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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: skitzot on 18 Aug 2008, 23:28
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Just for the hell of it, what do u think is the worst direction this comic go?
ie.. Hanner's turns into a serial killer and starts eating members of the cast, to absorb their self confidences.
or Faye and Dora have a secret lesbian affair.. hmmm, wait that might be awesome....
Thoughts/ideas?
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Coffee shop goes under due to bad service, health violations, and various lawsuits from disgruntled customers.
Marten becomes depressed and starts cutting himself.
Hanners kills herself by eating Draino, after her apartment gets flooded because someone left the water running.
Due to this Winslow is destroyed because of electrocution (He was also the one who left the water running).
Raven is found to be having an illegitimate (or legitimate, it all depends on how you look at it) affair with Pizza Girl (who is in fact Penelope).
Dora gets into a car accident and is hysterical, she is later admitted to an asylum for life.
Faye becomes pregnant, Sven is presumed to be the father. The child later miscarriages and Faye ends up even more screwed up than she was before.
Everyone else gets struck by lightning.
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You forgot to mention how Jimbo suddenly goes born-again and joins a monastery, only to find himself again after an implausible and overblown scenario finds him looking up the robe of a nun.
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Isn't saying that any of these are the "worst" ways the comic to go telling Heph what to write by default?
I mean, he may want to do those things.
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Heph? I didn't know Hugh Hefner wrote QC!
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Hugh Hefner IS Jeph. It's all an elaborate sham.
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Hanners becomes "normal"...gets a job working as an accountant. Every appearance she makes involves her making some witty pun about balancing debits and credits.
The coffee shop is bought out by a Disney store.
Every Friday strip is dedicated to fighting high gas prices.
Winslow constructs a time machine. Goes back in time to watch the signing of the Declaration of Independence and other high points of history. Strip becomes educational.
Faye and Sven get married, only to find out that Faye has cancer. 5 frickin months are dedicated to her losing all of her hair, slowly getting weaker, dying, and then Sven having to get over it. (Oh wait, another strip already did that one.)
Ending: Only one of these characters actually exists: Dora. The whole comic strip was just a dream she was having while in a coma. Strip ends because she dies.
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EVERYONE GETS HIT BY A TRUCK
The entire strip is part of the Tommy Westphall Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall_Universe#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis).
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The libidinous duo, Steve, Jimbo, along with Meena's ex, Dave come out as gay, and more's to the point, gay for each other. The three of them shack up and become political activists for the gay polygamous marriage movement.
The whole thing turns out to be a dream sequence in the head of the filler character, Sugar-tits, who is really a quadruple amputee home from Afghanistan.
The whole strip becomes The Pintsize, Winslow, and PT410x Show and features witty banter about Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Linux software.
Amir turns out to be an al Qaeda sleeper agent.
Hanners turns out to be an android girl after all, built by her space station living father, her various neroses being caused by defects in her programming. When Winslow tries the firewire cable, Hanners downloads the patch and becomes an assassin for hire.
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Or you cuold take the Dora/coma theory and move it in the Life on Mars direction. She begins hearing doctor/nurse voices over the radio and hallucinating about the people on T.V. Dora thinks she's gone mad when she wakes up. She realizes she is actually from the future but nothing feels real anymore. She misses her constructs so much that she ends up jumping off the top of the hospital and plumating to her death. She is suddenly thrown back into CoD.
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All the characters who don't quite know each other, and haven't met, all end up in sidney. They all get on the same plane, flight 815, to los angeles. Guess.
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If Jeph started listening to General Discussion.
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What would be bad would be if Penelope discovers that the real reason her relationships with men all failed is that she's actually gay, and Hannelore realizes that she is attracted to someone whose idea of a fun evening is alphabetizing bookshelves.
The resulting couple would be known as Hannelope or Pennelore.
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If Jeph started listening to General Discussion.
Probably the most dangerous one...
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Hanners kills herself by eating Draino, after her apartment gets flooded because someone left the water running.
Wait, eating Drain-o? wouldn't she be drinking it?
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Hanners kills herself by eating Draino, after her apartment gets flooded because someone left the water running.
Wait, eating Drain-o? wouldn't she be drinking it?
Crystal Drano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drano#Crystal_Dr.C4.81no), the flake version that you can dissolve in water to get "real" Drano. It's a lot cheaper than real Drano so it's what I tended to buy when things needed draining (though now I use this eco-shit that is "good for the planet") (yes I have too much time on my hands).
Marten and Sven conduct a drunken game of William Tell that goes horribly awry. Faye comes in at just the wrong moment...
Winslow discovers his true purpose: uniting all anthro-PCs in a bloodless revolt culminating in the formation of a sovereign state within Northampton. A mini-cold war develops; all characters wind up dead or maimed from cute, tiny atomic bombs.
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Marten and Faye get married.
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Faye and Sven get married, only to find out that Faye has cancer. 5 frickin months are dedicated to her losing all of her hair, slowly getting weaker, dying, and then Sven having to get over it. (Oh wait, another strip already did that one.)
What comic is that?
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Raven is found to be having an illegitimate (or legitimate, it all depends on how you look at it) affair with Pizza Girl (who is in fact Penelope).
Even better/worse, Raven is having an affair with Pizza Girl and Penelope has no idea, because she has a completely split personality.
Dora gets into a car accident and is hysterical, she is later admitted to an asylum for life.
