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"I hate the art in this one, I couldn\'t even bring myself to shade the fucking thing but oh well whatever" -Jeph Jacques, writer and Illustrator
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>>77655603
>the marvel of Jeph "Knife Game Champion" Jacques
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Die. Die. Die Jeph, please. Die. Die!
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>>77655641
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>facetious
This is not something you use, unless its your daily word for your Word A Day calendar. Especially when bleeding.
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>>77655701

Where have you been? Misusing "facetious" for "sarcastic" has been hip for years now.
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>>77655701
Chill down murrican, some people speak properly.
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>>77655603
How can one man be so devoid of any drive to do anything?
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Okay, that's impressively bad, even for him. How anyone can support this guy is a mystery, he doesn't even do pandering well
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>>77655603
I'm done with this comic. I've been reading this strip every day since March of 2007. I've watched this comic meander on for the last few years, and I just, don't care anymore. This is the strip that's done it for me.

Later Questionable Content, thanks for all the music jokes that I took the time to understand, they were some really cool bands to discover.
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>>77655743

Except she clearly isn't. If she thought she was being facetious then she would have known the object was seriously dangerous.
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>>77655603
Jesus christ.
>OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR
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>>77655794
>Reading comprehension
She thought "it's sharp" wasn't a serious statement.
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>>77655762
I don't even get why he posted it if he himself hates it.

You really need to be a person so dead inside, to just say "Fuck it, i hate it I post it anyways"
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>>77655701
>This is not something you use, unless its your daily word for your Word A Day calendar
I conquer.
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>>77655701
>this and blase and ambiance
think he has one of those calendar
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Jeph I'm so disappointed in you. We know you can do better, or at least not at this level. You could have taken a break. Nobody here could have hated you any more. Does your Patreon prevent that? Jeph, do what's right for you. And tell us what you're listening to these days.
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>>77655603
>10k a month
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>>77655788
Really? This is the page that you give up on?

Anyways, see you tomorrow anon
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>>77655943
I don't see the edit.
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>>77655851

I mean there's a way that "I have to get it done and what's done on deadline is what goes in" could be like a pressure cooker for good ideas, other times it's this shit
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>>77655977
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>>77655943
>Really? This is the page that you give up on?
I can understand why.
This page shows just how little Jeph cares about his own craft better than anything else in the comic. If even he has no interest in this piece of shit why should the audience?

At least that Claire shit was trying to tell a story, even if the execution was as bad as it could possibly be.
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>>77655851
I find that a lot of webcomic artists are vocal about "Well, I did this and I'm not happy with it", and they post it because eventually you settle for good over perfect.

The other options are the guys that never update because it's not perfect and the DA "No crits" guys that refuse to hear it isn't perfect.
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>>77656092
True, but at the same time they dont make the kind of money Jeff makes to just make the comic.

Like, all he has to do literally all day is draw a comic. Others are probably freelancers with other jobs. Jeff just has to sit in front of a computer for a few hours draw out a little story, and not worry about other jobs that pay his bills to live.
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Ironically the second panel of today's strip conveys more emotion and urgency than anything he's done in months; yet he hates it.

Go fucking figure.
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>>77655603
PEN PEN?!
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>>77656054
He's lurking in these threads...
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>>77656188
This. by how it sounds, Jeff is well aware his webcomic is the Junk food of the Internet (Not good, yet people consumes it daily out of habit.) but rather than improve he just gave up with himself and just goes with the motions. Not trying to do anything fancy or new.
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If I, for some ridiculous reason, were contributing to his patreon, this unbelievably shameless lack of dedication would be the thing that made me stop.

How the hell does he expect people to support his work if he demonstrates and even admits not putting effort into it?
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>>77656395

Was Alice Grove his attempt to do a passion project while QC pays the bills, or was that doomed from the start?
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>>77655603
Stop whoring your comic out in here. Or continue, so we never have to click it, and you have to get a job.
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>>77656495
I doubt it.
That comic seemed totally directionless from the start.
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>>77656495
That one felt more like He was trying to convince himself "I have this QC is not my entire life. I can do other comics I have drive!" only for it to fire since trying to convince yourself that you have spark is not the same as actually having it.
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Meanwhile, Helmer is consistently producing 3-4 pages a week.

No filler, actual story, incomparably better quality artwork, but she's making a third of the money that this atrocious hack does.
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>>77656545
It's winding down like Claire's testosterone.
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>>77656663
The webcomic game is like 99% longevity.

If you've been around for 10 years, you're going to be making money. If you haven't, you can fuck off.
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>>77655740
I'm pretty sure facetious was correctly, actually. Meant to be funny but actually annoying.
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I read the description.

I read it again.

His art has been slipping for the past month

I re-read the description

Nearly 3100 pages

What the fuck Jeph.
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I think it's GOOD he's being self critical. He put it out anyway, but he does have a deadline. So now it's just a matter if he tries to up his game tomorrow or if he just does the same thing and complains again.

>>77656726

People always say that, but it's where it always is. It'd need to hit the lower end of 9k to really show any decline.
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>>77656189
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>>77657791
The suicide draws closer. Let it all come tumblring down.
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>>77657828
I'm happy that Jeph is seeing the decline in the quality of the art he put out (See literally any page with Bubbles in it) I'm disappointed that he saw it, got tired of trying to fix it, and just put it out there anyways.

can't have been to impress /co/, they'd have complained regarless
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>>77656630

He should take a sabbatical, if that were feasible. Find a good stopping point, reread all the things that influenced him, read some new stuff, try a few new things out, come out with his batteries recharged.

But sadly he will not.
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>>77655603
This looks like complete garbage
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>>77657952
New to QC, I take it?
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>>77655740

I've been doing it since the early 90's man, it still isn't old.
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Does anyone outside of the OP even go to the website any more?

I flat-out refuse to give him pageviews. The only way I ever see a QC strip is when it's posted here. Fuck him, I'm done.
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>>77655603
Who wants to take bets on when his next relapse will be?

>>77655701
you might not believe this, but some people actually do use big words in everyday life, even in inappropriate situations.
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>>77655603
the B^U is reaching peak CAD levels
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>>77655701
People use it, just not in the moments after they slice their wrist open.
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>>77655899
>only 2 months ago
>the end is nigh

thank god.
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>>77658127
same here. dropped about 2 years ago
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Where are the Trance comics?
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>>77655870
Way underrated post right here.
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>>77656189
He made a comic with someone clutching their bleeding hand. Is he asking us to edit these at this point?
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are Willis threads banned now or did we just get sick of him? asking here because he and Jeph are buddies
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>>77655794
>If she thought she was being facetious then she would have known the object was seriously dangerous.

u wot
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>>77658897
Theyre basically the same thing now
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The problem is he has nowhere to go, the robot fight club arc is lame. He keeps adding new characters but it doesn't makeup for the complete lack of story. Have Hannelore get a BF, have her get sexually assaulted. Have Dora and Tai have a threesome with Sven. SOMETHING!
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>>77659452
>Have Dora and Tai have a threesome with Sven
Thats a little gay anon
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>>77658060

Asshole I was drinking something at the time.
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>>77659477
No, just incestuous
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>>77655788

Your just the person who complains about getting bad service at a store, vowing never to shop in there again, telling everyone how poorly treated you got.....and then going back to said store 3 days later.
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>statement about how he doesn't give a fuck
>directly below, an ad for his book
He must be a parody of a cartoonist. He just has to be.
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>>77657925

I thought his numerous trips to cons were his sabbaticals?

He should just make one con "Hey, i'm off for the week, visit me at FATNERDCHICKSCON to see me!" type of deal for a bit.
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I think the thing is, Jeph actually hates Questionable Content. See, for years, drawing and posting a page of QC was the last thing he did before going to sleep. First, when he still had a day job, it was a thing he'd do for fun to help him unwind at the end of the day. Then when QC became popular, he quit his job and made the comic his main source of income.

But he's not an artist, and not a writer. He doesn't have any educational background in art, he never studied it, he just doodled for fun. And that's what QC was, him doodling for fun. And even when he didn't have a day job, when QC became his source of income, he would still wait until the last hour before he slept to make a comic. Go back and read some of his old tweets. He constantly complains about how tired he is but still has to come up with a comic. QC became his career, but he continued to treat it like a hobby.

I think somewhere down the line, I'm going to assume it was soon after the stab-hand incident, he realized that his approach to QC was bad for the comic and bad for him personally. He tried to take QC more seriously, moving Marten and Claire's relationship forward, (trying) to keep a buffer so he doesn't draw it late at night when he's tired, dedicating time to the book collections and so on.

