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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)

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Zog:
"This is as much for our personal satisfaction as for your benefit"
This could mean that it is neither for their personal satisfaction or her benefit.
That would not be any less true than if it was for both.

oeoek:
I am just very happy to see Emily pop up in this role. I was silently rooting for Marigold in her role as AI-fixer, although that would have been rather unexpected and taking her quite a bit further. Emily is better, much better.

Could we have known? Maybe for someone who can program a thermal extruder to spit out a collapsible cardigan... And of course, how much different can shrinking an AI-head be from whacking it with a rubber mallet? I am sure she will love it! (groan, did I just agree with the buttoned up creep?)

As for jumping sharks (Casual Friday ones or any other); for me we passed that particular bridge around in this early arc. Knocking out a fed and getting away with it? Since than we have happily splashing around in anything goes literature. The fact that we are still enjoying it 3245 comics later shows there is something to be said for leaving the cartilaginous behind. 

riccostar:
Has Questionable Content jumped the shark?

Probably not, I think what we've seen here is distinct from a writer pulling a ridiculous stunt to try to salvage readership.  At its heart it feels like Jeph got bored and is taking the comic in a different direction (something long time readers of QC are very familiar with).  QC's days of being about indie music or romance angst (or even of Marten being the main character) are far far in the past.  With every art and thematic change old readers are lost and new readers are brought in and as long as overall traffic isn't falling, Jeph is fine.

However, this episode feels different and I think it will end up bringing sweeping and irreversible change to the comic.  The direct intervention of this superhuman entity in the lives of the cast changes the entire genre of the work.  Farewell slice-of-life comedy, hello sci-fi adventure.  Now that Faye is tangled up in a situation of this gravity, the shadow of these events will never allow things to go back to "normal" for the gang.  In addition, we've absolutely seen an explosion in the number of recurring characters and the characters that are getting lines and facetime now are almost entirely different from the characters that were important just a couple of years ago.  The characters that do remain from the original comic have been given rapid character transformations (chalk it up to age maybe).

To me this is less jumping the shark and more "the shining Genji was dead."  I think this comic will be very different in plot and genre from here on out and that the action will revolve around a different set of characters.  What will happen to readership is perhaps not a major concern here for Jeph, he's just drawing what he wants to draw.  He's got a brand and other comics to help him out.

In any case, I expect we'll see more and more (human) characters go the way of Sara and Yelling Bird.

gopher:
I have no problem with the comic evolving and I think we should have enough faith in Jeph to let him deliver his story. It seems very unlikely that a big old plot-hammer/DM fiat will fix everything, far more likely to develop the plot.

osaka:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Jan 2017, 23:12 ---Secondly, Bubbles' decision is entirely comprehensible and believable. That doesn't make me happier about it. They may not require a direct 'price' but I'd be more concerned about the 'favour' they ask for some time later in exchange for not betraying Emily to the NSA for unauthorised access of all the classified defence data in Bubbles's head.

--- End quote ---

This kind of defeats the point of "No strings attached" that Mercedes here presented, don't you think? Technically nothing would stop Bubbles from breaking her up into her core components after the deal if there really are no strings attached.

Then again I doubt Bubbles would go tell on Emily anyways.

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