Topic: WCDT: 23-27 May 2011 (1931-1935) (Read 90706 times)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #50 on:** 23 May 2011, 12:54 »

Interesting how she finds it safer to be alone in a building with a possible knife killer than being on a public street with one.

Kugai · « **Reply #51 on:** 23 May 2011, 13:16 »

Elliott The (Fish) Knife.

Well, it was bound to happen eventually - Hanners broke Faye.

sitnspin · « **Reply #52 on:** 23 May 2011, 13:39 »

The real irony in Hanners being afraid of being knifed is that she has recurring dreams of a beat-boxing penis that tells her to kill all her friends with a knife. I sense a bit of projection going on.

SirDudley · « **Reply #53 on:** 23 May 2011, 14:22 »

Quote from: Kugai on 23 May 2011, 13:16

Elliott The (Fish) Knife.

Well, it was bound to happen eventually - Hanners broke Faye.

Doesn't quite have the same ring as "Mack the Knife"....

Quote from: Tiogyr on 23 May 2011, 11:32

I think he was talking about the kind of stuff you can find over on musopen.org's music listings or whatever huge archives of public domain music are out there.

Yes, that is what I meant. The public domain classical music stuff.

LoveJaneAusten · « **Reply #54 on:** 23 May 2011, 14:40 »

There is something distinctly uncomfortable (and not in a humorous way) about Hannelore not having the wherewithal to do anything but stand there waiting for Faye. "Hanners is awkward" is a pretty well-worn punchline, but today's was more like "Hanners is infantilized".

JohnTheWysard · « **Reply #55 on:** 23 May 2011, 14:40 »

Quote from: Akima on 23 May 2011, 07:41

Quote from: Carl-E on 22 May 2011, 18:49
On a separate note, glad to see you're all still here, and that I'm not the only heathen on the forum.
What if they gave a Rapture and nobody came?

More to the point, what if they gave a Rapture and nobody left?

iduguphergrave · « **Reply #56 on:** 23 May 2011, 15:12 »

Quote from: LoveJaneAusten on 23 May 2011, 14:40

There is something distinctly uncomfortable (and not in a humorous way) about Hannelore not having the wherewithal to do anything but stand there waiting for Faye. "Hanners is awkward" is a pretty well-worn punchline, but today's was more like "Hanners is infantilized".

Well the first panel of 1925 implies that Faye and Padma are leaving right then without saying a word to Hanners or Elliott. Since they didn't give them a specific time frame when they'd be back, Hannelore's in a bit of an awkward position. If she tried to go back after Faye'd been gone awhile, she'd run the risk of either missing her at CoD, or running into Faye on her way back, which would also end in awkwardness. So really, it's a case of being stuck somewhere because your friends weren't specific enough about when they'd be back.

Coolfusis · « **Reply #57 on:** 23 May 2011, 15:36 »

I'm gonna agree with iduguphergrave, on Hanners not wanting to leave because she didn't know when Faye or Padma would return. It would be as though one of your friends suddenly got up to run to their house and get something. You know they're returning, but you don't know when, so you're faced with a choice: go after them, which would be kinda weird (after all, they could be coming right back, in which case you look really clingy), or wait there until they return, which is what Hanners did.

It really makes sense when you consider Hanner's tendency to over analyze, and the behaviors of people with social anxiety. If put in the same spot, I'd probably wait right there for awhile, seeing if they came back, before I'd text/call. Someone with severe anxiety might not want to even do that, for fear their friends would think them too clingy.

Nick and Marla · « **Reply #58 on:** 23 May 2011, 16:34 »

Faye and etc. came back so obviously that was plan. They figured shed be cool waiting. Wasn't. Lead to comic. Overanalyzing is cool too I guess.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #59 on:** 23 May 2011, 18:40 »

Quote from: no one special on 23 May 2011, 03:35

Quote from: Sorflakne on 23 May 2011, 00:45
Gonna have to disagree with Elliot. Ever tried properly flaying a fish that's flopping around? Yeah...much easier to crack 'em on the head with a rock or a hammer and then start flaying.

Or just put 'em on ice in the back of your truck and drive home. By the time you get there, they've drowned in the air and you can gut them easily.

Eh, only about 95% true. I've seen a few fish that have sat on open ice for 10+ hours (we take ice fishing seriously in Minnesota) start to twitch once they've thawed after being brought into a warm room for flaying. Granted, they're not jumping off the block, but seeing a 20+ inch half frozen fish suddenly go U-shape as it's being flayed will surprise anyone.

tomart · « **Reply #60 on:** 23 May 2011, 19:35 »

Quote from: Akima on 23 May 2011, 07:41

What if they gave a Rapture and nobody came?

We Have a Winner of The Interwebs!!!

jwhouk · « **Reply #61 on:** 23 May 2011, 21:42 »

How will this little "business deal" go for our heroes?