And what's the result of Jeph taking Questionable Content seriously? >>77655603 And why? Because he doesn't care. That's why he started recording music and drawing Alice Grove. I think it won't be long before he's done with QC. It took years for Jeph to take Questionable Content seriously, and when he finally did, he discovered that he hated it.
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>>77655603
I GAVE UP. WHO CARES?
-Jeph Jacques
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>>77655603
i think this is one of the best QC comics in awhile. i havent read the entire back log, but when i read this i almost smiled, which is more than any of his other work has done
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>>77659691
>it won't be long before he's done with QC

But then how's he going to pay for the 10k a month lifestyle he's become accustomed to? I doubt that money hasn't been tied up somewhere. I suspect he has a house and big bills and shit he needs to keep up with.And if he can't even carry a simple story arc, I doubt he's good with savings or investments.

Also doesn't he have an ex wife? I wouldn't be surprised if he needs to pay her some kind of support after the divorce.
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>>77655603
Soon.
Soon it'll all be over.
Will he kill himself or will he just end the comic?
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>>77659825
We all know this is heading for suicide. It's clear he has a lot of deep issues with himself and his life, despite the fact that it would only take a bit of effort to grow as a person.
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>>77655666

Oh he will. That's a guarantee for all of us.
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>>77659691
Hes said he doesnt like doing QC that much, and Alice was his dream comic. Sadly both comics suck. Alice just sucks more because of QC.

And its Jeffs fault. Its entirely on him. He decided to make QC his job. He could have kept doing just merch and ad sales, but he decided to bring pateron into the equation for more money.

His fans are his boss now. Whether he likes it or not QC isnt up to him anymore. Pateron is basically like putting your company on a stock exchange. You gotta satisfy your investors. His fans are his investors, literally. Jeff can't even do his job. He complains about everything and does shitty work. If this was a "real" job, he would be shitcanned and replaced.

Jeff is living the dream and realized his dream sucks. He could quit anytime but he cant. He had no real skills. He went to college for music theory if I remember right. The best he could be is a elementary music teacher, if hes lucky. His music isn't good I might add. All he does is mix shit on garage band.

Holy fuck, I just remembered he kickstarted an album a year or two ago. Rented a studio and had it properly mixed.

Jeff is just really really fucking lucky. He fell into niche and became successful. How does he repay his audience? By being even more mediocre than he started out. Hes too far in to quit everything now.
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>>77655830

Understandable. You generally don't expect spatulas to be sharp.

Speaking of which, why WOULD a spatula even BE sharp? I can only imagine Faye had nothing to do one day
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>>77659883
That's a pretty concise summary of the situation, anon. Nice work.
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>>77659884
And why would you grab the head of a spatula?

Jeph, I know you're not really trying, but c'mon now.
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Whatever happened to Irish? Did she post more nudes?
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>>77659883

>>Jack Black

>>Not Gilbert Gottfried
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>>77660024

He, dude.

Irish is a guy
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>>77660045
She makes my dick diamond so I'm just gonna keep calling her she.
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>>77659923
why would you need a spatula to make coffee?
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>>77660234

Except you are wrong. He is not a she

You're fapping to a man, you fag.
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Smug anime girls.
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>>77655788
See you tomorrow.
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>>77655603
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>>77655603
Missed comics I could forgive if I gave him money. Inconsistent art quality I could forgive, because it never had it to begin with. But it's that "oh well whatever" that is just a real fuck you to anyone that ever accepted his comic for the little daily time-waster it is.

You're making 10k a month to draw a comic you fucking child, have the goddamn decency to knock of this exasperated teenager act sometime before you hit 40.

Jesus christ I thought I was back in '02 reading a fucking livejournal post.
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>>77660752
Why am i laughing fuck
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>>77660301
Cafe might serve breakfast sandwiches?
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>>77660302
That's impossible, as I am straight.

So Irish must be a she.
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>>77660834

There's nothing sadder than a faggot in denial.
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>>77655603
>but oh well whatever
This should not be the attitude of a man who is paid solely by his fans.

If I were paying this guy and he said shit like this, I'd withdraw my donations.
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>>77659554
>not fucking a dyke while your sister grinds her cooch on the chick's face
>not using it as an opportunity to figure out what the two of you are going to get your mom for her birthday
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>>77660301
For food served with the coffee. Frosting spatulas will sometimes have a serrated edge so they can also be used to cut cake.
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>>77655603
Oh well, he'll fix it for the published edition.
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>>77655603
>couldn't bring myself to shade the fucking thing
ITS YOUR FUCKING JOB YOU ASSCLOWN, STOP DELIVERING SHODDY PRODUCT, DO IT FUCKING RIGHT
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eating shit is never ironic.
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>QC is so bad even the characters are stabbing themselves
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>>77660233

>>Even fart jokes are funnier than QC
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>>77661374
That's because even QC's fart jokes are inept.

Jeph's idea of a fart joke is saying the word fart.
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>>77661154
But not doing it's probably not going to affect his income at all, so IS it really part of his job?
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>>77661465
>>77661154
Jeph is at the point where the people paying him aren't going to stop, and even if some do, he'll be virtually unaffected.

He's managed to amass an absolutely cancerous fanbase than will never leave him, or give him peace.

This is the monkey's paw, the hell he's built for himself.
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>>77659849
This is the only thought that brings me comfort in these threads.
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>>77655603
>I hate the art in this one
>-Jeph Jacques
he should complain to the artist
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>>77658005
Nah, I've read it before. It just looks worse, the colors look so flat and so do the characters.
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>>77660752
>What's up, friends?

That dialogue feels clunky. Sort of like "How do you do, fellow kids?".
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>>77661273
underrated post
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>>77656663
You mean SJW "muh cultural appropriation!" Der-shing Helmer? Yeah, I really can't say I feel bad for her not breaking bank with her Patreon, especially since the Meek has gone down so much in quality since she came back from her 3-year hiatus..
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>>77655603
I actually quite like the art in this one, compared to normal anyway.

Oh, don't get me wrong, the backgrounds are still dreadful and something about Hanners in the first and third panels makes it look like she was photoshopped in, but Penelope/Cosette are legitimately well drawn and I like the linework on Sven + his facial expressions.

Its better than his normal output for sure.
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Theoretically, let's say the patreon people all withdraw their money tomorrow, upset at this affront to effort. He still has adverts and merchandise sales. He'll still be like, okay, right?

With 10,000 a month he's rather well off, but can we make any reasonable conjectures as far as what he makes off ad revenue and merch sales? He'd still be pretty comfortable, right?
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>>77660045
Of course he's respecting the pronouns he wants nudes.
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>>77664636
He was making six figures annually years before Patreon came along, even assuming its a 50/50 split with his wife for running the business side of things he'd still probably be getting 50-60k a year from merch and ads alone - possibly more, depending on how much the site has grown since then.
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>>77661481
You'd think if he was secure enough in his fanbase to openly half ass his last comic he'd be less scared to take any chances with the narrative at all.
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>>77664146
I was thinking the same thing. He used a few angles he usually avoids with Hannelore, which I honestly applaud.
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>>77659884
>why WOULD a spatula even BE sharp
Don't know about "sharp" but metal spatulas with fine edges are useful for sliding under objects. The cheap plastic ones just push things around. I can see how someone could be careless with a fine spatula, but cutting one's wrist with it? That's a stretch.
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>>77661018
Does he still redraw the comics for the print editions? I thought he would have stopped after the first 750-1000 or so, or whenever the point is where his style starts to stabilize.

Here's another lazy comic from long ago that Jeph was eventually going to color but never did.
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>>77665532
But thats comic is okay because he still had an other job and didnt solely live off his comic yet.
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>>77658744
Came into this thread looking for those and also wondering if liquidmark had re-opened Handy Jay's yet.
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>>77660884
>If I were paying this guy and he said shit like this, I'd withdraw my donations.
If you were paying this guy you probably wouldn't care.
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>>77655603
>I drew it poorly so I'm going to make sure it looks even worse
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>>77666167
If anything, it looks like it had more effort put into it, especially the writing.
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>>77657925
He makes money with this comic specifically because it updates every weekday and it's been around forever. The comic taking an actual break would snap people out of the daily habit that he needs to make sure they maintain to keep his six figures a year rolling in.
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>>77659691
Lots of people work jobs they hate because it makes them over $100,000 a year.
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>>77666167
You're technically right, by a month.
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>>77666465
This is why he should hire backfills. The comic's income is several times over what's needed to support this. Jeph is just a combination of greedy and lazy and would rather wallow than seek lifestyle optimizations.
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>>77659795

>doesn't he have an ex wife?

Yup.

This is the thing he used to climb.
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>>77665019
I doubt it.

The people paying Jacques obviously don't, and haven't ever, cared about the quality of anything in the comic and won't.

