He Was A Good Man
FOOCHSBURG
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There ain’t no Fucksburg Montana! I looked it up. There is a Ficksburg South Africa, but that’s not the same.
When I was a traveling consultant I found a real place called Toadsuck, Arkansas. I don’t think there is a library there.
I think that Claire is being eased off-stage. The previous strip presents her as having rather tepid, restrained passions, and in this one, both of them are remarkably casual about the thought of her leaving. I think maybe Jeph wants to get out from under having a character to whom he is determined to do justice, but whose situation he may not wholly understand. I could be wrong. Telling the future from comic strips is not yet a science. Maybe Claire will get work in the Knowledge Corridor. (The Knowledge Corridor runs between the Inchoate Fantasy Room and the Abstraction Archives, with Nightmare Alley branching off of it. No, that is a lie. It is the college-heavy area around Northampton.) Maybe they will wind up living together in Joggins, Nova Scotia. I am wrong about half the time. This could be one of those times. It looks to me like she is being de-accessioned, as all librarians eventually are, though.
Don't move to Montana. It's way too crowded and snows 13 months out of the year. The leading cause of death is Grizzly Bear, at a rate of 28,000/year. Amazon Prime thinks you're in Canada. The mosquitoes are worse than in Florida, and it's not really legal to own a vehicle that gets better than 10 mpg.
14, Fisher Cat, 18k and you'd have VT.
If you aren't OK with moving to Fucksburg, Montana then don't apply to jobs in Fucksburg, Montana. If you let someone get to the point of giving you an offer and you're like, "No, I don't think I want to move", you have seriously jerked their chain, wasted their time and have demonstrated yourself to be a flake of a human being. Willingness to move is kind of the ante for applying in the first place.
People who are desperate for a new job (like recent graduates) may think that they're ok with moving to Fucksburg, Montana until they get that job offer. Or they may be good with the move if the salary will be $X, but when they get the offer it's $X-$1000. They get to decide if that salary is good enough.
Had to talk about Ronald Fuchs repeatedly in grad school because of his seminal work: <a href="https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.140.A2076" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.140.A2076</a> "Optical Modes of Vibration in an Ionic Crystal Slab"
The people of Fucksburg should feel lucky- the town could have been named after Jonas' mother!
If she is prepared to move abroad, she might get a job in Fucking, Austria.
Otto Fuchs was a character in some literary thing I read in 7th grade. We all had fun with that one.
Vhat's zo funny about a good German name? ;-)
He was a good man. He gave fuchs about others.
Life is like a hurricane in fucksburg
Better than Bland (Missouri), Boring (Oregon) or Dull (Ohio).
Or Shorter, Alabama
Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon
I'd rather be a mental toss flycoon. :-)
Eh, could be worse ... Could be Mensträsk, Sweden. (direct translation: Menstruation Swamp)
Kräkångersnoret
The UK has positions in Westward Ho, Hutton-Le-Hole, Sadberg and Dingle.
There is a small village not 5 miles away from me called Cocking.
Claire is more mentally prepared for a relationship swaying conversation than she is for final exams. Same.
Heh, I'll bet you ANYTHING that Claire already had this conversation planed, and in panel 2 she referenced that particular index card in her brain. "Oh, it's time for THIS scenario now. Let's talk." She's that kind of person.
She's obviously given it some thought ahead of time. Her part of the conversation sounds way too well rehearsed to be off the cuff. It may have even contributed to the nervousness she attributed to the exam.
Oddly when they asked for nominations for mayor once the town was established, there were, in fact, zero Fuchs given.
Funny enough, I live in Fucksburg, Montana. Okay, so maybe just a rural Montana town. But if ever a place SHOULD be called Fucksburg, this is it. It'd be better with a cool librarian though.
She'll probably get an offer in Intercourse, PA. (Yes, it exists.)
you got there first ;)
The side view panel is my favorite ever
The less said about the origins of Ramsbottom, WV the better.
Pintsize would be totally into moving there. Maybe May also.
Schitt's Creek
no way would we follow martin and claire; we would occasionally have them cameo in the comic that would become about faye bubbles marigold and co. same as hannelore now is. Dora and tai may also be moving on. I think jeph is more interested in the stories some of his newer characters still have to tell. if alice grove taught me anything its that hes more attached to the story arc then the characters and isnt above ending things if it fits his vision.
A little skeptical, are we? Marten is the inaugural character. If anyone would remain a main character after leaving town, it's him. We've already seen a prolonged diversion without him in it, while the story focused on more riveting news, but the story always comes back around to him.
This comic took place in the author's hometown originally, right? And then a few years ago the author moved to Canada? Wonder if this could be used as an excuse to start writing about his new surroundings. Marten and Claire move off to the author's new city and the story follows them.
Sure, but the ensemble has changed dramatically multiple times throughout the series. Jeph Jacques has talked on twitter about how if you really dissect the "Questionable Content" it could be boiled down into at least three comics with very few threads connecting them. Any one of them could move to Canada to introduce a new cast, but Marten makes as much sense as any of them, being the character that it all started with.
Are the residents required by law to give one?
Every time they write out their address.
"Fucktopia?" "Fuchtopia." "Spell it."
I looked to see if there was one of those new novelty TLDs for Montana. There wasn't, or I would have made an ill-advised domain purchase.
I am saved from many ill-advised domain purchases by those that have squatted before me.
I despise small towns but I would absolutely live in Fucksburg for the meme
Dude, F-burg is a major city. The postcard industry alone is massive.
Well, that went well.
Any conversation that doesn't end with Marten being hit with Ursula is a good conversation :-)
This whole thing is getting way too relatable.