Questionable Malcontent - Unquestionable Bembo Edition

Just pass it over.

Or that she simply doesn't think Fay acted correctly. Perhaps she doesn't share Faye's values or sees things from another perspective. Perhaps Faye didn't interpret the situation correctly due to being excited.

I think it was more like 2-3 days.

I really can't imagine how a storyteller as crappy as Handstab could resolve this story. Even if he uses an easy solution and they do as you say and kill CW, surely even Jeph will be forced to write some scenes of genuine regret and self-reflection, and SJWs don't like the concept of looking inwards for problems.

is there truth behind this meme?

We discussed this briefly at the end of the last edition.
Jeph seems real excited when he gets custody of the dog, but we have never seen a creature look so miserable when reunited with its owner.

Either he's raping it or near strangling it when he wraps his arms round its neck, crying into the fur as he laments how shit his life has been and that he no loner writes QC…
QC writes *him*.

You be the judge.

It's pretty hard to pass judgement unless there's video. I mean I can see Markiplier's dog actually look so damn happy with him. I don't know about Jeph's.

And they both have the same white Golden Retriever.

All of these are plausible reasons too. Which is why her exclaiming that it's blackmail came out of seemingly nowhere, but it was more because she read the script and already knew that was the correct answer. Apparently when he was writing it he intended it to come off as very obvious, so much so that he didn't even consider any of the other more plausible reasons it came across as.

Won't stop the edits.

I think it's a Pyrenees

Well, Markiplier is a normal person who managed to get into a comfortable position in life where he doesn't have to rape dogs to get a little satisfaction.

Fucking dogs is all Jeph has, since the dog can never cry rape like a SJW. A dog will also never ask for alimony.

If I was a betting man, I'd say he's gunna handle everything offscreen, as is customary for his writing skills and habits.

Would be great if pic related occurred.

What about Markiplier's brother? He seems the type to rape dogs.

Half a month later, Jeph remembers that he has a "passion project".

How the fuck does he manage to make such a minimal and simple page look so intensely lazy and incompetent ? I mean holy shit even just the boxes on top of each other look like something a teenager would produce.

How much is he featured

He's the author of a degenerate furry comic complete with self-insert.

degeneracy of the highest caliber

this is shit id draw in 3rd grade as part of some epically insane bunker doodle with mounted guns and crazy elevator systems and labs and god knows what else

Look at how convenient this all is for them
Also any other comic would have done shots from above and below in this narrow passage way to show them moving around decrepit depths via torchlight. Jeph, lazy person he is, does the old 80s low budget cartoon thing and just gives a sideways pan with dinosaur bones buried in the dirt around the super high tech lab.

That's nothing new here

He probably does rape dogs. Or he rapes cats.

I would kill myself, to be quite honest.

Appart from that he didn't even put the bones in.

Who's Pate?

I didn't know either.

When do we learn his name?

Probably when he was first introduced.

I wonder if Mr. Mosque was fired.

This

No, Mr. Mosque fired Mr. Synagogue, but for some reason Mr. Synagogue claims Mr. Church did it. :^)

Meanwhile Mr Temple and Mr Vihara decided to fuck this and left the city.

I'm not going to judge that early. I have soft spot for animals and from what I gather from Mark's videos when he's interacting with his pet in his California home and his original hometown those puppies look very happy and well taken care of. So maybe his brother did furry stuff, but I'm not going to accuse him of doing nasty thing to those poor pups unless there's real actual evidence.

I can talk shit about people everyday because human always have asshole side, but for me animal abuse is not a joking matter.

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Jeph heard your call for more off-model characters.

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I was wondering who Jeph was trying to sketch in the lower-right corner.

Well golly gee wilikers, it looks like another magical plot device to make everything good again. Now she'll get to have her memories back that she asnts for some reason and we get to go back to watching Marten get pegged by his well hung girlfriend

YOU UTTER FOOOOOOOOLLL
It's even dumber than that
This is filler bullshit that can go one of two ways
This plot is going to be going for a long while to get nowhere, user

Just cut to the chase and have Faye punch Monochrome in the face.

Jesus Christ

Actually, it is androgynous enough that I wonder if anyone commenting over there has gotten jumped all over for accidentally saying "him" or "her".

Okay Jeph's writing usually is only lazy and incompetent but this might the worst written page he's literally ever made in QC. This absolute asspull probable deux ex machina is just horrendously stupid. Someone take his computer away please.

At this point I'd hope the rest of the cast realize that Faye is a complete fucking liability and finally push her away, forever.

Of course, that won't happen.

Jesus CHRIST. Bubbles' shape in that chair…

I said it once and I'll say it again - Jeph's panicking and it shows in his art.

It also doesn't help that the chair is almost the same color as she is, causing it to appear, at first glance, that she's got a tiny head on comically oversized shoulders.

This new faggot reeks of anime… I'm pretty sure he must have copied it from something.

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How many more asspulls does Jeph have up his sleeves for this arc

Begone!

You know what I thought this strip missed? Another butch lesbian robot. It's good that people like Jeph valued diversity of sex and sexuality.

Also, when someone appears uninvited in my house and reveals that they've been listening to my conversation, my first reaction is also

So did he/she just beam into the store and nobody saw them walk in? Maybe it's Station's evil alter ego.

what exactly is she packing in there, jesus christ

Probably a packer.

I hate it when I know what a spoilered image is going to be before I click it and then I click it anyway

Be warned, critics: you shall not be brooked.

Someone forward this to Neil Gaiman.

They better be fucking with me, it's bad enough seeing what TV has done to Lucifer I don't want to imagine what the hell comes next.

As much as I love his early works Neil will probably roll over if it's progressive. You're better off with Dark Horse

While we're at it, someone forward it to Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

yeah, any man who marries this thing has lost the ability to say no.

those are some womanly hips on Suit Nigger. did David Willis draw him?

So, this is how Jeph truly sees himself?

Maybe we should just tell Patrick Nagel that EVERYBODY rips him off.

Blue faggot's so bad… the WALLS change colour!

jeph is sucking up to zoe quinn about the PTSD she got from the whole world finding out she's a slut and he can totally relate because sometimes he stabs his hand.

It looks like he realized halfway through things didn't line up and instead of redrawing he just selected her torso, dragged it over 5-10 pixels and smudged the seams.

Also, I don't care if pointing out Jeph's literally-worst-ever scaling and dithering techniques is getting old. I mean, what is this shit?

Oh nostalgia. I forgot how much I liked 80s anime until this Future Funk fad that uses loops of old anime in YouTube videos.

now that's insulting to Rob Kardashian.

I'm torn between hoping Sad Puppies fucks this up again and having them leave it alone to hasten the demise of this now irrelevant progressive circlejerk.

either way, Vox Day will trigger the fuck out of GRRM and keep The Winds Of Winter from being finished for another year.