Everyone in the asylum tells her there never was a Coffee Of Doom. (Related to cgarci21's Life On Mars idea (way to spoil the ending. :wink:))
Everything that happened in the entire strip was part of an elaborate plot by Tai. Jeph will claim he meant this all along.
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Winslow constructs a time machine. Goes back in time to watch the signing of the Declaration of Independence and other high points of history. Strip becomes educational.
Wasnt this the entire concept behind Dr Who? (Yea.. I do spend too much time on IMDB.)
I had an idea, but someone already said it I think... Something about all of the characters losing their life direction and getting "real" jobs.
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Everyone in the asylum tells her there never was a Coffee Of Doom. (Related to cgarci21's Life On Mars idea (way to spoil the ending. :wink:))
oops! :-D
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Winslow constructs a time machine. Goes back in time to watch the signing of the Declaration of Independence and other high points of history. Strip becomes educational.
Wasnt this the entire concept behind Dr Who? (Yea.. I do spend too much time on IMDB.)
That was Brandon Tartikoff's plan at NBC for the series Voyagers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083500/), but then Jon-Erik Hexum pulled the stupid Hollywood actor card and managed to shoot himself in the head with a blank and died. The theme was later revamped for Quantum Leap (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096684/) on the same network. I guess once you've seen one time travelling educational series, you've seen them all. My question is, which came first, Dortor Who and his TARDIS or Mister Peabody and his WABAC?
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This thread has jumped the shark.
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What if Sven has crush on Marten and is only bangin Faye to get closer to him.
YES!!! That would crush Faye, Dora and Raven. it would be awesome. We'd get six months of comics with the three of them sitting in the coffee shop dumbfounded.
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Faye and Sven get married, only to find out that Faye has cancer. 5 frickin months are dedicated to her losing all of her hair, slowly getting weaker, dying, and then Sven having to get over it. (Oh wait, another strip already did that one.)
What comic is that?
Funky Winkerbean, I believe.
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Marten almost dies in a gar accident, goes to another planet to mind control one of the native species there, Jeph makes millions with furry merch.
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Faye becomes pregnant, Sven is presumed to be the father. The child later miscarriages and Faye ends up even more screwed up than she was before.
QC jumps the shark by becoming CAD, then?
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Martin and Dora get married and move out and/or Faye, Dora, or Martin has a kid.
Faye becomes pregnant, Sven is presumed to be the father. The child later miscarriages and Faye ends up even more screwed up than she was before.
QC jumps the shark by becoming CAD, then?
That's immediately what I thought; if I wasn't at work I would be photoshopping that panel right now :P
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How to totally fuck with everyone regarding everything about QC:
Hannelore uses the various samples she's been collecting from Marten to artificially fertilise one of her own eggs, but realises she could never go through with pregnancy herself, so she uses her mother's "connections" to get the foetus implanted in to Faye at her next gynaecological exam.
After the baby is born with blue eyes and jet black hair, Dora surreptitiously obtains a paternity test and finds that Marten is the father. Assuming he's been having an affair with Faye this whole time, she goes berserk and severely injures both of them with the battle-spatula but comes to her senses when, poised to deliver the killing blow, the baby starts crying in the other room.
Dora promptly becomes completely catatonic with guilt and doesn't come out of it for months. As both Marten and Faye are both unconscious by this point, she is also the only witness to Hannelore secreting the baby away, sparking a nationwide man-hunt for the "Whitaker baby kidnapper" until Dora is able to identify the real culprit.
Of course, while this has all been going on, Steve has been back on the job, hunting down his mysterious nemesis, the master-mind behind all the schemes he's foiled in the past. In the doing, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that, strangely, indicates that he's responsible for numerous disasters world-wide, all correlated to one of the "evil schemes" he's "stopped." Eventually, he determines that the controller of the conspiracy is in fact his "handler" 'Agent' Turing who has been secretly working with VespaVenger to overthrow the American government using drunk secret agents for implausible deniability.
Shocked at these revelations, he goes and gets drunk again, this time drinking enough Vermouth for Gary to show up and remind him that he started out looking for the one behind all the schemes he's foiled, and that he should go find the answers he started looking for because they will help him answer the new questions raised by the conspiracy. Gary also teaches him the ultimate martial art; smashed pterodactyl kung-fu, which is like drunken monkey, but turned up to eleven.
Using the Whitaker kidnapping as a cover to get out from Turing's watchful eye, Steve eventually finds that the true mastermind he's been seeking is in fact a genuine government agent who has been posing as a romance writer for cover, and the US government has been encoding the instructions to his elite team of field agents into his books, which is why they make almost no sense yet still sell hundreds of thousands.
Meanwhile meanwhile, Tai has been secretly initiated by Jimbo into the elite government strike-force he commands and, much to her delight, issued her very own tie-fighter and dispatched to Mars for training. Nobody suspects her robot duplicant is anything of the sort, except for Marten who has no idea how she has managed to stay STD free, given her lifestyle, but keeps getting distracted from investigating further by Dora-drama and, eventually, Faye's mysterious pregnancy....
I should probably leave it there, no?
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Hannelore studies the blueprints for her Roomba obsessively and works out how it was able to breed (and pass on the "jet gene"). She writes a long report to iRobot and they hire her as a consultant. She leaves the others behind.
Meanwhile, Hanners success gets to Dora and she constantly nags Marten to do better and get a real job (or really become a rock star). Marten looks and feels harrassed.
