Topic: WCDT: 2406-2410 (18-22 March, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (Read 157947 times)

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #450 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 03:08 »

Quote from: Lubricus on 21 Mar 2013, 02:04

Maybe the connection is that Veronica is going to start dating a volcano?

No! A man who a volcano of passion!

Abyssalin · « **Reply #451 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 03:57 »

Quote from: Lubricus on 21 Mar 2013, 02:04

Maybe the connection is that Veronica is going to start dating a volcano?

It will be called Gregory and it will enjoy sunsets and RAGE

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #452 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:01 »

Quote from: Abyssalin on 21 Mar 2013, 03:57

Quote from: Lubricus on 21 Mar 2013, 02:04
Maybe the connection is that Veronica is going to start dating a volcano?

It will be called Gregory and it will enjoy sunsets and RAGE

See why do you have to go stereotyping volcanoes like that? You can have a fiery personality without being an angry person.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #453 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:10 »

We could simply accept that Veronica is horrible at segues and leave it there, couldn't we?

Masterpiece · « **Reply #454 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:30 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Mar 2013, 18:53

Quote from: 'Jeph Jacques (tumblr Q&A dump)'
One of the main reasons I still enjoy doing QC after almost 10 years is the feeling of satisfaction I get when I finish a comic I’m particularly happy with. It doesn’t happen every time, but when it does it makes everything else worthwhile.

Woo! I asked that question! He didn't really answer to what I was asking though.

Braindmged · « **Reply #455 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:32 »

When you are attacked by a volcano, does that imply that a colossal mountain of earth actually moved with the sentient intention of assaulting you, or is it just a metaphor for something else?

Tolf · « **Reply #456 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:33 »

Quote from: candlejack on 20 Mar 2013, 15:17

I'm not one to do the whole so and so should be together shipping thing but I'd like to see Marten and Hanners get together. Hanners comes to realize that Marten would be the best guy to help her with her fears and she brings up the idea to Dora and Faye first. Afterwards when she builds up the courage to ask Marten out, he would probably be weirded out by it at first then go with it. The next 1000 strips would show the progression of the relationship between the two and the differences they would have trying to make it work. Their first kiss would probably be an entire picture with everyone standing in the background looking at them. But that would only happen after Hannelore decides she is done being scared of certain intimate contact and grabs Marten and then kisses him... Nah, Jeph would never do that... Or would he?

No, no. Interesting idea, but not the next 5 years interesting. Yep, that's 1000 strips. Do the math.

...And I finally registered for this.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #457 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:50 »

It's closer to 4, actually. 5/7*365 is a little over 250. And bhtooefr...what pun? It's early and I've had not enough sleep, but I don't see one

TinPenguin · « **Reply #458 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 04:54 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 21 Mar 2013, 04:50

And bhtooefr...what pun? It's early and I've had not enough sleep, but I don't see one

Don't worry, you're better off blind.

docC · « **Reply #459 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 05:00 »

I forgot to read the title (as almost always) and after reading the comic, I was ready to come here to post that it's very likely that there will be an active volcano in France soon (geologically speaking, so soon means any time between now and several 10000 years).
Then I remembered to read the title and saw that Jeph already mentioned it. Damn you Jeph for knowing such a thing and robbing me of the opportunity of being a wise ass.

Edit:
Stupid me, right after posting I remembered there is at least one active volcano in France. How could I forget that???

Lubricus · « **Reply #460 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 05:51 »

Quote from: TinPenguin on 21 Mar 2013, 04:54

Don't worry, you're better off blind.

That's something you REALLY don't want to hear your doctor say...

Carl-E · « **Reply #461 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 06:13 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 21 Mar 2013, 04:50

And bhtooefr...what pun? It's early and I've had not enough sleep, but I don't see one

Put a hyphen in the word "analogies", it'll be easier to see it.

Then forget that you ever did, because it really wasn't worth it.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #462 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 06:15 »

Like I said, that pun was horrible. I was trying to head discussion of it off at the pass, but I should've known better.

Zebediah · « **Reply #463 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 06:46 »

Speaking of bad segues, my wife is possibly even worse at them than Veronica.

She might (hypothetically) say, "Speaking of active volcanoes..."
Me: "Huh? We weren't talking about active volcanoes."
Wife: "Well, we were talking about Hawaii."
Me: "No we weren't. We were talking about cats."
Wife: "Oh. Well, anyway, about France..."

Somewhere in the back of my wife's brain was a logical segue from cats to Hawaii. She just neglected to inform anyone but herself of her train of thought.

Which may be why Veronica's segue from active volcanoes to dating made perfect sense to me. This is Veronica we're talking about. Any relationship she gets into is going to resemble a volcanic eruption - loud, spectacular, and dangerous to bystanders.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #464 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 06:51 »

I'm actually quite horrible about that myself, mentally getting ahead of the conversation and then allowing my thoughts to come out, and everyone being confused about the conversational whiplash.

