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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2009, 01:59
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Angus is getting more and more human and less of a cartoon figure.
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How do we know he isn't being a straw anime fan?
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I'll betcha he's reading the classics into them episodes. Hey, if someone can tell me where to find the Gore Vidal reference in there somewheres...
Um, never mind. ^^;
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i love the comic's title....
sousuke-kuuuuuuun!
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Angus is getting more and more human and less of a cartoon figure.
So is Hannelore. Love her "dude, it's just an anime" look in the last panel.
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I interpreted that as a look of alarm at his behaviour, one she has shown in the past.
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I laughed at this, good comic.
Also, is this the first time we've seen a panel split with a horizontal bar like that?
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No. I'm not going to trawl the archive for an example, but we've seen them before.
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Oh, bravo. :-D
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I interpreted that as a look of alarm at his behaviour, one she has shown in the past.
You're probably right, there were bodily fluids flowing after all.
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I interpreted that as a look of alarm at his behaviour, one she has shown in the past.
I figured she was scared of the big ball of snot he was dribbling.
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Oh good god, that WAS snot. I was hoping that was just uhhhh what do you call that thing that runs between your nose and upper lip?
EDIT: It's called the naso-labial fold. There must be a shorter term. One that doesn't have the word labia in it.
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What's wrong with labia? Labia simply means "lips." Some of us just have more lips than the rest of us.
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My response to this strip was, "Dude, its a cartoon. And a cartoon version of the godzilla movie at that."
Then again, the last movie that moved me to tears was Schindler's List...
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I really wish Faye was there to see this. :-D
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It's nice that Angus is getting touch with his feminine side and all, but I think Hanners and Marigold are heading for their own episode of "The L Word"
They are watching porn together - and no, I have never watched porn with another guy. Well, once in college; but we were really drunk - oh, God...What did I do??!!!
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I think I'm really starting to like Angus more and more each time he's in a comic. XD
"Sousuke, noooo!" D8
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No. I'm not going to trawl the archive for an example, but we've seen them before.
Are you sure? He's talking about the split between "Episode 3" and "Episode 6" (i.e. a horizontal bar across what is a panel in the standard layout), not the vertical bar between "Episode 11" and "Episode 14".
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Next up, Hannelore watches Elfen Lied and goes into a catatonic state from the sight of all the high-pressure blood. :-D
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Oh good god, that WAS snot. I was hoping that was just uhhhh what do you call that thing that runs between your nose and upper lip?
EDIT: It's called the naso-labial fold. There must be a shorter term. One that doesn't have the word labia in it.
shorter term as requested: philtrum
yes, I made an account just so I could tell you this.
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OMG!1 Angus is so sensitive ... and hot ... I totally want to jump his bones right now !1!!1!11oneexclamationpoint!
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:-D
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Baww Hanners looks adorable.
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I thought when Hannelore exclaimed, "Magical Love Gentleman!", she was referring to Angus (gross!). Then I saw the anime talk. Have them watch "Berserk" next, PLZ1!
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Ha, I do the same thing when my friends want me to watch an anime with them. First few episodes I'll write it off, but after a few I start really getting into it.
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Oh... oh God! Hannelore's face in the last panel! I died a little from how cute it was!
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Honestly, though some ostensibly kiddy animes actually are nuanced and compelling, most of them are just written around providing the most fanservice possible.
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And here I was thinking "hey maybe hanners and the manga girl might get it on. nerd lesbo action, yeah!"
Maybe my espectations were too high.
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In #780, Angus talks about how far being stupid and self-centered will get you in life. I didn't realize then that he was intended as a likable character.
He's actually more interesting this way than he would be as just a source of conflict.
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omg hanners with the asian poses....lets see hmm ist that the shhhhhh pose? and that looks like the praying pose in the next panel. Oh and the pleading pose...classy there Jeph. Well done
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Oh good god, that WAS snot. I was hoping that was just uhhhh what do you call that thing that runs between your nose and upper lip?
EDIT: It's called the naso-labial fold. There must be a shorter term. One that doesn't have the word labia in it.
shorter term as requested: philtrum
yes, I made an account just so I could tell you this.
I was under the impression you could also call it a cupid's bow, which is just so much cute [if not much shorter].
And please guys, no Hannelore/Marigold sex talk [hurk]. At least not until Marigold gets CLEAN. She still looks like she needs to be soaked in a bleach and water solution.
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The very mention of the title "Magical Love Gentlemen" would have me heading for the nearest exit...like, say, a fifth-story window. Angus' ultimately willing participation and emotional involvement help solidify that stance.
Also, I hereby nominate Hanners' "DUDE SRSLY WTF" expression in the last panel for Best. Ever.
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So...Hannelore spontaneously decided to spend seven hours watching anime?
Someone get me Dr. Corrine's number...
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Having just come off from an anime convention, and being in an anime kind of mood, this comic had me laughing far more than I would have otherwise. SOUSKE-KUN!!!
Hey, if it ain't hardcore stuff, Yaoi can actually be that engaging. Er, on occasion. Like, if you do it in five year intervals >.>
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Hannelore with a new interest can be a scary thing to watch. Remember when she took up the drums? The word Marten used was "focused", which was putting it mildly.
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Which leads me to believe that she doesn't just have OCD. Probably some form of PDD as well.
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Hey, if it ain't hardcore stuff, Yaoi can actually be that engaging. Er, on occasion. Like, if you do it in five year intervals >.>
Actually, I think they're just watching a normal anime, not pr0n. In the previous comic, Hannelore said she was returning manga and didn't specify that it was yaoi (though presumably she borrowed yaoi as well ... and maybe those are also in that huge pile?). Based on the fact that Marigold says there's an anime to go with the manga, I think we can assume this is something with a real plot and (clearly) several episodes.
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1420
me thinks it's probably porn-tastical
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Ooh, I can be nerdishly detail oriented!
Marigold referred to the stack Hannelore brought back as "this series"(1440), implying it was just one.
In 1420, Hannelore asked to take "the whole series" of Magical Love Gentlemen.
Magical Love Gentlemen is what Hanners said they were watching in 1441.
MLG may be something mainstream with a plot, but it was enough to get Hannelore to blush.
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Hannelore also blushed when she grabbed the butt of a static robot while thinking she was alone and no-one could see it. I think just two guys kissing would be enough to make her blush. In fact, she's known to blush quite easily.
I don't think Magical Love Gentleman is pornographic at all -for once, the girls were not at all fazed by Angus' arrival who promptly referred to it as a "dude-romance cartoon", the plot is described as "nuanced and compelling" and I doubt a straight guy would sit through several episodes of explicit guy-on-guy action then cry at the end. In fact, from everyone's behaviour I'd say it is more cheesy-romantic than porn, which is amusing since everyone was anticipating some hot Marigold/Hanners masturbation session at the very least. :roll:
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As someone who's actually watched this stuff on occasion: I am pretty sure all MLG has is a bunch of kissing scenes. Very romantic, emotional kissing scenes, surrounded by a lot of plot, motivated by many repressed/hidden feelings, secret betrayals, and tragic circumstances.
I would also like to say that even the "porntastic" yaoi stuff tends to have a fair amount of plot. Take the classic Ai No Kusabi (http://www.boysonboysonfilm.com/anime/ainokusabi.html): most of the plot is a string of fairly intense sex scenes. However, the plot is still a PLOT: we have an entire distopian society set up and introduced, we have class warfare, we have gangs and black market scams and discussions about eugenics and social structure and all sort of musings on what makes a society vs an individual strong or weak, etc... and we have a rather lovely forbidden love story. Just... surrounded by a lot of sex.
