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Day by day list of how much time has passed in QC

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SleeperCylon:

--- Quote from: muteKi on 27 Oct 2007, 21:07 ---Pretty damn impressive, if not a little creepy.

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Hey, if you have enough free time on your hands to do a day by day analysis of what's going on in a webcomic, then that's probably the least creepy thing you could possibly do with it.

I always tend to assume in webcomics that time generally flows according to real time unless stated otherwise.  Especially since in most webcomics, holidays happen around the time they happen in real life.  So I would probably assume those gaps are pretty long.

Heh, in my comic I had the characters go off into space, then come back to earth later, two months strip time, two years real time.  I intend to do something really cheesy to rectify this.

"Oh no, Earth just passed through a space time vortex where time sped up for earth and nowhere else!"  "What year is it on Earth now?"  "It's...January 2008!"

vgaer:
I don't know if you're still updating, but you're outdated...

Day 46: 989-1009

Day 47: 1010-1024

Day 48: 1025-1048

Day 49: 1049-present

Jab:
I do love lists like that, though. Makes you realize just how many times Jeph wrote 'meanwhile, that same day'-type stuff that had the same people still hanging around the coffee place. I prefer to think in the 'it's been several months' timeframe, with stuff like "yesterday we did that thing" just being stuff that Jeph casually wrote down for timeframes without thinking that it would be easy for people to dogpile all the days together to make a logical timeline out of it. Remember the "Marten & Dora met twenty days ago" topic?

Just replace 'yesterday' with 'a few days ago' every time you read it and you'll be much happier :). Don't let Jeph's minor mistake in pacing his comic give you a false impression in the strip's timeline. Though it's his own fault for pulling stuff like "Marten's vacation is now over.... 200 strips after I started it", thus making everyone realize that he extends the time of his comic like that. For an 'everyday life' strip, it's fairly unusual, but you learn to live with it. Compare that to Something Positive, which is real-time, so that when you don't see a character for a year (like Jhim tends to do), he ACTUALLY HASN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR A YEAR.

cwoolard:

--- Quote from: vgaer on 11 Jan 2008, 18:16 ---I don't know if you're still updating, but you're outdated...

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Day 49: 1049-present


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And just to be completist, Day 50 starts with 1080...

Jirel:
I'm pleased to see this.  I just got through re-reading the entire strip (over the past 4 days, one of which was spent at home, sick) and I was wondering about the amount of time that had passed.

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