Zebediah · « **Reply #465 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 07:02 »

Hmm... upon further review, Veronica's segue was actually from Hawaii to dating. Oh well, Hawaii to active volcanoes is such a short hop compared to what I usually have to parse that I didn't actually notice.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #466 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 07:08 »

Quote from: Zebediah on 21 Mar 2013, 06:46

Which may be why Veronica's segue from active volcanoes to dating made perfect sense to me. This is Veronica we're talking about. Any relationship she gets into is going to resemble a volcanic eruption - loud, spectacular, and dangerous to bystanders.

What does it say about me as a person that this sounds like my description of a dream date?

westrim · « **Reply #467 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 07:12 »

The question is, when her relationships cool a bit are they a'a (sharp and jagged) or pahoehoe (long and ropey)?

jwhouk · « **Reply #468 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 07:16 »

Quote from: ysth on 20 Mar 2013, 22:56

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Mar 2013, 15:04
Pintsize is not well equipped to be a cuddly friend. Uploading him into a soft fuzzy body might produce what the old IBM manuals called "unpredictable results". Marten doesn't have a Soft Thing to snuggle.
You never know; it worked with Reynardine.

Reynardine isn't an AnthroPC. Wrong side of the river.

Lubricus · « **Reply #469 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 07:23 »

Reynardine isn't quite the force of chaos Pintsize is - despite being an actual force of chaos!

ukrayf · « **Reply #470 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 08:47 »

Oh my, 'that's why they're called "nature's elephants"' has had me giggling like a child all day. Haven't had that effect from this comic in a while.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #471 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 09:07 »

Quote from: Westrim on 21 Mar 2013, 07:12

The question is, when her relationships cool a bit are they a'a (sharp and jagged) or pahoehoe (long and ropey)?

Take one internet for using the appropriate technical terms!

Mad Cat · « **Reply #472 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 09:16 »

printf ("%s\n", translate (LANG_AUTO, LANG_ENGLISH, "Chaîne Des Puys"));

ankhtahr · « **Reply #473 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 09:27 »

Hmm, two things I consider strange in this comic: Maurice has his plate full of egg already, so why would he go to get more, and where's Claire's plate?

So much about overanalyzing…

westrim · « **Reply #474 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 10:27 »

Maurice really likes eggs.

As for Claire, her mother was pregnant with her during the O.J. Simpson trial, and watched it so much that OJ is now all her daughter consumes.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #475 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 10:29 »

Claire was born in the '80s, but good guess!

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #476 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 10:33 »

Maybe the QCverse OJ Simpson trial happened in the eighties?
Or it was a different OJ Simpson?
Or Claire is actually Clinton's timelost clone-daughter and it was actually the second trial?

sha'mad conde · « **Reply #477 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 10:51 »

Maybe she's a vegetarian and O.J. was THE choice.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #478 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 11:28 »

Welcome, new people!

My wife shrieked with laughter at "horses are nature's elephants".

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #479 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:00 »

If we're going to overanalyze the status of eggs on plates, I guess I'll be the wet blanket to point out that comic panel time does not equal our reality time. There is more than enough *potential time* between panels 3 and 4 for Maurice to Cookie Monster the shit out of some eggs.

Loki · « **Reply #480 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:02 »

Quote from: Zebediah on 21 Mar 2013, 06:46

Speaking of bad segues, my wife is possibly even worse at them than Veronica.

She might (hypothetically) say, "Speaking of active volcanoes..."
Me: "Huh? We weren't talking about active volcanoes."
Wife: "Well, we were talking about Hawaii."
Me: "No we weren't. We were talking about cats."
Wife: "Oh. Well, anyway, about France..."

Somewhere in the back of my wife's brain was a logical segue from cats to Hawaii. She just neglected to inform anyone but herself of her train of thought.

I tend to do that when I am half-asleep, but still conscious enough to talk. So my GF will say something about cats, then I will say something like "Yeah, it's really strange." My GF: "What?" Me, still absentmindedly: "How elephants don't have any paws." Her: "What? We were talking about cats, right?". Me, now more awake: "Eh. Yes. Damn, how did I get to elephants?"

The worst thing is, I remember there being a chain of associations that led me to elephants, but I don't remember what it was. Argh.

Bad Wolf · « **Reply #481 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:04 »

All this talk about eggs is making me hungry.

Also, I'm excited to see what's been happening in the rest of QC world! I want to catch up with Hanners and Marigold.

Thrudd · « **Reply #482 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:10 »

Quote from: sha'mad conde on 21 Mar 2013, 10:51

Maybe she's a vegetarian and O.J. was THE choice.

But if it was a half decent hotel [not Days or its ilk] then they would also have had fresh fruit available.
I just hope she isn't one of those not-breakfast type people .... did she have anything at the cottage party?

westrim · « **Reply #483 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:22 »

Quote from: de_la_Nae on 21 Mar 2013, 12:00

If we're going to overanalyze the status of eggs on plates, I guess I'll be the wet blanket to point out that comic panel time does not equal our reality time. There is more than enough *potential time* between panels 3 and 4 for Maurice to Cookie Monster the shit out of some eggs.