Does anyone even care about the books anymore? Like seriously I used to read that shit when I was a teenager and even I stopped giving a fuck after most of the books turned into "describe food for 50 pages then kill a moderately okish character."

And most normalfags don't give a damn about books and rather sit in front of the boobtube to watch the televised series, which has already extremely diverged from the books. So… does anyone actually care about old George?

Seeing how GRRM turned into Robert Jordan and will probably leave the same unfinished legacy, no. The teenagers who read Jordan's books didn't care when he died when they were in their 30s and 40s.

Oh what the Erika Moen what the fuck happened with you?

People who talk about having temporary PTSD need to be send to Afghanistan for 4 years or so so they can get their proper PTSD

I cared. I love those books.

I checked out with Path of Daggers. My social group stuck it out for Winter's Heart. I think one of them stuck around for Crossroads of Twilight and Knife of Dreams and he did it out of some weird loyalty reason. I think he read one of the Brandon Sanderson books but I think even he gave up there.

I can't remember which one–I think it's Path of Daggers or Winter's Heart–but one of them has hilarious Amazon reviews. Probably have to go back to 2001 or so to find them, assuming Amazon doesn't sunset old reviews.

Polite sage to post hilarious Wheel of Time TV pilot from 2015.

Oh boy, time for a well paced cohesive plot.

Literally diabolus ex machina.

Nice to see he puts as much thought and effort into the implications of the world building elements he introduces as he puts into his art.

Holy fuck that is absolute genius and I feel like a retard for never having thought of it before

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This is a whole new level of idiotic.

Jeph's been watching Death Note, I see.

Why would you do this to us? Why?

Jeph, you faggot.

Holy shit.

i actually like the robot devils assistant aesthetically if it was in any other comic but this it could make for an interesting entity that cold contribute to a different sub plot about something.

i mean damn i used to like QC now i cant stand it for shit but the newer characters jephs bben shitting out look more interesting then they end up being. like Corpsewitch shit just this lanky ass robot woman real simple and straight forward i like that. but then there's bubbles shes just terrible and has too much going on design wise.

i dunno man i guess i just like devil people wearing suits.

What's wrong with her hips?
Those aren't even man hips, they're just broken.

You're not the only one.

How many cartoon ripoffs does this make now? Death Note, Steven Universe, RWBY, and there has to be something from Azumanga Daioh. Jeph doesn't shut up about that. Where's Momo from? She has to be ripped off from somewhere.

Momo is ripped straight from Azumanga Daioh. He's pretty open about that one.

I figured but never watched the show.

Anyone notice Jeph has become a thesaurus hunter lately?

All of these ideas are stolen from somewhere else, to include the fact that he has definitely been watching hellsing recently and was inspired by Rip Van Winkle's hand waggle, but doesn't know how to draw motion because his comic is very flat and any motion would look off anyway, so he just draw a squiggle like that's her power. Even without the hand motion, the third and fourth panel try to be something else as far as his usual perspective, but he goes back to his B^U method right after so it doesn't matter.
This comic is like loss, but that's every subplot, and everything else is like the non dramatic CAD

I hate this fucking comic.

If you mention Rip Van Winkle at least show how she looks like.

I actually like her character in Hellshing. She's a complete nutcase. And I think that's super hot, I want to fuck that skinny bitch

Even the forum (politely) thinks this bullshit is derivative.

Even the Androgynous Diablo states flat-out that Corpse Witch is too horrible a creature to let be.

She didn't even do anything wrong. All of this mess started way back because Faye got too casual with work property that was either so trivial she shouldn't mind paying for it or so expensive she had no business doling it out to friends for free.

Okay that pic is fukken saved. I actually have elastic strings like that. Why this never cross my mind?

Hahaha yeah. But I do care about animals. We can shit on people all day long because they always have asshole side. But pets always believe that their owner have the best intention for them. So animal abuse disgust me.

It's just amusing how the pale robot is acting like robotic fairy godmother that can grant her wish of deleting bad memories and then flies away like it was nothing. Jeph doesn't even trying.

Posting on the forum is like walking on the landmine. But even constructive criticsm may got sniped by overlord Jeph.

Rip Van Winkle is a pure girl who deserves headpats and roman salutes.

Speaking of CAD, that's exactly where QC is heading. It goes from losers sitting on a couch cracking jokes about indie bands/video games and ends up with an aborted fetus, dead wife, sci-fi time travel mumbo jumbo, and a universe reboot. Hell, the universe reboot and abortion is already in progress and it's called Alice Grove.

Wow, this turkeypedal guy is the biggest ass-sucker on Reddit. Every time someone criticizes QC he's there with concern trolling. But now he's melting down over this ridiculous plot shift.

So what's the catch going to be? Fairy devilmother doesn't pop in to grant wishes without asking anything in return.

Whatever it is, bet on the catch being really dumb.

Jeph will write himself into another hole and then introduce yet another character to temporarily work himself out.

I can understand how TurkeyPedal feel. Back then when I still reading QC I too trying to defend the comic from haters. But as the comic starts to deteriorate I realized that the comic is a lost cause and I left disgusted. TurkeyPedal probably still remember when this comic is all about slice of life and fun stuff like that but now the storytelling became so rotten he can't even defend it anymore. Jeph is slowly betraying his old readers, his old fans that help him grow.

Man, Grimgrimoire was great.

Jeph needs another handstabbing for pairing his chinese knock off Chiyo up with such an awful lesbian

Catch is whoever this new ladyboy is, they'll want free coffee forever.

Or that fucking faggy tea which makes them hallucinate; something equally trivial and completely inconsequential.

Jesus CHRIST Bubbles's stance…
"Grrr… I'll teach *you* a lesson!"

Ah, fuck it, this whole fucking comic is falling apart and Jeph's frantically trying to patch over all the plot holes but it's sinking just too damn fast.

Looks like, once again, the hipsters just have to stand around doing nothing while everything else is resolved around them.
This is what happens when you try to bolt on a complex, high-tech espionage plot to a bunch of multi-talentless losers.
Shit, the Scooby-Doo writers probably could have made this work, but not Jaques.

You know what? The real problem with this comic isn't the traps, it's that everybody is so cock-shrinkingly unsexy.

Imagine if it was drawn by another J.J., like if instead of Jeph Jacques it was Joël Jurion.

Now that I would read the fuck out of.

You would prefer all the characters be fags and traps having gay sex?

At this stage, it could only be an improvement.

This

If it had better writing i could probably stand it

yeah but its still done by stabhands

Yeah

Please, no, you've already had this morning's share. I beg you, no more.

Aren't they already?
I'm sure there are more examples.

