Topic: Characters Who Should Pop Up in the Comic Again (Read 29793 times)

jwhouk · « **Reply #50 on:** 25 Mar 2011, 03:13 »

Yeah, where DID Mieville end up after the break-up?

Deadlywonky · « **Reply #51 on:** 25 Mar 2011, 03:20 »

one would assume Sven's, but would he get on with Princess? or would he get on

~~cesariojpn~~ · « **Reply #52 on:** 25 Mar 2011, 03:37 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 25 Mar 2011, 03:13

Yeah, where DID Mieville end up after the break-up?

Grrr, you ruined my double entendre joke!!

DSL · « **Reply #53 on:** 25 Mar 2011, 03:44 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 24 Mar 2011, 20:20

Now there's a thought: what would be the funniest connection to someone else in the strip for Dora's therapist?

Cosette's dad?
Elliot's dad?
Padma's dad?

Someone who lived in Faye's old apartment building.

Carl-E · « **Reply #54 on:** 25 Mar 2011, 04:06 »

Quote from: Deadlywonky on 25 Mar 2011, 03:20

one would assume Sven's, but would he get on with Princess? or would he get on

KITTIES!!

cabbagehut · « **Reply #55 on:** 26 Mar 2011, 18:38 »

Of these characters, I always liked Raven the best. I can see why she's not in the comic anymore, and it makes sense for her to be doing something else with her life, but I liked her good-naturedness. She had a very different sense of humor than the other cast members, and I liked her take on a lot of the things that happened.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #56 on:** 26 Mar 2011, 22:12 »

I don't see the talking weasels on that list.

And yes, sorry to say, Sara was eaten by that allosaurus, so unless she comes back in ghost form or covered in gore after carving her way out of its stomach with only her fingernails and half a skull of a baby triceratops, we ain't gonna see her again.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #57 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 14:09 »

Sara being eaten by an allosaurus, is that just a running joke or is it actually canon?

Kugai · « **Reply #58 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 14:27 »

No, it's just a joke

It was actually a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast

DSL · « **Reply #59 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 14:44 »

Quote from: Kugai on 27 Mar 2011, 14:27

No, it's just a joke

It was actually a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast

Yeah, Sarah didn't have a chance. Penelope, now ... all she would have needed to do is refuse to acknowledge it's there ("What for? I'm right!") and the Bugblatter Beast would have been forced to conclude she didn't exist, either.

pwhodges · « **Reply #60 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 15:27 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Mar 2011, 14:09

Sara being eaten by an allosaurus, is that just a running joke or is it actually canon?

It was a joke made by Jeph, but not in the comic.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #61 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 15:38 »

Gotcha. The "not in the comic" part was what I was looking for.

pwhodges · « **Reply #62 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 15:59 »

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has the original, which is no longer on the QC site. The comment in question is the last line of the cast list.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #63 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 20:13 »

I was looking for that! I wonder why it's no longer there...I guess Jeph doesn't want to redraw the faces.

Or update the list.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #64 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 20:41 »

I seem to remember Jeph saying somewhere, sometime, that he was considering punting on the cast page and just referring people to Wikipedia.

Carl-E · « **Reply #65 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 20:47 »

Wait, there is an in-comic reference... when Raven was first hired, she drew the employees faces on the board. That was the last reference to Sara, and ... let me see...

Yup! Elusive and hates allosauruses, #325.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #66 on:** 27 Mar 2011, 23:52 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Mar 2011, 20:13

I was looking for that! I wonder why it's no longer there...I guess Jeph doesn't want to redraw the faces.

Or update the list.

I miss that artstyle period of the comic.

Odal · « **Reply #67 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 01:31 »

Quote from: Sorflakne on 27 Mar 2011, 23:52

Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Mar 2011, 20:13
I was looking for that! I wonder why it's no longer there...I guess Jeph doesn't want to redraw the faces.

Or update the list.
I miss that artstyle period of the comic.

Same. When I go back to them, it's always around the 500s-700s that I liked the artwork the most. I'm not sure what it is, because it definitely hasn't gotten worse, but I did like the artwork better overall.

Carl-E · « **Reply #68 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 07:29 »

Sounds like nostalgia to me - probably for the art of the time around which you started following the comic?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #69 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 15:48 »

It's funny, the change is so gradual going forward you almost never think about it until you decide to look a thousand strips back, and then *BAM*

jwhouk · « **Reply #70 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 15:58 »

It also is jarring when a character like Marten's mom comes back after being "away" for a few hundred strips. I mean, even Tai has changed drastically since Marty took the job at the Smif library.

I can only imagine what Ellen would look like now.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #71 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 16:07 »

Ellen? Don't be silly, she was eaten by a narwhal.

TRVA123 · « **Reply #72 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 21:21 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Mar 2011, 07:29

Sounds like nostalgia to me - probably for the art of the time around which you started following the comic?

meh, I also really like the art in the 500-7/800s, and I began reading the comic around 1300.

There was a period between the current style and the 7/800s style when I thought the art was a bit awkward, but I really like the way Jeph is combining style and realism in the comic now.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #73 on:** 28 Mar 2011, 21:39 »

Quote

Sounds like nostalgia to me - probably for the art of the time around which you started following the comic?

Actually, no. I remember being shown a couple strips of the comic sometime in 2007 or 2008 and then forgetting completely about it until the name suddenly popped into mind last year around February. I've only been reading the comic for ~13 months or so.

Odal · « **Reply #74 on:** 29 Mar 2011, 01:13 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Mar 2011, 07:29

Sounds like nostalgia to me - probably for the art of the time around which you started following the comic?