Unfortunately for that hypothesis, we can see them on his plate still on the 4th panel.

Bad Wolf · « **Reply #484 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:24 »

Maybe it's a napkin or something? It doesn't look yellow enough to be eggs.

ink slinger · « **Reply #485 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:28 »

Quote

...although I hope for our sake they end up talking about it because I for one am dying to know what they're thinking about it.

Is there really anything to talk about? Unless they're going to be all, "That was nice; let's date," (which seems unlikely) I don't think there is anything to talk about.

On another note, the next t-shirt design needs to be: Horses: Nature's Elephants.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #486 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:41 »

Hmm, ground elephant lasagna...

~~cesariojpn~~ · « **Reply #487 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:46 »

Quote

Henry and Maurice were seriously injured in a volcano attack five days later.

The only ways you can get injured/maimed/killed by a volcano in Hawaii nowadays unless you go out of your fucking way to injure yourself is getting burned by the Lava either by mere exposure or falling into one, or the lava shelf collapses under you and sends you into the scalding steaming sea below you.

Asterus · « **Reply #488 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:50 »

No, no, those would be "accidents". Jeph specifically said it would be an "attack". You know what this means...
Groudon's in Hawaii.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #489 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 12:53 »

Quote from: Thrudd on 21 Mar 2013, 12:10

I just hope she isn't one of those not-breakfast type people .... did she have anything at the cottage party?

Maybe she's already ate, or wanted to talk a bit before getting food. And what's so horrible about being a not-breakfast type person?

Bad Wolf · « **Reply #490 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:24 »

I'm a not breakfast person. Food just never sounds appealing before noon. Just juice.

mtmerrick · « **Reply #491 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:27 »

I agree with you there, but at the same time, breakfast food tastes GOOD. Seriously, a croissantwich is one of my favorite things.

Bad Wolf · « **Reply #492 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:30 »

Oh, I won't argue with you about that. Breakfast foods are the best. I just usually eat them at ridiculous hours of the night. There's a great place where I live called Stepping Stone Cafe that serves the best breakfast foods until about 4 a.m... Mmmm, waffles

DSL · « **Reply #493 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:31 »

Thinking Hawaii, bellicose volcanoes or not, had something to do with Henry's and Veronica's early romantic life. First date, honeymoon, first mutual porn production, whatever. That would make it not too bad a segue in V's mind, or even Henry's.

It would explain V's seeming irritation at Henry's quip about her being bad at segues (which is not the same as her being unable to ride a two-wheeled electric stand-up cart); she could be reading this as dismissal of her attempt to remember those happy early days.

Maurice, despite his inexplicable conviction that an elephant is some sort of artificial horse, senses this and knows, whether or not there are at present eggs on his plate, it is time to get more.

Unless this is simply a fever dream of Steve in his Cruncho-induced coma, in which case never mind.

EDIT noting items referenced in red text: Who says breakfast food has to be eaten at breakfast time?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #494 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:46 »

Quote from: Bad Wolf on 21 Mar 2013, 13:30

Oh, I won't argue with you about that. Breakfast foods are the best. I just usually eat them at ridiculous hours of the night. There's a great place where I live called Stepping Stone Cafe that serves the best breakfast foods until about 4 a.m... Mmmm, waffles

The best thing about New Jersey is the diners. And in Jersey, it's not a diner unless it's a. open 24 hours and b. always serving breakfast. Nothing like a good diner brinner, or hell, breakfast after midnight is technically breakfast in the morning!

Madmartigan · « **Reply #495 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:53 »

Martenmom is going for some jailbait!

As such, she'll date someone named

Scooter
Mikey
Danny
Johnny
Freddy
Max
Digger
Danger
Rod

Ok. I'm just screwin'.

Seriously though, I bet Veronika goes "cougar" mode and ensnares some poor 20ish yr/o dude. After all, Veronika is probably still in prime sexual fitness. She needs someone to keep up.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #496 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 13:55 »

What do you mean mode? Isn't that her standard MO?

bhtooefr · « **Reply #497 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 14:04 »

I was under the impression that the whole point here was that she wasn't after casual sex any more. Because she was quite open about it before, but asked about dating.

Boiled Dove · « **Reply #498 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 14:10 »

I agree she is wanting more than just a hook up. She seems to bee looking for something that could last for a while.

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #499 on:** 21 Mar 2013, 14:14 »

Quote from: Westrim on 21 Mar 2013, 12:22

Unfortunately for that hypothesis, we can see them on his plate still on the 4th panel.

Oh I see it now. I guess I assumed it was a biscuit, but I don't see evidence of biscuit on the plate before.

It's totally the wrong color to be the eggs, but I can't see what else it can be but egg.

Though it's not unrealistic that she would want someone who, maybe not *really* young, isn't her age either. Possibly. Just because she wants emotional intimacy doesn't mean her libido isn't still pretty strong.

That said I do think she'll go a little older than has been implied. She's going to date...uh...Jim? Is that his name? Secret Bakery's owner. >_>

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