Directember: She's Totally Playing Into It
Added 2024-12-25 21:50:03 +0000 UTCThe whole "it sounds like they were having Sexual Times but actually they were not" gag is as old as time, but I like the little spin I put on it in this strip. Also man, I used to draw Hanners looking a lot more unhinged than she does these days. Combination of her being in a better place now and also my art looking less weird and askew, lol. I do like how shaggy Marigold's hair looks in this strip though. She's more floofy these days but I think the hikkikomori hair was a cute part of her design back then. And Angus is there. TBH I'm glad I wrote him out, both for what it did in terms of the story (esp. Faye's development) and also because I just think he's kind of smarmy now. Never trust a guy who wears bowling shirts outside of a bowling alley.
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I never much cared for Angus. Call it gay bias, but Bubbles all the way.
Jaune Jaymes
2024-12-26 21:19:54 +0000 UTCHer personality shift is something I attribute to her finally getting her meds balanced, allowing her real personality to get through.
Opus the Poet
2024-12-26 20:47:32 +0000 UTCRight???
Kevin Hicks
2024-12-26 19:38:52 +0000 UTCAngus is fine. But good enough for Faye long-term? Nah.
James
2024-12-26 16:22:47 +0000 UTCI vote for a cameo appearance from Angus. Not actually in the strip, but we see him on television in the background.
Taigan
2024-12-26 16:07:52 +0000 UTCOoof, I feel totally seen.
George Passantino
2024-12-26 16:06:44 +0000 UTCGonna name my next Stardew Valley farm “Allosaurus Farm.” (Stardrops will smell like Hanner’s apartment after hourly cleaning.)
Miyaa
2024-12-26 15:14:40 +0000 UTCTo confirm Jeph’s musing on #1492, it did not.
Andrew
2024-12-26 13:34:31 +0000 UTCAll written out QC chars get sent to the same farm. They sit around the phone, hoping to be called up again.
Andrew
2024-12-26 13:30:14 +0000 UTCEveryone from strip 1000 onwards is "the new cast" :)
Stephen Wells
2024-12-26 11:35:36 +0000 UTCThat's because we're old now. 😅🤣
Carrie
2024-12-26 10:47:14 +0000 UTCAngus’s swarminess was also how I viewed Sven and Sven is slowly reforming himself into someone different. And then there’s Ahn.
Miyaa
2024-12-26 10:34:30 +0000 UTCHere I am, still faithfully waiting for Sara's return.
RaptorShadow
2024-12-26 09:17:24 +0000 UTCSo he got eaten by an Allosaurus then?
Mark
2024-12-26 07:54:37 +0000 UTCOver the years, QC has had many funny moments, many touching moments, many inspiring moments, many insightful moments, and many fart jokes. But the #1 best moment in the entire strip's history is when Angus left it. He started as an combative stalker, suddenly became everyone's favorite guy to hang out with (without doing anything to earn it), and then took a job a couple of states away without even consulting with his significant other beforehand dropping it as a fait accompli and then bailed on the relationship instantly when Faye was not fully enthusiastic and on-board immediately. The only two good things that came of Angus being in the strip were (1) an introduction to Marigold (and therefore Momo, May, Dale, Willow, and Iris) and, (2) getting Faye out of the coffee shop where she could hook up with Bubbles (which lead to us meeting many of the other robot cast). And yes, I have kept this smoldering antipathy of Angus alive in my heart for over a decade after his departure. What of it?
Thormation
2024-12-26 07:02:29 +0000 UTCLooking for #1492 on a tablet, I got #1392 by accident and it took me a minute to realize!
Charles Hirst
2024-12-26 04:34:50 +0000 UTCRight? "Breaking the spell" is epic next-level stuff.
BobC
2024-12-26 04:04:14 +0000 UTCDay-am! Am I the last to hear about Bro Jogan? So meta...
BobC
2024-12-26 04:02:58 +0000 UTCYeah, she does seem part of "the new cast".
SilverbackRon
2024-12-26 03:40:54 +0000 UTCAnd his departure triggered a series of events that changed QC forever...
adrian koren
2024-12-26 02:22:40 +0000 UTCAs someone who once owned his own bowling shoes, and had friends on his college's bowling team, I did not recognize this as a bowling shirt. Then again, I don't see Angus as smarmy. In a QC world where Sven was still a recovering "man-slut" (per Faye's accurate term in #1782), and Steve said he probably would have hooked up with a woman roommate for whom he didn't have a real attraction if she drunkenly came on to him (see #1639), Angus was pretty forthright with Faye.
ValdVin
2024-12-26 00:39:58 +0000 UTCI thought it was more like "The Daily Show", but, yep.
ValdVin
2024-12-26 00:15:46 +0000 UTCFair enough. Was just pointing it out because I was reading the strip where a website was said to be amazing in 1995
Egos
2024-12-26 00:15:39 +0000 UTCIs that the farm we get Angus steaks from? Because I'm down for that.
