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So I'm wondering...
happyninja42:
I didn't have any false starts with the strip personally. I started reading it about...3 weeks ago I think? Maybe 4? Nah, probably 3, and caught up with the current strip about 5 days ago. I found myself enjoying it quite a bit actually, though I am glad he's moved away from the constant indie band references, as they were mostly lost on me. I'm a huge music fan, but obviously, based on the QC namedrops, not the same bands as Jeph. :laugh: So most of the jokes about those bands were simply lost on me. Once the strip became more "soap opera-y" (focused mostly on the romantic relationships of the characters), I found the jokes far more enjoyable and relatable.
rowas:
My first strip was sometime between strip 300-400, back when I was in school.
(Had to do something during the basic 'everyone have to take this no ands, ifs or buts' computer class)
I think it was the strip when Pintsize had been on a date ... Possibly ... Or somewhere around there.
And I know where I came from, Gaia Online :-P
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: happyninja42 on 31 Mar 2015, 17:10 ---I didn't have any false starts with the strip personally. I started reading it about...3 weeks ago I think? Maybe 4? Nah, probably 3, and caught up with the current strip about 5 days ago. I found myself enjoying it quite a bit actually, though I am glad he's moved away from the constant indie band references, as they were mostly lost on me. I'm a huge music fan, but obviously, based on the QC namedrops, not the same bands as Jeph. :laugh: So most of the jokes about those bands were simply lost on me. Once the strip became more "soap opera-y" (focused mostly on the romantic relationships of the characters), I found the jokes far more enjoyable and relatable.
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Agreed. I'm a big music fan too (including some of the bands Jeph used to reference from time to time), but those jokes and references always seemed kinda like speedbumps to me. The relationships and the human element are what makes it for me, and I think the strip got stronger the more it came to emphasize that side of things.
happyninja42:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 31 Mar 2015, 19:03 ---
--- Quote from: happyninja42 on 31 Mar 2015, 17:10 ---I didn't have any false starts with the strip personally. I started reading it about...3 weeks ago I think? Maybe 4? Nah, probably 3, and caught up with the current strip about 5 days ago. I found myself enjoying it quite a bit actually, though I am glad he's moved away from the constant indie band references, as they were mostly lost on me. I'm a huge music fan, but obviously, based on the QC namedrops, not the same bands as Jeph. :laugh: So most of the jokes about those bands were simply lost on me. Once the strip became more "soap opera-y" (focused mostly on the romantic relationships of the characters), I found the jokes far more enjoyable and relatable.
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Agreed. I'm a big music fan too (including some of the bands Jeph used to reference from time to time), but those jokes and references always seemed kinda like speedbumps to me. The relationships and the human element are what makes it for me, and I think the strip got stronger the more it came to emphasize that side of things.
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Yeah, I think the only band he ever name-dropped that I actually knew and liked was Hum. Most of the others I vaguely knew from second/third hand sources, or just simply didn't know at all.
Rghfrgl:
I'd started fine, somewhere around 1500 or so. And while I was reading day to day just fine it did take me quite a few tries to go through the archives. I Noped whenever I'd try and start and saw the art on the first strip.
Eventually managed and enjoyed it, though you can also put me down for not getting indie references and just skimming over them. I don't think he was wrong to have them, since that was his audience at the time, but probably doesn't work for most if the current audience.
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