It’s all about the subtext

So many of you have forwarded me the Questionable Content cartoon for today entitled, ‘I love you, Sandra Hill.’ Have a look.

Perhaps your blood pressure will rise a bit at the “just a shitty romance novel.” And again at “Girl-porn.”

But look closer – she who casts the stone of “Girl-porn?” In the next frame she’s grabbing that paperback and then reading it. And even as the girl who calls her novel “shitty hilarious girl porn” sneers at it, she’s totally into it. I’d like to know where she falls on the Dear Author Apologia Scale.

Book CoverHaj wrote, “I must know if there is, indeed, a romance novel about a time-travelling Viking who becomes a Navy SEAL.” I don’t know if he becomes a SEAL, but there is no time travel viking like a Sandra Hill time travel viking, hence Ms. Hill’s name on the cover.

As near as I can tell, this book is Viking Unchained.

So a slap on the wrist for Questionable Content for the girl porn/shitty romance double-punch. And yes, time traveling viking Navy SEALS is totally mock worthy. But as a merry fan of The Very Virile Viking, I say to Questionable Content:

Pull my Finger

Pull my finger.

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  1. beggar1015 says:

    I suddenly have this overpowering drive to come up with other titles in this same vein. Something like The Mucho Macho Matador, The Compellingly Courageous Conquistador, or The Lusty Loquacious Longshoreman. Perhaps this should be a future contest.

  2. raspberry_wench says:

    Oh I totally read the first one in that Viking series.  In fact I think I may have sent an email here about it because part of the time it seemed to take itself seriously, and part of the time it was just tongue-in-cheek ridiculous fun.  Because, seriously, come on IT’S ABOUT TIME TRAVELING VIKING NAVY SEALS AND THE ASSKICKING WENCHES WHO LOVE THEM. 

    The first one is here.

  3. 000000 says:

    I ma a girl who knows others who reads that crap. AND it is girl porn sorry!

  4. delphine says:

    Oh, but you have to take it in the context of QC; I really don’t think Jeph Jaques meant to knock the genre, I think this was more of an affectionate jab. I mean, come on… in several earlier story arcs we learn that QC’s main character, Marty, is the son of a famous BDSM porn star named Veronica Vance.

    The strip where Marty finds out that his girlfriend Dora’s father used to whack off to pictures of Veronica Vance? Now THAT was hilarious.

    And, as many here have already pointed out, this piece of free press is bound to increase Sandra Hill’s readership. I know when I saw his side note about these things being real, my next stop was Amazon.

  5. Mireya says:

    Definitely Sandra Hill’s Viking II series.  I have read all of them.  Off the wall funny.  Not for everyone I’d say, as humor is so subjective.  But for those who have enjoyed Hill’s other Viking series, this one is a “must try”, definitely.  JMHO.

  6. Gail Dayton says:

    000000, hun…
    What’s wrong with girl porn?

    Admittedly, I’m not a huge fan of Sandra Hill. I’ve read a couple of her books, enjoyed them well enough (didn’t pick up VVV because of that cover), but haven’t been tempted to pick up more. But the comment:

    I ma a girl who knows others who reads that crap. AND it is girl porn sorry!

    sounds rather as if you’re 1) tarring a whole, huge genre with the same icky brush and 2) don’t have any first-hand knowledge of what you’re tarring, since you only claim to “know others who reads that crap.” Really ought to read it yourself first before you start calling names.

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