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Can Steve Just Be Killed Off?
Surgoshan:
Frankly, I think Steve should become a vampire. The strip needs a little more weird.
raoullefere:
Steve strikes me as many things, but a creature of the night isn't exactly one of them. Although I admit he seems to be sucking the bottle-people dry.
Still, most of the weirdness of QC seems to stem from technology we could have, but don't. So we need to think of something along those lines to channel Steve down. What could be done? Hmm. Laser installed, done, on Pintsize; romance with machine, done (more or less), with Hanners; trouble with government, internet romance, gluing pubes to one's head, creepy alternate sex fetish, cosplay, furniture modification, all done, by Pintsize. The little freak guy has covered a lot of territory, hasn't he? Stalked by techno-crazy, done, by Sven and Steve; become super-hero, possibly done by Penelope and/or Sara.
Now we're moving to lifestyles. Hmm, family members come out of closet, done, by Faye; adventures in sex trade, done, by Veronica; mental illness, done, and done, and done; hobo, done, by Benji; alcoholism, perhaps done by Faye, and Steve's workin' on it now. Sex change? As bad as Steve's track record is with women, I'm not sure being one would improve him any.
So maybe we are left with the supernatural. Got it: what if Steve dies of alcohol poisoning and then takes up haunting Marten because Marten never told him, 'Hey, alky, get some help"?
Surgoshan:
They could always do the sci-fi mind switch, then have the chick-in-steve's-body get killed...
tragic_pizza:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 14 Nov 2008, 10:57 ---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'.
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It happened to Davan's mother in "Something Positive."
Surgoshan:
It happened in Sluggy Freelance. People do claim that it had gone Cerebus by then.
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