I read
Dumbing of Age, but I don't really pay super close attention to things. There are 1773 comics as of today, and it's hard to keep track of stories that long over a long period of time. There are also a lot of characters that I have trouble keeping track of. "Wait, how do you know how many comics it has?"
Today's story is all "
Amber pushes Danny away because she's angry and making bad decisions." My thought was, "Who else is Amber's friend? Joyce, right?"
amber danny 91 0.408072 0.325
amazi-girl danny 40 0.3125 0.142857
amber ethan 60 0.269058 0.285714
amber dina 53 0.237668 0.24424
amazi-girl dorothy 24 0.1875 0.0526316
amazi-girl joyce 19 0.148438 0.0255376
amazi-girl walky 18 0.140625 0.0392157
amber joyce 30 0.134529 0.0403226
amazi-girl sal 16 0.125 0.0695652
amazi-girl amber 15 0.117188 0.0672646
Ethan, Dina, and then Dorothy maybe. Yeah, I was wondering this enough that I wrote a bot to scrape all the comics to pull out the tags that are applied to each comic, since conveniently list all the characters appearing in that comic. Then, I looked at the pairwise matches in that set and dumped them out in "character A", "character B", "number of appearances together", and number of appearances for each of A and B, converted here into fractions of all appearances that are together.
So that was waste of time. I also have dates, and you can extract chapters from the urls (which I saved), so more analysis could be done (my thought was to try to do some sort of connection map), but I still haven't eaten dinner. Also, I discovered that
this comic is the only one to have no characters appearing, so had to handle that case (SOLO_APPEAR is in that with SOLO_APPEAR).