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Title: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Aug 2014, 06:25
And we have a new week, with a new thread - and new ART???
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 10 Aug 2014, 08:13
Now ve vill make, zee magicks!



Who can identify this ponified famous person?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 10 Aug 2014, 09:07
Where the fuck is Raven anyway?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Aug 2014, 09:18
Tied to an optics table in a lab (her new boyfriend is into some kinky shit).  :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 10 Aug 2014, 12:37
Didn't she leave to get her master's degree?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Aug 2014, 12:38
Yes, though she came back "for the summer."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Rghfrgl on 10 Aug 2014, 13:24
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The art change's effects on Claire, of course.

I want to see Claire and Emily as bad as Hanners and Marigold want to see things in little hats.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 10 Aug 2014, 13:37
Tied to an optics table in a lab (her new boyfriend is into some kinky shit).  :roll:

Didn't she leave to get her master's degree?

Her master must really be into some kinky shit.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 10 Aug 2014, 14:13
Tied to an optics table in a lab (her new boyfriend is into some kinky shit).  :roll:

Didn't she leave to get her master's degree?



Her master must really be into some kinky shit.

Checked the forum three times today, each time failing to find the phrasing of this exact joke.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 10 Aug 2014, 14:17
Tied to an optics table in a lab (her new boyfriend is into some kinky shit).  :roll:

Didn't she leave to get her master's degree?

Her master must really be into some kinky shit.



That depends on whether he's been reading 50 Shades or not.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 10 Aug 2014, 15:54
My prediction for this week:
Things will be said.
Events will occur.
Happenings will take place.

Now, now, hold your applause please.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Aug 2014, 16:09
My prediction for this week:
Things will be said.
Events will occur.
Happenings will take place.

Now, now, hold your applause please.
The entropy of the universe will continue to increase. Thus sayeth the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 10 Aug 2014, 16:32
Personally, I'm waiting for the return of the Cereal Elf.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Aug 2014, 18:15
I... I think we have a new comic... the site's not loading completely.

EDIT: Emo Marten is emo.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Aug 2014, 18:20
Main site's been hacked. I got a notice saying I should "install a video player."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: greywolfe on 10 Aug 2014, 18:26
Only Marten could have an existential crisis over a chaste kiss from a colleague.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Rghfrgl on 10 Aug 2014, 18:27
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EDIT: Emo Marten is emo.

Also, long Marten is long.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 10 Aug 2014, 18:44
I really like the perspective in the second panel. It's the little things sometimes...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: bryntheskits on 10 Aug 2014, 18:58
Main site's been hacked. I got a notice saying I should "install a video player."
You might have a virus, I'm not seeing anything.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 10 Aug 2014, 18:59
The comic FINALLY showed up for me. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 10 Aug 2014, 19:05
Actually lots of beetles (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2490) have ovipositors (http://www.ruewildlifephotos.com/index/detail/3736). Marten shouldn't just assume that Emily isn't one of them.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Aug 2014, 19:07
Main site's been hacked. I got a notice saying I should "install a video player."
You might have a virus, I'm not seeing anything.
I did the rookie mistake: .com instead of .net.  :oops:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 10 Aug 2014, 19:25
I really like the perspective in the second panel. It's the little things sometimes...

Seconded.  I too can appreciate that Jeph is adding more dynamism to his panels now.  I also feel like the roughness of the style change from last week is smoothing out a bit.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: bryntheskits on 10 Aug 2014, 19:39
Main site's been hacked. I got a notice saying I should "install a video player."
You might have a virus, I'm not seeing anything.
I did the rookie mistake: .com instead of .net.  :oops:
Ahh, I am assuming the .com redirects you to some actual questionable content :P
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: T on 10 Aug 2014, 19:44
Main site's been hacked. I got a notice saying I should "install a video player."
You might have a virus, I'm not seeing anything.
You should get that checked.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 10 Aug 2014, 19:50
This is bugging Marten, isn't it?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Aug 2014, 20:19
Pintsize thinks of everything.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Aug 2014, 20:27
Considering Hanners' fear of ovipostors, she would probably find that out about a person before she'd be willing to be near them.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 10 Aug 2014, 20:39
I REALLY want to hear the rest of Pintsize's theory.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Aug 2014, 20:40
Don't we all?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Shadic on 10 Aug 2014, 20:57
More Marten + Better (imo) art. Looking forward to this week.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: T on 10 Aug 2014, 21:58
I REALLY want to hear the rest of Pintsize's theory.

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Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: bjams on 10 Aug 2014, 22:43
Oh my god Martin is STILL going on about this. He's really starting to grind my gears.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Storel on 10 Aug 2014, 23:03
Oh my god Martin is STILL going on about this. He's really starting to grind my gears.

He is a tad self-conscious, isn't he? Still, has he got anything better to do with his spare time than obsess about whether some girl likes him?

Geeze, I just made him sound like a 14-year-old boy. :-P Maybe he is worrying about this a bit too much...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 10 Aug 2014, 23:04
Don't we all?
No.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Stoon on 10 Aug 2014, 23:25
Not sure I like the new art. 

On my netbook it was "EW!"  On my desktop it's not as bad, but still...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: anahata on 11 Aug 2014, 00:10
He is a tad self-conscious, isn't he? Still, has he got anything better to do with his spare time than obsess about whether some girl likes him?

Geeze, I just made him sound like a 14-year-old boy. :-P

He IS being like a 14 year old boy!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 11 Aug 2014, 00:16
I'd really like to put myself in Marten's perspective in order to make a proper judgement of how he's reacting, but I try, I try, and apparently I can't. Maybe because I have never been in such a situation, or even a similar one. A perk of social anxiety disorder: no false positives (at the price of tons of false negatives).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 11 Aug 2014, 00:16
You realise in comic time it's only been like 2 days since the kiss, right? Let the man obsess for now, I say :mrgreen:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 11 Aug 2014, 01:00
Marten is acting like a lot of my lesbian friends when they receive affection from a straight woman.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: ankhtahr on 11 Aug 2014, 01:03
You realise in comic time it's only been like 2 days since the kiss, right? Let the man obsess for now, I say :mrgreen:
Pretty sure it's the night of the same day. It seemed to be relatively early in the day when she kissed him. Marten told Tai about it, and we changed scenes to Faye in CoD, with Angus talking about the callback. They want to celebrate with dinner. Then Dale comes to CoD for an evening shift. He was still around in Friday's comic.

Pretty sure it's okay to think about it on the same day it happened.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Nepiophage on 11 Aug 2014, 02:30
Yes, Marten is still wearing the same clothes he had on when Emily kissed him. JJ is usually very punctilious about the characters wearing different clothes each day so you can keep the chronology clear.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 11 Aug 2014, 04:24
Okay - whats an ovipositor ? My dict is more confusing than helping here. And Wikipedia is WORSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ovipositor).

Or is Emily supposed to have layed eggs into Marten - like in "Alien" ?

So does Pintsize think there will a youngling Emily burst out of Martens chest ?


Where the fuck is Raven anyway?
Really great way to ask that question.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 11 Aug 2014, 04:33
Put simply, an ovipositor is an organ that deposits eggs. It can take lots of different forms. And yeah, Pintsize is probably assuming an Alien-type scenario.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 11 Aug 2014, 05:32
If this leads to an Aliens situation, who's Ripley?

Faye?
Dora?
Penny?
Claire?
Hanners?

I'm assuming that this is the first movie, not Aliens, so we don't need to cast Vasquez or Hicks.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2014, 07:25
Hanners, of course.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Madmartigan on 11 Aug 2014, 07:44
Oh my god Martin is STILL going on about this. He's really starting to grind my gears.

He's obsessing over Emily.   :-D  Full emo tilt.

Can't wait to see him flubber through his next interaction with her.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 11 Aug 2014, 08:02
Hell, he was less neurotic about Claire sleeping in the same bed as him. That only took a couple of conversations with friends for him to decide it wasn't a big deal and shrug it off. He can't seem to let go of this one.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: DSL on 11 Aug 2014, 08:32
That's one skinny Marten. Where's Emily even going to put the (so far theoretical) ovipositor?

Also, thanks jwhouk for the image of Hanners, in an exoloader, saying: "Stay away from him, you bitch!"
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2014, 08:43

That's one skinny Marten. Where's Emily even going to put the (so far theoretical) ovipositor?

Also, thanks jwhouk for the image of Hanners, in an exoloader, saying: "Stay away from him, you bitch!"
In space, no one can hear you clean.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 11 Aug 2014, 10:28
By the way, it comes to my mind that the whole situation is very culture-colored. In many countries, including mine, such a peck on the cheek would be absolutely nothing to wander about. But I aknowledge it's a big deal in the USA.