They just want to see these dumbass characters bumble into and out of relationships. They want Jeph to pander to them using their favoritest waifu.
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>>77667118
They care so much about this that shipping is a bannable offense on the forums because the mods don't want to deal with waifu flame wars.
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>>77663300
>You mean SJW "muh cultural appropriation!" Der-shing Helmer?
Wait, is this post serious? She sheemed like a pretty cool person back in the day, the only odd thing was that she straight out refused to reveal wether she was male or female, I don't remember anything particularly SJW about them.
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>>77667486
What do they even talk about on the forum since they have so many banable offenses?
criticizing the comic or Jeph is banable
Shipping is banable
Disagreeing with the mods is banable
Saying anything moderately offensive is banable
Don't they grill all new forum posters for excuses to ban them?
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>>77666563
Faye had a sister?
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>>77667756
They fellate Jacques and praise each new comic and storyline as if they were a series of successive masterworks.

Despite this, Jeph is still stressed out by their comments, and the Reddit page is toxic to him, despite having a net positive opinion of him.
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>>77665532
>redraw comics for the print editions
But some of his older art is better than his current art
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>>77665532
>that Jeph was eventually going to color but never did.
>"If I have time I may put up a colored version, we'll see"
That sounds like a "I never intended to color this and you can't even say I committed to doing so" to me.
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>>77666640
Why does she have no lower jaw?
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>>77668368
Yeah, but at least he was pretending to maybe try
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>>77666610
I get the feeling that Jeph is the type to think that hiring people to do that would violate his integrity, and is somehow worse than just shitting out whatever he thinks up in the last hour of the day.
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>>77667756
>criticizing the comic or its author is bannable
>Questionable Content confirmed for literally worse than Dominic Deegan
Mookie was a hack and a terrible author, but I'm starting to realize how rare a phenomenon it was that he freely let his official forums tear the comic apart (more and more frequently, as it got worse and worse).
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>>77667756
>What do they even talk about on the forum since they have so many banable offenses?
Basically what >>77667992 said:
>They fellate Jacques and praise each new comic and storyline as if they were a series of successive masterworks.
"Jeph is a master story teller!"
"[Character X] is sooooo cute! *huggles!!!*"

>Don't they grill all new forum posters for excuses to ban them?
Yeah, they're constantly assuming bad faith of new posters and jump the gun with their suspicions. If the mods catch a new commenter who didn't go didn't grind exp in the new poster forum they'll post a passive aggressive "WELCOME NEW PERSON" reply to whatever thread it is.

>Jeph is still stressed out by their comments
The harshest thing posted there is along the lines of, "I wonder if Jeph considered..." Not even a criticism as much as a request for more information.

>Reddit page is toxic to him, despite having a net positive opinion of him.
With the vast majority of tame criticisms downvoted to something like -25 even though the top comment might be as low as +5.
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>>77667907
She died on her way back to her home planet.
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>>77667756
Don't forget saying even neutral comments on anything relating to transgender or sexuality identity. Something as tame as "I don't understand the phenomenon" gets called out for triggering and microaggression.
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Okay fellas. I'm gonna do it. I’m gonna attempt to read this entire thing. I'd always seen these generals on /co/, but I didn't truly become aware of the comic until the "This is me" page cause a shitstorm.

Just the other day, a friend recommended the comic to me after I recommended ‘It Hurts’ to her. She states: “It’s a really well written comic, with great relatable characters”.

I’ll trudge my way through it best I can, however, I would like to do my best monitoring Jeph Jacques’ descent into madness alongside reading the comic. Can you kind gentlemen please help me out in this regard? Any compilations of his various insane exploits available?

Thanks
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>>77655788
I've been telling myself this since Marten and Dora broke up. That was the end of the Good Times. I suppose I keep coming back in the vain hope that somehow it will return to the heyday when Marten beaned a Kung Fu monk with souffle pan.
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>>77669150
Off the top of my head, the most relevant events are:
1. Committing to QC as a career (linked in this thread)
2. Handstab 1.0
3. Handstab 2.0 (Marifat & the tranny)
4. Divorce
5. W-well, this is me
6. Today

There are various drinking and drug related episodes mixed in there but they're probably still mentioned or hinted at in the daily updates.
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>>77669150
Your friend is not a friend.

She actually hates you.
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>>77659883
Well said. He's in a Hell of his own making. Worse, it's a Hell he asked for.
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>>77669493
>Handstab 1.0
Handstab one wasn't even a big deal, it's just something that Handstab 2 reveals as probably not being accidental
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>>77669150
>She states: “It’s a really well written comic, with great relatable characters”.
Call her poopyhead, pull on her pigtails and kick dirt at her.
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>>77669350
Yeah, the end of Marten & Dora was the beginning of the end of this thing. It wasn't even that the comic hinged on the pairing. In fact, it was almost a background plot. For whatever reason, after the breakup, the comic got progressively more detached and disjointed. Whatever "heart" it once had was sucked out.

With every new attempted plotline or new character you can almost see Jeph trying to convince himself, "This is the one. This is what will bring back the fire. This is the new Hannelore or Marigold. This is the new arc that'll carry for years." A few days later and the "passion arc" is treated the same as all the "maintenance arcs", all 20 of them.
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>>77669493
The forums and Reddit think the ear thing is a big deal, but I'm on the fence about that. I think it's something corporeal that Jeph can transfer his extant Demons onto.

He's mentioned the ear thing several times over the years.
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>>77669607
My take on it, Marten and Dora were the relatively sane couple that everyone else revolved around. They WERE the heart of the comic, at least together. With all the crazy antics that went on around them, Marten and Dora were grounded and seemed stable.

Despite Jeph's assertion that "this has been coming for a long time", the break up came out of nowhere.

And, as you say, it cut the heart out of the comic. The Marten Claire pairing was an attempt to reestablish a stable relationship for Marten, but the whole trans thing aside, it's too little, too late.
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>>77669747
>"this has been coming for a long time", the break up came out of nowhere.
Yeah, the precursor was Dora's insecurity issues over the nature of the relationship, but it still came out of nowhere. They had been together for a while and suddenly she brings up concerns that you'd expect to hear much earlier in the relationship.

Dora says something to the effect that Marten was too wishy-washy and a pushover. While that's true, in context of when things were going south, Marten was actually assertive and vocalizing about Dora crossing boundaries. He was actually passing the shit tests at the time.

It'd be fine if Dora was rationalizing and the real reason explained later, but it doesn't come off that way. Dora is obviously deranged but the comic treats her as a saint.

The situation is quite similar to Marten and Claire. They had a long established relationship of coworkers with very little in the way of suggested mutual attraction and then one day Marten's personally changes entirely and suddenly the two are crazy about each other. As slow as this thing moves you'd expect 6-12 months of slow burn, not a weekend turnaround.
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>>77655701
>being american
You're just admitting you're a faggot.
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>>77669747
yeah he completely ruined both of their characters when he decided there had to be drama when there was none, just so he could mix shit up and bring in the tranny
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>>77669150
>recommend "It Hurts!!", the greatest work of our generation
>get recommended QC back
Your friend is shit and you should educate her on quality webcomics
I recommend, in no particular order:
Gunnerkrigg Court
Dr. McNinja (ending soon!)
Harpy Gee
Poppy O'Possum
JL8
Gone With The Blastwave (deader than disco)
Bad Machinery (if you aren't already reading this you should leave)
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>>77670622
>Takes an hour to draw a cute, intimate tattoo on my back AFTER sex.
>Does he like me? I can't tell. He's not giving me any clues.
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>>77671050
>Bad Machinery
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>>77671050
Don't forget Octopus Pie
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>>77671224
It's good.
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>>77671224
How does Jeff Jocks have friends when he's a weeaboo AND an SJW? Surely everyone can find something to hate about him.
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>>77671297
Social Justice Weeaboo
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>>77671264
I am 27 strips in and I already hate this
>>77671370
Are you insulting my main man REO Speedwagon and his fabulous hats
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>>77671297
Calling Jeph a weeaboo is a bit of a stretch.

He's seen Azumanga Daioh and that's about it
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>>77671458
Give it some time
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>>77671557
He at least feigns JoJo knowledge.
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>>77671557
Pretty sure he watches and enjoys all kinds of moeshit. That should be more than enough to get him lynched by the SJWs for being a "pedo neckbeard". Yet this doesn't happen. Why?
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>>77671757
Yes, but since Jojofags are so horribly obnoxious and memeing, he could have easily faked it.

I'm putting it on the maybe not a lie list.
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>>77671757
>tall girl getting with short guy

ahaha what? Is JJ a manlet indulging a fantasy world or something?
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>>77671783
Lena Dunham is literally a baby rapist.

The SJW won't devour anyone who panders to them.
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>>77671799
Notice he didn't properly capitalize JoJo so you're right to be skeptical. He also seems the type to lie about mundane things in order to fit in with a crowd.
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>>77669669
What's the ear thing?

