Topic: WCDT 29 Dec 2014 - 02 Jan 2015 (Strips 2865-2869) (Read 31049 times)

Kugai · « **on:** 27 Dec 2014, 12:26 »

Boom shakkalaka, boom shakkalaka, BOOM!

BenRG · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 14:51 »

How will the year end? With the Yelling Bird crew doing something surreal and bizarre.

Then, on Tuesday, we rejoin the main QC universe 28 days later. There is only a 33% chance that there has been a zombie apocalypse whilst we were away.

Natswash · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 15:29 »

Some say the world will end in fire/some say in booze
but having tasted on that cruise/ I hold with those who favor booze
not to say that destruction fire/would draw my ire

Rghfrgl · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 17:17 »

Perhaps the world ends not with a bang, but with a squee.

Half Empty Coffee Cup · « **Reply #4 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 17:43 »

Damnit, and I wanted to be the one to riff on that quote. =P Well, if not squee, then fire - because we all know that Pintsize would be the one to blame.

Gladstone · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 19:08 »

Some say '14 will end in squee,
Some say in d'awww.
From what I've tasted of QC
I hold with those who favor squee.
But since the other has no flaws,
I think I know enough of Jeph
To say that for the New Year d'awww
Will leave bereft
No one at all.

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 19:22 »

Quote from: Gladstone on 27 Dec 2014, 19:08

Some say '14 will end in squee,
Some say in d'awww.

I say both!

SqueeeeeeDawww!

Goodbye 2014!

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 Dec 2014, 19:37 »

It is a killing squee, that can make men's heads explode with sheer cuteness.

ReindeerFlotilla · « **Reply #8 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 00:48 »

I'm betting on 4th Impact.

Magniras · « **Reply #9 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 07:01 »

Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 28 Dec 2014, 00:48

I'm betting on 4th Impact.

SHINJI, GET IN/OUT OF THE GOD DAMN EVA!

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #10 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 08:12 »

Squaw? D'Eeeeee?

DonInKansas · « **Reply #11 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 17:32 »

Whoever had Pepperoni Pizza Hot Pockets in the poll is the winner.

jwhouk · « **Reply #12 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 17:50 »

Good safety tip: Don't take the last Hot Pocket.

ysth · « **Reply #13 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 18:18 »

Ahhhgggggghhhhh! Bandicoot!

hedgie · « **Reply #14 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 18:31 »

Radioactive bandicoot.

SomeCanadianWeirdo · « **Reply #15 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 18:37 »

I've never had Hot Pockets, but I've had Stouffer's Bistro Turkey Bacon Club Crustini, which is similar. Wasn't impressed. I do like their microwave paninis.

Kugai · « **Reply #16 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 19:07 »

Randy is Radiating

explicit · « **Reply #17 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 19:07 »

Hot pockets aren't worth fighting over. It's basically like fighting over who gets to have diarrhea later.

davedig · « **Reply #18 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 19:08 »

Hmmm now I want Hotpockets. I know they're gross but I grew up on them.

DrBear · « **Reply #19 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 19:18 »

Given the choice, I'd pick Hot Pockets over nukes, but not by much

/You can nuke a Hot Pocket
//You can't Hot Pocket a nuke
///Radioactive Bandicoot would be a good band name.

Gladstone · « **Reply #20 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 19:24 »

Radioactive Bandicoot and the Hot Pocket Nukes

94ssd · « **Reply #21 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 19:59 »

Quote from: DrBear on 28 Dec 2014, 19:18

/You can nuke a Hot Pocket
//You can't Hot Pocket a nuke

Nor can you Pocket a Hot Nuke

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #22 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 22:41 »

Ninja'd to the Jim Gaffigan

BenRG · « **Reply #23 on:** 28 Dec 2014, 23:15 »

Oh, well that explains everything! Eating the last hot pocket is a bit like eating the last Twinkie: a capital offence!

Something tells me that breakfast at the YB Crew's house can get a little... fraught.

Akima · « **Reply #24 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 00:20 »

Can you get vegetarian hot-pockets?

BenRG · « **Reply #25 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 01:13 »

So, what happens for the rest of the week?

