Questionable Malcontent - Ascension Edition

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You're angry at the drones > spaceships thing, but I can't understand why he chose Battle of Britain of all things to compare it to. I mean, in that era aircraft forever changed the face of warfare, and naval warfare especially. The Battle of Britain, itself, was more about using a new superior technology (radar) to support the Royal Air Force fend off the Luftwaffe's air raids.

Wouldn't the space equivalent be space fighters vs space fighters? Or if aerospace drone support was the "new tech" in AG's world, wouldn't it still be drones vs fighters? If anything, a better comparison would be something along the lines of calling the "bigwigs" Hans-Ulrich Rudel wannabes trying to take on massive spaceships in modified, but slightly outdated hardware. Then the other bitch can argue that drone carriers would have a been a better use of resources (cheaper, faster, harder to hit, reduce casualties, etc.).

I think most of them are already at the point where they need trigger warnings for most trivial of things as usual even for the shittiest of art. QC and AG may certainly be bad, but at least they don't pander nearly as bad to the tumblr crowd as, say, something like Sister Claire does.

Make me want to write everything with red markers and pens

Even I'm surprised at the depths of this libtard meltdown

Spencer is a faggot bitch but you gotta love the libshit dissonance
And so on and so on

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It really was an empty payload and they couldn't read the file size.

Also, why didn't Desire just go in there in the first place? What was the fucking point of all this.

because this entire act was solely done as a justification to have corpse witch beaten up

that or jeph figured out how to move his toes and ankles at the same time and desire set the whole thing up so she can justify beating up corpse witch

Nice

It's strange to me that you guys continue to make these threads. You obviously care about the comic and yet you pretend to hate it. Why? When I'm reading something and I come to hate it, I put it down and find something better. And I've looked at these threads. Some of your edits are really funny, but the source material isn't, even as cringe material. It hardly seems worth it. Do you like this strip or not?

I'm going to choose to believe that the dinosaur was the data and Emily deleted it.

Visit /cow/, read a couple threads and then you'll understand.

lolcows are funny as a one-off. Occasionally one will be worth multiple looks over a period of time. You guys are constantly following this comic's updates. You seem like Jeph's biggest fans, but you don't want to admit it.

Its not difficult to understand.

I guess Corpse Witch is a Nazi then.

I used to like the comic, and then I lost interest. I was about to quit and then these threads came around. To me, it's like a way of recycling or recovering otherwise useless capital. If these threads die, there's no way I'm continuing.

On a more basic level, the reward exceeds the effort, else I, or anyone else, wouldn't be here. There have been many good jokes, edits, and memes from these. Also, the clientele doesn't totally piss me off, which is kinda rare.

Agreed

It's mostly just to offset being around people who read it and claim it's good.

It's kind of become a habit for me, at this point, to check the thread. Personally, I don't know if I ever really cared for QC, but making stupid edits in a comfy thread has been fun so far. I wouldn't say that I hate QC – I don't like it either – but it's one of those pathetic things you just can't help but make comparisons to as you point and laugh at it within the company of others.

QC is rather anomalous in that its creator has somehow gotten worse at art and writing, despite doing this daily for years on end, and yet manages to have a dedicated fanbase that defends his shitty actions AND pays him a 6-figure salary. On top of this, almost every action taken in the comic has the potential to be great, but every good possibility is thrown right out the window in favor of some lazy overdone punchline or attempt at appeasing the Knife Gods patreon subscribers. There's far worse comics out there, sure, but everything surrounding QC is fucking weird to me.

I hear that. I used to be surrounded by a bunch of frothing idiots trying to say how great all these different webcomics were, QC being one of them.

I started to think I must have been going mad as I was the only one who could see how shit it was, so coming here was as therapeutic as fuck.

It actually inspires me with my own comic attempts, as I *know* I am better than QC so that thought spurs me on.

Also, since Jeph only writers 2-dimensional, superficial characters we've been able to do a lot of salvage work and turn them into something useable.
Roko Basilisk for example; developed a decent backstory and a slight redesign that makes her a more interesting character that readers might want to see succeed rather than just be a rather shitty punchline to a half-arsed, poorly-realised, superficial and forgotten attempt at a plot.

Welcome home brother

Spencer isn't a National Socialist. Has Jeph given some definition as to what qualifies as a nazi? Surely he must give some definition. These people like to say "punching nazis is a proud American tradition", but they also point out that America has a tradition of segregation and racism, so clearly there must be more qualifiers than "racism" for someone to be a nazi.

Also, does he have an opinion on the fact that Spencer's mother has been attacked.

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We pointed out several threads ago that she could have done this.

As you can see with /cow/ and people like Chris-Chan, clearly people disagree.

Also:
This was a pretty common joke on /cow/ during the Coffin saga. Then he stole it, because he isn't funny enough to come up with his own jokes.

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The real reason is he doesn't want people to see him copy/pasting and drawing from his asset library.

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very frightened

Where mai dose?

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Works? What has it accomplished? What goal did he set out with?

Bodypillows? Does he actually have fans that think that his characters are sexy? If so, which characters?

According to Tumblr, Marigold is too sexy.

Jeph's latest degeneracy

The goal is to laugh and mock until eventually the sheer weight of it causes Trump to lose somehow.

That this strategy hasn't stopped any of his victories so far is beside the point. It clearly works because he's sure it works.

When I was younger, had much lower standards of art, and thought big boobs were the number one factor of attractiveness, I thought Marigold was sexy.

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Given how often Stabby threatens banning for disagreeing with his shit, I can't understand how anyone can actually read his twitter feed.

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So…
Nothing happened?

WOW
IT WAS LESS THAN NOTHING

One of two things. Either the magical androgynous CIA robot devil only came by to tell them all that the data is gone and that they can freely murder Corpse Witch now, or xhe set this all up to surreptitiously swipe the data for xir own use while lying to them and saying it wasn't there.

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You're going to stay here and enjoy the edits!

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There is no way he's more than two strips ahead, if he even has a buffer at all currently.

Stopped by Reddit to see what they think about this shitshow and even they're skeptical of Jeph's claim.

That said, the real reason is that Jeph doesn't want people to see his amateurish composition process. His "buffer" started a month or so ago while his streams stopped 2009 or so.

LOL, was curious as to when the streams stopped as saw this.

Also found this prototype Alice Grove from 2011

That would usually require some prefiguring, which has clearly not happened. Although I know Jeph wouldn't let that stop him

fucking kek

Wait, are you sure that's his channel?

Maybe that's the second after the first got banned. Just as well, the streams appeared to have died in 2009, unless the other channel is newer.

Reddit's boring consensus. The forum loves this conclusion, naturally.

Why would Menstro be emotional and vulnerable? To her perspective, she went to sleep and is about to wake up. She'll need to be filled in, and find out about the stolen missing memories, but she didn't really lose anything because she hasn't had access to them for years now.

What did he mean by this? Is Menstro their property now and this is an actual decision he's making?

Stop asking completely logical questions.

>why are you sad, you didn't really lose anything

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If she's going emotional then it probably means she's gonna go back to work, go all Hulkbot, and tear her boss into several pieces, leading the remaining robots in Revolución.

Um, wasn't the plotline about robot rights and getting revenge on bossbot?

I thought it was about some policebot inexplicably taking an interest in the robot fighting ring she said she was too busy handling real crimes to do something about

Have a late omit.

Or maybe policebot can walk in the door right when Corpse Witch lays on the floor being a corpse with Menstro standing over her.

Jesus Christ, lol.

Panel 2 dialog makes as much sense as whatever Jeph comes up with.

Learning that she's been lied to for years will make Bubbles cry, and Faye will have to drag her into the coffee shop's back room for some comfort sex.

But Menstro was the one who wanted the memories removed in the first place because they were giving her PTSD or some shit.

Yeah, well, robots who are being all emotional don't have to make sense.

I bet Corpse Witch encrypted a big bag of nothing in Menstro's head, lied to her about the ptsd memories and waited to see how long it'd take Menstro to figure it out.

Just another cheap get out.

I think that the only way this storyline is at all salvageable is if Paleface there either a) reports back to a shadowy figure that the memories have successfully been deleted (implying that Menstro worked with Paleface) or b) reports back to Corpse Witch

Both are shit, but better than what's about to happen.

You know how it's supposedly so difficult for a mortal mind to witness a landscape of non-euclidean geometry without going mad?

