Topic: WCDT: 2296-2300 (15-19 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread (Read 118926 times)

anahata · « **Reply #250 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 03:31 »

Quote from: Madmartigan on 18 Oct 2012, 09:21

That depends if you associate those of Indian descent to be Asian, which is a sticky situation as I think they're, and I could be incredibly wrong, closer to Aryan descent than Asiatic ethnic groups.

In the UK we certainly use the term "Asian" for anyone from India and surrounding countries. It's taken a while for me to get used to Americans saying "Asian" for what we'd call "oriental", e.g. from China, Japan, Vietnam or Korea.

Technically you may or may not be right about Aryan origins, but that's how we commonly use the words.

Aegir · « **Reply #251 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 03:41 »

what's with the picture in panel 5 not having Emily's face in it, but having Emily's face in it in panel 6? if it's supposed to be a mirror, shouldn't it be the back of her head?

Skewbrow · « **Reply #252 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 03:43 »

It is a different picture. Most likely a photo of Emily as a child/adolescent.

pwhodges · « **Reply #253 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 03:44 »

Quote from: anahata on 19 Oct 2012, 03:31

In the UK we certainly use the term "Asian" for anyone from India and surrounding countries.

Every (inhabited) continent has people in it with a range of ethnicities, even before we look at the effect of modern travel. This is why the use of continental names as descriptions is rather pointless, and has the potential to give offence even before considering whether referring to people's ethnicity is appropriate at all.

In the case of "American", there is an unfortunate ambiguity, because it is conventionally used (by me, too) to mean "those from the United States of America" - in other words, the country name includes the continent name, and worse, the country is commonly referred to as "America". Perhaps I should start to follow the usage of "USians", or "USAians", but those are really very clumsy.

It just occurred to me that saying that America is in North America is a bit like saying that the whole is contained in the part!

WAYF · « **Reply #254 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 03:44 »

I dub thee:
TANNELORE.

(I am so sorry...)

AngryCallCenterAgent · « **Reply #255 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 03:59 »

Battletoads...

@Madmartigan, I challenge thee to an insult swordfight for Emily! Choose thy barb!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #256 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:00 »

Am I the only one who thinks that Hannelore in the last panel is terrifying?

Also, I may be being slightly derpy here, but I'm pretty sure Emily did that deliberately.

WAYF · « **Reply #257 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:08 »

Quote from: Pilchard123 on 19 Oct 2012, 04:00

Also, I may be being slightly derpy here, but I'm pretty sure Emily did that deliberately.

Nope, you're definitely not the only one thinking that. That cheeky-looking smile she gives as Hannelore walks out is more than a little suspicious, and as much as Jeph's characters like to be whacky and slightly airheaded sometimes (and that's fine), I find it a bit of a stretch that Emily would not know the difference between sunscreen and tanning lotion. Especially since she claims to have used it on herself, but hasn't even gone outside.

What does this all mean? Could Emily secretly be a genius? Is this her way of trying to get Hannelore to loosen up? (I imagine if you felt your entire skin was unclean in a sense, and your friends tried their best to calm you down, eventually you might become desensitized to it. But maybe I'm completely wrong about that.)
Of course, if Emily used the tanning lotion on herself, that means that she would tan as well. And that thought is kinda... Has ... well... Do... I don't think I've ever seen a tanned person from the same ethnicity as Emily, is what I'm trying to say. And I'm conjecturing that there might be a reason for that.

Also:

Quote from: WAYF on 19 Oct 2012, 03:44

I dub thee:
TANNELORE.

Quote from: Jeph on Twitter

her new name is tannelore

CALLED IT!

Aegir · « **Reply #258 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:15 »

Emily's just a huge troll.

example: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2242

Toe · « **Reply #259 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:21 »

Quote from: Aegir on 19 Oct 2012, 03:41

what's with the picture in panel 5 not having Emily's face in it, but having Emily's face in it in panel 6? if it's supposed to be a mirror, shouldn't it be the back of her head?

Different picture. There's a total of 3 pictures on the wall. Look closely at the last frame, the picture without Emily's face on it is just slightly visible behind (the real) Emily's head.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #260 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:23 »

I also saw the mischief, but I wondered if maybe Emily was just thrilled to have helped out her new friend or something.

Overkillengine · « **Reply #261 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:24 »

Quote from: Aegir on 19 Oct 2012, 04:15

Emily's just a huge troll.

example: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2242

Heck letting someone play Battletoads may as well be trolling too.

Now pardon me while I try to repress memories of the rage the racing levels induced.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #262 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:33 »

pwhodges · « **Reply #263 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:38 »

"File not found"

Lostdreams · « **Reply #264 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:41 »

I wonder how bad tan lines are going to set off Hannelore's OCD.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #265 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 04:42 »

Quote from: Lostdreams on 19 Oct 2012, 04:41

I wonder how bad tan lines are going to set off Hannelore's OCD.

there is a solution.

Covetous · « **Reply #266 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 05:19 »

Battletoads!!

I salute you, sir!