Cosette reacts even more extremely now that she's got Steve. She kills, or attempts to kill, any woman who even looks at Steve. This leads to an awkward moment when he and the CoD crew are chatting because she gets too jealous.
Marigold gets Pintsize the body that she looked at 2xx times. Because Faye and Angus are on a date, she gets drunk and wakes up next to Pintsize. She starts screaming. Faye and Angus have just arrived back at Angus's (they'd planned this night as THE night). Faye and Angus investigate and the scene before them scares both of them off sex forever!
Sven storms into CoD and tells Dora that Faye and Dora have ruined his life. He can't even write songs any more so storms off to a developing country to hire himself out as a merc.
The city gets picked as a showcase for culture so the mayor issues ordinances cracking down on inpoliteness. Faye and Dora are depressed at work. Penny, although she doesn't admit it, also misses the old days.
Seeing all the mess, Dora's mother starts making a move on Marten. He rejects her advances but becomes very secretative and nervous. Dora starts to suspect that he's having an affair.
Someone from the FBI turns up looking for Jimbo.
I'll stop there.
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Suddenly it turns out to all have been a dream that Bob Newhart had.
Actually that would be awesome.
Or how about this:
One night, Marten and Faye hook up in a drunken haze. Faye becomes pregnant, and after a few months when she can't hide it anymore, Dora makes a joke to Marten about who the father is. Marten reveals in his awkward reaction that he is the father, and Dora goes berserk. He flees to CoD with Dora in hot pursuit.
Meanwhile, Steve, Agent Turing, and VespAvenger have teamed up to get to the bottom of a massive Internet-based money-laundering operation. They trace it to Angus' apartment where Marigold is revealed to be the culprit; however, they commission Angus to seduce her to find out who's pulling the strings. Marigold reveals to Angus (and unknowingly to Steve, Agent Turing, and VespAvenger) that Cosette is the mastermind, and that her endgame will take place at CoD that night. VespAvenger is resentful towards Steve and Agent Turing for getting Angus to use Marigold for information, and her betrayal is hinted at. Steve is torn between his job and his feelings for Cosette.
At the same time, Sven has agreed to help Faye raise the baby, but when she finds him in bed with Eva and Gina Riversmith, she is enraged and chases him to CoD as well.
While all this is happening, the drama at Smif comes to a head, and all involved agree to meet at CoD to talk things out.
Penelope, after a one-night stand with Meena's husband Dave, develops feelings for him and decides to break things off with Wil, telling him to meet her at CoD, not telling him that Dave will be there as well to support her. Unbeknownst to her, Meena is aware of the affair and overhears Dave and Penelope planning to meet at CoD, and goes herself.
Jimbo, drunk, mistakes CoD for a bar and stumbles in, followed by Scrambles and Gary (the alcohol-induced hallucinations).
There are reports of an Allosaurus rampaging through Northampton; it is headed toward, you guessed it, CoD.
Everyone arrives there at once.
The final panel is black, with only a gunshot sound.
The End.
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The worst way for the comic to go would be for Jeph to start slipping deadlines, a few hours at first, then a day, several days, a week... updates get more and more sporadic due to "writer's block" or "character fatigue"... eventually, the site goes dormant, save for the cries from the forum for updates... Then, one day, the site is simply gone. No archives, no updates, no information... just a DNS error. A cold, dark day, leaving no hope for the future.
:evil:
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Three words: Questionable Excel Saga. With Hannelore as Excel and Marigold as Hyatt.
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The worst thing to happen to this strip would be for something to happen to Jeph, and we're left in the middle of a story arc (and he didn't have a buffer space of comics).
That being said: I simply see the comic ending pretty much as it began: One last time at CoD, then maybe a beer or two with Steve, then Marten coming "home" to Dora.
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Suddenly it turns out to all have been a dream that Bob Newhart had.
Actually, replace Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette with Scrambles and Gary -- win?
Though for the record, this is the worst way things could end:
The worst way for the comic to go would be for Jeph to start slipping deadlines, a few hours at first, then a day, several days, a week... updates get more and more sporadic due to "writer's block" or "character fatigue"... eventually, the site goes dormant, save for the cries from the forum for updates... Then, one day, the site is simply gone. No archives, no updates, no information... just a DNS error. A cold, dark day, leaving no hope for the future.
:evil:
Alternately, I suppose Jeph could end the series with the one-word response he so loathes: "THIS" It wouldn't even have to refer to anything. ABSOLUTE EVIL.
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jumping the shark in qc:
core cast member dies
Marten or Dora have an affair
Tai seriously tries to seduce Dora/Faye/Hanners/Marigold
Hanners gets drunk and sleeps with someone (cast or otherwise)
CoD gets shutdown without warning
Sven or Raven gets their own spin-off comic
Dora sells her franchise
Pintsize becomes a serious character and brings in the AI debate via comic
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Jeph becomes a right-wing evangelical like the late Johnny Hart of BC. As a result, Tai, Faye's sister Amanda, Marten's dad, and Dad 2: Dad Harder all undergo conversion therapy (the latter two after divorcing amicably, of course). Dora doesn't bother with it because she realizes that her bisexuality was just her being confused, that's all. She does, however, marry Marten so that they may continue cohabitating. Marigold, as a result of her MMORPGing, becomes ensnared in Satan worship and tries to recruit Hanners as well. Instead, Hanners tells Marten, Dora, Faye and Angus (oh yeah, those two also got married after Faye promised to stop being such an uppity woman and recognize that the man is the boss), and together they cast the demons out of Marigold's soul, after which she helps them burn her yaoi collection. They also melt down the AnthroPCs, since robots who think and feel must be demonic. At the urging of Will, who's quit his job at the pub, they all forswear alcohol and are taken up in the Rapture. Penelope, however, is left behind as she clings to her atheism. However, as Northhampton's Connecticut River turns bloody and floods the streets, Penelope accepts Christ just in time before she dies. As a result, she rejoins her friends in Heaven. The end.
