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107 (58.2%)

Somewhat like

46 (25%)

Neither like nor dislike

8 (4.3%)

Somewhat dislike

16 (8.7%)

Strongly dislike

7 (3.8%)

Total Members Voted: 75

[Tago Mago]

I'm curious about others' opinions on this question. My own opinion is that she's diminished in likability in the last year.

[Superkid11]

In what way do you think she's diminished?
I voted "Somewhat like". Could've done with a just "like" option...

[the-artful-dodger-rodger]

I personally dont like a her as character, I like Dora better.

[Tago Mago]

Hard to put my finger on it... I think it's that she's frequently the third wheel to conversations in which she's not the centre, just there to crack a joke? It's probably a function of the fact that QC has shifted its main focus from Marten's relationship with Faye to his relationship with Dora. Faye seems less essential, and her kind of character isn't as appealing if you know that she's dispensable.

[enigmaMR]

hey guys.  looooong time reader, first time poster.

this is what has been making QC seem stale to me.  Faye used to be the center of what made QC more than your run of the mill webcomic and touch on some serious issues.  Since martin's relationship with dora - as tago mago said - she's just a third wheel and used for a cynical punchlines.  It's only a matter of time before jeph touches on faye's feeling in regards to her being (in)comfortable with martin/dora's relationship (truthfully) and has her deal with her shrink to reveal more problems (the exercising is a good start).  As entertaining as some of the more recent comics have been, I think we've had enough "filler" content and could use some story progression and hopefully faye will make it happen.

[Jackie Blue]

Speaking from experience: this thread will not go well.

I voted "strongly dislike".  In the first few hundred strips, I would have voted "strongly like".

[jeph]

Meh, people have been loving and hating on Faye since the first strip in which she appeared. Either reaction is valid.

[Janny]

Faye was my fave character until a few months ago. I'm not sure why, but it's like she's not interesting anymore.. her life has become boring. Dora is more likable now. Faye seriously needs something amazing in her life, to get her personality to develop a bit.

[Barmymoo]

I would agree that there's less excitement in Faye's life but that's because she's getting herself sorted out and not having as many drinking crises or emotional crashes. I like her, she's got a bite to her that none of the others have.

[costacide]

The way that Faye is written/portrayed in the comic, she reminds me very vividly of a very close friend of mine.  IT's really uncanny.

However, I will agree that writing-wise/character-wise she's a bit stale and underused these days. 

[Uber Ritter]

I suspect my interest in Faye will be rekindled when she has more going on then slowly sorting things out.

[Trillian]

Well, I still voted Strongly Like.  I think that Faye has a lot to offer as a character, and she is rather snarky.   I like snarky people.  I think that she has taken a back seat a little as of late, but I could imagine the comic would seem rather scattered if Jeph continuously tried to make the different components of the story the center focus all of the time.  Faye is doing her thing behind the scenes right now, and currently it involves therapy, trying to stop drinking, and confronting all of her issues.  I don't think anyone is at their best when they are that emotionally vulnerable, but it isn't going to change my opinion of her overall.  I am pretty sure she will make a comeback as the snarky, relatively confident Faye we all know and love. 

[bbqrocks]

Strongly like. Just because she has been somewhat unused recently, doesn't mean she is still a great character.

[the-artful-dodger-rodger]

she been turned in the girl who says somewhat funny on-liner.

[MC]

I still like her but I like the earlier stuff of her kind of better. She doesn't seem as snarky and witty as she was before. There's just something missing.... but she's still a great charecter.

[AshAshes]

She was great when she was a main character, now she's just...eh.
She does nothing for me anymore, actually. Just decided that now.
She's turning into the human pint-size.

[hannahrochelle]

There's nothing wrong with Pintsize.

I like her attitude.

[Amadeus]

I really do like her as a character, largely since my special lady friend is rather like her, personality wise, except her dad isn't dead and she has none of those issues.

I would be very hard pressed to find a character I didn't like in QC lately. I, like Jeph, am glad he deep-sixed Sara, though, as she had no real charm to me, and I also don't go for Ellen much, so glad she's gone, too.

[MC]

I would be very hard pressed to find a character I didn't like in QC lately. I, like Jeph, am glad he deep-sixed Sara, though, as she had no real charm to me, and I also don't go for Ellen much, so glad she's gone, too.