Michael Chui
2024-12-26 00:05:15 +0000 UTCThis was probably my favorite style type of QC!! Loved how almost realistic it looks. Also was always hoping that Angus would make a reappearance and stir up some drama 😅
Shields
2024-12-25 23:57:38 +0000 UTCGood writing technique is to let the reader fill in the unsaid with their own preferences; Oh, that game, yeah that was released in like ~2005. Now add on how many decades between us and AI toaster and AIs jones to be a fighter jet of course some prefer the writer to fill all that in for them
dcy665 .
2024-12-25 23:47:08 +0000 UTCThe difference between "buying the farm", "being farmed out", and being "sent to the farm is entirely clear" Beyond we will remain Angus free
dcy665 .
2024-12-25 23:43:59 +0000 UTCEither that or, being charitable to a guy who probably meant well beneath the irony poisoning, he's very ashamed of his old job and has distanced himself from it as much as possible. But, y'know.
Lorelei
2024-12-25 23:28:44 +0000 UTCYeah, the dude is 100% on podcasts now making this universe's Bro Jogan look smart.
Lorelei
2024-12-25 23:25:54 +0000 UTCYeah... we can do without angus. even though saying that feels kind of like killing a dude. maybe send him to a farm upstate
Boots McGoot
2024-12-25 23:22:33 +0000 UTCSame. Did not register at all.
Andrew Mitchell
2024-12-25 23:09:38 +0000 UTCAlways forget how long Marigold has been a mainstay. Feels like she was introduced only a little while ago.
Phillip
2024-12-25 23:04:07 +0000 UTCMoved to NYC for a acting gig on pseudo 'Tonights Show' IIRC
TheCaptainTrout
2024-12-25 22:59:59 +0000 UTCCan someone refresh my memory oh what happened to Angus?
Spazzzen
2024-12-25 22:54:20 +0000 UTCHis job also aged super poorly for me lol. Glad he's dead.
Luzahn
2024-12-25 22:53:53 +0000 UTCI really love the relationship changes that everyone went through, they all felt so realistic. I was a toxic jealous sack of crap when I was younger and reading the Dora/Marten breakup really helped give me some perspective on my own behavior. Looking back, I think my friend recommended QC to me around that time for that reason. Now I’m happily married like a decade later, and it’s really kinda great.
Brian
2024-12-25 22:46:56 +0000 UTCTbh I didn’t like the personality shift on my first reading, I thought it was kind of poor writing on Jeph’s part but I’m SO glad she changed now. I can’t imagine the direction a super-serious Hanners would have taken QC.
Brian
2024-12-25 22:43:54 +0000 UTCngl, I legit was like "who is this goober". I'd totally forgotten about Angus.
Amy ☣
2024-12-25 22:41:50 +0000 UTCThis was fantastic dialogue, I loved this strip when I first read it.
Brian
2024-12-25 22:41:14 +0000 UTCLet's not forget how we met Hanners in the first place. In-control, watching drunk Marten with great amusement.
Michael Steamweed
2024-12-25 22:25:16 +0000 UTCI was reading through the older comics and realized the year has never been stated
Egos
2024-12-25 22:23:36 +0000 UTCHope you're feeling better.
Eric Johnson
2024-12-25 22:15:31 +0000 UTCThe Concept of Hannelore sounds like a great name for a band
LH
2024-12-25 22:07:06 +0000 UTCNo Angus, they are not going to "lez out", jeez! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1492
BookBeard
2024-12-25 22:02:23 +0000 UTCTo be fair, Hanners WAS pretty unhinged back then
Brian Yaras
2024-12-25 22:00:35 +0000 UTCI forgot how terrible this one was, in a good way. I'm giggling uncontrollably and my nieces keep asking to see what's so funny.
Orion Rhine
2024-12-25 22:00:29 +0000 UTCHanners has gone through the most art changes of anyone on the cast. Faye might be second, but the *concept* of Faye has been mostly consistent, while the concept of Hannelore has changed several times.
Bill Silvia
2024-12-25 21:59:12 +0000 UTC[looking at the black bowling shirt I got years ago for a staged reading] [shrug]
Maurice Kessler
2024-12-25 21:58:57 +0000 UTCI'd still like to see a strip where Faye and Bubbles are watching TV some night and Angus appears on a show. Would be interesting to hear that conversation.
Kat Robinson
2024-12-25 21:57:04 +0000 UTCThe Faye-Angus breakup really made me happy in a lot of ways (likely cause I used to see a lot of myself in her), which is hilarious considering I now realize I'm a lesbian and Faye is now happily with a girl robot. Now just to find myself a giant hot lady robot....
Aerin Moriarty
2024-12-25 21:54:54 +0000 UTCOh, I hoped Angus would reappear at some point for him and Faye to get closure!
Motyka
2024-12-25 21:53:50 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite QC comic of all time
James
2024-12-25 21:52:55 +0000 UTCI remember this strip and laughed as much this time as last time
Lyman Green
2024-12-25 21:52:55 +0000 UTC