Or "Fake,"which was generally pg-13, but had some sex scenes. If Hannelore opened it at various points in the manga, she would probably blush (http://www.umich.edu/~anime/images/manga_fake_large.jpg). But it was about two cops solving cases, and each episode had a genuine Law-and-Order type murder/theft/organized-crime/whatever case that formed the main focus of that installment.
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I love Marigold's reaction in the last panel. I can only assume she's been getting a hard time from Angus over her fandomness, and she sees this as an amusing moment of vindication and revenge. :D
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So...Hannelore spontaneously decided to spend seven hours watching anime?
Someone get me Dr. Corrine's number...
Less than 5 hours actually, animes usually are 24 minutes each. If you jump the intro/outro, the next episode previews, omakes, the "what happened in the last episode" parts, you usually get 18, 19 minutes tops.
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Oh good god, that WAS snot. I was hoping that was just uhhhh what do you call that thing that runs between your nose and upper lip?
EDIT: It's called the naso-labial fold. There must be a shorter term. One that doesn't have the word labia in it.
shorter term as requested: philtrum
yes, I made an account just so I could tell you this.
We thank you.
everyone was anticipating some hot Marigold/Hanners masturbation session at the very least. :roll:
Not so.
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Oh good god, that WAS snot. I was hoping that was just uhhhh what do you call that thing that runs between your nose and upper lip?
EDIT: It's called the naso-labial fold. There must be a shorter term. One that doesn't have the word labia in it.
shorter term as requested: philtrum
yes, I made an account just so I could tell you this.
Ah, yes, forgot to thank you. Thank you.
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So wait...am I to understand they've been watching anime for seven hours? Don't they have jobs? Well, Hannelore really doesn't, but what about the other two?
Honestly, though some ostensibly kiddy animes actually are nuanced and compelling, most of them are just written around providing the most fanservice possible.
Ridiculous.
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So wait...am I to understand they've been watching anime for seven hours? Don't they have jobs? Well, Hannelore really doesn't, but what about the other two?
~5 hours, really ~4 hours 40 minutes. Anime episodes are 20 minutes each, give or take a minute. That's assuming they did a marathon with no breaks in between episodes, and that they didn't watch the end credits every single time (though it does count for some of the opening).
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Hannelore counts things for a job.
Angus is a professional strawman.
Neither seem like 9-5 jobs so much as you get called in.
Marigold does...raids?
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Marigold does...raids?
I had to look it up: http://www.wowwiki.com/Raid (http://www.wowwiki.com/Raid)
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So wait...am I to understand they've been watching anime for seven hours? Don't they have jobs? Well, Hannelore really doesn't, but what about the other two?
~5 hours, really ~4 hours 40 minutes. Anime episodes are 20 minutes each, give or take a minute. That's assuming they did a marathon with no breaks in between episodes, and that they didn't watch the end credits every single time (though it does count for some of the opening).
Actually, most episodes are closer to 23 minutes. If you count potty and food breaks, that amounts to somewhere between 6.5 and 7 hours for 14 episodes. I've done enough marathons to know you can't go instantly from one episode to the next all day long. There are some breaks in there. Though as you say, if they skipped the credits it would probably cut some time off.
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]I've done enough marathons to know you can't go instantly from one episode to the next all day long. There are some breaks in there. Though as you say, if they skipped the credits it would probably cut some time off.
I've only ever done that with Dr. Who, and it seemed to work ok for pretty extended periods of time.
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Whoa, bad news. This is bigger than the Metaphysics Conflict and the Bear Conflict. And it confirms my worries that Pennelope rushed in without knowing Wil well enough.
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That sound Penelope's hearing is the sound of the other shoe hitting the floor.
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Wow, lighten up on him. He's a poet, and deserves patrons, be they parents, girlfriends, or whomsoever.
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Adapting an old joke. Q: what do you call a poet without a girlfriend?
A: Homeless.
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Holy Geezus in the cornfield... how i can feel for Penn. I know exactly how she must feel now. :-D Its hard when you put down the pink glasses and find out that your partner is lazy, unemployed and freshly evicted from "from Hotel Mama"... at 28.... and now wants to live with you...
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I wonder if Pennelope's previous boy problems also came from jumping in without looking. She's so level-headed about other things, though.
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Ah, looks like the Penelope/Wil 'shipping boat has sailed...
I think Pen's best move would be to let him go and give him some incentive to get a job, place of his own and wise up.
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Penelope should've checked FreeCreditReport.com... ;)
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Pen-Pen might just have the best underwear shot since Odette Yustman (http://www.impawards.com/2009/unborn_ver2.html).
Ten imaginary bucks says somebody's making an animated gif of her series of expressions from "content lover" to "HOLY JEBUS YOU MUST BE JOKING".
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Wil said before he left that he realized he wasn't the man she deserved (can't find the comic (edit: it's 1310), so that isn't the exact wording)
What if that insight sinks in and he figures out that a real relationship will require him to run a real life?
That would be a big change, but Jeph does let his characters grow and develop.
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Penne-lope needs to take her glasses off again. She's much less uptight without them.
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Sweet Jesus, Penelope needs to lighten up. First the blow up over philosophical differences and now this. He's a poet; what, did she think he lived in a Manhattan apartment (presumably with a portal into a nearby alley)? As a dude in his situation (hey, you get out of high school straight into the economy blowing up last year and find a job that covers rent in SoCal and college expenses), her reaction really pisses me off. Jeph, wrap this up quickly and cleanly please. Shit.
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I can understand the blowup. What happens next is the interesting thing. I don't think she should just drop him but instead should push him to get a life, and see how far he's willing to go with that.
I think this is it for them though.
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He's honest. That's a start. A people-user would have fed her some line about his apartment getting trashed by a tenant, or some other tale of woe to push her into taking him under her wing. He gave her the straight story even though it was humiliating.
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Motherfucker needs to get a damn job, and sojourning across the country for six months (give or take) was probably not a good idea.
Wil and Penelope need each other though, she needs his whimsy and he needs her grounding in reality.
Oooh, I got it, maybe Faye will sell a sculpture for big bucks and she can quit CoD and he can have her job, or Marten will take Deathmole full time and he can work at the Library!!!
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I can understand that Penelope is upset, but really girl!! This comic pretty much puts both characters involved in a very negative light. Yes, Wil is a poet, and, thus, a job-less loser, but Penelope, as she did during the philosophical debate, goes to the very extreme is denouncing this.
Penelope is, sadly, my least favorite character in this comic. Yes. she's "grounded in reality" but she's also a hysterically judgemental shrew whose ego, in large parts, demands she always be right, ALWAYS! I admit I haven't always liked how Jeph would sometimes "put a character on a bus" but if he did it to Penelope, I wouldn't mind. Sadly, from what Penelope has said about her parents, she's pretty much identical to them in temperament, and personality, just different outlooks. She's probably going to drive whatever children she has to the church someday (rebellion, you know?)
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lol, damnnnnnn and the is the START of the week. Funny situations on the horizon.
So when will the Harigold shippers start coming out of the woodwork? you know they out there
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Where have you been? Those sad and twisted folks have been out for a couple of weeks now.
Hopefully, Wil's got an idea for a job that he can do so that he can support himself. If not he's likely out on the street looking up to the guy with the yellophone.
And if he's looking for a job, I understand he could get a signing bonus for enlisting.
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I never got how people can stay at home for that long. I got out the second uni started
Granted, as I'm typing this, I'm actually at home, for summer...
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I never got how people can stay at home for that long.
I have a friend just a couple of years younger than me, with a pretty top position in another university, who has never left home. He also has his own house - a weekend cottage, but he takes his mum when he goes there.
