"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
>>77655603
>the marvel of Jeph "Knife Game Champion" Jacques
Die. Die. Die Jeph, please. Die. Die!
>>77655641
>facetious
This is not something you use, unless its your daily word for your Word A Day calendar. Especially when bleeding.
>>77655701
Where have you been? Misusing "facetious" for "sarcastic" has been hip for years now.
>>77655701
Chill down murrican, some people speak properly.
>>77655603
How can one man be so devoid of any drive to do anything?
Okay, that's impressively bad, even for him. How anyone can support this guy is a mystery, he doesn't even do pandering well
>>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.
>>77655743
Except she clearly isn't. If she thought she was being facetious then she would have known the object was seriously dangerous.
>>77655603
Jesus christ.
>OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR
>>77655794
>Reading comprehension
She thought "it's sharp" wasn't a serious statement.
>>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"
>>77655701
>This is not something you use, unless its your daily word for your Word A Day calendar
I conquer.
>>77655701
>this and blase and ambiance
think he has one of those calendar
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.
>>77655603
>10k a month
>>77655788
Really? This is the page that you give up on?
Anyways, see you tomorrow anon
>>77655943
I don't see the edit.
>>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
>>77655977
>>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.
>>77655990
>>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.
>>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.
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.
>>77655603
PEN PEN?!
>>77656054
He's lurking in these threads...
>>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.
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?
>>77656395
Was Alice Grove his attempt to do a passion project while QC pays the bills, or was that doomed from the start?
>>77655603
Stop whoring your comic out in here. Or continue, so we never have to click it, and you have to get a job.
>>77656495
I doubt it.
That comic seemed totally directionless from the start.
>>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.
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.
>>77656545
It's winding down like Claire's testosterone.
>>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.
>>77655740
I'm pretty sure facetious was correctly, actually. Meant to be funny but actually annoying.
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.
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.
![5bccce4403824dc65fb5da927c7c2092[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rqq2367.jpg "5bccce4403824dc65fb5da927c7c2092[2].jpg")
>>77656189
>>77657791
The suicide draws closer. Let it all come tumblring down.
>>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
>>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.
>>77655603
This looks like complete garbage
>>77657952
New to QC, I take it?
>>77655740
I've been doing it since the early 90's man, it still isn't old.
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.
>>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.
>>77655603
the B^U is reaching peak CAD levels
>>77655701
People use it, just not in the moments after they slice their wrist open.
>>77655899
>only 2 months ago
>the end is nigh
thank god.
>>77658127
same here. dropped about 2 years ago
Where are the Trance comics?
>>77655870
Way underrated post right here.
>>77656189
He made a comic with someone clutching their bleeding hand. Is he asking us to edit these at this point?
are Willis threads banned now or did we just get sick of him? asking here because he and Jeph are buddies
>>77655794
>If she thought she was being facetious then she would have known the object was seriously dangerous.
u wot
>>77658897
Theyre basically the same thing now
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!
>>77659452
>Have Dora and Tai have a threesome with Sven
Thats a little gay anon
>>77658060
Asshole I was drinking something at the time.
>>77659477
No, just incestuous
>>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.
>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.
>>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.
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.
>>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
>>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.
>>77655603
Soon.
Soon it'll all be over.
Will he kill himself or will he just end the comic?
>>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.
>>77655666
Oh he will. That's a guarantee for all of us.
>>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.
>>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
>>77659883
That's a pretty concise summary of the situation, anon. Nice work.
>>77659884
And why would you grab the head of a spatula?
Jeph, I know you're not really trying, but c'mon now.
Whatever happened to Irish? Did she post more nudes?
>>77659883
>>Jack Black
>>Not Gilbert Gottfried
>>77660024
He, dude.
Irish is a guy
>>77660045
She makes my dick diamond so I'm just gonna keep calling her she.
>>77659923
why would you need a spatula to make coffee?
>>77660234
Except you are wrong. He is not a she
You're fapping to a man, you fag.
Smug anime girls.
>>77655788
See you tomorrow.
>>77655603
>>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.
>>77660752
Why am i laughing fuck
>>77660301
Cafe might serve breakfast sandwiches?
>>77660302
That's impossible, as I am straight.
So Irish must be a she.
>>77660834
There's nothing sadder than a faggot in denial.
>>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.
>>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
>>77660301
For food served with the coffee. Frosting spatulas will sometimes have a serrated edge so they can also be used to cut cake.
>>77655603
Oh well, he'll fix it for the published edition.
>>77655603
>couldn't bring myself to shade the fucking thing
ITS YOUR FUCKING JOB YOU ASSCLOWN, STOP DELIVERING SHODDY PRODUCT, DO IT FUCKING RIGHT
eating shit is never ironic.
>QC is so bad even the characters are stabbing themselves
>>77660233
>>Even fart jokes are funnier than QC
>>77661374
That's because even QC's fart jokes are inept.
Jeph's idea of a fart joke is saying the word fart.
>>77661154
But not doing it's probably not going to affect his income at all, so IS it really part of his job?
>>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.
>>77659849
This is the only thought that brings me comfort in these threads.
>>77655603
>I hate the art in this one
>-Jeph Jacques
he should complain to the artist
>>77658005
Nah, I've read it before. It just looks worse, the colors look so flat and so do the characters.
>>77660752
>What's up, friends?
That dialogue feels clunky. Sort of like "How do you do, fellow kids?".
>>77661273
underrated post
>>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..
>>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.
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?
>>77660045
Of course he's respecting the pronouns he wants nudes.
>>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.
>>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.
