Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 12 Aug 2014, 19:15 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 11 Aug 2014, 19:00 ---This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.
--- End quote ---
Compared to thirty years ago, WE live in a bizarre sci-fi universe. We all walk around with Star Trek communicators in our pockets that are also cameras and video recorders that can also store and play back our entire music collections and can give us maps and directions and can make dinner reservations for us and nobody thinks twice about this. Also unthinkable thirty years ago: the Soviet Union no longer exists, the US has a black president, and gay couples can get married in many places. The QC universe is, by comparison, only slightly weirder than ours.
Oh, by the way, the planet Mars is populated entirely by robots. You're welcome.
--- End quote ---
I realize the discrepancy, of course, and it's even been acknowledged by QC. The primary difference, though, is that I DON'T KNOW what amazing sci-fi technology exists in the QC universe, because I've never been acclimated to it. The space-trip is one of my favorite QC plots because it was interesting, and shone a whole lot of light on the QC universe that I had never seen before, but it came completely out of the blue because I didn't think it was even possible until one day it was like 'Whoops, spaceship!' This took me out of the story a little bit, because I had to mentally reconfigure what I knew about the QC universe. Similarly, I find anthro-PC plots more interesting than human ones because it's so interesting to me how this world works. Social ramifications for getting a new chassis, for example. The Robot Civil Rights movement, and the history of AI in general. Robot Culture has apparently even developed quite a bit, seeing as how Anthro-PCs were once entirely portrayed as nothing but pervy Pint-Size clones (Though this could have been simply because they were all Pintsize's friends,) then there were suddenly new models, (Starting with an Apple-Touchscreen style, then a Linux home-made look, and then even humanoid builds. Then, some time later, we start seeing even more incredible designs: Full sized robots, almost completely human in proportion, and far more bizarre designs. (Though, since one Humanoid robot appeared in the flashback when Marten met Pintsize, this whole theory could be kaput.) We're even seeing completely inhuman AIs merely taking human form via projection or AR.
There's just this incredible, unique universe, and it's being bogged down by Marten and his First World Problems...
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 12 Aug 2014, 20:57 ---I love Faye's glance in that last panel - uncertain? death glare? insecure?
--- End quote ---
I read it more as uncertainty. The death glare is usually accompanied by acerbic snark. Or punching. Or both.
Lubricus:
After last week's weird art, Jeph is currently treating us to his best art ever this week, IMO. 8-)
Eversist:
The panel layout of this page feels really awkward to me (friendly critique).
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 12 Aug 2014, 20:56 ---Mason jars?
Boy, have they gone native.
--- End quote ---
I thought they were those beer can-shaped glasses that are all the rage at microbreweries, but you're right.
Nyithra:
I feel like Sven having psychic powers could only improve the comic.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version