WCT -February 8-12, 2010

[celticgeek]

You had your chance.

A great explanation from Dora.  Try it on your parents

[Tuitsuro]

Ah, the love triangle.  Marten loves Dora, Dora loves Marten; Tai loves Dora, Dora likes Tai, and Marten and Tai are... coworkers. 

This can only end one way:  Marten dies in a mysterious bookshelf collapse.  Dum dum daaaaaaaaaa...

[helloandgoodbye]

  Aww.  Jeph is so nice.  

  I bet a lot of QC fans would like a Hanners harem, but I bet that would have serious repercussions.

[scrawney]

I just wish I could see the comic. 

[akronnick]

Ah, the love triangle.  Marten loves Dora, Dora loves Marten; Tai loves Dora, Dora likes Tai, and Marten and Tai are... coworkers. 

This can only end one way:  Marten dies in a mysterious bookshelf collapse.  Dum dum daaaaaaaaaa...

Dramatic Gopher is Dramatic. And [dr.cox]re-hea-hea-hea-hea-ly[/dr.cox] played out.

Come on people,TheWEmemesNEEDmustNEWflow!MEMES!

[Tuitsuro]

Dramatic Gopher is Dramatic. And [dr.cox]re-hea-hea-hea-hea-ly[/dr.cox] played out.

Come on people,TheWEmemesNEEDmustNEWflow!MEMES!

This is the internet culture.  Everything new is old.   

[Wiregeek]

all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.

Right afterwards, we shoot all the lawyers.


Ideally, this ends with Yelling Bird fucking his way out of a pile of bodies that consists of the entire population of the eastern seaboard of the United States of America.


The art improvement proceeds. Marten looks quite nice today, in fact.

[akronnick]

Hey the US got the nuclear holocaust in Last weeks WCT.

This week we should start with Europe.

[westrim]

Ah, the love triangle.  Marten loves Dora, Dora loves Marten; Tai loves Dora, Dora likes Tai, and Marten and Tai are... coworkers.  

This can only end one way:  Marten dies in a mysterious bookshelf collapse.  Dum dum daaaaaaaaaa...

Or a fourway (the preferred), throwing in Faye. So Faye and Dora get Marten and Tai gets Dora. Everyone wins!

Dramatic Gopher is Dramatic. And [dr.cox]re-hea-hea-hea-hea-ly[/dr.cox] played out.

Come on people,TheWEmemesNEEDmustNEWflow!MEMES!

The Dr. Cox thing is played out and rather annoying now, yeah. But random movie quotes seem to be working.

This is the internet culture.  Everything new is old.  

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.

Right afterwards, we shoot all the lawyers.

Ideally, this ends with Yelling Bird fucking his way out of a pile of bodies that consists of the entire population of the eastern seaboard of the United States of America.

The art improvement proceeds. Marten looks quite nice today, in fact.

Lawyers do do some good. It's just that just like every other profession and fanfics, 90% of them are crap. It's worth noting that the Shakespeare quote comes from a tyrant, trying to remove all opposition to his reign.

Hey the US got the nuclear holocaust in Last weeks WCT.
This week we should start with Europe.

No, nuke Turkey. I still have some left over from my lunch last week and I'm getting kinda Hungary.

[Near Lurker]

Aww...does Tai have a little crush?  A little incredibly awkward crush that's going to end horribly?

[Akima]

It's worth noting that the Shakespeare quote comes from a tyrant, trying to remove all opposition to his reign.

No. I'm sorry, but no.

The line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." is taken from Henry VI Part II, and is NOT spoken by a tyrant seeking to remove opposition to his reign. In fact the line is placed in the mouth of Dick, a follower of Jack Cade (an unsavoury adventurer who led a brief rebellion in 1450 during the stormy days leading up to the Wars Of The Roses, and was killed in the subsequent fighting). Shakespeare certainly paints Cade and his rabble in very unsympathetic colours, but Dick's statement is not made in the context of depriving people of their rights, but in his hostility to lawyers as representatives of the world of private property and established order from which he is completely excluded. In the same scene Cade and his followers execute a man simply for being able to read and write, since literacy was then an elite skill identified with power and property. Today, Jack Cade would be a radio talk-show host, still able to exploit the resentment of the disenfranchised but without risking his life.

[ysth]

Aaarrrggg!  http://www.gunnerkrigg.com is down!

I've come here for sympathy.

Later: back up.  Yay, dead fox bodies.

[Rocketman]

all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.

Whores, the lot of them!

[ecstaticjoy]

In my alternate reality, Dora ends up with Tai and Marten ends up with Faye.