Mega successful. We're talking Starbucks here.    - 3 (3.9%)
Complete and total disaster.    - 4 (5.2%)
It'll get tiring after a while, and Jeph will move on to something else.    - 21 (27.3%)
Pintsize will screw it up somehow.    - 3 (3.9%)
Cosette will burn BOTH places down.    - 12 (15.6%)
Jim's ex will show up and demand half.    - 9 (11.7%)
Tai will continue to awkwardly hit on Dora.    - 14 (18.2%)
Marten and Dora will reconcile - awkwardly.    - 5 (6.5%)
Waffles?    - 6 (7.8%)

Total Voters: 77

snubnose · « **Reply #62 on:** 23 May 2011, 23:52 »

No Hanners ?

Then Raven !

*holds up a big "WE WANT RAVEN BACK!" shield*

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #63 on:** 24 May 2011, 00:36 »

Wow. Something funnier than keeping it ambiguous. I did not think it possible.

MightionNY · « **Reply #64 on:** 24 May 2011, 00:41 »

Yay! Pizza Girl! Now we can have a story line about Penelope's long-lost twin sister that she never knew she had!

nonethousand · « **Reply #65 on:** 24 May 2011, 00:45 »

Quote from: MightionNY on 24 May 2011, 00:41

Yay! Pizza Girl! Now we can have a story line about Penelope's long-lost twin sister that she never knew she had!

Yay!

...and Faye is showing a three-button cleavage!

MightionNY · « **Reply #66 on:** 24 May 2011, 00:58 »

Heh... after reading the strip again, I gotta say, panel 4 would make an awesome print or some other form of merch-based object.

Tova · « **Reply #67 on:** 24 May 2011, 01:10 »

“Bad Stuff Happens To Hanners And Marigold Daily.”

Maybe that could be a spin-off?

Shok Xone Studios · « **Reply #68 on:** 24 May 2011, 01:48 »

I haven't posted in ages, and did so now simply to say BEST. COMEBACK. EVER.

akronnick · « **Reply #69 on:** 24 May 2011, 01:58 »

She always thought Faye and Dora were just fucking with her.

also:

PIZZA GIRL!!!!!11!!11!!!!

That is all.

Hebes · « **Reply #70 on:** 24 May 2011, 02:01 »

At long last, one of the great questions of QC has been answered with a resounding "No, but the resemblance is uncanny!"

It's really funny, because I read that newsarama interview last night before he started drawing (he posted the link on his twitter) and I was like "nah, no way Jeph will actually put Pizza Girl in the next comic." Apparently I was wrong!

Somebody · « **Reply #71 on:** 24 May 2011, 02:06 »

"Yer not gonna throw me off your trail that easily" = Faye had forgotten all about How Penelope Came To Work At CoD.

akronnick · « **Reply #72 on:** 24 May 2011, 02:07 »

Quote from: Hebes on 24 May 2011, 02:01

At long last, one of the great questions of QC has been answered with a resounding "No, but the resemblance is uncanny!"

It's really funny, because I read that newsarama interview last night before he started drawing (he posted the link on his twitter) and I was like "nah, no way Jeph will actually put Pizza Girl in the next comic." Apparently I was wrong!

Either that, or Penelope is having a dissociative episode.

Welu · « **Reply #73 on:** 24 May 2011, 02:20 »

This was a brilliant way to start the day for me. Brilliant brick joke.

Dust · « **Reply #74 on:** 24 May 2011, 02:38 »

Quote from: Deadlywonky on 22 May 2011, 23:29

What do you think the likelihood of Jeph working the non-rapture into today's comic is?

Doppelgangers are emerging, does that count?

pendrake · « **Reply #75 on:** 24 May 2011, 02:50 »

For comic #1932...

1. Yay for Pizza Girl. Though I think I liked her better with the bandanna-mask over the domino-mask

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2. Yay for mind-blown Penelope. Wonder if Wil saw the two girls together as well?

3. Yay for Faye's cleavage

. Perhaps Jeph was feeling a bit frisky as well as anxiety...?

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #76 on:** 24 May 2011, 03:13 »

It would be cool if Will saw her as well so Faye could believe Penelope.

DSL · « **Reply #77 on:** 24 May 2011, 03:44 »

Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 24 May 2011, 03:13

It would be cool if Will saw her as well so Faye could believe Penelope.

As if that would make the slightest difference to Faye. This would be solidly in the "Pics or it didn't happen" category to the Pugnacious Peach.

akronnick · « **Reply #78 on:** 24 May 2011, 03:49 »

Actually, pics would be pretty easy to fake...

Welu · « **Reply #79 on:** 24 May 2011, 03:53 »

True, just take two photos of Penelope in the relevant clothes and smush them together. That would then raise questions for why she had a Pizza Girl costume.

Blackjoker · « **Reply #80 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:02 »

Hmm, perhaps the one eaten by an Allosauras has in fact become Pizza Girl...maybe a return? Nah, probably not, but the speculation is fun.

DSL · « **Reply #81 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:09 »

Pizza Girl, use your crimefighting superheroine knowledge and encourage PenPen to have a word with her apartment manager. A main door that opens outward, so that the hinge pins are on the outside where miscreants and evildoers can get at them, is a really bad idea.

nonethousand · « **Reply #82 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:22 »

Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 24 May 2011, 03:13

It would be cool if Will saw her as well so Faye could believe Penelope.