I can barely remember handstab 1.0, certainly can't recall an ear thing?
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>>77671814
This should be obvious. It's an identity politics cult. The most racist sexist shit I've read in recent memory was from supposed SJWs. What was it Chu said "No bad tactics just bad targets" ?
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>>77655701
>I have an underdeveloped vocabulary so everyone else does too
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>>77671859
I can't remember if he referred to the condition by name but he's talked about having bad hearing due to blockage for years and I think he referenced a previous draining at some point.
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>>77671923
>>77655701
Facetious is actually a meme word that's become fairly popular in modern discourse.

You hear it in everything
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>>77671904
>at was it Chu said "No bad tactics just bad targets" ?
Bob Chipman but I'm pretty sure he stole the line from some Marxist or PR manual from the early 1900s.
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>>77671804
I'm good friends with a short dude (he's between 5'11" and 5'8") and he's dating a chick who's taller than me (between 6' and 6'1")
I keep hitting on his girl, one of these days he's going to try to kill me
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>>77672013
You're wrong either because you mean "modern" as a short span of years and that's objectively incorrect or you're wrong because you mean it as a long span of years and it is therefore not a meme word.
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>>77672172
technically all words are memes
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>>77672193
Communication itself is a meme.
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>>77655603
> Handstab posting a comic about handstab
How post ironicism. it's still shit
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Handstab's other comic also features a bloody left hand.
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>>77669607
>It wasn't even that the comic hinged on the pairing. In fact, it was almost a background plot.

If only Jeff could do that now.
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>>77671757
What is hyphenating Clinton even supposed to sound like? Clin and ton alone still make up the syllables in Clinton.
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lol his Patreon went up by two bucks since the thread started. Say what you want about the comic, but he has the absolute worst fandom out there. No standards and no shame.
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>>77672613
Either you put a really short pause between the syllables or you hold the first n for a little longer. Clinnnton or Clin ton.
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>>77672958
If I knew how to automate keeping a log of his patreon over time I'd do it. It'd be interesting to see where there are big jumps or whatnot.
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>>77667710
>She sheemed like a pretty cool person back in the day

Naw she was always an ass, she acts nice and cute when you're licking her cunt, but dare to give actual criticism, or god forbit, ask what the hell happened to the update schedule (back in the day)? Jesus fuck she goes into passive-aggressive mode filled with insufferable smugness.
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>>77673082
I think only the account owner has features like that. You would have to write script to record the daily value, but I don't know about getting old values.
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>>77666640
Greg Proops went MtF?
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>>77671859
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>>77672613

Don't htinki of it as a hyphen, think of it as a tilde to indicate a stretched syllable, like in my indonesian wood cuttings - CLIN~TON! CLINNNNNNNN~TON!

>>77671297

I think in that case it was a matter of Jeph Jacques fans having a go at John Allison for this comic:
http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20060102
So doing a guest comic was probably a way to get angry fans to stop clogging up allison's inbox.

>>77671799

Nah, look at the color pallette he uses: He'd probably just watched the part 2 anime, like the part skipping anime only SCUM that he is.
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>>77669493
Can anyone give me the background of these events?
I vaguely remember the divorce, since it was relatively recent, but when were the hand stabbings, and why?
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>>77674014

Hand stab 2.0
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2307

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2307
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>>77674377
>A week later, Claire comes out as trans

There is no way those two aren't related.

I don't buy that he just decided to make Claire trans there, because she was introduced alongside two other minorities, but he clearly ousted her earlier than planned to make up some SJW points.
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>>77673424
Proops is actually a real good looking guy and I resent that.
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>>77675548
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>>77669150
I haven't read it regularly in about 3 years, but the best way I could describe it as a hipster FRIENDS.

Kinda bland at times, but enough funny moments to keep me reading for a while. One of the biggest draws for me was that it updated every weekday during a time when I read tons of webcomics and most used to update 1 to 3 times a week at best.
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>>77675606
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A picture to be framed.
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>>77673657
Is that supposed to be Marten, Dora, or Jeph's insert? All three?

>So doing a guest comic was probably a way to get angry fans to stop clogging up allison's inbox.
But the guest comic came first.
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>>77675622
>tons of webcomics and most used to update 1 to 3 times a week at best.
Or did that thing where the author got motivated and posted 3-5 per week for about 3 weeks and then took a six month hiatus. And this was a time when RSS and other syndication services were in their infancy so you had to constantly check.
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>>77678301
Oh May...
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>>77678301
oh lord he's gonna pair sven up with the robot isn't he?
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Hey /qc/, want some fresh salt?

http://imgur.com/gallery/i24iBIC
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>>77657925
He should take a stabbatical, you mean?
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>>77669747
Not only that but Marten and Dora together linked everyone in the cast together and gave the comic a consistent setting in the form of the coffee shop. They were the tape holding all the various subplots together into a cohesive whole.

As soon as they broke off everything became a mess and the comic now jumps between a million different focal characters with little crossover between any of the subplots. We go months without seeing Dora, Sven, Tai, Steve or Marigold.
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>>77678910
Stahp using fancy words for me murikan brian
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>>77659691
>QC became his career, but he continued to treat it like a hobby.
The irony is that before it was a job, he had a more complex method for drawing and coloring that he clearly doesn't use any more. He even posted a tutorial showing it step by step.
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>>77668414

She DOES have a lower jaw.

It's substandard of course. But it's unmistakably there
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>>77679369
He also stopped the Ustreams because he doesn't want his Patreon supporters to know that he whittled the process down to about 20 minutes.
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>>77655603
>I hate the art in this one
But it's the same art as the other strips.
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>>77678588
haven't you noticed she has no joints or seams whatsoever and could pass for human
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>have webcomic
>has good art with fully rendered backgrounds and a potential epic story.
>Never misses updates, updates 3 times a week.
>consistently offers content on Patreon.
>Barely have any readers.

And then I see guys like him. I know he has been around since the dawn of webcomics, but when I see him moan and whine and turn out such bad comics while still getting tons of money, it just kills me. Doesn't make me want to try any less in making my webcomic known, but it is very discouraging.
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Remember back in the day...
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>>77679752
Post pls
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>>77658897
We got sick of them. The only reason his threads blew up lately is because the storyline that was running will probably go down as Willis's crowning achievement of crap. It was along the same lines as watching loss.jpg for Buckley or Marten fucks Claire for Jaques or the end of Season One for Korra (arguably usurped by Korrasami) go down live. Now that it's over, Dumbing of Age is still just as terrible but also about a million times more boring so why on earth would anyone want to read or talk about it or Willis?

>>77669350
>>77669607
Yeah, QC was never a must-read or anything but it was cute. When Dora and Marten split it kind of fucked up the chemistry between everyone and nothing had a good flow anymore. Jeph keeps trying to find a way to restore that state of balance by introducing new characters and arcs but none of them stick and in the meantime he's forgotten the stuff that was working for him. He fucked himself over and once he realized this he panicked and made things even worse.

It sucks because you know someone with the necessary passion, talent, and emotional stability could turn it all around and you keep reading in the vain hope that that will happen even though it won't because Jeph doesn't have the will or the ability to fix his comic.
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>>77679752
POST AND BE JUDGED
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>>77679752
>has good art
You can't say this without posting
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Anyone have the combined Patreon Emergency strip where Claire arrives, says "coffee time!" and then leaves the in the same strip?
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>>77681349
Nope
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>>77680394
>>77681224
>>77681334
www.fjordsoncomic.com/

pls be gentle on my sore asshole.
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>>77681424
Pretty good, but the backgrounds blow the generic characters out of the water.
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>>77681465
ain't that the truth. Been feeling bad about the art lately, so I simply need to step it up.
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>>77679752
>>77681424
You know what sells in other forms of media?

Easily digested things that don't challenge the viewer.

You know what doesn't sell in other forms of media?

Passion projects that deviate from being easily digested things that don't challenge the viewer.

His comic and your comic fall in line with this concept. He doesn't have a passion project, he has something made to generate income.
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>>77669350
>it's like he's channelling Bruce Campbell
he's going to ruin Bruce Campbell for me and I won't stand for that shit. also he misspelled "channeling".
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>>77681424
The art is good.
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>>77681424

I'm enjoying this so far.

Bookmarked.
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>>77681623
Me, too, put this at the top of to-read.
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>>77681424
Characters look odd and flat against such pretty backgrounds. Protagonist looks suspiciously like an Elsa knockoff. Pretty sure nobody reads flavor poems (at least I don't). Didn't hit much writing in the actual comic yet but if the website text is representative my expectations are low. Find a better editor. Preferably one more sensitive to comma errors and awkward phrasing.
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>>77681424
Stylistically I find your comic hard to look at. You have this jarring juxtaposition of random photoshop texture brushes for the environments paired with flat coloring on the characters with some gradients on top of them. I can see it being a personal choice, and I respect that, but it creates an unfortunate side effect: every character looks complete detached from the world around them, because they just look like you took the style from one comic and pasted it atop another entirely different comic. You see this exact thing with the furry community's works, a lot of deviant art stuff, and other unpolished artists who learned photoshop through youtube tutorials rather than through a source of constant and consistent ground-up instruction.
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>>77669493

Wait, there were two handstabs?
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>>77681666
>You have this jarring juxtaposition of random photoshop texture brushes for the environments paired with flat coloring on the characters with some gradients on top of them
I think it's supposed to look like a Disney or a Don Bluth movie where the characters are flat and backgrounds are painted, but it doesn't work here.

