Quote Originally Posted by georgie_leech View Post
Ironically, this is an experience I can't identify with at all. Who just skips parts of the things they're reading?
I do, be it words, sentences, paragraphs, or whole chapters. You don't really need to read everything to understand, and selective reading is always useful.
An example of chapters you can avoid reading: Frankenstein's English tour.
An example in comics: you can often ignore the first panel narration text in the early Schlock Mercenary strips.

As for the fact that the comic now almost exclusively portrays untraditional relationships, in the beginning I thought it was because Marten was a "safe" person for minorities to be around, as he came from a gay dad and a bsdm star mum. So a hub ended up building itself around him.
Well, that's just a fan rationalization. Now I don't see it that way anymore, mostly because some sexual minorities tend to build homogeneous communities, and I don't think any of the characters have talked about that. What I mean is that I don't believe that there is a purposeful attempt at a realistic portrayal.

Also, Pintsize is a MSM , since no one said it yet. :P