Dora X Tai
Marten's dad X Maurice or whatever his name is.
Marten's mom does fetish porn and probably lezzed out at least once. Didn't she previously fuck the photographer at the wedding or something?
Momo seemed to want to fuck Sam

Oh, it's a robot after all. Quelle surprise.

But robots in your stories always have these speech bubbles.
Jeph is fucking pathetic

Oh well

I thought bubbles was just a firm talker, and very direct, as a war bot should be. Don't other robots not have that shit? Like menstro is the only one? Jeph's so fucking stupid.
Like pleasant?
Why not fucking call him Pathos Logos Ethos Zant?
You know
P. L. E. Zant
The name itself is also very relevant since these are the appeals within an argument, and this character is trying to persuade the main heroes to sell their souls once more.
I came up with a better tie in to the word and a better reasoning instantly, and I don't even know what the shitty joke was supposed to be.

Yeah but they arent have hardcore gay sex in every panel
And the cast only has one trap so far
But you have a point

No, like "puissant", because Jeph wants to make sure everyone's aware he used a hard word in his last comic.

>In a comic he worked on for at least 30 minutes
Every time I sit down to GM for a group, I need to invent NPCs out of the aether in order to make the world seem more real and full of life. Do you know how long it takes me to invent a person with stats, items, feats, personality, life goals, family members, and memorable mannerisms? About 15 seconds. I jot down their necessary info onto a 3x5 card with their name at the top during the first conversation they have with the party, and now there's another pillar to hold up my world. I do this dozens of times per session, and have a fat stack of cards by the time the game is over. Some of my players even like to flip through them to reminisce about old times because I was able to make most of them memoeable enough that they can recall their encounters months later. Making new characters is not hard, and I feel a bit revulsed that Jeph flaunts his failures like they're badges of honor.

I thought maybe he was going for "pissant".

It's rare when you get such clear points when a series gets worse. This is the trappening 2.0, prepare to look at the last 200 comics and think that they weren't total garbage.

I simultaneously hate and admire you.

Jeph isn't consistent with AI bubbles. The primitive bots like Pintsize and Winslow always had square bubbles. Mini-Momo had them at first then lost them. Tall Momo started out with circle bubbles, along wtih the rest of the more advanced models, before reverting back to square. Sometimes Jeph uses a different font or size, sometimes he doesn't. Since tall Momo's reversion, however, I think he's been consistent with making them square at least.

hair stab

KEK

That haircut looks JUST perfect on him.

Let's not forget that the new Robot clearly presents herself as a lesbian. Also, I think Pintsize had sex with Martin while in a female chassis. Don't know if that counts for anything.

It pains me that I remember this. They didn't fuck, it was one of Marten's relatives, and she asked his mom to roll up her skirt for her upskirt fetish site.

He will quitely update the speech bubble because he's a sore loser.

He got thousands of dollars every month for jewtron from his loyal cunts. A good artist will be honored and make stuff better. He's not.

Even QC fans in reddit were split in two. Since someone mentioned about TurkeyPedal I decided to check the subreddit and the content is just full of people bickering between cunts who still support Jeph and people who realized the comic went to shit fast.

I think incestual upskirt peeping by another woman counts at 0.5 dyke.

Oh man, this is so awful.

I-I think I like it

It's definitely something appreciable.

So she just gave the OK on an unorthodox and potentially dangerous backalley procedure.

Just like she consented to having Corpse Witch encrypt those memories in the first place.

A "no strings attached" deal is something you never take.

Also holy shit why does suitbot have the ability to just knock people unconscious?

This seems like the kind of guy actual cops should be after.

On the one hand, there's legitimately no reason to trust what is obviously the robot devil here, so if it turns out that there are strings attached, it really shouldn't surprise anyone. On the other hand, if there really aren't any strings attached, then this is an incredibly lazy way to resolve this plotline, even for Jeph. Basically, he's stabbed if he does, stabbed if he doesn't.

So the real lesson we learn here is that Menstro makes very poor judgement calls?

It feels like I'm missing about a month of comics properly setting up this character and giving a reason why Mensto needs the memories right fucking now. She's been working for CW for how long, and just because Faye decides to fuck off from work she can't just keep clocking in 9-5?

Wait, so, the solution is Emily? Emily who Faye and Menstro both already and are on friendly terms with? Emily who was sure to help if Faye or Mnestro had only asked? Emily who was standing all of ten feet away?

Why was the robotic embodiment of a thousand copyright lawsuits necessary here?

We are missing YEARS of comics. He skipped on all characters he created previously and now put in the back shelf. Funny how a comic that got made 5 times a week for years yet got nothing in content.

Emily was supposed to be Marten next love interest until Jeph cucked out and let his story steered by his Patreon users.

I know, I wasn't asking who emily was. I was asking why people who are Emily's friends require the robot devil to act as a go between to get assistance she would have happily offered, again, had the asked.

That's the way it always is when Jeph decides to make a plot shift.

Obligatory, attached.

I didn't verify the highlighted portion, but lol if true.

This guy accurately describes deus ex machina and then refuses to acknowledge the deus ex machina right in front of him. If it's not really deux ex machina then it's at least a Mary Sue or Poochie.

No, no one will be asking this question. AIs are a fundamentally fucked concept due to Jeph's hamfisted handling of his universe. It's actually even more fucked up than the hastily conceived tranny, if you can believe it.

This sudden intro of a Gladeus Ex Manibus beckons edits to be made.

Or some sort of agent looking to steal military secrets. I mean, how is that not one of the very first things any of them thought of? Well, I guess it's because most of them unconscious. Uh, why are they unconscious again? What's going on? Who is the guy? What's going on?

If I painted my skin white, put on a suit, and acted all smug, would Menstro automatically assume I was part of this organisation and that I never lied? How does she know this one isn't a faker?

I removed my comment to change some stuff. I think was for .

We can see here a fan that got enlightened with Jeph bullshittery

And here a fan that knew he's eating bullshit but in full denial mode

It's like seeing a trainwreck in slow motion, with the first one being the poor sap who realized his car is bending and people screaming while the second guy is in the back car with not yet wrecked car but he can feel the shaking.

Popcorn?

I read the whole thing. That bastard drew it out way too far. Nothing happened for nearly 5 books straight. I hated all the female characters.
Sanderson did alright. The ending seemed a bit retarded though.
I know a chick whos reading the whole thing a second time. Why would she punish herself like that?

Sanderson in general is a pretty good writer. At least when compared to most modern writers who seem to have given up completely. I wouldn't say he's amazing, but I do find him quite enjoyable and he usually succeeds at what he sets out to do i.e. fantasy adventure.

back stab

$10 says this is a setup for a new pill prescription

If I were a gambling man, I'd wager this is another attempt at "sorry guys, I can't make a comic today" and either posts shitty filler, has a shitty guest strip, or doesn't do jack shit the rest of the day like usual.