OK, he's a bit weird, but not totally...
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don't know myself - finished high school at 18, left for the summer to work with the Reserves, went to university in September, and then alternated between school and the Reserves for the next 4 years. Then I graduated and stayed in Ottawa to work. I lived at my Aunt's house for two months while I looked for an apartment after my UN tour, but that was the longest period since high school that I lived under a roof that I wasn't paying for....
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He's honest. That's a start. A people-user would have fed her some line about his apartment getting trashed by a tenant, or some other tale of woe to push her into taking him under her wing. He gave her the straight story even though it was humiliating.
Also maybe because Wil sucks at lying to people?
It's a possibility that someone who likes being that honest also sucks at being dishonest.
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It's my understanding that Will is a college student. I recall him eating lunch in a cafeteria with Sven... wait is Sven a college student too? Huh... Anyway, I'm assuming he's a college student who lived at home and perhaps went to school full time. I don't see that as being a big loser. Money wise, many students are staying home even into their late twenties because it's just too damn expensive to leave. We don't know what his family financial situation is or anything. Maybe they are dirt poor.
Wow Pen Pen's a judgmental beyotch isn't she? She jumped into bed with someone she knows absolutely NOTHING about and then she's mean to him when she discovers who he is. How is it possible that she went on at least one date with this guy and knew nothing at all about his work or his home life? Those are the kind of questions someone with SENSE would ask on a first date. One cannot live on books alone. Some street smarts wouldn't hurt Pen-Pen.
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Sven is definitely no college student, he is Dora's older brother which puts him in his late 20s, plus it was mentioned in several comics that he has been in college. I daresay Wil is somewhere there too, age-wise. In fact, he looks older than most of the cast, and college students don't just leave for 6 months or so to go traipsing across country.
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Ok I admit at first I thought Penny was being elitist again(What? In this economy it kind of makes sense to live with your parents for longer than usual if everything's cool...) ... but then Wil looks like he's near his 30s. Maybe Penny is a little more justified in having a shocked reaction. :p
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I'm feeling pretty sympathetic to Penelope here. I wouldn't take in a homeless lover either, I'd tell them to get their shit together and withhold nookie until they do. Come on, Pen-Pen, light a fire under that guy's ass. Poets don't support themselves with poetry - Wil needs a day job. Although it would be pretty hilarious to see him try to join the avant-garday buskers: http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1064 (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1064)
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Frankly, I think they're both wrong here. First, Penny got herself blinded by the idea of romance with a soulful, artistic guy who wrote her naughty poems and went on self-discovering journeys and didn't stop to think (or ask) about his real life, outside books and ideals, and get to know the real guy. Secondly, Wil, with no job and place of his own, just evicted from his parents' house, didn't exactly do the smartest thing by going off into the wild and spending all his reserves, then coming back to a girlfriend he doesn't even know and asking if he can move in.
Those two moving in together, at this time and under these circumstances would most likely be a disaster. Granted, Penny doesn't know the details regarding Wil's situation and she could have asked first before calling him a complete loser, but yeah, they need to come down from the clouds, both of them.
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Wow. Penelope is a bitch. I mean, seriously? One minute she loves the guy and the next she's calling him a "total fucking loser" because he's currently jobless and living with his parents. I fully agree that Wil needs to get his shit together, but her attitude about it is just unnecessarily nasty and harsh. She didn't even find out any details before she went straight to thinking he was a shiftless, lazy bastard. For all she knows he's just currently between jobs and had to move back in with his parents. Granted, the odds are he's just never had to work and he's been living off his parents until now. Honestly, though, when someone is approaching 30 and has always lived at home without working it's as much the parents fault as it is the "kids".
Man, I lived with my mom til I was 21 ... probably would have lived there a few years longer if I hadn't picked up and moved in with The Man. I was working, making $8/hour, and there was no way I could afford to live on my own where the cheapest rent you could find was $700/month in questionable areas. Shoot, before that I was working labor temp making about $23/day! With my sadly lacking social skills the odds of hooking up with a rent share situation were minimal. I was talking to this one co-worker about possibly going in on a place together, she also lived with her parents, but she quit when someone was promoted over her and that was that.
Sometimes getting/keeping your own place isn't easy. If Penelope were me, she'd give him a couple of months to find a job and kick in for rent or find another place to live.
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She can do better.
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She can do better.
totally
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I hate to say it but the first thing I said after reading he comic... "What a bitch." I can understand still living with your parent's is a little weird for someone Wil's age and could even be a relationship break but she can lighten up a bit and not act like such a well... bitch.
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Yeah, seriously. Total bitch.
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If the situation were reversed, would you be saying Wil can do better than Penny?
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Looks like Penny finally fell off her pink cloud. We could have seen this coming, Wil and Penny were just too perfect of a couple like that. I'm guessing Jeph also thought that Wil was getting too likeable and made this to drag him down.
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It's one thing to live with your parents. It's another thing to be unemployed. It's another thing still to be unemployed and going off on cross-country trips, spending what little savings you have on frivolity. (I'm sorry, there just isn't a justification for doing that. "Finding yourself" is all well and good. But "finding yourself AND a job" = better.)
Penny is well within her rights to freak out. If it were me, I'd tell this guy he's got a couple months to shape up his life, and THEN maybe he can move in. He should be begging his dad for forgiveness and a room until he manages to get a job, and then start paying either his Dad rent, or, if he's lucky, he will have proven to Penny by then that he means business and he can start paying part of HER rent and living there with her.
It's ... actually pretty inappropriate to ask a brand new girlfriend to allow you to crash there completely for free. I really don't see how Penny is a bitch, just because she's suddenly been put in a situation where she's expected to take full responsibility for Wil in a financial sense. Since she doesn't know him very well (and we, as readers, don't know him very well), she doesn't know how motivated he is as a person to get a job and save money responsibly. Based on his recent behavior, he certainly does not look like the motivated type.
Apparently Penny is very careful with her money since she appears to live in a nice apartment entirely by herself, and all she does is work at a coffee shop. That would take some very fastidious financial management to pull off, unless Coffee of Doom pays ... unusually well for a coffee shop. If Wil doesn't approach his finances similarly, then that's going to cause problems later. I do think they can work it out, I just think Wil needs to shape up first and prove to Penny that he is worth it and NOT a lazy freeloader. If he works hard, he'll be able to show her this and earn her trust, and this fight can be left well behind them and laughed about later on. "Remember when you were a beatnik poet with no savings to speak of?" "Ha, yeah, but now I work at Whatever Library and I'm published in the New Yorker. Ohhh, those terrible days of my unpublished, impoverished whimsy! Thank goodness they are far behind."
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Hehe.
It should be outlawed :police: that your girlfriend starts complaining about your faults and shortcomings while running around in underpants. :roll: :evil: :-D
Come on, she is just totally unfair ! :lol: How is one supposed to think straight when she's that sexy ? :wink:
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Sorry people, but women generally like their boyfriends gainfully employed. Even the ones who don't care at first generally get sick of it if their man remains unemployed. Wil better find himself a steady source of income quick.
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... she can lighten up a bit ...
No, she can't. One of the earliest things that we learned about Penny is that she's very judgmental and, in her mind, unquestionably right.
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... she can lighten up a bit ...
No, she can't. One of the earliest things that we learned about Penny is that she's very judgmental and, in her mind, unquestionably right.
Exactly, it's a fault of her that she needs to overcome, hence me saying she needs to lighten up.
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As a dude in his situation (hey, you get out of high school straight into the economy blowing up last year and find a job that covers rent in SoCal and college expenses), her reaction really pisses me off. Jeph, wrap this up quickly and cleanly please. Shit.