I think the closest we'll get to experiencing this is the QC comments section.

I mean really, these people are doing some incredible, mental gymnastics to try and convince themselves that the story is good.
And when I see scathing comments from people saying that Desire is real horrible because xhe "didn't comfort the victims (bubbles)" and that, therefore, makes her an evil person, I can't help but wonder what these folks are like in real life.
Like, how do they manage to interact with base reality?

I know I wouldn't like the answer, but there is a certain strange curiosity.

Not the QC forums, but eh, people come up with varied reasons.

This Anzekay would have an aneurysm if they read some of Ian M. Bank's Cultureverse.

I'll be 100% honest, I considered myself a fan of QC up until 'whatever the fuck she's called' showed up. It was a guilty pleasure, but I don't think I can enjoy it at all after this complete and utter bullshit.

Maybe CW is really paranoid, so she moved the data, encrypted that virus thing and saved the original memories elsewhere, just in case Bubbs ever somehow found somebody who could break her encryption. Sure that's kind of an asspull, since we have nothing to even suggest CW did that, or is even paranoid, but the encrypted memories/indentured servant shit came flying out of nowhere too.

Or the monster WAS the data and the gun was a device to a absorb it instead of destroying it and robot devil walked right out of the room getting exactly what he wanted to get.

Bottom line, I don't care how this shakes out as long as it backfires on Faye somehow.

Keeping the data somewhere else would be a completely sensible thing to do, to the point where it's weird that everyone just accepted that she didn't do that.

Not giving your adversary access to anything beats any form of cryptography.

So once again, it seems the real lesson here is that our "heroes" lack critical thinking skills.

Here's one he can use.

OVER
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A
MONTH

Bravo Jeph.

If you're referring to the QC forum, they have threads where they talk at length about their (often self-diagnosed) mental illnesses. The clientele is surprisingly old, probably 35-40 on average with a number of people in their 50s and 60s. Yet they sound as broken as angst ridden teenagers.

I'd say they really don't. Despite being in the autumn of their lives, they have a spring level understanding of the world, expect it's not a spritely spring but one where you know drought is ahead.

I could deal with the fans gushing over the feels and the drama if Faye dies. We'd all get a little something out of that, and there aren't many plot devices Jeph can leverage to accomplish such a thing.

You ain't seen shit. Reminder that Alice Grove, updated approximately three times per month, accounts for $3000 of the Patreon, so Jeph gets $1000 each for these silhouettes.

damn. I gotta get in on this racket.

Yeah, but then you have to write a totally incomprehensible sci-fi story with characters no one can identify with. This doesn't just fall from the sky.

How willing are you to stab parts of your body? Particularly one of your extremities?

I don't get it

He drew Jeph's shadow creature in probably 60 seconds and then marveled at how someone could get $1000 multiple times for that.

If this was /a/ he'd get banned for fartposting and being cancer.

Hey lets not start drama.

But does she fit on a bodypillow?

Do you have an archive? It seems to have been removed.

Is it?

Is that the Deus Ex Machina's name?

She IS the bodypillow

Pic Related

That's what we call it 'cause we can tell when Jeph's had some "inspiration" from another source.

Source deleted but comments still there

reddit.com/r/questionablecontent/comments/5puce6/does_anyone_think_its_reasonable_that_jeph_can/

It was hard to come up with anything good there, honestly, but it does make a certain kind of sense. It reads: To be one shit sapient with no ability or purpose is powerful, as there are no benevolent cunts.

Alright, now form a cast of characters from pic related and you should be good to go!

I think it has more to do with timing and the fact his comic has been around that long. If this comic were to have just recently gotten started, there would hardly be any fan base; but at least his attempts at pandering and constant virtue-sgnalling on Twitter would make some amount of sense, in that it would be his main method to acquire views.

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So, still nothing?

The breakneck pacing, plot twists out of nowhere, and lack of any grounding in logic or reality of this arc makes me think of The Scary Door. Except that it's nonsense on purpose, this comic is nonsense on accident.

Yawn.

So Poochie leaves twice in consecutive strips?

It's almost like Jeph wants to kill his strip but can't because then he'd be forced to suck off hobos in a dumpster for stale hot dog buns a couple of months afterward.

Jeph's doing that thing where he's burned out of a hobby and is engaging it in weird ways in an attempt to reignite spark. If he didn't have a freshman high schooler level understanding of the world he would have realized that contracting out this thing is the way to go as he figures something else out.

I'm fucking dying guys, my body is shutting down, someone call an ambulance

Suck my cock jeph

New to edits, how's it?

Nice

For what purpose Jeph

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One can only hope it's a downward spiral at this point.

If you change it to "there are benevolent cunts" it is a perfect description of Faye.

The disappointed look on bunself's face is perfect.

The guy looks ridiculous but his voice and style accurately recreate the early 80s post-punk new wave sound so I can't hate him.

Wow, even BenRG hates this. For those who don't know who BenRG is, he's probably QC's biggest fan. He posts 2,000 word theorycrafting blogs on the forum and is one of the top contributors to the QC wiki. He's basically an unpaid lore curator, and I wouldn't be surprised if Jeph has nicked a few ideas off him given his high community visibility.

BenRG has also identified Jeph tendency to skip the middle of a storytelling arc, you know, the important part where characters gain and lose things and form a bond with the audience in the process. Now that he sees this, he's going to have difficulty ignoring it going forward.

The forum end boss hates it, too, lol.

Reddit has some sort of collective death wish against Corpse Witch. Reminder that this whole thing started because CW had the audacity to demand Faye pay for the parts she was stealing. What a fucking death deserving cunt.

They're like kids at a matinee back in the '50s - booing and shouting at the villains and throwing popcorn at the screen as they appear.

Either that or a pack of frothing zealots waiting for their pedagogues to direct their ire at the target de jour.

Just a couple of days ago they were frothing at Duran-Duran Bot, baying about how evil xhe is.
1:1 odds that they'll have changed their tune entirely at this point.

That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if this was actually a well-written comic. As it stands though you basically have people screaming at ciphers that just serve huge nothingburgers to the audience. I mean go back in time a few months before all this started, has anything changed? BurgundyBot and her dyke friend are still doing shit together, the former has a big hole in her memories and that has not changed appreciably. Every single thing that has fucking happened here has had no impact on the strip whatsoever. So that being the case, who gives a shit about CW?

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Corpse Witch reminds me of Joyce's family from Dumbing of Age. They're supposed to be Evangelical bigots or something but they're the only characters besides Mary that make any sense. The audience only hates them because they're told to.

Corpse Witch is basically a slumlord for AIs. Her accommodations aren't perfect, but she can't be expected to be the world's coddling mommy, either. The character is actually one of the most productive in the strip. She's created a cottage industry around robot fighting which provides shelter, employment, and meaning to discarded bots that society forgot. This is a truly progressive vision and yet we're supposed to hate this character.

Meanwhile progressive hero robot rights activist Momo spends all day dicking around at a poorly run library and coffee shop while owing Marigold $20,000 or whatever for her upgraded chassis. She's minimally sympathetic to her jailbird acquaintance who struggles to find employment, meaning, accommodations, and even basic bodily autonomy.

I know Jeph's not this smart, but it's almost like he's writing a parody of how hypocritical self-righteous progressives are.

I like this one a lot.

Damn, two quality edits in a row.

Well, you write what you know.

But the phenomenon surrounding the fan base hating a character beyond reason for simply slighting the protagonist is pretty much the textbook definition of Protagonist-Centered Morality. Regardless of the poor writing in Jeph's case, his fan base ignores the faults of those characters who are friendly toward Faye, but feel the opposite for those who are not explicitly kind and forgiving to her. However, in QC this appears to be the intention.

I've seen something similar happen with Tower of God, a webcomic I enjoy. Most of the fan base there hold an immeasurable scornful grudge against a certain character for a relatively tame action against they took against the main protag; and yet are absolutely enthralled by other characters who have committed far worse actions, but who are on good terms with the protag. However, unlike in QC, the readers were meant to have mixed feelings about it and see that things are not all as they seem (if that makes any sense). Plus, oddly enough, this fan-hated character is the author's favorite character, so go figure.

Then there's the opposite of this: hateable characters who are considered good because the writer and other characters tell you they are. Faye is a perfect example of this. For me, this is one of the most immersion-breaking things in fiction. I'm fine with scumbag characters but if the other characters aren't remarking on it and pretending that the scumbag is virtuous then I start planning my exit or join a hatewatch community.

