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Passage of time in QC...
marsman57:
I'm at a bit of an impasse about what to do around the time of 164-269.
The implication from Faye's sister's arrival is that the semester has recently ended and she went home with her girlfriend for the break before fleeing to MA once caught. She then returns home instead of back to school. That said, Ellen has class 3 days later.
I know new semesters don't always start at the same time. Maybe this implies an early January time frame for these strips instead of the mid-December that I initially thought. Anyone else want to chime in?
The justification in my mind is that initially Amanda was only going to be staying a few days, so maybe the semester was about to restart and she is only returning home briefly.
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: marsman57 on 14 Oct 2014, 11:28 ---I've started attacking this from the other end and have fleshed out some of the existing stuff in the first ~230 strips which appear to all have taken place in a time frame that runs from November-December of the first year.
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I think it has to be earlier than that - we need a big jump in November/December for Dora's hair to have grow out in time for the snow storm in 1311, and September/October would also be a better match for all the tee-shirts and hoodies in the early strips than November/December.
I would start by pinning #48 to the first week of September, which is the very earliest any reasonable person would inquire about thanksgiving plans. Then cram the first 1300 strips into as compact a space as possible, so that 1302 lands in late October and 1311 opens in mid January after a 2+ month time skip.
--- Quote from: marsman57 on 14 Oct 2014, 12:05 ---I'm at a bit of an impasse about what to do around the time of 164-269.
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Let's just say it was a fall midterm break. Many schools have one in October in parallel to the Easter holiday in the spring semester.
marsman57:
I think I'll have to get through all of the strips to have a better feel for the time period. Maybe an entire year passes in the first 1300 strips. It just doesn't seem to me like Amanda would be telling her mom about failing all her classes "last semester" if she had spent an entire Summer break and half of a semester beforehand.
Alternate theory is that Jeph really was just making a timely joke about Thanksgiving without any thought to the implications that could have on a timeline 12 years later and that though being canon should not be regarded in a high fashion.
For the time being, I am going to dispatch with trying to exactly pin the start date until I have determined what the jumps are between days in the strips leading up to 1300.
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: marsman57 on 14 Oct 2014, 13:01 ---It just doesn't seem to me like Amanda would be telling her mom about failing all her classes "last semester" if she had spent an entire Summer break and half of a semester beforehand.
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It's an awkward fit, but there's nothing impossible about it. Maybe Amanda failed a summer term? And in the alternative scenario, is there really enough room in the narrative to stretch 0-1300 over an entire spring, summer and fall? It feels too tightly plotted for that.
--- Quote ---Alternate theory is that Jeph really was just making a timely joke about Thanksgiving without any thought to the implications that could have on a timeline 12 years later and that though being canon should not be regarded in a high fashion.
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Yeah, clearly there is a reason Jeph's answer to how much comic time has elapsed is "a year or two". We could try constructing a long timeline and a short one and then see which seems less unreasonable. Or we could just throw up our hands and declare that 0-1300 take place in a temperate neverwhen that starts in November, ends in Setember, lasts for 60 days, and is immediately preceded by winter break.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 14 Oct 2014, 13:16 ---Yeah, clearly there is a reason Jeph's answer to how much comic time has elapsed is "a year or two". We could try constructing a long timeline and a short one and then see which seems less unreasonable. Or we could just throw up our hands and declare that 0-1300 take place in a temperate neverwhen that starts in November, ends in Setember, lasts for 60 days, and is immediately preceded by winter break.
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Time travel is involved. It's Pintsize's fault.
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