Questionable Malcontent - Penis Inspection Edition

Could a gentle charitative soul post the video pic 2 is from?

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my face is tired

This is the same "consenting adults" theme we had in the last thread, when Martin smugly bragged that he didn't care if Claire got a tattoo because it was >her body. It just shows a lack of interest and investment in the people around you. It's extremely sterile.

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everyone's a fucking hipster

I think Jeph is missing the difference between approving of something and not being interested. Being completely okay with Claire moving out doesn't mean she would have nothing meaningful to say.

There's not even a "when are you moving", or "do you need help moving your stuff", or "remember to legally register your change of residence", just "that's nice dear, but this bass guitar is more important to me right now than your major life change." It's creepy.

to be fair, jeph has never had the experience of a person in real life expressing interest in one of his decisions, so he'd have no idea how to write it.

Time for edits!

Aaaaaand minus the fuck-ups.

You're ignoring the obvious: she's just happy that her mentally ill failure of a son is finally fucking off out of her house and being nice about it.

Case in point: >>842583

Are you using Comic Sans? Cease this faggotry and use any of these:
comicneue.com/
fonts4free.net/laffayette-comic-pro-font.html
dafont.com/acme-secret-agent.font
dafont.com/digital-strip.font

>I'm sick of all this
FTFY

I'm using MS Paint.
You can keep your fancy, capitalist fonts, you bourgeois pig.

Fixedsys is the only viable font option.

Comic Sans is for comics, you philistine.

>I'm sick of all this
Alternatively, it could have also been:
>I'm getting sick off all this

>implying we should put more effort into the edits than we already are
What purpose is there in downloading fonts, if they're only being used for the sole purpose of making fun of a single shitty comic? Too much effort than it's worth.

I miss omit #2. I have no idea how he pumped out 5-10 of these per day. It takes so long for a mediocre result.

Just because great artists once existed is no reason to despair and give up your own art. Practice makes perfect, and this is a good start.

This is hilarious.

Could someone with the proper software edit the Dora face onto Marten?
You know the one.

I don't know how to interpret this facial expression.

Finally putting this thing to good use.

Is Menstro going to carry all of her things? If the answer is no, then the truck would have been much faster.

Its so goddamn bland and humorless and pointless
Jeph do me a favor and stab your wrist next time instead of your hand

Haven't these fuckers heard of U-Haul? It's like $79 or something if you return it same day and keep the odometer under 100 miles or thereabouts.

These are people that think that a 20 minute drive to the next town over is an impenetrable barrier.

This is a whole new level of genius

Why do people post the originals? Can't we skip to the edits?

Contrast is important, nobody wants to give him the ad impressions to get edit material, bile fascination, etcetera.

In which Marten and Clarence spiral down their delusional states.

This order of events confuses me.
It's like part of the strip happens in reverse.

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3 QC tropes, 4 panels.
Quite a high score!

Uh-oh!

So Clairence already made arrangements to have his furniture moved into Marten's place before asking for any consent?

This is nothing short of premeditated rape.

Kek

Also, nice job on the erasure in that last panel.

You have the font user? Please up it for me.

You can use them with ms paint you idiot.

What the fuck Jeph that is incredibly passive aggresive. Sure Clarence taking sideswipes at Marten's dignity now that the man is addicted to the big clit is realistic but where do you think you're going with this?

Would actually be interesting to see Marten finally grow a spine and grow his balls back after having all his life's decisions made for him by others.

Clairence might start dressing him in more pink, and pushes for him to wear a skirt and he snaps and evicts the whole lot of them.

That seems a lottle too straightforward for Marten. He seems more like the kind of guy who would spend his free time applying for out of state jobs on Craigslist, make a first/last month's payment on a new apartment over his new phone, feign sickness when everyone is going out to dinner, put his necessities in a duffel bag, and leave without a word.

only if I did this right.

Not sure about a title for this one.

The loss of net neutrality doesn't mean the Internet gets deleted. Also love the veiled threat. I would love to see larping antifas get shot because they threatened their congress people over net neutrality.

Apparently Jeph has never been on the internet before.

Questionable Comfort?
Questionable Characterization?
Questionable Trauma?
Questionable Memory/ies?
Questionable Amnesia?
Questionable Backstory?

Questionable Feminity

Reminder that jeph is like 34 and is literally "how do you do fellow hipsters" all day on twitter (except for the 10 minutes per day he spends drawing his comic)
Even if I died tomorrow with all my mistakes and sins and regrets, I'll still have lived a fuller more joyful life than jeph ever will

I find it weird that anyone on Holla Forums would be against net neutrality.

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That tweet does exaggerate the effects, to grab attention. But the other tweets in the series give a more accurate picture.

I'm for net neutrality, but I'm also against bullshit, and saying the entire world's communications systems will go totally dark as a result of this is bullshit.

Ah, yeah. That's a good one.

I know you guys are falling over each other to buy this.

I literally don't know who this bitch is and I literally don't care to know

yes you do.

Apparently both normal and creative people are inarticulate retards.

Mup da doo didda po mo gub dat tum muhfugen bix nood cof bin dub ho muhfugga

How the fuck would he know what goes on in a creative mind?

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durr plant

What is this
this isn't even filler, this is like a non-sequitur,
off-pannel thing

$9,000/month

dude houseplant lmao

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he must be stopped

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He's not wrong.

It's filler. Pintsize wants to destroy the plant Menstro swore to defend with its continued existence ("her" "life").

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SMASH THAT BUTTON

Read it in his voice.

what was called net neutrality in 2012-2014 was turned into "net neutrality" that was literally the opposite thing. i'm not going to mourn a plan to give isps more authority to fuck their users.

There isn't a form of torture that's painful enough for what she deserves…but I'm willing to try.

Seriously, the mom looks like she gave birth to her retarded twins at age 11.

Torso out of line with hips and head, no stomach. crotch way too high for hipster jeans. Low cut jeans should show belly. One elboe shorter than the other. One knee is shorter than the other, and knees are pointed. HANDSTAB'S AUTISM IS TRIGGERING MY AUTISM

Anti NN people do a really bad job of explaining this. For the longest time I thought they were crazy because what they were complaining about was the exact opposite of what NN was supposed to do.

He's not autistic, he's just fucking lazy.

What in the fuck is the point of this? Is Pintsize going to rape the plant? Is Faye contemplating telling something devastating to Menstro and is looking for advice from someone she doesn't care about? Is Jeph back on the sauce?

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I'm sure Marten used to that at this point.

So I guess they're inside the tree now. Is this what the inside of a tree looks like?

Looks like he has bat ears in panel 3. Good job, Jeph.

Bat ears would be higher. They're more like elf ears, or Vulcan.

The worst part about this page is the perfectly symmetrical small square paneling. It's a poor choice for both establishing shots and action scenes and yet he does both in a single page.

Looks like his fingers are already inside her skull and one of her eyes has popped out.
It'll be interesting to see if this damage continues on into next week.
Somehow I doubt it - I expect her face will just be a bit red.

Also, this reminding anyone else of the scene in Ghost in the Shell when the Major gets her head grabbed by the tank?

It's also kinda odd that the wood didn't bend and splinter; just cracked like it was ceramic.

You're probably right, but I hope she dies. The story will probably be better without her.

That's true of every single character in this shitpile.

It would be shocking if he managed to keep that up for an entire page. I expect it to be one panel, and forgotten in the next.

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plz stop i don't like you

I kinda like the pun in the footer

So good I'll bet Jeph didn't come up with it tbh

That kid is at least 12.

Look at the mother. She has the melancholic look of someone who hates the hand that the world delt her.
I wonder if she holds as much enmity to that world as we do?

In fairness that's a bit of a Holla Forums tradition after a bruising fight.

Is this shit still going on?
Wouldn't actual transsexuals have killed themselves by now?

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D-does the cap on the kid says "nogs"?

OK, Handstab's just ripping off character designs from other works wholesale now.

No, no, no user…

He's being [quote]""I-N-S-P-I-R-E-D""[/quote]

And once again we see how both trannies and AIs are so hideously oppressed in this town.
Oh how they long for the day when one can parade the other down the street in full view of everyone, raised above the ignorant masses on a mobile platform for maximum exposure.

