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[damerell]

I've been reading early _Questionable Content_. The author, Jeph Jacques, must have _really_ liked Scary-go-Round or Bobbins - all the early strips have a very similar speech style. The way no-one uses contractions helps.

Also, woeful failure of Bechdel test.

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[ceb.livejournal.com]

Bechdel test> Hardly fair, none of the male characters talk about anything but sex/relationships/people they fancy either!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Two of them talk about Pintsize in #21, and there's just economic moaning in #37. #82 before I can find two women talking about something that isn't a man and, er, that's the lot in the first 100.