I hope the new art is not a one off. I quite like it.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm just not feeling it. A: the whole Hanners-as-Muppet-Baby* thing is disturbing, and B: call me a silly bastard, but I like my characters to look human. I don't expect (or want, really) to see the characters look like they did in the early strips, but that last panel seems more like a devolution than an evolution.**
*Alright, not a Muppet Baby exactly, but I think you get where I'm coming from.
**Usual disclaimers apply. YMMV, etc.
I completely agree. Hanners looks scary and ridiculous like this.
I way preferred - actually, I loved - the art style when Jeph was going for making the characters look like actual adult humans; the era ~1800-2300, especially around 2100. Since then, their heads and eyes have gotten bigger, so the characters looked more child-like again, but I still thought it was really good to pretty good (depending on the day) up until this really drastic change.
This new art change... Marigold and May are ok, but Hanners is really off in my opinion. And since she's one of my favourite characters, I'm very sad about that. I mean, just compare today's comic with this, for example - I just randomly picked one comic that had Hanners in it from the art-era I like; you can look at any of the others instead:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2244. Or even just the one a few days ago:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2759 For me, that's a big step backwards, sorry.
(While I'm complaining: I also by far preferred Dora and Tai in that era of comics I specified above.)
I'm also still hoping that May will neither work at CoD nor as Hanners' bodyguard. She's way less annoying and obnoxious now than when she first showed up, but I'd still like to see my favourite characters interact without her being around all the time.
Of course, that's just me and Jeph should do what he likes, but I'm enjoying QC way less lately than I used to - so far mainly due to the, in my eyes, wonky art, not so much the storyline.