Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT May 31st - June 4th (4536-4540)
Platypodes:
Anyone else get the sense that Jeph decided that a wacky grope-bot with magical fingerless hands doesn't fit with how the strip evolved, so he's just gonna give him a new body and a new personality in one fell swoop?
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 01 Jun 2021, 20:47 ---I guess he's Gallonsize now?
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With all that Canadian Tire money, he's Litresize.
(I can't see the word 'litre' spelled the Canadian way and not mentally pronounce it 'leetra'. It just looks wrong.)
Farideh:
--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 01 Jun 2021, 20:49 ---Wat? No more Chaos Goblin? Instead another insecure hipster? Whyyyy? :emotrex:
And can I just say how much I love Claire telling people how they should behave, how they should be? And telling them what their bodies should mean for them? I want to see her reaction if someone did that to her.
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I didn't interpret the comic that way. I saw it more as Claire trying to help Pintsize identify his emotions ("is this how you feel?" rather than "this is what you're feeling"). If he had replied "no, that's not it", she would have accepted that. Also remember that Claire knows Pintsize quite well, better than Marten does in some ways. She knows how far she can go.
Gus_Smedstad:
Again, I'm not really surprised by the direction this is going. I was having trouble visualizing much of the old Pintsize behavior in the new, teenager body. A joke about filling his body with birdseed and having birds nest in his mouth (remember that one?) doesn't really work with the new body.
I'm mostly OK with that. Characters defined by their zaniness (hello Melon!) aren't very interesting to me. I don't really find "look how nuts this character is" to be all that funny. I think really good absurdist humor is tougher to pull off than it looks. Not everyone can be Monty Python.
We're pretty much getting an entirely new character with a familiar name.
TV4Fun:
RIP the last vestige of pre-Cerebus Syndrome QC.
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