Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3681 to 3685 (19-23 February 2018)
WoaLG:
--- Quote from: tut21 on 21 Feb 2018, 05:53 ---Why am I supposed to care about Dale and Margiold again? He's immature and she's worse. Next subplot, please.
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Most of the characters in QC have pretty severe issues in one way or another. I'm not sure what subplot you're hoping for, but I'm not sure the next one will be anymore to your taste.
ckridge:
--- Quote from: tut21 on 21 Feb 2018, 05:53 ---Why am I supposed to care about Dale and Margiold again? He's immature and she's worse. Next subplot, please.
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Because QC is a comedy of manners, and the function of a comedy of manners is not to supply you with imaginary friends, but instead to display, question, and mock contemporary social customs and the problems arising from them.
Well, a comic of manners. And the mockery is gentle. Unless May is doing it.
shanejayell:
--- Quote from: Case on 20 Feb 2018, 19:49 ---
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 20 Feb 2018, 19:16 ---May reading the Jet Fighter mag made me chuckle.
One would think they'd download it tho.... :-D
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And forego the chance of being "surprised" enjoying Jet Fighter pron?
That's like Pintsize not tweeting about ... the stuff he downloads
(Yes, he actually has a real Twitter-account. Yes, you could check. Yes, you should definitely meditate on the phrase "what has been seen cannot be unseen" before you do.)
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Yeah, no.
LOVE May's advice this time. She really IS better with people than she'd admit.
Netherdan:
You know Dale is being serious when he turns off the anime filter on his AR glasses.
PS: come to think of it, Marigold's imagination might not be that far from reality, you just need to replace the sexy Emily with a super cute anime Emily
ckridge:
No, really, how does May know this? Someone upthread says by observation, but observation requires interest, and May is the last person one would expect to be interested in anyone else. She is a snotty little punk, albeit a charming snotty little punk, and that is usually a mark of someone self-centered. Self-centered people are, almost by definition, little interested in others, and therefore usually little observant of others.
Possibilities:
1. May is actually much older than she looks, and has acquired knowledge of humans just by being around a long time. This is unlikely, but I like the image of someone very old inside that little doll body.
2. May is less self-centered than she seems, and Jeph has already laid down hints of this that I have missed or forgotten.
3. Jeph is using May as a mouthpiece to explain what he thinks is so, speaking through her without regard to her character.
4. Jeph will now develop May's character and show how she can be so sharply observant.
5. AI's outsider status requires them to observe humans carefully in order to fit in at all, even when they are personally self-centered.
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