Why the hell is Questionable Content so popular?
Originally published at Karmic Debt Comics. You can comment here or there.
I am sure many of you have asked this, especially those of you who make comics yourselves, you think it’s not really very interesting, and it seems it takes years for anything to ever happen, the art is so so, etc etc…
I’ll tell you what makes it popular.
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Friends.
Yup, you read that right, Questionable Content is the comic equivalent of Friends. It has characters that you identify with and immediately take an interest in. They are thrown into slightly quirky off beat situations and there is always sexual tension or budding romances between the characters. Some folks might think the strength of a comic comes from it’s art, but clearly it’s the writing in QC that draws you in, while the art is good the writing is better.
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As much as I hate to say it Jeph Jacques does create a good comic, is it worthy of the large amount of traffic it gets? Well, was Friends worthy of holding onto the #1 spot on TV for as long as it did? Who’s to say really, but I do know it seems to entertain a lot of people and that must be worth something.
I am not sure how Mr. Jacques would feel about being compared to Friends, but he should probably remember that the creators of it made some pretty good money from it, and I am sure they laughed all the way to the bank as critics and naysayers panned it.
So there you have it, the real reason Questionable Content is so damn popular.
