Just a week ago, we were pitying the foos' that couldn't take a good geek joke. Like all good things though, sometimes too much is too much. I am not saying this because Jeff Jaques' Questionable Content is about a really geeky indie rock nerd. Not in the least. Yes, the obscure yet common ideology by which the less a group or style is known, the better it is, has managed to create an entire subculture. The tenants of this urban religion distinguish themselves by the characteristic attempt to be indistinguishable. With unbounded contempt for goths, punks, emos, grunge nostalgics, hard rockers and straight edge rockers (ugh...), these proud young'ns loudly proclaim their independence by dressing, looking and behaving as normally as possible.
Freaky. Jeff Jaques immerses us into the life of this pathologically shy dude and his chance meetings of skinny but hot chicks, in what soon becomes a western European imitation of a Shojo manga. The comedy is mostly axed around the sassy comments and puns of the hero and his romantic-but-not-quite interest, Faye, as well as the wacky antics of his anthropomorphic psychopathic robot Pintsize, though this last aspect has been played down a bit. The graphics go from very good to absolutely fabulous, Jaques actually using photography as reference for his decor.
He also has managed to play on his indie rock readers' vestimentary insecurity and is currently selling T-shirts based on the clothing of his characters, thus setting the example for every webcomic overachiever out there by maintaining an excellent comic with virtually no adspace.
Recommended reading for all the frustrated electric guitar massacrers and frustrated waiters-around-for-girlsers!
oao
the cod
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