Eccentric Flower:200910/Nerd-Con
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Nerd-Con
I find it fascinating that Questionable Content has had this long arc about geek Marigold and how she is so poorly socialized but basically a wonderful person, and how Hannelore (of all people) and Angus are carefully trying to sort of re-integrate her into the world ... and yet for me, if I were playing the part of Marigold in this situation - and Marigold's neuroses overlap with mine a great deal, let it be said - the comic would end after the third panel. And I wouldn't come out until Hannelore left.
However, I love the Totoro hat.
In other QC news, this strip made me laugh.
I suspect they have found something involving N girls and N-1 cups, but I'm not going to speculate further.
Corn maze! Pumpkin cannon! Wait ... that a man-sized gerbil wheel? What I love about Jennie Breeden is that her inner six-year-old is never far from the surface.
Over at NPC, our heroine has convinced her friend Jenny to try World of Warcraft in order to rescue her relationship. It goes badly at first, but with some crash lessons she improves dramatically. Maybe too much.
Meanwhile, this is why it's probably a good thing Nonelvis doesn't play online games.
Every so often Iain reminds me that Subnormality exists and I go back and read the last twenty or so. The strips are often about nothing more than the kind of existential angst that I'm never really interested in hearing anyone talk about, not even myself. However, fortunately, he throws in the Sphynx (his spelling) from time to time to remind us all just how useless all this petty fussing about the human condition is. The Sphynx understands that humans are fundamentally ridiculous and generally worthless - except as a food source.
Which is not to say that none of his non-Sphynx strips are brilliant. When he is picking apart human banality with a scalpel (thoughts in a grocery line, used car sales) he is usually spot-on. Fortunately, he gets out the scalpel fairly often. Does make me wonder, though - like so many comedians and quite a few cartoonists, the artist does not strike me as a particularly happy person and I worry for his well-being.
This is probably my favorite of his strips to date. The one just before it is a close second. Neither is a particularly happy strip, but they may possibly contain Great Truths, which is a pretty good consolation prize.
I am so not you that this hardly ever comes up.
But I had the identical expectation/reaction to panel three of QC.
-- 17:24, 28 October 2009 (GMT)
Iain:
I just find it wildly improbable that Hannelore, with her neuroses specifically involving being touched, would go to the crammed site of a con. And heaven help her (or possibly everyone else) if it's one like the "open source boobs" thing they had at Penguincon last year. (In practice, it seems to have gone shockingly well; that said, it could have gone disastrously wrong right off the bat.)
I do like Subnormality, but every once in a while, he really does throw up one of those "walls of text" he says people complain about. I looked at this week's on Monday and as soon as it loaded, promptly wandered away because I just wasn't up to it right then. (Also, pretty sure that sort of surprise wouldn't really result in six orgasms.)
-- 20:28, 28 October 2009 (GMT)
Mel:
Have you seen anime Marigold? (complete with Totoro hat): http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/109775.html (your system seems to think this is spam and won't let me link it, btw)
I immediately made it my wallpaper.
Also, I agree with Iain about Hannelore's recent bout of very social behavior - it doesn't fit very well with her personality as previously established. (I think it started before the introduction of Marigold, didn't it? First I remember is the drunken sledding business last winter, and I thought it was a bit out of character even then.)
-- 03:23, 29 October 2009 (GMT)
Well, the thing is, Hannelore was not exactly antisocial even from the beginning. (She first met Marten in a bar and it was revealed that she was actually Marten's upstairs neighbor and knew way too much about him already. And remember, she nearly made her mother cry with joy when she found out they had the common bond of both liking dry martinis - a personal favorite strip of mine, for obvious reasons.) She has OCD, yes, and it manifests mostly as extreme germophobia and not liking physical contact, but she's always been capable of interacting with other people, and she's loosened up gradually as she has gotten to know the gang. Marigold is a different story - different set of neuroses.
-- 15:06, 29 October 2009 (GMT)
I like the manga Marigold, but I am afraid I like the Badtz-Maru pic even more.
-- 15:09, 29 October 2009 (GMT)
Mel:
Because I am obsessed, Totoro hats: http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/HAT-TOT2GREY http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/HAT-TOT1BLUE and a pattern for a knitted one: http://www.helloyarn.com/topdownbonnet.htm
-- 16:52, 29 October 2009 (GMT)
Ooh, thanks for the Totoro pattern, Mel! I think I might have to make one for my niece.
-- 17:00, 29 October 2009 (GMT)
Incidentally, I guessed correctly in the Girls With Slingshots cartoon I linked above. (Everybody has to go to the Hallowe'en party dressed as an internet meme. To find out what Jameson is dressed as, see the preceding strip.)
-- 13:55, 30 October 2009 (GMT)
Thomas:
Now I am tempted to make a comic strip ( not on my own idea, but someone on LJ had an idea to offer. He may insist it is just an idea and not something that happened to him, but I have different view of the issue! )
-- 17:11, 28 October 2009 (GMT)