Part of me wishes I started reading QC after Marten had gotten with Dora, so I wouldn't keep hoping for him to remember how he used to feel and pursue Faye again. I mean, he could have waited it out if she was worth it to him. She's grown a lot since the first strip. In my alternate QC, Marten would think Faye was worth the wait, and Dora would have been disappointed at first but then she would have found a better match in Tai. Dora would be more herself around Tai and less insecure like she is with Marten. Everyone would be happy and nobody would read my QC.

[Mr_Rose]

Dramatic Gopher is Dramatic. And [dr.cox]re-hea-hea-hea-hea-ly[/dr.cox] played out.

Come on people,TheWEmemesNEEDmustNEWflow!MEMES!

This is the internet culture.  Everything new is old.   

But that's all right; everything old is new.

So everything is simultaneously old and new.... At last! Quantum Culture!

[Odin]

all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.

Whores, the lot of them!

The funniest part is that Jeph was intimidated by angry people on the internet into writing up a disclaimer essay that they will never even bother to read (in addition to the rather lame follow up comic we got today; the art was nice, but the punchline just wasn't quite as good as his usual stuff).

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. 

[Border Reiver]

all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.

Whores, the lot of them!

Only if it is a straight commercial transaction.  Otherwise they're just loose, or lucky depending on your POV.

[prophile]

Did anybody else notice part of Tai's clothing disappear in the second panel, then reappear for the third?

[jwhouk]

Nitpick. The undershirt could have slid down, as it looked like it was just barely above the button line.

Have a nice day. 

[Tuitsuro]

Or a fourway (the preferred), throwing in Faye. So Faye and Dora get Marten and Tai gets Dora. Everyone wins!

Spoilers:  After the robot revolution, Marten and the entire female QC cast end up starting a commune in northern Montana.

[majie]

Where's the line for a Dora clone?

[Is it cold in here?]

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

There is a pretty big difference between being in college and being in your mid-twenties.

[Rocketman]

Only if it is a straight commercial transaction.  Otherwise they're just loose, or lucky depending on your POV.

WHOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

[akronnick]

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

She does. Which is why she's with Marten.

[westrim]

It's worth noting that the Shakespeare quote comes from a tyrant, trying to remove all opposition to his reign.

No. I'm sorry, but no.

The line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." is taken from Henry VI Part II, and is NOT spoken by a tyrant seeking to remove opposition to his reign. In fact the line is placed in the mouth of Dick, a follower of Jack Cade (an unsavoury adventurer who led a brief rebellion in 1450 during the stormy days leading up to the Wars Of The Roses, and was killed in the subsequent fighting). Shakespeare certainly paints Cade and his rabble in very unsympathetic colours, but Dick's statement is not made in the context of depriving people of their rights, but in his hostility to lawyers as representatives of the world of private property and established order from which he is completely excluded. In the same scene Cade and his followers execute a man simply for being able to read and write, since literacy was then an elite skill identified with power and property. Today, Jack Cade would be a radio talk-show host, still able to exploit the resentment of the disenfranchised but without risking his life.

Damn. This is what happens when I post late at night and the last pieces of Shakespeare I read were King Lear and Macbeth. You're right, of course. I should've checked what my jumbled brain was spitting out against a source.

Or a fourway (the preferred), throwing in Faye. So Faye and Dora get Marten and Tai gets Dora. Everyone wins!

Spoilers:  After the robot revolution, Marten and the entire female QC cast end up starting a commune in northern Montana.

Make it Florida. Montana is way too cold.

[Steve the Pocket]

Ideally, this ends with Yelling Bird fucking his way out of a pile of bodies that consists of the entire population of the eastern seaboard of the United States of America.

Well, not the entire population.  I've got friends there.

Anyway, I think my respect for Jacques went up a notch.  I've always felt that if a large portion of your audience misinterprets what you write, it's because you didn't write it properly in the first place.  And so many writers refuse to take that stance, to say nothing of their fanboys and fangirls who leap to their defense the minute anyone suggests the most recent installment was anything less than Shakespeare.  I thought it was pretty clear that Jacques isn't the sort who treats certain lifestyles as acceptable targets, but either way I'd rather have him admit he may have been too vague than blame the readers when he gets misinterpreted.  There aren't a lot of webcartoonists who'll do that.

[Border Reiver]

Only if it is a straight commercial transaction.  Otherwise they're just loose, or lucky depending on your POV.

WHOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

Speaking of which, Madame Zola has asked me to talk to you about your account - it's past due and we're trying to clear up for year end (taxes you know).

[Akima]

After the robot revolution, Marten and the entire female QC cast end up starting a commune in northern Montana.

