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WCDT strips 4241-4245 (13th April to 17th April, 2020)
Thrillho:
The thing is the bones of the last bit of your argument there don't necessarily work.
The fact that harm was no caused does not mean that it is not potentially harm causing behaviour, regardless of what we're talking about.
Perfectly Reasonable:
It's not like Brün will never see him again. He and Rupert are probably in the park on a pretty regular basis.
los_alamos_bomb:
--- Quote ---I just don't care for the attitude of "If main character is rude/problematic it's absolutely fine, if other character does it, WOW HOW RUDE"
--- End quote ---
Exactly right. This sort of thing actually stopped me from reading QC for about a full year, earlier in its run. Jeph has a lot of demons about virtue signaling and double-standards of justice that infect a lot of his writing, and it's been super troubling to me at times. Brun's overwhelming rudeness in the Rupert strips is one mild example, but what drove me away from QC for a long time was Faye being outright physically abusive to Marty for a long time, something for which she sees zero consequences. It's like the more anxious or anti-social or sparkle pony-ish a character is, more Jeph (and many people on this forum) feel its ok for them to get a justice boner while their victims play strawman for the audience. It's at times extremely frustrating to read.
Thrillho:
Global Moderator Comment Discourse about the physical violence stages of Marten's relationship with Faye is extensive. If you're looking for more detailed discussion on that, I might recommend starting another thread, because I think any real discussion about it in another would involve necroposting and it is not relevant to this specific thread. I would also advise it might shaky ground to use terminology like 'virtue signalling' in this space but that can definitely be up for discussion in the Discuss sub forum if you would like.As a mere user of the forum I would find such a thread enriching to participate in.
I too would take issue with Jeph using the characters as sock puppets generally, and can't think of specific examples where I noticed that but I largely give QC a pass anyway because it so often lines up with my own values, so I definitely do that as a consumer of the comics.
As someone who discusses the comics on here though, I have personally never employed a 'the character is right because they are the protagonist'-type argument, nor can I remember anyone deploying that, including but not limited to this thread, so I'm not sure where you're getting that.
Is it cold in here?:
I will point out that just because a character does something that doesn't mean Jeph thinks it's good. A lot of the humor comes from characters doing inappropriate things.
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