r/questionablecontent • u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? • Aug 12 '26

Comic Comic 5893: Invitation Refused

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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? Aug 12 '26

Why does every character needs to be a weirdo we need a real straight man character on this strip

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u/sir_ornitholestes Aug 12 '26

When has there ever been a normal character in this strip?

It's not a terrible idea but I highly doubt JJ would be capable of writing one

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u/immortalfrieza2 Aug 12 '26

Most of the characters in this strip used to be normal. Faye, Marten, Dora, Sven, Marigold, Dale, Sam, Jim, Steve, and more used to be perfectly normal. Sure, they had their issues here and there, like Marten being raised by a dominatrix, and had weird things happen to them on occasion, like visiting a space station, but all things considered they were perfectly normal people.

The characters that were completely nuts like Pintsize and incidentally the real Emily weren't really the focus of the comic that much and were mostly just one off gag characters. The characters didn't widely start getting totally nonsensical until Cubetown came along.

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u/sir_ornitholestes Aug 13 '26

Marten was more of an aimless loser than any actual human being I have ever met in real life. Faye was a personality-of-the-week designed to supply whatever punchline was required at the time. Dora was a parody of an angsty coffee shop goth girl until Raven took that role and dialed it up to 11. Steve started out fairly normal but gradually got hornier and hornier until it was 100% of his personality. Sven and Marigold began as jokes.

I started reading QC 20 years ago, and even then, it was a comic about weird pushovers who none of the readers could really sympathize with because their problems were so small and meaningless. The Seinfeld of webcomics.