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Things you miss from older QC strips.

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Euthemes:
Funny Dora. She is so grim these days, at least whenever we see her.

Meilu:
I miss pretty much everything about it... sometimes even the bizarre and evolving art style. It seemed more gritty and honest.

JRDelirio:
Sign me in too with the blackboard specials, Raven, and Hannelore Original Flavor as things missed.  Which is IMO itself the diminishing order of probabilities of seeing them return, the last one being effectively nil.

I do suppose the recurring background gag with Hanners trying a new drink that turns out to be terrible is also something definitely in the past, though we had a bit of a callback to them with Marigold and the ales, and the first sequence of Claire and the Scotch before "the sleeper awakened".  With the new CoD crew however we could have that translated into trying to come up with new Specialty Drinks, with disastrous results.

Welu:
Am I the only one who doesn't miss Hanners' first incarnation? Especially once she said it was due to her medication, it seems weird to me to want someone to go back on something that changes their personality and mental health progress so drastically. She might have been more confident but it also led to the stalking behaviour and seemed to contribute to her insomnia, and she actively wants to be more mentally healthy, whatever that means for her. I think it's really nice to have characters who can't keep up with the wise-ass snarker types and make humour in other ways. I find it more satisfying to see her get more confident and stable in her actual self with the traits like naive but aware, empathetic and sweet, which I wouldn't call the original version of her. I also don't think her verbal beat-downs, if they would have happened, would have had near as much punch if she was still like when she was introduced.

Edit: I stand corrected about the medication/stalking link. "That was just me being usual weird and creepy self." Still, in the comic she seems embarrassed about it and she's improved about being less creepy since going off it.

TRVA123:
I don't like the original Hanners more than later incarnations, but I can see why people do. Her character at that time didn't seem like someone weirding out from meds. To add that explanation later came across to me as a retcon.

I don't really view Hanner's in those strips as someone having an abnormal reaction to drugs, I view her original character as a direction Jeph seriously considered, but ultimately didn't go with.

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