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Passage of time in QC...
Gladstone:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 01 Mar 2015, 20:44 ---Only during the semester. If we're going by the 2006 calendar, that means they stayed in from work on the first day of class. If it's 2005, then classes still haven't started yet. And I maintain that it doesn't feel there there are three days missing between 2776 and 2784.
It's dead, Jim.
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But if everything else from the last thousand-plus strips fits, why not just handwave this one little inconsistency? Meh, three-day gap, good enough.
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 01 Mar 2015, 20:54 ---But if everything else from the last thousand strips fits,
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Last sixteen hundred strips. There's also a similar glitch in the 310-417 period that I found recently, but I thought Jeph might have started keeping stricter track after the big time-skip when the seasons started turning.
--- Quote ---why not just handwave this one little inconsistency? Meh, three-day gap, good enough.
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Well, I wanted to make a reference to help with close reading, but it seems like the strip doesn't want to be read closely. By all accounts Jeph finds the sort of micro-analysis that I do really exasperating. If you want to handwave away inconsistency, an OCD chart is the worst tool you could pick.
Of course, nothing is stopping him from going back and editing that "Wednesday" in 2906 to "Sunday" to soothe my anxious little heart.
TRVA123:
idk, you'd think that Jeph would find the coincidental time accuracy kind of cool.
or he saw the timeline and decided to throw a wrench in it :evil:
Gladstone:
Send him a sternly-worded email. "Mr. Jacques, I diligently spent many hours working out a fairly-accurate timeline of events of the past year in the QC universe, and you casually ruined my work in a day. How dare you, sir. You ought to be ashamed."
AprilArcus:
Meh, haranguing artists who make the things I love isn't my thing. If he wants to use this timeline to help track continuity, it's right here for him, and if someone here has his ear and thinks he might care, I'm sure they'll feel free to point it out to him gently. Otherwise, it's his strip and he should write it in a way that makes him happy and want to keep writing it.
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