I’m still trying to figure out what body positioning is happening in panel 2. In panels 1, 3 and 4 she’s facing Marten. In panel 2 he’s suddenly spooning her.
Nope. In panel 2, she’s nervous that he’s not going to be okay with her request, so she twists herself away some, mostly at her pelvis. His position relative to her torso (and particularly to her collarbone) remains pretty much constant from panel 1 to 2. Then in panel 3, she gets all bold and go-for-broke and turns back to face and fully embrace him.
That may be so, but then he goes from resting on the pillow to supported by both arms. It’s just odd.
That said, tonight’s strip gave me hope for Faye. I was sure that was not how the last panel was going to go.
Well the comment at the bottom of today’s strip says “Been there, done that.”
Thanks to Kamino Neko mentioning it above I now know what that’s in reference to.
I can see Faye’s character mirroring Jeph’s as the story goes on. Maybe she’ll finally make some more dinosaur espresso machines (Espressosaurs).
I’m sure it’s been mentioned before, but there is a pretty good wiki on QC here: Questionable Content Wiki | Fandom
I will say that the interaction in #2891 was very powerful for people like me. The frames where Claire removes her panties and then says “W-well, this-this is me” hit a few people I know, and myself, very hard. I’ve been in that situation, and I cannot really describe how horrifying, what a leap of faith, it is. It feels like you’ve just chosen to walk in front of a firing squad wearing giant target. Or like stepping out over an abyss and just hoping that someone, something, will catch you.
Very powerful. The artist seems to have done a decent job of capturing the emotion, as well as one could in the comic.
Una, what’s your opinion on how the trans characters are being handled in Dumbing of Age and Menage a 3?
I regret that I don’t follow those comics.
There’s a trans character in Dumbing of Age? Who am I missing?
There’s a trans character in Menage a 3? Who am I missing?
The brazilian model.
I don’t know if that completely went over my head the first time through or if I just forgot about her. Thanks!
Y’r welcome – I only followed the strip very briefly but I remembered that instance, still I had to use various search terms as I could not recall exact characters.
Meanwhile back at QC, Marten is in his usual mode of feeling he needs to explain what nobody asked for explaining.
There are actually two of them. In addition to Jocelyn (from the above links), there’s also Carla, who’s mostly appearing as one of Sal’s extended circle. Unlike Joce, it hasn’t been explicitly stated in comic that Carla’s trans, but there’s both word of god and some little hints in the comic (knowing since before she first appeared that she was trans, all the ‘wait, I have a theory…Carla’s trans’ after both of the major ones made me laugh a bit).
Actually, I was thinking of Carla. Willis hasn’t explicitly stated she’s trans but it seems pretty clear from some of the things that have been said.
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I’ve only been following Dumbing of Age for a month or two. Is Indiana University REALLY that LGBT? There don’t seem to be all that many straight kids in the strip. Have we just been following the non-straight characters lately, or will they change the name to Castro District U?
I’d reckon that if you’d tally up all the characters, there would still be an overwhelmingly straight cast. It’s just that this level of representation is unusual, so it tends to stand out.
I think it’s just a cyclic thing. Willis just happens to be running some story arcs about homosexuality currently.
Something like 2/3 straight and cisgender. Not sure if I’d call that overwhelming, but it’s certainly majority.
And that’s just the actual significant cast of students… It’s unlikely that his selection of maybe 2 dozen characters is meant to be representative, percentage-wise, rather than simply representing a sampling of identities, and it skews straighter once the adults (teachers and parents) are included.
…Marten didn’t really answer the question, did he?
“More to it than that? Well, since we live in Northampton, Massachusetts, dating a trans person increases my ‘awesome’ rating by a factor of ten. Also, yer cute.”