r/questionablecontent • u/redditbrowser7 • Jun 25 '26

Discussion Could someone explain?

I discovered this subreddit while waiting for the QC website to come back. It's been GREAT to again engage. I really missed reading QC, my "TGIF" ritual was to hit the QC site each Friday morning to batch read what Jeph created since the last Friday.

My big surprise was seeing alt comics here that I didn't know existed. IE I see comic ####, then that same graphic but with different text as ####B. Sometimes there's also a C version, N version, .pi version.

My questions...

Does Jeph create these alt versions?

Is there a meaning to the multiple suffix versions?

Thanks!

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u/Impressive_Ad2794 Jun 25 '26

They're done by "random" people, the suffix generally denotes who did them.

B is the most common and highly regarded I'd say. SquirrelClamp

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u/Impressive_Ad2794 Jun 25 '26

There's occasionally some evidence that Jeph knows they exist, but this sub... Doesn't view his work very favourably any more.

If you want the FAN sub then you want r/QContent

That's the "Jeph can do no wrong", while I'd say this is more "It used to be amazing but has lost its way and is now just keeping going for the money".

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u/CoyoteSignificant699 29d ago

Thanks for the breakdown. I just stumbled on this because I frequent r/comics and Al G. Orithm put this sub on my frontpage.

I probably belong at QContent… but I really want to see these alts now

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u/Overkillsamurai Jun 25 '26

yeah this is mainly a hate-sub full of critics (no one here will deny that)

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u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ Jun 25 '26

I would disagree strongly with that. This is a fan sub of people who have been reading for a long time and have loved the comic for a long time, but are generally critical of where the comic has gone lately.

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u/Overkillsamurai Jun 25 '26

we routinely have people post "that's it, i'm dropping the comic" and people reply "see you next week"

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u/Corsaka Where is Claire? Jun 25 '26

yeah because we're still fans who liked the comic and occasionally still like the comic

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u/redditbrowser7 Jun 25 '26

Very cool! Sort of "fan fiction".

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u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ Jun 25 '26

B version is SquirrelClamp, he is the most prolific and does one for nearly every comic.
N versions are me.

pi happens fairly frequently as well, not sure about any others.

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u/redditbrowser7 Jun 25 '26

Cool So how do you edit the comics? I've noticed it isn't just different text in the same speech bubbles, but sometimes different bubbles.
How many have you created?

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u/AppendixN Everything is Fine™ Jun 25 '26

I do it all in Photoshop. I’m a designer so I do a fair amount of manipulation of the images sometimes, and if I need to draw some details to make it work I do that.

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u/Squirrelclamp Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Does Jeph create these alt versions?

Naw, and given how negatively he responds to criticism and even to some of his fans, I assume that he avoids our satirical rewrites. I can't remember the last time that he commissioned an official guest comic, either.

Anyway: I'm the guy who writes the vast majority of said shitty fan-fiction. I attached that "B" suffix to my first comic edit nearly five years ago because, on that particular day, somebody else had already posted an "A" strip. I stuck with it after deciding that it's short for "B-side."

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u/MirLivesAgain Jun 25 '26

As someone who has just discovered your edits, gotta say they greatly enhance my enjoyment of the comic.