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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: pwhodges on 02 Feb 2012, 10:00
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Jeph mentioned in his Tumblr a little while ago that he's been drawing this character, but has no idea who she is:
No idea (http://jephjacques.com/post/16684038774/no-idea-who-this-is-but-shes-been-showing-up-in)
It seems to me that she's the mad hairdresser:
Mad hairdresser (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1983)
Has he simply forgotten?
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Nah, maybe the daughter of the Mad Hairdresser. The Mad Hairdresser looks too old to be the same as the girl.
Besides, the Mad Hairdresser doesn't have freckles, and her complexion is darker (or at least less pink in the skin tone, which is probably why she doesn't have freckles).
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I stumbled into the Ustream of Jeph drawing this gal, before he added the glasses and freckles, and thought he was drawing Hazel from GWS (speaking of a character you want to like and slap at the same time).
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Well, Hazel does have a cousin appearing in another webcomic... why not another one?
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Ooooh. Could be.
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He had drawn both male an female versions of Clinton before introducing him...
Trying to find the character designs...
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I'm getting more of a relative of Tai. And before someone points it out, Tai might've just lived in a tropical climate during her childhood, which gave her the "tanned look."
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I'm seeing Robyn from GWS... only a bit more "indie"~d up. If there is such a thing.
And this is very creepy, actually, I have a friend overseas who looks very much like that. (just the looks, though, the personality implied by the design doesn't match at all)
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Something neat I noticed on an old JephDraw post: http://www.jephdraw.com/2006/02/line-weight.html
That character instantly made me think of Samantha, especially in this strip, possibly just because of the blue top (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2012). Although the drawing seems to be titled Claire.
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Why the hell did he draw a female version of Clinton?
...and does the answer involve Dr. Ellicot-Chatham?
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He says in the post. (http://jephjacques.com/post/4384135243/concept-sketch-of-clinton-the-anthropc-surveyor)
My initial impulse with all new characters is to make them female (because I like drawing ladies more), but I realize I have way too many as it is and thought it might be more interesting to make him a guy instead.
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Mystery girl is Marten's sister. Ms. Reed wasn't kidding when she said she went through a period in her life that was "a bit of a blur." (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=436)
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We know he doesn't have brothers but the possibility is still open that he has a sister.
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Could be a lot of things.
Could be someone in Marigold's WOW clan.
Could be a researcher on the Station that Hanners knows.
...could be both.
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Mystery character being Hannelore's sister would be fun
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Or her sisters fathers brothers cousins roommate.
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Hanners' sister or possibly half-sister could work (Hannelore's hair is only blonde because of all the bleach, see?) but why wouldn't she have been mentioned already?
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She said she's Beatrice's only child, so half-sisters at most.
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Hanners' sister or possibly half-sister could work (Hannelore's hair is only blonde because of all the bleach, see?) but why wouldn't she have been mentioned already?
She's a hoarder whose personal space makes Marigold's former mess look like a NASA clean room. Hannelore can barely stand to think about her, let alone talk about her.
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HannerClone, cleverly disguised.
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Clearly it's Pizza Girl's alter ego. Who would ever suspect her?
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Station and Spaceship AI avatars in unison: "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE BESPECTACLED REDHEAD BEHIND THE CURTAIN."
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Jeph has made it clear in his tumblr that the girl is not the hairdresser.
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Could be someone in Marigold's WOW clan.
Could be a researcher on the Station that Hanners knows.
...could be both.
Oh, that would be a riot if Marigold ran into someone on the station that she knows from WoW.
Wonder what sort of ping time the station has...
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Could be someone in Marigold's WOW clan.
Could be a researcher on the Station that Hanners knows.
...could be both.
Oh, that would be a riot if Marigold ran into someone on the station that she knows from WoW.
Wonder what sort of ping time the station has...
I'd have to think it'd be fast. Hannerdad would HAVE to be linked up to ARPAnet, and he probably has a dedicated bandwidth that goes directly to one of the internet nodes.