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Dora suffers a miscarriage.
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Dora suffers a miscarriage.
I wouldnt consider this a "jumping the shark" if it was any of the other characters I would agree with you, but Dora is the only female character I can think of who didnt get "all shook up"
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Marten, Dora and Faye become involved in BDSM. Faye becomes their Slave with Marten as the Sub and Dora as the Mistress. They also become a successful rock band trio.
Hanners suffers a head injury, becomes normal, joins the Marines and trains as a Sniper.
Sven and Steve finally come out to each other and wind up as a couple
Penelope and Wil become religious fundamentalists, start a cult and die in a spectacular shootout with the DEA, FBI and Secret Service after attempting to assassinate President Arnold Schwarzenegger in their Arizona compound along with all 200 of their followers.
Raven and Dr. Corrine take over CoD and turn it into a worldwide franchise after they successfully buy out Starbucks.
Marigold and Dale marry. They eventually design a MMORPG that becomes more popular than WoW, become mega rich and wind up buying Microsoft.
Pintsize and Winslow are kidnapped by Aliens and wind up as Gods on the planet Swizzleporn.
Jimbo sobers up, runs for office and becomes Governor of Massachusetts. He is elected to three terms before retiring and writing a billion copy memoir.
Angus becomes a Priest, rises through the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and is eventually elected Pope.
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Dora suffers a miscarriage.
We've already had a CAD reference/joke in this thread.
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Did we already mention miscarriage?
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Dora and Faye become involved in BDSM.
how is this a bad thing? :P
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The worst thing to happen to this strip would be for something to happen to Jeph, and we're left in the middle of a story arc (and he didn't have a buffer space of comics).
Coincidentally I was thinking about this exact possibility today. I concluded that, with Jeph having so many webcomic artist friends, they would rally round and tie up the loose ends in a series of guest strips as a tribute.
Why was I in such a morbid frame of mind today? Because yesterday evening a guy I work with was on his way home when his motorcycle ran into the back of a van. He died in hospital.
Edit: ...worked with... Going to have to get used to saying that. :-(
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Dora and Faye become involved in BDSM.
how is this a bad thing? :P
Not bad, and probably not impossible, just highly improbable - especially with Faye as their Slave.
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Dora and Faye become involved in BDSM.
how is this a bad thing? :P
Not bad, and probably not impossible, just highly improbable - especially with Faye as their Slave.
You'd be surprised. Then again, maybe she'd never agree to it.
Regardless, I'm sure Tai would be into the whole thing.
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People you know dying suddenly is disturbing.
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Did we already mention miscarriage?
Could be worse. We could have a character blaming their shitty relationship history on daddy issues stemming from a suicide or something.
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That's not "jumping the shark," that's "having the talk."
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Or more like, "Growing The Beard."
(Come to think of it, we did have a "Team Riker" poster in the strip, right?)
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Tai becomes an Elvis impersonator and, backed up by Deathmole, actually makes a living at it. And they all wear frilly underwear.
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Tai becomes an Elvis impersonator and, backed up by Deathmole, actually makes a living at it. And they all wear frilly underwear.
that sounds like it could be quite awesome
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Marten goes out drinking with Steve. They decide to have a shot contest using Patrone Silver, sparking a very erotic, NSFW scene with the Tequila monster, who turns out to be Pastor Vodka's liaison. Pintsize chat-roulettes with the Red Robot who has moved to and become mayor of Ugly Hill. The two end up in a relationship until pintsize gets a bad upgrade, impregnating him with the Roomba's children. Faye wakes up in the middle of the night just in time for an alien to burst from her tit scar, running to the kitchen and taking Pintsize's usual spot in the freezer next to the waffles. Dora and Jimbo get married and end up on the Jerry Springer show because Dora has been sleeping with Hanners behind Jimbo's back. Suddenly, Jeph comes to and discovers the entire internet has been the result of a bad salvia trip. Just as he begins to calm down, Tom from Myspace runs through naked screaming "SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!"
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Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Anthro-PC style.
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Dora suffers from a psychotic break and begins speaking in tongues a few hours after catching Marten and Faye in their underwear. Also, Hannelore begins pursuing Sven.
I'm not trying to troll, I'm just making a joke about context.
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I got this - :P
One of the QC gang wins some money in a contest or something. They decide that everyone's going to Vegas for a week. Everyone has a great time, Lots of LOLs are had. On the last night in Vegas, Faye and Marten get super drunk.
The last Comic is a slowly panning out view of Marten in bed, where it is slowly revealed that he is in a cheap blue tux, and there's a woman in the bed next to him in a wedding gown. Surprise in last Panel, it's Faye. Marten says "Oh Shit."
In the news post with that comic Jeph announces his Retirement, and closes his email account to avoid the RAEG!!!
