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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
ankhtahr:
I probably live in one of the most artificially designed cities in Germany. Karlsruhe's layout is a little bit similar to Washington DC
pwhodges:
I like Karlsruhe; my son lived there for a while (he's back in Marbach now).
It's also home to the best microphone manufacturer of all (Schoeps), and has a well above average opera house.
Kugai:
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--- Quote from: Kugai on 31 Jan 2015, 13:54 ---Now here's the kicker
Wellington City Council, which runs the Inner City Buses, has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to do away with the Electric Trolley Buses and replace its entire fleet with Diesel Buses.
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Because they've decided to level all the hills and use them for landfill/"made land"? Brilliant!
Oh, they're not leveling all the hills? Brilliant... :roll:
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Whaddaya expect, they're Politicians!
gprimr1:
Based on where QC is set, it is far from an over representation of homosexuality. Real life Northampton is very much like it's portrayed in the comics. Lots of diversity of all kinds.
tacroy:
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 02 Feb 2015, 08:12 ---Based on where QC is set, it is far from an over representation of homosexuality. Real life Northampton is very much like it's portrayed in the comics. Lots of diversity of all kinds.
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While I don't agree with all of the OP's points (and will admit to not having followed the entire thread since then), it does touch on a similar thought I had.
I love the comic and have been reading since a few months after launch (my forum registration is on page 6, of over a hundred), but QC especially in the past year or two, has become not just inclusive but exhaustively inclusive. Off the top of my head, the comic has: gay parents, a sex worker, a lesbian relationship (of which one partner is bi), an interracial relationship, a trans person, a prominent suicide, a person with significant (if often joked about) mental health issues, several people in financial distress, workplace equality issues (albeit addressed through an android), and now, presumably, an addict. Each of these has had fairly significant plot time.
There's nothing wrong with this (I'd agree with the above quoted that it is fairly reflective of the actual Northampton), but at times this effort to give everyone screen time makes the plot arcs somewhat predictable. Claire and Marten were perhaps the strongest example of this for me, as their relationship felt telegraphed more or less from the moment she came out.
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