QC Rerun Time #7
Ah, the days before I learned to flip my art horizontally to check if it was skewed. You love to see it (I do not love to see it). At least Claire looks cute in this one! She and Clinton's designs both changed pretty significantly- I'm not really sure why, it just felt like they needed to have perky noses instead of aquiline ones? And then I was like "oh their noses are cute" and suddenly I had to slap my drawing hand every time I tried to give another character a perky nose. It's very easy to fall into the habit of drawing different characters the same way, this is something I've always struggled with (and continue to do so!) but I think I'm getting better at it gradually. Another thing I've always struggled with art-wise is that changes that seem very obvious to me are often too subtle for normal people to notice, because they don't spend several hours a day drawing and looking at my art like I do. Finding that balance between exaggerating things enough to be noticeably different without them looking "off" is a hill I will probably always be rolling a big stone up. One must imagine the webcartoonist happy, eh?
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Claire’s hair used to be big!
What is askew? I don't see it
Hooooollllyyyyyy Shhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiii Have Marten and Claire been together for TEN YEARS real time??? Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone.mp3
But she got a point tho, that fanfic WAS Bullshit! But its amazing seeing how much the comic have evolved over time, hard to notice when its gradual :D
Wisest words EVER said: "Yes, Dear."
Mr. Darcy belonged with WATSON, Claire!
This one definitely made us smile. Adding in here, since our post the other day seemed to have been eaten by a patreon goblin (unrelated to QC goblins/gremlins). Rather than going into a lot of detail here, going to share 3 links. Caveat: one is a gofundme, but we're NOT asking for any more donations; there are about a dozen updates that do much more explaining. Another thing you'll notice is our use of "I/me" pronouns, that's because other than my kids, my mom, and you, we're not "out" to hardly anyone, especially not my in-laws. Have tissues handy. https://www.mass.gov/news/fatal-house-fire-under-investigation-in-methuen https://gofund.me/581fc0abe Jump to the 38 min mark: https://www.youtube.com/live/nIZ-Symc1FM?si=tMk4uPH4sNDPPh4k
Oh my God, Ailadi. I don't have the words to tell you how unbelievably sorry and devastated I am for you. I know words could never be enough. I can only thank you for sharing what happened with us, because that must feel pretty scary and vulnerable considering we're just a bunch of online people. I'm sending as much love and healing as I can - and above all, rest. I wish it were more than just words, though. 💔
I miss Claire with a mane of hair though.
Claire is right RE: Sherlock and Mr Darcy 😆
Mr. Darcy belongs with WATSON!
Lots of cuteness from Claire in this one.
No no it's fine. They're all doing a mean lean cuz Bubbles is so tall, and Bubbles is doing it because she can
They have to compensate for the gravitational pull from the mini black hole in her power supply. (Plugging in is just for the containment field.)
This is by far the most subtle and wonderful reference to Albert Camus I have ever read. Hats off to you, Mr. Jacques.
Too subtle for me, I guess! But now you've piqued my curiosity. Can you enlighten the rest of us?
Reminds me of back in high school, when me and my friend would ship our friends more or less constantly. I suspect a few of them found this annoying.
I'm not sure I understand what kind of skewing would be revealed by a horizontal flip of the art. Any art people out there able to shed light on this?
Sometimes you think a character is standing up straight but when you flip it back and forth you see them wobble and teeter and you realise you actually drew them like 1.5 degrees off the vertical and then there is sometimes swearing.
You think you're about to hit #8 then BAM, it's #7 again. Hanners and Emmett's nightmares have come true. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5025
I assume Jeph is just trolling both the audience and the very concept of numerals, at this point.
This was my favorite Claire design. Peak.
I miss her nose ring. It looked cute!
And Claire can articulate both a Doylean and a Watsonian reason that Darcy and Holmes should be an item.
When she's right, she's RIGHT!
Well, Claire got her wish. That ship is sailing, gracefully like a hangar ship.
We've had two rerun comics numbered 5 and now a second number 7. I guess Jeph is going to continue rerunning into the new year. XD
Look, timezones are hard, ok?
Ah, armored Bubbles. *sigh*
I'm so used to her without the armor that she now looks odd to me with it on.
Thematically, I know why Bubbles doesn’t wear the armor anymore. However… ✨