Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2942-2946 (20-24 April 2015)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 23 Apr 2015, 20:13 ---Amelia... it was just a false alarm.
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Awesome album. No regrets, Coyote.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Apr 2015, 23:11 ---Claire, you have lived your whole life in a college town and haven't realised that just about everyone does pot, especially the faculty?
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This, but...
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 23 Apr 2015, 20:43 ---1: Drugging someone without their knowledge, let alone consent, is so uncool that it's not even funny to joke about.
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Yeah. It is a criminal offence in many jurisdictions, and anyone who does it belongs in prison too.
cabbagehut:
Something that I both really like and find a little frustrating about QC is the shifting cast. I like it because it seems realistic. You often don't have a core cast of friends in your life that'll do everything with you, and when you live in a college town, people often move away. People quit jobs to get careers, get married, have kids, relocate for all kinds of reasons, and it's really nice to see that represented, I think.
I find it frustrating because you don't get an "end" to a lot of stories. Part of my mind keeps them as "active" characters, and then I think of QC having this massive cast, when it really doesn't. It just shifts focus.
To be honest, this is the first time I really noticed that I don't really like reading about most of the main cast (and a number of the side characters, too). I don't really like Marigold, Claire, Tai, Dale (honestly, it's not a dislike, but that I don't find him to have much of a personality, so I'm just disinterested), Emily, Pintsize, Momo, Dora (not a dislike, just disinterest), Clinton, Veronica, or Angus (I am so, so glad he is gone. I always thought of him as irredeemably creepy and just could not get on board). I pretty much only like Marten, Faye, and Hannelore at the moment.
I'm not saying the comic is poorly-written or anything! In fact, I find a lot of the characterizations to be just fine. They just aren't my taste. I don't have any plans to stop reading, because like I said, the cast rotates. New things could be out there that I like more, and I like the storytelling style.
But back to the main topic at hand: this kind of situation is funny in a comic, but really, really frustrating in real life (thank goodness this isn't real life, then, huh? :D). When you have a superior who can't take it seriously and it creates problems for you elsewhere, it stops being humorous pretty fast.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: DSL on 23 Apr 2015, 20:20 ---I'll bet she's all mimsy.
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Lead singer of the Mome Raths too.
snubnose:
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE
... nice start into the weekend.
KOK:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 24 Apr 2015, 01:40 ---FWIW, Jeph doesn't seem to be following any long-term arcs at the moment. He seems to be satisfied just doing short stories in the universe (the Emilton date, Claire's assessment and so on). Is this a serious change in direction or will we see him going back to longer arcs in the future?
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Claire's internship ending soon is world shaking, by QC standards.
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