I think Jeph hit it right on when he said Sara was a boring charecter. She was incredably boring.

As for Ellen.... I'll probably be one of the few who says that they enjoyed her as a charecter.

[numbvox]

Faye has always been my favorite character in this strip, and the biggest draw for me.

Still feel the same, though I'm saddened that her role seems to slightly smaller now than before.  However, if today's comic is any indication, that may be changing (or maybe I'm just hopeful).

[AshAshes]

There's nothing wrong with Pintsize.

I like her attitude.

I mean she's like pint size in the way she's used for comic releif.

[Cam]

I am glad that Faye is changing.  It is nice to read a comic where things change and there is actual character growth.

[hannahrochelle]

Being comic relief isnt all that bad

[enigmaMR]

Thank you Jeph for the last two comics, this is the kind of thing I've wanted to see for a while.

[Amadeus]

I would be very hard pressed to find a character I didn't like in QC lately. I, like Jeph, am glad he deep-sixed Sara, though, as she had no real charm to me, and I also don't go for Ellen much, so glad she's gone, too.

I think Jeph hit it right on when he said Sara was a boring charecter. She was incredably boring.

As for Ellen.... I'll probably be one of the few who says that they enjoyed her as a charecter.

It's not that I don't like Ellen, I do, but I think she ran her course, so she left when she should of, you know?

Steve is one I like a lot, but one that we really don't know all that much about, history wise or anything. Well, other than the fact he looks a lot like Tory Belecci of Mythbusters. Not that it's been stated on in the comic, just an observation.

[Kartoon Kween]

Faye's always been my favorite.  To me, QC will always be her story.

Anyway, I really like how this next arc is going so far.  Really, I'm just glad that people, who may have disliked Faye in the past, will see another side of her.

[AnotherQCaddict]

First off, I wouldn't consider any of the characters to be "main characters"  at this point.  There's just too many people who are important and the "main characters" change with time.

The characters who have and will continue to be in the spotlight as I see it (NOTE: I can't guarantee any of this, and I may even be talking out my ass here)

Marten
Dora
Faye
Steve
Hanners
Pintsize
Raven

Sorted by how likely I feel that they will be in the spotlight soon and if they are in the spotlight now.  It's always sort of centered around Marten, Dora, Faye, and to a lesser extent, Steve.  Pintsize is the chief gag-ploy, but every story with a sense of humor seems to have one.  Hanners is a mix of the serious and the gags, and she is a popular character.  Raven is....  weird.  Sven is absent because we haven't seen much of him lately and I cannot tell if he will change too much for a while.

My point is that each of these characters will change.  You may not like the changes, I may not like them, we may enjoy them, or we may not care at all.  They are essential in their own way, though.  Faye is enjoyable in her own times.  A spotlight character, if you will.  You just don't get the full effect of some personalities unless they are being examined under a microscope.

[newsboxsbitch]

I voted strongly like, because, honestly, I do. I found her likeable in the beginning, the evaluation of issues helped with understanding the character, and te way she dealt with Marten and Dora's relationship, made me like her all the more.
 just wish I could throw dairy products like that 

[Kartoon Kween]

First off, I wouldn't consider any of the characters to be "main characters"  at this point.  There's just too many people who are important and the "main characters" change with time.

Don't care.  Faye will always be the main character, in my eyes.

[bbqrocks]

I wouldn't say the absolute main character, but it used to be her and martin..Then it became marten and faye, with a bit of dora..Then they all became equally balanced, but now it seems like marten and Dora with a bit of faye. I hope Faye will be brought back into the spotlight. The last couple of comics have been very good.

[raziel]

i went for strongly like, because she's my favourite QC character, even if she hasn't been in the strip that much recently

[numbvox]

First off, I wouldn't consider any of the characters to be "main characters"  at this point.  There's just too many people who are important and the "main characters" change with time.

Don't care.  Faye will always be the main character, in my eyes.

I agree.  Well, sort of.  I feel like even if the other characters are really more "main" characters than she is - Since just after the very first few comics it's felt like it's Faye's story.
I really hate to make a final fantasy reference (I know, on the internets FF is only a small step away from yaoi and furries), but I feel like it's like how Vaan was the main character but it was always Ashe's story in FF12.