I viewed this strip on a bus on the way to work, and everyone looked over my shoulder and shed a single tear, even those upstairs.
When we arrived at the depot, everyone there had already shed a single tear in advance.

Is this supposed to look like the McDonalds of webcomics? The style is so generic that it looks like instructions to other media or a comic that is shown within a comic as a joke. And the hands are awful.

I want to smother my face in her hair.

Sweet fucking fuck, that's a fetish that isn't catered to often, you'd be surprised how fucking gay kids are when they hit puberty, I remember this one time in the Teacher's lounge where the the Staff were going on about how 1 in 10 of their students with confiscated phones had some trapshit on their phones most of the time.

That said-
BEHOLD!

UNSPEAKABLE EVIL!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

chill out there, autismo

I decided to look into it, and apparently it was on the front page of plebit or something

Who is Bubbles even looking at in the third panel? Can she not deign to lower her head when speaking to someone?

surprise surprise

I can't tell if this is a legitimate marketing campaign or if someone is trolling Jeph knowing he's triggered by both SEO type spam and Dilbert.

Miracles do happen. I agree with the NY Times. And yet again a Bernie supporter reveals himself to be a corporatist neoliberal wearing the socialism mask.

Why the fuck are you guys putting your stuff on Imgur when you could just set up a Booru instead?

It'd be better if every one of the female main characters died and left the comic to Ardent. They're all some mix of surly, stupid and useless that drags down this already treacle slow comic

I really fucking hate the whole "le human race sucks" outlook nihilism that libs and weebs seem to have.

Misanthropy isn't really nihilism, in this case it's just sort of a crutch demoralized people use to avoid questioning their shit.

It's funny: Alice Grove had a quasi-proper start. Nothing made sense due to taking place in a fantastical world in which the audience knows not the rules but helping the audience was a naive, ignorant fish-out-of-water protagonist. Then I guess Jeph realized that the main character should be Alice and replaced explaining stuff to Ardent with one unexplained element after another. Alice knows the entire history of the world but hardly any of it is explained to the audience.

It's like a Star Wars where the characters don't really matter but The Force is paramount to the story. Instead of having a Luke, Obi Wan and Darth just nod to each other because they already know everything there is to know about The Force.

tldr lurk moar
Explained this a few threads ago: the imgur is from Editfag Prime, and nobody has access to it. I archive everything with git so if I get hit by a bus, some other user can just fork it and use the fork as the new archive.

What, got a problem with us being mad at your Holy Saint Obama for showing his true colours as a massive two-faced hypocrite of international proportions?

Go fuck yourself, Jeph; no-one else will.
I hope Shelby finally snaps and bites your dick off.

This is so ironic. For like a month every day's headline news was "Trump likes to tweet late at night or early morning" or "Trump said some thing in 1985" and progs like Jeph ate it all up.

There's a reason Jeph can't draw hands at all. A sharp, metallic reason.

Another thing you guys can't wait to acquire.

So faggots will literally pay money for the insane ramblings of a faggoty madwoman and her desperate attempts to rationalize her self-destructive sexual habits as healthy or quirky.. But they won't actually go and buy anything from Marvel or DC.. Not that I'm complaining, I just find it amusing in a grim sort of way.

Can't someone do something about these people?

Nope. Nothing can be done. Even if everyone on Holla Forums made a fantastic webcomic, comics like QC and OJST would continue to earn more money than all the Holla Forums comics combined.

Finally, this comic makes me laugh.

>W-well, this -this is me

I fucking knew those two would go full butch lesbian on each other. Didn't figure it would take this long though.
I'm going to make a prediction now: some time within the next five comics we're going to have a cringey ass scene remeniscent of Claire showing his throbbing anus destroyer to Marten.

I see a strange symmetry.

$5 says Menstro has a robot dong.

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DON'T YOU FAGGOTS FORGET TO MAKE THAT THE NEXT THREAD HEADER

Depends on how drunk I am.

The best that could be done would be to make a half decent faggot liberal comic like QC and OJST, maybe make it furry too so it's extra easy to get money out of retards, and then eventually reveal you were making a shitty comic on purpose to rip off people and that all your readers are fucking retards.
But that would take years of work so unfortunately it's not exactly viable.

There had better not be a completely functional chassis under that plating.

Do it, faggot, keep it over there though

It begins. The disgusting dykes are going to get their own tranny dick scene

Furfag porn is the real moneymaker
If I had any real drawing skill i'd just get rich on furry porn
If jeph were smart he'd have started shoving catgirls in his comic instead of trannies

Disassemnbly?

Supposedly aspiring artists get depressed and hate life succumbing to the furry commission model.

I'm guessing someone from 4chan is a Patreon donor.

For one dollar, apparently.

Do they have the $10,000 bonus strips from the past few months, assuming Jeph isn't weaseling out of them?

I would need a summary post/infograph to bring me up to speed. Aside from the tranny being an indignant asshole who manages to be "right" when he's objectively wrong and Mary being too good for that comic, I don't know much.

fucking a

You mean something like this?

Oh, you were talking about DoA, never mind.

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There better be a hot hi-tech sexbot body under that armor

But this is Jeph so I expect something utterly underwhelming. At least I can't be disappointed when my expectations are already so low…but again, this is Jeph we're talking about. He always manages to surprise you with how much lower he can get.

I checked the reddit page for the last comic, and someone lamented that Menstro's armor wasn't pretty. The comment was downvoted, but that might be where Jeph got his inspiration.

It was implied so hevily that I was sure they were a couple until recently.

That robot is an inanimate object. Don't humanize it, you'll only build it up for disappointment when it realises it can never belong, as its human owners decide to throw away and disassebmble their old toy. It should be dehumanized and marginalized, lest it gets any ideas.

Is Jeph the world champion of Disappointment Limbo?

For fuck's sake, I thought Menstro's unit got fucked up by EMP weapons.

After this, I'm starting to think that all the enemy had to do was shout at them, saying their ass is fat and they look like they cut their own hair with a weed whacker.
The damage to their self-esteem would have been utterly crippling.

But aside from that…

It's a fucking AI taking its armour off - that's like a human taking off a fucking jacket.
Yet here they are, reacting like Menstro said something like, "I want to show you my vagina."

I am kinda curious how it looks under there, mainly 'cause I'd love to see Jeph try to cope with the texture of muscle fibers and other internal workings.
I get the feeling he'll soon regret this turn of events, and have Menstro put it back on real quick,

That's just edgy. Jeph's AIs are badly thought out, but they're still sentient.
The way human properties are projected onto AIs really is the weirdest thing about them, though. Why do they have romance, and sexuality beyond crude Pintsize jokes? Why do they even have genders?
It's possible to come up with an interesting sci-fi reason for it, but I'm pretty sure Jeph just went the easy route of making them as human as possible because thinking is hard.

Think about it. It might even go so far as the TEH symbiote jumping onto Menstro

Sentient==feelings. Feelings=/=gender.

Jeph's story is about how the robots are opressed becasue they're robots, and how how they are just like humans. Jeph wants us to think of them as human, his fans will sperg if we don't think of them as human.

The things I wrote in the comment were ment in jest. We should call Menstro "it" for the same reason we call Claire "he" — it pisses of the true believers and it's true.

But of course, we all know this would never happen.

I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I strongly doubt fans of QC are hanging around here, waiting to get triggered by someone misgendering a robot. Although yeah, the idea of robots taking genders is dumb, that's apparently how his universe works.

You know what might work better to piss them off, actually? Claiming that showing robots as having genders is discrimination. They should be proud of their robot-selves, but instead are oppressed and forced to imitate the genders of the more socially powerful humans. Just like how they tried to forcibly destroy Native American culture by forcing their kids into white schools and families. Every time a robot is shown as either observable male or female, it's an incidence of cultural humanwashing, and an attack on robot identity.

Link to petrl.org for added hilarity.

Indeed, given the whole purpose of gendering is reproduction. Do we expect robots to reproduce sexually? How does that even work? Can their AI routines combine like DNA? Has Jeph even thought about something like this?