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Actually, I'm pretty sure we all know how this goes:
Hannelore asks a boy out on a date and they somehow get together. Then at the wedding the boy tears his rubber face-mask off to reveal that he was secretly Sven all along!
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Also he cut his legs off so he isn't too tall.
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Also also it's revealed that Sven is a remote-controlled piece of artificial intelligence being controlled by Winslow, who loved Hannelore all along. Which leads to the revelation that as Sven's sister, Dora is also a robot, controlled by Pintsize, who's in love with Marten.
Then rocks fall and everyone dies.
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I would say this is ridiculous except the Bianchi parents are stoners who might not notice either A) that their kids (who've been scragged by the AnthroPC Army) are acting 'different,' or B) that the little woman never gave birth in the first place.
"Oh, wow, I think I was pregnant…wasn't I, hon?"
*tokes* "Preggers, fat, who can tell?"
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Raoullefere, I would consider that an excellent summary of the situation, except for the fact that you're assuming that the Bianchi elders are in fact human. Whereas obviously they are controlled by Momo and PT410x.
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Then it turns out the AnthroPCs are all part of Hannerdad's plan to take over the world. The only one who can stop him is Hannermom.
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I got this - :P
One of the QC gang wins some money in a contest or something. They decide that everyone's going to Vegas for a week. Everyone has a great time, Lots of LOLs are had. On the last night in Vegas, Faye and Marten get super drunk.
The last Comic is a slowly panning out view of Marten in bed, where it is slowly revealed that he is in a cheap blue tux, and there's a woman in the bed next to him in a wedding gown. Surprise in last Panel, it's Faye. Marten says "Oh Shit."
In the news post with that comic Jeph announces his Retirement, and closes his email account to avoid the RAEG!!!
Close, save the tux and dress will be on the floor/tv set/lampshade and the woman will be Tai - both will have your line simultaneously
Rocks fall - everybody dies.
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... all part of Hannerdad's plan to take over the world. The only one who can stop him is Hannermom.
Stop him??? She's probably in charge!
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Of course!
The whole "we can't stand each other so we are never seen together" thing is a ruse to put off more than cursory investigations of their dealings and, more importantly, how their dealings interact with each other in the grand scheme of things.
I mean, who'd suspect that the chain of tech stores owned by Hannermom was secretly the primary distribution channel for Hannerdad's new nano-sedative hypno-bots? If it ever came to court they'd instantly accuse each other of trying to sabotage the other's reputations by pretending that defective goods were supplied by/to the other in order to implicate the other other. Then countersue so many times the case would drown in red tape.
Genius!
Seriously, David Xanatos must be their CEO or something.
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Everyone falls, rocks die.
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Is that a fat joke? Faye is going to annihilate you when she finds out....
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We find out that this is all The Matrix
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Pintsize will put on waterskies and a leather jacket and jump over a shark. Stay tuned for part two to see if he dies.
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Jimbo turns out to be the anti-Christ, and a hilarious series of events lead to Marten crucifying himself in front of Faye, Leonard Cohen playing.
And at least this comic was already kind of drama-ey before The Talk. Unlike Some-Other-Comics-I-Could-Mention.
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jumping the shark in qc:
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Hanners gets drunk and sleeps with someone (cast or otherwise)
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BOY we're getting close to this one, aren't we?
EDIT: And Near Lurker, I would assume that comic would be something that rhymes with Muggy Skreelance?
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Yelling Bird is seen closing a book, saying "AND THEN THEY ALL FUCKIN DIED!"
Or Nicholas Gurewitch does a guest comic to end it all.
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It might end this way:
Hannelore finally freaks out due to a medication interaction and kills Marten, Dora, and Faye. When she realizes what she's done, she leaps out the window and dies also. The next frame is the Reed, Bianchi, and Whittaker families at grave side, marvelling at the huge life insureance checks they received from the Chatham Foundation, because Marten, Faye, and Dora really were actors hired by Hanners' parents. The last frame is Hanners' gravestone "Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham - She finally snapped, like we all knew she would". Finis.
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Also he cut his legs off so he isn't too tall.
Nah, he was just stooping all the time to make himself look smaller and no-one noticed.
Like Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future.
Seriously, dude is like a fourteen inches taller than Michael J. Fox but you'd hardly know it from the films...
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Faye and Sven get married, only to find out that Faye has cancer. 5 frickin months are dedicated to her losing all of her hair, slowly getting weaker, dying, and then Sven having to get over it. (Oh wait, another strip already did that one.)
What comic is that?
Funky Winkerbean, I believe.
Holy cats that strip has gotten depressing. It's more of a comic novella now, instead of a classic comic strip.
As for QC? Everyone grows up.
Part of the funny is that everyone is still young, silly and just a little bit unsure of themselves. For most people, that changes when they get older.
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And the others of us are on the forums.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!
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I do believe that Jeph needs to be careful with the current storyline, in regards to Sven. If he tries to have Sven sabotage Faye and Angus' relationship, that might (MIGHT) be a "jump the shark" moment in this strip's history.
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I do believe that Jeph needs to be careful with the current storyline, in regards to Sven. If he tries to have Sven sabotage Faye and Angus' relationship, that might (MIGHT) be a "jump the shark" moment in this strip's history.
1. Sven won't do that. He has already shown a couple times that he will not.
2. If Not 1, then Faye is not going to let that happen. But because 1, 2 is unnecessary. I just built that in because I am overly cautious as a programmer.