ETA: and I really did mean "wander", it wasn't a typo for "wonder".
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Roborat on 11 Aug 2014, 11:23
So far I am liking the changes to the drawing style, and that perspective in the second panel is not one you see very often. 

That last panel, it was perfect, and the pacing to set up the punchline was nicely done.

As for Marten, this is Emily he is dealing with, the significance of that kiss could range from friendly peck on the cheek, to marking him to warn off other potential competitors.  Good thing it was just a kiss, she could just as easily have peed on him to claim him.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Aug 2014, 11:31
I dunno, Marten might be into (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=603) that (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1695)...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 11 Aug 2014, 12:50
As for Marten, this is Emily he is dealing with, the significance of that kiss could range from friendly peck on the cheek, to marking him to warn off other potential competitors.  Good thing it was just a kiss, she could just as easily have peed on him to claim him.
Well yeah, there's that too, Emily's behaviour tends to be way too off for it to be fairly interpreted easily. But as I said, as a social phobiac I'd have handled this way more simply: "ambiguous" means "definitely no".
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2014, 13:32
The biggest thing to happen this week will be:

The art change's effects on Claire, of course.    10 (27%)
How much SexyTimes talk Hannelore can stand.    6 (16.2%)
Some sort of insecurity thing with Marigold.    1 (2.7%)
Faye and Angus - the other shoe drops.    5 (13.5%)
Sven goes all-out emo.    3 (8.1%)  <== Right idea, wrong character.
The return of RAVEN!    7 (18.9%)
The usual: Waffles, spathe ham, etc.    0 (0%)
Something completely out of left field.    5 (13.5%)

Total Members Voted: 37
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2014, 13:34
I dunno, Marten might be into (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=603) that (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1695)...

You know, in that second one, I think Jeph had a premonition that he was going to eventually include Delilah in the strip...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Mlle Germain on 11 Aug 2014, 14:20
I'm just very happy that the art change has apparently mostly been reverted... Much better now!  :-)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: FunkyTuba on 11 Aug 2014, 16:20
Classic comic structure, full use of new comic format and style...

Go Jeph go!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 11 Aug 2014, 16:48
Oh my god Martin is STILL going on about this. He's really starting to grind my gears.

You say this as if he's been going on about it for weeks, yet it seems like only a couple of days has passed since it happened.  He's probably just sharing this story with everyone he knows because, I mean, why not?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Aug 2014, 16:56
Not even a couple of days - he's wearing the same shirt he had on the next day.  All this stuff with Hanners and Marigold and Dale and May and May and Hanners for the last few weeks?

... it's still the same day. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: T on 11 Aug 2014, 17:04
I'm starting to think that Marten is so confused instead of just shrug it of because he actually have feelings for Emily. Like in the card.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: greywolfe on 11 Aug 2014, 17:13
Merlnoooooooo :(
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 11 Aug 2014, 17:15
Comic's up!
Faye's face in the first panel is a little bit strange, but I think that's just the angle we're viewing it from..

But art aside, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

Prediction: Next strip we'll meet Tequila Monster's cousin, Wine Demon.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Aug 2014, 17:20
His name is Noir. 


Pinot Noir. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: greywolfe on 11 Aug 2014, 17:25
His name is Noir. 


Pinot Noir.

I believe the label actually says 'Merlooooooo'
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 11 Aug 2014, 17:49
Not even a couple of days - he's wearing the same shirt he had on the next day.  All this stuff with Hanners and Marigold and Dale and May and May and Hanners for the last few weeks?

... it's still the same day.

What are the odds that only about 6 months have passed since the comic started?  I remember seeing them go through all of one season of winter so it's not even that impossible...


Nice to see both Marten and Faye have somebody to share their shit with.  Can't really fault either of them for having what they do on their minds.  Art looks more polished as well, and I just noticed Jeph is using white headers and footers with black text instead of the other way around.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 11 Aug 2014, 18:07
I think Jeph once said that it was maybe a 18 months to two years (at that stage, which I think was when Marten and Dora were still together or around that time. And there has been at least one timeskip). My guess, we're looking at maybe 2 and a half years.

Regarding the comic, it looks like Jeph has gotten into the happy medium of the new style and the previous.
Also, shenanigans ahead.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 11 Aug 2014, 18:26
I think Jeph once said that it was maybe a 18 months to two years (at that stage, which I think was when Marten and Dora were still together or around that time. And there has been at least one timeskip). My guess, we're looking at maybe 2 and a half years.

Regarding the comic, it looks like Jeph has gotten into the happy medium of the new style and the previous.
Also, shenanigans ahead.

I've seen the timeslip mentioned. I binge-read the comic when I first got into it (around this time last year, I guess), and that part seems to have escaped me. Where's the dividing line, so to speak?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 11 Aug 2014, 18:32
Sometime around the Holiday Season of '08, check out Dora's hair in 1302 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1302) and 1311 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1311). So I would say 1311 would be the timeskip.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2014, 18:37
Don't we all?
No.
Your loss :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Mojo on 11 Aug 2014, 18:55
Heh, I see what you did there, Jeph.

(Pintsize's head is out of round... a little shot at some of us criticizing his new artstyle, perhaps?)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: mikmaxs on 11 Aug 2014, 19:00
Marten's problems remind me of the one thing I'm really not fond of in QC: The near-complete lack of conflict. Nearly all of the drama is mellow, and I'm fairly sure we haven't had a 'Bad Guy' (Rather, any negative character,) since the Vespavenger. I have no real problems with melodrama, but all of the conflict we've seen has been a result of the characters being awkward or socially incompetent in some situations.

This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2014, 19:05
I just realized that Hannermom is basically the QCverse's Lex Luthor, but without any major opposition I guess she doesn't see the need to escalate to world domination.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 11 Aug 2014, 19:58
It's far easier to control a world that doesn't know it's being controlled.

Also this comic right here. Everyone needs a best friend like that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 11 Aug 2014, 20:48
I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2740) date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Sorflakne on 11 Aug 2014, 20:59
Hm, art style seems to have returned to its previous incarnation.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: T on 11 Aug 2014, 21:00
Marten's problems remind me of the one thing I'm really not fond of in QC: The near-complete lack of conflict. Nearly all of the drama is mellow, and I'm fairly sure we haven't had a 'Bad Guy' (Rather, any negative character,) since the Vespavenger. I have no real problems with melodrama, but all of the conflict we've seen has been a result of the characters being awkward or socially incompetent in some situations.

This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.

Seems like this is the world where Lex Luthor (Hanners mom) won.
No more conflicts because the world already is subjugated to her will.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Aug 2014, 21:07
I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2740) date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
Considering how Angus reacted the last time he came in on Faye drunk... Paddle steamer, meet Niagara Falls?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 11 Aug 2014, 21:21
I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2740) date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
Considering how Angus reacted the last time he came in on Faye drunk... Paddle steamer, meet Niagara Falls?
Paddle steamer = Angus, Niagara Falls = Faye? In that case, my bet is on Faye :mrgreen:
But you are right, there might be problems ahead. Faye may have forgotten the date with Angus. When Angus comes to pick her up, Faye and Marten are drunk as skunks.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Aug 2014, 21:42
Took me a while to find it (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1807). This site seriously needs a search function; it's going on 3000 comics.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 11 Aug 2014, 21:58
Sometime around the Holiday Season of '08, check out Dora's hair in 1302 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1302) and 1311 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1311). So I would say 1311 would be the timeskip.

Makes sense. Thanks for that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: techkid on 11 Aug 2014, 23:22
Took me a while to find it (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1807). This site seriously needs a search function; it's going on 3000 comics.
The QC Wiki page (http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Questionable_Content_Wiki) is probably the closest you'll get. Good for the more memorable pages and quotes.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 11 Aug 2014, 23:28
there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.

Wait what? Do you mean Bailey&amp;friends?

(Prediction: as both are drunk, terrible things happen.)
(Now that I have said it, it won't happen. You are welcome. I accept your tokens of thanks in unmarked 5€-bills or alcohol.)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 12 Aug 2014, 00:07
I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2740) date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
Considering how Angus reacted the last time he came in on Faye drunk... Paddle steamer, meet Niagara Falls?

Which raises the question: from what direction does the steamer approach the falls?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Aug 2014, 00:12
it looks like Jeph has gotten into the happy medium of the new style and the previous.
I'd say there wasn't a new style.  He wanted to try drawing the same style, but in a faster, looser way - that affected the result, but he has got it back under control now.

Also, classic Marten/Faye interaction coming up - to confound those who felt that the comic was straying too far from its roots.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 12 Aug 2014, 01:56
Marten is a robo-phrenologist, it seems.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Mr_Rose on 12 Aug 2014, 02:06
Marten is a robo-phrenologist, it seems.
Better than a retro-phrenologist I guess….