Momentarily Jeph will release a statement along the lines of, "I will never use Bubbles' vulnerable state as a source of drama or conflict" as he did with Claire's transgenderism, of course rendering the characters completely pointless.

user, you've just given me a revelation. I finally understand why I dislike the SJW complaints about characters. It comes from a fundamental disagreement about the purpose of character traits in fiction.

I (and I suspect most competent writers) see them as sources of conflict and tension, or methods to inform the audience about a character's behavior, or symbolic meaning to the themes and messages of the text. SJWs, on the other hand, seem to see character traits merely as tools to indicate representation with a real world group.

That explains why they're so mad about every female character; to them, those characters aren't just symbols in a story, but direct analogues to real-world women, and represent them as such. That's why they're so pissed at other minority representations as well, because what any sane person would understand as story-telling short-hand they can't help but see as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.

That's probably also part of why they can't create good characters; they don't understand how to create flaws without interpreting it as insult. What a limited view.

Yeah, they rail against tokenization yet complain about everything but tokenization when it comes to actual characters and storytelling. They explicitly want the diversity checklist but not to have the traits to play out in the story.

It's funny when they complain about the villain being gay, black, female, whatever. A lot of people like villains, even more than the protagonists, and having, say, a megalomaniacal gay guy just makes it more interesting.

Also, the hero needs to get beat up and barely survive. That's why straight white men are the norm. You can't beat up a woman or gay, even in fiction, without the ACLU or whoever threatening to sue or boycott you.

Apparently the meme on Jeph's Twitter is that it's May underneath the armor.

I like this guy.

I know. I'm hoping people will carry the habit over to reddit/twitter when trolling or discussing QC.

Kek.

Why did Jeph retweet that?

Is he of the
school of thought?

But why, though? That doesn't make sense even from a humor perspective.

Unless they mean that Jeph will be stripping Menstro of everything that makes her interesting and she'll become just another cookie cutter quip spouting hipster wannabe.

I just realized that it's Willis who posted that.

Yeah, I guess so. It is Willis after all.

I see a hand-maul in Jeph's future.

He has won gold medals in every event of the Disappointment Olympics.

He holds world records in Disappointment pole vault, Disappointment triple-jump and Disappointment 4x400 relay.

I also hear hes also an expert in engineering.

I don't know how he continues to find new depths for the bottom of the barrel, but hes doing it.

sickening

where's the knife?

Yep, they were taken out by EMPathy-grade weaponry.

Somebody with a twatter send him these

Exquisite

Not that I've seen, but they brought tomorrow's.

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Is it really microfilm plates magically attached to a buffed out normal humanoid chassis? was right. Jeph somehow managed to aim lower than my lowest expectations, and I'm kind of angry that he is able to do so with such absolute consistency.

I've been gone too long from the QC circle. I feel like a stranger in what was once my home thread… Even names now escape me.

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E-Editfag?

Why?

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If I could I would sing for you a QC-version of vid-related. Could this be you Editfag oh dear long lost friend?

FUCK SHIT! I forgot the glasses.

FOOOOOL

This is seriously the worst. I was expecting boss bot stick figure tier. This is somehow worse despite being anthropomorphically more proportional. Actually, that's the problem. All the fight club robots are built like (basic) machines and the "combat droid" is built like an overweight lesbian. Fucking why? It should look like the fucking Terminator, both because it's efficient and because it scares the shit out of enemies.

Maybe the next step will be "help me take this skin off".

Yup. I was also let down. I was expecting her armor to have some degree of thickness, and perhaps to include some cybernetic or steampunk stuff.

I was also expecting the robot underneath to be at least somewhat attractive, and perhaps shorter than with the armor on. Why would you build a war robot that look like a human female, if you didn't want it to double as "stress-relief" for the soldiers?

Speaking of our "Menstro is a pleasure-bot" theory: Maybe it's not the memories of war, but the memories of prostitution and "rape" (can't rape an inanimate object), that Corpse Witch was paid to remove. Menstro is searching for the happy memories of her lost comrades, that she thinks she sealed away to save herself the pain of seeing them die. Her life goal for 10 years has been to save those people by resurrecting their memory, but if she ever succeeds, she will come to hate them.

That is a dark turn I would be interested in reading about

Were it any other series, the case could be made regarding the boosting of morale among troops and civilians. It's not explicitly stated, but I think that's the case for the combat dolls in Knight Run. There's also the matter of what model type nets the most funding.

The bigger problem I see is in how AI's don't behave remotely different from their human counterparts, and they're purpose is vague and pointless in the setting. There's a great deal of potential subjects to touch upon, but this being QC, of course none of that will last longer than 1 or 2 strips (if they even get brought up at all).

What's bugging me the most is that the armor isn't held in with any type of fastener, it just snaps in place like the interior of a car door. Even if they weren't worried about the enemy gaining access to deathbot armor, they wouldn't want it falling off every time an impact was absorbed.

Though, a competent writer could have that as her lost backstory, rushed through R&D and deployed as a means of shock and awe to the forces they were fighting against. The killbot jumped off a roof for reasons, all of it's battle accessories fell off like dropping an action figure, and that's how she got EMPed and decomissioned. But its Jeph.

GOD DAMN IT JEPH

I (>>846327) HATE BEING RIGHT ABOUT YOU EVERY DAMN TIME

I sincerely thought he would have put in even just a minimal bit of effort to make menstro look like a robot/android rather than just drawing a red person.

Maybe I'm the stupid one for having such silly notions about Jeph and the level of effort he's willing to expend on the thing he does for a living.

With these new developments, I get the feeling that a more likely backstory for Menstro is that it was *never* in the army; just bolted the armour to itself to give that impression (hence why it looks so shit), and the deleted memories were a more extreme act of self-delusion to forget the truth.

It does kinda make sense. Menstro is always shown as some sort of autistic fish-out-of-water when it comes to social situations, despite supposedly being an active member of a military unit which saw a lot of action, and being involved in an illegal fighting ring for fuck knows how many years.
All this, and somehow it didn't pick up any interesting swear words?
No gallows humour?
No banter?
No slang?
No pet names for anyone?
No wit in general?

Isn't it established that it didn't forget its entire military career, just what happened to the unit?
Obviously it wasn't kept locked in a dark storage container the whole time - it got upset about losing memories (despite no evidence to even suggest what they were and forgetting it was done on request), so there was clearly some fondness for that part of its existence.

It's like Jeph really wanted a particular kind of character in the story, but had no idea how to actually make them in the first place.
All we got here is:

And how can you tell the robots from the humans in QC-ville?
Is it their personality quirks?
Their constant inquisitiveness with a desire to learn?
Their attempts to mimic human behaviour by parroting what they see on TV and eavesdropping?
Do people distrust them because they think they're constantly being recorded?

No…

It's that they have pastel skin.

fucking killed me

the robots are more spiteful

Different speech bubbles and fonts.

Most of the time. When Jeph doesn't forget.

I love how every random user can effortlessly save plotlines. Of course Jeph would never do this but a fake, delusional, malfunctioning "combat" droid who can't be sure of anything is sure as hell more interesting than this. I might actually start to care about the character instead of wondering for two years why this character even exists. I can't stand Dora or Faye but even yet another plotline involving one of them would be an improvement.

They certainly aren't helpful assistants. Despite being connected to the internet full time and having the ability to reason they're less useful than Alexa or Siri. I think an actual human would be more useful because the bots are, as says, more spiteful and obstinate.

All this talk about Menstro being a fake veteran makes me wonder how AIs would handle the concept of Stolen Valor.

What's bullshit is Jeph claiming not to use his hands while drawing.

With digital memories able to be replicated and moved between units, does the individual experience of a single robot matter? If experiences could be put on the internet and torrented and memories selected and accessed at will, complete with all data, would it make a difference who was physically there or not?

The engineer is right, though. The philosopher is being obtuse. If he wasn't being a cunt he'd be asking something like "Is there a meaningful difference between the clone and original given that they are identical atom-for-atom?" rather than attempting to obfuscate temporally.

