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May 04, 2007
The Busiest Damn Week of These People's Lives
Project for when I am bored: Go through the Questionable Content archives and figure out exactly how much time has passed within the comic since the first strip. The strip is great, but the pacing is very, very slow and the author, Jeph Jacques, is unusually consistent about having each series of strips occur on the same day, then moving on to the next day, and so on. The trick is, though, that the plot moves along in real-time, even as time moves slowly within the strip. It’s jarring when a new day dawns in QC’s Boston and you look back through the archives and realize that the last three months of plot developments all occurred in one day. Seriously, I’ll bet the events of full four years of the strip thus far have transpired over the course of two weeks in the characters’s lives. A month at the outside.
Posted by Zach at May 4, 2007 12:05 AM