Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 11-15 April 2011 (1901-1905)
iduguphergrave:
You can't deny Dora's presence. She and Marten dated for most of the strip's run, and even before that she was carrying strips on her own, and she's done so since the breakup already. Even though the breakups over and we're seeing her less, Jeph's still seeing fit to periodically show us her progress as well as Marten's.
akronnick:
Plus there is a potential Dora/Tai relationship to explore, as hinted at with the strip where Tai visited Dora at CoD with the butterflies and what not.
Method of Madness:
Did Nick just go there? I think Nick just went there.
Anyway, I'm not saying Dora's presence isn't felt, but I think she's in the second rung of characters, which consists of her, Angus and Marigold.
Tergon:
I'm just not seeing it. Dora's been a major character since basically her first introduction. Maybe it feels like she's not been in as many strips of late, but there's a perfectly plausible explanation - the comic is following our protagonist, and he's not spending time with her right now.
Any decent "scene" in QC takes at least three or four strips, as I'm sure we all agree, right? Usually more! So even though it seems ages if we don't see a character for, say, two or three weeks RL... that much time could be no more than a couple of hours in QC-Land. Dora has definitely not been removed from the main cast, it's just the way the story is going at the moment.
pwhodges:
The way I see it, you can't really say that the characters in QC-land fall into different tiers. They are all imagined to go on with their various imagined existences, while Jeph's eye roams over their landscape and picks out different areas of activity at different times. Their relative importance doesn't change, only our awareness of them from time to time, through Jeph's choice of view.
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