Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 19-23 April 2021 (4506-4510)
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 20 Apr 2021, 18:28 ---New comic, same obsession with short hair...it ruined a great look for no reason whatsoever
OK I'll bow out before I get banned for not following the herd
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No need for that. That's a perfectly legitimate opinion to hold. I happen to like the hair, personally, but I'm not gonna jump on you for it.
shanejayell:
HOW did Beeps get her hand stuck in the printer anyway? 0_o
Farideh:
Beepatrice has many hidden talents.
And I like Roko's short hair, but I might be biased since my hair isn't long either.
Sorflakne:
Yeah, Roku's new hair doesn't fit her character.
--- Quote ---Questionable Content isn't quite as enjoyable to me as it used to be at the beginning. Maybe Jeph's thinking and the things he enjoys have moved on to places where I can't really understand or enjoy the ideas that direct the strip anymore. Maybe, as some alledge, he's moved on creatively and he's just 'phoning in' the strip because it has been the core of his creative life for so long. Either way, I'm not not getting the interest I used to in thinking about what's happening in the story and following the characters' lives.
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I've felt this way for awhile. Habit is pretty much the only reason I still read QC, with May getting a new body the first time in awhile where I was looking forward to the next comic. Relationship arcs do nothing to hold my interest, mainly because in QC the stakes aren't high, if they even exist.
IMO when the Secret Bakery was introduced and the second main cast started becoming prominent, that would've been a good time to have started either planning a spin-off comic or just ending QC altogether and starting a new storyline with them, seeing as they and characters introduced post-SB have become the new cast. Other than Faye, none of the original cast or original B cast make regular appearances anymore. The comic has moved from its roots of random arcs of music, silliness, and hints of magical realism to, well, whatever it is today. I get it, long-running works need to evolve and change it up to stay fresh, but going back and reading the early strips even into four digits is like reading a completely different comic, in tone, delivery, pacing, and atmosphere.
--- Quote ---HOW did Beeps get her hand stuck in the printer anyway? 0_o
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Printers are of the devil. Never underestimate their diabolical machinations and ways.
Elder Sign:
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 20 Apr 2021, 18:28 ---New comic, same obsession with short hair...it ruined a great look for no reason whatsoever
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Oh, there's always a reason, but these days it seems to me that Jeph does it more to just periodically troll the audience (i.e. us) rather than out of any actual need to change a character's look.
Count me in with those who preferred Roko's former 'do, but we may as well get used to it. This is the way.
At least Jeph didn't revamp her to have a near-brush-cut, unlike multiple other characters.
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