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

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Rocketman:

--- Quote from: SleeperCylon on 09 Dec 2007, 12:43 ---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!"

--- End quote ---

If they were going near lightspeed, then that's what would happen, no time-warp for Earth required.

Michael Nehora:
I'm impressed with the time and thought put into this exercise.  It's good that Darkbluerabbit emphasized that the discrete days listed here are not all consecutive days, because for the entire comic to have taken place over only ~50 consecutive days would stretch credibility far past the breaking point.

To give an example, "The Talk" storyline apparently takes place on the 24th identifiable day.  However, it's extremely unlikely that Marten and Faye had known each other, and shared an apartment, for only 24 straight days at that point.  For Faye to come out with,  "I like you Marten, and I know you like me, but we can't be a couple and here's why..." after only three weeks plus change, would seriously be jumping the gun.  Marten and Faye aren't 13-year-olds at an eight-week sleepover camp where, due to the limited time spent together there's a tendency for relationships to progress much faster and take on much more proportional significance than a relationship between two twenty-somethings with adult responsibilities and no inherent time limit after which they might not see each other again.  Also, the following day, in strip 511, Dora says to her,  "Why the hell did you string him along for so long if you were just gonna let him down in the end?!"  Twenty-four consecutive days is not "so long."  I think of Marten and Faye as having been friends and roomies for a good few months before "The Talk."  That would allow realistically for the build-up of sexual/romantic tension and repeated debates with one's self over whether to say anything to the other.

So as long as we remember that important qualifying factor, I think this list o' days is helpful.

Nodaisho:
Comic 127 has faye offering money for rent, which suggests she had been there a while.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=127

Spluff:
I'm guessing that Jeph's just illustrating the interesting parts of their lives - this means that he's probably skipped many days along the way. I mean, who the hell wants to sit and watch the characters going about their dull daily routines without anything happening. Not me, that's for sure.

zKonz:
I think Jeph is going to post a comic where Martin wakes up, looks at Billy S Preston and Ted Theodore Logan, and says, "Dudes, I just had the most excellent dream."  Ya know, the way the Matrix trilogy should have ended.

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