Questionable Malcontent - Cold Holidays Edition

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Activate it, you glorious nigger.

You will like this character, it is required.

Lol, staff of coffee shop which would rely on customer service reputation are assholes!
Ain't that somethin'?!

No punctuation, huh?
And what the fuck is which their coffee machine? It's just slightly larger than their till - it's practically a domestic model and looks real dumb perched on this 30ft countertop.
Or do they really only have like 3 fucking 2-seater tables in there?
If so, they really do have more staff than customers.
And what the fuck's with this massive blackboard on the wall?
They put the prices on these small-ass tablets but leave the big one empty?

How many weeks is this Rareware eyed motherfucker going to be in this strip.

Thanks, doc, although I'd say the second pic is a symptom of the disease rather than its cure.

I really hope no one does, and that Jeph continues to try and fight his own audience over what they should like. It's quite funny.

I was going to say
Then I realised the shop looks empty 27/7.

I checked Reddit to see what they think and got sidetracked by the realization that they just now discovered "You and Me" edits and are arguing the exact units of transphobia of the Elmer Fudd one.

Back on topic, they remain skeptical of this stupid anime trope character.

Most of the commenters think this is completely retarded. I did find one person who not only disagrees, but actually provided a resonable explanation for how Tilly could have argued (assuming she was a bit loose with facts about exactly how public a person Hannelore is).

Jeph is too stupid to come up with this explanation by himself, but it wouldn't surprise me if he rips it off.>>945135

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People aren't exactly climbing over each other to get her autograph, are they?
And the staff of the Apple store really didn't give a fuck who she was either, so I'd say no-one cares.
Are these fans even conjuring ways to hate Tilly in the future, now?

How's this for a theory:

Don't know if it would sit right with the core audience, but Tilly whoring out Hannelore would certainly add more value to the comic.

Could even up the tension with the rest of the cast:

meant for

Once again, every time someone posts a plot fixup it improves upon the source. Even Redditers can do this. Don't get me wrong, it's still stupid, but from Jeph's hugbox standpoint it's an improvement over what he's doing and still improves the narrative otherwise.

Doesn't the company already have her name and probably all other information to confirm her identity? If credit is involved, which it probably is because you have to know what you're doing in order to not take out loans from the phone company, then they have her social security number guaranteed.

All the weeks, she'll probably ship Winslow off to the Island of Forgotten Characters

Well, he was basically already there before Jeph decided he needed a new body so May could preach to him about his robo-privilege.

I've got it. I just figured it out. Remember when Prime had Hanners take delivery from Sven of the severed head of Kate Leth, and then it turned out the head wasn't as dead as they'd hoped?

Kate Leth has taken over Hanners.

jesus christ

What the hell is a women's shelter?
Why do they need shelter?
Are they homeless? If so, do they just tell all the homeless men to fuck off?
Why am I trying to make sense of this comic?
Why are people dumb enough to give him money?

It's basically a feminist homeless shelter. You get more crummy service than a normal one but you get free indoctrination about how men are oppressing you.

It's specifically for women fleeing domestic abuse, because they don't have another option besides becoming homeless. It's good they exist.
But what's really fucked is that men's shelters are almost non-existent, although men get abused nearly as much.
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Kinda funny, because in the new Doom, he's described exactly like that from the demon's perspective.

Like so many similar things, like Narcanon and Alcoholics Anonymous, women's shelters tend to take advantage of the weak and desperate and indoctrinate them into some sort of cult. Erin Pizzey invented the women's shelter and eventually became their biggest enemy when she fought against the man-hating and lesbianism indoctrination.

Coffee shop lesbian is still as asshole - oooh, Jeph, your characters are just *so* quirky and endearing.

Boy, it's just as well she donated the money to a women's cause - I now feel safe reading this comic! Otherwise I could only assume that off-scene all the women are being beaten black and blue and thrown out into the street.

… I don't get it. Why does Hanners have a glove on one hand all of a sudden ? Also, is she taking it off in the second panel, and in that case why, or is she putting it on (which is what it's looking like actually), and in that case this doesn't make any sense ?
How is Jeph always finding new ways to make me groan at how bad he is ?

