questionable motives

[hatam_soferet]

I've lately been noting with pleasure how Questionable Content frequently passes the Bechdel-Wallace test with flying colours.

So it was somewhat jarring to see the cover art for the latest print version, which features the leading male character flanked by two of the leading female characters. Because most of the characters are women, and a lot of the action is about what they get up to, I think of it as a strip about people who happen to be women; I guess the author thinks of it as a strip about the male character populated by women.

So it's not a cartoon about people who happen to be women...it's the male author's pornulated fantasy world rendered in cartoon form.

This is too bad.

Comments

[kippahandcollar.wordpress.com]

I started reading QC about a year ago, after hearing many positive things about it, and stopped in short order because it struck me as nothing more than a lengthy ode to the Nice Guy (http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/12/explainer-what-is-nice-guy.html)--basically, I thought it was full of fail and was really confused about why so many people seem to love it.

[hatam_soferet]

Yeah. Ode To The Nice Guy is about it. Sigh; the female characters are fun, when you take out the Nice Guy.

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[(Anonymous)]

Whevoer wrote this, you know how to make a good article.

[tigerflower]

I think it varies, actually. There are times when QC is pretty clearly the male author's fantasy world, with Marten being his self-insertion character, but there are other times when it's pretty clearly not that, too.

[hatam_soferet]

Which is when I like it :)

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[(Anonymous)]

You have the monopoly on useful information—aren't monopolies ilelagl? ;)

[crewgrrl]

To give him a small amount of credit, I'm pretty sure that group of strips is when both Faye and Dora were romantic possibilities for Marten. Since he is the main character of the strip (or at least it started around him), it makes a small amount of sense to pose the cover that way.

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[(Anonymous)]

Boom shakalaka boom boom, porlbem solved.

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[(Anonymous)]

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