Supposedly he's built a buffer into mid-February. We'll see. It's also possible he's actually done that but has realized he's written himself into a contradictory corner and doesn't know what to do about it.

When I threw my back out from carrying fire wood not tying my shoe, god what a pussy the way I recovered was constant stretching. Stretch until I feel pain, then stretch the painful spot even more. This would buy me a few hours of easy mobility before I had to stretch again.I didn't want to sit or sleep or rest at all because I knew when it came time to stand again my back would be in pain again.

Handstab going to bed again seems like a bad way to solve his problem to me.

He probably read all the criticism in his forum and reddit and decided to cry himself to sleep.Now he's just bunkering down in his bed while watching netflix and eating KFC bucket.

Me, too. My "medication" was Aleve to keep the inflammation down. Otherwise I did exactly as you described: constant stretching, stay standing and moving.

I am excited to see how much shittier this is going to get.

I'm just so fucking sick of handstab and this shit. This arc is worse than trannyfuck

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It would be nice if she wanted to murder her, but she's probably after Emily's ability to lolsrandom her way through any and all security systems.

Hey, whatever happened to that one drawfag who always drew some baggy pants character, that awfully looked like Iraqy peppermint patty?

He swore he'd never return after I made the mistake of asking him if he could do some rule 34 of Jeph and Shelby.

you absolute monster

I wish he'd come back. I miss his art style.

I sincerely hope you're joking.

Pretty sure he's joking.

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So they're just sending Emily in there?

I thought that at least they would go in themselves, so that they could extract some valuable informaiton they're missing.

Also, why haven't anyone yet pointed out how fucking idiotic it is that the encryption too difficult to crack for a space station dedicated to robotics can be cracked by some random gang because they're "super-cool". It appears they're even going to use the power of videogames to do so.

There is *no* way this will not suck ass.

I think I actually hate Emily, too. Jeff thinks she's funny because "lolsorandumb", but I see here as one of those non-specific fucking weirdos that you don't even want to look at because that'll just encourage them and next thing you know they'll be hopping on the furniture, making chimp noises.

We already used that one, fam.

Me too.

Reddit and the forum are united in barely convincing themselves that this is good storytelling.

The difference between Jeph's Patreon steady state, ~$9,000, and last month's high, ~$10,000, came over a day. Then, at the beginning of the new year, the pledge disappeared. Did one person donate $1,000 to Jeph?

hold on i'm deepart.io-ing a new header

Afraid not. I asked him to do something similar to pics related, only it had Shelby hanging herself to escape Jeph's nightly assaults, and Jeph drawing her back to life as an anthro with six pierced nipples. He told me no, under no circumstances would he do that, and he completely cut contact with me when I asked if he was good enough to draw Sonichu on-model to guest star as "Lucky Pierre."

So, uh, any other drawfags in the house?

Pics or it didn't happen, you spaz.

If true you should fellate a shotgun immediately.

Bonus points to guessing the image i used as a style source

i sincerely hope this is an ebin troll

So none of you are capable of drawing a proper Sonichu?

Jeph?

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Yes, that's the problem I have with this. Nothing else.

I guess I'm supposed to feel something other than revulsion

what an unfortunate typo

Is that really how that works?

Don't worry, maybe it's in dog years.

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Good god I was offered lasagna today for lunch and i got so triggered I rejected it, you niggers are the worst. I ate some spaghetti with bologna tho.

by the way how's the cuckfest going? I see there's a new character but I'm too drunk to understand what does he/she means?

Literal deus ex machina.

Is she lifting Faye up by her neck in panel 2? No, they're hugging in panel 3, so is Faye standing on a box or something? Bubbles is like 7 feet tall, right? How are they looking each other in the eye? I guess she's supposed to be kneeling, because she's sure not bent over or squatting. Maybe this is more obvious to other people, but that really distracted me from what's supposed to be a touching moment.
also

Emily's face is slowly degenerating

Jeph must really, reeeally hate the idea of writing her in a relationship

How could you!

Damn

Plot destroyed in one sentence.

Now I know this is supposed to be a "lolsorandumXD" joke from Emily but let's look at this from a different angle.

1. Emily has consistently been shown to be the only character left that hasn't blown up to landwhale sized proportions.
2. We know Emily has social anxieties about how some people view her.
3. We can use this to trigger people.

Emily is bulimic! The way that Jeph has has just simply brushed this to the side as a simple "joke" is insensitive to those with this disorder and people should stop viewing this ableist piece of trash IMMEDIATELY!

seriously I if was teh Jeph I would have eat a pound on cyanide a long time ago.

It's possibly with smaller dogs, but rare. My little Bichon-Maltese cross lived to 16-and-a-half.
Not going to lie; if I could draw her into a happy place full of autistic rodents to chew on, I would

Bwahaha! Jeph, you fag! You chickened out on the kiss!

Yes. Yes I was. I regret everything.

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Considering his body mass, we may have to up the dosage.

I know it wasn't directly her, but we really should start doing edits of Erica Moen's shit. Holla Forums was triggering the fuck out of Sarah Andersen, but any time someone posts a Moen abortion, even Holla Forums can't handle it. Only we have prepared ourselves mentally to edit Oh Joy, Ugly Lesbian and Her Gay Husband.

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The more this stupid plot progresses the more ridiculous it seems.
I mean, what has actually happened, really?
Corpse Witch casually mentions some memories being locked away and now suddenly they're all on their knees, howling and wailing their despair.

If Jeph truly wanted some tension going on, he'd have kept up with CopBot getting closer and closer to gathering enough evidence to have a SWAT team armed with tactical magnets and APDS rounds storm the fight club.

His characterizations may have been as shit as ever, but at least there was the hint of genuine tension.
But now that's all forgotten and instead we have this bullshit.

I kinda suspect that one of the real reasons for the sudden escalation is that this way it's so much easier to draw.
CopBot gathering evidence and snooping around would require more external shots from different angles, and more nocturnal work, so he'd have to work on his light sources. And that's not to mention the different poses he'd have to draw for crouching, breaking and entering and possibly even some fighting.

Right now they're siting in the same place as always and just waiting around for stuff to happen.

What, ruining her career and mixing her with the hipsters who she hated so much she stormed out, punched the wall and immediately felt like venting her aggression via fighting?
Has she *ever* smiled?
Has she *ever* asked Faye to just, you know, hang out? Or even talk with casual conversation?
And now they're practically making out in that most romantic of spots - immediately outside the toilets.
Nothing stirs the emotions quite like the wafting scents of hipster farts and stale piss.

I could genuinely believe that Jeph has, quite literally, lost the fucking plot.