This is as ridiculous as the tree falling in the woods thought experiment. Sound is the compression of air and doesn't depend on humans to hear it. Even if you're arguing that sound is meaningless if it's not perceived, humans aren't the only animals that can hear.

I like philosophy but it seems at least half its practitioners use the label to shield their poorly constructed thoughts from criticism. While attempting to be humorous, the final panel ironically demonstrates the extreme sensitivity and inflexibility of many "philosophers".

"If one man is blind can the sky ever truly be blue?"

Dumb shit like this. Incidentally I love the "how can X be true when there are only Y people" meme because it mocks this strain of dumbass "philosophy".

This is the problem with academic philosophers, they're mostly garbage and the STEM majors are surrounded by them and they're bullshit. So by the time the STEMs graduate they've started completely dismissing philosophy outside of science as a whole.

My last year of college was torturous because I postponed all the liberal arts stuff until the end. It was funny trying to argue that taking more 5000-level math and computer science courses were a better use of time than 1000-level generic high school-like basic requirements but, no, I have to, just in case I want to suddenly switch to Communications or English as a senior once I see the light of liberal arts.

Why is college such a fucking scam now?

A college is not sustained by academic achievement, it is sustained by money. As soon as it stopped being an exclusive school put on by the wealthy and became supported by tuition, it turned to shit.

If you think about it, a business' R&D department is sustained by creating and perfecting things. A concert is sustained by making people walk through the door. One of those is achievement based, but schools are run like the other because it's more inclusive.

I used to reject the notion but the accusation of colleges and other academic institutions of being leftist brainwashing centers seems to hold water. I know that some math is also required but it's like Algebra I and that's it. Meanwhile you need like two dozen credits in postmodernist writing and philosophy courses. I was lucky enough to attend before Gender Studies infected every course, even though the postmodernist cancer had already metastasized.

This one course was called something like "Expository and Comparative Writing" where we'd have to basically mash up two completely unrelated sources, like instructions on how to eat an ice cream cone (not a joke, this actually happened–college writing is basically WikiHow) and some masturbatory story about a social scientist seeing humanity's past in the bubbles left behind her little boat while she was in Cambodia or some place like that and dealing with the emotional trauma of her revelation. Of fucking bubbles in water.

The teacher was a complete loon. He said that creating original works was basically fraudulent and the only way to true creativity was via this asinine mashup process. Meanwhile I couldn't think of anything more derivative and banal. We were basically encouraged to plagiarize by using excessively long blockquotes rather than explaining the intended meaning or reader's interpretation of the words. I was actually feeling brainwashed even in the moment.

I recall having taken two philosophy courses at a community college in Commiefornia that weren't all that bad: Ethics, and Logic. Granted the male professors I had in them were of stable mind then, and I don't regret that I had to take them (they were inherently fuck easy if you were a STEM major, anyway). It's when you have to take Sociology or, God-forbid, Politics 101 that shit takes a hard turn to extreme left pretty quick.

The last good un-pozzed university I know of is the Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, of which I attended for a couple years. It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't pozzed either. I miss that place.

As someone unfortunate enough to be in a community college in Commiefornia, it's only gotten worse. The English classes don't even teach English class anymore, they're thinly-veiled politics or sociology classes. I transferred out of one that had the teacher going on about systems of power while playing Obama's farewell speech in the background, and the new one has the teacher trying to brainwash us into being happy all the time forever while having the class "discuss the books" (which are two self-help books) for 50 minutes.

What gives you the strength to keep getting up every morning?

The chance to transfer to a different state and get out of this shithole with a marginally greater chance at a job. Also /monster/.

Good man. That's what I had tried when I transferred to UAF I just wish I stayed there, burning out sucks. Try moving to a predominantly Red state, but perhaps a place less isolated and dark than Alaska.

I recall the last stronghold for actual higher learning in community colleges was the Math Department. Is that still true?

The sciences are okay, in that my astronomy and biology classes both had teachers that worked in labs and said absolutely nothing about politics, gender, etc. My math classes have also been decent as well, save for one fag who got bootyblasted and went on a 10 minute lecture after the election. Is Alaska that bad? I was considering moving there since I hate the heat out in CA.

Far from it, actually. I rather enjoyed my time up there, but just know that the darkness can and will get to you in those 3 months of 20 hour dark-filled days. On the upside, 3 months of 20 hour light time days was great. It also just made you feel like a badass just for living in those kind of extremes all the time.

Word of warning though, shit's kinda expensive, especially health insurance, and if you have a car I hope you don't mind the extra expenses. Small things like food and items though just cost $2 more, and there's no sales tax. People are a tad bit crazy, but far nicer than those you meet in CA; the taxi drivers were pretty cool to talk with. Residents get that sweet oil dividend, and like I said earlier, the university in Fairbanks is pretty nice. Just make sure you get a place with running water, stay away from dry cabins.

Here's some old pics I took back in '11.

Sounds like my kind of place.

Expensive compared to CA or compared to the rest of the US? Shit's already overpriced here in the Poz Capital of the World. Also, thanks for all of the advice user.

You make it sound so perfect.

Last I checked, there's only one company selling health insurance up there, so that's gunna be expensive compared to literally anywhere else. Winterizing a vehicle isn't that big of an expenditure, but I imagine all the salt, rust, and extreme temperatures have an averse reaction for any car you drive (unless, apparently, you use synthetic oil); also, every car I saw up there had a dent of some sort in it.

Other than those things, the expenses aren't all that different. Apartments cost about the same as they do anywhere else, too. Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention, the cops are well respected up there; I don't know if that's something unique to Alaska, or if it's because it's a mostly conservative state.

If you do decide to go there, it is imperative you visit Chena at least once in the dead of winter; there's nothing quite like having snowball fights in a hot spring.

From the thumbnail I thought that was a dude

And that's it. Not even any doll joints.

The bottom of this barrel gets ever deeper; it's for all intents and purposes a Mariana's Trench of barrels to which he scrapes.

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So it's a red human in spandex. Why does it have muscles and is otherwise butch? Even if we're going with "companion model" is that what male soldiers really want? A 1970s East German gymnast?

And we spent a whole week on this reveal.

I thought there was going to be some kind of reveal, like she was really quite small and frail under her armor which would contrast strongly with how people perceive her and what her intended purpose was. Maybe she would feel like she couldn't live up to the standards placed upon her as a combat robot. Maybe she failed to meet those standards and was actually in some way defective. Maybe she felt like all her social interactions, which have been colored by her imposing and intimidating stature, were all predicated on deception. Maybe we would have a character who was more than meets the eye for once.

No, she's just a bulky fat giantess, but also red.

What if she was never a robot in the first place? What if the only thing cybernetic about her is part of her brain? What if the real Menstro was Corpse Witch all along? What if Jeph actually gave enough of a shit about his characters to make them interesting?

Tune in next time to see Jeph fashion a hand from his knife set.

College was a mistake
Don't go to college kids

wtf jeph

Out of the two options presented, only a single one will be made available to you. You must, on your own judgment, decide which of these mutually exclusive items you get to apply to a comic. Either the comic is drawn by Jeph Jaques, or the comic in question has character models that do not deviate from their canon appearance. You cannot have both. Please select one now.

Last time college was a coin flip or better was probably the very early 2000s, possibly a bit earlier. Even by mid-2000s it was a bad idea if not for the educational decay then for the impending economic crash. And, yes, you could predict it if you were paying attention. Houses don't increase in value 25% year over year without a market crash. Also around the same time the corruption and predatory practices in the student loan industry started to become obvious.

If you're becoming a doctor, lawyer, CPA, or something else that requires a professional 6-year degree, then you're stuck, but the era of a random degree getting you a $10k salary bonus in your entry level office job ended 20 years ago. I think the vast majority will be better off using the 4-6 years of their youthful prime entering the workforce early and replacing crippling student debt with early savings. Even if you end up just scraping by, it's better to just scrape by with no debt than it is to do so with a $100,000 albatross around your neck.

College is up to $100k now? I got through three years of community college paying each term out of pocket as I went and then two years of full university with a $10k loan that I then fully repaid a bit at a time over the next few years.