Or was that what he was doing with the frying pan?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Schwungrad on 12 Aug 2014, 04:11
Crisis Wine instead of Emergency Bourbon? Is this a sign of the characters actually getting older and developing adult tastes in-universe?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: greywolfe on 12 Aug 2014, 04:13
Crisis Wine instead of Emergency Bourbon? Is this a sign of the characters actually getting older and developing adult tastes in-universe?

The crisis wine is closely followed by the whiskey of indecision and finally the tequila of bad misjudgements
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Schwungrad on 12 Aug 2014, 05:06
tequila of bad misjudgements
Bad misjudgement? I think you seriously misunderestimate the pleonasmic tautology of this phrase.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Aug 2014, 05:40
tequila of bad misjudgements
Bad misjudgement? I think you seriously misunderestimate the pleonasmic tautology of this phrase.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 12 Aug 2014, 11:56
Crisis Wine instead of Emergency Bourbon? Is this a sign of the characters actually getting older and developing adult tastes in-universe?

The crisis wine is closely followed by the whiskey of indecision and finally the tequila of bad misjudgements

For both their sakes, I am rather hoping this doesn't get to the "vodka of seemed like a good idea at the time".

That stuff strips....
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Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: FunkyTuba on 12 Aug 2014, 12:46
I'd go with  "Apathy Vodka"
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Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: FayeDouble on 12 Aug 2014, 13:17
tequila of bad misjudgements
Bad misjudgement? I think you seriously misunderestimate the pleonasmic tautology of this phrase.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

My dad had a sequel to that line that's always stuck with me: Five tequila, six tequila, seven tequila, morgue.
Then again, I'm not much of a drinker.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 12 Aug 2014, 13:25
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Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Fenriswolf on 12 Aug 2014, 14:48
The lack of conflict and bad guys is a bonus in my opinion. And the futuristic aspect is just a nice touch for me - a bit like The Mighty Boosh's mix of retro and futuristicness.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 12 Aug 2014, 16:50
Alcohol's a poison, but sometimes there's things inside you that you need to kill.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 12 Aug 2014, 17:42
Marten's problems remind me of the one thing I'm really not fond of in QC: The near-complete lack of conflict. Nearly all of the drama is mellow, and I'm fairly sure we haven't had a 'Bad Guy' (Rather, any negative character,) since the Vespavenger.

I had finally just gotten around to watching FLCL the other day.  Once I saw Haruko, I immediately understood where Jeph pulled the Vespavenger idea from.

I'm not sure there is a total lack of conflict.  The recent conversation between Faye and Sven comes to mind.  Though, you do make a point, perhaps if they argued just a little more and every near-conflict wasn't ended with unnecessary apologies, we'd see a tad more character and plot development. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 12 Aug 2014, 17:56
Crisis Wine instead of Emergency Bourbon? Is this a sign of the characters actually getting older and developing adult tastes in-universe?

The crisis wine is closely followed by the whiskey of indecision and finally the tequila of bad misjudgements

For both their sakes, I am rather hoping this doesn't get to the "vodka of seemed like a good idea at the time".

That stuff strips....
(click to show/hide)

Just so long as they stick clear of the Rum of Recriminaion
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zwammy on 12 Aug 2014, 18:35
Marten's problems remind me of the one thing I'm really not fond of in QC: The near-complete lack of conflict. Nearly all of the drama is mellow, and I'm fairly sure we haven't had a 'Bad Guy' (Rather, any negative character,) since the Vespavenger. I have no real problems with melodrama, but all of the conflict we've seen has been a result of the characters being awkward or socially incompetent in some situations.

That's what I like about it. It's character driven, but not wildly over-the-top crazy stuff - just people trying to live their lives. A little music, humor, and friends.

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This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.

Exactly. There are enough crazy, over the top things going on in other comics. When Jeph does visit these topics, he's gratifyingly low key, and has the characters act like normal people, even with all the background wacky. I like it. I like caring about Marten and the quirky intern, I don't need to hear about crazy antics of world-dominating James-Bondish super-science bad guys. If that's what I was looking for, I'd watch a giant robot anime, or read Schlock Mercenary. (http://www.schlockmercenary.com//)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: DSL on 12 Aug 2014, 19:08
I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2740) date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
Considering how Angus reacted the last time he came in on Faye drunk... Paddle steamer, meet Niagara Falls?

Which raises the question: from what direction does the steamer approach the falls?
Close enough and it doesn't matter.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 12 Aug 2014, 19:15
This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.

Compared to thirty years ago, WE live in a bizarre sci-fi universe. We all walk around with Star Trek communicators in our pockets that are also cameras and video recorders that can also store and play back our entire music collections and can give us maps and directions and can make dinner reservations for us and nobody thinks twice about this. Also unthinkable thirty years ago: the Soviet Union no longer exists, the US has a black president, and gay couples can get married in many places. The QC universe is, by comparison, only slightly weirder than ours.

Oh, by the way, the planet Mars is populated entirely by robots. You're welcome.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Aug 2014, 20:47
I'm a bit concerned, as the boss hasn't posted to twitter since this afternoon. This (around 11 PM ET) is usually the time he's already posted the new comic.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 12 Aug 2014, 20:52
I was worried about that, too. but the comic is up. 

And he posted on twitter. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Near Lurker on 12 Aug 2014, 20:56
Mason jars?

Boy, have they gone native.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Aug 2014, 20:57
I love Faye's glance in that last panel - uncertain? death glare? insecure?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Aug 2014, 20:59
I'm pretty sure Sven's timing was a coincidence.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: T on 12 Aug 2014, 21:04
What if that coincidence was set up by a supperior AI and is a small part of a greater plan?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Aug 2014, 21:05
Everything is part of some AI's plan.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Orkboy on 12 Aug 2014, 21:17
I like that phrase.  "Evil psychic asshole."  I'm gonna have to commandeer it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: mikmaxs on 12 Aug 2014, 21:29
This is fine, but it all happens in a bizarely unnoticed sci-fi universe. There are just SO MANY insane, implausible things just handwaved by: Artificial Intelligence, convenient and safe space travel, efficient, Pint-sized (pun intended) death lasers, and posdibly (If Hannelore is to be believed) genetic design and cloning of superior humans. James-Bond esque adventures risking the fate of the world are a common occurence, and at least one main character's mother is a supervillian. Limbs can be entirely replaced with cybernetic duplicates (Which apparently function better than the genetic kind), and this leads me to believe that immortality via robot-suit shouldn't be all that far away. Robot hordes are apparently marching for civil rights, and there's an entire dorm room somewhere just chock full of promiscuous lesbians.
Not only is all of this almost irrelevant to the plot, it gives me whiplash every time it's brought up in detail. I have trouble caring about Marten bumbling around with a quirky intern when I keep getting reminded about the insane, far more interesting things happening around it.

Compared to thirty years ago, WE live in a bizarre sci-fi universe. We all walk around with Star Trek communicators in our pockets that are also cameras and video recorders that can also store and play back our entire music collections and can give us maps and directions and can make dinner reservations for us and nobody thinks twice about this. Also unthinkable thirty years ago: the Soviet Union no longer exists, the US has a black president, and gay couples can get married in many places. The QC universe is, by comparison, only slightly weirder than ours.

Oh, by the way, the planet Mars is populated entirely by robots. You're welcome.

I realize the discrepancy, of course, and it's even been acknowledged by QC. The primary difference, though, is that I DON'T KNOW what amazing sci-fi technology exists in the QC universe, because I've never been acclimated to it. The space-trip is one of my favorite QC plots because it was interesting, and shone a whole lot of light on the QC universe that I had never seen before, but it came completely out of the blue because I didn't think it was even possible until one day it was like 'Whoops, spaceship!' This took me out of the story a little bit, because I had to mentally reconfigure what I knew about the QC universe. Similarly, I find anthro-PC plots more interesting than human ones because it's so interesting to me how this world works. Social ramifications for getting a new chassis, for example. The Robot Civil Rights movement, and the history of AI in general. Robot Culture has apparently even developed quite a bit, seeing as how Anthro-PCs were once entirely portrayed as nothing but pervy Pint-Size clones (Though this could have been simply because they were all Pintsize's friends,) then there were suddenly new models, (Starting with an Apple-Touchscreen style, then a Linux home-made look, and then even humanoid builds. Then, some time later, we start seeing even more incredible designs: Full sized robots, almost completely human in proportion, and far more bizarre designs. (Though, since one Humanoid robot appeared in the flashback when Marten met Pintsize, this whole theory could be kaput.) We're even seeing completely inhuman AIs merely taking human form via projection or AR.

