I'm beginning to think that maybe Anthony's wife has a good reason for her attitude...

[conuly]

I sure wouldn't want my husband hanging out with somebody who thinks the only way he can be part of her life is if they have an affair.

I mean, why can't they just go out for coffee? Surely it's still legal to have married friends?

But no, Elizabeth's first assumption is "OMG SEX!"

She's clearly insane, and I want her away from any guy I might possibly be interested in ever.

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I haven't been following the strip, so I can't put it into contexrt. I think though there are two factors to consider that haven't been mentioned yet:

a) tone of voice could have made it clearer what he meant by be a part of your life and that is lost in the comic, so we have to assume it was more romantic and pushing in that direction

b) Comics sometimes need to kind of abbreviate things for space reasons. You have a short space to get to that punchline, and if you put in all of the exposition in your head, you have a crappy comic. Now, part of doing a good comic is finding a way to make it make sense and get to that comicy ending. But each individual strip is going to have to balance that a bit differently. Sometimes you'll have plot strips that are weak on funny to get you where you need to go. Sometimes you'll be low on explanation and hope the reader can fill in the blanks. But that's the medium, so I think you should generally give it a little bit more leeway. If this were a book, then that would say more about the character's personality.