So their security is so shit that downloading sketchy files can get AIs infected with (potentially lethal) malware? Who designed those things?

He'll set up a patetron to do it

Also, Menstro takes no enjoyment from her brokenness being accepted into a band of kindred misfits? None whatsoever? Corpse Witch is painted as this evil tyrant but the worst thing she's ever done is neg Menstro on the nature of human/robot relationships.

Shit, that's like the least annoying boss ever. Not that Jeph would know because he's never worked for a living. No, a shit boss does something like, "Ted quit today and I need you to absorb all his responsibilities by Monday. Given that it's Friday afternoon I'm expecting you to pull some 16 hour days over the weekend."

I mean the worst thing that your boss ever said is, "I'd never be friends with niggers. I don't know how you do it." Shit, sign me up.

Also, you want a boss who is ruthless with accounting. Loose, permissive, carefree leaders are the fucking worst. They're airy, forget what they've said in the past, and have no standards. Yeah, it's fucking annoying paying $2.67 for the stamps, rubber bands, and ballpoint pens you took but when it comes time to acquire $10,000 to fulfil the project it'll be no nonsense there, too.

>the worst thing she's ever done is redpill Menstro on the nature of human/robot relationships.

FTFY. In Jeph's shite universe, all humans deserve to be wiped out.

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Now you know how the rest of us feel when reading your comics.

To be honest, I'd argue he ALREADY feels like this reading his own comic.

He gets what he deserves

Jeph's friends are embarrassing.

Who the fuck is that?

That's the DoA guy I think.

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Meant for

That's some problematic hair, alright. He almost looks like a person.

Dave WIllis?

If he'd remove the piercing on the photo, he might actually look representable.

No wait there's a very similar looking guy that I don't remember, I'm pretty sure he also does shit art.

Cyanide and Happiness guy.

jeph + cyanide = happiness. especially for Shelby

Is Handstab worse than Willis of Dumbing of Age? I think they are both awful but i'm not entirely sure who of the two is worse

If you were forced to spend a day with Jeph or Willis, I'd say go with Jeph, if only because you know you'd be able to bully him into keeping his yap shut. I think you could rip out Willis' painted fingernails and he'd STILL be talking about how oppressed women are.

I think he meant art-wise or something. In which case I'll go with Jeph, because even if he sucks at it Willis at least tries to have dynamic scenes and unconventional angles.

Alright but who has the worst writing and the mos unlikeable characters?

DoA at least has likeable strawmans, so that means Jeph's worse, if only barely.

I put in shitfestcomic without the .com so it brought me to search results and it thought I was looking for Sinfest, lol.

I'd say that of the two, Willis is by far the worst.

He's far more willfuly ignorant, posturing, pandering, arrogant and overall a massive cocksucker.

The strip if his that always comes to mind is when he tried to redesign batman for a "female audience", since he so aware of what women want…
Decided to show that he should "be built for agility, not strength" as if this physical wreck, this beta bitch, has any right to preach about physicality and what the human body can do, when he would shit himself half to death after even attempting a single sit-up.

Jeph is just a delusional coward who lets his own fanbase control him.

True. If both are comparable, at least jeph keeps to his webcomic and twitter, and doesn't really go anywhere else with that dumb shit. From time to time he'll make a blatantly stupid and self-important page, but then he'll drop it right after because he's not cut out for it anyway.
David, however, full-on feels like a hero every occasion he gets.

Between QC and DoA, I find DoA far, far more infuriating to look at. Makes me almost wish we had a running mock-the-comic thread for it here. Just almost, because while seeing people dump on it is therapeutic, the thought of having to keep up with the storyline of his soapbox strawman political creeds limits the enjoyment to that of being only a sometimes treat. QC goes SJW, sure, but it's hardly to the same level of pedal-to-the-metal sermonizing all days a week.

we used to fuck with DoA, but after we saved mary it died down substantially, that was a peak for us and we felt there was no further value in defacing the comics of a guy who runs back his arguments every other page.

When do you reckon the Questionable Malcontent threads will hit their peak? I get that with DoA it was just more of the same all the time and it became boring but at least with QC Jeph never seems to stop surprising us in the lows he can stoop to with his quality, or total lack thereof.

I mean shit, if the mockery of QC didn't peak and end with the legendary trannyfuck, can it ever end?

I can't believe you cunts saying that DoA is actually acceptable. Dave Willis is on the same level with Jeph but while Jeph churning his comics out while hiding in his den Dave churn out similar shit while he's running around ruining stuff like Transformers fandoms. Just because he made porn with his characters your dick gave him its approval?

Jeph's characters are bland and flat enough that they can be improved with a slight re-write, like I did with Roko Basilisk.

Dave's characters are just infuriating and utterly unlikable; all they do is fill me with hate so I find reading his garbage too much of a fucking chore.

Dave Willis is like a growing tumor, need to be chemo'd all the time because it's just doesn't stop.

I headbutted with him several times when I still read DoA out of spite. There are times he got so mad he starts deleting comments. He's so deep in his faggot worship someone need to slap some sense into him.

There is not any interesting characters in QC, so there is no one we can save.

No on here I hope reads his porn. His art is better, though.

I've read those old censored edits of them, at least.

Maybe the edits keep Jeph from trying the same thing.

Even IPP seemed savable at a time and he shat her out of existence immediately.

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Is that the original text? That would actually make her a rapist according to the SJW definition.

what did he mean by this?

You've missed out hun
I haven't saved them sadly; but I think there's a tumblr with all of them somewhere

bgrevln8fu.tumblr.com/tagged/David-Willis

oh god, STAHP

double dose of shit

this is such cringey normalfag shit it's not even funny

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There's nothing wrong with the QC comic, aside from the fact that the situation itself is made of fuck.

The AG comic shows that the super smart villain doesn't know jack shit about dungeon delving.

You don't kick down a door without first trying to gauge what's on the other side.

You don't blow a ten ton door into a room when you're looking for things that can be damaged by ten tons of flying steel.

You do as little damage to ancient structures as possible because even the doors are valuable when they're from a time lost to history.

You don't just walk past sealed boxes that might have blueprints for that thing you want hidden inside.

You don't travel more than one floor underground unless you're sure about the air quality.

You never trust the native lighting, especially in really old places

You never drag your enemies against their will into an area where you might suddenly need to fight for your life against a third party.

You always bring at least two bodyguards, because one guy can't protect you while also doing the heavy lifting.

And so on.

Fuck Jeph I spent a long time drawing a city landscape and I'm not bitching like you. Also it's pretty easy to draw doors like that.

The drawing is just stupid and hilarious. Bad angle, hardly recognized character. took me a while to realize who was that guy supposed to be.

He's not that great at drawing punch action panels in general.

