# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/661 "2011-03-01T15:53:54Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > What’s this strip a “callback” to (per Jeph’s comment)? It refers to a couple of strips where a character spoke in tongues when disturbed about something (the one I remember features Dora doing it at the idea of Sven and Hanners going out on a date). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/662 "2011-03-01T17:22:18Z")
I remember Jeph saying something on Twitter about his deep, passionate love for fonts, and how some font website had a big sale and he spent tons of money. I wonder if the speaking-in-tongues is an actual font that we (read: someone else) could translate. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/663 "2011-03-01T17:37:29Z")
> [@Chef\_Troy](#): > > It refers to a couple of strips where a character spoke in tongues when disturbed about something (the one I remember features Dora doing it at the idea of Sven and Hanners going out on a date). [Here](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) and [here](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1754). ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/664 "2011-03-01T17:40:47Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > The first two panels of [today’s](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1872) strip seemed to following the script of one of my QC fantasies, but diverged after that. Marigold’s been _particularly_ curvy the last few strips. My my. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/665 "2011-03-01T17:44:23Z")
It is an actual font, Miskatonic, a Blambot font…Gisele Legace and Dave Lumsdon also use it in Eerie Cuties, for one of the characters. But, in their case, it’s just gibberish…who knows if Jeph’s actually written anything real in it. Though, when Giz ID’d the font on the forums, she implied there’s a fairly limited number of actual characters in the font, so it’s entirely possible that it’s impossible to actually have it make sense. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/666 "2011-03-01T17:45:39Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I remember Jeph saying something on Twitter about his deep, passionate love for fonts, and how some font website had a big sale and he spent tons of money. I wonder if the speaking-in-tongues is an actual font that we (read: someone else) could translate. Sure enough. “Disturb me and I shall summon a horde of shoggoths to rend your flesh.” Ah, **Tengu** ’s post reveals that the font name is appropriate. I was going to link it to the current R’lyeh thread. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/667 "2011-03-01T18:08:13Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [Here](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) and [here](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1754). The first one is translatable, though there seem to be a couple of extraneous characters. The second is gibberish. “I want to fill your scrotum with spiders and broken glass.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/668 "2011-03-02T04:18:55Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > To clarify, I’d assumed the existence of a tough Marten implied the Secret Bakery was a Bizzaro (yes!) CoD. Since I was mistaken about the existence of a tough Marten, SB is probably NOT Bizzaro CoD. It MAY be Pre-Crisis CoD, however. > > Elliot (the big guy) would make an amusing Bizzaro-Tai, but clearly doesn’t work as a pre-Crisis Tai. He might be pre-Crisis Marten, though. Perhaps Pre-Crisis Marten post-having-his-soul-crushed by Renee, who seems to be Pre-Crisis Faye. I suspect that Elliot is a bizarro Marten in that he actually resembles the QC author (jacques) much more than Marten does. Jeph is a big guy, and has commented several times that most people who see him expect someone scrawny & skinny like Marten not realizing that the characters in the comic are not based on anyone. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/669 "2011-03-02T13:28:30Z")
Heh. Maybe it is callback week after all. A Hanners freak-out (been a long time) and a dream sequence. – Note that Dream “Dora” actually has Marten’s jawline and facial structure. So it may be ChickMarten from Marten’s own dreams . . . ---
**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:** [March 3, 2011, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/670 "2011-03-03T06:22:05Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > Note that Dream “Dora” actually has Marten’s jawline and facial structure. So it may be ChickMarten from Marten’s own dreams . . . You must be kidding – that in no way looks like Dora. The head is pure Marten copy-paste, and the body is more, um, full-figured than Dora, and certainly heftier. I did like the joke – Hanners wakes up in Marigold’s bed and assumes she wasn’t dreaming, although it was a bit weak. Maybe the next strip has a better payoff. Also, wasn’t ChickMarten from a guest strip, so not canon? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/671 "2011-03-03T07:17:53Z")
I just ran across this in the archive – [here](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1332) is Faye’s previous boob-squish takedown of Hannelore. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/672 "2011-03-03T17:29:20Z")
Just posting to point out that the Vertigo comic ‘House of Mystery’ has a back up feature this month (I picked mine up yesterday) in which the character is watching a building collapse from inside Coffee of Doom and Marten and Faye are in panel on the sidewalk. Gene Ha must be a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/673 "2011-03-03T17:37:51Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Also, wasn’t ChickMarten from a guest strip, so not canon? [Nope.](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1169) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/674 "2011-03-03T18:48:10Z")
OK, Pintsize doing his little ghost riding dance is the cutest thing he has ever done. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/675 "2011-03-03T20:57:40Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > [Nope.](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1169) Apparently I was thinking of [this guest strip](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=409), which contains the same “wake up still dreaming” joke as #1169. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/676 "2011-03-04T06:14:32Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > OK, Pintsize doing his little ghost riding dance is the cutest thing he has ever done. I had to go and google “ghost riding” - never heard that phrase before. I feel older and more out of touch every day, and the sad thing is I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything… ---
**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:** [March 4, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/677 "2011-03-04T06:40:36Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > I had to go and google “ghost riding” - never heard that phrase before. > > I feel older and more out of touch every day, and the sad thing is I don’t really feel like I’m missing anything… I saw that and thought to myself, “Is that what the kids are calling it these days?” I suppose I should Google it too, cuz I have no idea either. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/678 "2011-03-04T06:45:18Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I saw that and thought to myself, “Is that what the kids are calling it these days?” I suppose I should Google it too, cuz I have no idea either. Thirded. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/679 "2011-03-04T13:18:07Z")
Heh…typically SNSFW guest strip by Randy Milholland today. I love Jeph’s note about the hate mail. Dude, you knew he was Randy when you asked him to guest! ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/680 "2011-03-04T14:25:25Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > I had to go and google “ghost riding” - never heard that phrase before. > [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I suppose I should Google it too, cuz I have no idea either. > [@squeegee](#): > > Thirded. Me, too. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=35)