There's just this incredible, unique universe, and it's being bogged down by Marten and his First World Problems...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 12 Aug 2014, 21:35
I love Faye's glance in that last panel - uncertain? death glare? insecure?

I read it more as uncertainty. The death glare is usually accompanied by acerbic snark. Or punching. Or both.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 12 Aug 2014, 22:12
After last week's weird art, Jeph is currently treating us to his best art ever this week, IMO.  8-)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Eversist on 12 Aug 2014, 22:49
The panel layout of this page feels really awkward to me (friendly critique).

Mason jars?

Boy, have they gone native.

I thought they were those beer can-shaped glasses (http://schlafly.com/uploads/2013/02/20/class1.png) that are all the rage at microbreweries, but you're right.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Nyithra on 12 Aug 2014, 22:56
I feel like Sven having psychic powers could only improve the comic.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Janet_Yellens_yellin on 12 Aug 2014, 23:04
It's hard for me to tell: has Jeph completely reverted to his old style, or is this 90% old, 10% new?

Also, I've always been of the opinion that Marten and co. have been overreacting, and Sven is only a bit of a jerk, not the total asshole they believe him to be (at least, before he declared his love for Faye, which struck me as just creepy, weird, and out of character, so much so that I thought it was just a deadpan joke).

I mean, he hooked up with another girl while he was hooking up with Faye. Unfortunately, Faye had asked him not to hook up with anybody else. Literally the exact same thing happened to me a few years ago. I was sad for like a day, forgave the girl, and still think she was one of the most awesome people I've known. Other than that, there's nothing wrong with his being promiscuous, and he also seems very self-aware. Also, I thought he really showed his good side on his "date" with Hannelore.

Apparently, upon looking at his Wiki, he had cheated on one of girls he was "seeing", but people change, which he seems to have done. All I'm saying is that he's a more complex character than Marten describes him.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 12 Aug 2014, 23:32
tequila of bad misjudgements
Bad misjudgement? I think you seriously misunderestimate the pleonasmic tautology of this phrase.

It is not a redundant pleonasm. Bad misjudgement as opposed to not so bad misjudgement, not as opposed to good misjudgement.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Mojo on 13 Aug 2014, 00:24
I thought Faye and Angus had a fancy dinner (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2740) date tonight? Instead, Faye and Marten are going to drink wine and talk about their problems? Not that I am complaining, I love the Faye/Marten storylines :-D
Considering how Angus reacted the last time he came in on Faye drunk... Paddle steamer, meet Niagara Falls?

Which raises the question: from what direction does the steamer approach the falls?


From above.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 13 Aug 2014, 00:26
Apparently, upon looking at his Wiki, he had cheated on one of girls he was "seeing", but people change, which he seems to have done. All I'm saying is that he's a more complex character than Marten describes him.
I am of the opinion that one can not cheat if one has not established the expectation of exclusivity. I find it unreasonable to expect exclusivity by default. Sleeping with someone once, or occasionally, or even frequently does not oblige one to be exclusive unless both parties have explicitly agreed to such social constraints.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 13 Aug 2014, 00:31
Alcohol's a poison, but sometimes there's things inside you that you need to kill.
Meditation is healthier, but alcohol is quicker, I will admit.

Hmm... If Sven were an evil genius (improbable, I know), he might have passed Angus' name to whoever was running the auditions.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 13 Aug 2014, 01:07
In long years of fighting my demons I've learned that both are more of a band aid then anything else. No cures for some illnesses. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 13 Aug 2014, 01:48
In long years of fighting my demons I've learned that both are more of a band aid then anything else. No cures for some illnesses.
Indeed. Some things are just endemic. I meditate daily and it does help keep the demons and darkness at bay, but is treatment,  not a cure. A daily dose for a chronic condition. Sex and alcohol serve a similar purpose.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 13 Aug 2014, 01:55
Hmm.

If I was a god, I definitely wouldnt want Pintsize for prophet.

Hanners, probably.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 13 Aug 2014, 02:35
Out of this cast, Tai would be mine. Our philosophies align pretty well.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 13 Aug 2014, 04:38
In long years of fighting my demons I've learned that both are more of a band aid then anything else. No cures for some illnesses.

Exactly. Some things you just have to live with - you can find ways to manage your demons, you can make accomodations with them, you can beat them down when they start getting the upper hand, but you can't kill them.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that the last couple of days.

Anyway, Faye has been working on her own problems but she is in no way "cured" and  never will be. At least she has become self-aware enough to know when she needs to talk about them with someone.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Aug 2014, 06:46
In long years of fighting my demons I've learned that both are more of a band aid then anything else. No cures for some illnesses.

Sadly, I think Mr. Williams found this out too late. :(
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 13 Aug 2014, 08:09
I don't claim personal knowledge of Mr. Williams and his life, but from his talks and conversations he's had publically about rehab and his struggle, I'd say it's just the opposite actually. He knew that all too well.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: gopher on 13 Aug 2014, 08:18
I know suggesting Faye is anything other than a goddess in mortal form will cause me trouble but she is really pissing me off. Even thinking about replacing Angus with Sven is damn despicable. Just to compare her with Marten for a mo. Foolish as it was he gave up everything to follow his girlfriend across the country were as Faye is thinking about dumping Angus instead of riding a train. Mind you I think Angus would be better off without her if he gets the TV gig. He could get a non-violent, non-alcoholic and above all trustworthy girlfriend.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 13 Aug 2014, 08:34
Out of this cast, Tai would be mine. Our philosophies align pretty well.

But isn't a prophet who tells you what you already know rather missing the point?

"Verily I say unto thee that rainbows are caused by the reflection and refraction of light through water droplets."
"Yes, we know. Now could you please pass the garlic powder? My pizza's getting cold."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 13 Aug 2014, 08:37

Hmm... If Sven were an evil genius (improbable, I know), he might have passed Angus' name to whoever was running the auditions.

It would be ironic, but entirely fitting the comic, if he passed Angus' name along to be genuinely helpful, only for his motives to be misread because of what he'd said to Faye.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TRVA123 on 13 Aug 2014, 08:46
I know suggesting Faye is anything other than a goddess in mortal form will cause me trouble but she is really pissing me off. Even thinking about replacing Angus with Sven is damn despicable. Just to compare her with Marten for a mo. Foolish as it was he gave up everything to follow his girlfriend across the country were as Faye is thinking about dumping Angus instead of riding a train. Mind you I think Angus would be better off without her if he gets the TV gig. He could get a non-violent, non-alcoholic and above all trustworthy girlfriend.

Really? You find it that hard to believe that Faye might have reasonable doubts about her ability to handle a long distance relationship?

As for replacing Angus with Sven and dumping Angus... nether of those things have been mentioned as possibilities at this point. I think you might be projecting.

Faye might also be looking at Marten as an example. He moved across the country, gave up his friends, his job, etc.. for a girl. And he is not with this girl now. It might have been a romantic gesture, but in hindsight it was just a stupid move.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 13 Aug 2014, 09:02
Out of this cast, Tai would be mine. Our philosophies align pretty well.

But isn't a prophet who tells you what you already know rather missing the point?

"Verily I say unto thee that rainbows are caused by the reflection and refraction of light through water droplets."
"Yes, we know. Now could you please pass the garlic powder? My pizza's getting cold."
The discussion was "if I were a god" who would I choose as my prophet. Obviously as a mere mortal, my choice would be irrelevant. I would assume most gods would prefer their prophets agree with their teachings.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 13 Aug 2014, 09:07
Always remember: if someone asks you if you are a god, you say yes.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Rghfrgl on 13 Aug 2014, 09:21
I know suggesting Faye is anything other than a goddess in mortal form will cause me trouble but she is really pissing me off. Even thinking about replacing Angus with Sven is damn despicable.

I don't think she's doing that at all.

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Faye is thinking about dumping Angus instead of riding a train.

She should break up if he's not going to be there. She probably won't for the sole reason of not having Marten and Faye both single and that's a problem from the writing perspective(Unless we were actually going to go that direction, but I think we're 2268 strips to late for that), but 'if it were real' the realistic options are clean break or go with him. Trying to make it work is just condemning it to a long, painful death.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Aug 2014, 09:24
That reminds me - anyone checked up on Bill Murray lately?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 13 Aug 2014, 10:05
The discussion was "if I were a god" who would I choose as my prophet. Obviously as a mere mortal, my choice would be irrelevant. I would assume most gods would prefer their prophets agree with their teachings.

