# For Questionable Content fans...Comic #1059 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066 "2008-01-18T19:30:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/41 "2008-01-30T03:00:51Z")
The repetition would be excused if we finally find out _why_ Dora is so insecure. Deep, dark past and all that. I don’t think that’s going to happen, I don’t see any interesting ground to plow. But maybe I’ll be surprised. But, jeez – we got the speech about how she got over being all goth and insecure _on the very night she got with Marten!_ Yes, 700 (give or take) strips ago. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/42 "2008-01-30T05:43:05Z")
As far as hot women in the strip goes, my choice is Dora’s mom. I’m sure Mr Bianchi and I can work out some kind of arangement. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/43 "2008-01-30T05:50:36Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] The repetition would be excused if we finally find out _why_ Dora is so insecure. Deep, dark past and all that. I don’t think that’s going to happen, I don’t see any interesting ground to plow. But maybe I’ll be surprised. [/QUOTE] I’d like some backstory on Dora. I think we’ve gotten a bit now on Marten and QUITE a bit on Faye. I’m not interested enough for backstory on Steve or Raven. I still don’t feel like I really know Dora, other than the fact that she was a goth in high school, has a brother Sven, and a super busty mom. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/44 "2008-01-30T06:02:56Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I still don’t feel like I really know Dora, other than the fact that she was a goth in high school, has a brother Sven, and a super busty mom. [/QUOTE] In fact, I’d venture to say that we know **more** about tangential character Sven than we do about his main-character sister. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/45 "2008-01-30T06:04:12Z")
I actually think that backstory on Raven would harm the character, since she’s basically a walking punchline. Also, she’s like sixteen, so there’s not a lot of backstory to give. What are we going to find out about? That totally embarrassing time in sixth grade when she got her period for the first time and she had to ask the school nurse for “supplies”, but she only had the big pillow pads, and Raven was wearing leggings and miniskirt, so it was really obvious, and that’s why she always carries an OB in her sock? Raven’s kind of living her backstory right now. As for the 1066 thing, apparently I way over-thought my medieval history. Pfft. My idea is brilliant, though, and if this results in Pintsize and Winslow staging some sort of uprising that results in civil war, I will be incredibly pleased. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/46 "2008-01-30T06:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] I actually think that backstory on Raven would harm the character, since she’s basically a walking punchline. Also, she’s like sixteen [/QUOTE] I thought she was the same age as Dora (whatever age that is, 20-something). Didn’t they go to school together? Or were they just coven-sisters? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/47 "2008-01-30T06:50:39Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] I thought she was the same age as Dora (whatever age that is, 20-something). Didn’t they go to school together? Or were they just coven-sisters? [/QUOTE] Raven is definitely at least Dora’s age. At one point, Dora says that the reason Raven has stretchmarks is not because she developed breasts early, but because she was about 15 lbs heavier in college. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/48 "2008-01-30T06:53:11Z")
Really? I have completely taken Raven for a teenager since the very first time she appeared in the comic. She seems so naive. Hell, now I want to hear her backstory just to figure out why she’s so . . . Raven. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/49 "2008-01-30T07:00:25Z")
I think Raven is just supposed to be a dumb kid who sometimes manages to say actually intelligent things. They tend to dump the negative stereotypes of emo/hipster kids onto her. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/50 "2008-01-30T07:10:47Z")
Raven has [changed](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=102) a bit since early appearances (“I am so bitching you out in my DeadJournal tonight”). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/51 "2008-01-30T07:15:10Z")
[QUOTE=squeegee] Raven has [changed](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=102) a bit since early appearances (“I am so bitching you out in my DeadJournal tonight”). [/QUOTE] Faye, too. She got way more…zaftig. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/52 "2008-01-30T07:19:23Z")
Actually, I like the current character design of all three of those ladies quite a bit; Jeph has really done a great job evolving their look. Though I do think I preferred Raven a little earlier in the strip, when she had a more wide-eyed innocent look, vs. the pink-hair version currently appearing. It just punched up her rare insightful moments that much more. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/53 "2008-01-30T08:06:44Z")
Wow. She was really insecure in this last one, wasn’t she? I mean, I can kind of see where it’s coming from, but it’s been going on for so long. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/54 "2008-01-30T14:34:28Z")
Yeah, today’s got Dora being a real bitch on wheels. This is so getting old. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/55 "2008-01-30T18:17:38Z")
Hmm, Jeph’s comment today: > [@Jeph](#): > > Man I was so tired last night that I completely mixed up the dates of the Magna Carta and the battle of Hastings. Thanks to everyone who corrected me. ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/56 "2008-01-30T18:39:46Z")
Dora \*is \*being a bitch, but maybe what’s behind it is the fact that she has said “I love you” to Marten and he didn’t say it back. They had a conversation about this a while back and she was very reassuring and cool about it. But no one likes to say “I love you” to a boy and not have him say it back. I think Dora’s into this a little more seriously than Marten is (she’s older than him, isn’t she?) and it’s gnawing at her. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/57 "2008-01-30T19:13:26Z")
[QUOTE=Menocchio] One suspects that Jeph doesn’t know English history as well as he thought he did. (This is comic #1066) [/QUOTE] Author’s comment on today’s comic (#[1067](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1067)): "Man I was so tired last night that I completely mixed up the dates of the Magna Carta and the battle of Hastings. Thanks to everyone who corrected me. THIS JUST IN: WEBCOMICS AUTHOR ADMITS MISTAKE" ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/58 "2008-01-30T20:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=Glassy] Dora \*is \*being a bitch, but maybe what’s behind it is the fact that she has said “I love you” to Marten and he didn’t say it back. They had a conversation about this a while back and she was very reassuring and cool about it. But no one likes to say “I love you” to a boy and not have him say it back. I think Dora’s into this a little more seriously than Marten is (she’s older than him, isn’t she?) and it’s gnawing at her. [/QUOTE] I think I remember that, but vaguely…do you know which one? (Yeah, considering there have been THOUSANDS, I know, this should be real easy.) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/59 "2008-01-30T21:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I think I remember that, but vaguely…do you know which one? (Yeah, considering there have been THOUSANDS, I know, this should be real easy.) [/QUOTE] [Try here](http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?&Search=Search&comic=32&) ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066/60 "2008-01-31T00:20:45Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I think I remember that, but vaguely…do you know which one? (Yeah, considering there have been THOUSANDS, I know, this should be real easy.) [/QUOTE] Start with [1004](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1004) and read the next few. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-questionable-content-fans-comic-1059/434066.md?page=4)