BOC07P12
May21
on May 21, 2018
at 1:00 am
I kind of imagined this music when I drew up this page:
…but what could this mean?
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Back Office
In a Call-Center…no one can hear you scream…
I kind of imagined this music when I drew up this page:
…but what could this mean?
Wait, wouldn’t the card disappearing be a good thing?
@Kessy: In another reality it probably would be, but this is Back Office, the comic where dreams go to die. 🙂
@Delta-v: Even though I think our main characters deserve a break from the dream-crushing and a breakthrough in their relationship, I suspect that you have the right idea of what is happening here. Note that the card didn’t go away… only the writing on it.
@Kessy: It seem that way wouldn’t it….. (Cue ominous music)
@Delta: Damn…I had run a new-slogan competition of the comic that would have won it 😀
@O8h7w: I’m following the Back to the Future logic with this, where things will change in real-time. Although strictly speaking the card itself and maybe even Sam should have disappeared entirely.
Back to the Future’s logic doesn’t bear close scrutiny. Just go with it. ^_^
As messy as that time-travel logic is, I’m having a harder time understanding what happened to Mike & Karen. I thought Karen talking with Mike about that card would lead to good things, not bad. How screwed up are those two really?
@08: Yanno, it occurs to me that Sam may not know the whole story of what happened with the card.
@O8h7w: They’re both pretty screwed up. A stint in call-center can do that to you 🙂
What I attempted (and failed) to imply is that Mike had put a good deal of trust in Karen believing her to be one of the few honest people in his current life. Right after ending the night with Emily, he didn’t expect his trust in Karen to be broken by her admitting that she withheld that she knew about Emily and kept her card from him in the hope that he wouldn’t be able to call her. (In the last chapter Karen also nearly hung up on Emily instead of forwarding her call to Mike).
Mike freaks out on this information, like he tends to, and a chance to grow their relationship is lost, resulting in more awkwardness that just eats at them for years….
If Karen had kept quiet about the card (at least for a while), things might have gone differently, thus Sam’s mission. Sam’s hope is that they will finally move on, maybe even get together, and then as happy people they will stop making her own life hell.
@Kessy: She knows enough that it was the catalyst of the awkwardness between Karen & Mike, and she knew when Karen fesses up about the card. However beyond that she might not know anything about Emily nor the The Call that Mike was remembering.
@Rawr: Okay, that makes sense, but I would not say I know Mike well enough to ever guess that explanation. Thanks for setting me straight. I shall do a reread with this in mind when the story is finished and see if I can make sense of it all good enough to make it stick in my picky mind, which will only accept and remember that which it understands.
@O8h7w: Sorry about the bamboozling nature of the chapter so far. I hope it will become clearer near the end. (If not, I’m in trouble story-wise ;D)