Lostdreams · « **Reply #267 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 05:22 »

Arm sleeves, leggings, a Batman cowl sans cape, and censored nudity would be pretty funny, but it would be more than a bit out of character for anyone but pintsize.

StevenC · « **Reply #268 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 05:27 »

Aww come on Mari. You can play the vidya at home too.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #269 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 05:30 »

The problem I see with that is... Hannelore's OCD would probably go off even harder on a tanning bed, and I could never see her tanning in the sun like that.

judemorrigan · « **Reply #270 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 06:15 »

Wait a second, the QCverse has an SNES version of Battletoads? Forget sentient AIs, now I'm jealous.

Toe · « **Reply #271 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 06:43 »

^ There was Battletoads in Battlemaniacs and Battletoads vs. Double Dragon, and maybe others I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.

judemorrigan · « **Reply #272 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 06:55 »

I'd forgotten about Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, but Battletoads & Double Dragon totally doesn't count.

Black Sword · « **Reply #273 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 06:57 »

You know, we can all make fun of Emily for this, but I honestly didn't know the difference between tanning lotion and sunblock until I was a 18 or so. I have enough melanin that it was never an issue or necessity for me.

jwhouk · « **Reply #274 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 07:03 »

Quote from: LoliBot on 19 Oct 2012, 00:27

Quote from: Jeph
Script's written! Now all I have to do is reread 400 old comics to see if I am correctly remembering a plot point from 3 years ago!!!
Source: https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/259187777562890240

I've only been reading for two years now, so it's hard to tell what happened when before I started reading. What were some of the plot points from three years ago?

Clinton's first appearance in the strip?

SomeCanadianWeirdo · « **Reply #275 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 07:08 »

Quote from: WAYF on 19 Oct 2012, 04:08

Of course, if Emily used the tanning lotion on herself, that means that she would tan as well. And that thought is kinda... Has ... well... Do... I don't think I've ever seen a tanned person from the same ethnicity as Emily, is what I'm trying to say. And I'm conjecturing that there might be a reason for that.

Nah, Japanese people tan. In fact a fashion style, ganguro, was built around getting heavily tanned combined with pastel makeup and bleached hair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro

I'm surprised that Hannelore would want to spend time outside like that at all. Then again this was the girl who smoked when we first saw here, so perhaps her health fears don't apply to the Sun as much.

ChaosWolf · « **Reply #276 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 07:47 »

Quote from: WAYF on 19 Oct 2012, 04:08

Quote from: WAYF on 19 Oct 2012, 03:44
I dub thee:
TANNELORE.

Quote from: Jeph on Twitter
her new name is tannelore
CALLED IT!

King Cooler: "Oh, and could somebody answer that phone? Because I F##KING CALLED IT!!"

~~Schmorgluck~~ · « **Reply #277 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 08:42 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 19 Oct 2012, 07:03

Quote from: LoliBot on 19 Oct 2012, 00:27
Quote from: Jeph
Script's written! Now all I have to do is reread 400 old comics to see if I am correctly remembering a plot point from 3 years ago!!!
Source: https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/259187777562890240

I've only been reading for two years now, so it's hard to tell what happened when before I started reading. What were some of the plot points from three years ago?

Clinton's first appearance in the strip?

That's not that old. However, I seem to remember a strip in which Hanners enumerated the standard content of her handbag, including pepper spray and birth-control pills. Maybe Jeph wanted to check if sunscreen was part of said standard content?

0kamisama · « **Reply #278 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 09:41 »

Quote from: judemorrigan on 19 Oct 2012, 06:15

Wait a second, the QCverse has an SNES version of Battletoads? Forget sentient AIs, now I'm jealous.

It might be a Japanese Famicom system, which has the familiar curved controller shape of the US SNES, but plays the games of the NES era.

Redball · « **Reply #279 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 09:49 »

Quote from: LoliBot on 19 Oct 2012, 00:27

Quote from: Jeph
Script's written! Now all I have to do is reread 400 old comics to see if I am correctly remembering a plot point from 3 years ago!!!
Source: https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/259187777562890240

I've only been reading for two years now, so it's hard to tell what happened when before I started reading. What were some of the plot points from three years ago?

If Jeph had posted his search terms, he'd have had an answer in minutes from this group.

pwhodges · « **Reply #280 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 09:52 »

But that might have been a spoiler.

Hypster · « **Reply #281 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 09:57 »

I think Emily looks a little flirty in panel 4. It looks a little like "Yay, I helped out the pretty Hannelore! We got to interact!"
Of course, she is Emily so you never know what she's thinking.

sitnspin · « **Reply #282 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 10:29 »

Quote from: Hypster on 19 Oct 2012, 09:57

I think Emily looks a little flirty in panel 4. It looks a little like "Yay, I helped out the pretty Hannelore! We got to interact!"
Of course, she is Emily so you never know what she's thinking.

I definitely read that as a flirty look, but I admit to personal bias.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #283 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 11:21 »

What if Emily is using weirdness as a defense mechanism?

Do people need sunscreen in a world with cancer-fighting nanobots? Of course even then they would want to avoid burns.

I hope someone plays video games with Marigirl.