Big Love!

Oh, and I should say, even if it does sound a bit fangirly, that the drawing in the Feb 8 strip is amazing, especially the facial expressions in the fourth panel.

[Varian7]

Where's the line for a Dora clone?

I'd join the line for a Dora clone! 

[SleeperCylon]

There is so a wrong kind of relationship.  Just watch the movie Fish Tank.

[raoullefere]

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

She does. Which is why she's with Marten.

Exactly. Although with Tai as the yardstick, even Sven (or at least post-Faye Sven) might start to look good. Well, except for the incest thing and all.

[Is it cold in here?]

Dora was probably kidding in 202.

[Kugai]

And in the future Faye will be with Hanners

Tai and Dora will turn Marten into a Sub

Penny will get fed up with Wil and hook up with Sven

Raven and Wil will become members of the Hells Angels

[jwhouk]

Where's the line for a Dora clone?

Starbucks.

No, really: there's a barista at my local Starbucks here in SEWI that could be a dead ringer for  her.

[jwhouk]

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

She does. Which is why she's with Marten.

Exactly. Although with Tai as the yardstick, even Sven (or at least post-Faye Sven) might start to look good. Well, except for the incest thing and all.

Oh, NO. Do NOT put "Tai" and "Sven" in the same sentence. (DAMN.)

Well, that's it, it's inevitable - they're going to hook up.

[Is it cold in here?]

Tai and Dora will turn Marten into a Sub

Didn't Faye do that already? Dora remarked on it in 378.

[westrim]

Oh, NO. Do NOT put "Tai" and "Sven" in the same sentence. (DAMN.)

Well, that's it, it's inevitable - they're going to hook up.

Yeah, but not until they're a combined SvenTai years old- so what, 10, 12 years from now?

[snubnose]

all the people that get so goddamn worked up over OMG SOMEONE SUGGESTING THAT POLYAMORY MAY NOT BE TEH BEST THING EVAR should be drug out into the street and shot.

Whores, the lot of them!

Hmm nope they dont ask for money. Wait - that means they're cheaper as whores ! SCNR

Everyone would be happy and nobody would read my QC.

Na, I luv your QC. Its just the damn reality that doesnt work that way. Thats why Jeffs QC is better.

Where's the line for a Dora clone?

Not here; I'm definitely in the Drew Barrymore line. Thinking about it, dont invent cloning. Everybody would just live with the clone of their favorite actors.

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

Err ... thats why she went for Marten ?

[ysth]

Yay for Marigold.

[Shadic]

So. Angus without glasses.

[akronnick]

I love that Angus just joins the dance and then asks what the dance is for.

I also love that Marigold dances with her eyes closed.

Also, happy Marigold is very cute. Much cuter than depressed Marigold.

[NeverQuiteGoth]

Panel 3 = cutest marigold ever.

[Tuitsuro]

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

Err ... thats why she went for Marten ?

Tai's the potassium to his argon.

Hey look I'm XKCD.

[Is it cold in here?]

You mean Dora decays into Marten?

[akronnick]

Wouldn't Dora want someone more responsible and stable than Tai?

Err ... thats why she went for Marten ?

She's the potassium to his argon.

Hey look I'm XKCD.

I think you might want to try chloride.

[Tormuse]

Just thought I'd throw my two cents in about polyamory...

My brother describes himself as polyamorous.  He has a primary girlfriend that he's committed to, and, as I understand it, they periodically invite others into sexual interactions.  They have rules to help make it work:  1) They're completely honest about any extra-sexual relationships,  2) They introduce each other to anyone else they have sexual interaction with, and  3) They will never leave each other for someone with whom they have had one of these interactions with.  Obviously, this requires a lot of honesty and trust on both their parts, but they seem to make it work.

Personally, I don't think I could do it, (I don't like to share)    but I have a lot of respect for anyone who can make it work.

EDIT:  As for today's strip, all I will say is I wish I had a complete armour set.  

 

[Tuitsuro]

You mean Dora decays into Marten?

Edited for slightly better clarity. 

[akronnick]

Tai's the potassium to his argon.

Hey look I'm XKCD.

That would imply that Marten is celibate.

Argon doesn't (ordinarily) bind to anything.

[Akima]

I love that Angus just joins the dance and then asks what the dance is for. I also love that Marigold dances with her eyes closed.

Angus is thick. Dancing is its own justification. 

I think Jeph's drawing of Marigold dancing is pretty good too. Though Karen Ellis is still my favourite dancing queen.

[Mark7]

Marigold looks different. Not just the bunches. Something else.