Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2796-2800 (22-26 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
TheEvilDog:
Bear in mind as well that by most webcomic standards, Questionable Content does have a fairly sizeable regular cast and a limited amount of space to work with. Now each character is going to be unique, but at the same time, each fills a certain role and unfortunately, there will be a certain amount of overlay. For example, in the case of the library staff, you have Marten - who might be considered the straight man to the shenanigans going on there. You have Tai - the sometime stoner/sometime level-headed boss. Claire - sometimes prone to acting rashly and something of a jerk at times. Emily - Well, she's Emily, 'nuff said. And finally, you have Gabby - Who compared to Emily and Claire, is the straight man of the interns. So one might imagine that strips featuring just her and Marten might be relatively boring. This isn't saying that Gabby was a poorly created character or simply written out, but I can see from Jeph's perspective why she might be difficult to work with and there's only so much you can do with a character before you have to give them a rest. You can see with quite a few other characters, most famously Raven.
Alphawolf55:
--- Quote from: reicreature on 26 Sep 2014, 19:38 ---I didn't necessarily see a problem with the introduction of the interns and we've had Amir, Padma and Dale who aren't white and of those characters Amir and Dale have had some spot light time beyond their introduction.
Granted, that isn't saying a heck of a lot for diversity, but the interns didn't strike me as tokenism.
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Now look at how all those other characters were introduced, they came up as individuals and they came up through their daily lives, vs the interns that were all introduced in the same panel, felt like a harem introduction and just so happened to have each one of them part of a group not represented in the comic while giving minimal personality so far (Except for Clare who became a fan favorite and thus more screen time)
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 26 Sep 2014, 14:38 ---Only thing I can say:
GODDAMN I CAN'T WAIT FOR MONDAYS COMIC.
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Preach it brother!
--- Quote from: ElsaStegosaurus on 26 Sep 2014, 17:40 ---
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 26 Sep 2014, 15:35 ---Can I just say that I'm incredibly jealous of both Marten and Claire, and what they're sharing, right now?
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Srsly. This comic is giving me some serious flashbacks (and some pangs) to a time when things were new and nervous and exciting.
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I am beyond jelly. Which is kinda why I want it to go well! Let me live vicariously through your characters Jephizbah!
*sob*
Gods I'm so alone.
bjams:
I'm fairly certain that Jeff is just trolling us.
Zwammy:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 26 Sep 2014, 18:54 ---I'm gonna go off to work tonight, come back home, log in, and we'll be up to 15 pages, won't we?
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Well, seeing that yesterday I logged out and it was at five pages compared to the 13 pages when I logged on today, it's quite possible. I could've done without sqeeeeezing past all the squee piles forum goers left lying around, though.
Thoughts about the latest developments? Wow, too much heavy lifting. I'm taking the wait-and-see route, because I don't like to get my exercise by jumping to conclusions. I am leaning towards Claire reading a bit too much into what a tipsy Marten is doing, but hey, it's all good. Let's hear it for Monday! (Whoa, never thought I'd say that!)
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