Nah, I started reading the comic around September/November 2010. Never heard of it before that.

~~cesariojpn~~ · « **Reply #75 on:** 29 Mar 2011, 23:24 »

Howabout Sweet Tits?

pwhodges · « **Reply #76 on:** 18 May 2011, 04:21 »

Although this topic has died, it seems the right place to point to something that Jeph put on his Tumblr recently about absent characters.

techkid · « **Reply #77 on:** 24 May 2011, 04:53 »

Interesting to see Penelope and Pizza Girl back on the scene... wonder what happened there?

Backstory time! (Probably)

pwhodges · « **Reply #78 on:** 24 May 2011, 05:18 »

Quote from: techkid on 24 May 2011, 04:53

wonder what happened there?

It's explained in the interview he links to under the comic.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #79 on:** 24 May 2011, 09:26 »

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=698 introduces the notion that Pennelope is Pizza Girl. http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Pizza_Girl has some of the backstory on Pizza Girl, who has surprisingly few appearances given her impact.

jwhouk · « **Reply #80 on:** 24 May 2011, 09:40 »

The irony is that Pizza Girl was introduced one strip before the character that we generally consider to be Angus appeared in the strip.

pwhodges · « **Reply #81 on:** 31 May 2011, 15:21 »

And now this...

Method of Madness · « **Reply #82 on:** 31 May 2011, 15:31 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 24 May 2011, 09:40

The irony is that Pizza Girl was introduced one strip before the character that we generally consider to be Angus appeared in the strip.

Wait, do some people actually think that wasn't Angus?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #83 on:** 31 May 2011, 17:06 »

Wait, I might be thinking of an even earlier strip, then. Link me to the proto-Angus, please?

jwhouk · « **Reply #84 on:** 31 May 2011, 18:08 »

The "proto-Angus".

Two main reasons why it's believed (okay, at least I believe that) this is Angus:

"The weird thing is this guy still comes in every day."
"I think he likes us because we give him something to be mad about for the rest of the day."

Based on what Dora would say about our Mr. McPhee later ("We just call him Argument Guy"), it's reasonable to assume that the two are one and the same.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #85 on:** 31 May 2011, 19:50 »

Oh. Yeah, wow, I'm almost positive that isn't Angus. That guy's just a douche.

akronnick · « **Reply #86 on:** 31 May 2011, 20:37 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 31 May 2011, 15:21

And now this...

Oh please! Oh please! Oh please!

I miss Raven Dammit!

The first QC I ever read featured Raven.

It is because of the crazy wierdness that is the banter betweem Raven and the rest of the CoD gang that I am here.

Please bring her back Mr. Jeph, sir...

Method of Madness · « **Reply #87 on:** 31 May 2011, 21:15 »

Man, how do you remember that? I just know that mine was no later than fall 2006, and I'm reasonably certain it was in the seven or eight hundreds (Tai was involved, I think).

akronnick · « **Reply #88 on:** 31 May 2011, 21:38 »

It's very complicated...

It involves XKCD, April Fools Day, and El Dorado.

When I read that comic, I thought that I had found something that QC was not (turns out it was just that one comic.) But I was compelled to read the entire archive on the strength of that strip alone.

tomart · « **Reply #89 on:** 31 May 2011, 22:18 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 31 May 2011, 15:21

And now this...

so if I understand this tweet, it sounds like Jeph is likely to respond to his "massively underserved Raven demographic"?

Yay!

Carl-E · « **Reply #90 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 00:57 »

He's putting together book 2, and so he's going back through the strips. Unlike most of us here, he rearely rereads his stuff - too busy writing new ones (remember how he was surprised he'd used the owl excuse once before Marten's drunk adventures?)

So he's getting a new appreciation of the old Raven. But bringing her back means writing for her... and that may not be so easy - he was differently medicated back then...

akronnick · « **Reply #91 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 01:03 »

Dude, are you trying to kill my buzz?

You're coming in here with your carefully considered opinion, etc., etc.

Why do you hate America? ^*

I just want Raven back.

^*For the irony, I know you don't really hate America.

Do you?

Carl-E · « **Reply #92 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 01:09 »

I was born a buzzkill.

It gives me a buzz...

Sorry.

akronnick · « **Reply #93 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 01:15 »

So do you get a buzz from killing your own buzz?

Doesn't that lead to a terminal case of dead-buzz/new-buzz infinite causality loop meltdown?

Or do you get a buzz by killing other's buzzes?

Which would make you more of a buzzthief than a buzzkill...

Method of Madness · « **Reply #94 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 02:34 »

America is kind of ok, I guess!

Also, I'm pretty sure I found out about xkcd because of that April Fool's swap, which I guess was what, three or four years ago?

akronnick · « **Reply #95 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 02:54 »

April 1, 2008. Three years ago.

Carl-E · « **Reply #96 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 05:29 »

Definitely a buzztheif.

Thiefree · « **Reply #97 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 17:53 »

I like everybody's points re: Raven; now would be a great time to reintroduce an updated (possibly Lady Gaga influenced? Oh come on, you KNOW she'd have gone for that) version of her.

That said, I voted Dr Corrinne because therapists are fascinating. I suspect Jeph tries to avoid her for fear of using therapy as an expository technique.

therealjamesbrown · « **Reply #98 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 20:23 »

I've got to say Tortura. There was way too much backstory there. That plus Dora's secret roasting technique may have some sort of storyline in it

Method of Madness · « **Reply #99 on:** 01 Jun 2011, 22:00 »

Didn't she come back to say goodbye before disappearing forever?

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