Also the speech bubble in panel 2 is misaimed too far toward the right, closer to pointing at blue kid or what's-her-name.

Thanks a lot hun ! Those are golden.

… those are garbage. Everything Jeph does is overused, bland and uncreative. How does he manage, after ten years of this trash, to STILL end up nothing short of disappointing ?

Regular updates.People love routines.

To be honest, I'm okay with this, at least he tried something he's unfamiliar with. Also I guess this is really the moment that convinced me he's done with QC and wants to do something else.

The issue is, even when being bored at doing something, after ten fucking years you end up infinitely better, by very nature. If I learn a language I don't like every single day, even if I find it shit, I'll be fairly good at it after all this time. If I start lifting every day, even if that's all I do and don't bother eating properly or whatever, after ten years my arms will be fit.
How did Jeph make such an impressive bullshit that kept him semi-mediocre after a daily exercise of ten years ?

Is he using Flash elements to make his comic?
If he's just dragging things around it could explain the lack of improvement.

I think he's relying on his tablet too much. Drawing like that (multiple doors at an angle) is better on paper and later scanned.

Just testing, please ignore. I think the thread is autosagging.

Oh wait no, it's still bumping normally, my bad.

I wonder if Jeph realizes how nice it is to see Faye ABSORBING the abuse for a change?

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Willis' mother should have spit instead of swallowing.

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That's fine and understandable but he's already fucked up with his "passion project". The whole point of the Patreon was to create another webcomic and not worry about cobbling together support from ad revenue, merchandising, and huckstering at cons.

Even with the golden ticket he still failed. Now he's trying to turn QC into Alice Grove as Alice Grove flounders. I bet Jeph thinks Alice Grove is really good and people just aren't reading it. He's in for a rude awakening.

Agree on the last panel. Emily's proportions and modeling are actually decent. Not a work of art but at least average for a mass produced comic.

He's using Manga Studio. Formerly he used Photoshop. He is purchasing assets for Manga Studio but I know know how much of it makes it into the strip given how much the same it looks.

>>>/test/

What does Shelby have to do with anything?

Jeph will never awaken. It's always someone else's fault, with him.

For those who missed it in the blue dog thread

Nice

I'll bet this guy has fallacies.png saved to his desktop and would be the first to decry argument from authority when it suited him.

How unrealistic. 1/10, and that's because I can't give it a 0.

Last panel should be real shelby so it's clearer that it's jeph's fantasy and not reality

Listening to criticism from respected peers and mentors is a prerequisite you shouldn't even be questioning. Thick skin is about dismissing and not being triggered by stupid comments, and you're supposed to learn that because the world is full of assholes, and that will literally never change even if you elect zoey quinn as the supreme dictator of the universe.

Why would you even joke about something like that?

Who is the speech bubble in the last panel from? Is it from Shelby? It looks like it's comming from behind her (like Jeph).

It is coming from behind her. It's Jeff's (from the original comic) parent flipping their shit from find out their kid is swapping spit with the family dog.

And this here is the thought process that has turned people into little bitches.

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I'm pretty sure it'd be easy to bully Willis until he's too busy gasping on the floor and crapping his pants to prattle on. Healthy men do not look like elderly lesbians.

Put your money where your mouth is, hombre.

Nedroid is too good for this world. That's why it never updates.

wew, it's impressive how quickly this thing went completely off the rails.

Hilarious that the campaign to depose the president comes from the "save democracy" camp.

I ain't going anywhere near that thing, what if it's contagious?

You mean funded by Soros

I don't even know why, but that comic just made me go from zero to rage.

Just re-read it. It's the "tee hee." I want to smash his shit in for that word balloon.

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jeph should learn to draw the figure in perspective if he wants me to take his idea to put the country under martial law and depose the prez seriously

Seems to me that there are hotline numbers and emails we could be using to report such a horrible person.

especially if said person had a history of violent outbursts and mental issues

Emily is actually a rogue, super-smart robot.

This entire thing was a ploy to trap her inside.

I hope.

God I just hope someone dies.

Now that's some boring and bland imagery…

Not even a fancy hotel with a different memory behind each door.
Not even a Tron-esque circuitscape.
Not even Emily succumbing to curiosity and having a look behind a few.
Not even showing some of Menstro's past glories replaying in her mind.
Not even any residual imagery about her supposed bestestest friend in the whole wide world.

Just shitey-looking, wooden doors in a big tube.

I predicted (>>764064) that they would try to use the power of video games to save her, and I was right. I didn't howevber predict how crappy the video game seems to be.

Not to mention a history of self-harm.

We know.

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with a monster like that I could see jeph's future in flash games for kids on obscure websites 7 pages into a google search

That's cyclops-shaming.

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inb4 she locked away her memories of her dead first love, which was a bot who looks exactly like Faye without all the cellulite and stretch marks.

What's the fucking point of the doors? The whole abstracted virtual environment thing is usually brought in a way to present problems in a manageable way, but "just tap the map and put the key in the lock lmao" is not problem solving.

Honestly this would have worked better in a "memories along a corridor" format. At least there'd be buildup and meaningful exposition. But, nope, put the Game Genie in, put in the code from GameFAQs, and take a World 1-1 Warp Zone to the final door.

Here's an admittedly minimal visual edit. Like the rest of this comic, there's just so much wasted potential.

And it's all being processed by Menstro's own brain?
No whirring as the cooling fans desperately try to cope?
No bags of ice being stacked round her head to stop her circuits from burning out?

And Emily's sent in there, total-immersion style, via a fucking USB cable?

This has *got* to be the laziest the writing has ever been.

I'm struggling to see why the blue trannybot or whatever the fuck it is actually needs any of these idiots - they have slow reaction times, are prone to irrational, emotional outbursts and require the construction of a virtual interface to make sense of the inner workings of an AI - too much risk, too much required effort to rely on these shitsacks for anything so important.

Shit, I can come up with a reason, myself; that it's an intrinsic part of the core programming of all AIs that they *cannot* fuck around with their own minds, or the mind of another AI - they need a human proxy to do it for them. That would explain the use of these idiots and could open up the story to find Corpse Witch's accomplices.
But, I shouldn't have to re-write Jeph's own story for it to make any sense.

Could it be that this part of the story arc is an unintentional insight into Jeph's own imagination?
He gave himself the chance to create a virtual, metaphorical landscape to represent the inner workings of some of the highest technology in his own world. It could have been anything. Literally *anything*, no matter how bizarre and surreal.
And *this*… is the very best he could come up with.
This is not the work of passion and genuine enjoyment and love for the world he has created.
This is someone doing *just* enough, and settling for mediocrity.