I seem to remember that it was only in the last century that my culture began to tolerate men swimming topless.

Let's hope Emily doesn't have a pet tapir.

Halloween Jack · « **Reply #284 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 11:28 »

I think that Hanners would either have the sort of white hazmat-type suit that people with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeroderma_pigmentosum xeroderma pigmentosum wear when they go out [warning: link goes to the Wikipedia article which has a really disturbing photo at the top] or she'd have a personal nanotech fog, invented by her dad, that would both sterilize the air around her and deflect most UV rays, plus be both concealing and tantalizingly revealing.

But, really, I'm just waiting for Marigold to suit up so that I can dang discreetly.

Throg · « **Reply #285 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 11:32 »

I'm not sure I get this strip.

Tanning lotion is not tanning spray. It's not a spray-on tan. From Jeph's commentary about active melanocytes, the punchline is supposed to be that Hanners got tanned when she didn't want to; but come on, nobody gets a tan *that* quick. Unless it's supposed to be some QC-verse version of a delayed-action "natural" spray-on tan -- which might explain Emily's borderline trollface.

Okay, so we got Hanners, Faye, and Claire (and Clinton, *shudder*) in swimsuits. This is a terribly tame beach episode.

Gnomes2169 · « **Reply #286 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 11:43 »

Wait a minute... Hanners? With a tan? This... this is impossibru! Although, it will be interesting to see everyone's reaction to this...

And I think that the video-game scene was supposed to be a "Some indeterminate amount of time later" scene, not a matter of seconds. And who says that the people who live in the world that has godly AI systems and regular visits to a satellite-city that the top scientists in the world live in don't have access to something like spray on tanning lotion?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #287 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 11:44 »

It would make perfect sense if only Jeph hadn't mentioned the melanocytes.

Maybe tanning spray in the QC world doesn't just turn your skin orange, it contains nanomachines that find and release melanin, or maybe synthesize it? That feels like a bit of a stretch.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #288 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 12:03 »

Hanners is awfully orange for it to not be spray-on tan.

Also, I read Emily's expression in panel 4 as trollface. I'm beginning to suspect that she's really not as clueless as she acts, and if she isn't, then she is quickly going to drop from a character I like to a character I despise, as I can't stand two-faced people.

pwhodges · « **Reply #289 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 12:14 »

I think the panel 4 face is meant to be her reaction to seeing what Marigold has found - compare panel 5. But I did wonder.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #290 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 13:41 »

Look at the eyebrows in panel 4. That's not mischievous, that's feeling pleased at having helped a friend. At least, that was my interpretation.

DSL · « **Reply #291 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 14:34 »

You know, it's about time at least one of those crazy kids got some sun.

Carl-E · « **Reply #292 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 14:35 »

At least it wasn't this stuff...

Sorflakne · « **Reply #293 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 14:47 »

Quote from: Black Sword on 19 Oct 2012, 06:57

You know, we can all make fun of Emily for this, but I honestly didn't know the difference between tanning lotion and sunblock until I was a 18 or so. I have enough melanin that it was never an issue or necessity for me.

I...didn't know there was a difference until this comic.

Seriously.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #294 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 15:16 »

Quote from: Emperor Norton on 19 Oct 2012, 01:40

(As an aside, dude, I'm not wearing tight jeans, not for fashion reasons but I don't like constricting down there.)

It's unhealthy not to. There's a reason for Europe's prosperity - some form of habitual abuse of the male genitalia is seen in every successful culture in history.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #295 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 15:17 »

Quote from: TinPenguin on 19 Oct 2012, 13:41

Look at the eyebrows in panel 4. That's not mischievous, that's feeling pleased at having helped a friend. At least, that was my interpretation.

But in combination with her eyes, it's really not, at least how I see it. They don't seem as wide-open as they usually are in that frame.

As for he looking to the side, that can be a visual indicator of mischievousness. And as her eyes are wide and bright when she's back in-frame with Marigold, I don't think the half-lidded expression of the previous frame was part of her interaction with her.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #296 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 15:19 »

Quote from: Near Lurker on 19 Oct 2012, 15:16

Quote from: Emperor Norton on 19 Oct 2012, 01:40
(As an aside, dude, I'm not wearing tight jeans, not for fashion reasons but I don't like constricting down there.)

It's unhealthy not to. There's a reason for Europe's prosperity - some form of habitual abuse of the male genitalia is seen in every successful culture in history.

Wait, wait wait. Aren't tighty-whities linked to a lower sperm count?

Then that means... tight pants = male hipster birth control?

DSL · « **Reply #297 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 15:21 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Oct 2012, 14:35

At least it wasn't this stuff...

Hanners looks as if she might catch on fire with or without the aid of whatever Emily used on her.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #298 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 15:58 »

It would be an act of charity not to mention spontaneous human combustion to Hannelore. She has enough anxieties already.

jwhouk · « **Reply #299 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 16:44 »

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Dora and Tai. 10 (19.6%)
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Sven crashes the party. 1 (2%)
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Cosette's roommate Luna. 1 (2%)
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