I miss when the comic was more screwball sci-fi-ish - the epitome of what I'm speaking of, although not a personal favorite example, was the feminist avenger character with the Moped Transformer robot who smacked Marten with a stop sign after he did something to his girl which this psycho chick perceived as inconsiderate (I'm fuzzy on the details after so long). A more personally favored example was the space shuttle visit, with the killbots complaining they never get to kill anybody. All that is what I think of as the most uniquely QC material, and I think of the more random slice-of-life stuff as being filler, even though it started out more that way and has pretty consistently been that way the majority of the time.