As far as I can tell, there are basically two ways Jeph can take this. He can either resume where he left off or time-skip ahead. Let me justify that second one - I'm arguing that there is nothing currently open, with the exception of Emily and Clinton, that necessarily requires a 'what happens immediately after' strip. Faye seems to have made up her mind about Angus and is seemingly at peace with her choice. Marten and Claire seem stable at the moment. I've got the feeling that Hannelore's clothing incident was just a interlude because Jeph didn't want to focus on events around the Library Interns to the exception of all else.

IMHO, the only current story thread that could be said to need an immediate continuation is what will happen with Emily and Clinton. However, even that could be handled with a 'offhand flashback comment' if Jeph doesn't want to go into detail about it.

My call? There will probably only be three narrative strips this week (Thursday 1/1 will almost certainly will just be a single-panel 'greeting card' like last Thursday's). It is the ideal week to close off Emily and Claire's conversation and wrap up this calender year by wrapping up the events of the Summer of Love and Heartbreak. Then Jeph can start the new year with events further into Fall, in-strip.

ZoeB · « **Reply #26 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 01:19 »

Hot pockets do not mean pockets of radioactivity. I stand corrected.

katsmeat · « **Reply #27 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 02:15 »

Given their current, non-vaporized state, can we conclude that Sweet Tits and Yelling Bird are the immortals of the QCverse?

Clearly Yelling Bird is the Trickster. Perhaps ST is God.

We'll have Tai casually drop into the conversation that she was brought up in the Church of ST, but is now agnostic.

BenRG · « **Reply #28 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 02:24 »

Quote from: katsmeat on 29 Dec 2014, 02:15

Given their current, non-vaporized state, can we conclude that Sweet Tits and Yelling Bird are the immortals of the QCverse?

No, it proves is that the YB Crew strips take place in a Toon-verse where normal laws of physics and reality do not apply and even the largest explosion only causes the damage that you want it to.

DSL · « **Reply #29 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 04:08 »

Quote from: Akima on 29 Dec 2014, 00:20

Can you get vegetarian hot-pockets?

That would defeat the whole idea of vegetarianism.

DSL · « **Reply #30 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 04:20 »

Quote from: BenRG on 29 Dec 2014, 02:24

Quote from: katsmeat on 29 Dec 2014, 02:15
Given their current, non-vaporized state, can we conclude that Sweet Tits and Yelling Bird are the immortals of the QCverse?

No, it proves is that the YB Crew strips take place in a Toon-verse where normal laws of physics and reality do not apply and even the largest explosion only causes the damage that you want it to.

It's not even a problem unless at least one of them is accordion-compressed. And then you just walk it off (with appropriate wheezing sounds).

Method of Madness · « **Reply #31 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 04:50 »

Randy disappears when he dies only to immediately reappear. Harriet and Howard (Yelling Bird's name until I'm canonically told otherwise) don't seem to die or disappear at all. Interesting.

DSL · « **Reply #32 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 05:52 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Dec 2014, 04:50

Randy disappears when he dies only to immediately reappear. Harriet and Howard (Yelling Bird's name until I'm canonically told otherwise) don't seem to die or disappear at all. Interesting.

Randy's a Time Lord?

Uniquitous · « **Reply #33 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 06:02 »

Hot pockets are actually really easy to make. Just buy a package of puff pastry, cut both sheets into six equally sized rectangles each, then load 'em up with whatever you like. Brush the edges with some beaten egg, then smush on the tops and bake 'em. So damn tasty. Eat one fresh out of the oven, then fridge or freezer the rest.

Rghfrgl · « **Reply #34 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 07:12 »

Quote

Hannelore's clothing incident was just a interlude because Jeph didn't want to focus on events around the Library Interns to the exception of all else.

This week, Hannelore goes shopping. Not yet restocked from christmas all the stores have left are victorian dresses.

Natswash · « **Reply #35 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 07:21 »

Quote from: BenRG on 29 Dec 2014, 01:13

So, what happens for the rest of the week?

IMHO, the only current story thread that could be said to need an immediate continuation is what will happen with Emily and Clinton. However, even that could be handled with a 'offhand flashback comment' if Jeph doesn't want to go into detail about it.