Interesting idea - gods who allow their prophets to disagree with them. I could deal with a god like that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 13 Aug 2014, 10:09
That reminds me - anyone checked up on Bill Murray lately?
Last seen in a pickup truck being driven by a rodent.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 13 Aug 2014, 10:40
Why isn't it realistic for the relationship to work long-distance? It wouldn't be forever; Angus is very unlikely to land a long-term contract. I have a friend who recently got married and her husband lives in the USA while she lives in the UK, and that'll be the case for at least two years. They're making it work, and that's a lot further to travel.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Stoutfellow on 13 Aug 2014, 10:55
Interesting idea - gods who allow their prophets to disagree with them. I could deal with a god like that.

You might enjoy Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, then. (It's one of the best Diskworld novels, and a standalone.)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 13 Aug 2014, 11:51
I know suggesting Faye is anything other than a goddess in mortal form will cause me trouble but she is really pissing me off.

Jeph said himself that he probably wouldn't like her if they met in real life.

(mod)The only problem we've had has been with a couple of people who spent damn near every post hating Faye regardless of the subject of the thread.(/mod)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Aug 2014, 14:31
I find it funny. We're back to the two main characters of the webcomic, and people are having hissy fits because they're talking about relationship issues - which is basically how the entire comic STARTED?

Compared to how Marten fumbled the ball with not even being able to talk to Sara (moment of silence, please), what he's doing with Emily is a massive seismic shift. And Faye went from being all robotic in talk and unable to even commit to a relationship to dealing with her current boyfling and her ex-FB.

Over the last 11 years, these two have changed dramatically. I personally love it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 13 Aug 2014, 16:13
I'm expecting the Wine Monster to show up next
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zwammy on 13 Aug 2014, 16:54
Why isn't it realistic for the relationship to work long-distance? It wouldn't be forever; Angus is very unlikely to land a long-term contract. I have a friend who recently got married and her husband lives in the USA while she lives in the UK, and that'll be the case for at least two years. They're making it work, and that's a lot further to travel.

People can make it work, if it's what they both want. I was planning marriage with someone who lived 90 miles from me, and we were doing ok until I joined the military and went to basic training. Then after being apart for a little over three months, I go home on leave and find she had started seeing someone else. We were to the point of collecting furniture and household supplies, and then - not even a letter to warn me. Turns out it was for the better, I've been married for 30 years now, and no worries - but I thought things were pretty serious and we were handling being apart for a short time so things would get better, but she just couldn't deal with it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: willpell on 13 Aug 2014, 19:34
So apparently this white border thing is here to stay?....
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Aug 2014, 19:48
Wait, what? Wine that makes Marten sensible? Weird.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Aug 2014, 20:03
No, more like it made him forget what was bothering him about Emily's kiss.

And I have no problem with the white border - it's reminiscent of the older comics.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 13 Aug 2014, 21:47
Yes Marten friend, there is alcohol in the wine. It is makes the world okay.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 13 Aug 2014, 21:50
Interesting idea - gods who allow their prophets to disagree with them. I could deal with a god like that.

You might enjoy Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, then. (It's one of the best Diskworld novels, and a standalone.)

Agreed. It is much darker than the others, though, and not very funny.

edit:typo
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 13 Aug 2014, 22:52
oh goddammit Marten
stop pretending you care about such petty rules
it is hurtful to watch
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: think_tomorrow on 13 Aug 2014, 23:18
oh goddammit Marten
stop pretending you care about such petty rules
it is hurtful to watch

I agree, sometimes people say things and I just go "wait... really?"  A peck on the cheek is something that needs to be reprimanded between two friends who happen to work together?  Damn Marten, you sound like a freaking... uh... librarian.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 13 Aug 2014, 23:49
A kiss on the cheek may be/
quite continental/
but nifty guitars/
are a guy's best friends
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 14 Aug 2014, 02:32
The discussion was "if I were a god" who would I choose as my prophet. Obviously as a mere mortal, my choice would be irrelevant. I would assume most gods would prefer their prophets agree with their teachings.

Interesting idea - gods who allow their prophets to disagree with them. I could deal with a god like that.
Or at least one who laid on logical and evidenced based arguments its position.

Most gods I have studied tend to be fairly douchey and insecure monomaniacs, though.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Mr_Rose on 14 Aug 2014, 02:45
The discussion was "if I were a god" who would I choose as my prophet. Obviously as a mere mortal, my choice would be irrelevant. I would assume most gods would prefer their prophets agree with their teachings.

Interesting idea - gods who allow their prophets to disagree with them. I could deal with a god like that.
Or at least one who laid on logical and evidenced based arguments its position.

Most gods I have studied tend to be fairly douchey and insecure monomaniacs, though.
That's because most gods were invented to explain mathematically chaotic natural systems utterly beyond the scope of comprehension of the inventor.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 14 Aug 2014, 02:52
Faye:
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Why were you so freaked out about this?
This is the big question. Is Marten attracted to Emily, or not? If not, he probably does not want to hurt her feelings. I can understand that. But what if he really has a crush for her? From my point of view, the employee/intern relation does not really matter. Emily's internship will be over in a few weeks (ok, years our time); and then they can date all they want.

I am suspecting Marten does not really want a relationship (with all inherent complications) just now. He prefers to be single, and is using the employee/intern relation as an excuse for not committing himself.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 14 Aug 2014, 02:55
That's because most gods were invented to explain mathematically chaotic natural systems utterly beyond the scope of comprehension of the inventor.

Of course, Eris wants us to just accept chaos as a natural part of life, and that there's nothing inherently wrong with it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 14 Aug 2014, 03:21

That's because most gods were invented to explain mathematically chaotic natural systems utterly beyond the scope of comprehension of the inventor.
Also because the inventors tended to be douchey insecure monomaniacs themselves.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 14 Aug 2014, 04:11
Alcohol's a poison, but sometimes there's things inside you that you need to kill.

I first saw this joke on Two and a Half Men. One of the only things on there that's ever made me laugh. I can't believe that show could say something so insightful.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 14 Aug 2014, 08:07
Faye:
Quote
Why were you so freaked out about this?
This is the big question. Is Marten attracted to Emily, or not? If not, he probably does not want to hurt her feelings. I can understand that. But what if he really has a crush for her? From my point of view, the employee/intern relation does not really matter. Emily's internship will be over in a few weeks (ok, years our time); and then they can date all they want.

I am suspecting Marten does not really want a relationship (with all inherent complications) just now. He prefers to be single, and is using the employee/intern relation as an excuse for not committing himself.

The alternative is that Marten does want a romantic relationship, just not with Emily and is hoping to let her down easy.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 14 Aug 2014, 11:31
I feel like Marten is attracted to Emily, but feels that he shouldn't be, and is trying to remind himself of this. And I doubt she is interested in him at all!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 14 Aug 2014, 11:56
For the whole length of the strip Marten has shown little or no relationship-seeking behavior. Waiting for Faye was in practice a way to avoid a relationship. Dora took charge of pursuing him.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Madmartigan on 14 Aug 2014, 13:15
He's freaked out because, to steal a line from 3 Ninja's

Marten LOVES EMILY! Marten LOVES EMILY!

Okay, that doesn't sound as good as Rocky Love Emily, but still.....

 :-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 14 Aug 2014, 15:49
I wonder if Emily might remind him a bit of Padma.  Padma could seem kind of clueless at times, although not quite in Emily's "Is she actually in touch with reality?" kind of way.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 14 Aug 2014, 15:56
It's The Wine of Truth!

Halleluiah!!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Near Lurker on 14 Aug 2014, 16:35
I agree, sometimes people say things and I just go "wait... really?"  A peck on the cheek is something that needs to be reprimanded between two friends who happen to work together?  Damn Marten, you sound like a freaking... uh... librarian.

Okay, that just reminds me of that Devil's Carnival 2 trailer (which I almost linked, but it does get a tiny bit gruesome at one point).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Zwammy on 14 Aug 2014, 16:37
For the whole length of the strip Marten has shown little or no relationship-seeking behavior. Waiting for Faye was in practice a way to avoid a relationship. Dora took charge of pursuing him.

I don't know, he tried to get a little something going with Delilah the dreadlock girl. Got shut down, but he went for it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 14 Aug 2014, 17:47
For the whole length of the strip Marten has shown little or no relationship-seeking behavior. Waiting for Faye was in practice a way to avoid a relationship. Dora took charge of pursuing him.
He made a move on Lt Potter. Not exactly seeking a relationship, but he did subtly and inexpertly try to hook up.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 14 Aug 2014, 17:57
Damn it Cosette.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Torlek on 14 Aug 2014, 17:57
Damn it Cosette.
Exactly what I was about to say.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Coffee_Kaioken on 14 Aug 2014, 18:01
Oooooohhhh ho ho ho, next week is gonna be juicy.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 14 Aug 2014, 18:02
So the question is, who does she kill first: Sven, for being Sven, or Faye, for leaving her in the dark about it?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 14 Aug 2014, 18:06
Dorapocalypse impending. Next week's gonna be interesting...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 14 Aug 2014, 18:10
I don't really get why this upsets Dora so much.  I mean, I understand "comically over-exaggerated rage for lols", but regardless I don't see why Dora needs to be the one who's furious when it's got nothing to do with her.  Or has she not made any real progress regarding her control issues and her brother?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 14 Aug 2014, 18:29
Compared to this (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1754) comic, I'd say that Dora has made some progress.  At least she's looking more Terminator than Lovecraftian monstrosity.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 14 Aug 2014, 18:34
LASER EYES! 