I'm guessing it a capacitive glove she uses for touch devices because her OCD doesn't allow her to smudge the screen with finger prints. I'm actually gonna give Jeph a few points for thinking about this.

Save those points for when he's consistent about it.

When's the tall brown amazon gonna fuck someone?

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Yer a regular Kaizer Soze, Jeph.

Jeph has been doing this almost 20 fucking years at this point and he still doesn't understand "Show don't tell" and how to properly set up a joke. Tilly should have been shown holding the bag up as Hannelore was reading the dossier. When Hanners gets to the favorite color section the camera should pan over to Tilly holding up the green bag with a smug look of pride. Next panel Hanners says green isn't her favorite color. Have Tilly keep her smug look as she tosses the bag over her shoulder off screen, acting as if she never had the bag to begin with.

What Jeph does is the equivalent of yelling at the audience "LAUGH HERE!"

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It's the perfect setup, really. Especially since Tilly made it abundantly clear that she'll do anything.
If I was suddenly given control of this comic, I'd write up a complete 180 and generate some good old fashioned sexual tension. It'd start with Tilly being really invasive and offering to clean Hannelore in the shower, brush her teeth, dress her, stuff like that. It'd peak off with Hannelore getting hot and bothered one night with fireman porn or some shit, and Tilly, hearing the noise, would come in and insist that she take care of her needs.
They'd enter a sexual relationship, kinky shit ensues, and it'll pave the way for some dirty humor down the road.
Then Bubbles would have a short, go insane, kill the tranny, lifting the spell that has fallen over Marten. With newfound freedom, he would return to his true form, reavealing he was actually Donald Trump the whole time and an old witch with bright red hair and problem glasses cursed him.
He would then get elected president, and firebomb Whereverthefuck Massachusetts.

The End.

I'm just here to see Jeph do the whole Lesbian Robosexual Morning After scene he's been hanfisting for a while… And the resulting Porn comic the Tumblr fans will make of it.

Oh well, so much for that idea.
She just doesn't want to get someone else's ear germs on her hand so wears a fucking latex glove.
It'd be great if that line she called donated the $500 to the Save the Call Centre Operative fund instead, based in their hip pocket.

Hey, why didn't she donate that money to help all those down-and-out AIs we hear so much about? Ones that Winslow has to volunteer to help?

:DDD

was there ever any doubt

If this trainwreck becomes a porn comic, it'll be the best decision that idiot's made in years. It might also be good for improving his art. Since most people who look at porn are fairly picky, he'll be forced to improve, lest this comic fail.
Of course, that'll never probably happen. We'll just have Miss picky pronouns meet up with Marten's favorite after-dinner meatstick and we'll all probably die slow deaths just from losing the will to live.

I know handstab would try and handwave it away with "it has files on everyone involved!", but bowlcut just stated it's pronouns before even asking Marten's name. Having someone get your name wrong all day isn't nearly as big of a deal as getting your specific Tumblr terms correct in Jeph's world, apparently.

I wonder if jeph schedules his own doctor's appointments or if his mom still does it for him

I found these on 4chan and I swear to god I thought editanon was back

oh well, these are still pretty good.

OH my lower extremity.

So, quick poll, who's the more pathetic self-pitying no-talent autistic attention whore, Handstab or Piro?

Piro earned a Masters degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and did years of actual day-job work at a real architectural firm, so he's got that going for him. Jeph graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music. Maybe he worked retail with that?

Y'know, there is one thing right. Marten knows that he's locked in a hellish universe, and his "girlfriend" and this pronoun obsessed freak deserve to die in the same fire.

What were you doing there?

Jeph's work experience seems to be several months as an intern/temp type job filing paperwork or something. Marten's first job was an author insert.

Getting someone's name wrong for hours on end even after you correct them is just an accidental thing.

Using the wrong pronouns once is a Hitlerian offense.

Perhaps he's hoping that if you put two genderfreaks in the same room they'll duke it out like when you put two bettas in the same fishbowl.

