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WCT January 5-9
bicostp:
We've seen less than a week of comic-time. Damn Wil's arm healed fast. (Or maybe there's a few big gaps in the timeline that aren't shown. Maybe there have been some advances in medical technology in the comic world. Or maybe it's all just a dream sequence anyway. Who knows.)
Morgil:
Besides laughing my ass off, I thought that this strip could serve as a reintroduction of VespAvenger. You know, Wil as the VespAvenger in cool.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: NeverQuiteGoth on 05 Jan 2009, 00:32 ---There's that big blue rollercoaster in Sandusky...
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I'm glad you said blue.
If you had said red, I think I'd have to hit you. (The big red one... sure, it's fast, but you wait 2 hours in line (note: it's been a couple years since I've last been to Cedar Point) for 17 seconds.
I've been on it exactly once, and I was like, "that's all? Srsly?"
Then I went and rode Gemini a bunch of times, and had 11tybn times more fun. :lol:
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: bicostp on 05 Jan 2009, 06:31 ---We've seen less than a week of comic-time.
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Or maybe more - Jeph talked of a change of season a day or two ago.
Mr. Skawronska:
--- Quote ---I honestly don't expect him to get far; with the way his luck is going, he'll end up in the hospital...again.
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That was my overwhelming feeling reading the strip.
--- Quote ---Hey!!!! Just what is wrong with Ohio!?
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Oh...I'm sure there's an annotated database somewhere.
--- Quote ---p.p.p.s. ohio has spit out some really cool people. i almost wanted to move there, then i realized it might only be the ones who moved to the bay area that are cool.
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I know they have. My buddy and classmate is from Ohio...and when he first moved out here, he said it was like being released from prison.
I thought he was being ironically hyperbolic.
--- Quote ---But QC was always a story that contained many subplots and weird interruptions etc, which hardly really focussed on anything consistently.
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Kind of like life as seen through many of our eyes, including mine.
All in all, I liked this comic. QC hasn't actually made me laugh out loud in quite some time -- it's been more like a soap opera, where I "tune in" just to see how my characters are doing.
I figured long gone were the days of some of the funniest, most quotable lines I'd ever seen in a webcomic, like:
"God, you're to humor what Helen Keller would be to Competitive Paintball!"
and:
"What ELSE have I failed to notice today? Are my PANTS on BACKWARDS? Am I ON FIRE? DID I KILL A GUY EARLIER??"
And of course, who can forget:
"To the mall! Where I shall Burn and Pillage! And Also Try On Shoes!"
THOSE lines made me laugh. To be honest, I wasn't really looking at the art at that point; I was in it for the popping dialogue.
Somewhere along the way, the snarky gave way to the absurd, and some of it was funny, and some of it I could relate to, but none of it was really...you know, me sitting here going "S*@$ that's funny!"
Until today.
Today I got a taste of why I started reading QC.
Jump the shark? So what? I don't care, as long as it's funny, in the biting, sarcastic, Faye-laden, cynical way.
Sure, I despise Faye, but I also enjoy her wit. There are real people in this world I feel the same way about.
And the send-up of both Twilight and Ohio is especially funny. Luckily, the comic stands on its own without the topical background, which just makes it funnier (I didn't catch the twilight reference becuase I stopped watching teen angsty vampire movies when I turned 18...and I think the one of my generation was "The Lost Boys")
But I could be wrong. The memory fades as you get old.
Bottom line: I like this flavor of QC. I humbly ask it to continue.
As long as Faye continues to get bitch-slapped every once in a while...cuz she just deserves it.
("And another one for Jenny and the Wimp" -- Last Will and Temperament, The Frantics)
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