# I don't quite get today's "Questionable Content" strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 13, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967 "2010-04-13T17:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 116
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2302 "2019-11-09T02:10:53Z")
“A hundred people died that day” Classic. Never forget to read Jacques’ little postscripts. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2303 "2019-11-10T15:22:00Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You’re forgetting one of the comics where she became an intern: > [Questionable Content](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4077) So I did. Thanks. ---
**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 28, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2304 "2020-01-28T06:35:09Z")
[Claire lets Faye know she’s trans](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4187). Obviously word will get out and cause consternation! Or not, is what I’m thinking. I just can’t see Jeph going there. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2305 "2020-01-28T09:18:03Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > [Claire lets Faye know she’s trans](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4187). Obviously word will get out and cause consternation! Or not, is what I’m thinking. I just can’t see Jeph going there. I couldn’t believe that Faye didn’t already know by now - I had to go a long way back in the archive to try to find Claire’s first appearance. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2306 "2020-01-28T13:06:05Z")
Has Claire actually moved in properly? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2307 "2020-01-28T14:44:08Z")
Yeah, ages ago. The [official move-in](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3466) came after she’d been essentially living there for a while. Back in 2017, but since Jeph doesn’t date his strips beyond the copyright date, I can’t say whether that was ‘just over 2 years’ or ‘something like 3 years’. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2308 "2020-01-28T14:48:19Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > [Claire lets Faye know she’s trans](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4187). Obviously word will get out and cause consternation! Or not, is what I’m thinking. I just can’t see Jeph going there. I’m pretty sure this is in response to the number of emails asking ‘but what is she packing?!’ which he was complaining about on Twitter earlier, so…yeah. If this ends up being an ‘everybody in her circle finds out’ thing, it’s going to be everybody being super-chill and nothing changing other than a few of the other girls noting her as not somebody to go to in a menstrual emergency. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2309 "2020-01-28T14:51:28Z")
It’s five days a week, right? If so, that would be 144 weeks ago based on the strip numbers or 2.77 years ago. I don’t know if the guest strips and one off fillers are numbered but close 'nuff for government work. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2310 "2020-01-28T15:18:33Z")
Huh…it never occurred to me to do that. I mean, it’s just an approximation, due to time off, but…yeah, not a bad approximation. So, we’re ranging toward 3 years at this point…still feels longer, to be perfectly honest. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2311 "2020-01-28T17:10:48Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > [Claire lets Faye know she’s trans](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4187). Obviously word will get out and cause consternation! Or not, is what I’m thinking. I just can’t see Jeph going there. I was under the impression he had already addressed the scenario, though I am not sure that was in-strip. ---
**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, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2312 "2020-01-28T18:02:47Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > I was under the impression he had already addressed the scenario, though I am not sure that was in-strip. As far as I recall, Claire had only told two people in the strip; Marten and Emily. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2313 "2020-01-28T20:06:15Z")
OK - so Claire (and Emily) first turn up in [strip 2203](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2203) - I didn’t start looking from the beginning, I probably picked up the story at 1500 or so … Unlike some of the other webcomics I read regularly (Girl Genius and Schlock Mercenary), I have never been invested in the storyline of _Questionable Content_ sufficiently to re-read the entire archive. Nor _Something Positive_ for that matter, which would probably be an exercise in masochism. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2314 "2020-01-28T21:22:49Z")
I’m the same way with the QC (and SP) back catalogs. Been reading both for years but both also had years of content before I started. I think I once tried reading QC’s but the artwork and writing turned me off pretty quickly. ---
**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, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2315 "2020-01-28T23:44:55Z")
Considering how things ended up, [these](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2216) [strips](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2217) now seem ironic. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2316 "2020-01-29T00:17:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > As far as I recall, Claire had only told two people in the strip; Marten and Emily. Claire seemed to talk about it indirectly with Bubbles, back during the memory-wipe episode, but she didn’t explicitly say so. If Bubbles is assumed to know and Faye didn’t, that speaks volumes for Bubbles’ discretion. ---
**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 29, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2317 "2020-01-29T03:20:34Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Claire seemed to talk about it indirectly with Bubbles, back during the memory-wipe episode, but she didn’t explicitly say so. If Bubbles is assumed to know and Faye didn’t, that speaks volumes for Bubbles’ discretion. [You called it](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4188). I’m a little disappointed that the opossum wasn’t Randy the Bandicoot. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2318 "2020-01-29T04:13:45Z")
OK, it looks like ‘everybody’s going to find out, and nobody is going to make a big deal out of it’ is, in fact, where it’s going. (If anybody in this crowd would, it’d be Pintsize.) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2319 "2020-01-29T04:46:25Z")
The whole reason of it even being brought up is what she’s going through is a well-known side effect of a couple of bottom surgery variations and people know about it you know with the past month of strips it seems to me that Dora and Tai’s wedding is going to be the finale for most the original cast and then its going to focus on the side characters ore than it already does … although we need to see steves boat before he sells it ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2320 "2020-01-29T05:17:50Z")
All Melon, all the time. ---
**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 29, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2321 "2020-01-29T05:51:44Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > a well-known side effect of a couple of bottom surgery variations Wut? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=115) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=117)