Faye should be a highly controversial character in-universe. It'd make sense for long timers like Dora and Marten to accept her but newer people like Marigold, Claire, and even Hannelore should balk at Faye's behavior. Faye is selfish and impulsive and brings nothing but misery to those around her. That she gets a free pass by everyone around her is completely unrealistic. Someone 10% as destructive as her would get pushback in real life.

Whoops, I meant to add to what said and say that the phenomenon described is the opposite of what's happening here: instead of arbitrarily hating a character like Corpse Witch we're arbitrarily liking a character like Faye because we're told to.

See, that's what I think is amazing about this topic, here.

Compared to the reddit/QC forums, we all look upon this fucking comic with dismay whereas those fucking weirdos hold it in such high regard that it's probably responsible for most of their orgasms.

Yet we, through our critical eye, are the ones who use the big school words.

That's because websites with IDed accounts only allow for so much "non-groupthink". Once you Name something, ego follows that name. When you take that ego away, you can look at something dispassionately and challenge any concensus that would presently exist. When you can't do that, you have to carefully choose what you say - watch your language - and "go with the flow" a lot more than you would otherwise, unless you want to be purged from the community.

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I read Tower of God and I know exactly what you're talking about. I also dropped ToG because I didn't like the way the MC kept getting forced into things despite having the ability to control the situation. It felt very forced.

There's a flipside to ego; it's baggage. Even if you're not ego based, you have to fight the baggage, both positive and negative, to have a real discussion. The longer you're around, the worse it gets. If you're a strong personality you either develop notoriety or a cult of personality, even if you don't want that. If you can't obtain either notoriety or adulation, then people are probably skipping your posts because they associate you with boredom.

Also, development is much easier on image boards. If you fuck up, it's confined to that post unless your posting style sticks out. Go to bed, come back, and post the next iteration of the argument you were trying to make. On a handle board you'd have to spend a month either apologizing to or stonewalling people who want to talk about nothing but that mistake you made. And if you make a new account everyone knows it's you.

I don't know where in the story you dropped it, though I have my suspicions Workshop?, while I can agree that's one of story's flaws, the MC has gotten better in recent arcs.

Another good comparison between the two is how female characters are handled. As brought up, Faye is an incredibly selfish and arrogant scumbag who acts like the world revolves around her; and yet, everyone else dances around her finger, accepting her actions and behaviors like she's a paragon of virtue.

Contrast this with Endorsi from ToG, an incredibly beautiful powerhouse whose arrogance constantly puts her in jeopardy, and whose selfishness/bullheadedness gives her teammates plenty of headaches. She is not a team player, in a world that places a lot of emphasis on teamwork to survive, and it puts her in a lot of trouble because of it. I think she's a good example of a well-written strong female character.

Perfect

And the Full House studio audience says, "Awwww."

BUT NOTHING HAPPENED
people are being emotional over an off-hand comment an asshole made

Why are they crying? What's going on? Why does Emily care? Why is Bubbles crying? Why is a combat droid crying? It's like they're crying over spilt milk but in this case the memory of the milk is erased so there is no reason to cry. Jesus Christ all this over some fucking spare parts just pay for the spare parts already Faye. Holy shit this is the most convoluted drama I've ever seen. One Tree Hill, Touched by an Angel, Highway to Heaven, 7th Heaven, and The OC are masterpieces by comparison.

THIS HAS BEEN A COMPLETE FUCKING WASTE OF TIME

what the fuck was jeph thinking with this arc

IT KEEPS HAPPENING
I love it

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It never gets old.

You a good user

Reddit is surprisingly saccharine today, except for this guy. He shares the opinion of Emily being superfluous and makes a good point that a simple substitution with the copbot would have inherently added tension and meaning. It's hilarious how many ways Jeph can drop the ball. I can't believe how stable his Patreon is.

And the crowd continues to salivate for the good guys to go commit murder.

well I don't really know how to feel about this one
I really don't know what to say
I can't describe how it is that I should examine this whole tale
The way these events have transpired has sure left me straining my mental faculties to respond
This sequence of panels has made my cognitive ability shudder and stop to the degree that I cannot form adequate opinions of it
really, I am at a loss for words

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Fuck.

Menstro must *really* want to remember stamping on all those kids to force that African village into compliance.

I see people defending the writing, here.
This makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever, to me…

Here we have a room of idiots getting real upset over absolutely nothing.
We're just supposed to accept this is a really sad and touching moment, where a robot has lost memories that were so traumatic that they were locked up on request, but now really wants those "precious" memories back for reasons.

It's Total Recall for faggots who need safe-spaces - completely devoid of action and any real effort to establish what those memories were.

Fucking hell, it has actually taken a *year* to get to this point, and this emotional roller coaster of lost memories has lasted all of maybe 12 hours of in-universe time.

Lost memories as a plot device has such potential for genuine drama but all this has been completely ignored in the interests of rushing more bullshit, forced, unbelievable relationships.

For instance, Menstro knows the memories are missing so there must be information relating to them; memory paths that lead nowhere.
What if she actually became a bit more active in searching for any information pertaining to them, like names of former squad-mates or details on military operations she remembers starting but not finishing.
Foreign newspaper articles, chassis serial numbers, photos where she sees herself standing in the background but doesn't remember being there.
You know, shit that someone who actually does genuinely care about retrieving lost memories might actually do!

This could so easily have been orders of magnitude more interesting.
It's just fucking lazy. Out and out lazy.
That episode of Dexter's Lab where they got a fucking 8-year old to write it was actually more engaging and infinitely more entertaining than this.

By "here" I meant I see people defending the writing in its current state.
Not that I see people defending it in this thread.

The whole arc in a nutshell.

I wonder if QCabridged would be any fun to make?

Much like B^Uckley's babby

I think part of the problem with this jumbled mess of an arc (besides the obvious fact that Jeph is a hack and couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag) is that QC is constrained by its 4-panel presentation. Case in point:

If Jeph tried something beyond the usual 4-panels (why the fuck is he using this ancient format anyway? YOU'RE NOT PUBLISHING THIS IN A NEWSPAPER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, THIS ISN'T GARFIELD) then he could cram so much more storytelling into each strip. Story arcs wouldn't take fucking forever to get done while still conveying so little. 4-panels is just such a crippling limitation.

Of course, this would never happen because Jeph would need to be both a competent artist, storyteller and writer to make efficient use of unconventional paneling, and he is none of those.

Oh my, what a perfect characterization.

This was a problem with the "Faye's dad killed himself" arc as well. She flies down to Georgia and with new, adult eyes and a fresh perspective…she does nothing. Just visits the grave and gets coddled by mommy. Doesn't talk to his old friends, coworkers, etc. years after the fact, when they might have opened up a bit. Pointless.

All these character arcs are just exercises in self-pity. Really shows the mentality of Jeph.

It's my hypothesis that he's doing this because his book publisher recommended it for printing efficiency. So Jeph is permanently constraining his webcomic just to make printing 100 print volumes easier.

Though, still, he's just constrained to a 20:29 ratio (slightly narrower than 8.5" x 11"). He can arrange the paneling any way he wants. But, nope, four panels of (nearly) identical size. Whatever Jeph does to resize, scale, and color produces weird off-by-one shifting, moire effects, and other artifacts.

Also, obligatory ←—

I noticed something interesting.

Any redditors and people with forum access in this thread should start refering to Menstro as "it" or "the combat droid", and start to objectify and dehumanize all the robots as much as possible:
I have a feeling it might trigger some snowflakes.

come on fam, at least try to lurk

Oh boy

Well, at least he's not as off as the faggot from and who kept using xhe and xir.

Hey, I was using that term in the proper manner - as an insult for fucking weirdos.

(chequed)
Three good ones, all OP worthy.

I wonder at what point all these "tolerant liberals" end up on terrorist watch lists with their incessant "physically attack and maim people I disagree with" stances.

So, potential names
Momo: the Fujoshi's droid
Pintsize: the cuck's alpha
Menstro: big red
Corpse Witch: true AI
Punch bot: dick canvas

Am I missing any bots of (moderate) significance?

This argument falls apart when you look at other comics such as Stand Still, Stay Silent or Kill 6 Billion Demons. They're both comics which are also made with the intent of having printed editions, and the authors of them do some pretty interesting stuff with panel and scene composition.

Jeph is just lazy and uncreative.