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There still might be issues based on the travel time. Same reason satellite internet today struggles with video games.
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Judging from how big the Earth appeared, EllicottStation is in low orbit.
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Okay, so MysteryRedhead is back.
WHO IS SHE
I wonder if this is how Padma developed.
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An associate of the Vespavenger preparing revenge.
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Tai's new "boss" at the library?
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Her name is Athena: for lo and behold, she hath sprung fully formed from the forehead of Jeph Jacques.
:roll:
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Okay, so MysteryRedhead is back.
Wait, where? In the party scene? That's definitely not her talking to the drink deveoper...
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Tumblr (http://jephjacques.com/post/18717797534/still-keep-drawin-this-girl-all-the-time-who-is), referred to on Twitter.
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T'anks.
She looks familiar... someone from another webcomic, if only I could remember... someone's little sister...
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I think she's a friend of Cosette's who can't believe the change in her personality since she started dating Steve.
It'd be fun to see a conversation between her and Marten where they compare notes and laugh at how whipped Steve is now.
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Mirror Universe Samantha.
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T'anks.
She looks familiar... someone from another webcomic, if only I could remember... someone's little sister...
Oh no. NO NO NO. We are NOT having a GWS/QC crossover.
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I think she's a friend of Cosette's who can't believe the change in her personality since she started dating Steve.
It'd be fun to see a conversation between her and Marten where they compare notes and laugh at how whipped Steve is now.
No, that was Luna.
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Mirror Universe Samantha.
Better yet - Jim's Ex-Wife!
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I think she's a friend of Cosette's who can't believe the change in her personality since she started dating Steve.
It'd be fun to see a conversation between her and Marten where they compare notes and laugh at how whipped Steve is now.
No, that was Luna.
Ah. Good catch! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1546)
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T'anks.
She looks familiar... someone from another webcomic, if only I could remember... someone's little sister...
Oh no. NO NO NO. We are NOT having a GWS/QC crossover.
I dunno. I've liked Danielle Corsetto's take on the QC cast. And if you go to the beer sled party sequence, you can see what the two GWS principals would look like when show up in the QCVerse -- and apparently Pintsize parties with a certain cactus. Jeph has mentioned the possibility (in one of the Q&A dumps on his Tumblr, IIRC) but said it would have to be a case of him and DC agreeing the time and story were right.
So I won't hold my breath but I will cross my fingers.
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No, it wasn't GWS. Something else... redheaded kid, glasses... damn!
I think I've placed it, but I can't find her - the kid from Anders <3 Maria, the daughrter of an older friend of Anders, has a crush on him. My archive-fu is really limited to QC, I'm afriaid.
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This one? Anders Loves Maria (http://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/2008/07/11/176-thats-so-cute/)
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Thank you, sir! That's her, alright - just add a few years...
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Is there such a thing as a Universal Archive Master?
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OhNoRobot tried.
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Raven's roommate? She has one, but we've never seen her.
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The gal researcher who actually has the hots for Francis York?
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Francis York
(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/6/62501/1318542-york_large.jpg)
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Jeph's latest drawings (http://jephjacques.com/post/20639465972/more-face-sketches-of-that-goddamn-girl-i-keep) of her:
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23jf86sZa1qzlnwmo1_1280.gif?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1333992980&Signature=hEhROSpBHrSUQfTRtYNzxQ49cYQ%3D)
Also getting some ideas about who she actually is.
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Love the hands with the pleased-with-herself expression in the bottom row...
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That picture reminds me of Mr. Burns. Eeeexcelent... *Tap fingers together diabolically*
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She doesn't strike me as particularly diabolical. More "YAY! Stuff and things are good."
Really like Jeph did the perspectives with different expressions. I've only seen them done with a default :meh:
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It just hit me - she's the replacement for Padma at TSB.
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That picture reminds me of Mr. Burns. Eeeexcelent... *Tap fingers together diabolically*
"Tai, release the Hounds."
