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WCDT Strips 3646-3650 (1st - 5th January 2018)

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TheEvilDog:

--- Quote from: RMc on 07 Jan 2018, 05:18 ---Last time on QC:

1) Hannelore accosts her supposed master-of-the-Universe mother and...suffers absolutely no consequences whatsoever, because if she did, fan girls would burn down the internet and boycott Deathmole merchandise.
2) Finally realizing that Tilly is about as popular as a rat in a dark elevator, Jeph puts the poor lad/lass on a bus, er, spaceship. Good riddance.
3) And Jeph, desperate for something, *anything* to make readers forget one of the most unreedeemably awful storylines in QC history, drags out the old TV sitcom warhorse "long lost sibling of main character suddenly shows up, wacky hijinks ensue". Geez, what's next? Gilligan ruins their chances of getting off the island?

Next time on QC: Incest robot threeway! (Or more boring dialogue, your choice.)

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1) There's two things that could have happened if Beatrice had Hanners arrested for "accosting": (a) Bad publicity which could kill the deal with Tilly's father that Beatrice was trying to broker. Which would be somewhat humiliating to Beatrice. And (b) If Beatrice had Hanners arrested, that would kill any relationship between them. As it is, there's a sliver of a chance of reconciliation.
2) There's constructive criticism and then there's destructive criticism, seeing a lot of the latter here. So what makes Tilly "unpopular"? Hmm? What could Jeph have done to improve their reception? Instead of poking holes in the boat, try suggesting ways to patch things up.
3) We've just had a heavy storyline on par with Faye's descent into near fatal alcoholism, Marten and Dora's Break-up and the "Talk". Its also been one of the longer storylines, which means that people need a cleansing of the palette, so to speak. So yeah, we're going to get a funny few comics.

Look, the Tilly storyline was a giant misstep by Jeph, but it was also a story that needed to be told to facilitate the next step in Hanners' own story. And its clear that it went on a little too long. But there's no reason for barely concealed insults towards Jeph. And there's certainly no need to insult fictional characters, because, well, they're fictional.

sitnspin:
*remembers when someone insulted the comic and then announced they were leaving only to come back a year later to once again insult the comic*

TheEvilDog:
That was last week, wasn't it?

Oh, but I miss those heady days when there was (semi)intelligent discussions about the comics.

I miss those days. I really do.

Tova:
I for one hope that Jeph continues to periodically challenge his readers.

Elder Sign:
I'd really like to think that the "travel the world" thing means we'll get occasional tangents of wacky Hanners/Winslow adventures in places around the world, but the way that Jeph treats characters who are out of focus, it seems to me there will be absolutely zero updates outside of maybe a namedrop or two, and we'll be lucky to ever see either of them in the strip again at all -- unless Jeph gets really, really bored with his remaining existing cast members and the new ones he introduces in the meantime.

It just particularly rankles me, as a reader, because we had this awesome moment of Hanners breaking free from her mother's malign influence -- and then poof, gone, no real payoff or reunion allowed, the author just said "your arc's done, I don't need you anymore, bored now, buh-bye", and out the door they go into the trashbin.  And for good measure, let's send her off via "white person goes travelling the world to find themselves", as if that weren't already cliched deeply enough in fiction and real life.


--- Quote from: Shjade on 04 Jan 2018, 17:27 ---I'm a little surprised Claire moving in is so low.

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It might have something to do with the degree of Claire-centricity being at or close to saturation levels, at least since she and Marten started their relationship.  I highly doubt I'm the only person who finds Claire as a character irritating to no end.

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