Uh, dude, you're just out of HIGH SCHOOL and trying to find a job that covers college. Wil is a COLLEGE GRAD in his LATE 20s without a job, living with his parents, and blowing all his money on cross country trips. Bit of a difference here. If you're still jobless and living at home 8 years down the road, THEN you'll be in his situation.
That said, it was pretty obvious that this was Wil's situation earlier anyway... Penny wasn't paying attention.
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My guess is that Sven is going to have a roommate soon. :-D
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Hehe.
It should be outlawed :police: that your girlfriend starts complaining about your faults and shortcomings while running around in underpants. :roll: :evil: :-D
Come on, she is just totally unfair ! :lol: How is one supposed to think straight when she's that sexy ? :wink:
I think it should actually be required for your girl to be in her underpants if she is going to yell at you. :laugh: yeah sure you get a good tongue lashing but hey shes nearly naked.
I lived with my parents till I was 22, then I found a place to live. I went to community college paying out of pocket working at best buy, paying rent, car insurance, classes, gas, books with my own money as a geek squad tech (fyi we get paid shit! $10/hour at best! again at best!) After graduating from community college with an associate degree at 21 I got a job in DC paying 40k a year, met some cool people and moved in with them. Now I am quitting my job, moving to the university of MD were I plan to go full time. Life is crazy.
As for Will's situation we really dont know how he ended up there but I agree him going on a journey with his last bit of money while unemployed and homeless has got to be one of the dumbest things a dude can do. PenPen has issues of her own too with elites tendencies and very judgmental. I think in the next couple of strips either we will find out more about how Wil got to where he is now or PenPen going to Dora and chatting with her.
I must admit thought I thought exactly what PenPen said before I read her chat bubble after Wil revealed he was homeless and broke. But I feel sorry for Will as he has open and honest with her and she explodes at him. She is starting to fit the crazy girlfriend bill. :wink:
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And social status rears its ugly head once again........mmmm, panel 1.
What?
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Kerouac (or at least in character in On the Road) was a writer who didn't have any money and lived with his aunt. Of course, he also tried making money during his journey across the country.
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Now Penelope is going to act as if she didn't know very well Wil was a loser and play along with his fantasy, isn't she?
Oh Pen.
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Well, gee, Penelope. If you're going to be like that, perhaps you should get to know something about a guy before you jump into bed with him.
I'm not saying she shouldn't have standards. I'm just saying that she lost all right to go from lovey-dovey to "total fucking loser" in 3 seconds flat when she's the one who dragged him off for hot sexings the moment he returned.
Men aren't the only ones who sometimes let their little head do the thinking.
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Jeph said once that CoD pays enough to live on, but just barely. So there's good support for the idea that Pen-Pen is a careful financial manager.
Another thing that Jeph said is that every time he's written an argument, there's been fault on both sides. Which raises the question of why I and the rest of us are so eager to take sides in an argument that's none of our business between non-existent people. My wife suggests that the butting-in impulse is related to curiosity.
My wife's entry into the list of reasons there is fault on Penny's side is that she considers it a character flaw to fall for guys like Wil in the first place.
Anyone notice that Jeph pulled off a subtlety? I don't think we've seen Pennelope use any language stronger than "jackass" on camera, and as for her off-camera behavior we've heard Faye say "you barely cuss"(#771). So Jeph was telling us something important, very economically, when she called Wil a "total fucking loser".
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I really don't see how Penny is a bitch, just because she's suddenly been put in a situation where she's expected to take full responsibility for Wil in a financial sense.
She's not expected to do anything. Not wanting her new guy to live off her isn't what makes her the bitch in this situation. What makes her a bitch is calling him a "total fucking loser" especially with that expression on her face.
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The question is, is he "still" living with his parents, or is he living with them "again"? Who knows, maybe he lost his job and didn't have enough savings to last until he got another.
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... her attitude about it is just unnecessarily nasty and harsh.
This behavior is a hint about her background. She's acting like someone from a family where prosperity couldn't be depended on and there was constant danger of being sucked into the poverty trap.
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I'm just seriously hoping that Jeph isn't writing Wil out of the comic (remember Natasha? remember...fuck, morgue chick? (can't remember her name [hey, look, I'm using brackets]}) in one or two quick comics.
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Meena.
Wil's connected to Sven, too, though.
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I typed out "Amina" first time.
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Jeph said once that CoD pays enough to live on, but just barely. So there's good support for the idea that Pen-Pen is a careful financial manager.
Another thing that Jeph said is that every time he's written an argument, there's been fault on both sides. Which raises the question of why I and the rest of us are so eager to take sides in an argument that's none of our business between non-existent people. My wife suggests that the butting-in impulse is related to curiosity.
My wife's entry into the list of reasons there is fault on Penny's side is that she considers it a character flaw to fall for guys like Wil in the first place.
Anyone notice that Jeph pulled off a subtlety? I don't think we've seen Pennelope use any language stronger than "jackass" on camera, and as for her off-camera behavior we've heard Faye say "you barely cuss"(#771). So Jeph was telling us something important, very economically, when she called Wil a "total fucking loser".
People have been willing to go to WAR - you know, willing to murder and torture others of their own species - over stuff like religion, or petty crap which generally amounts to, "Your dirt is better than ours. We want it."
We like our fiction. The quality of fictional writing is partially judged by how much it can emotionally or intellectually engage a reader.
Arguing/debating can simply be an outgrowth of this. People form their own ideas about what these fictional people might think or want, and people generally like defending their own ideas, even if those ideas concern a work of fiction - and in some cases, people are even willing to kill for these ideas.
Look how far some go in pursuit of fiction. There are people who spend their lives on just Shakespeare, or other writers of imaginary works. Devoting your life to the study of the writings borne of some dead guy's imagination - and here we are talking about a webcomic on a forum. I'd say that this is a bit less extreme, don't you? :)
So if anything, I'd say, "Debate away." As in any argument though, try to present good ideas. "NO U, DICKFACE!", or similar, is generally not considered a "good idea." ;)
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The question is, is he "still" living with his parents, or is he living with them "again"? Who knows, maybe he lost his job and didn't have enough savings to last until he got another.
i just hope that will is living with his parents "again" and will get a job soon. i like 'ships....
they need to sort it all out.
but really, penny did jump into it all without getting to know him better... both are at fault..
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Exactly, it's a fault of her that she needs to overcome, hence me saying she needs to lighten up.
Er... I though being judgemental was a fault? Pot calling the kettle black, I think... :-D
I remember a Joni Mitchell song (Refuge Of The Roads, from Hejira I think) in which she refers to building up a "thunderhead of judgement". I guess the storm broke on Will's head. Maybe it will clear the air. I love flawed characters.
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Sven is definitely no college student, he is Dora's older brother which puts him in his late 20s, plus it was mentioned in several comics that he has been in college. I daresay Wil is somewhere there too, age-wise. In fact, he looks older than most of the cast, and college students don't just leave for 6 months or so to go traipsing across country.
I work at Michigan State University and we have lots of students who in their late twenties, thirties... even a small percentage in their forties and fifties. You are making huge assumptions about college students. Not everyone has the time, the money or the wherewithal to go to school full time. Also some people don't go to college right after high school. Then, there are people who don't go full time (like me). I'm almost thirty and I've been taking classes for almost eight years, but taking a class or two at a time means I'm still nowhere near a degree (which is depressing).
And yes, college students can stop taking classes anytime they please and travel. Then they come back and take classes again. Students do it all the time. I have chosen not to take classes for the last year and a half. I'm going back in the spring of next year. College is a something you purchase. You can quit purchasing classes whenever you choose and start purchasing them again when you want. Universities just want your money. They don't care if you leave and come back.
