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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
jaquio:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 10 Jan 2017, 13:03 ---*This* is a shark jump? Not the visit to Station, the introduction of Bubbles, the VespAvenger, or any other long list of times I could probably pull out with more thought?
Nah, I've been with this comic 8 years, it's always meandered.
Anyway, I hope Bubbles passes the test in front of her. I hope she recognizes it.
--- End quote ---
Honestly?
As someone who's followed QC for near eight years, bought books, bought my wife a bear monster shirt, and owns Pintsize and Winslow plushes.... yes. This story arc does feel like a jump the shark moment.
All of those crazy things were still about people. People in crazy situations, but still people.
This arc is not about people. I just went back and checked. In the last 30 actual comics (subtracting out holiday filler), there have only been 3 comics that include two humans talking to one another. The last two months have featured speaking parts from eight robots/AI (Bubbles, May, Pintsize, Corpse Witch, Station, Jeremy, whoever the cop is and who ever this new devil character is) and only three humans (Marten, Faye and Hannelore).
Time will tell, though.
Case:
I'd be very disappointed if Jeph let QC jump anything smaller than a blue whale ...
Neko_Ali:
So, living, sentient, feeling beings who happen to have machine bodies are not 'people'. Featuring AIs, which have existing in the comic as long as it has existed is jumping the shark. Gotcha.
NemesisDancer:
I'm wondering whether this new character might be some sort of AI hivemind (similar to the Geth in Mass Effect). I've noticed Person-In-Black never once says "I" - opting instead for "we" - and claims to be "a sympathetic party" ("party" potentially implying more than one person, or in this case, consciousness). I'm thinking perhaps Jeff's "They seem nice" comment didn't entirely mean "they" in the gender neutral sense, but instead in the plural sense of the word.
Kugai:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehLQEp_88I
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