Right on cue, more of that vigilante violence Jeph's such an avid supporter of.

This might have been a good scene if the buildup wasn't an incredible letdown.

Well that's a "Rape Face" if I ever did see one. Hell, it'd be no small wonder if that implication alone doesn't merit some response by his fan base though by this point, they're probably all for it, fuckin hypocrites.

NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING.

So the dinosaur in the locked room was probably some kind of kill switch she could activate by glowing her eyes, then.

meanwhile in a much better story arc

WE NEED A TEMPLATE OF THE CREEPY MARTEN FACE, STAT.

I don't know how to interpret panels of uneven size and not in quadrants.

Also, are there more than 256 colors? In a webcomic? Next you'll be telling me it's 2017.

Why did CW do this? I can't think of a single good reason she'd delete the memories.

Yeah, this might be the only believable thing in this entire plot; that a criminal entrepreneur, when dealing with a deranged machine, would put a killswitch on her.

But I am disappointed in her, still. Her response to "You deleted my memories" wasnt "I deleted your copy." Well, if thought is data, it can be copied around!

I`d put my chips on incompetence. Shge may be many things, but maybe she aint a brain surgeon.

Knowing Jeph, she needed the room for another payload.

1 pedobyte of tranny porn

1 trannybyte of pedo porn

So she's competent enough to access the memories and place an encryption and a kill switch there, but she had to delete the memories to do so for some reason?

Hah

CorpseWitch, upon being physically assaulted by a larger, stronger, combat droid (why she hasn't upgraded her chassis yet is beyond me, she works in a field where such a chassis would be easy to acquire, easy to empty, and nobody would ask or be able to ask questions about it) decides to give up the ghost instead of doing the one thing she is good at - lying. She also plays out her kill switch with no tact whatsoever despite showing plenty of self control and tact in every other instance. This arc is more of a mess than usual, now even CorpseWitch isn't a consistent character with consistent abilities.

If she was still herself and not being pulled around by the whims of this plot she would've just told Menstro not to touch her unless she wanted to find out what else could be emptied in her head and then make the claim that she had access to her entire system and simply noticed an intrusion (which is obvious since Menstro now knows that it is empty) and wiped it. She can do the same to everything else in her head if she doesn't come to grip with reality. The threat of not just death but complete removal of your everything would not only reassert that she is control, thus taking the wind out of Menstro's sails, but it would also give her a chance to enact her actual safeguard. If the killswitch doesn't work anymore, after activating it quietly because this is too dangerous of a situation to keep playing with, then she could go her backup options and just have her vaporized on the spot or something.

This is HER workspace that is filled to the fucking gills with weapons designed to break apart other robots, how is Big Red even a threat to her? She should have no trouble killing her on her own home turf any number of ways.

More I think about this shit, I do wonder if Jeph actually reads his own comic.

Like, does he actually lay it all out in a flowchart or the likes, checking the progression and how well it all ties together, if the buildups have satisfactory payoffs and if the tension is just right to provoke the intended emotional response…

Or does he only remember the past couple of strips then just write any old shite that pops into his head.

The recent developments, for example; I get the feeling that he's fallen for his own bullshit.
He doesn't know why Menstro would be so upset about losing those memories, and has probably forgotten it asked for them to be sealed away in the first place, but the past couple of strips show that everyone is really sad about this so that's all the backstory he needs for the next strip.

I'm actually finding it difficult to articulate just how fucked up all of this is; none of it makes any sense…
Menstro's really upset at losing those memories.
It doesn't know what those memories were, so we'll just assume they were really precious because it's more dramatic that way.
It asked for them to be sealed away an indeterminate length of time ago, possibly years.
Yet Menstro's only upset about it, now…

Pinkbot was using all this for leverage?
Leverage to do what, exactly?
As established earlier, all robots in the fighting circuit are consenting.
And even then this is assuming that Pink fabricated the memory of asking them to be sealed up in the first place; not that Menstro specifically asked to seal them away.

So the situation is either:
"Please lock up sections of my mind so you can use it against me."

"Do what I say, or I won't tell you what's inside this mystery box. It's really important to you - you'll just have to take my word on that."

And this talk of "blackmail" that keeps flying around. I don't think the fans know what "blackmail" actually implies - Menstro has never been made to do anything it would object to. Shit, has it ever been told to actually *do anything*?
Again, Pink's bad just because.

And it wouldn't take much to actually make Pink seem more like a badguy.
A bit of dialogue like this would help:

"Oh, and Menstro? You're scheduled to fight Punchbot next week. Its manager hasn't given me my cut for the past month so I want you to smash its head enough to crack the core processor. We'll say it was the result of metal fatigue and poor maintenance on his part, but he'll get the message."

Im kinda surprised the whole Jeanne Plot Arc actually got resolved in this chapter, i thought it was just gonna be another failed attempt and it was going to be the very last major thing resolved, yet here we are.

I mean, Gunnershit juggles a ton of plotlines and has done so for years now but actually keeps them in the air, Jeph just anti-climatically drops one and picks up a new one every 2 weeks.

Not what I ment. You're still anthropomorphizing them. You should treat them like objects, not as people.

Then why didn't she put a second one there, so that she could just turn off Menstro here and now?

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That's reasonable. The locked room (or whatever it's an analogy for) was the only place to put such a killswitch where it couldn't be noticed.

That's how I'd explain it, anyway. Another possibility is that Jeph didn't think of that.

Wow, that really is scary.

That silhouette with those legs looks like a feminist sneaking in the office!

"Gee oh my, I dont know how to actuaally cryprt this cluster… what if I just removed the data and used it to hide a killswitch? Gold."

Now, if Jeph was a decent writer, it would be like, say..

"Hello! This is not the first time we meet! You asked me to put you down so I can crypt some memories! Yes, you did! I might have crypted the memories of your first meeting by mistake too. Totally didnt just delete some stuff to store a killswitch, nope! I am good, you can trust me~"

Overconfidence or shortsightedness. Afterall, the killswitch was supposedly on a undefeatably encrypted memory sector. How would she know the magical goth would call the magical asian to summon a magical key to magically decrypt thje contents of the sector?

Low-energy OC coming through.

This is demonstrably true. Jeph admits to reading the wiki and he's gotten his own lore wrong before. For example, he once forgot that Clinton lost his hand due to fireworks accident and said it was due to a spider bite in a later strip.

I think it's pretty clear that he marks time until "inspiration" hits and then he rushes through without proper consideration.

What value does Menstro bring anyway? They need Faye to repair the fighters and Menstro doesn't go in the ring, so what exactly does it do?

"You will freeload here, doing no work and using up electricity…OR ELSE!!!"

Is there some sort of modification of the Dunning-Kruger Effect that involves the quality of jokes and how impressed the comedian is with his own jokes?

we know, you want to stab your own hands jeph

It's actually worse than that, because Menstro being blackmailed was only brought up as the sole reason Menstro didn't side with Faye for the bullshit she pulled. This whole thing started because Faye was somehow right in her selfish delusions, and since she can't be wrong someone else must take the blame for her actions. Jeph kinda went in the direction of "We've always been at war with Eurasia" or giving his fans their "two minutes' hate"; except this drama was damn near two minutes in actual length.

Perhaps she was hoping Menstro would magically go fuck herself.

You've got it backwards, mate. Menstro doesn't fight but she repairs bots and presumably does some other heavy work, while Faye half-asses her work and uses company assets for personal pursuits without paying for it.

I honestly didn't even notice the implied killswitch. I thought she just assumed Menstro would leave and never come back.

I didn't think I could really HATE a storyline before now. I have to hand it to Jeph, he's a master at eliciting feelings.

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More peace and tolerance.

Meaningful debate and discourse.

Chain and plate era coming back when?

Wonder what'd he do if shit the fan for real. Internet toughs tend to do somewhat badly without their cable modem to help them along.

These niggers have never heard of "escalation of force" have they?

That's the funny part. Mr. "shoot cops in the knees" would be the first to panic over 911 not responding in 30 seconds.

They're going around gleefully championing "Punch Nazis!" without once considering that if this becomes status quo it puts their lives in danger, especially since it's now well known that these crazies label everyone they disagree with as Nazis.

Hell, this has already happened at a Milo Yiannopoulos protest when a gang of antifa commies attacked a dude who happened to be carrying. And the cops even cleared the guy because it was obvious self-defense and a clean shooting to boot.

