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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: UglyShirts on 12 Jan 2011, 06:48

Title: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: UglyShirts on 12 Jan 2011, 06:48
...Faye's scar seems to be missing in today's comic.

Please don't kill me.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Jan 2011, 07:36
...why would anyone kill you?  In the past, Jeph had a terrible time remembering to draw the scar.  See his comment at the bottom of this strip (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1137). 
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Dr. ROFLPWN on 12 Jan 2011, 08:38
Faye's scar is a rare form of injury called a Schrödinger mark. At any given time, it may exist, may not, and once every hundred or so years it forms an Elder Sign with the light of the aligned planets to drive Cthulhu and his spawn back into their corpse-city.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: AsinineAxioms on 12 Jan 2011, 08:46
Note how it is shaped when it does exist. Aside from occasionally forming an Elder Sign every few centuries, it also functions as the summons for the holders of the Useless Brooms Made Entirely Of Dicks, like how the bat-shaped spotlight is the summons for Batman.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 12 Jan 2011, 09:19
What are you doing staring at her chest anyway!  Are you some kind of CREEPY PERVERT?        :x





;)
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jan 2011, 12:59
Somewhere, in a newspost or here, Jeph invited us to believe that the scar has faded and only shows in some lighting.

(moderator)Nobody should kill you, but there is a much-neglected rule about "nitpicking", which is said to make Jeph sad(/moderator).
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: tomart on 12 Jan 2011, 15:06
Somewhere, in a newspost or here, Jeph invited us to believe that the scar has faded and only shows in some lighting.

Which could be the perfect solution, allowing Jeph the option of drawing it or not (or forgetting) and us the option to relax and not worry about it.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: TheEvilDog on 12 Jan 2011, 15:19
Somewhere, in a newspost or here, Jeph invited us to believe that the scar has faded and only shows in some lighting.

That is entirely possible, and what I usually think if I notice the scar is missing.

I actually have a scar on my left cheek from when I was a little boy (a 6 year old with a razor trying to be a man like his father....you do the bloody math). It was very prominent for a couple of years, till I was about 10, fading as I got older, until now, when it can only be seen in extremely specific lighting conditions. It also led to a couple of hilarious moments such as when my (then) girlfriend looked at me in a crowded cinema and shouting out "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT SCAR?!".

Never did find out what happened in the end......
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Boomslang on 12 Jan 2011, 16:16
Only scars I have that are still visible are on my eyebrow and the center of my upper lip, and both only because hair doesn't grow.

I have lots of larger scars on my arms and legs that have basically disappeared in the span of a few years, even though they were fairly prominent before. Guess I'm just lucky that way.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Jan 2011, 16:33
Not a scar, but you can still see the pattern of the radiotherapy I had over 20 years ago in the different growth of hair on my tummy.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Jan 2011, 16:59
Crop circles?   :-D

As your skin loses elasticity, scars are less able to fade.  So be careful when you get older - those marks are even more permanent! 

I have several on my hands - the hazards of being a DIY guy - but one real noticable one is from a whittling accident when I was about 10.  Jagged edges just don't heal well! 
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: vettechinohio on 12 Jan 2011, 18:55
"Scars are souvenirs you never lose. The past is never far."

I don't even like that song overly much, but I heard it at work today and, since I have several scars, the line struck a chord with me  :-)
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Deadlywonky on 12 Jan 2011, 23:08
or:

"Pain is temporary, Glory lasts forever and Chicks dig scars"

I've found myself noticing Faye's scar's variable visibility and hated myself each time for being so petty

I've had dozens of small scars on my hands that have faded away after some years but a 2 inch one on my knee from razorwire when I was 10 as never disappeared
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Penquin47 on 13 Jan 2011, 15:32
I have the opposite problem - scars that just randomly appear.

Seriously, I know that I have never injured a particular spot on my left hand, but there's a nice shiny scar there.  It can't be from childhood because I didn't have the scar till I was a teenager.  It can't be from getting wasted because I've never been wasted and anyway I'd have noticed the next morning that I had hurt my hand.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: iduguphergrave on 13 Jan 2011, 19:09
Somebody pointed this out while the drawing of that comic was being broadcast; Jeph answered that her shirt isn't low-cut enough to show the scar.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: akronnick on 13 Jan 2011, 19:25
I'd have to agree, she's not showing any cleavage, and her scar is about the same height as her cleavage.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Watched Pot on 13 Jan 2011, 19:42
I have the opposite problem - scars that just randomly appear.

Seriously, I know that I have never injured a particular spot on my left hand, but there's a nice shiny scar there.  It can't be from childhood because I didn't have the scar till I was a teenager.  It can't be from getting wasted because I've never been wasted and anyway I'd have noticed the next morning that I had hurt my hand.
I have a scar on my lower lip that I can't remember seeing before maybe five years ago, and I don't know where it came from.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: iconoclast on 13 Jan 2011, 21:30
I have a scar on my lower lip that I can't remember seeing before maybe five years ago, and I don't know where it came from.

You know, that's weird. I have this scar I found on the back of my neck--

<goauld voice>I'm afraid I don't know what your'e talking about.</goauld voice>

*eyes glow*
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Loki on 14 Jan 2011, 06:17
Note how it is shaped when it does exist. Aside from occasionally forming an Elder Sign every few centuries, it also functions as the summons for the holders of the Useless Brooms Made Entirely Of Dicks, like how the bat-shaped spotlight is the summons for Batman.
We also know it is capable of causing sudden darkness in any given room. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1808)

I have a barely visible scar on my right wrist from burning it on my girlfriend's table lamp roughly one year ago. It kinda makes me smile when I think of it.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Jan 2011, 13:33
I have an interesting pattern of scars on the inside of my left elbow, from when I discovered the third law of plumbing. 

The laws of plumbing;
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Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Jan 2011, 13:58
Left is hot.  No, your  left.

Not only is that not universally true, I have known - no, lived in - houses where it varied from sink to sink.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Jan 2011, 14:46
Amateurs...
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Akima on 16 Jan 2011, 15:43
Never  solder a joint directly overhead.
Ouch!
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Insectile on 19 Jan 2011, 20:57
The scar is a metaphor, so that is why it is intangible and capable of phasing
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Jan 2011, 23:16
I'm pretty sure it was an injury, not a metaphor. 

 :psyduck:
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 20 Jan 2011, 18:56
The Pugnacious Peach was initially reluctant to talk to Marten about the scar, but eventually had to get it off her chest.
Title: Re: At the risk of criticizing...
Post by: akronnick on 20 Jan 2011, 19:04
Ba-dum tish!