Yeah, Sven has a dudebro hairstyle. I don't think it's to paint him as a bad guy as much as it is to draw a slightly obnoxious dude with a stupid hairstyle for a laugh.
Considering that he's behaved pretty decently with the manbun, I doubt Jeph's making Sven a bad guy even with his decentish behavior. It's just for a laugh.
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The manbun is, IMO, the third worst thing a man can do to his hair, only topped by a combover and a perm (Bob Ross being the sole exception to the latter).
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Don't diss the perm, it looked good in the 80s and early 90s alike.
Also, what do you call "combover" exactly?
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Ah, I see. Thanks.
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I have to disagree, but I admit that I'm seriously biased.
Anyway, getting back to Sven and Dora...maybe it's just me, but I couldn't help but think that Sven's comment in the last panel was smarmy.
Also, is it just me, or has Jeph changed up Dora and Tai's designs just a little? Dora's face seems just a little wider, and Tai doesn't look quite as rail thin as she used to be.
Domestic life has treated them both well? 
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It was a little wiseass, but everyone in this comic has a black belt in wiseass.
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That made me happy. Well done to both of them.
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Dora? Emotional maturity? Well color me pleasantly surprised.
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Panel 2-3 sounds like good life advice in general.
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
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Nope, nothing.
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The punchline here comes across as sarcasm or self-deprecation to me.
He seems to be back to his senses - he did something stupid and selfish, he knows it and he's having a soft jab at himself. Standard QC fare.
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Yeah, thank god Sven at least realizes that his idea was freakin' terrible.
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Back to the discussion earlier... I agree, Sven was the epitome of Unintentionally Sympathetic dashed with Take Our Word for It. Other than being a smarmy womanizer he never does anything too awful on-page. Even most of the things Dora actually describes about him as being awful ("things are easy for him!" being one of the few concrete examples) don't really come across as that bad.
Don't get me wrong, he's not the best guy in the universe, but the gap between how he's shown and how people describe him is enormous.
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Her "Things are easy for him" was definitely supposed to say more about Dora than Sven. She's got some serious issues regarding him, and they're not really his fault. It would have been nice if he noticed that all her "friends" were just trying to get close to him, and refused them, but at least he wasn't doing it maliciously.
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I want five.
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It looks stupid.
And that's clearly Jeph's intention, based on all the text surrounding the actual comic.