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stoutfiles:
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--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 21 Sep 2011, 06:28 ---I don't like when comics that exist on the plane of reality bend the laws of physics for comedy.
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Then I guess a lot of comics annoy you (Scott Pilgrim would, for sure!). Since there are other distortions of our reality in QC already (robotics and AI), does it really hurt to have another?
More seriously, people have survived (seriously injured, to be sure) falling from 47 stories up a building, and even from planes; and they have got up and walked away from substantially bigger falls than illustrated.
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No, Scott Pilgrim quickly labeled itself as a video game crossover in the first volume. If Marten started battling people in video game duels and they exploded into coins, then I would have a problem with it after 2000+ strips of establishing a physics-based world.
Falling is one thing, falling onto a rock face is another. She should be hurt.
--- Quote from: WAYF on 21 Sep 2011, 06:48 ---
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 21 Sep 2011, 06:28 ---She fell ~10 feet onto a jutted rock, hitting her square in the back, then another ~6 feet afterward. The fact she isn't seriously injured annoys me; I don't like when comics that exist on the plane of reality bend the laws of physics for comedy. The robots and dinensional portals are one thing, but humans, gravity, and rock faces are another.
At the very least the hiking trip should be over, you can't take a kid hiking if they're flinging themselves off cliffs.
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Personally, I'm perfectly happy for Jeph to throw out reasonable physics for special occasions. Not that we know how seriously injured she is yet.
I don't think the hiking trip will finish just yet (Jeph would still want to get some mileage out of those backgrounds, after all), but I do expect we'll see a bit more of Jim's inner protective dad coming out upon their return.
I just have one question, stoutfiles. How serious are you each time you express your distaste for a certain aspect of the comic? I'm thinking about things like Sam's fall, Charlotte's behaviour while Marigold and Momo were picking out a new chassis... that sort of thing. You tend to look at things somewhat pedantically, and that's FINE (I've certainly had my share of pedantic moments), but how much do these things affect your over-all enjoyment of the comic?
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I'd say...slightly serious. I'm just pointing out the negative things since everyone else is covering the positives. For that to be the only negative today is pretty good, for the most part the plot is always entertaining and the illustration is always great. I'd say the only thing that really bothers me is Faye sometimes; I don't find physical abuse or degrading behavior to be even remotely funny, and that's Faye 75% of the time. She's better than she used to be though, knowing the characters are evolving brings me back as well.
dragontart:
--- Quote ---I'm just pointing out the negative things
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*things you dislike.
I personally enjoyed this comic especially because it would be completely impossible within the QC universe and is thus simply silly.
--- Quote ---It's worse than that she's DEAD JIM!
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I laughed.
Oh, I have a question: it's poisonous when I bite it, it's venomous when it bites me, what's it called when I go dead from touching it? Are there such things at all for humans? Somebody in some other window just threw in dimethylmercury, does it count as poison/venom in English?
inhuman_decency:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 21 Sep 2011, 04:30 ---So the question stands, "I've caught it! Now what?"
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Stuff it in a little ball so it can fight for her, of course!
Paranoid:
Personally, I'm okay with a few physics handwaves here and there. After all, there are plenty of times Jeph writes someone out of character in order to deliver a punchline, and we accept that (well, more or less).
Skaltura:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 21 Sep 2011, 05:18 ---Venomous means you die if it bites you.
Poisonous means you die if you bite it back.
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However, both are toxic and can have potentially noxious effects!
Hey everybody, it's synonym week!
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