>>77664146
I was thinking the same thing. He used a few angles he usually avoids with Hannelore, which I honestly applaud.
>>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.
>>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.
>>77665532
But thats comic is okay because he still had an other job and didnt solely live off his comic yet.
>>77658744
Came into this thread looking for those and also wondering if liquidmark had re-opened Handy Jay's yet.
>>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.
>>77655603
>I drew it poorly so I'm going to make sure it looks even worse
>>77666167
If anything, it looks like it had more effort put into it, especially the writing.
>>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.
>>77659691
Lots of people work jobs they hate because it makes them over $100,000 a year.
>>77666167
You're technically right, by a month.
>>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.
>>77659795
>doesn't he have an ex wife?
Yup.
This is the thing he used to climb.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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?
>>77666563
Faye had a sister?
>>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.
>>77665532
>redraw comics for the print editions
But some of his older art is better than his current art
>>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.
>>77666640
Why does she have no lower jaw?
>>77668368
Yeah, but at least he was pretending to maybe try
>>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.
>>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).
>>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.
>>77667907
She died on her way back to her home planet.
>>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.
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
>>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.
>>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.
>>77669150
Your friend is not a friend.
She actually hates you.
>>77659883
Well said. He's in a Hell of his own making. Worse, it's a Hell he asked for.
>>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
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>77655701
>being american
You're just admitting you're a faggot.
>>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
>>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)
>>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.
>>77671050
>Bad Machinery
>>77671050
Don't forget Octopus Pie
>>77671224
It's good.
>>77671224
How does Jeff Jocks have friends when he's a weeaboo AND an SJW? Surely everyone can find something to hate about him.
>>77671297
Social Justice Weeaboo
>>77671264
I am 27 strips in and I already hate this
>>77671370
Are you insulting my main man REO Speedwagon and his fabulous hats
>>77671297
Calling Jeph a weeaboo is a bit of a stretch.
He's seen Azumanga Daioh and that's about it
>>77671458
Give it some time
>>77671557
He at least feigns JoJo knowledge.
>>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?
>>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.
>>77671757
>tall girl getting with short guy
ahaha what? Is JJ a manlet indulging a fantasy world or something?
>>77671783
Lena Dunham is literally a baby rapist.
The SJW won't devour anyone who panders to them.
>>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.
>>77669669
What's the ear thing?
I can barely remember handstab 1.0, certainly can't recall an ear thing?
>>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" ?
>>77655701
>I have an underdeveloped vocabulary so everyone else does too
>>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.
>>77671923
>>77655701
Facetious is actually a meme word that's become fairly popular in modern discourse.
You hear it in everything
>>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.
>>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
>>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.
>>77672172
technically all words are memes
>>77672193
Communication itself is a meme.
>>77655603
> Handstab posting a comic about handstab
How post ironicism.it's still shit
Handstab's other comic also features a bloody left hand.
>>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.
>>77671757
What is hyphenating Clinton even supposed to sound like? Clin and ton alone still make up the syllables in Clinton.
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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>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.
>>77666640
Greg Proops went MtF?
>>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.
>>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?
>>77674014
Hand stab 2.0
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2307
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2307
>>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.
>>77673424
Proops is actually a real good looking guy and I resent that.
>>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.
>>77675606
A picture to be framed.
>>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.
>>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.
>>77678301
Oh May...
>>77678301
oh lord he's gonna pair sven up with the robot isn't he?
![i24iBIC[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/DGaVVQ8.jpg "i24iBIC[1].jpg")
Hey /qc/, want some fresh salt?
http://imgur.com/gallery/i24iBIC
>>77657925
He should take a stabbatical, you mean?
>>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.
>>77678910
Stahp using fancy words for me murikan brian
>>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.
>>77668414
She DOES have a lower jaw.
It's substandard of course. But it's unmistakably there
>>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.
>>77655603
>I hate the art in this one
But it's the same art as the other strips.
>>77678588
haven't you noticed she has no joints or seams whatsoever and could pass for human
>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.
Remember back in the day...
>>77679752
Post pls
>>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.
>>77679752
POST AND BE JUDGED
>>77679752
>has good art
You can't say this without posting
Anyone have the combined Patreon Emergency strip where Claire arrives, says "coffee time!" and then leaves the in the same strip?
>>77681349
Nope
>>77680394
>>77681224
>>77681334
www.fjordsoncomic.com/
pls be gentle on my sore asshole.
>>77681424
Pretty good, but the backgrounds blow the generic characters out of the water.
>>77681465
ain't that the truth. Been feeling bad about the art lately, so I simply need to step it up.
>>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.
>>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".
>>77681424
The art is good.
>>77681424
I'm enjoying this so far.
Bookmarked.
>>77681623
Me, too, put this at the top of to-read.
>>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.
>>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.
>>77669493
Wait, there were two handstabs?
>>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.
>>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.
>>77681769
Didn't mean mine to come across negatively. Your comic isn't terrible.
Good luck.
>>77678301
My constant shilling is finally getting though, it only took 5 years for them to meet.
>>77681424
do everybody a favor, quit drawing your comic, and draw me a bunch of images of Metroid and Fallout and other atmospheric locales
>>77681769
get a functioning RSS feed or I will never keep up with your comic
>>77682009
what's wrong with the rss feed?
>>77681921
Wait. This was fight years ago. Goddamn nothing really ever happens in this comic doesn't it.
>>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."
>>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"
>>77678301
Is "WHEN IS SVEN GONNA FUCK THE ROBOT" the new "WHEN IS MARTEN GONNA FUCK THE TRANNY"?
>>77682226
Good god to get something like this again