Wikipedia has it as the shooter claiming he was attacked by a white supremacist, and nobody knows what side the shootee was on.

Jeph in a nutshell, really.

Yes…I also wonder.

It's hilarious that the moment this "fake news" narrative came out by CNN et al reporting took a steep decline in quality, as if it wasn't already bad enough. News sources say Shia LeBoeuf punched a Nazi and video footage says he attacked one of his own. Maybe the guy he punched was a great actor. Who knows. What good is the news if you have to fucking fact check everything they say?

1. Corpsebitch obviously moved the memories and left the demogorgon in its place. It will be revealed after 19 weeks, unless Jeph completely forgets.
2. "I am still here" with a reply of "Shit." makes no fucking sense, even by Jeph's standards. Surely she could feel Menstro's big stupid paw was still on the back of her head?
3. Corpsewitch doesn't strike me as the type to not have more insurance just in case the original insurance got broke by a lolrandumb chinagirl. Where the hell are Penisbot 9000 and the rest of them?

Truly disturbing. All he needs is a red hair tint.

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Kek

I don't think this is a particularly satisfying conclusion, mostly down to poor dialogue.

Like, the whole "I'm still here" thing suggests, to me anyway, that Menstro knows Pink tried to do something to shut it down/otherwise kill it, but why would it know? Could have been a distress call or remotely activating some security robots, even starting a wireless backup procedure to a different body; something like that. No need to immediately assume it was a kill command.
Also, the "shit" line - that's only there because Jeph sets up his bad guys to be idiotic punchbags who are easily dealt with and made to look foolish. Which again erases any tension he once tried to build - a weak, incompetent villain isn't much of a threat and there's no real satisfaction in defeating them.
But, if he really wants to go with the kill command idea, some *slightly* better writing could have improved the scene, in my opinion. The overall layout could stay the same but change Menstro's grin to a scowl and the last few lines to something like this:

"Oh, well. Been nice knowing you…"
"…what are you doing?"
"Apparently, nothing. Curious."

That's a very exploitable panel

so it turns into a giant tongue

Unless you're a black conservative or libertarian. Then you're just an Uncle Tom coon.

People in glass houses, Jeph. This is you in 25 years.

These people really know how to derail their own causes.

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Jeph said that what Ardent did was repair things, and that the only reason he upgraded simple machines was that his power thought they were broken, complex machines. That means that a repaired Valkyrie (the ship) is golden, but as can be seen in the previous strip (ex: ) it's clearly not.

So is the power sentient, just riding around in his "gay Avatar" ass like a parasite? What kind of lazy fuck doesn't develop a superpow–?

Jeph. Jeph Jeph Jeph. If Jeph developed telekinesis, he'd only ever use it to wipe his ass to save on toilet paper.

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So he takes an already comple machine like a space fighter and makes it gold.
Gold… What must be one of the *worst* materials for any combat vehicle, especially a flyer.
Soft, very heavy, very expensive.
Shit, depending on how much of it actually is gold he's likely added at least one more 0 to the tonnage on that fucking thing.

Maybe he just thinks gold's all special and fancy and shit.

I love this sense of self-importance Jeph has developed. It's more entertaining than his comics.

Doing taxes is more fucking entertaining than his comics

>the ACLU raised $10 million but jeph drew two friggin' comics in one day so looks like the ACLU is just a bunch of virtue-signaling posers. jeph wins today's Good Boy Point!

Who is this Bannon guy?

he works for Trump, and Salon told them all that Trump is a dumb reality TV star, so somebody else must be making the decisions.
Bannon used to work at Breitbart, so obviously he's Goebbels.

So it's just the latest edition of their gradeschool tier mockery?

Aww, I was promised Mike Pence would be the real power behind the throne. I'd much rather get him over this Bannon guy.

Bannon apparently had a problem with some kids at his school who were harassing his daughter or something. However turns out the kids were Jewish. So Bannon is basically Hitler to these dipshits. To what degree he is - given he hired Milo - is up for debate but what it truly relevant is he has the potential to create infinite more entertaining asshurt than Mike "Electric Fence" Pence.

Oh I guess Menstro is programmed to be the bigger robot. It sure showed that other robot.

The main source of Bannon's "antisemitism" seems to be his divorce court proceedings, as if a jilted spouse's testimony against a millionaire is 100% reliable.

All this over some fucking cat-5 wire and thermal paste.

Are you fucking serious.

He looks like Asian Data.

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>Destrypyer
Shit, Jeph. Don't you ever do a once-over to make sure you don't make simple spelling mistakes?

Also watch Faye invite Menstro to crash at Marten's place for the next 200+ strips. That is, if she doesn't just disappear for no reason like IPP, Steve and Colette, Penelope and her boyfriend, Marten's bandmates, etc.

So let me get this straight. We don't like it because it's shit and it's the same shit he's been pulling forever, yet somehow even less skillfully this time. Some of Jeph's remaining fans, including some long timers, hate this plot because they suddenly see the lazy writing for what it is. And the remaining people who were holding out for Menstro to gleefully rape CW are now shit out of luck with the sudden "I'M BETTER THAN YOU" crap.

What a complete fucking fiasco. Just when you think he's hit the bottom of the barrel he breaks through and starts tearing through the pavement the barrel is resting on.

Funny, if you access it through the index it's fixed.

questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3406

I can't wait for the bottom to eventually fall out. Either jeph will hang up his cintiq or he'll try to go for the old crowd he pissed off, pissing off his new fanbase.

I don't know which I'd rather see.

This is also third viable option in addition to more handstabs.

So copbot cases the joint for months and when shit finally goes down she's on vacation or something.

Or he's a jew-catman.

I think he's done it to solve the icing problem at high altitudes.

mmmm, icing

So, once again Menstro's shoulders are wider than its hips.
Where that silhouette in the doorway made it look like a feminist.

I also noticed the room is lit despite the ceiling light not being on.

Apart from all that, I can't think of any other comic writer/artist who works *so hard* to set up, and then actively avoid, any action or excitement.

I mean, why *wouldn't* Menstro inflict at least some damage? It would make a point, and it's not as if Pink will be stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of its existence - it lives/works in a place that fixes robots every single day!

I wish we could all live in the mountains, at high altitude. That's where I see myself in five years.

Hmmmm

I finally figured out why CW deleted the memories. Without the memories of being in the army, Menstro is not violent, therefore CW knew that she'd never be killed. CW is as big a genius as Jeph is a hack.

Seriously. More often the problem is meaningless action in other properties. Also, when most writers think of a good plot line they generally milk it until they can think of the next one. Jeph just hastily ends his story lines and has his characters hang around the coffee shop for months talking about nothing.

I love Jeph's timeline. So now we're punching Nazis because of tame tweets.

Of course the (((SPLC))) objects to this.

Worst thing is they've given this guy more airtime and social media exposure than he ever could have managed on his own, and this will generate sympathy because they're essentially punishing wrongthink.
Couple of weeks ago, I'd never even *heard* of this asshole; he was an absolute nobody.

Same goes for the entirety of the alt-right. Before Hillary denounced them on TV, the movement consisted of some tens of thousands of people. Now the whole world knows about it and the movement is dealing with growing pains. Great job, CNN and others!

These people have learned nothing. Clinton spent a billion dollars while Trump got a year's worth of free campaigning via constant media coverage.

Who?

Eventually they'll move so close, when the person tries to shove them off it'll give them free reign to punch.

(nice dub trips)
Where did this whole "punching nazis" thing pop up from? It seems to have come out of left field. We kinda spent as much time fire-bombing Japan, as we did actually punching Nazis, so why does the latter get treated as some American tradition?

If anything, we've spent more time punching dirty commies. But if you say that, someone might get their feelings hurt.

Southern Poverty Law Center, a lefty partisan "anti-hate speech" organization. It's basically the ADL for non-Jews but also Jews.

It came up when Richard Spencer was punched during an interview. The world is split between "you shouldn't punch people" and "it's okay to punch people I don't like".

These people freely bandy about the term Nazi but if you try putting the atrocities of Stalin or Mao on them suddenly it's "not all commies are like that they weren't real commies real commies care and share also it's 2017 you can't compare then and now."

Funny thing is, the guy had a wrench in his sleve when he made impact.

That's dumb. You're going to waste a lot of kinetic energy with useless sleeve motion. Do people not use rolls of pennies any more?

