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Why is QC so damn fascinating?

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bicostp:
I think the 95% realism, 5% surrealism is perfect for getting you interested in the characters without being a dull slice-of-life serial. There's a learning curve for new readers, but the inevitable archive binge just gets them hooked like the rest of us.


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No that is a terrible idea and you are a butt for even thinking of doing it. <:x>
Yes I know I just did it. That's the joke.

Antario:
for me its the excellent story and the incredibly witty jokes, especially the story structure is important to me in a good comic

Carl-E:
I think I've posted this elsewhere before, but what the hell...

I saw QC linked a couple of times and tried to follow it from the beginning.  Got about 10-12 strips in before the indie references left me cold. 

Then one day, a few months (maybe a year?) later I followed a link again, and saw Hanners sledding down a hill. 

I had to know what led up to that, and started hitting the "previous" button.  Before I know it, I'd gone 100 pages or more backwards through the archive... it was fascinating, watching the plot lines devolve, seeing the characters come into play, it was a weird way to get to know them.  Then I went back to the beginning - I was already hooked, I had  to know how it all started, and got even more hooked as I saw the story unfold. 

It took about 2 weeks to meet myself in the archive, following the new strips forward the whole time.  That pretty much did it for me.  I have a hard time when I can't see the comic for any reason, and I even wrote Jeph an email praising his creation (he never answered, but hey, I didn't realize there were tens - no, hundreds of tousands of us fans).  Then I found the forum about a month later. 

Been a happy man ever since. 

dragontart:
I read Number 1 to 1862 within two days excluding guest comics. Which means I found it unhealthily fascinating.
I guess it's just the way the story evolves, also that I find bits of me in most of the characters main personal traits (even though I don't particularly like any of characters).
Also, I laughed very hard quite some times and the jokes never seemed too off.
Since I read the whole thing in a short time the evolution/change in the comic's art was also interesting to watch.

Kugai:
Because it is.

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