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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
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Well if we're hung up on the homosexuality part I'm going to try to respond as succinctly as possible.
QC is inclusive of many sexualities and ways of thinking/being. That's what makes it interesting. Saying there's an overrepresentation of these types of people (just going over the broad array of sexuality in general) is preposterous. When you only follow a dozen or so people statistics are pretty much useless (not enough people to make an accurate representation of the total population). You're basically saying that because there's more than one gay person in this comic it's unrealistic and/or biased. (That wasn't succinct at all dammit...)
That may not be what you're trying to say, but that's how I saw it.
Is it cold in here?:
That sample size problem is the reason not to sweat it because Jeph hasn't introduced a Jewish/First Nations/Tibetan/Russian/!Kung/Zoroastrian/Elbonian/whatever character. It's a large enough cast that they crowd each other for screen time but not large enough to draw any conclusions from its composition.
Oilman:
"Grotesques" are common in all forms of literature - characters exaggerated beyond life for effect. Nessa from G&S is a grotesque, in these sense that most of the characters would pass unremarked IRL - especially the eponymous couple - but Nessa, no. But, she is comic, and interacts with the others; the plot arc about her unwanted and unintended pregnancy is quite touching. Smithy is a selfish idiot who has to face up to his perceived responsibilities.
Bill Sykes is a grotesque, as is Fagin, although Fagin was partly drawn from life. Mr Micawber is one, but somehow likeable and he turns into a "happy ever after" at the end.
I'd say Marten's parents were grotesques; Pintsize, definitely. HANNERS' mother qualifies. Tai, arguably. Marten, Dora and most of the female secondary characters are pretty sane, as are Angus and Steve.
Oilman:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Jan 2015, 21:28 ---That sample size problem is the reason not to sweat it because Jeph hasn't introduced a Jewish/First Nations/Tibetan/Russian/!Kung/Zoroastrian/Elbonian/whatever character. It's a large enough cast that they crowd each other for screen time but not large enough to draw any conclusions from its composition.
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Wasn't Natasha Russian? She was hardly a sympathetic character. What about the Russian woman in Steve's "secret agent" story arc?
tragic_pizza:
--- Quote from: Oilman on 26 Jan 2015, 20:55 ---It's a classic liberal-left response...
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Oh for fuck's sake.
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