Jane's World by Paige Braddock for January 08, 2014

Um… maybe I’m clueless too.

Clueless also, here …

Clueless here. What is going on with this strip? I’ve been lost for weeks.

Guys are ALWAYS wrong. It’s the law, I think. But whadda I know? I’m pretty much clueless.

Yes…I’m lost too. Too many characters with too little development of their personalities/situations before it jumps to something/someone else. I will give it one more week…

I really do like this comic strip, but every time I think I have a handle on the storyline, someone I don’t know will show up talking about something I don’t know.

If you are looking for a comic strip to complete your life, then you’re going to have to wait much longer than a week.

Oh, is she mad because he butted into the conversation?

The “cluelessness” may be failure to show sympathy. It’s not Ethan’s butting in, per se, but how he did it — being more concerned with his own point than with Dorrie’s distress.

As for the convoluted plotting — for some, that may be part of the charm, as in Heller’s Catch 22 — the timeline of the page to page scene changes in that novel is more extreme than this. I must admit to being pretty confused, too. The repeats don’t help.

Kinda what chassimons said. Ethan’s comments were badly received (see the look Dorrie gives him) because they were inappropriate in the opinion of the XX persons present. Dorrie wanted sympathy, not snark.

As the police say, at the site of a disaster, “Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Move along!”

Paige’s characters have more angst in one day’s panel than all the characters in the entire series of Dawson’s Creek.