Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3816-3820 (27-31 August 2018)
tbm275:
Ok, super longtime lurker, read through all the comments for the past 4-6 months of WCDT.
And I've gotta say....
You guys are killing the story.
Just stop psychoanalyzing every little move and every little word each one says and trying to guess and say what they should do next because you've gotten to know the characters so much that you think you can write the story better. But when it happens the way you figure it or it doesn't happen the way you figure it would you complain and argue and are out with pitchforks anytime a character seems to be given the slightest slight.
Sit back and enjoy the story, don't post for a month and see how much better you feel.
I've enjoyed every strip thus far, even Tilly, and maybe you all would again if you tried not telling jeff how to write the story.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 28 Aug 2018, 05:51 ---she is working on assumptions based on things that developed after the fact. Part of it might be her own anxiety, her own focus on the path she's chosen for herself, but that's only more reason for her to see the true context.
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Par for the course with Claire. How many times has she put the cart before the horse with regards to people, only for it to come back and smack her in the face about how wrong she was? I'd say its her major character flaw.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: tbm275 on 28 Aug 2018, 06:18 ---Sit back and enjoy the story, don't post for a month and see how much better you feel.
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Not much point in a WCDT, then, is there?
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: tbm275 on 28 Aug 2018, 06:18 ---Ok, super longtime lurker, read through all the comments for the past 4-6 months of WCDT.
And I've gotta say....
You guys are killing the story.
Just stop psychoanalyzing every little move and every little word each one says and trying to guess and say what they should do next because you've gotten to know the characters so much that you think you can write the story better. But when it happens the way you figure it or it doesn't happen the way you figure it would you complain and argue and are out with pitchforks anytime a character seems to be given the slightest slight.
Sit back and enjoy the story, don't post for a month and see how much better you feel.
I've enjoyed every strip thus far, even Tilly, and maybe you all would again if you tried not telling jeff Jeph how to write the story.
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You do realise that this is a weekly discussion thread, right? We're going to discuss the comic, in minutiae. A story will always require a level of deep discussion to really understand what is going on as well as what is going on with the characters.
Which is another way of saying that its rather brash to make your first post one telling everyone what to do.
The thing about Questionable Content is that its a five day a week comic and while it can go through storylines at a relatively faster pace than other comics, the fact is that its not really suited to a story that runs for months. It tends to drag on, the momentum of the earlier story lost by the end and with it the interest garnered evaporates. It doesn't help when a divisive character is introduced. You liked Tilly, great. Not everyone did. They came across as obnoxious or deaf to the concerns of their new employer and by the time the revelation of what Hanners mother was doing, which might have redeemed Tilly, well, the damage by then was done.
Oh and welcome to the forum.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Aug 2018, 23:29 ---I think that it was very polite of Marten not to tell Claire that his 'privilege' was realising that Tai had written the job application form in iambic pentameter.
All that aside, two things occur to me about this strip:
* Given the number of people in various forums that have been shouting "Claire, you're projecting your fears on others", either Jeph is reading more reader feedback or we're just that good at reading his mind;
* IMO, panel 6 proves that Claire is gradually replacing Marten as Jeph's self-insert and occasional mouthpiece.Hands up who read Claire's suggested tattoo in panel 5 as 'Nobody's Perfect' and had to read the speech bubble slowly to see the joke. Ah, the wonders of the mind's ability to correct for what it expects to see rather than what is there! :-P
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As for your first assertion, I think it's neither; I actually think it's a testament to how well Jeph develops his characters and makes their behavioral/thinking patterns consistent in his writing. We have come to know Claire as a certain person, and based on what we know of her and how she has behaved so far in this arc, we could surmise that she was projecting her own expectations.
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