Of course, that was quite some time ago. But even then I had to take one term of Asian-American Studies or something to fulfill a Computer Science degree requirement.

I mean, I get the fact that all the robots in his shitty cyberworld are given a skin that can be whatever color and it's just going to look like the normal people, but a fucking com-bot-ant, a god damn war machine, has no reason for having a fleshy internal piece that is covered by armor. It makes so fucking little sense, holy shit.

I'll never understand philosophy with cloning, copying, AI and all that. The clone has as much a right to live I guess, but if it's made in a way against the will of the original or in a way that degrades and destroys the original I think it's not worth it.

What the fuck are these proportions?
where did she get that onesie?
why is her neck partitioned?
Is she taller?
Why did they use a crowbar and not a drill or literally anything else to pry off the pieces?
oh right because they were super glued on.

It's a bit of an exaggeration. Current average student loan debt is around $40k but it's quite common for someone to go to an out of state university and fail to graduate in four years, in which case $100k load is easily doable, even well beyond that.

Yeah, even today, the community college route won't get you into too much trouble but hardly anyone thinks this way. Parents push their kids to expensive schools, even though the education quality for the basic classes isn't any different. The way you did it is the correct way.

I paid my loan off ASAP, too. Everyone thinks I'm nuts for doing it, because of the (deceptively) low interest rate. Those people are currently complaining about still paying off their loans all these years later with a principal that hasn't budged.

literally a magenta nigger

The only expensive schools with any actual increase in education quality are technical schools, and they can cost you more than a fucking house if you don't get a lot of scholarships/

I'm actually starting to fear that the reason she shed her armor was that it was too troublesome to draw.

I hope you're not referring to places like Heald, Devry, Univ of Phoenix, or other such sketchy "technical" schools.

Coursera is pretty nifty though, and it's generally free. You're really better off just grabbing a 2 year degree from a cheap community college, or become an apprentice for a trade, as opposed to attending a major university (or a for-profit pseudo-university).

I doubt we'll be seeing that "armor" ever again, precisely because handstab can't be arsed to draw it.

I mean like Stevens and MIT. Although apparently the former is going to shit now.

What the fucking fuck Jeph, you fucking hack?

He has an incredible talent for ruining what could so very easily have been decent characters.

Yup, I think the alternate Menstro backstory is right - this fucking clown just paid for all these cosmetic upgrades but was *never* in the military.
As for the fighting circuit, for all we know it has only ever fought automated vacuum cleaners or some shit like that.

I've said it once, and I'll likely say it a thousand times more - Jeph's robots suck.

I was expecting exposed muscle fiber.

I hear Caltech, MIT, and Rochester are in the shitter as the SJW virus spreads there, too.

the irony

missed opportunity tbh. If I thought he was making a JoJo reference I might have erroneously attributed him a modicum of respect.

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for fucks sake jeph how can you half-ass being lazy

Thats not work.

Thats the bare fucking minimum
Hell, armor slot points would be the bare minimum.

He has made them in the past.

Jeph remains the King of Festering Cunts.

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nanomachines are awesome

another day, another rape.

so this is now Jeph sleeps at night

I care. Comics are a visual medium. It's just as much about the visuals as it is about the narrative.

Did his irises just shrink? I don't think that's how eyes work.

Depends how you define bad art. It has to be able to depict the subjects of the scene obviously but I'd consider panel composition and flow to be more important to good comic book art than style or detail or just how visually pleasing/intriguing things are. Like that guy who did the art for Sandman Overture, the art itself is beautiful and impressive and all that, but I'd say someone like Stan Sakai is a far better comic book artist because of these things.

This art should be considered a war crime

War crime, fuck!
I'm all for having it put on the sex offenders register.

Didn't his eyes also use to be different colours?

When you're bad at anatomy it doesn't just mean you can't draw poses, it applies to everything.
Can't expect people who won't even draw a hand properly to draw parts of an eye properly.

And bad art with a dull, uninspired story that relies almost entirely upon hipster-grade cultural references for its attempts at humour, you got yourself a massive, festering crock of shit.

Looking at this and his past couple of pages, how many fucking teeth do these people have in their heads?

The magic of Super Sentai. It's also known to turn tall, relatively heavy Americans into tiny Japanese stuntmen.

I get what Jeph is trying to say but I find it hilarious how excited Occupy Wall Street progressives get over corporatist banker placeholder candidates like Hillary and Macron. Macron is a creepy weirdo, too.

If everything is art, then nothing is.

I hate post-modernism.

I'm fully expecting riots and native French killsquads hunting Muslims in the streets. The masses now know for certain that the government is not on their side, so there's no reason to respect its authority or turn to it for help.

Syndrome is an underrated villain.

back to Jeph's other hard scifi comic

Just what the fuck?

We all know what's going on under there.

i am saving this! LOL

What'ya think, eh?

LEWD

Honestly if you can't draw, you should just write a book. But next they will say "if you can't write, you can still make a book."

Preemptively I will say "no, no you cannot."

There needs to be more harsh realities communicated and fewer affirmations. If you are cut out for something, chances are you knew by the time you were 15 or so. If you're 25+ years old, you have a ton of ground to make up and need to spend 6+ months doing absolutely nothing but training for whatever craft you think you can do. It will take years but up to the 6 month mark you won't even be average.

I hope there comes a point where Faye convinces Menstro to get a shaved-side haircut, wear dungarees, and then adds some thick-rimmed glasses.
Then, when it's alone, Menstro will look in a mirror and realize what's going on.
It'll take off the glasses, crush them in its hand, then go on a fucking rampage.

It may even start with Clairence saying, "You people might be able to manipulate everyone else into believing your reality, but you won't do it to me!"

When wife #2 divorces Jeph and his income is split in half again, this line will be uttered just before he goes off the grid never to be seen again, at least on Twitter.

If Jeph just wanted to wash his hands of the whole thing, could any of us pony up the money needed to buy the Questionable Content/Alice Grove websites and IPs from him?

Jesus Christ that's ugly.

FUCK YOU NY TIMES FUCK YOU FOREVER

Yeah, that is absolutely hideous.
Now Menstro's walking about like a giant, half-eaten corn dog.
I still don't really get why it has that fucking leotard at all. So Jeph's robots are more shit than I ever thought possible - they're embarassed by lack of clothing?
And why did the blanked-sized mass of what looked like pizza dough contract into this sweater, anyway? Does auto-fitting clothing exist in this world?

And Faye's head keeps changing shape.

Every time.
Every time, I think it can't get any worse.
But Jeph always, always finds a way.
AT LEAST PUT SOME FUCKING PANTS ON

I've noticed that lately Menstro no-long stands up straight - it seems to have developed this hipster-stoop with the raised shoulders and slightly bowed head.

Either Menstro is succumbing to their corrupting influence, or Jeph is gradually making it one of the hipsters because he couldn't continue to draw a character who had more pride than himself.

Maybe he's caught that SJW-cuck artist malaise where they can't stand to see muscles, even on a woman, so everyone ends up looking like potatoes with noodles for arms.

Holy shit, that could be the next step…
"I no longer required the armour, so by the same logic I no longer require this excess muscle. Faye, please help me unhook my fiber bundles."

He lobotomized Hannelore when she became too confident and assertive for his tastes, so he'll forcibly weaken Menstro.

This is what Jeph has reduced his hard scifi robots to.

It's hilarious how triggered Jeph gets when he receives solicitations. And this is a totally logical business contact. It's like getting upset when Maker Studios or some other network notices your large YouTube channel. It's amazing: Jeph does everything he can to burn bridges and yet somehow ends up on top. Guy talks shit publicly about absolutely everybody except for his tiny circle of social climbing webcomic "friends".

… I have a strong urge to add him to every mass mailer I have.

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I want to see this happen.

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Jeph doesn't understand the irony of encountering an asshole who is bad at his job kept alive solely by charity.

The could at least have made it into a dress. It seems perfect for that purpose although it would still be ugly.

Why? I don't get it. What is he even mad about.

It's amazing the level to which his twitter avatar changes my impression of his tweets. I think about them in the context of a purple-haired anime girl saying them, instead of a fat, pierced, tattooed, manchild with autogynophilia. I only noticed it now because the angry face of the avatar changed the tone of the tweets.