[La]

I think the problem that people have with Faye is that she wouldn't be the kind of person that they would be friends with in real life, so they say that she is a bad character. If you are asking how well she is written, I would say pretty darn well. If you are asking how we would feel about her if she were a real person, I would be outside the norm and say that I love her. I love her both as a character and as a person (if she existed, of course). Anyone who's seen any of my posts on here knows that Faye is, and always will be, my favorite character. The only thing that I would say detracts from her is that her character is a bit inconsistent in the transition of the beginning of the strip to Jeph's eventual vision of what he wanted QC to be about, but that's just a matter of him feeling out the story as he went, and I wouldn't fault him on that. I'm not going to go into any big-winded essay about why I love Faye, because god knows I write enough papers for school. But, on the subject of characters vs. people... Dora, while being an extremely well-written character and probably the MOST realistic of any of the characters in the story, is the one I like the least as a person. Whenever anyone asks me why I hate Dora the way I do, I always point them to the last panel of this strip: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=511. Every time I see that strip I get annoyed at her all over again. But, she has been the most consistently written character in the whole strip, and the one who is most human. I just want to slap her sometimes. It's so fun to get into a story so much that you feel so strongly about characters, and that's one of the reasons I love QC as much as I do!

... I know, I know. tl;dr. I didn't mean for that to happen. Haha.

[onewheelwizzard]

Do I like her personality and the way she acts?  I'd enjoy her company, were she real.  I'd definitely hang out with her.

Do I like the way she is written as a character?  This depends on how much attention is paid to her.  The more attention Faye gets as a character, it seems, the harder Jeph works on writing her, and the better his work is.  When Faye is just used as a third-wheel/foil for the Dora/Marten relationship, which used to be really funny, it doesn't work quite as well anymore ... the current strips seem to recognize this, too, because they're steering the dynamic between Faye and Dora (and by extension Marten) in a new direction, which is, at this point necessary.  Basically the third-wheel thing is stale in my opinion.  It looks like Jeph might be in the process of developing it into something new and different, though, which is excellent and makes me think that if anything the writing for Faye is probably improving substantially.

[faerygrrl]

I, personally love Faye. From her appearance in the 3rd strip I was a Fan o' Faye.

[redd1]

i still really enjoy faye...though the comic to me is really at its best when its using what i consider the main 5 (marten,faye,dora,penelope,hanners) at this time

[SonofZ3]

I think Faye is an essential part of the comic, and it simply wouldn't be QC without her. That being said, she is deffinately the individual I "love to hate".

[Naoko]

I agree with La entirely.

I love Faye, and I haven't been able to stand Dora ever since she kissed Martin. To me, the Dora-Martin relationship is sort of like those movies where the guy can't get the girl he wants, settles for another one, and then the second one turns out to be crazy/evil/a man, and then he goes back to the first girl, who he belongs with. I've been waiting for a breakup of some sort since it happened, and since it's really affecting Faye's character (as in the whole "Faye = comic relief" thing), it bothers me even more.

So... Love Faye, don't like Dora. Well, I DO like Dora sometimes, but not as a couple with Martin. She's an interesting character, but... Not with Martin.

Plus, there was a comic a few days ago where she was wanting Faye to get laid, and Faye says she's not that type of girl. I kind of wanted Faye to punch her for that.

I want to point out that no, I don't totally hate Dora. I like her sometimes. Just not when she's being couple-y with Martin or making fun of Faye.

[galwaygrrl21]

Ohhh, I just had to create an account and stop being such a creepy lurker simply to vent my feelings on Faye.  Simply put, I loved her from the start; she was funny, snarky, and the most realistic of all the characters, and the one that I most identified with.  But...recently I've become disillusioned with her.  All the 'after-school-special' issues she's been set up to deal with recently kind of bug me.  The quitting drinking, the exercizing...I find her a less believable character because she's been so blocked into the "bitchy girl with issues" character type.  We know there's more to her than that, and I look forward to a time when Faye returns to her former glory. 

[soatari]

She 100% reminds me of a girl I know. So knotted up with problems that she just can't deal with life sanely. The fact that she can't seem to get past Marten for now, what with the constant comments and guilt trips she's laying down, is starting to get a little old though. Most people keep comments like that in inner dialogue. She has a real third wheel vibe going, and I'm losing patience on her character development, which hasn't really progressed since her trip home.