Hmmm, has Dora been having some cyber surgery she didn't tell anyone about?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Aug 2014, 18:51
For those of you who are just tuning in, the girl on the left in the last panel is the same girl as the one in this comic (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1322).

And I'm suspecting Faye's going to get the same grilling that Dora gave Marten a few strips after that aforementioned comic. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1324)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 14 Aug 2014, 18:54
Sven is fucking with the emotions of her best friend, that would piss me off, too. Anyone messing with my friends pisses me off, that's just part of being a good friend. That it is her brother, with whom she already has deep seeded issues, just adds fuel to the fire.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: T on 14 Aug 2014, 19:01
Dora the Destroyer!
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 14 Aug 2014, 19:33
Sven is fucking with the emotions of her best friend, that would piss me off, too. Anyone messing with my friends pisses me off, that's just part of being a good friend. That it is her brother, with whom she already has deep seeded issues, just adds fuel to the fire.

Fair enough.  Still it just seems like drama for the sake of drama.  I'd support my true friends any day of the week, but I wouldn't just start confronting people left and right as if my friends are incapable of sticking up for themselves and need me to come in the middle and create even more of a situation, ya know?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Aug 2014, 19:51
Cosette what the fuck :psyduck: (Edit: Actually it's not as bad as I thought, Dora doesn't seem to know that Sven told Faye as well...still pretty bad though)
And I doubt she is interested in him at all!
Well that's harsh.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: billydaking on 14 Aug 2014, 20:51
Sven is fucking with the emotions of her best friend, that would piss me off, too. Anyone messing with my friends pisses me off, that's just part of being a good friend. That it is her brother, with whom she already has deep seeded issues, just adds fuel to the fire.

Fair enough.  Still it just seems like drama for the sake of drama.  I'd support my true friends any day of the week, but I wouldn't just start confronting people left and right as if my friends are incapable of sticking up for themselves and need me to come in the middle and create even more of a situation, ya know?

The "people" here is family, which is different. Also, this isn't just any old situation....Faye is someone with severe emotional problems, who took forever to trust someone enough to get into a healthy relationship. Dora's brother is now screwing with that.  And this is after Sven and Faye had a sexually active relationship that went south when Sven cheated on her and caused massive issues. 

There's a history here, a history that Dora thought buried, and Sven's latest self-centered misstep further screws with Dora's best friend, which Sven should know is nothing but bad for Faye but obviously doesn't.

Dora has every right to be furious. The drama was already there.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Precipice on 14 Aug 2014, 21:20
Countdown to nuclear detonation:

Resumed.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 14 Aug 2014, 21:24
That's because most gods were invented to explain mathematically chaotic natural systems utterly beyond the scope of comprehension of the inventor.

Of course, Eris wants us to just accept chaos as a natural part of life, and that there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

All hail Discordia!

As for this latest development. I'll be going to the cellar now. You're all welcome to join me.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 14 Aug 2014, 21:35
Sven is fucking with the emotions of her best friend, that would piss me off, too. Anyone messing with my friends pisses me off, that's just part of being a good friend. That it is her brother, with whom she already has deep seeded issues, just adds fuel to the fire.

Fair enough.  Still it just seems like drama for the sake of drama.  I'd support my true friends any day of the week, but I wouldn't just start confronting people left and right as if my friends are incapable of sticking up for themselves and need me to come in the middle and create even more of a situation, ya know?
There's been no confronting yet. I may or may not have confronted the guilty party in this case, I am merely saying that Dora's emotional reaction is both understandable and reasonable. How she chooses to act is an entirely different matter.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: St.Clair on 14 Aug 2014, 22:00
"And then Dora exploded."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Aug 2014, 22:02
Dora the exploder.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Aug 2014, 22:44
As for this latest development. I'll be going to the cellar now. You're all welcome to join me.

Is that the cellar you converted into a fallout shelter? 

Got supplies? 

A can opener? 

.
.
.

Corkscrew? 


I'm right behind ya. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 14 Aug 2014, 22:51
Is that the cellar you converted into a fallout shelter? 

You forgot to mention converted from a wine cellar. Hence the corkscrew.  :angel:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TRVA123 on 14 Aug 2014, 23:05
wow, I did not recognize Cosette until I read the dialogue. I fell like she is the most inconsistently drawn character for Jeph.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Aug 2014, 23:20
Is that the cellar you converted into a fallout shelter? 

You forgot to mention converted from a wine cellar. Hence the corkscrew.  :angel:

[W.C.Fields voice] Aaah yas, reminds me of the time we were caught in the Andes moun-tains... we lost our corkscrew, and had to live on food and water for many days... I was but a mere pratt then, not knee high to a grasshopper... [/W.C.Fields voice]
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 14 Aug 2014, 23:31
wow, I did not recognize Cosette until I read the dialogue. I fell like she is the most inconsistently drawn character for Jeph.
Yes. Please check one of my previous posts here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29667.msg1220903.html#msg1220903).
Cosette is my favorite character, but apparently Jeph has had problems determining how she looks (or he has been experimenting with her more, as she is not one of the main characters).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 14 Aug 2014, 23:31
As for this latest development. I'll be going to the cellar now. You're all welcome to join me.

Is that the cellar you converted into a fallout shelter? 

Got supplies? 

A can opener? 

.
.
.

Corkscrew? 


I'm right behind ya.
I was going to ask if there would be booze. Carl beat me to it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 14 Aug 2014, 23:44
And to think you all laughed at me when I had that fallout bunker installed, well guess who's laughing now?!*





*still you guys...I forgot the keys....
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: hakko504 on 14 Aug 2014, 23:48
[W.C.Fields voice] Aaah yas, reminds me of the time we were caught in the Andes moun-tains... we lost our corkscrew, and had to live on food and water for many days... I was but a mere pratt then, not knee high to a grasshopper... [/W.C.Fields voice]
Charlie McCarthy: Are you eating a tomato or is that your nose?

W. C. Fields: "I love children. I can remember when, with my own little unsteady legs, I toddled from room to room."
Charlie McCarthy: "When was that? Last night?"

Charlie McCarthy: "Pink elephants take aspirin to get rid of W. C. Fields."

Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 15 Aug 2014, 00:07
These large liquid filled casks would certainly never be filled with alcohol. That would be illegal.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 15 Aug 2014, 00:22
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Shjade on 15 Aug 2014, 00:37
Cosette what the fuck :psyduck:

This is a girl who was introduced to us via her amazing combination of possibly poor judgment with extremely bad luck (with a dash of clumsiness mixed in for flavor).

This turn of events surprises you why, exactly?

Also @cesium: definitely Sven first. Probably beelining to his place even as we speak. Faye she'll get to if and when she feels a need (though I don't see why she'd have any wrath for Faye about this; the situation is considerably different from Marten not telling her a girl tried to pick him up while they were dating).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 15 Aug 2014, 00:48
I am much appreciating the fast pace of this week's comics.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 15 Aug 2014, 00:55
LOL

I love the last panel of todays comic.

Dora with red eyes !

LOL
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 15 Aug 2014, 00:58
I am much appreciating the fast pace of this week's comics.

If this keeps up, Marten will have thought about making half a decision by next weekend!  :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 15 Aug 2014, 02:05
Cosette reminds me of someone I know in real life - not character-wise, but in the sense that she never looks the same twice. Some people like changing their appearance!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 15 Aug 2014, 02:06
Dora has heat-vision? Omega beams?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Somebody on 15 Aug 2014, 02:11
Cosette is my favorite character, but apparently Jeph has...been experimenting with her more, as she is not one of the main characters
That's inappropriate behaviour between an artist and his character, surely, even if she's not one o'the leads!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 15 Aug 2014, 02:32
Raven is described on the cast list as changing her appearence often.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Indicible on 15 Aug 2014, 02:39
Hopefully, Sven has a lead-lined fridge handy...

As for Dora, this must be what seeing red means.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 15 Aug 2014, 02:58
Raven is described on the cast list as changing her appearence often.
So what you are saying is Cosette is Raven in disguise. Gotcha.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 15 Aug 2014, 03:04

These large liquid filled casks would certainly never be filled with alcohol. That would be illegal.

