>>150925328
Sam's always been a teenager, and the engagement can only have lasted at most a few months. Tai proposes to Dora around the same time Claire graduates from grad school and the time skip happens after she gets the job at Cubetown.

>>150925506
I don't see it. Claire is the bog standard QC sardonic with a side dose of boring because Jeph isn't willing to risk flak. The actual characters the comic somersaults over to absolve are Faye, Dora, and Tai, who are genuinely shitty to others.