3. We do not need to tell Jeph what to do. Jeph made it this far without our help when it comes to the storyline. Let's just trust him.
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QC has a blend of real life and fantasy, emotional drama on one hand and intelligent robots and vigilantes on mopeds on the other. The balance is really good the worst would thing for me would be if either aspect went away. Like if it was just drama/comedy with no crazy fantastical stuff, or if it lost all basis in reality and because wacky, like Pintsize creates some kind of space-ship/time-machine and the series becomes a sci-fi
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If I may be serious for a moment, QC jumps the shark when everyone in it is in a happy, stable relationship.
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Well, that would be unrealistic, I admit.
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or Faye and Dora have a secret lesbian affair.. hmmm, wait that might be awesome....
Not if Marten doesn't get to watch and/or join in.
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Any human breeding in the comic.
Trust me, I love people and their spawn. But in any long term series, it never gets portrayed in a way that doesn't kill the dynamic of the universe.
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Everyone successfully enters a healthy relationship, ending all the drama. Pintsize can't bear the boredom and commits suicide by microwave, Winslow is seized by Apple thugs after he tries to jailbreak himself and now everybody has a rocket roomba, which proves to be the solution to global warming after they clean all the pollutants in the air. And Faye still has a conspicuous butt, rawr!
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EDIT: And Near Lurker, I would assume that comic would be something that rhymes with Muggy Skreelance?
Naaah. Sluggy Freelance got a lot more dramatic over time, but ve-e-e-e-ery slooowly. The worst you can say is that the drama is hamhanded or incongruous with sillier elements, not sudden.
What I was thinking of was actually Ctrl-Alt-Del, which I was kind of hinting at with the hyphens. Of course, there are many, many others.
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or Faye and Dora have a secret lesbian affair.. hmmm, wait that might be awesome....
Not if we don't get to watch and/or join in.
Fixed for you :)
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Marten's cousin Oliver joins the cast. :)
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Pintsize has a baby.
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Everyone turns gay.
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Actually, the last one would provide an interesting* storyline. Imagine the crew turning gay overnight. Marten drops Dora in favor of Steve, but she doesn't care because she hooked up with Tai; Marigold hooks up with Hanners and Pintsize is the only one who actually tries to find out what the hell happened and saves the day in the end, turning everybody back to "normal".
SPOILER: Hanners in retrospect discovers being with a girl was AWSUM and decides she is bi-sexual now.
*(when saying "interesting", I mean "full of lesbian hotness")
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How old are you?
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You might want to check your irony radar. Also, I have got an introduction thread, which should be fairly easy to find clicking the "Show the last posts of this person." on my profile, if you are genuinely interested in my age.
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Irony can be pretty ironic at times
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You might want to check your irony radar. Also, I have got an introduction thread, which should be fairly easy to find clicking the "Show the last posts of this person." on my profile, if you are genuinely interested in my age.
My radar's fine, and yours?
After all, my question had nothing to do with wanting to know your actual age...
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Pintsize saving the day would be either a brilliant bit of character development or else shark-jumping material all by itself.
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Pintsize saving the day wouldn't be terrible. Marten keeps him around for more than just the occasional tentacle joke and I could never see Pintsize seriously wanting to hurt Marten. He's just immersed 4chan, and can't turn it off.
He's not bad, he's just programmed that way.
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My theory is Pintsioze does that which Marten dares not. Marten acting out all the deviant behavior he's programmed into Pintsize while said tries to stop him, similar to Winslow shepherding Hanners—that might be put da Fonz on da skis.
More likely, though, it'd just be refreshing. A believable version of Freaky Friday, if you follow.
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Sort of a _Picture of Dorian Gray_ scenario, where Pintsize drains off all the selfishness and rudeness from Marten, leaving Marten unnaturally cool, kind, and polite?
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Which leaves Pintsize slightly more insane as time passes, explaining a lot of the antics.
How exactly do you program insanity into a PC?
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You tell it an Earth shattering secret that is critical to the mission.
You program it to be completely honest and never to tell a lie.
Then you tell it that under no circumstances can the human crew learn about the Earth-shattering secret, at least until the appropriate moment.
And then you shoot them all to Jupiter (Or was it Saturn.)
At least that's what did it to HAL...
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I'd assume you prove that for any given statement P, both P and not-P apply at the same time. (http://www.xkcd.com/816/)
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Awfully hard to prove a contradiction.
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I'm rather fond of the one in I,Robot (Asimov's short story collection, not the movie). I don't recall all the details, but a robot was to retrieve something critical to the survival of it's human team, but it was in an area that was deadly to the robot. The first imperative (serving the humans) drove it toward the danger, and the second (self-preservation) drove it back. They found it wandering in a circle, singing Gilbert and Sulliven tunes.
A clear sign of insanity if ever there was one...
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... They found it wandering in a circle, singing Gilbert and Sulliven tunes....
"My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time...."
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The first imperative (serving the humans) drove it toward the danger, and the second (self-preservation) drove it back.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the second directive alyways overridden by the first one?
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The first imperative (serving the humans) drove it toward the danger, and the second (self-preservation) drove it back.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the second directive alyways overridden by the first one?
I believe you are correct, except it occurs to me that the the first law was not to harm a human or through inaction allow a human to come to harm, so we are really talking about the second and third laws. It's been over 40 years since I read I, Robot, so the details are hazy. I think there was some set-up in the story that made such an outcome "plausible".