I'm not sure Will could be considered a reliable witness after the black eye incident

Border Reiver · « **Reply #83 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:33 »

Quote from: Deadlywonky on 23 May 2011, 09:13

Maybe they did Akima,

Maybe they did.

(click to show/hide)
Or more likely the bible basher involved was off his rocker.

You'd think if he got it wrong once before he might be a bit more careful about making such claims in public again

Too late

Tetrinity · « **Reply #84 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:48 »

The Pizza Girl comic made me giggle far more than it ought to have done. The beat between panels three and four is just perfect.

Quote from: Odal on 23 May 2011, 12:01

A few weeks later in QC time:

...

So did this, for that matter.

Thiefree · « **Reply #85 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:58 »

FIVE YEARS. FIVE YEARS this has been coming.

Carl-E · « **Reply #86 on:** 24 May 2011, 05:13 »

Personally, I thought it would be funnier to have Wil answer the door - then double take.

But this worked pretty well!

Black Sword · « **Reply #87 on:** 24 May 2011, 06:45 »

Well, damn. Totally wasn't expecting that. Pizza Girl mini-arc?

mike837go · « **Reply #88 on:** 24 May 2011, 06:59 »

But without a reliable witness or other substantial evidence, did it really happen?

Pen-Pen has been known to get into hyperbole: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1437

Even Wil commented on it.

Personally, I don't believe her. Penelope == Pizza Girl!

Tiogyr · « **Reply #89 on:** 24 May 2011, 07:20 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 24 May 2011, 05:13

Personally, I thought it would be funnier to have Wil answer the door - then double take.

But this worked pretty well!

Or: Wil answers the door, says "Okay, geez, I get it! I'll pick up a better-paying job as soon as I can!"

DSL · « **Reply #90 on:** 24 May 2011, 07:35 »

Wil answers the door, thinks he sees Penelope. A minute or so later, goes into kitchen or whereever with pizza, sees Penelope, asks how she got changed so fast. Nobody believes Penelope, including Wil.

OR:

Penelope is Pizza Girl. That's an impostor at the door, one of many. Coming up: "QC: The Dark Knight."

Carl-E · « **Reply #91 on:** 24 May 2011, 07:46 »

Quote from: DSL on 24 May 2011, 07:35

Coming up: "QC: The Pepperoni Knight."

FYP

mike837go · « **Reply #92 on:** 24 May 2011, 07:47 »

Or it could be Loony Tunes physics:

Anybody else remember the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon where he is playing hide-and-seek with Egghead Jr. Foghorn hides in the wood box and is found in a hole that Egghead digs? Foghorn then goes to look in the woodbox but stops, commenting that he just might be in there?

Well, what if he was? THEN! we have the solution to the Penelope and Pizza Girl mystery!

DSL · « **Reply #93 on:** 24 May 2011, 08:24 »

Schrodinger's Pizza Girl? No, wait, that takes us back to the Milholland crossover, or maybe the Slauson Cutoff ...

Tiogyr · « **Reply #94 on:** 24 May 2011, 08:35 »

Oh, and it looks like the Rapture has been pushed out to October, so Jeph might have enough time to work the comic around to making a relevant joke in-comic if he wanted to (in the form of a post-rapture failure bloc party with summertime fun and the first Deathmole gig, even).

mike837go · « **Reply #95 on:** 24 May 2011, 08:40 »

Quote from: DSL on 24 May 2011, 08:24

Schrodinger's Pizza Girl? No, wait, that takes us back to the Milholland crossover, or maybe the Slauson Cutoff ...

Gah! You make my brain hurt!

I LOL'd on the Shrodinger's reference.

The crossover kinda fits here.

I'm not seeing how an incomplete bureaucratic nightmare of an almost-highway is funny in this context.

jwhouk · « **Reply #96 on:** 24 May 2011, 08:45 »

JustinTV...

Sucks.    - 6 (18.8%)
Inhales Voluminously.    - 4 (12.5%)
Is really petty about stuff.    - 1 (3.1%)
Is really run by Pintsize.    - 0 (0%)
needs to be run through with a knoife.    - 4 (12.5%)
Is completely clueless.    - 4 (12.5%)
Even more so than Padma.    - 0 (0%)
...or Raven.    - 7 (21.9%)
Waffles and steak.    - 6 (18.8%)

Total Voters: 32

There is no "winner" in this poll, only the losers over at justin.tv.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #97 on:** 24 May 2011, 09:02 »

No, the reall winners got waffles and steak.

Not necessarily at the same time.

ink slinger · « **Reply #98 on:** 24 May 2011, 09:50 »

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...and Faye is showing a three-button cleavage!

I generally try to stay away from commenting on this sort of thing but, honestly, I couldn't help but find myself thinking: That's a lot of open buttons for work!

themacnut · « **Reply #99 on:** 24 May 2011, 09:57 »

You haven't been in some of the workplaces I have. Some offices I've worked at some of the women come in dressed more for the club than the office. I guess it's because they're going clubbing after work, but still, they couldn't be bothered to bring a change of clothes?

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