Anyhow, I'm almost positive the first time we met Wil, he and Sven were eating in a cafeteria. It looked like a college caf to me. Or perhaps a hospital cafeteria. I'm too lazy to look up the comic. Is there anyone out there with the tenacity to look that up?
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They're flawed, but they're mostly good people.
You could build a pukka mensch out of Marten's generosity, Faye's loyalty, Raven's joie de vivre, Dora's compassion, Pennelope's responsibility and Hannelore's courage.
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Innermoppet, I think 1128 was Wil's first appearance.
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Exactly, it's a fault of her that she needs to overcome, hence me saying she needs to lighten up.
Er... I though being judgemental was a fault? Pot calling the kettle black, I think... :-D
Me throwing an opinion out to the world about a fictional character doesn't make me judgmental.
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Actually, I think Pen could just be the 'Swift Kick Up The Jacksee' that Wil needs to get his shit together and get a job.
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I cringe to think what Faye will say. It probably won't be supportive.
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Kerouac (or at least in character in On the Road) was a writer who didn't have any money and lived with his aunt. Of course, he also tried making money during his journey across the country.
Forty days at sea
Then she turned, and said to me
"If we make it back
I'll renounce Jack Kerouac
And all of that romantic crap
Like 'I'm an artist; don't look back'"
That's from a song that's about refusing to take responsibility for oneself. I never quite got the significance of the bridge until now.
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Is that Baby Seat?
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Innermoppet, I think 1128 was Wil's first appearance.
THANKS SO MUCH!
I stand corrected. They appear to be at a coffee shop. In my head, I saw cafeteria trays. And bears playing the ukulele. But mostly cafeteria trays.
Hmmm. In reviewing those older strips, I did note that Will went to "Williston Academy" in High School. Could he be an over-privileged private school-er?
Addendum: Could this have been an error on Jeph's part? After Wil and Pen-Pen's first date, it appears that she walked him home -to his apartment. He even mentions that Sven told him to take her upstairs to his apartment. Perhaps Jeph changed his mind?
The sited comic: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1257
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You win the Detail Spotting Award. There are a few possible explanations, but none seem really convincing.
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It is true that Jeph has implied fault with both of them.
For starters, Pen-Pen should not have got so involved with this guy without knowing his situation. I mean, what a person does for a living is usually one of the first things you find out.
As for Wil, seriously, the guy needs to get it together. It is fun to go away for a soul searching journey but there should be some plan for when you come back.
Just wondering, where would Wil have got enough money to go away for such a long time if he had no job? I am in university full time and live with my parents (I am 21 and this is fairly common in Australia) and I am eating away at the savings I managed to accrue during my gap year last year just paying for petrol and food. Sort of implies that Wil might be an ungrateful rich "wild child".
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Eh...I wouldn't write this relatioship off all the way yet.
From personal experience, not every guy like Wil is a total loser. My husband was in the same situation when we got together and I supported us both for a while until he got a job.
Then he supported me for a long time while I took care of our kid and went back to college. Now we support eachother AND our artistic aspirations.
A guy with a stable job and his own place doesn't equal winner.
It also doesn't equal fufulling relationship.
I made that mistake too...
I'll take my romantic artist any day.
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Jeph said once that CoD pays enough to live on, but just barely.
:-o QC is the damn second best Webcomic I know off ... one should be able to live from that, should one not ?
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Yeesh, at the rate I've sent out resumes since the last time I was employed, Penny would be stripped down to her skeleton by now.
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Hurray!! A rational reaction!!
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She got herself under control really fast.
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Now, THAT is an incentive. :lol: I wonder what she could do to make him send more resumes
"fifth resume is a make-out session but to get some nookie you must send at least ten letters" :-D
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Well, at least she knows how to motivate him.
At this rate, he'll wind up a CEO. :evil:
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I always assumed the place Wil and Sven were eating at in 1128 to be a Panera Bread kind of place where you have to put away your own dishes.
I think Wil looks more distinct with his glasses on.
Jeph said once that CoD pays enough to live on, but just barely.
:-o QC is the damn second best Webcomic I know off ... one should be able to live from that, should one not ?
The money Jeph earns from Questionable Content has nothing to do with fictional Penelope's fictional money from fictional Coffee of Doom.
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Except that it's also most likely fictional, but meta-economics is a bit of a digression I think.
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Behold, the power of positive reinforcement.
Hell, I haven't been unemployed since I was 18 and she has me wanting to send out a resume'.
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I'm wondering what item of clothing number 4 is, as in the previous comic she wasn't wearing any trousers/pants.
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I would think someone who has been unemployed for about six years would need to send out a lot more than three or four resumes to get a job :lol:
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I'm wondering what item of clothing number 4 is, as in the previous comic she wasn't wearing any trousers/pants.
Glasses - those are expensive enough not to want to damage them.
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Socks?
Anyway, here's a possible fix for the continuity hole. It looks like a house. Maybe he just lied, and said it was his apartment building?
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Addendum: Could this have been an error on Jeph's part? After Wil and Pen-Pen's first date, it appears that she walked him home -to his apartment. He even mentions that Sven told him to take her upstairs to his apartment. Perhaps Jeph changed his mind?
The sited comic: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1257
Maybe his parents own a building? I knew a girl in high school who's mom owned a two-story and the girl had the apartment up top to herself. Maybe Wil had a similar situation going on. Tell you what, if I had that kind of set-up, I'd be hard pressed to move out too.
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Maybe his parents own a building?
QFT. My auntie and uncle own a block of 4 flats and a semi-detached house (well, was a semi-detached house, they recently knocked a wall out and now it's just a semi-functional house). One of their kids lives in the house, one in one of the flats. At various times my brother, sister, five different cousins and my auntie's best friend have lived in the other flats. One or two of them faced "eviction" due to family fights. Wil could easily have been in the same situation.
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Okay, Penny made up for her "total fucking loser" comment by being supportive to Wil, good job Penn-o. Although it was quite a flip but I guess thats us girls for you!
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We had sort of a similar thing in my family. My grandparents owned a four-story when I was growing up. My mom, my sister and I lived with my grandparents in one apartment and three of my aunts and their families lived in the other three. Everyone payed rent though and everything was always in good repair because my uncles helped my grandfather with the handy work. Every family has squabbles, but my grandparents never tolerated nonsense. You were expected to just suck it up and get along regardless of any issues.
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Yeesh, at the rate I've sent out resumes since the last time I was employed, Penny would be stripped down to her skeleton by now.
I feel your pain. I think I've sent out at least a gross. Out of those, a handful got further than the initial interview, at which point they said they wanted someone with more experience to work first-level help desk. (Right because you need a master's degree and a laundry list of certifications to reset Active Directory passwords all day.)
Damn you, companies who want 50 years of working experience for entry-level positions (ie all of them). Damn you all. :x
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I'm a little different here - I've held 3 jobs my entire working life (I will not discuss the 4 weeks I worked as a security guard at an apt building - that I still drink to forget....):
a. Member of the Reserves (filled in a lot of forms, had a medical exam, and 23 years later - here I am);
b. Paralegal (private practice) - was let go because the firm was finding it hard to collect fees, and guess what my name wasn't on the door or loans; and
c. Paralegal (government service) - got a reference from a friend that competition was open to the public, put in a resume, and 2 months later I'm a public servant.
I thank my lucky stars that the jobs I have are not ones that will see me looking for work in this economic climate (when was the last time your military downsized their PART-time personnel, or your government got rid of legal staff?)
What are Wil's job skills? What does he bring to the party (besides Penny)?