Nah if you put Marten and Clinton into a fishbowl they'll just both drown. I'm not complaining, though.

It's transparently obvious that Jeph is whipping out the tranny card here in a desperate, last ditch attempt to get his fanbase to like the character, because criticizing a tranny is doubleplus ungood in socjusland. Though the truly sad part is, Jeph's ploy probably worked.

you cant hate them now

But that ignores the entire strategy of identity politics, in which any attack on one of the group is to be fiercely swarm-counterattacked as though it was an unprovoked assault on the entire group, even if the original attack was justified by the misbehavior of that one.

Anyway, if he'd dropped the "they/them" card on her first or second page, the readership wouldn't have had time to dare to build up animosity towards her in the first place.

Yeah, instead they'd doubletalk their way through the cognitive dissonance of abhoring a member of the progressive stack.

I FUCKING CALLED THIS PRONOUN SHIT LAST THREAD!
I really wish I wasn't right.

Does going by they/them pronouns inherently mean she is a tranny? Couldn't she be a regular woman brainwashed by socjus, still capable of being saved?

#bringbackourtaffy

Perhaps, but saying "I require specific non-intuitive pronouns" at all implies a certain level of buying in to the whole scheme that makes losing her deposit that much harder.

Wait… So Hannelore's been misgendering her all this time?!
She even does it right there in the second panel!
I think Jeph will find she's actually guilty of a hate crime, and could go to jail.

Really goes to show the paint-by-numbers approach Jeph has to storytelling. It's actually possible that he's not consciously pandering, that he's actually the world's most predictable writer.

This is probably "non-binary" shit, which is used by unattractive women who look like lesbians but aren't.

Hell, Jeph himself could go to jail. Remember, he's in Canada, home of Bill C17.

The one time Jeph needs to tell he skips it: we don't see Trudy giving consent to being touched therefore we must assume marten is upside down leg raping xir.

Of course the QC forum admin is non-binary.

What do we think of Menage a 3, Go Get a Roomie, and Between Failures?

Never Develop a Character Arc Lesbian Fetish. You end up reading every cheap pozzed Webcomic there is.

I read it for a while expecting to be a serious porn comic but it never got to that point and wasn't intresting otherwise
haven't read them, look like your average hipsterbait shit though

Go Get a Roomie is probably the worst one by Holla Forums's standards, as very few members of the cast qualify as being straigh… or monogamous. but it at least makes an attempt by having nice art, and making attempts at developing good characters.

I thought Between Failures was the least mentionable, but looking back, besides the lesbian couple that manages to be fairly adorable there's a Furry Club, and a few low-key BBW characters. Also you'd probably get angry at the black character for some reason. Otherwise it's QC-lite, which means better writing.

He's known the new tranny for five minutes and Marten already has it's ankles in the air. I guess it's a change of pace, since it was his last time.

I checked Reddit, and several people there also predicted it.

That's not standing on your head. That's a handstand, and an assisted one too. He can't fulfill any of her needs like that.

You know for the longest time I thought Jo was indian. There are a few criticisms I'd have. Obviously the art could be better, the update schedule more consistent. If I had to pick one though I'd say the artist has that weird "I could have been something" ego and projects it onto Thomas, which toes the line of being grating at times.

Yeah. Personally, I do like Reggie's Character Arc. He could have easily been the lazy Copy-paste of Reggie Mantle, and may have been one at some point, but he's grown up a bit. I mean, the whole "liking the fat chick for her mind" thing is something that would obviously trigger most of Holla Forums as being SJW crap, but with Reggie, I find it believable.
Nothing spectacular, mind you, but fairly interesting.
Of course, then there's the fact that the manlet got cucked by his sister in High School only to get the best girl in the series, Reggie got (unknowingly) incestuous with his cousin, his sister is a furry, and Carol kind of pushes it with the Sexy-Chubby/Thicc meme.
It's a shitty series, but it's one of my favorites too.