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It just hit me - she's the replacement for Padma at TSB.
At least that position needs to be filled, and (for several reasons) it is unlikely that Faye would be interested. She's the only barista at CoD who might (?) be qualifed for the job.
I kind of hope that we will meet the gang from tSB every now and then. Also Jeph put a lot of effort into drawing the interior, so he will likely reuse it (wishfully crossing my fingers).
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She also looks a lot like Becky the (OCD) baker (http://wapsisquare.com/comic/hooked-up/) for another well-known coffee shop, in downtown Minneapolis... (http://wapsisquare.com/comic/we-happened/)
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She could either be a new person in Marten and Fayes apartment
The new Secret Bakery employee
Be a relative of Clinton or Penelope (Clinton cause it would start the awesome friendship between Hanners and Penelope just feels right)
I would put scientist but I don't think that would give much chance for her to have much appearances.
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I'm going to invoke Chekov's gun here:
Way back here (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2114), we all saw the cafeteria's menu that said "Space Cake!"
Someone HAD to make that cake.
There's an opening at that little Bakery in Northampton.
Jeph's got a character who he wants to unleash upon us all.
You connect the dots.
(Cherry on top: she's Francis's sister/cousin/other blood relative).
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Perhaps one of Dora's new neighbors? She works her way into the cast by introducing herself, Dora mentions CoD, and then after a chance meeting between Marigold and Dale, she turns out to be one of Dale's Alliance buddies.
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And in Amherst ... she's a WITCH!
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Altogether, now...
BURN HER!!
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Altogether, now...
BURN HER!!
Or elect her to the town council.
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Altogether, now...
BURN HER!!
[rather silly voice] But how do you know that she is a witch? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g) [/rather silly voice]
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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Everybody was wrong! (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2203)
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Since we still don't know ANYTHING relevant about her, Everybody might still be right, Mr. Hodges. °O
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"She" is, from what we know at the present moment, an intern at Smif College's Williston Library.
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We can make some assumptions based upon her appearance:
- She has unfashionable glasses, acne, and an overbite, which leads to certain stereotypes; the only other character with comparable traits is Marigold.
- She stoops and has more nervous body language that the other interns (panel 3, #2204 in particular), although her behaviour in #2205 would also indicate that she can be quite assertive.
- She has been drawn with more detail than the other interns and has been consistently placed in the centre of each panel or closest to Marten, so I think Jeph has a larger role planned for her.
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I thought they were freckles rather than acne, it would go with her pale skin and red hair if they were. Other than that I have no real opinions from her appearance.
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We can make some assumptions based upon her appearance:
Causes enough trouble in the real world.
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Yes, but in the real world, there is no such thing as 'character design'. Also, those are definitely freckles.
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We can make some assumptions based upon her appearance:
- She has unfashionable glasses, acne, and an overbite, which leads to certain stereotypes; the only other character with comparable traits is Marigold.
Seems like most of Jeph's characters drawn in profile have an overbite...you can see Marten's in panel 4 of 2205. I think it probably has something to do with when they're talking? I think in that same panel NoIdeaGirl has deliberately drawn in her lower jaw in expectation of what Marten has to say.
Edited to add:
Looks like I'm not the only one who's noticed:
In the last couple hundred strips, from 2000 to present, every character seems to have developed an overbite.
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We can make some assumptions based upon her appearance:
Causes enough trouble in the real world.
Yeah, when I was typing that I did wonder whether I could really make judgments based on appearances and then I remembered that, as LTK says, these aren't real people, they are designed. Jeph has plenty of form in creating characters whose appearances match their personalities.
Yes, but in the real world, there is no such thing as 'character design'. Also, those are definitely freckles.
Good call - I was going with acne as there are are only three spots and only on one side, but I think you may be right.
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these aren't real people.
Blasphemer! You question the holy writ? :-)
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Between the overbite and in particular the shape of the nose, I'm gonna guess that this is Marigold's sister.
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Wildly different hair, body types, skin tones, ... I think not.