The characters look clumsy, like he's trying to draw them in an alien style.
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>>77681645
>>77681666
Thank you for the critique, I agree with everything you said. I almost never get any feedback, and I wish someone had told me things like this earlier on. Lately I have been asking around though, and feedback has mostly been negative, so I have to try to find a way to get out of the terrible habits I posses right now.
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>>77681769
Didn't mean mine to come across negatively. Your comic isn't terrible.

Good luck.
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>>77678301
My constant shilling is finally getting though, it only took 5 years for them to meet.
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>>77681424
do everybody a favor, quit drawing your comic, and draw me a bunch of images of Metroid and Fallout and other atmospheric locales
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>>77681769
get a functioning RSS feed or I will never keep up with your comic
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>>77682009
what's wrong with the rss feed?
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>>77681921
Wait. This was fight years ago. Goddamn nothing really ever happens in this comic doesn't it.
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>>77681769
Render the characters in the way you render the environments and you'll solve the problem. If you feel like you've invested too much into the general style to do that, then fix the next most glaring issue: line weight. You need to become educated on the importance of (and techniques behind) using line weight to accent and embellish the characters. Panel to panel you use an identical line weight for the characters, to the point that there's not even a variation when characters are at different distances from the "viewer."
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>>77682014
oh shit, you've got a link down on the bottom
My mozilla isn't picking that up, usually a little icon lights up and says "there's an RSS feed here, if you click on me I'll freeze your browser"
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>>77678301

Is "WHEN IS SVEN GONNA FUCK THE ROBOT" the new "WHEN IS MARTEN GONNA FUCK THE TRANNY"?
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>>77682226
Good god to get something like this again
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>>77678301
>>77681921
Hell, you know what? This is actually somewhat interesting. There's banter between characters that doesn't end with someone making a bad one liner wearing a smug shit eating grin *cough* Faye *cough*. Plus Sven is like the only character that manages to make stuff happen in this comic; him being here opens up Marigold to be doing stuff other than fucking Dale or being boring with Hanelore and maybe means that Jeph will remember that Dora exists again since she's apparently suffered the same fate as half the characters in QC and been completely abandoned. I'll take it.

Also I knew the level of effort had gone down but holy shit that's a major nosedive in the quality of the art since five years ago.
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>>77682045
That looks pretty. I like it.
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>>77681424
I kind of agree with a lot of the things said in this thread. Your characters aren't bad in themselve but the way you draw them (or color them) clashes to much with the environment and animals. Your forte is obviously the backgrounds, you should try to color your characters the same way just to see how it looks like.

>>77682045
Also, I'm not a fan of the way you arranged the panels in the bottom of this specific picture.
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>>77678301

>long sleeves
>short sleeves
>short sleeves
>long sleeves

Jesus fucking Christ.
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>>77672613
>I am Clin'Ton. As overlord, all will kneel trembling before me and obey my brutal commands. End communication
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>>77666640

I wouldn't have expected JJ to marry /k/.
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That shirts giving Jeph some trouble.

So Sven should take it off.
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>>77681699

One Jamph attributed to an "accident."
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>>77673217
It's not that hard.

Grab Python, urllib & lxml to log into a textfile.
Consolidate daily gain/loss values.

Grabing 1 value per day could also be interesting enough.

Rolling Arithmetic Average of first discrete derivative (Differences between Days) should be interesting.

The denser Data collection, the better you would prevent "Lost Updates" (1 cancel at 100$ + 1 subscriber at 100$ between Data collection. (Patreon does no longer mention how many have chosen different perks.)
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>>77681424
It's shit.
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>>77682014
>www.fjordsoncomic.com
Missing RSS-Feed meta-tag.

Also, why not:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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>>77682995
Lol, has anybody else noticed this? What were her sleeves like last time we saw her?
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>>77685628
its always been a long sleeve shirt
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>>77683434
You mean Momo
it's Momo's that is giving him trouble
>>77685700
EXPLAIN
EXPLAIN
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>>77678301
This one is decently funny. I'm off stabwatch I guess.
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>>77679612
He even took some 'risks' with posing and stuff. I don't know what got him.
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>>77681424
I'll check it out. The art's pretty nice. I like the site layout too.
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>>77681769
People are only bothering with the feedback because they see the talent behind it. Don't give up man you've got chops.
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>>77655603
>2nd panel, bubbles are to be read in the wrong order
>I can spot 2 grammar mistakes and English isn't even my first language
>I don't even know what the guy in the last panel is trying to say

This is terrible.
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>>77686313
"The more things change, the more they stay the same." Understandable you wouldn't get it if it's not your first language.
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>>77686313
What is written there accurately reflects English as it is spoken. Any grammatical errors are probably intentional.
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>>77678301
>the blue robot is going to wind up fucking him.
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>>77686235
I'm sorry but what? What risks did he take with posing anyone? They're all still in 3/4 view and we don't see anyone below the waist
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>>77681424
I like it. I'll check it out.
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>>77687975
You see Hanners' hips and 50% of Sven's legs. Cosette and Penelope may be in 3/4 but they're REALLY ZOOMED IN. I tells ya this is a renaissance for Jeph. Move over Raphael.
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>>77687931
I support this
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giggity
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>>77681601
It was never great, but this was when it was fun. I didn't mind the Bruce Campbell reference at the time. It bugs me now.
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>>77655603
truly awful, a triumph of post-modern dystopian thoughtform
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>>77692416
>how it should have ended
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>>77689926
I would love to see it. The disappointed look on momo's face would be worth it.
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>>77665532
I've never read this comic beyond out-of-context reposts and edits but this one looks like it's some truly heinous shit.
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>>77681424
Okay, after a quick look I have to ask: are square speech bubbles a scandinavian comic thing or something? I've only ever seen it in SSSS and this one and they weird me the hell out, especially when you make them really wide and narrow like the last one on the newest page.
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>>77681424
Read through what you've done so far. It's good. It has my attention. I like the art and story so far and it's a helluva lot better than most of the money making comics out there.
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>>77671050
Been reading Bad Machinery for years now and it feels like it's gone downhill during the current case. The one with the french girl was good though. Also, the weekend comics seem like they would be all right but the posting schedule ruins their pacing.
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>>77693163
Technically, it just takes up less space, and are easier to make than round ones.
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>>77696508
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>>77696508
How nice of her to wear that warning right on her shirt.
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>>77696508
>>77696528
who the fuck are these things.
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>>77696638
Jeff said these "cosplayers" are the closest interpretations of his characters.

So thats what Faye and Fat Nerd look like.
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>>77696729
I wanna puke.
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>>77696817
Its okay Anon. Just think about how hard Marten, who IRL would probably look like Jeff, wanted to bang >>77696508
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>>77696729
I assume closest among the people who bothered to cosplay his characters. So it's more representative of the fan base than the characters themselves.
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>Claire in QC
>Becky in Dumbing of Age

We need one more redheaded female from a webcomic who lies within the LGBT spectrum and we can have a Poochie trifecta.
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>>77696893
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>>77696854
its closer to this nowadays
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>>77696940
True, but this was all earlier in the comic. Before the stabbings
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>>77666288
Not yet. I got a new tablet and have been waiting for my stylus. I should have it by Friday.
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>>77696969
>stabbings
Forgive my ignorance, I don't follow this comic, but all this talk of handstabbings sounds like drama. If no one's willing to summarize, is there anywhere I can read about it?
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>>77698214
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>>77698214
>>77698239
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>>77698214

Just look through the thread. Its the majority of what we talk about. >>77669493
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>>77698239
It's rare to see condependancy spawn between an artist and a hatemob, but there it is.
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>>77680170
I miss those days
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>>77698480
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what was handsta 1 you guys have alluded to?
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>>77698239
This is hilarious but also incredibly sad. He seems like a broken man.
Thanks.

>>77698267
That was one of the posts that got me interested, actually. Did he actually do it again?
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>>77698517
Him just being drunk one night and playing with a knife and stabbing his hand just for the hell of it.
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>>77698582
Of course hes a broken man. Have you read >>77659691 and >>77659883 take on his life?
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>>77698631
Yeah, but in my mind there's a difference between hating your job and being mentally unstable enough to stab yourself in the hand when a fatty on the Internet calls you a shitlord and criticizes your writing.
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>>77698709
The fatties made him drink. The alcohol and lifetime of emotional instability made him stab his hand.

