# Comics - and TV - unmasked

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-and-tv-unmasked/931284>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-and-tv-unmasked/931284 "2021-01-23T14:00:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-and-tv-unmasked/931284/41 "2021-01-28T03:17:14Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I’m not familiar with all of the webcomics you listed, but most of the ones I know in the second group are not set in our universe modern day.

It’s a judgement call. Any work of fiction is depicting something other than the real world. There’s no hospital in our world named Seattle Grace but I don’t think many people feel that _Grey’s Anatomy_ is set in some alternate universe. We just accept that it’s our world with some fictional characters and elements added.

So I put the AI’s in _Questionable Content_ alongside Snoopy or Spiderman or the Addams family. Even though none of these characters could exist in the actual real world, I feel the settings they are in are a fictional version of our real world.

On a separate note, I don’t think _Pixie Trix_ is set in a world with magic. Lagace and Lumsdon essentially have two settings for their stories; _Menage a 3_, _Sandra on the Rocks_, _Sticky Dilly Buns_, and _Pixie Trix_ are set in a non-magical world while _Eerie Cuties_, _Dangerously Chloe_, and _Magick Chicks_ are set in a world that has magic. (I didn’t read _Penny and Aggie_ so I don’t know where it fits in.)

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-and-tv-unmasked/931284/42 "2021-01-28T16:30:13Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> On a separate note, I don’t think _Pixie Trix_ is set in a world with magic. Lagace and Lumsdon essentially have two settings for their stories; _ **Menage a 3** _ , _Sandra on the Rocks_ , _Sticky Dilly Buns_ , and _Pixie Trix_ are set in a non-magical world…

You think Gary hooking up with the women he did during the course of that strip was natural? Obviously there were Dark Forces involved somewhere. 😜

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