Also, you can see NoIdea's overbite straight on, her upper teeth show (something no other character's teeth do. Not even Clinton's).
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Yep, she looks just like the redhead intern featuring in the current story arc to me.
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Oh, you mean Claire?
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Things we know about her based on her name:
- drives a Plymouth Satellite
- faster than the speed of light
- breathes pink air (has pink hair?)
- prefers red trees
- is immortal
- doesn't have a head
- emphatically *not* from mars or one of the seven stars that shine after 03:30
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Wildly different hair, body types, skin tones, ... I think not.
Also, you can see NoIdea's overbite straight on, her upper teeth show (something no other character's teeth do. Not even Clinton's).
Redheads can vary wildly from siblings in body types, hair of course, skin tone, etc...although I'm basing this on experience / sample size of exactly one friend. After all, it's all idle speculation anyway; probably not related to any given cast member.
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Everybody Redheads can vary wildly from siblings in body types, hair of course, skin tone, etc...
Awright our kid?
Just thought I'd help yer out thur. It's not so uncommon to look nowt like yer bros like.
Claire being related to someone would be like amazing, mate. She could be tight with anyone though? Even Angus like, cos e's got a touch o'tha bloody mary asn't e?
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When I meet new people, I don't generally assume they will inevitably be related to someone I already know. Why would they be in the comic?
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I don't know if this has been linked but there was a female concept for Clinton before he was introduced to the comic and I can sort of see Claire in it but I'm not so sure that was the intention.
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj7s3oSBNg1qzlnwmo1_1280.gif) (http://jephjacques.com/post/4384135243/concept-sketch-of-clinton-the-anthropc-surveyor)
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Not even close, IMHO.
She might know some of the other cast members, but from a distance or as an outsider. Like how she "heard" about COD.
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So now we know - today's comic (#2212) proves that Claire's glasses are removable.
Astonishing.
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So now we know - today's comic (#2212) proves that Claire's glasses are removable.
Astonishing.
Strewth! s'amazing innit? w'I god wot all wobblykins inna moot, och aye?
:-P :psyduck:
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It's neat having a thread to discuss a new character. We'll all get to laugh at how wrong we were in a year or two.
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Technically "Jim".
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You're assuming Jimbo occasionally goes by Jim? or is there another...?
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You're assuming Jimbo occasionally goes by Jim? or is there another...?
Yes to the first.
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I half-remember another double-naming, but I don't remember what it was, so perhaps it was just the Jim thing.
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I think that that was more or less a running gag with Raven - all her boyfriends were named "Benji".
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The only Benji I know... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071206/)
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Okay, we now have:
- Claire (the witch) and Claire (the redheaded intern)
- Jimbo (the redneck romance writer) and Jim (the owner of The Secret Bakery)
- Benji (Raven's D&D playing "boyfriend") and Benji (the Canadian Classically-trained Guitar busker)
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I was doing a re-read, and found it odd that after the introduction of Elliot, there was also reference to a bouncer at a bar named Elliot. One and the same?
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I was doing a re-read, and found it odd that after the introduction of Elliot, there was also reference to a bouncer at a bar named Elliot. One and the same?
Suspected, but never confirmed.
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Wil was familiar enough with him that he called him by first name after the "open weeping".
I don't suspect we'd have that many "Steves" in this One-Steve Show. (And no, I won't link to TVtropes.org for that; I'll be nice today.)
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Can't remember if these have been shown but while doing an archive dig I found something kind of neat.
Possible Claire prototypes:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2066 First panel on left.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2080 First panel on right.
Edit: Something I noticed rereading the thread:
Something neat I noticed on an old JephDraw post: http://www.jephdraw.com/2006/02/line-weight.html
That character instantly made me think of Samantha, especially in this strip, possibly just because of the blue top (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2012). Although the drawing seems to be titled Claire. (if you view image properties)
So that drawing may have become Samantha and the name became our former Mystery Girl! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00lfkHlJ_VM)