The Gloves Come Off
Added 2022-08-07 20:37:25 +0000 UTCor a curling stone
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Late to the game, but as a Canadian I will point out that, while I might lean towards the hocky stick option if someone made that comment in this particular time and place, QC's America *is* barely different than Canada. The society seems balanced, kind, and I can't remember seeing a gun. AI, and whatever other events have occurred, have clearly made at least this part of their country a kinder and gentler place. So, only barely another country than here!
Philip Freeman
2022-08-15 17:44:42 +0000 UTCYou better hope they're tiny.
ItseMeeCarsten
2022-08-09 07:13:38 +0000 UTCMoose Jaw (https://globalnews.ca/news/4903855/moose-jaw-canadas-most-notorious-city/)
Ursus Ridens
2022-08-09 00:56:02 +0000 UTCA doctor with very cold, tiny hands.
Timothy Roller
2022-08-08 20:40:01 +0000 UTCSigh.
Darnel D Cooper
2022-08-08 19:52:38 +0000 UTCWe're assuming that Claire actually lands the job. She may not.
Stavros Karatsoridis
2022-08-08 19:37:37 +0000 UTCIs it that hard if one member of a couple is sponsored by their employer and the other is not? Or is it more of a situation where Claire needs to get her citizenship to sponsor Marten? Then again, Marten also has library management experience, so the same employer might be willing to sponsor him (especially if libraries work anything like academic jobs).
Bill Silvia
2022-08-08 17:57:39 +0000 UTCQuebec City would be unlikely because AFAIK, Claire is not fluent in French. And Jeph knows that Quebecers can be kind of touchy on the subject on language.
Nicolas Dao-Phan
2022-08-08 17:33:01 +0000 UTCLets see. It's a 3½ trip by the high speed CAT ferry from Bar Harbour, Maine to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and then roughly another 3½ hour trip by road from Yarmouth to Halifax. Who do we know that knows Halifax?
Jamie Ellen
2022-08-08 16:35:04 +0000 UTCIt's a post singularity world. I imagine most of the barriers of entry for migrating countries are at least a lot thinner.
Forgettable
2022-08-08 15:46:47 +0000 UTCSo having done a fair bit of research on this Marten moving to Canada would be difficult. If Claire had a job offer it would be doable (although the library would have to go through a lot of hoops to hire her) but without an advanced degree (that we know of) or specific job experience in a high value area Marten's chances of getting in are fairly low. Or am I overthinking this and narrative causality will deal with the immigration authorities. Maybe Marten actually has advanced fluency in French (worth an insane number of points on the test)
Gabriel Nichols
2022-08-08 14:55:34 +0000 UTCI don't know. It could be kind of great - from a storytelling standpoint, it gives the character something to do. Moves his arc along.
John Van Aken
2022-08-08 13:08:59 +0000 UTCWhen Jeph tweeted last week that the new comics weren't "signalling the end of QC", my hunch was that Marten would be leaving town. It does feel like something that would wrap up the comic, or would have a few years ago, when there was way more focus on his journey. Jeph's done such a great job of building a world and giving us so many characters to care about, that this just feels like the natural evolution of the strip, not a conclusion.
Matt Pedone
2022-08-08 11:49:16 +0000 UTCThe bigger question is where in Canada? Montreal wouldn't be so bad, only about 5 hour drive from Northampton (Ottawa and Quebec City are not terrible, either, though she might start to run into language issues in Quebec). Toronto starts to get worse, as it's 7.5-8 hours, and the NY Thruway is duller than calculating driving times to different parts of Canada. Anything East of Quebec probably wouldn't be TOO bad, though some of those drives are deceptively long, and probably boring. Anything West of Toronto is probably going to involve plane flights. I'm hoping it's Quebec City, so we can get QC in QC, QC.
Matt Pedone
2022-08-08 11:41:48 +0000 UTCSo that's her 'this is fine' face in the third panel, isn't it?
Bagge
2022-08-08 06:26:05 +0000 UTCWait, all this time I've been Canadian? Rock on, eh.
Some Ed
2022-08-08 06:06:41 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/aRZUoHm-8Vg https://youtu.be/g_RPp4dbam8 https://youtu.be/_CF65H7j5Os All I know about Canada comes from these three songs.
wargrunt42
2022-08-08 05:45:37 +0000 UTCReminds me of an old "Kids in the Hall" bit about being mistaken for an American. "No, I'm a Canadian. That's *like* an American, but without the gun."
Doug DeJulio
2022-08-08 05:05:51 +0000 UTC*stretch* *snap*
Daryl Sawyer
2022-08-08 04:49:58 +0000 UTCGonna somewhat take issue with the title on this one. If there a "very specific kind of doctor" involved, I'd have to imagine this is actually when "The Gloves Go On."
That Blair Guy
2022-08-08 04:28:08 +0000 UTC
