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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: ErrantVenture on 18 Oct 2010, 14:20

Title: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: ErrantVenture on 18 Oct 2010, 14:20
Will we ever find out more about what hanners is doing with marten's thumb-blood (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1607)? She mentions a bit of genetic testing (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1609) but it's never brought up again. Could make for a funny strip. First post, sorry If I did something horrendous by accident :<
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 18 Oct 2010, 15:31
So far it looks like one of those one-off jokes, like the condoms in the couch. Speculating would be fun, though.
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: tomart on 18 Oct 2010, 19:34
Could be a one (or two) off, or Jeph might pick it up and run with it someday, if he wants.  He likes to keep us guessing. :)

(Love your dancing Gir avatar!)
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Kugai on 18 Oct 2010, 23:51
The Clone Troopers will be ready in a month.
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Oct 2010, 06:49
Genetic testing takes a while.  With the pace of the comic, the results will be back in 2017 or so...
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 19 Oct 2010, 10:00
She's going to count the white blood cells.

EDIT: Jeph just answered this on Formspring. Complete text of his reply below:
Quote from: Jeph
MYSTERY
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Olymander on 23 Oct 2010, 04:36
If it wasn't for the fact that it's from even longer ago, maybe Hannelore is working on a replacement for her last voodoo doll (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=546).  The way she tossed off the genetic testing though, sounds more like she's considering Marten as a future sperm donor... maybe that's why she's been working the pretend date angle recently?  She wants to steal Marten from Dora!
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 23 Oct 2010, 11:35
Fascinating! But then she'd have to take care of a baby, messy business that. Unless she's figuring to hire nannies.
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Skewbrow on 23 Oct 2010, 13:20
The way she tossed off the genetic testing though, sounds more like she's considering Marten as a future sperm donor... maybe that's why she's been working the pretend date angle recently?  She wants to steal Marten from Dora!

Disturbingly enough the sperm donor part occurred to me, too. Stealing not. The way I read the looks on the faces of others in strip 1609, Dora's in particular, it felt like they figured out what had happened, got the drops of blood destroyed, and made sure that Hanners understood this to be a no-no. My theory is that in order to save Hannelore from further embarassment Jeph didn't show this on camera.
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Oct 2010, 14:22
Fascinating! But then she'd have to take care of a baby, messy business that. Unless she's figuring to hire nannies.

Like mother, like daughter (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=920)...
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: zadojla on 24 Oct 2010, 00:58
..., sounds more like she's considering Marten as a future sperm donor... maybe that's why she's been working the pretend date angle recently?  She wants to steal Marten from Dora!
For a donation, she doesn't need to steal Marten, just one of the condoms.  Unless she actually wants Marten....
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Olymander on 24 Oct 2010, 01:08
The way I read the looks on the faces of others in strip 1609, Dora's in particular, it felt like they figured out what had happened, got the drops of blood destroyed, and made sure that Hanners understood this to be a no-no. My theory is that in order to save Hannelore from further embarassment Jeph didn't show this on camera.

All depends on how devious Hannelore actually is.  I mean, after all, it's totally possible that the real Hannelore is just like her mother and she's just deviously playing off the whole innocent and cutesy look for the sympathy and the harmless aura it gives her! (Not truly serious about this... at least... not much)  More to the point, knowing the crew, they probably just pointed out to her that the genetic tests were not a "normal" thing to do, and that she shouldn't be doing that sort of thing.  The cast does tend to walk a little bit on eggshells around Hannelore, giving her the benefit of the doubt more often than not.  She's everyone's favorite little kid sister that gets away with (could be literally) murder!
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 24 Oct 2010, 15:16
Maybe she's planning a test-tube fertilization and paying a gestational surrogate.
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Oct 2010, 15:39
No mess, no fuss! 

Then you raise the kid with nannies...

Wait, what was the point again?  Having children is usually more than just propagating your genetic material.  And I think Hanners may actually suspect some of her problems are genetic. 

Maybe she wanted an example of the DNA of a well balanced person just for the sake of comparison to her own...
Title: Re: This is from ages ago but....
Post by: Olymander on 24 Oct 2010, 21:18
..., sounds more like she's considering Marten as a future sperm donor... maybe that's why she's been working the pretend date angle recently?  She wants to steal Marten from Dora!
For a donation, she doesn't need to steal Marten, just one of the condoms.  Unless she actually wants Marten....

Well, she did start out by stalking him (#525 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=525), #528 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=528), and #529 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=529))...