Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
miados:
I had a date with a girl like claire once. And by that i mean the mtf aspect. She was and is a very lovely, sweet, and great girl who I am still friends with even if it isn't super close. I like to think if she asked me something like that I would have said something similar, but i would have thought longer of how to say it and not as good. I am not good at being a human. I never got out of the buggy beta version of being a human.
I think marten is being great with claire. Anyone who is living with that worries about how people will treat them and with how some people are they have every right to worry and because of that they need to be reassured which I think is part of why claire has asked more than once about him being ok with her.
I hope things go well for these two. I also love how it seemed (at least to me) that claire had feelings towards marten before the hook up started. I love when there seems to be feelings for the couple before they become one. I hate when some comics (not this one so far) just force couples for the sake of the story. I mean the characters make the story not the other way around.
I'm gonna shut up now. before I ramble to much and say something stupid.
eschaton:
--- Quote from: Cyril on 18 Feb 2015, 11:44 ---My reaction to this strip was more or less the same as to the post on Jeph's tumblr... "wow, he must have been getting an absolute deluge of questions on this topic." The amount of exposure to the variety of (everything) that one gets even with just regular exposure to webcomics in this vein and occasional forum perusals is drastically different than someone who is only immersed in mass market media, similar to how someone whose radio is turned to a politically active (or even aware) station or who follows even a single political blog will have a view of the world completely different from someone who is only exposed to the bare minimum and mostly follows pop culture.
The creator of a work like QC is going to be immersed in questions and discussions (and demands, rants) that can overwhelm the perspective of a reader who is fairly blasé about the issues and is more interested in the funny, conflict, or storytelling. This feels more like an exorcism of the response he's getting so as to be able to cleanly cut to a new story than anything required for the story itself.
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Wow, that's really sad if true. And it shows a huge limitation of serial-format stories in the digital age. Think about how terrible many of the classics would have been if each chapter was submitted to the public in turn, and the dialogue and plotting changed slightly in response. It might make for popular stories, but it wouldn't make for superior ones.
I'd like to think that Jeph is paying no heed to the collective voice of the internet (or the forum even) when plotting out the strip. It's okay if he gets the seeds of particular ideas from individuals - that's how creativity works. But ultimately he needs to be telling his story - and not the story the audience is clamoring for him to tell - in order to have the strip reach its full potential.
DillyDolly:
Okay, I'm getting the gist that the people who are obsessed with Claire's "plumbing" are curious about trans people. While this is not polite (and not necessarily appropriate for a PG, upbeat, slice-of-life comic), it is human.
A great set of comics to quench that curiosity (and learn the finer points of how to behave around non-cis/non-hetero/sexually "atypical" people) can be found at discordcomics.com. There's currently a great rewrite/parody of Shades of Grey going down (Shades of A), and links to another group of comics called Khaos Komix which have really great tell-all stories about two trans characters. Some of them are NWS, but they are labeled as such when you come upon them.
I'm loving how "boring" and "normal" Marten's and Claire's relationship is. Sometimes that's just how it goes down in real life—regardless of the type of people involved. It's sweet and feels good to read—especially considering all the drama with Faye.
TheCallMeFez:
Seems to me that she was just looking for some....
Claire-ity
:clairedoge:
I'll show myself out
cesium133:
--- Quote from: eschaton on 18 Feb 2015, 12:07 ---Wow, that's really sad if true. And it shows a huge limitation of serial-format stories in the digital age. Think about how terrible many of the classics would have been if each chapter was submitted to the public in turn, and the dialogue and plotting changed slightly in response. It might make for popular stories, but it wouldn't make for superior ones.
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I may be misreading this (I don't think the coffee is working so well today), but many of the classics were published that way.
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