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QC: Behind the Scenes
WAYF:
AUGUST 1ST
2028
8:30 PM
25 years ago, the legendary webcomic that spawned a multi-million dollar franchise began. It was... Questionable Content, and it was a revolution in internet entertainment. Which leaves the world to wonder:
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Marten Reed: After a failed attempt to get his music blog out of the comic and into the real world, Marten entered into a collaborative partnership with Jeph, Amir and Hannelore to bring the Deathmøle virtual band to life. A short but highly successful career followed, and the group managed to put out three very-well-received albums and a worldwide tour before Amir decided to leave the group to pursue a spirit quest not unlike that which the character of Wil underwent in the comic. Though making any more music was clearly out of the question, Marten and Hannelore have recorded the occasional song together for charity.
At time of recording, and despite his celebrity status, Marten is living in a modest inner-city apartment in Massachusetts, as befits his hipster persona. He can often be seen fighting squirrels in the local park.
Faye: After a hugely successful stint as the face of Weight Watchers, Faye tried her hand at being a gym instructor, then a martial arts instructor. The former was brief and, to quote Faye herself, "intense", and she developed a reputation for pushing her class to the point of exhaustion. While this was effective for some people, they were in the minority, and her martial arts classes went over much better with people who were only taking a casual interest. While not as enthusiastic about violence as her character had been in the comic, Faye had developed a passion for Muay Thai on the set, and today her martial arts classes are so successful that students recognize each other by randomly sparring in the middle of the street.
At time of recording, she is running her martial arts classes out of a private practice in New York.
Dora: The least active in the public sphere now that the comic is finished, all that is known about Dora is that she is married, with two children, and she lives in peace in Hawaii. She is apparently dedicated to maintaining this peaceful lifestyle, as when we approached her for an interview, she stood outside her house holding a broadsword. We got the message.
Hannelore: Aside from her successful career as the drummer for Deathmøle, Hannelore was inspired by her work on Questionable Content to take up baking. After working for various bakeries around the world, she decided to set up her own brand, which these days distributes such products as cookies, gingerbread and fairybread to supermarkets worldwide. Fans of the comic keep an eye out for the cookies she bakes in the shape of the comic's cast members, which she announces announces a batch of every year. Of these, the Faye cookie is usually the favourite at parties, since it is typically spiked by Hannelore herself with Emergency Bourbon.
At time of recording, she is working on a recipe for baking strawberries into cookies in the company's headquarters in Virginia. Company estimates claim that on any given work day, there are three pairs of binoculars in the bushes outside the building, waiting for Hannelore to clock off.
Wil: Having developed a distaste for the English language due to his character's awful poetry, Wil decided upon finishing his tenure in the comic that he would work in a field that had as little to do with the English language as possible. Under Tai's tuition, he decided to become a DJ focused mainly on dubstep music, but after a while he tired of this and realized that he did indeed appreciate the English language after all. He subsequently came into his own after deciding to remix Don McLean's "American Pie", Pink Floyd's "Time", and other songs which had the lyrics as their main focus. He enjoys a modest yet passionate fanbase, who regularly come to see him improvise such remixes at the club where he works in London.
At time of recording, he lives in Hertfordshire, England, and works as a DJ every Saturday in London. He otherwise works as a cashier in Sainsbury's.
Marigold: In one of the most hotly anticipated merchandising projects of the entire QC franchise, Marigold took on the task of writing and directing a full season of Magical Love Gentlemen. It was a runaway success, and ran for eleven full seasons before Marigold decided to step down from the project. She claimed that this was due to having done everything that she wanted to do, and because she found herself unable to handle the constant blushing and nosebleeding hazard that came from writing and directing such a show. As the executive producer, Jeph decided that it was the perfect time to axe the project, diverting the rest of his and Marigold's attention to DVD sales, poster art, licensed video games and Con appearances. To this day, Magical Love Gentlemen retains a large and widespread fanbase.
At time of recording, Marigold lives in a luxury apartment in New York, which she has fully customized to resemble her parents' basement.
TAI: Aside from being a ghost-writer on Magical Love Gentlemen, Tai found work in a school program for sex education. By the time the program realized who she was, it was too late to change their decision. In trying to find an excuse to get rid of her again, they unwittingly gave Tai new notoriety as an outspoken and powerful advocate for better sex education in schools, a battle which she eventually won. With help from her fellow advocates, a new sex education program was drawn up, geared, in theory, towards the needs and wants of a new generation of adolescents. Tai herself added that such a course should, in the spirit of its subject matter, be as fun and entertaining as possible without sacrificing its educational value. As if in testament to Tai's success, cases of teen pregnancy have dropped nearly 80% in the U.S since the new educational program was introduced.
At time of recording, Tai is on a date with our camerawoman. It seems to be going well.
Yelling Bird: In the same vein as FilmCritHulk, Yelling Bird found a handy niche for his persona and talents as a blogger with emphasis on politics and society, who used his crude way of communicating to deliver some surprisingly intelligent analysis and discourse. To this day, his Twitter account remains active, and is considered by many a bastion of common sense and obscenity.
At time of recording, Yelling Bird is working on a Guinness World Record attempt for Biggest Bird Nest in the Shape of Human Genitals. The project is based in California. Visit it... if you dare.
Is it cold in here?:
Well done!
DSL:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 06 Aug 2012, 06:01 ---From the super-secret notes that Milholland put up, she did a lot of the stuff on her knees because she's taller than Sven.
And they got her hair extensions.
;)
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You might want to take cover. Corsetto says on her GWS blog she's planning a madcap driving and signing trip next year. Day 5 is Madison. Day 6 is Minneapolis.
jwhouk:
She'll miss me by a hundred miles. :P
cesium133:
--- Quote from: WAYF on 11 Aug 2012, 22:05 ---
Yelling Bird: In the same vein as FilmCritHulk, Yelling Bird found a handy niche for his persona and talents as a blogger with emphasis on politics and society, who used his crude way of communicating to deliver some surprisingly intelligent analysis and discourse. To this day, his Twitter account remains active, and is considered by many a bastion of common sense and obscenity.
At time of recording, Yelling Bird is working on a Guinness World Record attempt for Biggest Bird Nest in the Shape of Human Genitals. The project is based in California. Visit it... if you dare.
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An obscene political pundit. That sounds awesome, though I'm sure it's probably been done before.
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