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Exactly this.

Could've at least gotten a flashback of her being forced to stand aside and let a bad cop get away with something. But as is, it's just randomly hammering in out of nowhere.

Hell, even the one case of failure of the system that we've seen wasn't due to corruption, Corpsewitch just hid her shit too well and covered it up with "illegal but good-hearted" gig to distract the well-intended Basilisk.

I guess we're supposed to assume that the police in QC are Like Reality, Unless Noted, but

I don't know, I agree with the message and I still think it was shoddily executed.

But at least it frees Roko up for her true passion, which is to become bread.

Edited by wingedcatgirl on Sep 25th 2018 at 7:55:31 AM

Unless Roko is planning on running for public office now that she's resigned then she's not addressing the problem at all.

Comic comic comic

... why does Roko suddenly have a Funetik Aksent?

She can keep that if You-Know-Who takes her advice and disappears again.

Oh good. Deus ex Machina is back. Hurray.

It's storylines like this that make me wonder why I'm still reading the comic.

I mean, they're clearly here to annoy Roko, not solve problems.

The accent is ... strange. Perhaps she suppressed it or programmed it out of herself while she was on the force, to appear more professional, even when she was out of uniform. Since she doesn't care about that anymore, she's reverted herself to her natural inclination of pure Boston. Why she has that, I don't know.

Edit: She never used to curse, either.

Edited by HeraldAlberich on Sep 25th 2018 at 11:40:25 AM

Remind me again who this person talking to Roko is?

The random robot who showed up and resolved the Corpsewitch problem in the least interesting way possible.

I just can't get over how Spookybot basically looks like a robot version of Desire from The Sandman.

Edited by M84 on Sep 26th 2018 at 12:42:27 AM

I still think that Roko, Bubbles, Spookybot, and just... that whole circle of characters were part of their own spinoff series. That’s what it feels like whenever the focus shifts to them instead of Marten and co.

Like. If Faye had moved to another city, where she met Bubbles and all this stuff happened there, with all of that as a spinoff, it would work so much better for me.

So when Marten shows up, it's like Barney Google came back to Hooten Holler?

Suuuure. I definitely know what those words mean. Totally. 100%

If you really care. And evidently Mr. Google has indeed returned to the Holler on occasion.

Oh. Not quite like that, then. I mean that Faye and Bubbles and co. should have a separate comic that runs alongside QC. QC stays with Marten, Dora, Claire, Momo, Hanners, all of them. The Faye & Bubbles Show or whatever is about... this stuff.

Two webcomics going at once, updating on alternate days, would be preferable to this.

I assumed that there'd been a time skip, Roko had gone out and got drunk to drown her sorrows or celebrate her decision, and the "accent" was her slurring her words. The lighting looks odd and might be evening, which would fit that. But it's all a bit weird and uncertain.

On top of which, Roko now looks less and less like someone who resigned on a point of principle — which would at least look high-minded, even if some of us would say she was wrong to do so — and more and more like she's just beating herself up over having missed what was going on with Corpsewitch and Bubbles. Which just makes her look whiny.

I remember one strip where Roko was drinking with O'Malley and also used that accent; IIRC, Jeph said she used it when she was really angry.

EDIT: Found it.

Edited by Motyka5 on Sep 26th 2018 at 5:24:44 AM

...which is a weird tic. I mean, you can say that all sorts of things could show up as trivial glitches in AI programming, but it’s just distracting here.

I guess it’s possible that this is an amplification of how her voice usually sounds in Jeph’s head, but if so, he doesn’t depict her usual voice very effectively.

Edit: Ah, okay, the footnote to that old strip says that it’s a Boston accent. Still not working for me, though.

Edited by Spindriver on Sep 26th 2018 at 2:54:05 PM

It’s just a tad overdone, and Boston isn’t a typical phonetic accent.

Also, no one else in the comic sounds like that. You’d think at least one of them would be from the area.

I have to admit that I only recently became aware that Boston was considered a very distinctive accent in the States. To my badly-tuned British ear, it just sounds like a very minor American variant.

Boston actually has a few pretty distinct dialects.

What Rokonis using is typical Southie dialect, and it is super noticeable. Watch Good Will Hunting to heat a lot of examples of this.

There’s a Seth Meyers sketch that illustrates the various different types pretty well

Whereas to Americans, the fact that Southie is non-rhotic makes it sound closer to British than a lot of what you find in the States, while still having a very different character.

Fun fact: Boston’s variety of accents are much closer to what Shakespearian English sounded like than modern British English is.