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WCDT 11-15 April 2011 (1901-1905)

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gprimr1:
I'm interested in Hannerdad's comment it it means he thinks he is capable of having sex, but sometimes, a banana is just a banana.

Is it cold in here?:
Maybe he's worried that another mad scientist was doing genetic engineering experiments on her. She thought that was possible in strip 1119.

bunnyThor:

--- Quote from: DSL on 17 Apr 2011, 07:10 ---As for the rest of this discussion, "Jeph's house, Jeph's rules" seems simple enough to me. Plenty of other places to play, even places "devoted" to QC, for those who wanna slash, call Jeph a Nazi (yeah, I stumbled on one) or whatever your little spleen desires.
But If that can't be made to work, I would with reluctance understand the decision to take this forum out behind the barn and shoot it.

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Color me dubious.

I've been around webcomics for a while, and I've hardly ever seen forums devoted to a webcomic that were not originally created by request of the artist. And most of those that are created are locked down eventually. And those that aren't locked down either turn into spammer-filled ghost towns, or become social groups that are almost entirely estranged from the webcomic that spawned the forum.

Back in the days of USENET, you had nothing except unmoderated forums on every conceivable topic. Today almost none of those exist, for good or bad. I'm pretty sure if Jeph shut down this whole she-bang tomorrow, we would not see another forum created off-site. Yes, some forums might devote a stray thread or two to a strip that generated some controversy. But there is not a large enough fervor nor a large enough fanbase to have a dedicated fan site spring up and actually be used. Questionable Content is not Justin Bieber. If this site shut down, people would mostly just shrug and dedicate their fannish energies to the other six dozen webcomics forums that they frequent. (Well, the people on the social part of these forums might be a bit more devestated, but that's a whole different kettle o' fish.)

As it is, I'm not sure which other forums you are talking about. My Google-Fu failed to turn up anything except one thread in the Penny Arcade forums, a few mentions in the xkcd forums, one thread on the badwebcomics forum, and not much else.

SJCrew:
I guess this comic goes to prove that Hanners' dad really does care to some extent, he's just married to his job. Haven't all of our folks been guilty of that to some extent? Give him a second chance, Hanners. :(

SJCrew:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Apr 2011, 02:35 ---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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True, but I understand the perspective of those who feel some QC characters are garnering more attention than others because they play a larger role in the storyline (read: agree 100%). Marten is the main dude in this shebang, no two ways about that, and so are Faye and Hannelore. Jeph has put much care and attention into crafting their backstories the way you haven't seen in second-string characters like Steve, Wil, Penelope, and Angus, who not only don't show up as much as the main trio, but also haven't received anywhere close to as much character development.

I'm not sure if Jeph has any plans to go into greater detail on what these guys were like pre-QC or how they'll grow over the course of the comic, but it's very much possible for certain characters like Dale and Marigold to become main characters, plotwise; it just hasn't happened yet. Which is why they're considered second string. I mean, just try and say that a character like Blodwyn Raven, who hasn't appeared in a single strip for months, is on the same level as our main trio.

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