Hey, the Volstead Act says I can buy up to 200 gallons of grape juice a year for my own familial use.  Welches Says so long as I don't drop this yeast into it, it will not become wine. 



Oooops
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 15 Aug 2014, 04:24
Are you not allowed to brew your own beer/make your own wine?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Orkboy on 15 Aug 2014, 05:03
It depends on local laws.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Jazzmaster on 15 Aug 2014, 05:03
The "people" here is family, which is different. Also, this isn't just any old situation....Faye is someone with severe emotional problems, who took forever to trust someone enough to get into a healthy relationship. Dora's brother is now screwing with that.  And this is after Sven and Faye had a sexually active relationship that went south when Sven cheated on her and caused massive issues. 

There's a history here, a history that Dora thought buried, and Sven's latest self-centered misstep further screws with Dora's best friend, which Sven should know is nothing but bad for Faye but obviously doesn't.

Dora has every right to be furious. The drama was already there.

There's been no confronting yet. I may or may not have confronted the guilty party in this case, I am merely saying that Dora's emotional reaction is both understandable and reasonable. How she chooses to act is an entirely different matter.

OK.  But notice how Dora's impending action seems imminent?  From the last panel, it doesn't seem like she's going to just sit around and let this take care of itself.  I mean, I hope she does, but that doesn't seem to be what's on her mind right now.

Quote
Faye is someone with severe emotional problems

She has also proven time and again just how much she's grown as a character, and that's she's much stronger than she even gives herself credit for.  She said she wants to let "Sven stir in his own juices", so I really don't get the impression she needs Dora to come in and create even more of a situation.


Quote
Dora has every right to be furious. The drama was already there.
IMO not really.  The Drama mostly came and gone, and the most recent situation was handled by Faye because Faye is a big girl who can stick up for herself.  Now Dora is being angry largely due to her own very personal reasons.  OK, nobody's perfect, people are allowed to get mad.  And I totally understand the whole "sharing the feelings of your closest friends" bit as well.  But I seriously hope Dora is not going to do something "big", because in my own very worthless opinion, it'd be completely unnecessary. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Sidhekin on 15 Aug 2014, 05:27
If people in the story did only what was "necessary", it would be a boring story.

(No one will ever bother to write the story of my life.)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 15 Aug 2014, 05:29
Are you not allowed to brew your own beer/make your own wine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing#Legality

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Also, I see this not going well. Dora will intervene, Faye gets angry at Dora for butting in, Dora overreacts and fires Faye.

Hanners grows despondent and asks her Dad to fire up the Orbital Railgun to nuke Coffee of Doom to a smoldering crater. Cue fripSide music. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqx8tAdID9w)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Neko_Ali on 15 Aug 2014, 06:27
Honestly, I only see Dora going after Sven on this one. And he totally deserves and needs to have some sense knocked into him. So what I'm saying is... Pass me the popcorn. Dis is gonna get good.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 15 Aug 2014, 07:55
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...

Twenty minutes, maybe an hour, tops. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: zmeiat_joro on 15 Aug 2014, 08:19
Hm, I just realized, this whole thing happened after Emily tagged along with Marten and Sam to to woods, and Marten and Padma hooked up after they wend to the woods and Sam was also there, and in both cases snakes were involved, if I'm not remembering anything wrong. Maybe that's why he's worried, subliminally.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: ASB84 on 15 Aug 2014, 09:08
wow, I did not recognize Cosette until I read the dialogue. I fell like she is the most inconsistently drawn character for Jeph.
Yes. Please check one of my previous posts here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29667.msg1220903.html#msg1220903).
Cosette is my favorite character, but apparently Jeph has had problems determining how she looks (or he has been experimenting with her more, as she is not one of the main characters).

In that arc you mentioned in the other thread, I was initially thrown by the fact she was drawn with brown eyes. I guess that's kind of nitpicky of me, but given how most of the female characters have brown eyes, Cosette's blue eyes kind of become one of the standout traits of her design. When she appeared with brown eyes, and with Marten's confused "Agh?" reaction, for a moment I thought it was also a reveal that Steve was cheating on her.

I have mixed feelings about Sven's current arc. I feel it's both in-character for him because he's shown in the past that he's perfectly capable of being a selfish douche, yet at the same time I feel he should be a bit more savvy than that, given what we've seen of him in the past. I like that it's an opportunity to scorn the "entitled jerk who thinks he's a 'nice guy' and complains that being a 'nice guy' doesn't get him anywhere" phenomenon, but at the same time, I'm a bit disappointed that that's where his character went, rather than the whole thing with Faye throwing him for a loop and him trying to deal with it in a more mature manner.

It feels like character evolution and regression at the same time. Strangest of all...I actually kind of like it, because it's not completely black and white. I guess at the end of the day, I'm interested to see where it goes.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 15 Aug 2014, 10:04
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...

Twenty minutes, maybe an hour, tops.

I'll need to bring a barrell of barleywine then...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Smallest on 15 Aug 2014, 11:09
The "people" here is family, which is different. Also, this isn't just any old situation....Faye is someone with severe emotional problems, who took forever to trust someone enough to get into a healthy relationship. Dora's brother is now screwing with that.  And this is after Sven and Faye had a sexually active relationship that went south when Sven cheated on her and caused massive issues. 

There's a history here, a history that Dora thought buried, and Sven's latest self-centered misstep further screws with Dora's best friend, which Sven should know is nothing but bad for Faye but obviously doesn't.

Dora has every right to be furious. The drama was already there.

There's been no confronting yet. I may or may not have confronted the guilty party in this case, I am merely saying that Dora's emotional reaction is both understandable and reasonable. How she chooses to act is an entirely different matter.

OK.  But notice how Dora's impending action seems imminent?  From the last panel, it doesn't seem like she's going to just sit around and let this take care of itself.  I mean, I hope she does, but that doesn't seem to be what's on her mind right now.

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Faye is someone with severe emotional problems

She has also proven time and again just how much she's grown as a character, and that's she's much stronger than she even gives herself credit for.  She said she wants to let "Sven stir in his own juices", so I really don't get the impression she needs Dora to come in and create even more of a situation.


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Dora has every right to be furious. The drama was already there.
IMO not really.  The Drama mostly came and gone, and the most recent situation was handled by Faye because Faye is a big girl who can stick up for herself.  Now Dora is being angry largely due to her own very personal reasons.  OK, nobody's perfect, people are allowed to get mad.  And I totally understand the whole "sharing the feelings of your closest friends" bit as well.  But I seriously hope Dora is not going to do something "big", because in my own very worthless opinion, it'd be completely unnecessary.

Thought we don't know for sure until next week, I agree with Jazz. Dora's jealousy over Sven/Faye or Sven/anyone has never been for the woman's best interests. With Faye, that was an added annoyance, but the part that pissed her off was that her friend slept with her brother, and ohmygod it's like highschool all over again.

Also, just to reply to various things above that- Faye's 'relationship' with Sven, though not really a relationship, was healthy in her and her therapist's opinion. She has trusted plenty of people quite wholeheartedly, just not while either being interested or feeling up to seeing them (Dora, Hanners, for the former, and Marten, though that was a while ago, for the latter). Her mental illness is, iirc, medicated and at least in therapy treatment. She does not need Dora to get in the middle of this, especially because the fallout from it might Dora as a friend (not because she'll necessarily ever get with Sven, but because no one, let alone bristly Faye, likes it when someone interferes or causes drama).

Also, not entirely related- I imagine with Dora's very likely confrontation Sven's ABOUT to find out that Faye's relationship is in the bad (unless he's an evil psychic and already knows). His response to that information should confirm or deny his assholeyness. ("Well in that case I'll try again next week and it'll work" vs "oh shit I didn't know that, poor Faye' vs somewhere in between ('oh, crap, I thought I was doing the nicest I could. but I guess this means I have a chance'))
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: FunkyTuba on 15 Aug 2014, 11:29
Dora and Sven are siblings. There's literally a lifetime of emotional baggage that one of them carries around related to the other (can't remember which is older)

Sven will have been in the crosshairs of and have developed strong defenses against pretty much anything Dora can throw at him.

The interesting question for me is whether the newfound feeling of Actual Love for someone will put enough of a chink in his armor that she may be able to get through to him this time... he might be receptive to her (probably non-)constructive criticism for once.

Another thing I have a theory about...
[puts on flame retardant undies]
...it struck me during Faye and Marten's interaction this week that each of them were more initially weirded out about their respective situations than usual. It makes me wonder if perhaps they have deeper feelings for the other side (Sven and Emily) than they know or want to admit. (reference my "latent desire" comments from prev weeks(no I don't want to let that go yet))

If either of them were totally uninterested in the other parties then there wouldn't be an issue, would there?