But these are cries for attention, he has to know by know that you slice lengthwise along the wrists to do work.
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>>77698709
He also has depression and mental issues. He used to talk about all the time under the comic. Always going on about what pills his doctor put him on or changed on him.

The guy is kind of sad really.
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>>77698771
>>77698772
Poor guy sounds like Tom Siddel without the talent, skill, or passion.
What a miserable existence that must be.
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You guys think well get a turkey comic this year since Jeff moved to Canada?
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>>77698814
>Poor guy sounds like Tom Siddel without the talent, skill, or passion
Don't you compare this fat hack to Tom
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>>77658819

if the theory that he truly hates what the comic has become, how could edits not be the funnest aspect of his job?
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>>77698239
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So, trance edits?

Is there a Trance General that I missed?
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>>77699207
Didn't Tom nearly kill himself that time Twitter accused him of being transphobic though
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>>77699811
I thought she couldnt do with her her body? I remember it being a thing in the old chibi one
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>>77699856
Fuck lore.
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>>77699856
For a minute there I thought you meant sex.
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>>77699888
The better questions is, can May have sex?
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>>77699811
>>77699838
What the fuck is this? This is honestly funny. Why am I actually enjoying this page? Is this an edit?
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>>77696152
Switch to rounded ones, "easier to make" is a really bad reason to start cutting corners on something as simple but important as speech bubbles in comics.
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>>77699920
I'm sure some artfags can give us some much needed examples.
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>>77699838
Sven's gonna fuck the robot, Sven's gonna fuck the robot
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>>77699811
> Momo has a built in tazer
wut
> Anti-rape device
oh, right

>>77699929
It's a strip involving May.
It is legit.
Yes i double-checked anyways, please forgive me for feeding the beast with another website view.
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I wonder if this comic will dive deep into AI/Human relations in regard to picking a partner that you know will age and die as they sit frozen in time, unable to join their love in whatever mysterious place awaits us all...

Or if he'll make a few funnies, every character will consider the conflict resolved without any conflict and onwards the train will go.
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Isn't Momo supposed to have the body of a 12 year old though? And she always wore school uniform with her old chassis right?

Jeph is heading in to some really problematic territory here.
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>>77700432

is that why they're short?
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>>77699920
Sadly she probably can't with that cheep government issue body she has. And I doubt she could afford the upgrades anytime soon with her minimum wage job.

Of course it's possible Sven could pay for it
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>>77700505
Im pretty sure the govt chassy has some kind of fuck hole. If it didn't then how would govt fuck her over, like they do everyone else?
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>>77700450
May has the chassis of a short adult woman. I'm not sure but I think previously she's been drawn as taller than she has been lately. She's been in jail and behaves like an adult.

I could have sworn that in a previous comic it's stated that Momo has an adolescent type chassis. Also her personality tends to be written as youngish.

I don't know too much about the A.I. lore in the comic but I know Jeph has written extensively about it so maybe it's established that all A.I. are legally adult no matter how new they are.

But even if that's the case I promise that having an adult character have sex with a robot with the body of a tween is not going to go over well with a lot of people. Especially the people that caused him to stab his hand before.
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>>77700599
So the question is, should we support it?
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>>77700425
There's a Rustle hentai that covers that, albeit with an immortal flesh and blood girl. You get to fap and cry at the same time.
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>>77700807
Normally I have to look at family photos to get that kind of experience.
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So, I'm betting this Hank the Dismemberer will be Pintsize who switches chassis between fighting and homelife.
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>>77699929
Shut up, jep.
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>>>/a/133925435
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>>77699811
Oh, more jokes about asking about someone's genitals.
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>>77700505
She could just put a fleshlight somewhere. Or wear a strapon. Do they make strapon fleshlights?
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>>77700782
It's robot sex. Of course we have to support it.
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>>77655603
So how many characters are in this thing exactly?
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>>77700979
If Jeph didn't have this idea before now then this will probably be how it turns out.
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>>77701385
29
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>>77700979
This is probably right. The only reason to mention a robot with a secret identity would be if its from the main cast. It'll probably be the little apple robot if it's not pintsize.
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Why do you guys read this comic, I'm genuinely curious since you all seem to shit on it so much. Do you guys enjoy torturing yourselves?
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>>77701803
I've invested too much time not to see this shit pile to the end.
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>>77699934
I also want to have them square as an artistic choice.
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>mfw all this AI drama is just buildup to when Pintsize gets a human chassis and runs amok
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Pintsize isn't Hank.

Current arc will end in Sven and Hannelore dating. She will get jealous/envious of Momo's and Sven's mutual attraction.
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You know what would liven this comic up? Based Toedad.
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>>77701286
>cheaper model bot bods don't have built in vaginas but can connect to an external USB fleshlight for reciprocal stimulation with a partner
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>>77701803
I only come to the threads to see the comics and edits that have been posted and to watch everyone here shit on it. I refuse to actually go to the site.
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>>77702199
Someone should insert him into an edit.
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>>77699838

Here we see a fleeting glimpse of Jeph's one remaining testicle.
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>>77702625
May?
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>>77655603
Oh man, Jeph's really good at drawing robots. All these ones look so lifeless and off-putting. They have that uncanny valley effect where they almost look like people but instead they look repulsive.

His years of practice really shine through.
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>>77699838

But can that chassis still shoot eels out its cooch?

inb4 "FUCK THE ROBOT" becomes the new /qc/ mantra

>>77699856

No, the old chassis was only confirmed for being able to shoot eels out of its crotch like in my chinese woodcarvings.
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>>77699811
This is the best comic he has ever made
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>>77689926
Sadly though, I doubt her chassis's "equipped" for that kind of thing...
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Remember when all the characters were so much more well-rendered? I miss Hannelore looking like a real person.
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>>77703627
She's got hands, tits and ass shaped silicone (hell, some real people have that) and a mouth, though that part could be like fucking a speaker with teeth. No idea what's really in there.
So yeah, I think she can find a way or two to service meatbags.
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>>77700505
Simple: she already has a mouth.

>>77700599
I remember seeing an AI "effective age" test being mentioned on one of the job application forms May had.
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>>77699838
Yeah, the series needs to be about May from now on.
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>>77703675
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Momo has the body of a loli and according to the wiki she's 2.69 years old. That's realdoll enough for me. Too bad there are robot rights so you can't degrade and smack her around too much, unless she's into that.
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>>77700807
>That difference in art style between the guy and the little girl
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>>77704344
Younger version
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>>77699811
>>77699838
Dat robutt.
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>>77700599

Unless Momo works more kobs and not only pays off her current body but a substantial upgrade into an adult looking one
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>>77703627

Black market upgrades
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>>77703998
>Well? Is it helping?

Ye....yes....
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>>77685700
Hold the fucking phone.
Is that an edit? Because some strip had the same exact fucking backgrounds.
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>>77699811
>>77699838

CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG CLANG
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>>77699929
Consider ending your life,
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>>77655603
$10k a month
>Sorry, didn't feel like doing my job. Oh, whale.
>Still gets $10k next month

Life is suffering.
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>>77666517
This.
Hell, QC doesn't even take that much time per day to do.
If I could make 100g a year drawing 4 hours a day, I'd draw the full 8 because fuck it let's see where this ride goes.

There are legit skilled/educated artists that would kill for that job.
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>>77705736
>that one time

It's cute that he thinks that.
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What I want to know is, how constantly asspained does a guy have to be to be mad at a tvtropes page?
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>>77708191
I get mad about tvtropes but only when it gets shoved in my face
I bet it got shoved in his face so he had to tell some teenagers to fuck off
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>>77702509
Toedad as Faye's dad.
Please.
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>>77710046
who?
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>>77707894
It's not even four hours, it's like 20 minutes. Seriously. One time on Twitter he came back from a con and it went something like

>11:20 PM: Whew am I tired. Whelp gotta start working on the comic some time!
>11:40 PM: comic's up

Whatever it was didn't look any different from the stuff he shits out every day.

20 minutes and he can't make a buffer.
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>>77708191
>Triggered by Reddit
>Any post criticizing him or his comic gets downvoted to -20

>Triggered by his forums
>Criticizing Jeph or his work is a bannable offense.
>Mods actually vet posters for worthiness.
>Still not hugbox enough for Jeph
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His handling of May is impressive as she's one of the few characters that always has at least a semi-decent story/strip. I can't remember reading a comic featuring her and thinking "What the fuck is this shit".

