THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Carl-E on 29 Mar 2012, 23:32

Title: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Mar 2012, 23:32
So I hit the random button a few times, and had a few good laughs.  But then something strange happened...

This comic (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1096) was followed by this one (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=572). 

Note the last line of the first, and the title of the second.  Coincidence? 



Yeah, probably. 
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: TinPenguin on 30 Mar 2012, 03:08
*gasp*
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: Jabberwocky on 30 Mar 2012, 04:52
Ha, that's awesome!  I jumped right to the strips and thought it was cool how they mirrored each other.  Then I noticed your comment about the title, which was the icing on the cake.
(Hell, it just became the entire cake.)


A Challenger Appears!
I wonder how many other interesting pairings of QC strips can be found...     :roll:
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: Welu on 30 Mar 2012, 05:22
Maybe it's a phrase Jeph hears a lot in his life.  :-o
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: Carl-E on 30 Mar 2012, 09:39
I almost never read the titles - my eye's always drawn to the comic, and I didn't even realize there were  titles until Jeph mentioned them in a newspost early on.  I still don't often "see" them, unless they're mentioned somewhere.  But this one?  It jumped right out at me, probably because I had just heard those exact same words...   in my head. 
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: VonKleist on 30 Mar 2012, 09:51
Holy crap!!


hehe, and one of my favorite Faye-moments just a few comics down the line from the second one

"This is why I don't like change. It changes things." :)
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: miados on 06 Apr 2012, 22:00
it could easily be me but i was rereading some of the series and came across http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=656

now to me it seems like there is a nodoka miyazaki looking at a negi springfield from the series negima. now i could be way off but in my mind that is exactly what is happeneing there.
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Apr 2012, 07:09
it could easily be me but i was rereading some of the series and came across http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=656

now to me it seems like there is a nodoka miyazaki looking at a negi springfield from the series negima. now i could be way off but in my mind that is exactly what is happeneing there.

...Or it could be two Smif College co-eds (is that the right term for an all-girls college?), one with blue hair and another with longer, unkempt hair - or that other person on the left could even be Sven or Angus...

Bellisario's Law applies here, I think...
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: LTK on 07 Apr 2012, 07:47
Bellisario's Maxim applies when you're putting a work of fiction under extreme and unreasonable scrutiny to see what doesn't make sense. Attempting to identify references or shout-outs doesn't apply there, I believe. Besides, Jeph is a fan of a lot of anime. It's not the last time that he snuck in a reference (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2137) in the form of a background character.
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: miados on 07 Apr 2012, 19:17
plus people have been known to put other series characters in their series as kind of a tribute. and i can prove that he at least knows of the existance of negima because of marigolds twitter. september 29 2009 "harry potter is lame, it is basically just a rip off of negima."
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: DSL on 07 Apr 2012, 21:11
Tons of shout-outs, anime and otherwise, in QC. The backgrounds of tbe beer-sledding party are full of visiting characters, and there are a few Northampton street scenes featuring other cartoonists. Wil Wheaton also shows up.
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Apr 2012, 22:22
Tons of shout-outs, anime and otherwise, in QC. The backgrounds of tbe beer-sledding party are full of visiting characters, and there are a few Northampton street scenes featuring other cartoonists. Wil Wheaton also shows up.

...TWICE. (He was in the background at the sledding party as well, If Memory Serves.)
Title: Re: Weirdness and coincidence
Post by: Bachi-Atari on 11 Apr 2012, 11:40
For me it's Pintsize's quote about when the sinularity happens that "I will become porn!" I always imagine a GIR like echoey voice