QC Rerun Time 2025 #8
At least I think it's #8? What even are numbers anyway
Jimbo!!! Been a long while since we've seen ol' Jimbo. I wonder if he's still writing romance novels, or if he's pivoted to literary fiction. Or military sci-fi. Or poetry? He is a man of many talents, because I made him up and I can make him be whatever I want. I always imagined him as several years older than Marten and the rest of that crew, which means at this point he's still significantly younger than me. Fucked up, imo
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JIMBO!!!!!
I'm inexplicably following my own webcomics joke: Jimbo is the Questionable World's Jim Davis, creator of Garfield.
Man, Faye is hella cute there.
Gotta love the ghostly emo skin tone of Marten and Faye 🤣🤣 They must have gone to too many indie conserts!
I love Jimbo, truly an inspiration for all aspiring authors.
Ah yes, the old-school way of counting! Begins!, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5?, 6, 7, 7, 8 :p Ah, but who cares, a Golden Oldie from the comic's early days, how I love to reminisce. Hope you're havin' a good one, Jeph!
No, no, Jimbo is doing webcomics now.
Think I'm glad I joined the crowd later in the game, but, to be fair I recently edited a book where I had to ask the author if the word 'come' in the sentence 'come on his face' was a noun or a verb.
Maybe it was on purpose. After all, nothing is sexier than semantic ambiguity. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4892
Justice for Jimbo when is he coming back?
This seems to come from near the start of what I thought of as the "cute Faye" phase. It was the rounded chin, perhaps.
Haha can tell Jeph is getting older. Before social scenes in bar at night now social scenes in cafe during day.
We need vtubers whose performance is reading "Antoinette Banemoon and the Case of the Airship Automatons."
Next time, on BurgerMommy's Literature Corner... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4840
I forgot Jimbo was a character. I do miss him popping up every so often now.
It would be an amazing callback if someone was in a bookstore and we just happened to see a novel of his.
Anh and Bubbles head to a local bookstore for a book signing by the author of Sins of a Confessor. Faye tags along and is surprised to find that the author is oddly familiar... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5535
Only SEVERAL years older than Marten and co.? Damn, I always pictured him as like 20 years older than them.
"her vagina opened like a rare flower that you could put a penis into"
That feels more like a Marigold line. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1790
I hope we get to see Jimbo again. Always seemed like a chill guy and it would be nice to see if he’s also a fan of vtubers or has no idea what they are 😆
Jimbo was assigned an AI editor by his publisher. She has her own literary ambitions and hates the trash that he sells. He finds her stuck-up, and frustrating to work with. And the sexual tension between them is so thick gamma rays cannot penetrate it.
That just sounds like Sven and *his* agent... xD
Please not mil SF. Mil SF seems to attract people who think that all SF should be like Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie) or that Star Trek should have more guns on the Enterprise.
Jimbo would be played by Dietrich Bader in the movie
I was 19 when I started reading questionable content. Now I'm 38, that was half my life ago, so I'm older than Jimbo probably
No, see, Jimbo is the only one that actually ages. The rest of the cast are unknowingly trapped in a relativistic narrative-scape. Jimbo can move freely across the 4th wall. Alas, in so doing, he is burdened by the inevitability of mortality.
Haha maybe Jimbo is an author on literotica! https://search.literotica.com/?type=member&query=Jimbo
Don't worry Jeph, numbers are just an abstract concept. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3717
While, of course, math is delicious. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=593
It would be fun to have Jimbo show up in Cubetown as part of some literature project... In any case, it's great to see him again!
That would be hilarious.
Bring Jimbo back!
Jimbo and Barry should team up.
Jimbo and Liz should write the Great Astrophysics Porn Novel.
I like to think that Jimbo fell down a paleontology rabbit hole and is now writing erotic Spec Evo.
I remember when I first read this, it took me way too long to realize “Forwhyllyn” was pronounced “Four wheelin’”.
I never realized it on my own, so thank you for pointing it out! 😂
actually this is #9, you counted #5 twice
#10 actually, he did #7 twice as well.
Maybe since he's been away for so long Jimbo's aged in real time. What a shock for him to meet back up with them and he's starting to gray and has grandkids while Marten et al have barely aged at all. Jimbo would have to be written with basically the same art as presented here while everyone else has evolved, though. He would be so confused.
I discovered QC in 2006, I think. I adore the early stuff. Unfortunately I had a stroke a few years later and lost my ability to read (that's a thing). I had to well, just try to read a lot to get it back. It was incredibly frustrating. I read thousands of QC comics - everything available, over and over. It was one of the only things I could read. I'm back in action of course, and QC will always be special to me.
Wow! What a smart way to regain that ability! I assume the graphics helped your brain deal with the text. I'll bet tv captions would have helped for the same reason. I've heard they help kids learning to read as well as non-native speakers. Edit: I hope you're doing a lot better now. (Why can't I do a paragraph break without sending the comment? Grrr)
Early!Faye's dialogue is really something xD "Oh I simply *must* hear about this!" It's hard not to hear that spoken like a Jane Austen character in my head xD ...Which isn't totally out of step with the type of characters in Jimbo's writing xD
given Faye's roots i'm thinking it was spoken less like a Regency Ingenue and more like a Southern Belle
Even though I’ve been reading the comic since this one, I don’t think I ever noticed that Marten (a) had blue eyes and (b) spelled his name with an ‘e’ and not an ‘i’
🎵 Marten knows what it's like To be misspelled It's his own hell Behind blue eyes.
biggest easter egg would be putting a jimbo shelf in the cubetown library
The Director is Jimbo's biggest fan.
Ooh, Military Sci-Fi Romantic Fiction
Oooh, now we're shipping whole genres!
Clearly Jimbo has pivoted to writing a webcomic about a tattooed musician who starts writing webcomics...
Questionable Inception
The phrase "quivering woman-flesh" makes me think of a certain gelatinous A.I. up north.
🎵 When he's putting his thing Into flesh, quivering Is it Moray?
Ugh, yeah...one of the big problems with sliding timescales when your fiction doesn't try to pull a Gasoline Alley...eventually you end up older than your "old person" characters.
Jimbo alternates between romantasy and cozy mysteries.
Lookin' forward to the weeklong story arc of Jimbo giving panel presentations at the annual Romance Writers of America conference!
Jimbo's big on Booktok now
Bring him back as a friend of Sam's dad? (I think it's sam, the gremlin kid from the wedding) (Oh gods there are so many characters! Seriously dude how do you keep them all organized!?)
There were two small gremlins at the wedding, Sam and Emmett. But we haven't seen Emmett's dad in-comic, and probably won't unless the location moves to Belgium xD
Now this is a real flashback.
The random button finally delivered!
I think I speak for most of us when I say I'd love to see what's going on with Jimbo.
I'd like to think he's switched to writing space operas.
All these years later, "like kielbasa into a jello mold" still gets a real laugh from me.
That humor. It's the wurst.