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Yeesh, at the rate I've sent out resumes since the last time I was employed, Penny would be stripped down to her skeleton by now.
I feel your pain. I think I've sent out at least a gross. Out of those, a handful got further than the initial interview, at which point they said they wanted someone with more experience to work first-level help desk. (Right because you need a master's degree and a laundry list of certifications to reset Active Directory passwords all day.)
Damn you, companies who want 50 years of working experience for entry-level positions (ie all of them). Damn you all. :x
It's a vicious cycle. You can't gain experience, because no one will hire you, because you lack experience. FUCKBALLS to it all.
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Wil could be a motorcycle messenger.
Some places, supposedly, will hire liberal arts graduates (which Wil probably is) because they have a proven ability to read and write.
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:-o QC is the damn second best Webcomic I know off ... one should be able to live from that, should one not ?
If QC is second best, what's the best?
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Also, BOOK-SPLOSION t-shirts please?
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Damn, I love the QC-verse.
Guy's had no job for six years and his hot blonde girlfriend takes him in and gives him booty work-fare.
GUYS CAN"T LOSE IN QC!!!! WHOOO!!!
Well, except for Sven; but he's a dick. WHOO!!!! NERDY GUYS CAN'T LOSE!!! WHOOO!!!
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Damn, I love the QC-verse.
Guy's had no job for six years and his hot blonde girlfriend takes him in and gives him booty work-fare.
GUYS CAN"T LOSE IN QC!!!! WHOOO!!!
Well, except for Sven; but he's a dick. WHOO!!!! NERDY GUYS CAN'T LOSE!!! WHOOO!!!
To be honest, I'm not sure if that's the QC-verse so much as it is the "any kind of media on the internet and/or created by dorky males" verse. But your comment was still amusing.
As a dorky male in his 20's with a part time job who lives at home, these last two comics have depressed me. But not enough to actually make me get off my butt or anything. Ah well.
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Okay, Penny made up for her "total fucking loser" comment by being supportive to Wil, good job Penn-o. Although it was quite a flip but I guess thats us girls for you!
The flip is evidence that she finished getting dressed, calming herself down, leaving panties in their proper position #4.
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Shirt, pants, bra, panties?
Nah, just pants and panties would be sufficient for the reward :-P
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Ok, I thoroughly enjoyed this new strip. Faye is priceless. Poor Wil, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Was this the first time we saw the supportive side of Pennelope?
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Damn, I love the QC-verse.
Guy's had no job for six years and his hot blonde girlfriend takes him in and gives him booty work-fare.
GUYS CAN"T LOSE IN QC!!!! WHOOO!!!
Well, except for Sven; but he's a dick. WHOO!!!! NERDY GUYS CAN'T LOSE!!! WHOOO!!!
If you're cute enough, girls will melt enough at the loins to be distracted from how much of a loser person of unrealized potential you are.
Also, Hanners reads a shitton of shit on the internet, I find it inconcievable for her to not know that manga and anime are already plural. You get that stuff through osmosis. I wish that Marigold would at least correct her.
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Manga isnt plural, obviously. :-P
I dont like Faye much in todays comic, to be honest. Come on, she's plain sadistic. Over a guy who didnt followed the usual testosterone stereotype. I always thought girls WANT that.
And I seriously hope too Penpen and Wil wont just vanish from the comic, yes.
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It's a vicious cycle. You can't gain experience, because no one will hire you, because you lack experience. FUCKBALLS to it all.
The computer industry used to have (may still for all I know) a habit of requiring two years experience in software that hadn't even been released yet...
And the rest of this discussion has got rather bogged down in the notion that having a regular paid job and living away from home is the only way to be respectable. I've already mentioned my friend who is nearing retirement age and still living at home with his mum; and my son didn't get a job until he was 35, because he had spent the previous 12 years doing the starving artist bit as a pianist (and incidentally managing to build up an international reputation, which is why he was invited to take up the job). We don't yet know enough about Wil to write him off so completely.
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Ok, I thoroughly enjoyed this new strip. Faye is priceless. Poor Wil, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
What with Faye's drooling look, more like dynamite fishing in a barrel. Looks like she finally gets to use some choice witty repartee she's saving for just such an occasion...
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We don't yet know enough about Wil to write him off so completely.
We've seen samples of his poetry.
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Manga isnt plural, obviously. :-P
Yes it is. Remember, I was in the damn anime club back in high school.
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Ok, I thoroughly enjoyed this new strip. Faye is priceless. Poor Wil, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
What does Wil have to do with today's comic? :?
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I think he was referring to yesterday's comic.
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We've seen samples of his poetry.
True. He may be failing, but that doesn't mean he's not trying...
Hmm. Perhaps I should stop trying to defend him.
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Socks?
Anyway, here's a possible fix for the continuity hole. It looks like a house. Maybe he just lied, and said it was his apartment building?
i agree. it does look like a house... and maybe since sven lives in an apartment, he said "...yada yada, take her up to your apartment..." and wil just said it in the same fashion as sven did????
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I MUST say that I rather enjoyed Faye's facial expression in panel 2 more than the last two. The look of utter shock is PERFECT. Kudos Señor Jacques for making me have to bite my tongue in order to not laugh loud enough to wake my household up. :laugh:
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the bit of drool in the corner of Faye's mouth was a nice touch.
Just thought, how did Faye know Angus' preferences for entertainment (ie. not liking anime)?
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The computer industry used to have (may still for all I know) a habit of requiring two years experience in software that hadn't even been released yet...
The U.S. computer industry used to have (and still does) a habit of declaring that they couldn't find any U.S. analysts with that experience, then filling the spots with HB-1 workers who had even less experience than the U.S. analysts.
You may now return to our regularly-scheduled thread.
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Wait, don't Angus like when Faye is snarky with him? Isn't that the main reason he went top the CoD to start with?
Can Faye be really sadistic when Angus is a masochist? :-D
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Manga isnt plural, obviously. :-P
Yes it is. Remember, I was in the damn anime club back in high school.
Grr. Read the smiley. WHY do you think it was put there ?
Wait, don't Angus like when Faye is snarky with him? Isn't that the main reason he went top the CoD to start with?
Can Faye be really sadistic when Angus is a masochist? :-D
Well, IMHO yes. He hasnt asked her to make fun of him for THAT one.
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Poor Angus. Faye looks like she's imagining all the possible ways to eviscerate him.
Yes, Angus likes it when Faye is snarky, but having someone rip on superficial stuff is different than having someone rip on something you might really find embarrassing. I would think that, for a guy especially, having someone you are interested in rip on you for crying over something you might normally roll your eyes at someone else crying over, would sting pretty hard.
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Wait until Penny comes in and tells her about Wil.
Faye will literally explode with glee.
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Damn, I love the QC-verse.
Guy's had no job for six years and his hot blonde girlfriend takes him in and gives him booty work-fare.
GUYS CAN"T LOSE IN QC!!!! WHOOO!!!
Well, except for Sven; but he's a dick. WHOO!!!! NERDY GUYS CAN'T LOSE!!! WHOOO!!!
I'm not sure it's the verse so much as Wil got fucking lucky. :p
Ok, I'm really starting to like Penny now... and as for today's comic... oooooh boy... I really can't wait to see what's going through Faye's head...
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Ahahaha, oh Faye. I wish you were my bff. :[
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If Faye's eyes get any bigger, a weird Japanese theme song will start playing while dragons and spaceships fly through the shop windows. Riding one of the dragons will be Pintsize, Winslow and the Roomba, of course. This will anger Faye, who's mood will be reflected in the multiple veins popping out of her forehead and the wall of flame that spontaneously erupts behind her, while Momo-tan appears solely for the purpose of displaying the obligatory sweat-drop effect.