Kek.

Jeph goes into full rage mode upon any solicitation, even from companies you'd expect to hear from. Then he goes onto Twitter to blast them for deigning to contact him. If he owned a restaurant he'd flip his lid when Coke called. Seriously, this is the world's luckiest guy. It's a miracle that instead of substance addled homelessness he lives a life of easy luxury.

He is going insane.

He lives in an echo chamber, but the walls are lined with barbed spikes so if he strays too far, it will hurt him.

So these are the painkillers he's addicted to right?

They're depression/bipolar meds.

I can't wrap my head around this either. Andreea is just asking him if they can team up with him to sell merch, how is that unreasonable? Is he selling his own merch and can't understand working with a different company?

Jeph works with TopatoCo, which is somehow totally different from some other company that sells t-shirts over the internet.

The bigger mystery is why dozens of people retweeted this and hundreds liked it. Jeph's true ability is being the SJW whisperer. He posts insane nonsensical things that somehow strike a chord with the rest of the crazies.

Timely post.

If that's the case and he doesn't want to switch, he can just decline and say "I'm not interested, thank you for your time." You know, as opposed to being a cunt about it.

blushing robot that gets taller every strip

Maybe Martyne is just shrinking due to all the hormone injections Clarence is secretly administering.

She like 12 feet tall now. The doors are tall enough to for her enormous ass. This comic sucks so much

Oh shit, the comic is so horrible that Mr Drubs here got brain damage.

This garbage is so hideous

biggerluke.wikidot.com/bigger-luke

So we had a whole week about a fat combat robot putting on a sweater.
I thought the nadir of lazy storytelling was reached with the Spookybot arch. I was mistaken.

Don't be so hasty, user. If you consider stripping the armor as part of the process, we're two strips away from it being two weeks putting on a sweater.

Once upon a time I thought the "Hanners gets a mole removed" arc was the nadir. That was action packed by comparison to…whatever this is. At least I cared I cared about Hannelore at some point. I never saw the purpose of Menstro.

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It's perfect. Even tiny, off-scale panel 1 Marten is meaningful. Nice touching up, too.

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We're gonna need someone to step in and edit the edit to fix it.

Well done

10/10

So…
Marten is 5'2"
Claire is around 4'6"
And Momo is something like 3'10"

Here's a contest if any of our drawfags are interested: Can anyone here come up with an idea for clothes for Menstro, that is actually uglier yet still easy enough for Jeph to draw.

A big poncho.
Then he can even cover up the arms so he doesn't have to draw them.

A muumuu; she can be the new diversity pick for the body positivity crowd, and just be a blob-person.

seven sages for off-topic

Impossible. In order to be "hotter" one must be hot in the first place.

What happened to May?

qt waifu who lives in your glasses
qt tsundere robot in a short blue body
???
jephblob

This would probably look better, actually. It would probably just look like a dress like any other. Much better than a long-sleeved shirt without pants (or with built-in shorts).

Same principle holds for

I love it.

Could we not get him attacked by SJWs for comments like these?

If I use all my first names:

Top schlong fucker

Has he stabbed his hand, yet?

We could if they weren't all retarded.

imagine explaining to a normie that you're reading a webcomic that's ending week two of a "putting on a sweater" arc.

inb4 the person they're signing the contract with cancels it when they see Menstro because muh robot racism
and it'll be a fucking white male
did I jinx it

it's kinda hard to believe something like this happening would take nearly unprecedented balls on Jeph's part. Run of the mill character tension is haram in this thing. There's probably more drama on Sesame Street,

It's not completely unprecedented. The breakup with Dora happened basically because he needed new drama, when he thinks a character isn't having enough issues he suddenly makes some people be mean to them (for drama!), and so on. Unprecedented balls would be someone denying Marten something because he's getting pegged by Clarence.

I hedged with "nearly". That was a different era, before handstab, before Patreon.

There was that time when the blue robot was denied coverage for a new face because of her being an ex-con. And then that other time when Menstro was walking along the sidewalk and overheard some teens mocking her. This would probably be something closer to the former situation if it happened.

But those had no impact on any plot points. This business has been building up for weeks. Then again, it'd be a convenient way to derail if Jeph suddenly gets board of the idea, as he is known to do.

The face thing caused her to go to illegal robot repair shop which caused the cop to bust in which caused Faye to facepunch her boss which caused the dramatic reveal of memory loss which caused robot devil to fix everything which led to this new business startup, so that one point did cause a bunch of things to snowball, at least.

You're right, actually. I should go to bed. My brain processed that sentence as the time May got denied a job application because the manager was a robo-bigot.

Even Jeph forgets - it was memory removal, not loss.
The memories were removed at Menstro's request.

ANY other writer worth half a pinch of fucking salt would develop that into some sort of plot as the immediately obvious question which springs to mind would be, "Why did Menstro request this?"

But no, it's like Jeph realized he couldn't write such a story; it would be faaar too dramatic and triggering for him.
So everyone, including the fans, gloss over that and pretend that Pink somehow forcibly removed the memories with no consent for blackmail purposes, and that makes it evil.

And it has never been mentioned, since.
Just wrapped up with "Uhm… memories deleted by mistake! whoopslol! XP "

That plotline had potential, but Jeph was satisfied with mediocrity.

Good summary of Jeph's future biography.

We need someone to infiltrate the QC forums and post some fan art of what the removed memories may have been:

That Menstro and its unit were occupying a village, and they all flipped, forcing a bunch of local families into incestual sex before amputating their limbs, starving them, and then making them cannibalize each other.

user, you're reading my memories

That fucking tie. Also, Menstro's height is fucking everything up. Just look at that guy's shoulder in relation to the doorknob. It's like he's sitting down but he's not.

The fuck is with those earrings!? Is every character becoming a self-insert now?

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Not only that, but the letters are capitalized differently in panel 2 and 4.

TOP
KEK

He hand wrote it, too. It wasn't his left hand pressing the 't' just a bit early.

Didn't he say he (tried to) make Dora "hotter"?
Anyone notice a difference?

Also, haven't had much edit inspiration lately as it's been so fucking boring, so I decided to make everyone drunk using that incredible method Jeph uses to visually indicate drunkenness.

I think he made the hair longer, but I haven't read this in months so maybe he actually drew it growing outer there was a time skip or something.

Menstro (does the robot even have a real name? Tribadroid?) fills me with sadness.
"fuck drawing a cool robot, I'm going to draw a vaguely out of shape amazon wearing a necklace. Also, patterned clothing was outlawed in Massachusetts in 2003" ~ Jeph

Christ… I just noticed how far Menstro's giant arse sticks out beyond its back.
Why would any robot look like that unless it was a fucking bipedal forklift?

It's supposed to be called "Bubbles" but that's a stupid fucking hipster "lolsorandumb" name.

A bipedal forklift would be at least 5x more awesome than this, even if it were an automaton.

Jeph called out for engaging in the identical behavior he complains about daily.

absolutely disgusting

God damn it, his art suffers badly from tangents and apparently so do photos of him. That light-fitting on the wall makes him look like he's wearing a tiny little hat.

can't unsee the nipple

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Jeph has a real eye for A E S T H E T I C S

Kek.

God, that's an ugly, weird bunch. Would you ever entrust your private property to that lot?

Not only that, but the arse is made of metal. Imagine how much it and it's content must weigh.

Her height increasing every comic, sometimes between fucking panels, is a great visual gag considering it's accidental. The viewer notices her steadily growing, but none of the characters question it.

Someone please make her ludicrously tall. Like, taking up several panels

Remember, it's not a "her" - it's a robot.
It's an "it".

Why the fuck would a robot want to identify as female anyway - it'd only get paid less :^)

Because it wants to get into seedy bars for free.

My name is Omitfag, editor of editors:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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Sedna faking a shoulder injury as an excuse for her total inaction. Yeah, she hurt it before but then bragged about her Wolverine-like recovery abilities.

Oh, I'd be happy too, were I Alice. She came this close to exiting the mortal coil of this awful universe.