And, as an old geek, I would like to note that Isaac Asimov was the commencement speaker when I graduated from college. I can't remember a word he said now, but it was terrific at the time.
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Have I managed to derail this thread?
(I hope so. Making the "Jump the Shark" thread jump the shark would be a real lion in my cap.)
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Congrats, raoullefere!
"If anyone can do it, rauollefere can...." :laugh:
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The first imperative (serving the humans) drove it toward the danger, and the second (self-preservation) drove it back.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the second directive alyways overridden by the first one?
I believe you are correct, except it occurs to me that the the first law was not to harm a human or through inaction allow a human to come to harm, so we are really talking about the second and third laws. It's been over 40 years since I read I, Robot, so the details are hazy. I think there was some set-up in the story that made such an outcome "plausible".
And, as an old geek, I would like to note that Isaac Asimov was the commencement speaker when I graduated from college. I can't remember a word he said now, but it was terrific at the time.
It was the short story Runaround (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround). I remember the story as well, and the associated link I gave gives a pretty good summary of the story. As for Asimov being your commencement speaker... lucky!
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Thank you! It had been over 30 years since I read it, and damned if I could find a copy or remember the title.
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It was the short story Runaround (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround). I remember the story as well, and the associated link I gave gives a pretty good summary of the story. As for Asimov being your commencement speaker... lucky!
I remember that story, too. The good Dr Asimov wrote several such stories, where the conflicts resulting from Laws 1,2,3 played a key role. My favorite ones are (sorry can't remember the title) the one where the good guys identified a robot gone bad (among scores of look-alikes) by using the fact that the culprit was the only suspect, who would know that certain kind of radiation was harmless to humans. Therefore it felt compelled to act in a given setting. Its robot peers had learned that it is pointless to rush thru some radiation to the aid of humans, because their expensive brain would liquify before they could come to the aid. Another favorite of mine titled LIAR was about a robot that accidentally gained mind-reading powers. Therefore it felt compelled to deceive people about their romantic feelings being reciprocated.
Later the zeroth Law trumping the first law as developed by R. Giskard and R. Daneel Olivaw added another layer to the conflicts.
Commencement speaker? I envy you, Carl-E. At my commencement Bill Cosby was the speaker. Notre Dame granted him an honorary degree that year. All of us getting our PhDs got to shake hands with him, but Asimov... I would have been fanboying so hard...
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Wasn't me, it was Zadojla the Wombat. I have no idea who the hell spoke at my commencements. I only attended one of them, anyway!
...and I found out why I don't remember. Purdue feels it's about the graduates, and so doesn't bring in big name speakers, never has. You're addressed by the President of the University, the Chancellor, the valedictorian and salutatorian, and there's a non-denominational (but christian) blessing.
I missed my Doctoral graduation from IU because I defended in July, and so "graduated" in August, when I already had started a teaching position in a different state.
Got the diploma in the mail about three weeks later.
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Wasn't me, it was Zadojla the Wombat. I have no idea who the hell spoke at my commencements. I only attended one of them, anyway!
I bet you would have attanded if Isaac Asimov were speaking! A couple years later my best friend graduated, and Carl Sagan was the speaker. That was pretty good too, but he talked in "technical syntax" and pretty much lost all the family members. It was a engineering/science school.
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Wasn't me, it was Zadojla the Wombat. I have no idea who the hell spoke at my commencements. I only attended one of them, anyway!
Sorry. I really should learn how to read a chain of quotes.
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It was the short story Runaround (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround). I remember the story as well, and the associated link I gave gives a pretty good summary of the story. As for Asimov being your commencement speaker... lucky!
I remember that story, too. The good Dr Asimov wrote several such stories, where the conflicts resulting from Laws 1,2,3 played a key role. My favorite ones are (sorry can't remember the title) the one where the good guys identified a robot gone bad (among scores of look-alikes) by using the fact that the culprit was the only suspect, who would know that certain kind of radiation was harmless to humans. Therefore it felt compelled to act in a given setting. Its robot peers had learned that it is pointless to rush thru some radiation to the aid of humans, because their expensive brain would liquify before they could come to the aid. Another favorite of mine titled LIAR was about a robot that accidentally gained mind-reading powers. Therefore it felt compelled to deceive people about their romantic feelings being reciprocated.
For the record, the story you can't remember the name of is Little Lost Robot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lost_Robot).
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For the record, the story you can't remember the name of is Little Lost Robot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lost_Robot).
That's the one. Thanks for the link.
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All righty, I'll be the first to say it:
If Dora and Marten break up, Fonzie has just cleared the shark tank.
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That makes little sense. I call it a desperate ploy to bring this thread back on track.
But I'll bite: where, oh wise jwhouk, doth the impressive stone tablet lie, whereupon it is written, nay, chiseled:
And Behold: Dora and Marten shall a matched pair, two and one, remain for all of time. And, should the twain not remain as one, e'en then wilt thou knoweth that is a SIGN that the time draws near when a man of the great Tribe of the very Latins, yet not a Latin in truth, his ebon hair anointed with fine ichors, shall don both a kirtle most hideously and brightly patterned and yet, e'en though the bright Sun doth shine down upon him, shall yet adorn his upper person with the cloth-lined hide of an ox made ebon. And upon his feet shall he set great wide lathes of wood that yet is e'en not wood; and in his hands shall he grasp a cord; and to that cord shall be tethered a howling monster that doth course over the waters at speeds undream'ed. And e'en shall that monster pull yon man of the Latins, yet not, BY the cord and nearer and nearer unto a great enclosure set in the azure waters, within which lurk hungry fishes of the deep eager to feast upon him. And shall he pass over, or shall he e'en be consumed? That, shall ye NOT know, save that ye attune that incandescent panel of light on which these images that thrill the blood do appear within so that it will e'en bring unto ye this fateful image in the season that doth follow.