And it's not a case of her being minimally featured, since her introduction was an entire story arc featuring very minor characters at the time.
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>>77711873
>her introduction was an entire story arc featuring very minor characters at the time.
To the extent where May's very existence was a crutch to give Dale some character. Which failed. Eventually Jeph gave up and just stuck him with Marigold and then tried to convince his readers that this pairing was somehow obvious. After that both he and Marigold have been put on the bus.
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>>77655977
Benis in bagina :----DDDDDDDDD
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>>77712143
My favorite meme
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>>77655603
Every time QC appears on /co/ I get mad at myself for not getting my webcomic going. Because if this shit has a following and funding, how hard can it be?
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>>77711749
Eh, I don't think it actually took 20 minutes. Even though his art is shit, the coloring and linework cannot possibly be done that fast.
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>>77712442
It can when you have starter capital and make it appear you're redrawing by "scuffing" the templates.
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>>77712395
>Because if this shit has a following and funding, how hard can it be
New webcomics have zero chance in hell at being as successful as jacques.

Jeacues fell ass backwards into his money by being in the right place at the right time. He put out something not absolutely terrible enough when that was enough to get followers.

Now there's hundreds of fairly competent webcomics on the internet that have to vie for relevancy.
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>>77711787
And yet he lurks here.
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>>77710914
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>>77712673
If you try going to the guest strip comics, nearly all of them are dead links. If you look through archive.org you'll see spurts of motivation followed by long hiatuses and then eventually resignation. Jeph's main "skill" was posting something--anything--daily and never letting up from that.
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>>77712766
He is disappoint
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>>77697063
Good to know, thanks.
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>>77708191
>/co/, the board known to get extremely butthurt over tv tropes
>wonders why some guy gets butthurt over tv tropes

your hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me, /co/
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>>77706274

There's absolutely nothing wrong with clang-clang.
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>>77712766
>She also will be punished by the hand of God

I know Willis intended for him to sound crazy but he just sounds badass.
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>>77701976

>pintsize gets a female chassis
>it's better than any of the other AIs
>the buildup is to pintsize and sven fucking
>punchline and reveal delivered exactly as Sven climaxes
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>>77712766
This dialog. So a crazed man is chasing with a rifle and the boyfriend is frantically yelling to run away and split up. Her only reaction during the whole thing? "Understood." Not "Oh my god! Oh my god!" or "Help! Someone help us!"
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>>77714230
She's autistic.

And they're both girls. Toedad is mad his daughter's a lesbo, and the butch one in the relationship at that.
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>>77714304
LOL, thanks for the explanation. Guess it makes more sense now. I'm assuming every character in the thing has some sort of brownie points checkbox trait, like "girl in wheelchair" or "black guy with lupus".
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>>77714230
>Oh my god! Oh my god
Oh course not, anon. Only evil people cry out to God in Willisland
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>>77714379
>I'm assuming every character in the thing has some sort of brownie points checkbox trait
Nah, it's not that diverse, but nearly every character is part of the LGBT spectrum.
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>>77712051
It kind is was obvious, they've been about three seconds from making out since they were first introduced..
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>>77700807

I daww'd and teared up a little

Haven't fapped.

Yet.
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>>77714754
I disagree. For the longest time Dale was some comic relief character that got thrown in a few times a year, like Steve. He had the same status as other characters like Clinton or Penelope. Then, suddenly, there's a push to make him a main character and there was a concentrated effort to pair him up with Marigold that started with the introduction of May. Then, the moment the pairing happened, he got relegated back to occasional background character. The whole exercise seemed rather pointless. From what I remember even the forum, who are all for AnyCharacter X AnyCharacter, wasn't all that into it.
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>>77716176
Gonna change the argument and say Dale was even less than Clinton or Penelope. Before the pairing, all we knew about him was that he played WoW and delivered pizzas. That was it. He was as deep of a character as the Vespavenger or Pizza Girl.
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>>77716338

Dude was a plot device-- just there to illustrate that Dora was keeping shit from Marten, which led to the breakup and him fucking a tranny.
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>>77716176
Yeah the comic has fallen into the habit of just pairing up spare characters, which unless this is just a little comical interlude, it appears hes taking the same approach with May/Momo X Sven, right now.
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>>77716651
Given that background pairing means putting those characters on the bus I'm guessing Jeph wants to get rid of one of the androids. Sven's already all but written out so no net loss there.

May's pretty triggering and has the soul of Yelling Bird so my bet's on her. No way the hypocritical, preachy, moralizing Momo gets the axe.
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>>77716463
Dale is so minor I don't even remember this. All I remember is
>Here's your pizza
>Alliance scum fuck you
>Repeat 10 times
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>>77716859

Basically he shows up as a long-time customer that knows about the "secret menu" that none of Marten's "friends" ever told him about.

He says something about the relationship being in trouble.

I only remember it because I "WTF'd" and also because I started having an inkling that this was the beginning of the end.

Now I don't read webcomics altogether except for the /co/ edits.
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>>77716990
Believe it or not "secret menu" was searchable on the wiki.
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>>77717050

That would have been helpful if I still gave a shit about QC, as I said, after that the artwork (which, sadly, peaked about then) and the story went to shit, so I stopped giving Handstabby any more traffic.
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>>77717050
That's fucking Dale?

You know an evolving art style isn't a problem if you don't have 30 goddamn characters with some of them disappearing for years at a time. Cause when they come back, I both don't recognize AND don't remember them.
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>>77699811
>human-robot romance
this pushes all my buttons.
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>>77681424
>www.fjordsoncomic.com/
It's like reading a Disney movie Children's Picture Novelization, everything feels so still.

Like, amazing backgrounds, but flat characters. Nothing interacts with the background.

You might consider reading this page's notes, which talks a little about motion
http://www.westerndeep.net/comic/chapter-2-page-4/

Other than that, not bad. Good job. Please continue.
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>>77717883
Thank you senpai, I'll do a better job.
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>>77681424
I'm only 47 pages in but here are some things I'd like to point out:
>Like a lot of others have pointed out, the backgrounds are amazingly rendered and in comparison the characters themselves look flat and out of place. Maybe this suggestion would be too time consuming for a web comic, but have you considered painting in the same style for the characters as you do for the background itself?
>I love the history aspects you've thrown in thus far. I have ancestry in Norway and it's just cool to learn more about it.
Keep up the good work anon.
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>>77668414
"Retard jaw" is a classic sign of inbreeding. It can be either projecting like in the famous case of the Habsburgs, or withdrawn as in this frightening specimen.
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>>77672613
It means she's deliberately overpronouncing it because the sound of his name amuses her. For example, pronouncing the second syllable as the word "ton" as opposed to with a schwa vowel or something.
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>>77678301
The topknot does make him look like a turbodouche.
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>>77720122
It doesn't help that it's terribly drawn as well.
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>>77711749
>20 minutes
Doesn't that mean he could work up like three weeks worth of buffer in one eight-hour workday?

Hell, four, considering he doesn't update on the weekends. That's an entire month.

He could work one eight-hour day and make an entire month's worth of strips (and get paid $10,000).
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>>77711749
>>77712442
>>77721121
Let's assume for the sake of argument that it takes him a full hour per strip, then. Assuming he put out one strip every day of the year (which he doesn't), that's 45 eight-hour days per year. Less than six weeks. Let's be generous and stretch that to about two months if he doesn't want to work on weekends.

This man does, at most, two months of work per year and makes $120,000. And he has the audacity to COMPLAIN about this job (that affords him six figures, and ten months per year of free time), because people are mean to him on twitter and tumblr.
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>>77721121
It's pretty evident that jeph doesn't make a buffer for two main reasons.

1) He's incredibly lazy and likes to do QC right before they're due up
2) He doesn't want to risk his fans reacting negatively to a storyline and having to abort material he's already made

He defends this by saying, "I do make buffers, you guys, but every time I do, they just get used up", meaning that he's either lying or doesn't realize that making a buffer entails the production of strips while the buffer is being eaten up.

The closest evidence we have for him actually making strips in advance are the ones he makes before he goes to cons, which are always made the day or two before he leaves and are always miscounted.

Nigga, how do you miscount how many days you're going to be gone?
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>>77721121
>Jeph actually works tirelessly on the strip since he took it on full time
>His backlog grows to decades, every day producing a month of content.
>Entire plotlines grow and fade out unbeknownst to anyone but the author.
>Jeph an heros under the workload and the strain of an unappreciative audience
>A Lawyer reveals the creation of a trust Jeph had established.
>The site will be maintained until the current backlog of strips is published
>100 years of QC.
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>>77721418
>and makes $120,000
You realize Patreon is only his public donations, right?

Jeph has been claiming to make 6 figures a year for years before Patreon existed.

This fat fuck makes like 200k a year for this tripe.

Now, I don't really care how much he makes, because retards deserve to lose their money, but that could be going to people who actually deserve it, like Ronnie or Ashley Cope.
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>>77721597
The 120k is likely inflated. I know Youtubers that say their actual take home is somewhere between 60%-80% of what you see on their patreon account, because of how people can set up the donations and autopay.