[UnidentifiedFlyingCupcake]

I think Faye is awesome, and in my opinion, she has been an extremely well-written, well-developed character thus far. But, I do agree with those of you who've said she seems to have stagnated a little bit. There's something a little off about the focus; it seems to me like it's time for some shifting--either a noticeable progression toward healthy coping (as we've seen hints of) or some earth-shattering event that forces her to get through her crap, once and for all.

That said, I'm sure Jeph has a fabulous plan that will astound us all and reveal his mysterious workings to be for the best.

[Michael Nehora]

I've always liked Faye as a character.  The only comment I have is that I'd like to see more of her therapy sessions and her attempts to put it into practice.  I hasten to add that I wouldn't want her therapy to dominate the strip and turn it into a Woody Allen or Philip Roth dramedy.  But given how central "The Talk," and the issues it raised, have been to Faye and to the strip overall, I do find it odd that we've seen only the occasional strip with Corrine.  And generally, those have come right after a "crisis" point, be it "The Talk" or, more recently, Marten confronting Faye about her drinking.  Off Faye goes to see Corrine, whom we see for two to three strips, and then bam!  we're back to the usual CoD/apartment banter as if nothing had happened.  No sense having Faye do therapy unless we see more what sort of impact it actually has on her, and her friends.

[Dr Montalban]

Faye is fucking boring.

The "quirky girl with issues" bit can only go so far.

Now, if she was a real person, I wouldn't be so callous when referring to her psychological issues.  I'd be more supportive of the shit that she's been through and all the emotional issues she's dealing with.  But I wouldn't hang with her on a regular basis either.

This is supposed to be entertainment, and her shit is not entertaining.

[ChristineIsAMormon]

I love Faye to death. She's what made the comic appealing to me in the first place. When she came into the picture, Maten's whole "I'm feeling sorry for myself" act was replaced with a new hope for himself.  : D
Questionable Content will always be Faye's story in my eyes. Yes she has been a third wheel lately, which is extremely frustrating to me. This respite in the importance of her character has disheartened me as a QC addict. But I stay with the comic in hope that she will conquer her place in the spotlight again.
I don't like Dora and Marten together. They're too sweet, and without problems. The relatonship doesn't seem real to me.
I've always wanted Marten and Faye to be together..but if it does happen, it shouldn't for a very long time. Both of the characters need to develop and grow more before they can be. 

[Tago Mago]

Haha, I think our clamouring may have influenced the comic. Now that we know Jeph will cave, we can make even wilder demands. 

[Neskah]

Hmmm I enjoy Fayes Character. She was my favourite... now they're on equel footing. Not because I like others more, but Faye stepped back.

Being a "Quirky girl with Issues" I feel sorry for her, and well that pity stops it being an enjoyable experience watching her.

People say she's sorting out her issues but she's not really. She's walking the safe line, doing the right things and being a good girl. Which is great. In the real world it would be better then being self destructive.

But I'd like to see her shake it up. Decide she won't wallow in self pity and really take a chance. Watch her take that anxiety, feel sick with it, and do it anyway. See her come out the other side and realise she's not dead. Still bat shit scared, but acknowledge she can survive. She wouldn't do a turn around but might get some more spunk.

Her "sass" isn't what it used to be. It's more obviously a defense mechanism, rather then a devil may care charm.

[Joim]

I would love if she just got over her issues, do Marten and keep being an evil bitch, which sass everyone around. Hopefully she'll just kick off Dora at next strip and rape Marten in a non-gently way!

[Is it cold in here?]

Like she suggested to Sara in strip 10?

[raziel]

apart from marten having dora now, something like that

although i likw the "polygyny" thing suggested in the weekly comic thread

[tomart]

Yeah, me and Muirghiel and others like it (polygyny) too.

I like Faye, Marten and Dora and just want them to be happy. All together. All at once, together... Happy.

(blinks innocently)

Or if they could work out a way to share Marten, that would be polygyny (see wikipedia under polygamy.)
Faye would only need him once in a while, so Dora would still pretty much have monogamy...

I'd like to see Faye get her snark and power back, and this might do it. It would certainly be interesting.