Is all of that bizarre enough for a QC anime intro, or am I missing something?
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todays was awesome. cant wait to see what happens next! :-D
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Remember the Star Trek shirt? Angus can be devious in giving Faye material to work with. :evil:
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Oh and this was the first time I watched his Ustream while making the comic and I really dug it! I may just make it habit now.
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Yeesh, at the rate I've sent out resumes since the last time I was employed, Penny would be stripped down to her skeleton by now.
I feel your pain. I think I've sent out at least a gross. Out of those, a handful got further than the initial interview, at which point they said they wanted someone with more experience to work first-level help desk. (Right because you need a master's degree and a laundry list of certifications to reset Active Directory passwords all day.)
Damn you, companies who want 50 years of working experience for entry-level positions (ie all of them). Damn you all. :x
Let me help you with that damning. Another annoyance is they want to pay skilled techs, programmers and machine setups $8.50 an hour on top of the fact you have to have the alphabet soup of qualifications.
BACK ON SUBJECT:
Faye's face = BUAHAHAHAHA! Jeph you are a riot. Keep up the awesomeness.
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The weird faces thing is getting old.
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Wait, don't Angus like when Faye is snarky with him? Isn't that the main reason he went top the CoD to start with?
Can Faye be really sadistic when Angus is a masochist? :-D
It would be awesome if Faye tried to mock Angus about this and he loved it. That'd sure take the fun out of her Schadenfreude.
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Ok, I thoroughly enjoyed this new strip. Faye is priceless. Poor Wil, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
What does Wil have to do with today's comic? :?
I think he was referring to yesterday's comic.
But Faye wasn't in that comic. I think zilch365 meant Angus, not Wil.
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Grr. Read the smiley. WHY do you think it was put there ?
That was sarcasm? :-o
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Hehe.
It should be outlawed :police: that your girlfriend starts complaining about your faults and shortcomings while running around in underpants. :roll: :evil: :-D
Come on, she is just totally unfair ! :lol: How is one supposed to think straight when she's that sexy ? :wink:
I think it should actually be required for your girl to be in her underpants if she is going to yell at you. :laugh: yeah sure you get a good tongue lashing but hey shes nearly naked.
I know a guy who said that, when he and his wife got married, the priest gave them some advice for a happy marriage. He said, whenever you are having an argument, you must get completely naked. If you can keep fighting while you're both completely nude, it's probably serious. The rest of your arguments, though, will have a happy ending.
Pretty good advice, if you ask me.
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Oh great! Now someone will have to find Fays's hard reset button. :D
Angus is in for a wild ride with her over this.
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Hehe.
It should be outlawed :police: that your girlfriend starts complaining about your faults and shortcomings while running around in underpants. :roll: :evil: :-D
Come on, she is just totally unfair ! :lol: How is one supposed to think straight when she's that sexy ? :wink:
I think it should actually be required for your girl to be in her underpants if she is going to yell at you. :laugh: yeah sure you get a good tongue lashing but hey shes nearly naked.
I know a guy who said that, when he and his wife got married, the priest gave them some advice for a happy marriage. He said, whenever you are having an argument, you must get completely naked. If you can keep fighting while you're both completely nude, it's probably serious. The rest of your arguments, though, will have a happy ending.
Pretty good advice, if you ask me.
What the fuck would a priest know about marriage
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As much as any other married person; it's only some priests that aren't allowed to marry.
Actually, I sing in a choir with a Roman Catholic priest who has been married for 25 years. He was married as an Anglican priest; and when he wanted to convert to Rome, he gained a dispensation from the Pope to remain a priest although married.
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So, is she in her fugue imagining how she will be able to tease him about this, or is she delighted about having found a guy who can be sensitive and romantic?
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I was tempted to give a snarky answer, but stopped to think. Faye got completely mushy, up to her emotional limits, over a sensitive thoughtful guy.
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As much as any other married person; it's only some priests that aren't allowed to marry.
Actually, I sing in a choir with a Roman Catholic priest who has been married for 25 years. He was married as an Anglican priest; and when he wanted to convert to Rome, he gained a dispensation from the Pope to remain a priest although married.
Good god, that must piss the others off. "Yeah, I'll quit being a heretic seperated bretheren and become a cockslave for the Vatican, but please don't make me give up my piece of ass"
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i am really glad mojo brought up that point, because i was seriously worried i was the only one wondering about that.
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A writing acquaintance of mine married an Anglican priest, and she is HOT. :-o
EDIT @V: the priest.
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Your acquaintance, or the priest?
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Wait, is that Sweet Tits?
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Let the chorus of Sweet Tits comments commence!
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So the first two panels, with a detailed architectural background, set up the expectation of "this is realistic".
Which was a great setup for panel 3, which was so funny because of the contrast.
I like how the letter S seemed to be pushing him.
Didn't get the joke about Faye and a cigarette -- oh, oh, now I get it.
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MUAD'DIB! MUAD'DIB! MUAD'DIB! MUAD'DIB! MUAD'DIB!
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I really don't think that's Sweet Tits. If she were to somehow claw her way out of the purgatory of Jeph's sketchbook, Yelling Bird would be right there with her.
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Ok I will have to go and watch it again, but I don't get the Dune Reference... as in I didn't see it.
Stil I loved todays comic. Hell I love all of them :mrgreen:
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i miss raven. she hasnt been around in a very long time
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Ok I will have to go and watch it again, but I don't get the Dune Reference... as in I didn't see it.
Stil I loved todays comic. Hell I love all of them :mrgreen:
The Dune ref was in the title.
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I do so love when a comic makes me laugh out loud.
I imagine Faye's SUPERHYPERMEGA-SCORN ATTACK set off a few car alarms.
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Wait, is that Sweet Tits?
Let the chorus of Sweet Tits comments commence!
SWEEEEEET TIIIIITS!! :-D :? That wasn't quite as epic as I hoped for. 'cough'. Okay, let me try again:
SWEEET TIIIITS
Okay, how was that?
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Ok I will have to go and watch it again, but I don't get the Dune Reference... as in I didn't see it.
Stil I loved todays comic. Hell I love all of them :mrgreen:
The Dune ref was in the title.
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AHHH ok thanks, got it now :-)
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Less devastating than an OMEGA MURDER BLAST though Shok Xone Studios
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If it IS Sweet Tits, I hope she becomes a regular character. Who hallucinates Yelling Bird.
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Breathe, Hanners, Breathe.
ROFLMAO! It's like a backdraft of scorn.
Epic win Mr. Jacques, I Salute you!
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I have to delurk for a couple of moments to express my sincerest congratulations on such a brilliant comic strip. Well played Jeph, well played. Haven't lol'd like that for a while now.
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I'm only up to Children of Dune. What book does "Her Weirding Ways" appear in? No spoilers, please, just tell me which book.
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I'm only up to Children of Dune. What book does "Her Weirding Ways" appear in? No spoilers, please, just tell me which book.
I don't think it's a direct quote, just a play off of the weirding way concept, and more from the movie at that.
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ROTFL Dora hides. :-D
And Hanners hair is going in all directions ... :evil:
Its the details thats funny. :wink:
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I'm only up to Children of Dune. What book does "Her Weirding Ways" appear in? No spoilers, please, just tell me which book.
Watch the cringe making DeLaurentis/Lynch film and you will understand - unfortunatwly
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Like the look of Hanners. It evokes the observers scene dialogue from Independence Day in may brain.... right after the 10 Meg nuclear bomb goes off under the ship and that observers tank gets blown away by the blast... *scream* "Too neeeear, we are goddamn too near to be comfortable..."