Furthermore…

I actually think I'd prefer it if Menstro sat there like this the whole time:

I don't know how to interpret this facial expression

If it is incomprehensibly powerful enough to decrypt it in this timespan it's no less plausible that it's lightweight. That only takes another extra order of magnitude compared to the ten or so it takes to get to the situation you describe.

What's the least believable to me is that this mysterious super-eleet robot group would reveal themselves and their ability to effortlessly break what might just be all encryption for such an inconsequential purpose as this. That's like secretly having ten hydrogen bombs in your basement and showing them to someone so they'll stop bullying your little brother.

Not sure I buy that. Also doesn't make for good story-telling.
He tried to build tension before, but now everything's magical hand-waving.

Even Sonichu has more tension and suspense than this.

So, is that it?

She turned a comically oversized key so now the room's contents are decrypted?

gave me an idea.

This level of laziness is incredible, even for Jeph. What the fuck is this arc?

It's the most recent chapters of berserk. Down to the fact that everything is cutesy and childish and I'm going to predict the monster turns less cartoony and we see some shit, and by that I mean jeph will attempt to do something cool and get lazy and it will look dull and boring

It's not the same at all, because that sounds hilarious and I would love to read about a person who goes to such comical lengths to solve everyday problems.

If the decryption algorithm is "lightweight" then it means it's taking advantage of a major cryptographic flaw and/or is leveraging a world-changing mathematical function revolutionary enough to toss out everything we know and start all over. While possible, this needs a lot of justification. Otherwise we're on the level of cold fusion or parapsychology being real in terms of believably.

"It's just a story." Well, you only get so many cracks at lazy storytelling before the immersion facade cracks. At least everything but QC does.

I haven't read them. Is it really this blatant? Jeph is literally taking something from the last few weeks/months and copying them wholesale into QC? Jesus Christ. I mean, it's one thing to call back to something like Akira or Evangelion 25-30 years after the fact, but something brand new?

If the decryption algorithm works at all it must be that amazingly powerful.

Remember that bruteforcing the encryption was supposed to take two million years. It's downgraded to something like minutes or seconds in the comic, but even if it took a month it would be degrading the strength of the encryption by seven orders of magnitude. It's world-changing no matter how you spin it. That's why I made the comparison to having ten hydrogen bombs in your basement.

And yes, I do think it's implausible and bad storytelling - my point is that it's implausible and bad storytelling to have this kind of algorithm whether you need to stack ice around Menstro's head to make it work or not.

This is why fictional worlds have flexible artificial systems like "the force" and "the matrix". When you mix something real with the fantastical in an unrealistic manner then you get this.

Hell, even in a fictional world it'd be bad storytelling to bemoan the existence of "the big sci-fi lock" for three weeks and then immediately bypass it by virtue of magitech that was just invented.

This Redditor can see the future.

It's a simple enough plot, but I'm skeptical as shit because it's so close
The reason this works in berserk is because the character who is a battleborn super soldier, guts, wants to get casca's memories back, even though it's stated clearly that it might not be what casca wants at all. Here it doesn't make any god damn sense because menstro plays the parts of both guts and casca, so she wants to get back the painful memories even though it makes no real sense for her to want that. That's the real reason why I'm so skeptical of this all; because this is so poorly written that unless jeph were mindlessly rehashing someone else's plots, he would probably realize it makes no sense for a character to equally want to bring back memories and harbor bad feelings and thoughts towards those memories; She asked for them to be locked away by herself.
Of course, jeph could just be mentally broken, but I still think he's trying to make people fall for his shitty characters. It's not completely out of question since he is a known weeb.

I haven't read Berserk in a while but the thing with Guts and Casca is that they're characters we've known for a long time and are heavily invested in. Here we have Menstro, a character with limited uptake even with the core fanbase; Faye and Dora, core characters who in the span of a single comic were literally chucked to the sidelines; Emily, a prototype character that never came to fruition, and Desire-clone, who is a just-introduced Scrappy Doo/Poochie-from-Simpsons edgelord.

It's a fucking mess. Even if the storytelling elements were there, the characterization isn't, and you can't have character arcs without characterization. It's like starting Star Wars with Obi-Wan's decapitation. Who would give a shit about an old man in dirty robes dying if that's all you knew?

I'm endlessly amused by the fact that FUCKING FAYE is calling someone an asshole. It's like the pot calling the kettle a nigger.

So … the encryption that is so fucking complex a space station can't crack it takes all of 5 seconds to undo.

That might be a used as a failsafe. Doesn't explain why they need to do this in video game form.

This sort of thing would require Jeph to show talent and visual creativity, so of course he prefers an extremely mundane and visually uninteresting representation of Menstro's mind.

A more likely explanation is that (not)Desire wants the top secret fuckery that's hiding in Menstro's head, and bought the encryption key from Corpse Witch for a hilariously large sum of money.

That's actually a really good explanation! A bit too good for Jeph if you ask me.

You're right in that I just can't believe that even Jeph would let all this happen without the suited girl having some form of ulterior motive. But then again, he has continously failed to live up to even my very, very low expectations during this arc.

If she doesn't, perhaps you could argue that she was just smart enough to not let the protagonists find out her true motive, but that's pretty shit storytelling. Especially since Menstro got herself out of this situation the same way she got herself into it, by making illegal deals with shady robots who want to go rooting around in her head, and thus have learned nothing.

Fuck, you don't even have to go all MC Escher mind-wrecking impossible geometry either. You could just go the symbolic route like in Inception. Have Menstro's mind be a gigantic military compound with a heavily-guarded vault at the very bottom to represent Menstro's locked-away memories, somewhat damaged and swarming with patrolling military robots to represent her trauma and trust issues and blah blah. You could spice it up by establishing that whoever gets in has to try and blend in lest they be targeted by murderous securi-bots representing Menstro's desire to lock the past away and/or Corpse Witch's security measures. Even if you don't go the "blending in route" you can have a suspenseful and interesting infiltration plot. Instead, Jeph balks at having to put anything but the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM' of effort and just pisses it all down his pantsleg like the cowardly, mentally dull con artist he is.

The punchline actually works with the Berserk backdrop.

Just realized he missed the obvious joke of actually having electric sheep in the mindscape.

Shit, he even had the setup for it just a few pages ago.

Somehow this thing is supposed to represent Menstro's memories about being in the military. The perfect moment to insert symbolism, and we get this.

I think it's interesting that all the fans contstantly refer to the new robot as an "asshole" and constantly insult it.

What has it done to be considered an asshole?
It has offered a free solution to their current problem, and treated Faye in the manner she deserves.

Seems perfectly reasonable, to me…

Fuck, I've just realised who Marten looks like…

Dr "Tiger" Ninestein from that Gerry Anderson show, "Terrahawks".