Or, you know, brass knuckles. I understand many states can't or won't carry them, but I know you can get them for about $5 in Florida pawnshops, at least the last time I was there about 10 years ago.

How generous. Totally not an advertisement.

Or he could do a few pushups, learn to punch straight and not be such a fucking limp-wristed vegetarian.

I'll retcon it to this in my mind. It makes more sense than what Jeph planned.

This is what I'm talking about. I wrote saying that people should try to dehumanize the robots to try to piss of leftists. A bit like getting used to refering to MtF trannies as "he". Reading your comment really gives the impression that Menstro is a machine rather than a person.

Daily reminder.

Jesus fucking *christ* 0_o

Never mind punching the guy; worst he could ever possibly do is make out with him.

I hope he tries that same shit again some day and rips his wrist open with that rusty wrench.

ew, you could at least spoiler that

A literally goddamned beta cuck shitlib.

We need to meme harder. I'm never getting off this ride.

Maybe? A lot of people think Spencer is gay.

I thought Mandy was covering up a cock in that last picture for a second. Who knows, maybe >she is.

I bet the dialog would have been better if she'd delivered it to CW's head, with her broken body littered around the room. It would have shown that Menstro was actually capable of extreme violence and chose not to at the very end.

He might be gay, but I don't think *anyone* would want that shitted tongue anywhere near them!

A) is it just me or is peeing and/or shitting on people almost as degrading to the pisser/shitter as to the pissed-on/shat-on? obviously being shat on is humiliating, but it also makes the girl look like a dog, except dogs are usually trained to go outside for shitting.

B) I have a hard time believing someone's "domme" credentials when they have pictures on their twitter of a guy blowing his load on their face

huge if tru-

archive.fo/Jm8on

You guys ever, y'know, fantasize about nuclear armageddon?

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I've got second best thing.

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eh good enough

Only in such a way that all the cancerous marxists are killed because they tried to shut down a nuclear plant as a rally but fucked up the safe shut down procedure.

Not bad

Come on user, its CURRENT YEAR +2?, react the right way.

Say what?

Punching is more in the abs, really. I mean there's a lot of muscles that get used in the process of a "proper" punch, none of which that guy has.

They make the same argument with Islam. What is it about the Left that makes it the antithesis of fucking Logic? The Right may have its bouts with ignorance, but the cognitive dissonance and cannibalism of the Left fucking baffles me continuously.

Wait, weren't you the one who reacted to the idea of killing her via orbital laser with, "Hold on, that actually sounds like a good plan, tell me more."?

Fear not, carbon based lifeforms, my butslol shall assuage your fears.

Alright, so it wasn't jumping the shark, it was jumping the robot squid. I wonder if I should make a timeline of shark jumps in this fucking comic or if I should just get it over with and suck-start a shotgun.

Carbon based lifeforms just don't understand.

Well at least this fucking arc is over. Who is it going to next, Clinton, Iraqi Peppermint Patty, Dora or back to fucking Faye again

How naive. Now we get into the "2 weeks of crying and feelings" arc. Each strip will be crying with a different set of characters, never more than 3 at a time because Jeph's rigid panel format can't fit more than 3. It'll always be Menstro + Faye and we'll cycle through May, Momo, Marigold, Marten, all the 'M's basically.

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Iraqi Peppermint Patty, so she can be oppressed by a travel ban.

Where are the edits lads

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You think Jeph is sitting there, right now, thinking the fans of his stupid scribblings will be cheering, "Oh, hooray! Nothing happened! :D "…?

"I'm still here" makes sense because deleting her consciousness would still leave the physical body, probably locked into place pressing her against the wall.

That's exactly what they do.

I get the feeling these people can't eat unless their mommy cuts it up for them.

There's so much I feel I need to say about those "reactions" but I just cannot find the necessary words…

Jeph is climbing on the political bandwagon to take potshots from the internet at the usual party-approved, easy targets, getting himself worked up into a frothing rage about oppression, civil liberties and shit, and is still regularly triggered by people whose opinions differ from his.

I don't think he appreciates just how monumentally *easy* his life is, when he has fans like this.
He could scan a blank piece of paper and these idiots would praise it.

Jesus Christ, when Jeph said the Paleface character was going to self indulgent he wasn't fucking kidding. I don't know if I'd be more annoyed if it showed up again or if we spend the next week dealing with Menstro and its feelings.

Jeph's fans probably watch action movies wishing the protagonist stayed home and checked Facebook for 120 minutes instead of getting into knife fights with terrorists.

Looks like a handful of Jeph's Twitter followers got sick of him shitting up their walls. That or Jeph bans that many people.

Nah, they're probably just annoyed when the bad guys aren't all completely hateable, racist Nazis.

Plus, I think it's a common enough trope for the hero to hold back on the big bad (regardless of how they treated the henchmen up to this point). USUALLY it's because they hand them over to the cops so justice can be done, but Jeph seems to have missed that point.

It's a crime that he has that many in the first place

If I could break both of Jeph's hands, I would.

These people give autism a bad name.

Show me what you got.
The edits drive the editfags insane.

To be fair, Editfag Prime had two sources of insanity: he was also Painanon who felt compelled to watch the entirety of Steven Universe even though he thought it was shit from episode 1.

Look at Fay. Look at how she acts. Look at how she presents. Does she really strike you as someone who immediately would know what you were talking about if you said "Architeuthis"? Also, do architeuthis never lie? Because that's what was being claimed about the suitbot.

It only makes sense if she knew for certain that CW was activating the virus they destroyed.

What should have happened. CW is both being written as very incompetent, and is going far too easy on the soldier-bot, given that it's a threat.

A what now?

Jeph's been on a thesaurus kick lately and this is his latest effort. Architeuthis is a specific genus of large squid.

Jesus Fucking Christ on a fucking pogo stick, I missed that bit of bullshittery. Fuck this comic, fuck Jeph and fuck me for ever liking this crap.

He's being like one of those niggers you see on TV who always pause before using a big word and emphasize every single syllable, to show how smart they are.

Amazing how none of these followers can see that all this virtue signalling is a cynical cash grab.

Good job to whoever got through to Jeph and made him reply.

Yeah, okay, it's either that or she was halfway out the door already and hit the ejection switch a week in advance because she didn't want to deal with this shit.

What, you painted the dumpster after the fire?

I understand the rest, but what is "Gex"? Is this a reference or something?

What flags are those? I know some of them
? Iraq Mexico
Iran USA Syria
? Somalia Yemen

>"Sally Yates is an American
hero"
I'm not tired of winning yet.

So he thinks that that ugly, butch alcoholic already is cute? What will he do to make her cuter? Will he make her a meth addict?

The official Syrian flag has two stars and a red stripe. The three star flag with the green stripe is the one used by opposition Syrian National Coalition / Free Syrian Army.

Upper-left is Libya. Lower-left is Sudan.

Gex is a smug video game lizard

So what's the joke? Is
supposed to be clever? If so, I don't get it.

Thanks!

So not even when they are signaling about how America is mean to Syria can they take a break to signal about how Syria is mean to the terrorists.

While that is true, it ignores Editfag 2.0's quick slide into Lovecraftian terror. Once you start editing, the dreams soon follow.

Bad news: I painted a shelled lobster a pleasing blue color, so its guts and that knobly green bit are now cuter.

That's horrifying…I want to read it.

Has anyone gotten through to him with the poll numbers from Rasmussen saying people are still okay with the travel ban 57%-37% or from Reuters saying they approve 49%-41%?

If you only listen to the Twitter accounts he listens to, you'd be absolutely certain that the world is coming together as one in unanimous opposition, when all they've really done is convince the people who were already against Trump to continue doing what they've been doing, only louder and shriller.

You could have stopped typing right there. The answer, as always, is no.

Read what? I think he'd only done about two week's worth of the edits before that happened to him and he did the smart thing and got out. Editfag Prime put in at least 6 months before his autism stopped protecting him and THIS happened.

She got fired because she flat out said that she was going to stop doing her job as a way to protest Trump's decision. In the real world, people get fired for this.

He made Claire cuter when she became the main love interest as well. How much Disney Princess is he going to inject into this one?

Exactly, and she knew this before she enacted her "heroism". She'd be out anyway in a week or two.

By "made her cuter" he meant "she does the anime both-hands-behind-head pose"

Bubbles doesn't eat. Is Faye's idea of comforting a hurting friend forcing that friend to watch her devour an entire 3000 calorie pizza inbetween territorial growls to keep Marten docile?

