Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: Strips 2892 to 2896 (9th - 13th February 2015)
Zebediah:
I suspect Claire's mom is busy hanging up the "Happy Arbor Day 2003" banner in front of Casa Augustus.
Omega Entity:
Well, that answers the question of whether Faye had stopped going to therapy or not.
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
I think it also answers the question of whether Faye will go to AA or not. I suspect that's what the being ogled by creepy old dudes comment was supposed to imply.
ASB84:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Feb 2015, 01:44 ---Over on the Subreddit, there is a border ad that describes Questionable Content as a Webcomic Soap Opera. I think that this is a fair description - The strip is progressively following a set of characters' lives through primarily character-driven drama, comedy, romance and heartbreak. There is very little or any hint of a long-running meta-plot beyond 'these characters are moving through life and this is what has happened this time'.
Regarding Faye's violent tendencies, initially, QC was not ment to be even sightly realistic. It was comedy and it was occasionally slapstick comedy. However, with time, the characters have developed, become more three-dimensional and their extremely exaggerated primary characteristics have been toned down quite considerably. I argue that this was a conscious choice on Jeph's part, mostly motivated by his desire to more real-world-like characters (starting with the rightly-infamous Strip 500) rather than just a strip-by-strip series of jokes.
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Absolutely. Still, there are traces of that original characterisation that have evolved into more realistic, but nevertheless abrasive and problematic personality traits, that would be good for her to work out.
AprilArcus:
Oh my gosh! Dialogue! Claire interacting with a non-library character! Claire talking about her past!
I feel like the art has been very "on" this week, particularly Monday and Tuesday's strips. This one is all right, but isn't it weird how Claire's facial expression doesn't change at all between panels 1, 2, and 4? My first guess was that Jeph is copy-and-pasting his pencils, but if I overlay them in photoshop it's clear that he isn't — all the outlines are subtly different. I really don't understand why he doesn't vary up facial expressions or camera angles; it must be as boring to draw this kind of strip as it is to read it.
Relatedly, the new 2x2 format strikes again — if this were drawn in the 1x4 style, we'd have all three of Faye, Marten and Claire in-frame and bantering/reaacting. Instead we get two-back-to-back, two-on-two conversations, and I guess Marten is off in the bathroom for this conversation or something.
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