# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/361 "2010-10-08T19:12:25Z")
Hanners would never grab Sven’s ass. Do you know what comes out of those things? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/362 "2010-10-08T19:46:35Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > > [@Tengu](#): > > > > I kind of feel for Dora…not only is having a brother like Sven kind of annoying in itself (I know the feeling, except Sven’s not as big an asshole as my brother), but now even her boyfriend’s complimenting his ass? > > The entire cast except perhaps for Hanners and Marigold are a bunch of wiseasses. Marten’s just joking around, and it _should_ be a sign that maybe Dora’s taking things a bit too seriously. And we know that Faye appreciates Sven’s backside: [Link](http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1081) ---
**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:** [October 9, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/363 "2010-10-09T21:15:51Z")
> [@Shark](#): > > Hanners would never grab Sven’s ass. Do you know what comes out of those things? That’s Hanners’ tragedy. She’s not asexual - she finds men attractive and wants to do things like grabbing their asses. But her phobias make it impossible. The good news is that, like the other characters in this strip, she’s slowly working her way through her problems. Hanners will eventually reach the point where she’s able to follow through on her urges. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/364 "2010-10-09T21:46:28Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > The entire cast except perhaps for Hanners and Marigold are a bunch of wiseasses. And even [Hanners](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1068) and [Marigold](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1619) occasionally join in. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/365 "2010-10-10T10:00:00Z")
My OCD ass would totally be dating Hanners. And fantasizing about a threes0me with Marigold. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/366 "2010-10-12T00:47:50Z")
I am greatly relieved now that I’ve finally realized that the word starting with [bukk](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771) on Marigold’s cup must be “bukkit.” ---
**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:** [October 12, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/367 "2010-10-12T03:32:51Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I am greatly relieved now that I’ve finally realized that the word starting with [bukk](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771) on Marigold’s cup must be “bukkit.” Hmm. And the full phrase would appear to be, “U HAZ BUKKIT” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/368 "2010-10-12T03:43:54Z")
Actually, the lettering changes. In panels 5 & 6, there’s an “A” that wasn’t there in panels 1 & 2. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/369 "2010-10-12T04:41:31Z")
Also, Dale seems to be violating the Terms of Service with this out-of-game, real-world harassment. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/370 "2010-10-12T14:19:39Z")
Oh, he’s just flirting. Albeit in a way that would be totally unrecognizable by, well, non-WoW nrrds. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/371 "2010-10-14T22:29:42Z")
I’d just like to toss in another ‘I started reading QC due to this thread.’ Which is ironic in my case, as I live in the real Northampton, MA.\* Now that Dora’s Very Bad Day is over (which lasted just under six weeks . . .) it seems appropriate to ask . . . is she unpopular? I’ve generally taken her as being one of the more awesome characters out of a cast made largely of weapons-grade awesome, so this is a bit puzzling to me. Especially for a comic largely runs on a theme of ‘flawed, but still amazing.’ Sort of the big sister role. If the strip were an 80’s giant robot show, she’d have been killed in episode 17 . . . Making her new, more badass character design appropriate. And on an unrelated note, what’s Hanners doing in panel 1 here? (And Sven’s face during his freakout on the next strip is oddly hilarious. Still makes me chuckle) A couple of days late, I know. I had to have my username reactivated. (Thanks, anonymous assistant webmaster guy and/or possibly chick!) – - Which means most strips, for me, come with the free mini-game of ‘where they hell are they having dinner/drinking/purchasing sex toys today?’ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/372 "2010-10-14T22:43:44Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > And on an unrelated note, what’s Hanners doing in panel 1 here? She appears to be playing with an edamame pod and deciding that “edamame” is a funny word. If that little chant she’s doing refers to a specific song or word game, I don’t know it. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/373 "2010-10-14T23:33:00Z")