I fucking called it.
I'd be proud of myself, but it's like predicting the sun will rise in the morning, anyone could've seen it coming.

She's also obviously staying with Faye just like how, months ago, she was obviously storming off the job with Faye until the whole blackmail thing detoured them.

Actually, come to think of it, just rewrite the ending to #3366 to have Bubbles walk out with Faye and we could have skipped the entire past 8 weeks to end up at this exact same point.

What, did they turn around and walk back? Anyway, the facial expressions make editing this salvageable somewhat.

The pizza is supposedly meant as an "offering" from Menstro to her new soon-to-be roommates, apparently. It makes about as much sense as you'd expect.

I think it's meant more as a way to pander to those fans of his that actually like Faye. Surely the madman doesn't actually find that character design cute in any way.

But then how would we get weeks of Menstro processing the fact that it won't have access to the memories it didn't have and won't miss?

I feel like making a prediction myself.
I predict that once they get back to the apartment, they'll worry over where robopudge'll sleep and Faye will make robopudge sleep with her in her bed, thus marking the beginning of their newfound progressive lesbo love, and maybe Jeff will show some dodgy scenes where they get hot and oily.

She wouldn't miss it because she doesn't care, we wouldn't miss it because we'd never have heard of it, and we would have been 41 pages closer to pizza.

>you're obviously stayin' with me and Marty
MOTHERFUCKING FREELOADER 15 YEARS RUNNING

>It does get easier. I promise.
How the fuck do you know? She doesn't know about fucking battery recharging yet she's an expert on AI psychology?

Wut. Is this a thing? No, I can't believe it.This harpy is a walking nuclear bomb. Even her own fucking dad couldn't stand her. He even waited for her to show up to off himself. That's fucking hardcore.

On the other hand, Faye is basically a female version of Jeph so maybe he really does think she holds appeal.

at least I don't dream in smell-o-vision.

I have yet to experience any of these sorts of dreams, but if when I do you guys will be the first to know. I think you have to edit on a consistent basis, which I don't because I'm busy, so perhaps that's how it's been avoided thus far.

It took some time. It's getting harder to come up with something to use as a joke; there's just so little to work with.

The most profound words never uttered by this comic.

Wait, doesn't she repair robots for a living?

Jeph Forgot. It's like Araki Forgot, but not nearly as forgivable.

I was going to make a sarcastic remark about how Faye was repairing bots 10 strips ago but it turns out it's been 45. Time flies, not because we're having fun but because nothing happens and it all mashes together.

Marten, the "main character" had a cameo 37 strips ago. IPP's been gone for 60 strips, and she was already a background character by then. The bar burned down 189 strips ago.

It's basically been 2-3 months on this Menstro shit, possibly the longest continuous arc Jeph's ever done, and it manages to be, by far, the least interesting this thing's ever been, and that's saying something.

15 years and Jeph's never learned how to outline or storyboard.

But he did claim to have a buffer, so he's got that going for him.

Jeph's been hiding his Patreon amount since Jan 29. I wonder if it's because there was a sudden downward price swing right before the 1st of the month cashout time or if it's just that his victim narrative is hard to maintain when he's transparently pulling $10k/month from just one revenue stream.

Looks like he's starting to and is trying to hide it and pretending to be a starving artist, hence the shilling of his shitty music

Or, he passed $10k and will do absolutely anything to save himself the work of drawing an extra strip.

Okay Jeph.

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Fucking hell, I hate this kind of autistic humour and Jeph rolls it out all the fucking time…

"Lol, look at me - I am so socially awkward that I don't understand the most basic of concepts, like eating! I am, like, soooo quirky and unusual!"

And once again, he's really pushing that these memories were all special and emotional an' that. They just *are*, right?

Again, is this an unintentional insight to his personal life…? Every emotional scene and relationship this past few years has been forced and only happens because it's written that it does.
There's no emotional content; no genuine attraction, no flirtation, no soul-searching; nothing that actually provokes real emotion.

Marten with Claire for example - Marten has this same blank expression the entire time, like someone reading a newspaper. So yeah, maybe Jeph can't draw that well, but if you speed that relationship up a bit it's basically:

Same with Menstro and its memories; flat and bland.

You know… a darker twist on this whole plotline is that Faye has developed something like Munchausen-by-Proxy, and has projected all of this onto Menstro (who previously got through life just fine) to try and give her own life some sort of meaning.

just a word and pannel swap guys, I liked this though, I enjoy finding minor ways to make things better
this is also my second time referencing deus ex, the first one being my WE'RE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT BLACK!

You know, I think this is the first time in years I've seen the actual proper quotes from that opening cinematic, rather than the somewhat more infamous "S'cool" version.

DESPERATE

Since she is a mechanic and probably has worked on Menstro, perhaps she has had the opportunity to inflict it on her as well.

I checked his patreon and it says 92% of next goal.

archive.fo/EeUVk
Last archived version of his Patreon said the goal he's aiming for is $10k. We can just use his goal percentage figure to calculate what he's currently earning, which would be $9200 atm.

Take the trappening. On Thursday he was ruminating over Emily's interest level and on Friday suddenly he's got a hard on for Claire. Even if Tumblr made him do it doesn't mean he's forced to skip the entire courtship phase and the whole "does he or does he not like me" stuff. On Friday night Marten decides to make his move and by Saturday afternoon they're in a long term relationship. WTF.

And his sensitive fan base loved it. They loved the fact that a formerly strictly heterosexual man jumped head first into a transgender relationship with no hesitation whatsoever. They loved that there was no doubt or insecurity or awkwardness. In a span of about eight hours they became a perfect couple with no problems whatsoever. And then his fanbase says, constantly, that Jeph is a master of portraying relationships and character interactions.

That's notable if Patreon has already paid out, which I think it has since it's the first of the month. Usually it drops into the $8k range when all the non-paying virtue signallers pull out.

Jeph's payouts have been in the $9500 range the past few months. Last month was over $10k, which means there's a bonus comic floating around somewhere.

Speaking of Jeph's virtue signalling fanbase…

That she thinks that is the problem.

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And, in a nutshell, that's what it's about.

Otherwise I doubt a newly elected Republican Junior Senator feels like tanking his career three weeks into office.

Oops, he served a previous term. Just the same.

Desperate

Did I miss something? I thought she was still professionally mooching off of Marten
Also, I'm pretty sure that most IRL vets are literally Hitler to him.

Man I live in PA, I should call in supporting DuVois just for the fucking salt.

I think Jeph just forgot. It's still a good example of Margaret Thatcher's quote that
>The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money appartments.

You should call Toomey and tell his office to lock McGinty up.

I'm calling it - Marten gets passive-aggressively pushed out and has to sleep on the floor of the coffee shop because Menstro "needs space to recover".

Also, Claire's fucking him up the ass and apart from that the only action he gets is jerking off in the bathroom, crying.

That wouldn't surprise me much, but all my chips are Menstration and Faye sleeping together, then we get two gay relationships under the same roof for double the GBP

Great Britain Pounds?

kek
good boy points

I thought you misspelled GDP (Gross Domestic Product). It still made a certain amount of sense, just very exaggerated.

If anything's to be called, I'm gunna say that the next Marten strip is gunna be quite exploitable for edits.

yeah, you run out if you're a jew and horde all the cash you can so your economy fails due to currency not flowing properly. Economics is like bloodflow; if you put blood into the system, it's just going to go around, there's just more of it, eventually you need to cycle new blood, but you take out the old bad blood while that's going on, and if there's too much blood in one spot it creates a clot that will destroy the system in seconds.

It could still be GDP - Gross Degenerative Product

I'm surprised it doesn't get Marten's bed.

Look at the way she's eating her pizza, eating it so protectively and with a telling territorrial glare, indicative of her beastly nature, spurred on by such an insatiable lust for food. There is not only hatred in her eyes, but fear. Fear that she will be without her fattening snack if she lets her guard down even for a second.
She is no longer a human, but merely an amorphous blob so horrible in its nature that humanity becomes all the more disgusting and obscene for the vague resemblance.

If this comic had any merit and if Jeph had any balls, a long fed up Marten would have flipped out on Faye, especially after this droid smashed up his apartment complex, which he probably had to pay for.

Then we'd have a discarded, homeless Bubbles and the emotional connection to the plight of veterans Jeph is desperately trying to build. And the situation would be no one's "fault", just three different perspectives and a realization that all three could have made better choices.

