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Risqué Art in *my* QC? How much is too much?
RevxlvingDxxr:
@ Writer: I'm sorry, I don't get it.
It's the SAME story that is employed by any halfway popular TV drama. Here are some people, they spend a great deal of time trying to relate to each other sexually. Someone's in love, someone's just hooking up, someone is maybe in love with the wrong person, someone maybe wishes they were in love. I mean, we could dress QC characters up in some scrubs and hospital gowns and call it Grey's Anatomy. I don't care how many boobies there are or aren't. I do care that when you click the "cast" link, about half of the character descriptions are completely inaccurate now -- because character concepts have been abandoned in favor of the homogeneous mess that QC has become.
What's there to like when you can turn your TV to almost any channel and see the same exact "plot twists?"
mehmeh:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 02 Aug 2008, 05:25 ---If you didn't get the obscure jokes in early QC, you will think recent QC is better. If you got the obscure jokes before, you will think it used to be better.
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I did get the obscure jokes in early QC, and thought they were funny, but I thought that both of the punchlines of the last two comics were amusing as well (I particularly thought the id joke was clever). I guess that I connected indie humour with smart, witty humour, not necessarily only obscure bands.
My first comic was 183, I think. There was a Douglas Adams joke, an Insane Clown Posse joke, and a ninja joke all in one strip. Pretty glorious, really. But the next few comics were about Faye leaning in, looking like she was going to kiss Marten, and instead passing out, head butting his boyparts, and vomiting. Pretty much relationship-oriented with no real indie-rock humour again until 233 (There were two mentions of the word "emo" and a week of guest comics in there, but I'm not count either).
So, 2 jokes that the average mainstream non-indie rock fan wouldn't get in 50 episodes. I flipped through the last 40 comics, and I'd say we could find the same or perhaps more (again ignoring the week of guest comic strips). For instance, "Army of Me" ep 1183 might count, "Bang your Head" ep 1173 perhaps, Merzbow in 1177, definitely. Plus, all sorts of smart jokes about psychology, history, literature, etc. that many won't get but are really funny if you get the reference.
--- Quote from: RevxlvingDxxr on 02 Aug 2008, 08:17 ---What's there to like when you can turn your TV to almost any channel and see the same exact "plot twists?"
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And that's where I disagree with you. "Raccon pogrom," "an id is a terrible thing to waste," a greeting card based on a Quiet Riot song, all brilliant jokes that you aren't going to get on Grey's Anatomy or Friends. Yeah, relationships are a pretty natural part of life, so they appear in all forms of media, but QC has still maintained something special. Every week on the WCT there are people finding out new things because of Jeph's intelligent style of humour. It doesn't have to just be about indie bands to keep up the indie spirit.
RevxlvingDxxr:
@ mehmeh:
Holy crap! Did you just... respectfully disagree? Have I fallen into some sort of alternate interwebs, where people aren't uniformly terrible?
Point well made and all. I suppose I'm just worried that this is the beginning of a disturbing trend: more boobies and less cleverness. And, once again, I do think I liked the characters more when they were less "realistic." I mean, Faye was almost some kind of emotionally disturbed superhero, dominating most of the conversations she was in with her wonderfully cynical sense of humor...
Granted, she seems to have developed healing powers instead, as evidenced by her chest.
Border Reiver:
Nah, you're on the right internet.
Generally this site is reasonably polite and well mannered, much like the other forum I usually visit. To be honest, if it was all really catty I'd probably leave, or just not get involved.
On topic, I don't think that we've seen anything risque on this site yet. Blankets, hands, bras, or underwear have covered the naughty bits, and to be frank that's OK with me. I don't need to see the "nudity" for titilation purposes in a comic. I have my imagination if I really need to see that.
bunnyThor:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 02 Aug 2008, 09:50 ---On topic, I don't think that we've seen anything risque on this site yet. Blankets, hands, bras, or underwear have covered the naughty bits, and to be frank that's OK with me. I don't need to see the "nudity" for titilation purposes in a comic. I have my imagination if I really need to see that.
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For some of us, the goal is not titillation, but verisimilitude.
It's as if Marten got shot in the leg while the gang was walking home from the bar, and we never see any blood. In fact we never see the wound at all, because it's conveniently hidden behind mailboxes, trees, interposing characters, and dialog balloons.
Then the next strip, we cut to the emergency room, where Marten is all stabilized, bandaged, and being released, and everyone says "Wow, that was something else!"
(And then of course, since this is QC, it gets talked about for the next 30 strips, with everyone trying to discern the meaning of it all and/or blaming other people for their own behavior during the crisis, intercut with a few strips featuring antics by Hanners, Pintsize, and Winslow.)
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The whole point is purely theoretical because Jeph has said on multiple occasions that he not drawing any of the "naughty bits" ever, but it's always fun to trot it out and have a good discussion on the subject. 8-)
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