Jeph still not learning

Looking pretty kawaii there, Mr. Generic Amish Guy!

That goon's fucking pose.
It's like an anime schoolgirl when she doesn't get her way.
All it's missing is the puffed-out cheeks.

Uh, aren't they still in the vacuum of space? Was it wise to take off the jello suits? Or is there an atmosphere inside the hollow tree for some unspecified reason?

You came to the wrong comic, bub.

Jeph's friends are ignorant about the state of Europe.

Yeah, but which elementary mistake? There are so many.

Man who champions anti-harassment is a serial harasser.

Drawing While Jeph.

I guess Jeph has defined "squish" as "mortal terror visible in the eyes".

Jeph's sense of scale continues to degrade.

STAB IT AGAIN, JEPH

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Showed my friend this, the first question he asked about menstro was

it is now

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The sad thing is this guy will make more than $2 out of this.

Looks like he just pressed some cookie dough into a cupcake tin, to me.
For fuck's sake, it doesn't need to be any more technical than that - the image itself has saved any idiots who might have bought it $2.

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All hands on neck.

I think Faye's smuggling basketballs.

Yet another time lapse. Way to show and not tell, Jeph. Not like two characters who have never stuck out on their own struggling through opening their own business builds characters or anything. Nah, everything just perfectly fell into place. Everything's fine. Why do all that when you can just discuss stuff that happened in the past and make a stupid gag about the tranny not being able to identify a stone age tool that probably predates our species.

Check this out. Jeph edited out the font jokes.

This is the first time I've ever wanted to punch a cartoon character. I've hated or felt frustrated with cartoon characters before but I've never wanted to actually physically assault one.

And he forgot to update the description.

He looks like he's hulking out with that tight crop. Marten's getting pegged by a linebacker.

Here's why Jeph rewrote the joke.

I dun geddit.

Bad Machinery made the same joke a week ago and Jeph's been a fan of John Allison since Scary Go Round so you know he saw it.

Now I'm even MORE confused. Jeph is the most unoriginal sack of shit, this is an established fact. Why would he NOT rip off another comic? He's never shown qualms about it before.

I think what changed is someone actually called him out on it, and in a way where Jeph really couldn't weasel out of it.

But you do have a point. These post modernist types outright encourage plagiarism and do it under the guise of, "Everything has already been invented so you might not as well try and just take from others." Perfect summation of communism if you think about it, right down to the drab, lifeless uniformity it fosters.

might as well not try

This is incredible…
He injects a (possibly week-long) timeskip to advance the Robo-repairs (Why didn't he think of that?) plot, but why?
It's not as if he doesn't have an extensive cast of extras split across several plot-heavy locations.
Like, what's going on at the hipster coffee shop?
Has Fayniqua been fired from the bakery, yet?
Has Clinton killed himself to escape his multitalentless life and the surreal antics of his insane brother?

But since we are where we are…
And where shall those sockets be located?
Shoulders and hips presumably, since they're mainly for robots, so how the fuck will they fit a set of hips or an upper torso in that tiny-ass clamp?
Fucking thing looks like a jeweler's tool.

Shit ain't exactly the title sequence of Ghost in the Shell, is it?

Admittedly, they could all be modular and able to break down into smaller components but still, these machines look like Fischer Price Babby's First Repair Shop.

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I can't not read this in a fourth grader's voice.

Of course >she can't identify hardware tools. >She's a (quirky) real woman! Oh, and by the way, don't try to build on that logic to be a misogynist by implying that women aren't as good with fixing things as men.

In the story it took them less than one minute to decide on a name. Do you really think anything they do will be well planned?

What?
>encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=redlining

No, just pander to the lowest common denominator.

Done!

Those messages were impressively bad.

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That's not Jeph's handwriting, that's just something Jeph retweeted. I don't know why that kind of thing keeps getting posted. It's kind of relevant in this case, because if Jeph agrees with those opinions about drawing it has implications for his comic, but more often it's "look at the political opinion of someone Jeph retweeted" and I'm really not interested in that at all.

is this a joke

I have no trouble believing Jeph can't consistently draw a letter the same way, based on how he draws "comic" characters.

I gotta give credit where credit's due, that's actually really good advice.

I can't help but suspect his clarification on 7 is a desperate attempt to attract a new audience.

And I actually think seeing him as a furry would be one of the worst things in the world. He has enough of a vacant, hollow, "where is my social worker?" look about him as it is.

Absolutely no self-awareness, whatsoever…

And I'll bet he's referring to some classic scenes by Frank Frazetta.
Why are they popular? Because he can depict a dynamic, evocative, heroic scene.
The reason he hates them? Jealousy.

People like Jeph absolutely despise genuine talent, especially when it involves sexy characters.

what
That's the fucking entire point of respect you god damn retard why am I even reading this shi-
Gotcha.

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Sometimes I wonder if Jeph really does read these threads. Too bad you're building the wrong character, Jeph.

So Marten does it for free? Not even a thanks? Why doesn't Menstro move the heavy shit? Heck, I think she could with just one arm.
What the fuck is happening with Martens eyes in panel 4? Are we really anime now?
How much do Faye's boobs grow and shrink in ONE strip? Normal sized, basketballs, then suddenly smaller than panel 1?

I'm losing it.

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What the hell has been going on with Martens face recently? It looks like a different character every panel.
Maybe he's secretly conspiring against the fat butch conspiracy that's been spreading all across the female cast, and he's killing people and stealing their faces to gain power or something. Do any of the other male characters show this same trait? They could have formed a cult by now.
It'll be a sinister gang war between the fat butches and the face stealers.
If only Jeph could make a story this interesting.

"I'm an alcoholic and can't even walk to the liquor store with you to buy the beer that will never touch my hands or buy you a gift card."
Nah, Faye's just a parasite and using the 1-day cured alcoholism as an excuse.

The obvious answer is Jeph's a shit artist but the cynical answer is Jeph is using this as a back door poll to see what the audience wants as he reads Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, and the forum for feedback.

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Christ, the fucking eyes on this guy. Does anyone know how to interpret this facial expression?

I interpreted it that he wants/needs to die.

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Dumb motherfucker never thought of removing the drawers, or at least the tools, before moving the fucking thing…

How about a joke about needing a different type of hammer for the screws?

Yeah but then Jeph would need to draw depth and texture on the emptied chasis rather than just swiping five times with the line tool. He's only getting paid $10k/month (plus ads & merch) for this you entitled asshole.

reminds me of this

I've got bad news, user.

Disgusting, Jeph. Check your privilege.

>They have a robot to do it. They only use Martin because they don't like him and want him to change I'm of the same opinion.

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He's fetishizing the red body.

Just looking at this again, menstro's disgusting ballooning proportions aside, Dora seems 'off' in the first panel. Like her body and legs and hips are out of proportion with each other.

It really is astounding how quickly this "Clarence is in the background making a stupid face" gag got old. He gets more and more punchable with every rendering.

I also can't wrap my head around how Jeff can rationalize simplifying Menstro's design to such a degree. Her original look was about as basic bitch as it gets where robot/mech design is concerned. Also, in my experience, complex designs get easier and easier to draw the more times you draw them. But what do I know. It's not like I draw for a living.

They do know that Menstro's chassis is as pliable as a brick, right? More booty means more chances to lose their fingers when they get pinched in her steel joints while trying to cop a feel. It means that getting hit with this twerking booty is the same as having a sledgehammer driven into the contact area.

Unless Jeph "Hard Sci-fi" Jacques decided that it makes sense for a combat robot with millimeter thick armor to have a soft, fleshy chassis to attach it to and support everything.

"B-but, I have a scientific explanation for how she can go between hard and soft at will…"

Do you also have an explanation for why this is the first and last time this tech will ever be mentioned? No, you don't. Because your "science" comes from a night-before-deadline binge on wikipedia, followed by some mental gymnastics while you draw the page.

*Jeph
I really shouldn't be posting this late.

I take every misspelling of Jephrey's name to be a deliberate insult. I often get it wrong on purpose and then smile because I am petty and spiteful.

And even then it could be made to look good, as you yourself might recall…

Do you think the engineer who designed that fat, ugly ass has any self-respect left?

