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Pintsize's fundamental character

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Carl-E:
I used to think that, too. 

Then I started reading this comic.  It was my second webcomic (after xkcd), and it blew me away.  I read a bunch of others now also (about 2 dozen? I try to keep it down to the length of the comics page in a newspaper, or I'd never get any work done), and this one's still far and away the one that pulls hardest at my heart. 

The characters in any great work of fiction take on a life of their own.  Some are completely contained within their story, and others live on well beyond the limits of their creation (Sherlock Holmes comes to mind).  Many authors say their characters take on lives of their own, and that's clearly what's happened to Jeph with the QCverse.  The hint of believability makes it possible to flesh them out, and in a series where the author continues to do so with backstories and trails of easter eggs, it's only natural that we try to complete the picture ourselves.  Even Jeph may not know the whole story about a character until it's written, but that doesn't mean we can't know the characters just as well as we know a friend. 

Maybe even better. 

tHEfOOL:
yeah, plus i've never been any good at finding hidden meanigs and all that jazz.... i REALY hated english classes, that's why i became an engineer

Method of Madness:

--- Quote from: tHEfOOL on 14 Dec 2010, 22:18 ---that's why i became an engineer

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Seems relevant.

ErrantCanadian:

--- Quote from: O8h7w on 14 Dec 2010, 17:00 ---
Something that was an eye-opener for me on Pintsize as a character was strip 1796. How so? Well, he didn't do what I expected him to do.* I still think that how he acted that time was way out of character for him, and that very thought is what opened my mind - out of character? Man, that damn little PC has a character. I hadn't even noticed, but I had already started to treat him just as the other characters, which actually is not strange at all when looking back at the first few strips. Although in strip 33 it seems like he's on a mission from his owner...

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I think Pintsize was in character, although he seemed a little subdued.  He enjoys sharing and talking about smut and has no concept of boundaries whatsoever.  I think we probably missed the first twenty minutes of Pintsize bouncing off the ceiling, perving out on Dora and thrilled that someone actually wanted to discuss his purpose in life, porn.

Wiregeek:
I disagree with the interpretation of strip 33 as posted. If I had a roommate in a similar situation, I would be constitutionally incapable of keeping myself from asking the same question. I would not have sent the roommate on that mission, however, but I would be unable to keep from attempting to profit from it.


This ties into one of the foundation blocks of the QC universe - that girls bosoms are rad.

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