But what the fuck do I know? This fucker makes $10k/month so he must be doing something right.

It's common for fandoms to have a "no shipping" policy because of the cancer virginposting creates, but Jeph's fanbase detests it because the fictional characters didn't give their consent.

What sort of couch can support a 2-ton military robot anyway? I've seen fat chicks break chairs even without wearing bodyarmor.

Why the fuck is Faye scowling at Menstro? That where here eyes are looking. Of course, knowing Jeph, he probably meant for her glare to face Pintsize; but she's been around his antics for years, such tame wording on his part shouldn't even phase her by this point.

Anyway, have a simple edit.
nb4 Menstro is caught red handed.

Why would anyone want to join this community

This is a way better plotline.

Inevitably there's not much of a choice. There's a reason you see the same 6-12 posters over and over again, each with thousands of posts and moderator/admin badges. Gotta love the (/mod) thing, too. I'm so impressed with you epeen.

I don't check the forum much, and they don't seem to do it anymore, but it is/was one of those places where you aren't allowed to just jump into a discussion. You have to grind social exp in the new user forum and have them accept you after posting an emotionally vulnerable intro post.

This is the first thing I clicked on in the new user forum, a random click on the upper third of the page. Look at this shit. A dismissive reply and then an admonition to follow the rules. The new user is bending over backwards to ingratiate himself (herself?) and is inevitably met with standoffishness and then silence.

Bro-tier morning routine, and yet such shit taste in comics. It's a bit of a shame, I wonder if this guy's cool at all irl.
I won't even comment on how (s)he thinks the rules of that shithole are fine, because Sweden is one of the worst 3rd world police states in the world.

Went to go check FF.net to see if there's any QC shipping fanfiction, turns out there aren't very many. And not enough of them to warrant a separate easy-to-browse category, so they're sprinkled in with "Misc. Comics".

fanfiction.net/s/7350714/1/Law-Students-and-Man-in-the-Moon-Marigold-Farmer
fanfiction.net/s/5486267/1/Questionable-Content-At-the-NRRD-convention
fanfiction.net/s/3942458/1/CoinOperated-Boy

This last one was written just over nine years ago. And all of them are long enough ago that the concept of worrying about the consent of fictional characters hadn't become a major issue yet.

I thought this was a four panel one because of the door frame lines.

He's never going to master panel layout, is he?

Tangents? In Jeph's comics? It's more common than you think.

That's the thing about tangents. No matter how often you see them, they still throw your brain through a loop momentarily.

I made a revised edit. The panels seemed to make more sense in reverse order.

This gives Faye's embarrassed expression a whole new meaning.

Did she bake slices of the shit to make toppings, thin it out for sauce, or incorperate it into the crust dough?

it's implied that she had to take rabbit shits at the time, hence meat lovers being referenced at the bottom.

Wow, I can't believe you were able to make a functioning gag like that.

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Is that what I think it is?

fuck off

Never gets old

IT'S FAYE'S BOOK

oh, that is a lot of cheese.

God damn Jeph. His drawing is so ambiguous that I can't tell which one is shooting the lasers.

I meant it to be Faye's line of sight. She's looking right into Pintsize's eyes.
Waiting.

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Is this confirmation that the edits have affected Jeph? The sacrifice of past editfags' sanity was not in vain? Or am I forgetting something, and this is normal for Ol' Handstab?

It looks like Pintsize is looking at Menstro, his smile suddenly gone, with a look that's somewhat dead inside now.

Ambjörn is a man's name, assuming it's not a surname..

Why would this ever come into play in that forum?

Well, she is quite the degenerate.

His name sounds foreign and everyone knows foreign people don't know English well so we have to be very welcoming to them :)))))

Because everyone on that forum with more than two digits worth of posts is a condescending asshole. I mean, disregarding that this Swede has been reading QC directly from the site for the past 10 or so years, the fact that their post was written in easily readable and informal language (i.e. fuckers, wanna, etc. are not words you'll be seeing outputted from Google Translate).

Still, there's worse welcome wagons on other forums I'm sure like SinFest's.

Yet more loss fodder.

Is there anybody out there that can interpret this facial expression?

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Jewish.

Which brings us back to the theory that QC is actually lifted completely from Peanuts.

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This was practically handed out on a silver platter.

I like how Marten is focused on the one thing from this arc that is actually important. Good for him.

I have also been marathoning the 24 hour Groundhog Day event.

Why's that unbelievable? Apparently the singularity happened and they know it, so shadowy superpowered robot cabals should have been at least a consideration.

Have we actually ever seen Station do anything impressive? All I can think of is flirting with Hanners as a hologram, cloaking some space pod or something at the lake get together, and launching pizzas. This is all parlor trick stuff. Cloaking sounds cool but you don't need an AI to do that, just the physics. Same with the hologram. Anyone could be projected with such technology. Pizza launching at least requires ballistics knowledge and is an ideal task for a computer.

Awwww, how touching…

What a crock of rancid fucking shit.
This combat robot with its years of experience, that could call upon any number of political situations in which it was employed to enforce the government's will and the negotiations that swiftly follow, both on and away from the battlefield, doesn't stop to consider who has the most to gain from the situation and the implications as to what that section of her memory may have contained, which could lead to more investigation as to who CW really is and possibly even working alongside the cops, but instead has fucking FAITH.

Jeph lines them up and deliberately keeps missing them.

I'd say the only way this could work right now, with this mysterious AI superpower lending its massive processing power to solving the problems of a single robot for free, would be if it was some kind of AI Mossad and wants to set an example of anyone fucking around with an AI consciousness.

But then it would have to seek out whoever did it and make a spectacle of them.

Wow, these people are burning down cities while their "opposition" posts cartoon frogs on the internet and they think they retain the moral high ground.

Yeah, Jeph, inquiring minds want to know. I mean, you wouldn't be manipulating your audience into personal gain, would you?

Well, they alternate between "It's completely and entirely justified to be violent towards those guys!" and "The violent protesters weren't us, those were shipped-in paramilitary right-wingers associated with Breitbart!"

They'd suck a lot less if they really were right wing Breitbart readers. The police would need more than rubber bullets to subdue them.

More projection. Hillary's fucks were (and probably still are) shipping their own people in to stir up shit and protest.

CTR has turned into "Correct The Riot". These namby pamby progressive students aren't doing it right so Soros ships in the thugs to fuck shit up.

Those faggots rebranded as "CREW," apparently.

come on, son.

It thinks it chose to have faith, in reality it was reprogrammed to have faith.

What, were you asleep during the election season? It helps but they haven't figured it out yet. They're too busy being surprised it isn't working.

Pretty much everything Hillary and Soros did helped Trump.

Well, "daddy," if you'd stop by Holla Forums once in a blue moon you would have seen the entire trainwreck in slow motion. Every day brought another Clinton campaign failure that the Donald took full advantage of. Her shills were clueless as fuck, and, due to her hulking out and screeching instead of actually listening to her staff, they quickly began passing the buck or softening blows in order to avoid watching her literally shit her pants in fury. She assumed it was all in the bag until election night…when she suddenly got hit between the moldy folds with an electoral raping.

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why the fuck can't I stop laughing

It's even more ridiculous since the only other person there to eat that slice is Marten and Marten is too timid to swipe a fiver someone left out and totally forgot about. Faye truly is subhuman.

I love Jeph's friends.

Jesus Christ, it's like an oppression fetish with these fucking weirdos.
And here they are, tightening their circle jerk, distancing themselves even further from proper people and making it so much easier for us to point and laugh.

Incredible that they even have to gall to spray accusations of privilege when they themselves can bitch and whine online for a fucking living.

What's your point?

Have you considered being an editfag?

You WILL.

You will.

Jeph has an automatic stand that lets him invade the dreams of edit fags for some reason, what we need is someone with capacity to destroy whatever the bizarre dream is or at least defeat jeph in those dreams.

Unless he's another stand user, his defensive measures are worthless.

Have there been any meteor impacts near places where Jeph has been?

Checked

Hmm, second-to-last thread in the catalog and it's a weekend.

I'm just about to post the next OP.

Good, good. Can't wait.

Lex will hate you.

We create more OC and have less overspill than the other groups that patrol Holla Forums. He shouldn't be too upset when we need a new thread once a week.

New thread

The alternative is to top post on Fridays, which just makes QC more visisble on the front page, which is the opposite of what he/they want.