But yeah he had merchandising and ads locked down way before Patreon became a thing.
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>>77720122
Yeah, I've seen a lot of people here say so. This further reinforces my belief that May as a character is meant to represent everything Jeph knows about 4chan.
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>>77721580
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>>77721666
Pintsize used to pretty be /b/
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>>77721699
Used to be. May is the new Pintsize. I don't know what Pintsize is supposed to be now but I feel like he's been castrated somehow.
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>>77721580
>100 years
>1 month per day
That's only three years and about four months of making strips.
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>>77721744
Hes reddit
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>>77666640
Never marry a turtle. They'll leave you a shell of your former self.
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>>77721744
I think pintsize stopped being relevant after that comic where he revealed that he was ok with where Martin was. He said something like "Martin had no friends when I met him, now he has lots of friends so I do whatever".

That strip was pretty much Jeph signing off on the character.
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>>77721744
>I feel like he's been castrated somehow
The fact that Marten intimidated him, probably.

The logistics of Claire's sexuality is a sacred cow that can't be made light of.

I love how Jeph barely mentions it.

>Marten i'm trans
>Y'okay
>Marten, you can't just be okay with it, I'm trans
>Y'okay
>Well, okay

Granted, being the tranny shouldn't be the sole focus of her existence, but the fact that it's so obviously avoided is hilarious.

It's to the point where being trans could have been replaced by literally anything in the dialog.
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>>77721912
And oddly enough, a nice send off.
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One of the worst things about Marten is that he's been completely neutered by his relationship with Claire.

It's not that he's become a pussy, it's that he can no longer have any hardships because his relationship with Claire has to stay completely unstrained for the fans not to rip his throat out.

He can't do anything at all except show up every now and then, with Claire in tow, and talk about how dandy he is.

It's sad to see how well his fans have him by the shorthairs, but I don't feel bad for him, because he pushes away the people who actually care about his piece of shit webcomic.

He chose the host of fans who will never criticize him as long as he panders to them rather than the ones who, for whatever reason, actually want to see a real story with these characters.
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>>77720059
In my head it sounds like how Kang pronounces it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5CT7r3Txo&t=1m
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>>77722965
Guess 4chan doesn't process time markers. Jump to 1 minute exactly
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>>77721418
Don't forget the cons. Yeah, traveling is a pain in the ass and it still gets tiring hanging around all day but at the end of the day the conference is probably paying him to come and the rest of the time fans are throwing money and compliments at him. Not exactly thankless, backbreaking work.

>>77721531
>Nigga, how do you miscount how many days you're going to be gone?
Understandable for the first con but he goes to like 6 per year. It's like a carpenter forgetting to bring his saw.

>>77721597
>Jeph has been claiming to make 6 figures a year for years before Patreon existed.
And QC was supporting both himself and his wife in the role of bookkeeper and (I think) booking agent for events. Maybe it wasn't full time, but QC definitely paid a full time 365 day wage and then some even before Patreon.
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>>77721580
>100 years of QC.
And still nothing happens and for some reason everyone is 25 years old and in 2002 Northampton, MA.
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>>77721929
>being trans could have been replaced by literally anything in the dialog.
Marten I have Huntington's and there's a hard clock on my lifespan.
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>>77723236
Wouldn't make a difference because of how slow the comic is.
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>>77723274
Exactly. Replace trans with Huntington's and it makes no difference. Every time someone pussyfoots around the issue, pretend that they're trying not to remind Claire of her ultimate fate. It doesn't change anything.
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>>77721929
>>77723236
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Gobble gobble
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>>77723508
>The Turkey's literary tastes are more deftly thought out than Claire's
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>>77723508
>Inb4 someone accuses him of making light of Turkey Rape, and he carves up his hand like a...well, you know.
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>>77655603
>click on this shitty webcomic for first time in months
>based Sven is back

Also Sven and Jimbo spinoff when?
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>>77726665
After May and Momo have a wet teeshirt contest to see who fucks Sven.
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>>77726685
nah Sven's gonna be here for five minutes and then fuck off like he always does

>when Sven was replaced by Dale in fucking Marigold because Jeff needed MOAR CHARACTERS
>every time Sven is about to get a plot shit gets dropped.

Jeff doesn't like using the only member of the comic cast that's a likable and complex character.
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>>77723508
Thousands of years ago rogue scientists crafted my sleek, turkey body so that I may travel through the time rift and fuck Carl, who was also a turkey. Yet Carl was only my initial conquest, no more than a ruse, for my real target was one Claire Augustus, within whose fabled testicles lay the seed which I was made to contain, and only I may receive, for the very threads of existence hung in peril. That ass was mine.
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>>77655603
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>>77655603
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>>77727443
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>>77727463

To think, the writing was on the wall all along, and none of the fuckers on the QC forums will acknowledge this fact to this very day. Among other things.
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>>77728078
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>>77727339
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>>77726775
>the only member of the comic cast that's a likable and complex character.
And
1) has an actual job
2) which wasn't acquired via nepotism
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>>77728121

And they refuse to admit that Claire is not the "progressive trans character" she's supposed to be haloed as.
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>>77678625
holy fuck those imgur comments
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>>77698772
I know that bulge...
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>>77681424
I like!
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So who would be the kings of bad webcomics? Would it be Jeph, Buckley, and Dobson?
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>>77729084
Pretty sure it's still David Gonterman
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>>77723508
>copy-pasted panels
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>>77728146
>>77726775
The problem with complex characters is that people can interpret them in various ways.

Jeph doesn't want that, Jeph isn't good at handling input other than:

[We love Character (Character appeals to our interests)]
[We don't love Character (Character does not appeal to our interests)]

When cases like these happen, Jeph becomes stressed, and his poor wittle brain can't take that.

Sven is about as complex as my last bowel movement, but he's still leagues better than any of the other cardboard cutouts so he has at least two possible interpretations. That small amount is enough for Jeph to fear his inclusion.
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>>77730995
Meh, it's a thing he does every Thanksgiving, no harm no foul.
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>>77731247
You should have said, "No harm, no fowl."
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>>77729150
No, he's one of those bafflingly horrible bad webcomickers.

Webcomics, being as they are, have to be split into two categories, "Normal" and, "Jesus Fucking Christ, Why?."

The Normal type include those which could be written and read by normal people while the latter type includes abominations like Chris-Chan and Hathor the Cow Goddess. The Normal type ranges from bad to good, and Hacques, Willis, and Diaz reside in that spectrum.
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>>77731329

Did you just say Jaune is normal when he produces shit?
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>>77681424
Very nice, definitely gonna keep track of it. Nothing to say that hasn't really been said already, but I'd watch out that you don't deviate too far from the current art style if you do try to change up how the characters interact with the backdrop. The artstyle is a very large selling point at the moment imo, really draws you in to the world.

I know this may sound obvious, but how have you gone about advertising the comic so far? I see you've got the usual social media stuff with Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, but have you tried to reach out to anyone with a larger audience who could potentially help advertise your name? I say this as this isn't a comic that I think anyone here had even heard of before you posted it in a random QC thread, but the feedback has been very positive, showing that the comic has the strength to stand up on its own, but maybe you need to rethink how you're marketing it.

Maybe see if anyone would let you do a guest strip for them at some point? I'd probably look into Reddit as well to be honest, as it could take one post on a popular sub for you to gain a little bit of traction.

Please don't get disheartened at all, the comic is already decent and there's a lot of potential there. From the looks of it the comic has only been around for 5 months anyway, yet you already do have an audience as the Patreon shows. Most new comics take a long time to even get double digits in donations, but not here.
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>>77655943
someone post the edit where marten is thinking about how he's in hell and is too beta to get any other girl
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>>77696940
Dat Claire is qt as fuck.

I want to fuck her.
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>>77716338
>Clinton or Penelope
I was really invested in them once upon a time.

I vaguely remember there was a big arc about Clinton finding gainful employment. And then it fizzled into nothingness.
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>>77731290

"Id rather rape a watermelon!"
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I saw this on /a/ and thought of you guys.

I'm just letting you all know that I'm not thankful for any of you.
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>>77733278

Fuck off Jeph
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>>77733363
You got me. I was Jeph all along.

Please read my comic;I know that you will.
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>>77733445
Fuck off.
Not because I disagree with you, but because I know you're right.
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>>77698709
He's an alky and has severe depression.
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>>77699929
He has up days. Plus the blue robot is crass and uncaring which jeff writes much better than 'totally insipid' but he doesn't want to offend too much. Luckily without yelling bird some of his baser humor comes to us through her.
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>>77711787
>>77712728

He doesn't like to see the truth poking out from behind the facade, at least here it's vicious criticism and a few 'hey this one was actually alright's that probably keep him going.
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>>77733445
We knew it was you because of the hand mutilation
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QC has inspired me to start my own directionless webcomic despite having no art skill whatsoever.

The goal is to actually improve after 10 years though.
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