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I'm only up to Children of Dune. What book does "Her Weirding Ways" appear in? No spoilers, please, just tell me which book.
Watch the cringe making DeLaurentis/Lynch film and you will understand - unfortunatwly
That movie is nothing but pure awesome.
Hiding in a family photo album somewhere, there's a picture of me at ten dressed up as Alia Atreides for Halloween.
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If it IS Sweet Tits, I hope she becomes a regular character. Who hallucinates Yelling Bird.
THIS.
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i am a particular fan of the way dora looks in this comic, all freaked out and crouched behind the counter. and it goes without saying that today's hannelore face is a win. hanners faces are excellence. good comic. absurd and cute.
not to mention i suppose it would answer my question from earlier, regarding whether or not faye was delighted that she had some new material to work with, or whether or not she was delighted he was caring/sensitive/blah blah. although i can say i think it's both, since caring and sensitive people give faye a lot more material to work with, anyway. i do think she flirts with angus, in the way that when a girl pushes you off the swings in kindergarten and punches you in the arm it means she likes you. she shows her liking for people by giving them a hard time.
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Scorn means dislike, far as I know... so how does this add up?
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Err I'm no native english speaker, but my dict says nothing about dislike.
You can throw scorn at your friends, too, if you're especially nasty ... and I think for that, Faye absolutely qualifies.
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in the way that when a girl pushes you off the swings in kindergarten and punches you in the arm it means she likes you. she shows her liking for people by giving them a hard time.
I never understood that. "Gee, I have a sudden and overriding compulsion to like this person who's BEING A DICK TO ME."
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Scorn
–noun
1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain
2. an object of derision or contempt.
3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.
–verb (used with object)
4. to treat or regard with contempt or disdain.
5. to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain.
–verb (used without object)
6. to mock; jeer.
—Idiom
7. laugh to scorn, to ridicule; deride.
Kind of a toss up whether this was a verb without an object or an idiom. Either way, it was apparently more satisfying than Sven ever was.
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Either way, it was apparently more satisfying than Sven ever was.
Zing
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Hm...something about that perspective and the size of the girl against the wall...
Regardless, funny comic. I do enjoy these small escapes from the pseudo-reality that is QC.
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Sweet Tits has been in the background of a couple other comics as well. I'm pretty sure that is her. I like her. She's filled with righteous indignation.
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in the way that when a girl pushes you off the swings in kindergarten and punches you in the arm it means she likes you. she shows her liking for people by giving them a hard time.
I never understood that. "Gee, I have a sudden and overriding compulsion to like this person who's BEING A DICK TO ME."
we humans are strange creatures sometimes.
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I love the fact that the shop in the background is called "Touristy Crap". :D
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Oh God, this comic... so beautiful ;___;
I love Wil being pushed out the door by the word, he just looks absolutely adorable! Plus, Hanners face... I mean... c'mon on now!
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Those first two panels would make a sick desktop image.
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I like the shop simply called "Touristy Crap".
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Pretty sure the "Touristy Crap" shop has been seen several times before in the background of other comics.
@Juniper Jade; That's Angus, he of the Faye-bothering. Wil is the one annoying Penne-lope.
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@Juniper Jade; That's Angus, he of the Faye-bothering. Wil is the one annoying Penne-lope.
Oh shit, what the fuck. I know who Wil and Angus are but for some reason I thought that was Wil. They do sort of look alike in this. Now I feel like the dumb blonde I am.
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It happens! I know I struggle whenever we jump from one of Sven/Wil/Angus to another.
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they all do look a lot alike.
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Faye had a Scorngasm.
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OMG that was not what I was expecting. Laughed SO HARD then had to explain it to the boss. :-D
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I don't know about anybody else, but I'd totally buy a print of panel 3. Laughed so damn hard over this one.
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I don't know about anybody else, but I'd totally buy a print of panel 3. Laughed so damn hard over this one.
YES. Actually, I would like a t-shirt of that one. 8-) I love that it's knocking his glasses off, and the girl in the background (whether that's Sweet Tits or not) bugging at the sight is perfect.
RE: the similarity in appearance between Angus and Wil; I think maybe Jeph has started leaving off Wil's glasses in an attempt to distinguish the two, but their hair is sorta similar in color and volume, making them look a wee bit too samey-samey. Angus has the sideburns, though, and Wil's hair seems slightly curly, plus their noses are different (Wil's has that bump in the middle), so I guess it's a matter of squinting at the details and paying attention to context.
I look forward to seeing Angus' reaction to this next week -- will he be shamed? Or will he re-enter CoD with a similar expression of ecstasy as Faye's for having been so thoroughly scorned? Mwahaha.
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RE: the similarity in appearance between Angus and Wil; I think maybe Jeph has started leaving off Wil's glasses in an attempt to distinguish the two
Haha, that's the thing though... I didn't notice his glasses in the first panel and I looked at panel 3 and saw he wasn't wearing glasses so I said "Oh, it's Wil!" Now I realized his glasses were knocked off by the huge SCOOOOOORN! that came a thundering from Faye.
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Oh Hanners, why didn't you duck?
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Less devastating than an OMEGA MURDER BLAST though Shok Xone Studios
Totally venom!
Either way, it was apparently more satisfying than Sven ever was.
Zing
You rang?
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in the way that when a girl pushes you off the swings in kindergarten and punches you in the arm it means she likes you. she shows her liking for people by giving them a hard time.
I never understood that. "Gee, I have a sudden and overriding compulsion to like this person who's BEING A DICK TO ME."
we humans are strange creatures sometimes.
Oh, that one is actually quite easy to understand. Wether you have negative or positive feelings for someone, in either case that person is occupying your mind. Therefore its a small step from love to hate and back.
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i always just kind of used wil's freakishly defined cheekbones to distinguish between them.
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I don't really understand why Faye reacted the way she did...
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I don't really understand why Faye reacted the way she did...
oh thats easy, she loves ripping into angus.
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I just realised too - He's gonna have to go back for his glasses unless Hanners or Dora take pity on him and return them to him
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Faye had a Scorngasm.
NeverQuiteGoth has coined the word of the week.
So, does Faye despise everyone who cries at movies? She might well have the attitude of "So what have YOU got to cry about?!" Or was she just waiting for something, anything that could be used as a weapon?
She grew up in the South. She might have absorbed some cultural ideas about what a Real Man does and doesn't do.
Getting more speculative, is she afraid of crying because it's a reminder of her own grief and weakness? Have we seen any character other than Faye and Angus crying?
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I think its as simple as she has fun making fun of people, and Angus is her best target because he's always bounced back.
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I just realised too - He's gonna have to go back for his glasses unless Hanners or Dora take pity on him and return them to him
No. They're just above him in panel 3.
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The red-haired girl in the background kind of reminds me of the Threesome Girl from strip 1402. Looking at them now, they're not as similar as I thought they were before, but there's definitely a resemblance.
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I just realised too - He's gonna have to go back for his glasses unless Hanners or Dora take pity on him and return them to him
No. They're just above him in panel 3.
Oh yeah. Didn't see them first time round. Still, it would have been interesting if they had remained on CoD
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The red-haired girl in the background kind of reminds me of the Threesome Girl from strip 1402. Looking at them now, they're not as similar as I thought they were before, but there's definitely a resemblance.
yeah, threesome girl has more natural-red hair and the girl in the new comic has more crayon-firetruck-red hair, but i can't deny the resemblance.
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Nice exterior shot of CoD, too. First time we've seen that if I remember rightly.
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I think we have seen the outside a couple or three times in the past, but never from that angle. I like it though.