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One of the hallmarks of comic strips -- more than most other media, though you see some of this in animation too or, very rarely, in television or movies -- is the casual blending of the realistic and the fantastic. There's a term for this in the literary world. Magic realism. The sense of the fantastic, the wonderful, the horrific, lurking in everyday life. And men and women just accept it. Sean Stewart is a master of magic realism. Sure, momma got possessed on a regular basis and predicted the future. Sure, one of the local businessmen got rich off her predictions. Still, come on. S'not like we don't have to pay the mortgage, mister.
Questionable Content is generally described as a slice of life comic, or a relationship comic, or a romance comic, and these are fair enough descriptions. But there is also that edge of the fantastic. In ways, it's been a kind of 'deniable' fantasy. We don't know that Pizza Girl is actually a super hero, with powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary Dominos Drivers, or just a chick in a demeaning workplace gimmick who went overboard with it. In a way, it doesn't matter which it is.
And yet, there is fantasy here. The AnthroPCs are more than just cute Sony Aibos gone one step further. They are artificial intelligences. Pintsize can accidentally have a black market death laser mounted in his chassis and we simply accept it. And more to the point, the black ops secret agent who shows up to wipe Pintsize's brain and take the laser back turns out to just be Alan Turing, who Dora used to beat up and steal cigarettes from. It's not just that it's fantastic -- it's that it's the fantastic integrated into the mundane. The fantastic elements become the mechanisms for the human stories being told.
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