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[Camp Comic] Friday, January 13, 2017 - Ban-ish
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[Camp Comic] Friday, January 13, 2017 - Ban-ish
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This was a LOT of talking! I wonder if he was starting to stutter again at the end just because of the sheer volume of talking he'd done, or because the knife reminds him of old times, or because asking for his knife back made him nervous, or if stuttering is just something that never goes away, or if he doesn't stutter around Malachi and Seventeen because he's so comfortable around them...it might seem like a small detail, but Katie and Adam are geniuses, so I imagine there's a precise reason for it happening at that moment.
This was a nice conclusion o this arc.
PS: Purdy has a great git rekt face.
Still, if civilization collapses and we all end up like these campers, in three generations there will only be one person left with boots. That will be Purdy's granddaughter.
Stammering is a poorly-understood medical condition. The best insight I had into it was from reading John Glenn's memoir. One night, with a couple of other Mercury 7 astronauts and their wives at his home, Glenn (flush with LIFE magazine money) showed off some of his new electronics, including a speech repeater that put a half-second delay into what everybody spoke into the microphone. Everybody broke up over how they all fumbled it. Except for Glenn's wife, Annie, whose stammer is now well-known (thanks, Tom Wolfe). Her speech came out clear and without a break. The delay somehow eliminated her stammer completely. I don't know that anybody has researched this phenomenon further. No help for Brian in any case.
It was a very unethical and monstrous stutter study done on orphan children.
That happens because the camp is a magical place. Brian, why do you hate magic?
How can I enjoy my comics with such logical inconsistencies? This is worse than when I found out Garfield has no reason to hate Monday!
Also, I stutter, but mine gets worse under emotional stress (or excitement- any time I get worked up basically). The guy I knew with the feedback device, whose stutter was much worse than mine, did say that he became much more fluent when he was angry. I get way *less* fluent, which is extremely frustrating if I'm having an emotionally charged conversation with someone and I can't get my words out.
The only thing that took a beating, was my heart
(Aside: I would consider this one of my favorite comics regardless, but it's a definite plus for me that almost all the characters are barefoot all the time.)
No. Outside of the early comics, Brian almost never spoke.
The only times I really can think he said anything after the early ones (Pootopia, I think is his biggest speech) is telling Seventeen "We do," and his ventriloquist act. There's probably more, but that's all that's coming to mind.
I think of Purdy as Generalissimo of the Ropes Course.