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Can Steve Just Be Killed Off?
KamikaziCal:
Hanners is new now..?
MC:
keep in mind "new" is a relative word, what I really meant was "characters that have been added sense strip 500 and have yet to be removed"
raoullefere:
Since we're wending our way away from the topic anyway, I've always disliked that phrase 'make an honest woman out of her.' Like all women are criminals until someone slaps their brand on 'em. Or like they become honest after said brand is applied.
As for killing characters, it hit me that so far only one person has died on QC (possibly being Allosaur-nommed aside), and that was 'offstage.' I'm speaking, of course, of Faye's father. So if Steve does buy the farm, kick the bucket, etc. etc. through alcohol poisoning, it will be something new for QC, won't it?
I'm trying to think the last time I saw a comic character killed off in a humourous comic in the vein of QC. Bill that Cat doesn't count, since he keeps/kept coming back. I guess it would have to be in Jip, a very good student-drawn 'funny animal comic' that ran in the Daily Mississippian (the university newspaper at U.M., aka Ole Miss) about fifteen years* ago. A guy named Jay (A lion, as I recall: Raven would be pleased) died, for reasons I cannot recall.
*or twenty. Time keeps on slippin'.
Surgoshan:
No no, unmarried women* aren't criminals. They're unbranded cattle that have wandered from the herd. See, you're forgetting that as recently as the 1960s, women were still the hemidemisemiquaver-property of their nearest living male relative. They were unable to purchase significant property, get a job, move significant funds etc without the consent of that relative. Hence asking her father for permission to marry her. Thus an unmarried woman in flagrante delicto with a man was not so much a criminal as a bad slave. She was lowering her property value without permission.
However, for quite some time, that was a criminal act akin to sodomy. In many places, it probably still is a criminal act.
* ie 'whores'
Siibillam-Law:
You can't really just forget about Steve. It would be like getting rid of a heap of Marten's life before QC. MC listed a bunch of cast members who weren't there any more, let's ignore Sarah (she's the one who got eaten, right?) Ellen (gone) and Natasha (quit the band). We only see Amir during band practise (although it would be a nice change to see him do something else) and Jimbo is more of a special guest star than anything else.
For all we know this is building up to something. Remember Steve's crush on Penelope? Now she's got herself dates, it would be the awesome time for him to swoop in there, and make a little arc concerning him and Wil. Steve doesn't make regular appearances but he's got his own life. In another post, someone's discussed the timeline of QC and it appears not an awful lot of QC time has passed since we las actually saw him. Let him live his life; he'll appear when Jeph needs him in a story.
By the way what is up with Sven's intern? She just appeared like that. Reckon it's going anywhere?
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