Flame away.


Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Neko_Ali on 15 Aug 2014, 11:58
It's a possibility that Marten has some kind of feelings for Emily. He was very flustered when Tai teased him about what he thought briefly was a love note from Emily. But then he also was flustered for a while after the falling asleep with Claire situation. And the hook up with Delilah. And Padma. And fights with Dora. And early on with Faye. He just gets flustered easily when women are concerned. At least potential romantic situations anyway.

Faye.. Even if she had any lingering feelings for Sven, this has probably killed them. It was just a case of the worst time to spring a random 'I'm in love with you, person I barely dated' scene. Given she's all stressed out about her relationship with Angus.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 15 Aug 2014, 12:35
Cosette is my favorite character, but apparently Jeph has...been experimenting with her more, as she is not one of the main characters
That's inappropriate behaviour between an artist and his character, surely, even if she's not one o'the leads!
Cosette is so clumsy that only experimentation and limb/tissue grafts have allowed her to live this long.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Somnus Eternus on 15 Aug 2014, 13:35
...it struck me during Faye and Marten's interaction this week that each of them were more initially weirded out about their respective situations than usual. It makes me wonder if perhaps they have deeper feelings for the other side (Sven and Emily) than they know or want to admit. (reference my "latent desire" comments from prev weeks(no I don't want to let that go yet))

If either of them were totally uninterested in the other parties then there wouldn't be an issue, would there?

Flame away.

I half-agree.  I think Marten might be harboring some latent feelings toward Emily, though how strong or how willing he'd be to act on them is up for debate. 

With Sven, I don't think it's the feelings causing this much stress.  I've been where Faye is.  Whether she has feelings for him or not is almost irrelevant, because she's dealing with her boyfriend - the first guy she's been really HAPPY with in a HEALTHY relationship - possibly getting a part in a city six hours away which would force her to make some pretty big life decisions, and now Sven's trying to burden her with his emotional baggage at exactly the same time, and I'm sure she doesn't want Angus finding out about that for a variety of reasons, so that adds an extra layer of stress to the whole thing.  At the very least, that'd make any girl ANGRY enough to want to get it out with her best friend. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Aug 2014, 13:58
Omega beams?
Don't piss off Dora, you'll awaken her Darkseid.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 15 Aug 2014, 15:03
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...

Twenty minutes, maybe an hour, tops.

I'll need to bring a barrell of barleywine then...

That should get us an extra hour or so...

I'll grab as many cases of Guinness as I can from work.  The kid's radio flyer should be around here somewhere...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: TheEvilDog on 15 Aug 2014, 15:33
There will be blood.
None of the main cast or secondary characters.
Probably a hobo living rough near the Coffee of Doom.
But yeah, there will be blood.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 15 Aug 2014, 15:36
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...
Twenty minutes, maybe an hour, tops.
I'll need to bring a barrell of barleywine then...
That should get us an extra hour or so...
I'll grab as many cases of Guinness as I can from work.  The kid's radio flyer should be around here somewhere...

I have bottles of various liquors (including single malts) and some bottles of very miscellaneous wines I can contribute.

We'll do all right.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 15 Aug 2014, 15:47
Sinda!  His face black, his eyes red!!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 15 Aug 2014, 15:56
(http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2011/10/15/a4cfd13b-59a2-4176-b3de-fff8e7a06bca.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: J on 15 Aug 2014, 20:04
Sinda!  His face black, his eyes red!!

(http://ipadboardgames.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Looney_Tunes_Vol_1_20.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Aug 2014, 20:40
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...
Twenty minutes, maybe an hour, tops.
I'll need to bring a barrell of barleywine then...
That should get us an extra hour or so...
I'll grab as many cases of Guinness as I can from work.  The kid's radio flyer should be around here somewhere...

I have bottles of various liquors (including single malts) and some bottles of very miscellaneous wines I can contribute.

We'll do all right.
I'm not sure how this started but I like where this thread is going.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 15 Aug 2014, 20:41
Sinda!  His face black, his eyes red!!

Dora, her army, with fists closed.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 15 Aug 2014, 22:19
Sinda!  His face black, his eyes red!!

Dora, her army, with fists closed.

Sven, when the walls fell
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Aug 2014, 06:25
The biggest thing to happen this week will be:

The art change's effects on Claire, of course.    16 (23.5%)
How much SexyTimes talk Hannelore can stand.    8 (11.8%)
Some sort of insecurity thing with Marigold.    1 (1.5%)
Faye and Angus - the other shoe drops.    8 (11.8%)
Sven goes all-out emo.    6 (8.8%)
The return of RAVEN!    12 (17.6%)
The usual: Waffles, spathe ham, etc.    0 (0%)
Something completely out of left field.    17 (25%) <== and EXPLOSIVE!

Total Members Voted: 68

Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: zmeiat_joro on 16 Aug 2014, 08:44
The river Cosette in winter.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 16 Aug 2014, 16:51
And was repealed a decade later if memory serves
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 16 Aug 2014, 16:54
The river Cosette in winter.

The Beast of Tequila
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Aziraphale on 16 Aug 2014, 19:58
And was repealed a decade later if memory serves

1933 (also working from memory, so don't quote me on that).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 17 Aug 2014, 09:50
The Volstead act became the 18th amendment to the constitution, (1920).  It was repealed by the 21st amendment (1933), which is why there's a chain of liquor stores named "21st Amendment".  They were in Indiana, I don't know how far they spread (there was one up the alley from my wife's first apartment in W. Lafayette). 

In between, women were allowed to vote (19th amendment, 1920) and the start of the terms of congress and the presidency were moved from March to January (20th amendment, 1933). 

Important business...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Case on 17 Aug 2014, 10:33
The river Cosette in winter.

The Beast of Tequila

Marten and Faye, their eyes closed
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 17 Aug 2014, 12:38
The river Cosette in winter.

The Beast of Tequila

Marten and Faye, their eyes closed

Angus, his arms wide
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 17 Aug 2014, 12:41
The river Cosette in winter.

The Beast of Tequila

Marten and Faye, their eyes closed

Angus, his arms wide

Pintsize, his butt vibrating
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 17 Aug 2014, 12:51
The river Cosette in winter.

The Beast of Tequila

Marten and Faye, their eyes closed

Angus, his arms wide

Pintsize, his butt vibrating

Pintsize, his butt at rest.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 17 Aug 2014, 13:24
Pilchard, thoroughly confused.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 17 Aug 2014, 13:30
Wikipedia, its [citations needed] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Aug 2014, 14:04
A classic, worth renting.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 17 Aug 2014, 14:06
Pilchard, enlightened.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Mr_Rose on 17 Aug 2014, 14:15
Tamaranian, the baby's candy.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 17 Aug 2014, 14:32
Meme, running its course.  :police:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 17 Aug 2014, 14:50
I still don't really understand.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 17 Aug 2014, 14:54
This YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukMNfTnI5M8), this Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok) and this Memory Alpha article (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_(episode)) should explain.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Aug 2014, 22:22
I still don't really understand.

Neither did Picard, at first.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 18 Aug 2014, 00:32
Hmm... I wonder how long my quite extensive collection of rare Malts will last if I have to share it with you guys...
Twenty minutes, maybe an hour, tops.
I'll need to bring a barrell of barleywine then...
That should get us an extra hour or so...
I'll grab as many cases of Guinness as I can from work.  The kid's radio flyer should be around here somewhere...

I have bottles of various liquors (including single malts) and some bottles of very miscellaneous wines I can contribute.

We'll do all right.
I'm not sure how this started but I like where this thread is going.

A bunch of nerds stuck in a bomb shelter with too much hard liquor? Sure, what can go wrong?  :-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 18 Aug 2014, 01:23
They could start breeding.  *shudder*
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 18 Aug 2014, 14:12

Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Carl-E on 18 Aug 2014, 19:17
For some reason, I had remembered that episode as being TOS. 

Carl-E, his mind askew. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Near Lurker on 18 Aug 2014, 19:29
That episode was so badly executed - the references seemed to be a collection of fixed phrases, so it came off less as a cultural barrier than the translator being inexplicably hung up on this one language's etymology.  By putting a little bit of thought into how an alien culture might view the situation at hand rather than doing a simple cut-and-paste, they could have had a fantastic episode, but the actual episode just seems an inexplicable one-time departure from the show's rules.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2766-2770 (11-15 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 21 Aug 2014, 05:44
In space, no one can hear you clean.
Stop pinching my material! (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,4954.msg1038485.html#msg1038485) :P