Questionable Content V Terry Moore

yes.

and let me say before the kvetchfest that qc is totally defensible and enjoyable.

yeah. for what it's worth, I tend to not read QC for a month, and then catch up on all the strips on a bored evening. As a once-a-month guilty pleasure, it's classic.

I hate it a lot.

Let me be more specific. I hate both of them a lot.

Hmm. To me, they don't seem much funnier than putting four Hallmark humor cards in a row and pretending it's a comic strip.

Less funny, if you ask me.

Hey, did you ever wonder what I think of Achewood?

Please don't link to it

It seems some people were offended or confused by Friday's comic. They felt that I was saying or implying that polyamory is somehow not as serious as monogamy, or that polyamorous folks don't enter into committed relationships, or something. That couldn't possibly be further from my intent!

What I was going for in that comic (and this one) is that the specific situation Tai finds herself in (casual physical relationships with people she cares about but doesn't necessarily LOVE) is unfulfilling for her personally, and she feels like she'd rather just have one person to focus on. In no way did I mean to imply that because Tai isn't happy, ALL polyamory is unfulfilling, or not serious, or anything of that sort.

Like Dora says in today's strip, relationships exist on a continuum, and there are many different kinds of relationship that different people consider "polyamory." You certainly can have a serious, committed, happy polyamorous relationship! You can also be more casually polyamorous, like Tai has been in the comic. Ain't no right or wrong, or inferior or superior, as long as everybody's being safe and honest.

One of the challenges of working in this medium is that intent and interpretation are two very different things. I thought it was obvious that I was writing about a specific situation, and not denigrating polyamory in any way, but some people felt otherwise. That means I didn't do a good enough job! The vast majority of you guys either had no problem with the strip or actively told me that it was fine! But that doesn't mean that the minority who were bothered by it don't deserve to have their concerns addressed, which is what I'm attempting to do.

I apologize if I've hurt any feelings or offended anyone, and will try to make my intent more clear in the future! I hope this clears things up.

See you tomorrow.

was it really necessary to drag SiP into the mud

lol nerds be polyamorous

seriously if i count the qc fans i know irl the majority of them are polyamorous

god the more those days & people enter the realm of retrospect the more i can't remember why i ever hung out with them

was it really necessary to drag SiP into the mud

turning it over with your toe and going, "oh right, SiP" doesn't count as dragging

Fuck the polyamorous. Creepy bastards.

QC is currently the worst it has ever been.

it has stagnated. The strips involving Faye coming to terms with her father's death were genuinely moving. But there's been virtually no meaningful follow-up, and otherwise the characters just meander around, sort of pointlessly.

But I still like QC (the only comic -- online or otherwise -- I've read in years).

I liked the Zulawski guest strip.

QC is currently the worst it has ever been.

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first good QC in years written/drawn by john allison
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1955