What is it with Jeph and sexualizing everyone larger than the regular cast…?

He had the big idiot at the bakery sexualized by the rest of the staff.
He has the big, stupid, shitey robot sexualized by the hipsters.

Yet neither of them have shown much in the way of sexual awareness…

I'm starting to suspect this is more of his fantasies slowly seeping into the comic - either he wants to be sexually harassed by people smaller than him, or he wants to be fucked in the ass by someone much larger than him who makes it clear they have no interest in him whatsoever.

I think he had a ton of self respect. You have to be baller as fuck to present that kind of design to a committee and convince them that it's a good idea. A guy with balls that big would probably be able to sell them a grossly inflated cost estimate as well. Even as we speak, I bet that legend is fucking his hot young girlfriend on a bed covered with embezzled money.

There's also the matter of how perplexing it is that Jeph has no artistic integrity whatsoever. Even people in it as just a job get attached to their creations I imagine. This would make some sense if we were talking about some background character that Jeph suddenly needs to draw in 10 consecutive strips and doesn't feel like it, but Menstro has been the "new Hannelore/Marigold" for two years now. It's basically the main character at this point and has been.

This is the type of change made when your studio gets bought out and the new ownership wants to cut down on artist hours. You don't expect this type of thing from successful independent creators. Usually their problem is the opposite: overly ambitious yet unmarketable or unsustainable properties.

That site must be full of holes. Surprising it hasn't been taken down. I'm assuming the backend hasn't been updated, either, i.e. it's not PHP4 code running on a PHP7 backend–it's still a PHP4 backend. His web server probably runs a version of Linux older than several popular distros, including Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and Mint.

I like how Holla Forums truncated this into a pun

Make a Novus Imperium comic already you lazy nigger faggot. I think I speak for all of us when I say we'd buy that shit. okay, most of these guys would just pirate it, but I'D buy it.

Oh Jeph. The tears are going to be sadly amusing when someone bothers to break your shit.

Which begs the question: qhy has nobody done it yet?

Very good question. Even better question: why didn't he register the domain with a whois guard instead of his actual dox?

I guess Jeph is trying, but, man, the perspective in panel 1.

So basically this is the equivalent of a white cuck toasting black power, right?

This thing would become 100x better if Menstro tore Dora in half.

If Jeph just flips the narrative table and has everything suddenly devolve into robot vs human hyperviolence, every second of reading I've put into this trash heap will have been worth it.

I would also want to know who the absolute madman was that changed his meds.

Jeph's website consists of 3500 images and a character page. Why is he risking uptime by relying on a custom platform written by a college student 15 years ago? He could probably replace it overnight with stock WordPress and a single plugin to handle image paging, assuming that's not part of default WordPress (I forget and it's been a while).

The biggest risk isn't that Jeph's site is down for a few hours, it's that it turns into a virus bot and the IP/domain gets blacklisted by Firefox, Chrome, and every AV package for a month. It's way easier to get onto those lists than to be taken off.

See things like . Jeph is attached to Menstro (I think), but he's of the opinion that doing the bare minimum is as good as doing your best, and is all that should be expected of you.

I suspect that one of the reasons he had Menstro remove the armour was that drawing all those single, curved lines to represent the joints and articulation points was getting too difficult for him.

And this robo-repair shop is a bit… empty.
There's like nothing in there at all, and all the "sophisticated science equipment to make robot fix" look like the equivalent of domestic sewing machines, just scattered around with no rhyme or reason and small enough to be sat on random tables.

For example; that bath that supposedly spits out muscle fibers when a current is passed through a "special solution" - to me, that sounds like the kind of shit that should be kept in a clean room; not sat in the same space as a deburring machine, with tiny flecks of metal flying all over the place, and it definitely would *not* be open-topped, or even so fucking small.

And did I miss something in the story, here?
How the hell did they get all the equipment, anyway?
I can only assume they lifted it from the Robot Wars place, but then I think of those other stupid robots helping move the shit, and telling Faye that they'd do it for free to pay off past repairs…
So, the equipment itself wasn't to pay that off?
And all repairs were in-house so, presumably, covered by house expenses?

Or are the robots in charge of Robot Wars so monumentally stupid to give away their entire repair bay, which they DO need, for free?

All of this could have been woven into what most people would call "a story" but no, Jeph has to show the hipsters as being monumentally successful with little to no effort.

That's a good point. Faye's credit is so bad that she can't qualify for $2,000/month in rent but somehow she can acquire $20,000 machinery? Did Dora put herself on the line for all this? For no stake in the company? Is it possible to run a moderately successful coffee shop business and engage in behavior this reckless?

Debatable how successful it really is when we haven't seen a single client in years. Even in the extremely decompressed timespan QC takes place in, most businesses can't afford to go without a single client for weeks on end.

She's paying all those employees somehow. What's the full list? Far as I can tell it's: Dora, Penelope, Hannelore, Cosette, Raven (despite not being on screen for years), Emily, Dale, and, until recently, Faye.

Jeph's probably never given this a moment's of thought, but the bare minimum this business could make and keep its doors open supporting seven employees (Dora pays herself in an LLC) is in the $300k range. That's assuming the employees are making $10/hr and working 25 part time hours. That's $820 per day, every day, including Christmas. And this is the absolute minimum.

I'd guess that Robo Repairs will get most (if not all) its business from Robot Wars.

Their place is geared towards mechanics, not electronics or software, and I can't imagine that many domestic robots suffering crippling damage going about their day to day tasks.

So… They just bought a place, where they now have overheads like rent and rates, to basically do the exact same job with the exact same customer base?

And I can't help but wonder, if they did try to appeal to the domestic market, just how they'd present themselves:
"Yeah, just a couple of weeks ago we were knowingly working for an illegal operation taking advantage of desperate AIs, but we're like *totally* legit, now!"

All the coffee shops I've seen have maybe 4 or 5 working staff and the flow of customers is constant.

If they had the time to stand around talking shit like the idiots in Dora's place for as long as they do, then something would be seriously wrong.

I think the only time we saw a crowd is when Dora left the shop to Hannelore for an hour or two and she became paralyzed with responsibility.

I wonder if Dora's rich dad is blindly bankrolling the business.

Could be a money laundering scheme.

Maybe her dad's one of the guys behind the robot fighting circuit?

Every plot suggestion is a vast improvement over what actually happens in the strip.

Of course. Anything is better than nothing. :^)

what even is that stupid thing, are they running an ashtray through a laser cutter?

haha, user, that doesn´t matter! Didn´t you see that cute and randumb face?

Ha ha!

at the bottom of the comic, it says
I like your description better, though. Mainly because a simple explanation is Menstro is keeping the tranny out of everyone's way by showing it how to make an ashtray on the plasma cutter.

this needs to be a thing

Every night, she comes home to wash off the caked on blood from all the LGBT abominations she has slain.

Every night, she wonders if it's worth it as she deletes the audio recordings of their humanlike screams.

Every night, Claire says some stupid reprehensible shit with that loldon'tcare look on his face and Menstro smiles while planning tomorrow night's activities, remembering that she keeps this one around to remind her that she is working toward a better tomorrow, where the dawn will not shine upon his ilk.

We need an edit of the scene where Clairence says he can sympathize with Menstro, the combat robot, what with being so uniquely special himself.

Menstro needs to say something like, "Oh? How many confirmed kills do you have?"
Or,"You can relate to me, huh? Humans in my unit tried their best to overcome their psychological problems after everything they'd seen and done. Yet you wallow in yours and expect everyone else to follow suit."

Just to establish the deserved hatred.

I have over 300, myself. It's one of the reasons I like Menstro so much. I can identify with her because she shits fury like I do.

Jeph is on a money management panel for webcomic artists. I think I just had an aneurysm.

He has a lot to teach in that regard, but it's only useful in a "Brewster's Millions" sort of way.

Jeph's been a "regular Joe" for about 8 months of his life, the time that coincided with Marten being a self-insert discovering that he can't be CEO of a company straight out of college. His parents are probably rich to send him to that artsy fartsy private college. What does Jeph know about starting from the bottom?

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Fucked that up