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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: BillyxRansom on 25 Mar 2013, 11:55

Title: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: BillyxRansom on 25 Mar 2013, 11:55
how old is claire i thought she was like a teenager why is marten confused about this iamconfuse halp!
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: celticgeek on 25 Mar 2013, 12:10
All of the interns are graduate students (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2205), so they are all probably at least in their early twenties. 
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: BillyxRansom on 25 Mar 2013, 12:17
All of the interns are graduate students (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2205), so they are all probably at least in their early twenties.
oh okay, thanks.

i was confused because isn't she a library employee? i remember (maybe, i think i remember this right) one of the first comics where we get a good idea of where marten works, there was at least one girl or something i think that worked there who was a high school student? idk i'm very confused now. smh
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Zebediah on 25 Mar 2013, 12:22
Claire is twenty-four (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2272).
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: celticgeek on 25 Mar 2013, 14:57
Thanks, Zebediah.  I knew that was there somewhere, but I had to go to an appointment before I found it. 
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 25 Mar 2013, 15:52
http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Claire_Augustus
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: ASmellyOgre on 25 Mar 2013, 19:13
All of the interns are graduate students (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2205), so they are all probably at least in their early twenties.
oh okay, thanks.

i was confused because isn't she a library employee? i remember (maybe, i think i remember this right) one of the first comics where we get a good idea of where marten works, there was at least one girl or something i think that worked there who was a high school student? idk i'm very confused now. smh

No, you're mixing up the interns with the students Gabby tutors.  You're also remembering that incorrectly.  The idea there was that Marten mistook college freshmen for high school students, showing his advancing age.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: SethDeAlba on 25 Mar 2013, 19:34
All of the interns are graduate students (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2205), so they are all probably at least in their early twenties.
oh okay, thanks.

i was confused because isn't she a library employee? i remember (maybe, i think i remember this right) one of the first comics where we get a good idea of where marten works, there was at least one girl or something i think that worked there who was a high school student? idk i'm very confused now. smh

No, you're mixing up the interns with the students Gabby tutors.  You're also remembering that incorrectly.  The idea there was that Marten mistook college freshmen for high school students, showing his advancing age.
thats deeper than I thought it was.....
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Bluesummers on 25 Mar 2013, 19:37
Yeah, when Marten gets confused, don't feel bad. It just means it's okay for us to get confused too. ^_^
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Cthulhu on 25 Mar 2013, 20:51
Am i the onlyone who isnīt interested the characters ages ? i mean for one in the comic we see no passing of years, yet a lot of things have happened since the comic started, if we'd go with the events they would've been at least 4 or 5 years older, if we'd go with every strip being 1 day of their lives, considering some times different strips use different parts of the same day we'd still have almost 5 years, so they should all be in their 30s by now. Since i've chosen not to take interest in that i just go with it, characters are the age Jeph needs them to be for the situations he creates.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Zebediah on 26 Mar 2013, 12:10
Hey, we just spent the past two RL months on a single weekend. QC time doesn't pass at a fixed rate.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Pilchard123 on 26 Mar 2013, 13:22
Good grief, has it really been two months?
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Cthulhu on 26 Mar 2013, 13:28
But, how do you tell how much time has passed? i see no indicator that implies a regular time season or anything similar.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 26 Mar 2013, 13:28
No, of course not everybody's into the "pretend it's a documentary" game.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: pwhodges on 26 Mar 2013, 13:49
At times there have been attempts to work out the timing of the whole series of comics; there are some accounts of the results in the wiki, I think.  That said, QC time is different from our time, as there are occasionally references to current events (or bands or something) in spite of the comic having a different period of time between them.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: jwhouk on 26 Mar 2013, 15:45
On top of that, Jeph can be a bit cagey about "how much time has elapsed" between Marten meeting Faye and now.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: DSL on 26 Mar 2013, 18:25
Is Webcomic time all that different from its predecessor, Comic Strip Time?
I remember, back when the local big rag carried the Spider-Man daily strip, it once took Spidey an entire week to fall halfway down the side of a skyscraper, all the while carrying on a conversation with Green Goblin (IIRC) who was pursuing him. I think Spidey finally found a spare web cartridge or landed on a convertible or something.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Carl-E on 26 Mar 2013, 19:02
Is Webcomic time all that different from its predecessor, Comic Strip Time?

Only in that Jeph doesn't do four-color Sunday strips that are completely separate from the strip's continuity. 



Thank god. 
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: DSL on 27 Mar 2013, 01:45
Is Webcomic time all that different from its predecessor, Comic Strip Time?
Only in that Jeph doesn't do four-color Sunday strips that are completely separate from the strip's continuity. 
Thank god.
Far worse: Adventure-strip Time (Not to be confused with Adventure Time), with Sunday CMYKs that are rehashes/punchlines of the previous week's continuity. (This could sometimes confuse the hell out of readers of papers that ran only the Sunday strips.)
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Apr 2013, 04:03
CMYKs?
On top of that, Jeph can be a bit cagey about "how much time has elapsed" between Marten meeting Faye and now.
About 2400 strips would be a Jeph-like answer.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Pilchard123 on 01 Apr 2013, 04:29
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black  -  colour strips

That last K might not be correct, but it's definitely black and it fits.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Apr 2013, 04:37
It was the K that threw me off, yeah.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: TinPenguin on 01 Apr 2013, 04:44
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model)
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: pwhodges on 01 Apr 2013, 04:57
K is indeed Key; but in practice it is also blacK, as a perusal of the part numbers of the cartridges for any colour printer will confirm.
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: HappyHavoc on 01 Apr 2013, 14:06
It has to have been about what now 2 years?
Title: Re: I AM VERY CONFUSE
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 01 Apr 2013, 14:31
Someone nerdier than I must have tracked the seasons changing. Sven is a year older than when he was introduced.