By the way, I’d like to reccomend today’s band. “The Sword” is a lovely metal group out of Austin, TX, that is inspired by a number of fantasy novels. They remind me both of Sabbath and Hawkwind. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xe7OQpUlanE/hqdefault.jpg "The Sword - Freya (video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7OQpUlanE) Play. It. Loud. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/374 "2010-10-14T23:43:43Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Now that Dora’s Very Bad Day is over (which lasted just under six weeks . . .) it seems appropriate to ask . . . is she unpopular? I’ve generally taken her as being one of the more awesome characters out of a cast made largely of weapons-grade awesome, so this is a bit puzzling to me. Especially for a comic largely runs on a theme of ‘flawed, but still amazing.’ Crazy SOs get very little leeway. She’s shown signs of being a manipulative, possessive control freak, and despite words to he contrary has not made a real active effort to fight her poor tendencies. “RAAAGH god I’m so sorry I’ll do better WHATSVENRAAAAGH” Don’t get me wrong, I _like_ her. There’s not one of the cast I hate seeing show up in the comic. But she’s the psycho girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kim_o_the_Concrete_Jungle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/375 "2010-10-15T00:34:43Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Now that Dora’s Very Bad Day is over (which lasted just under six weeks . . .) it seems appropriate to ask . . . is she unpopular? I’ve generally taken her as being one of the more awesome characters out of a cast made largely of weapons-grade awesome, so this is a bit puzzling to me. Especially for a comic largely runs on a theme of ‘flawed, but still amazing.’ The problem with Dora, I think, is she doesn’t really have a strong story arc of her own. The whole “getting tired of being a goth” thing got resolved early on. The Faye, Marten, Dora love triangle was resolved in her favor quite some time ago. There’s no real tension in her relationship since Marten is pretty much the perfect boyfriend (and Jeph’s attempts to induce tension are generally going to fall flat because of that). The current sibling-rivalry line is fairly weak, given that she is basically happy and Sven really isn’t – which makes her look a bit petty. As far as I can see, there’s really only two ways her character can go from here. Either she fades into the background, or something dramatic and life changing happens – the cafe burns down, she gets pregnant… ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/376 "2010-10-22T18:22:06Z")
OK, so does anyone else wonder if Jeph’s been kind of horny lately? 🙂 It seems like there’s been a bunch of throwaway sex, gizz, boob & lesbian jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/377 "2010-10-22T19:29:47Z")
> [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](#): > > As far as I can see, there’s really only two ways her character can go from here. Either she fades into the background, or something dramatic and life changing happens – the cafe burns down, she gets pregnant… She has a good spot as the Mama Bear, but in order to do that she needs to be sensible and solid, to act as an anchor for all the crazy people around her. She does that pretty well most of the time, usually at the cafe, but the Crazy pops up often enough to weaken her hold on that spot. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/378 "2010-10-22T20:07:35Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > She has a good spot as the Mama Bear, but in order to do that she needs to be sensible and solid, to act as an anchor for all the crazy people around her. She does that pretty well most of the time, usually at the cafe, but the Crazy pops up often enough to weaken her hold on that spot. I tend to think that one of the themes of this strip is that everyone, no matter how together they seem to be, has their insecurities and their very bad side, so I doubt she’s ever going to be the sane, rational one. If anything I suppose that’s Marten now. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/379 "2010-10-23T01:25:32Z")
I wonder where Jeph is going with the Friendly AI Singularity. It sounds like a chance to turn the comic around a corner somehow, but I can’t fathom where he’s going with this. He just changed the strip’s global rules – we already weren’t in “our” universe, since there were small-scale AI’s (Pintsize, Winslow, Momo) running around, but now we’re in a post singularity universe with smart AI? What does that mean? I’m hoping we’re not in the Halo universe (!), but what hypothetical AI universe are we in, and what does that mean (comically, of course)? ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/380 "2010-10-23T01:41:21Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > OK, so does anyone else wonder if Jeph’s been kind of horny lately? 🙂 It seems like there’s been a bunch of throwaway sex, gizz, boob & lesbian jokes. He streams the drawing of his comic and there is a chat going on then; he knows his audience very well. Count yourself lucky the cat boner layer isn’t in the finished strip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=20)