Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2927-2931 (30 March to 3 April 2015)
swapna:
--- Quote from: Elder Sign on 02 Apr 2015, 22:38 ---Am I the only one sensing the double standard around tonight's strip? Like, if it had been Claire sitting there all wounded and messed up, the forums would be an inferno of outrage, but since it's Clinton, it's apparently A-OK comedy gold?
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Yup, comedy gold! Nah, I rolled my eyes too. I don't really like Clinton, but hurting him is usually played for laughs. It's similar with Pintsize. But lean too close to Claire, and it's as good as beating her up, in terms of Forum outrage.
On the other note: I'm glad that this didn't descend into 'Marten breaks those two up/gives them a lecture/whatever'. Faye is living there, too, and while they may never become friends, they may have to figure out how to live next to each other on their own.
CaptainFish:
I'm curious what happened to his eye. Since his glasses are intact he either took them off and had an accident, or took them off to fight someone!?
Put me down on the tattoo side as well.
Aside from the injuries and puke, it's a good look for Clinton, he should lean into it.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: swapna on 03 Apr 2015, 09:11 ---
Yup, comedy gold! Nah, I rolled my eyes too. I don't really like Clinton, but hurting him is usually played for laughs. It's similar with Pintsize. But lean too close to Claire, and it's as good as beating her up, in terms of Forum outrage.
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I think the Clinton being tormented for being creepy, and thus "deserving" of whatever happens started before Claire was really much of a (if any) presence in the series. She hadn't been introduced when he was acting all stalkerish towards Hanners, and also had to be on the receiving end of a good zap from Momo for getting too close. Like Pintsize, he had pretty much established himself as a butt-monkey in his first several strips. When Clinton and Claire were having their tiff in CoD, my first thought about her was "Ye gawds, there's another one". Thankfully, she grew as a character, and hopefully so will he.
KOK:
--- Quote from: jacoposki on 03 Apr 2015, 01:15 ---Are we even sure it's something new and superimposed, be it tattoo or burn, and not simply part of the electric system of his robot-hand? Have we seen Clinton's arm before?
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That is a drawing. Not two sockets in his arm.
bhtooefr:
For that matter, I thought I read something that Jeph posted, where the original character design for Clinton was female, but Jeph ended up switching to a male character due to the number of female characters in QC.
And then he went back and reused the earlier female Clinton prototype as Claire.
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