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| title    = Wait For Me
 
| title    = Wait For Me
 
| image    = wait_for_me.jpg
 
| image    = wait_for_me.jpg
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| titletext = Opening dialogue by Scott
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| titletext = Opening dialogue by [[Scott]]
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This comic juxtaposes a familiar exchange with a surreal outcome.
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{{incomplete}}
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[[Megan]] is returning after a short absence of under two minutes. 
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[[Cueball]]'s reaction is as if she had been gone for years, and had formed a relationship with someone else while waiting.
  
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[[Megan]] is returning after a short absence. [[Cueball]] reacts as if she had been gone for years, and admits to having an affair while waiting.
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There are number of different interpretations of the humour utilised here:
  
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In this comic, a familiar exchange occurs where one person asks the other why they did not wait. The humor lies in the improbability of him falling in love and having an affair within 90 seconds, the impossibility of him having a son in that time, and the ridiculous notion that the son would now be about Megan's current age. This is of course impossible, as it would imply that Cueball experienced twenty-ish years of life in what felt like 1.5 minutes for Megan. (He might conceivably have managed to have sex in that time span, which would fit with the experience of Cueball in [[1068: Swiftkey]]).
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* He is joking. Cueball's pause before admitting to the affair, as well as the claim of having a son by the affair who is Megan's age, suggest that he is joking. It seems impossible for Cueball to have a son Megan's age from an affair while he is notionally seeing Megan - unless he had the relationship with Megan, and the affair, 9 months before she was born.
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*{{w|Time Travel}}: What took 90 seconds for Megan actually took much longer for Cueball, perhaps via travel to {{w|Narnia}}, {{w|Special Relativity}} or some other form of {{w|Time Travel}}
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*Mental Fantasy
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*Cueball's ignorance (also see: "someone is wrong on the internet".)
  
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[[Scott]] appears to be a friend of [[Randall]]. Comics 57 through 59 all have the title text ''[[:Category:Opening dialogue by Scott|Opening dialogue by Scott]]'', forming a sort of informal mini-series inspired by him. They are:
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One thing that we know for sure, however, is that the title text is telling us that this dialogue is from [[Scott]].
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*[[57: Wait For Me]]
 
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*[[58: Why Do You Love Me?]]
 
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*[[59: Graduation]]
 
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As there already was a comic released on Monday that week, the first of these three was released on Tuesday, then Wednesday and Friday. This may be related to the fact that this was the first week where the comics were not also released on [[LiveJournal]].
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
 
:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]
 
:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another.]
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:Megan: Why didn't you wait for me?
 
:Megan: Why didn't you wait for me?
 
:Cueball: I thought you were gone forever!
 
:Cueball: I thought you were gone forever!
  
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:[Megan throws out her arms, and Cueball is looking down.]
 
 
:Megan: I said I'd be back in a minute!
 
:Megan: I said I'd be back in a minute!
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:Cueball: The... the seconds went fast at first, but then they started to drag on.
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:Cueball: The... the seconds went fast at first, but then they started to drag on. She was there for me.
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:Cueball: She was there for me.
 
  
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:[Same scene as before, except Megan has her arms out less.]
 
 
:Megan: You had an affair in the 90 seconds I was gone?!
 
:Megan: You had an affair in the 90 seconds I was gone?!
 
:Cueball: ...yes.
 
:Cueball: ...yes.
  
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:[Cueball and Megan stand facing one another in a smaller panel.]
 
 
:Cueball: And we had a son.
 
:Cueball: And we had a son.
  
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:[Same scene as before.]
 
 
:Cueball: He'd be about your age now.
 
:Cueball: He'd be about your age now.
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Opening dialogue by Scott]]
 
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
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[[Category:Comics featuring Scott]]
 
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[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 

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