this is not May but someone else and the real May got kidnapped earlier...

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 30: Discussion

« on: October 21, 2011, 12:56:28 am »

It first happened here, I believe:
http://flipside.keenspot.com/comic.php?i=157

Had me laughing for a good while

So it was May's own fault there...

No excuses, bricks must stay