What about the Svenectomy? Please, that drama bomb is going to have some real fallout

BenRG · « **Reply #36 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 08:26 »

Quote from: Natswash on 29 Dec 2014, 07:21

Quote from: BenRG on 29 Dec 2014, 01:13
So, what happens for the rest of the week?

IMHO, the only current story thread that could be said to need an immediate continuation is what will happen with Emily and Clinton. However, even that could be handled with a 'offhand flashback comment' if Jeph doesn't want to go into detail about it.

What about the Svenectomy? Please, that drama bomb is going to have some real fallout

Not necessarily and certainly not immediately. That said, I could see Tai complaining to the others at the library how the breach with her family is affecting Dora (because I can see the Bianchis taking Sven's side).

Natswash · « **Reply #37 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 08:50 »

Quote from: BenRG on 29 Dec 2014, 08:26

Not necessarily and certainly not immediately. That said, I could see Tai complaining to the others at the library how the breach with her family is affecting Dora (because I can see the Bianchis taking Sven's side).

I agree on the not immediately (even though i'm actually looking forward to that arc), I think Jeph is likely to wrap up (at least temporarily) Emily/Clinton before he does any other real plot developments. I'd like to see more of a capstone on Faye/Angus, but it is true not everything in life actually gets closure

MooskiNet · « **Reply #38 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 09:47 »

Marten gets a text at 2:00 AM from Tai: "Can we talk?"

Marten sighs and sits up.

Claire sleepily asks if everything's okay.

----

One day, dammit. ONE DAY...

osaka · « **Reply #39 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 12:22 »

Quote from: MooskiNet on 29 Dec 2014, 09:47

Marten gets a text at 2:00 AM from Tai: "Can we talk?"

Marten sighs and sits up.

Claire sleepily asks if everything's okay.

----

One day, dammit. ONE DAY...

Tai walks into the room and Marten wonders why he didn't fix the lock.

tragic_pizza · « **Reply #40 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 14:42 »

Prediction: The nuclear explosion has vaporized the QC-verse, and Jeph devotes his energies to the new strip.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #41 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 15:21 »

In the commotion, Pintsize finds some espresso beans, and Harriet and Howard must team up to defeat him.

MooskiNet · « **Reply #42 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:08 »

To reiterate: I love Tai.

Gladstone · « **Reply #43 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:14 »

So, either the Emilysmooch was completely harmless, or it was all part of her (and perhaps Tai's?) devious plan to nudge Marten in Claire's direction. Hmm. I can kind of see the latter happening...

Method of Madness · « **Reply #44 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:28 »

Or she kinda liked him but not to the extent that she's upset that she can't have him. Also wow, Tai can jump.

Natswash · « **Reply #45 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:41 »

Tai's response prepping has improved by leaps and bounds

Rghfrgl · « **Reply #46 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:43 »

Quote from: Gladstone on 29 Dec 2014, 18:14

So, either the Emilysmooch was completely harmless, or it was all part of her (and perhaps Tai's?) devious plan to nudge Marten in Claire's direction. Hmm. I can kind of see the latter happening...

I don't know if I like the idea of Emily having master plans.

SubaruStephen · « **Reply #47 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:43 »

Tai Ninja Confetti Attack!

Quote from: Gladstone on 29 Dec 2014, 18:14

So, either the Emilysmooch was completely harmless, or it was all part of her (and perhaps Tai's?) devious plan to nudge Marten in Claire's direction. Hmm. I can kind of see the latter happening...

Nah, it was nothing but a "Thanks for being so gallant" smooch. Emily's as devious as a goldfish.

ReindeerFlotilla · « **Reply #48 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:46 »

Emily and deviousness does not compute.

Fatal exception error.

A problem has been detected and reality has shown to prevent damage to your universe.

non_sequitur.sys

If this is the first time you have seen this message, relax. God is in his heaven. All's right with the world. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Hope the One returns to the source and disseminates the code he carries.

If this fails to correct the problem, bend over and kiss it goodbye.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #49 on:** 29 Dec 2014, 18:51 »

Kiss what goodbye? Since bending over is involved, I'm assuming it's a butt.

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HOW SHALL THIS YEAR END??

Author Topic: WCDT 29 Dec 2014 - 02 Jan 2015 (Strips 2865-2869) (Read 31049 times)