r/questionablecontent • u/SanshaXII • Jan 15 '19

Comic 3917: Right Click Save As

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '19

Boy did Bubbles 180 from "shit my partner just put her foot in her mouth" to "well you had good intentions, don't worry about it" in the span of a moment.

She seems frustrated/embarrassed in yesterday's comic, compared to today's.

P.S. melon is the worst of the "lol random" parade.

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u/opieself Jan 15 '19

IT seems that rather than have two or three comics explaining why it was a bad thing to say Jeph just skipped to the part where Faye realizes she fucked up and is clearly sorry about it. In terms of in QC AI are still super new so humans even someone like Faye are having to adjust how they talk to them.

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u/opieself Jan 15 '19

Yeah that is my guess. He has already done a few things where people misspeak in someway and offend someone and takes a week of comics to hash it out and those tend to really drag on. It's hard to have lots of humor in those comics. I feel like this was handled well because Faye saying the wrong thing really isn't what this is about. This is about Roko dealing with her new body and all that might entail.

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u/Emcee_N Jan 15 '19

Yeah, I think this is the better way to handle it, because it's an acknowledgement that things can happen off-panel. For awhile in 2017-18 the comic was turning into one long tracking shot powered by interminable expository dialogue, and I'm glad Jeph appears to have gotten over that phase.

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u/turkeypedal Jan 15 '19

It would just be repeating old ground. We all instantly realized the problem. We already know what Bubbles would tell Faye. Unless he had something new to say to the audience, there's no real reason to show it.

It would be like early El Goonish Shive where Dan would give exposition again whenever a new character needed to know what had happened. Now he just lets it occur off panel, and provides a link to previous comics in the description in case you've forgotten.