I didn't notice it until you anons pointed it out, which is strange considering I just archive-binged Berserk like a week ago because I'd never read it.
What's infinitely more surprising than Handstab wholesale stealing plot elements from better works is the fact that he apparently managed to get through Berserk without his triggered little mind exploding.

Well he probably resonates very heavily with guts.

So now the memories are dead and this entire venture has been rendered pointless. And now Menstro has brain damage.

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That's dumb and Jeph can't even draw fictional monsters for shit.

Also, you could say Menstro now has memory loss.
Too lazy to make the edit.

I have no idea what "car boys" refers to and this is what came up in search. Seems legit.

pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=939677869

Jeph likes it just for the generic synth music. Honestly.

I just got shown this.

I laughed irl

It's been years since I last played gmod.

Fuck, I posted the same thing twice instead of the other one I meant to add, and it wont let me delete it.

Well, here's the other image I meant to put there.

needs some pink and black checkerboard somewhere

Fuck, I completely forgot about that missing texture effect, and the giant red error models.

I can appreciate the idea that its 3D model kersplodes when attacked, but that's like appreciating how good Kristen Stewart's character makeup is.

Of course Jeph would program with GOTO statements.

No, that's not what was intended there. This had nothing to do with programming.

"!goto" is used in the same way as "!tp" in that both are commands used by players to teleport to a known location in a game server (usually to another player's position); at least in source mod servers with ULX installed.

I know. It was a joke.

If thats not a visual representaion of the locked memories being completely destroyed, this will be a visual representation of why nobody reads Alex Grove.

Seriously Jaques come ON.

This is the kind of story a 4-year old would tell.

Dunno if I've shared this before, but now's as good a time as any:

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

This is a good thread

So you're saying she and Faye can finally love each other as equals?

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The 20 year olds, and everyone else.

How old is that manchild anyways?

36

Possibly because those 20-year olds actually have passion for their work and strive for improvement.

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Also I just noticed Jeph still has a christmas-themed display pic in mid to late January.

Who wants to bet that he's one of those kind of people who still have some of their Xmas decorations up in August, and when questioned about it they decide that the next Christmas is closer than the last one now that it's August so why put in the effort to taking down decorations that you'll just be putting up again soon?

Speaking of Christmas, here'a a present from grandma

I guess the monster really was the memories and she just vaporized them. Oops?

Either that, or the monster was simply a way to stretch one page into three.

Looks like he's taking the slightly better option of "tricked into thinking she had trauma".

Unless Corpse Witch didn't encrypt anything, and those pesky memories are sitting in an external hard drive somewhere. I suppose this option lets him explain why (not)Desire was able to break an encryption like a saltine.

Or maybe they're still in there and Emily was just pointed to the wrong door and the wrong room. Anything's on the table when the writing's like this.

Or the gun/monster routine was a ruse and Emily has become the memories. When she leaves the grid, the files in question will be on that headset and into (not)Desire's hands.

Courtesy of leddit.

It is funny that one could interpret this storyline as "deal with PTSD by shooting the monsters in your head." I'm sure no mentally disturbed individual will misinterpret that statement.

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what the fuck
also
>>>/reddit/

The strip is probably a typo because Emily is almost definitely named after Kiyohiko Azuma, the author of Azumanga Daioh. Because Jeph's influences can be counted on one hand.

Does that include the knife?

There's a reason things became so bland after he stabbed it. He stopped being able to keep track of more than 5 things at once.

I can't help but feel this will all be wrapped up *real* quick.

Faye: "Hey… that must mean it was all fake!"
Devil: "Oh well! Bye, folks!"
Hanners: "Let's have coffee and listen to ukulele music!"
Claire: "I'm trans."
All: *laughs*

The End

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Even plebbit knows that Jeph is cancer…yet, like us, they can't seem to stop chewing on the tumors.

The forum are still true believers, though. They get excited when Jeph throws them a curveball because then they can spend all week doing mental gymnastics in an attempt to shoehorn the stuff into established lore.

I wouldn't be surprised if he bases the story progression off what the majority of the commenters want.
He'd be too scared to defy his passive-aggressive overlords at this stage in the game.

We know this is the case with Claire. Jeph stabs his hand over negative feedback of Marigold's "unacceptable fatness" and literally two canonical strips later in comes the tranny. I guess it could all be coincidence but from how Jeph operates with the perpetual virtue signalling it seems quite unlikely.

Here's a quick edit.

If there are no memories, what does the monster represent?

If nothing was encrypted, how come no one noticed that the encryption barely took up space on the hard drive? Did anyone even check?

This is actually really disrespectful to people with PTSD. Will Jeph's fans harass him? Are we entering the saga of the third handstab?

If there were actual memories there, Jeph would have to spend time developing Menstro's backstory and having her discuss and process her past with her friends.

Devil's advocate, not that Jeph actually knows this, but encrypted data can easily be hidden in random data. However, this would require pre-formatting Menstro's data banks with random data rather than the more common and logical formatting with zeros. And if it's a communal storage area, a technique like this would allow overwriting due to undefined boundaries of the encrypted payload.

So, basically, high security yet high data loss risk. Hard drive espionage works much like this. A disk's firmware can be hacked with a small program but storing a payload more than a megabyte or so requires allocating a spot on the common data area. Files and resizing partitions may be noticed so the only thing to do is guess at an empty area unlikely to be overwritten.

But there was nothing there, appart from the monster that represents absolutely nothing. If it was only random data, what did the decryption algorithm do?

Unlock an empty payload, I suppose. Obviously the storyline is nonsensical, just that it's possible to obfuscate encrypted data of indeterminate size. It'd make much more sense for the payload to be much larger than expected, like besides memories finding plans for a doomday device or something.

If anyone's got any ideas for headers throw em in, I'll use em for the next thread.

Too lazy to add the big text.

An idea occurs.

Questionable PTSD. Because this comic is like a drunkard driving a monster truck smashing everything. I don't know what the fuck this thing will go.

This might violate the Geneva Conventions.

Noooo, my headmate!

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liberal tolerence

Uh, Jeph, hate to break it to you but I think Planned Parenthood got trolled.

Is that a spaceship or ballroom mask? It's kinda hard to tell.

Wow, that guy who donated over a hundred and fifty dollars to them sure trolled them. He got them good.

I do not know how to interpret that facial expression

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Well, to be fair, the outcome will still the same whether they march or not. There were marches and protests all over the place after Election Day, and those wound up with this.

God even organizations bleat like these histrionic attentions seekers. Not gonna lie, though, if that were a plaque I'd hang it on my wall and laugh at it with my guests.

Why did she need planned parenthood? Could she not get treatment from a doctor?

The pitch of that voice is just enough to where I can't tell if that's a man or a woman. Whatever it is, it needs to go sit in a corner for throwing a temper tantrum over a fucking DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.