Then shall come the END times, and all that ye know and, yea, also that which ye hoped to know, ALL will be thrown into the maw of chaos, which shall chew and e'en REND it into a shape most unpleasing, and never again shall aught be right.
Because I know I missed it.
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Didn't you get your copy of The Apocrypha?
Book of Steve, ch. 23, v, 15 - 28.
Seriously, though, setting the boundaries is a relationship hurdle to be gotten over. Dora may have just employed the Monster Truck option, but I'd be surprised if this led to a permanent break-up.
Not that it won't happen, but I would be surprised.
However, ther will be much wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
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on the original topic (although Asimov is awesome!)
Jeph runs out of story arcs and resorts to bringing in celebrity guests. Hanner's Dad invites Hanners, Tai and Marigold to visit him on the space station, Hermione and Ginny (as celebrity guests of the week) apparate to the station as well. Tai and Marigold team up with Hermione and Ginny to fight the SPACE WIZARDS, who turn out to be HannerDad under the alias Griznok with an army of evil wizardbots.
Hermione and Ginny hook up, Tai and Marigold hook up, doing it side by side on the surface of the moon. Their lovemaking overwhelmes Space HannerDad Griznok and Harry is able to kill him. Hanners and YellingBird (who happens to be on the space station due to deus ex machina) write an exciting fanfic based on the events.
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Zombie apocolypse and everyone has to survive and pretty soon it's just robots and zombies left.
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on the original topic (although Asimov is awesome!)
Jeph runs out of story arcs and resorts to bringing in celebrity guests. Hanner's Dad invites Hanners, Tai and Marigold to visit him on the space station, Hermione and Ginny (as celebrity guests of the week) apparate to the station as well. Tai and Marigold team up with Hermione and Ginny to fight the SPACE WIZARDS, who turn out to be HannerDad under the alias Griznok with an army of evil wizardbots.
Hermione and Ginny hook up, Tai and Marigold hook up, doing it side by side on the surface of the moon. Their lovemaking overwhelmes Space HannerDad Griznok and Harry is able to kill him. Hanners and YellingBird (who happens to be on the space station due to deus ex machina) write an exciting fanfic based on the events.
That isn't jumping the shark—it's Jeph doing LSD. I know I shouldn't take this seriously, but I simply have to ask: can fanfic be written about 'actual' (sure, the whole thing is the drug playing merry hell with Jeph's brain, but it's real to the characters) events?
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The cast get assimilated by the Borg.
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And then Hannelore dissolves them all in a big vat of reactor coolant because Borg are icky.
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That isn't jumping the shark—it's Jeph doing LSD. I know I shouldn't take this seriously, but I simply have to ask: can fanfic be written about 'actual' (sure, the whole thing is the drug playing merry hell with Jeph's brain, but it's real to the characters) events?
Stephen King wrote some books that contained characters from his other books, who then discovered the other books in which they were characters, then some characters from his books go to visit King to make sure he does in fact end up writing the books from which the characters came. It was hella trippy. In fact, I believe in an epilogue to one book he actually killed himself off before he had written that very book.
That's it!! The jumping the shark comes when Jeph shows up in comic, kills all the dudes, and does all the hot ladies he loves to draw. Like the opposite of fanservice...authorservice. Brilliant.
My theory is Pintsioze does that which Marten dares not. Marten acting out all the deviant behavior he's programmed into Pintsize while said tries to stop him, similar to Winslow shepherding Hanners—that might be put da Fonz on da skis.
Now I'm picturing Pintsize as being Marten's Tyler Durden. Awesome.
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The cast gets assimilated by Pintsize. With giant chrome wangs.
Fixed it for you. :evil: Now, to actually attempt contributing to the thread:
Marten gets pregnant. Not Faye, not Dora, not even Hannellore (although that would be setting up the ramp) -- Marten. Hey, the QC-verse is a weird place, remember? Commonplace sentient robots. :lol:
Okay, fine, I'll be serious: Jeph starts actually reading the General Discussion forums and taking ideas from it.
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But whose baby would it be? I vote Hannelore.
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I'm from Milwaukee.
Fonzie just cleared the ramp.
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Now I'm picturing Pintsize as being Marten's Tyler Durden. Awesome.
Marten.
Marten.
I want you to root me as hard as you can
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That isn't jumping the shark—it's Jeph doing LSD. I know I shouldn't take this seriously, but I simply have to ask: can fanfic be written about 'actual' (sure, the whole thing is the drug playing merry hell with Jeph's brain, but it's real to the characters) events?
I think so, I mean people write fanfics about bands that they like or famous people.... At this point the only criteria for fanfiction seems to be: amateur writer, involving characters that the author didn't create, doing things that don't happen(or reading way too much into things) in the fiction.
I'm sure that Yelling Bird would take the story to new levels of fanfiction crudeness and change the story to have more sex/what have you.