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Fuck Yeah it is! Chloe delayed a strip by a week talking with an actual Native American trying to figure out if their Indian Smoke-hut ritual was offensive or not.
There's a Tranny in a three-way relationship with a nigger and a chick, and a FMM threesome.
Also Richie is an absolute degenerate who may or may not have had a head of cabbage shoved up his ass and is in love with a semi-mute cancer patient of a boy which I still find adorable
And Roomie is a Lesbian Slut who's only "fallen in love" with Lillian because she wants what she can't have and Lillian was an emo-depressed girl who wasn't interested until Stockholm syndrome set in.
It's a completely shitty series that I nevertheless continue to read.

When will Questionable Content follow?

Next week but Jeph will claim it was in his buffer from two months ago.

Probably as soon as Faye finally realizes she wants to grind on Bubble's face.

In the future.

Okay, follow up question: Who will get the penis?

I can't imagine any of the female robots getting it, because it would probably make them less cute in Jeph's view (certainly in mine). The same is true for the sissybot (former IPod), since I'm pretty sure Jeph is autogynephilic. Since none of the bots with clear gender identity will be candidates, I'm guessing someone like pic related.

Like in every other thread

Jeph might try to go the "cute penis" route with Winslow. Tumblr loves twinks, and giving him a hairless 4×3 penis with tiny balls would make him fit the bill. It might also set him up for cuckoldry an open relationship that he's 100% on board with because he supports his partner no matter how much fireman cock she gets stuffed with.

Ironically, Jeph has committed harder to covering his mistake of forgetting Tilly's name than he has with any other plot point or character development in the last five years, except maybe the equally stupid evil boss bot arc.

ALL HANDS ON NECK

Tilly corrected her constantly, using really small text balloons. Maybe you missed them?

No, I'm talking about the first time, like a month ago, which spawned this entire Tilly/Taffy word game arc because he didn't want to admit that he forgot his own character's name.

In his defense, her mom did call her "Taffy, or something like that" on day 2 of this whole arc.

In his offense, she was told "Tilly" before being told "Taffy" and then later claimed to have a photographic memory.

Right, the "gag" from the 2nd strip stuck in his head and he didn't want to admit that, so he fabricated this month long tedious running "joke". There's been no payoff but he kept it up long enough to figure the coast is clear.

Addendum: if Jeph were really thinking about it, he'd parlay his mistake into a sales pitch in that Hannelore needs an assistant because she isn't as organized as she thinks she is if she makes such simple mistakes, even though reality doesn't work like that due to there being multiple types of memory.

Holy shit, has Marten got PTSD from his time spent with the cast or some shit? He sees what looks like a female getting upset because of a past issue brought to mind by something he just said, and already the panic sets in and he begins stammering.
He's a fucking prisoner - I'll bet he wanted to break it off with the tranny ever since "W-well… T-this i-is m-me…", but at that point he must have known he was locked in a situation from which he can never escape.
That would explain his odd, vacant expression as he claims, "You're beautiful." It's like he finally understood double-think.

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Some play Fortune Son quick!

Kinda like you guys who keep posting and reading this trash.

Who's the gay guy on the right? Is he a new character?

>"Strongly suggests that they did not write it."

Please tell me these shart-robbers aren't actually respecting the personal pronouns of a comic character.

Haha, unfamiliar with the QC forum culture? A few years ago they banned most of their audience because of their confusion over Clairence. Even ignorance and earnest information seeking was a bannable offense because "questioning an identity" was haram. Now the forum is mostly 5,000+ post admins talking to each other in their bubble.

No. I know enough to know that they all belong in the ovens, but that "they" business rustled my jimmies.

I love how these LGBT retards constantly push the "don't question my identity" crap but then get offended by the otherkin crowd makes a mockery of the whole thing. Even in the face of this they still don't get that this is why we have standards. Even GLAAD has standards, which shows how far gone these people are.

What the fuck is this?

We had a thread about it a long time ago where everyone was posting images they'd found in an unmasking thread in the QC forums. I thought the look on this guy's face was fantastic, and the shirtless vest and bowtie combo earned him a permanent place in my image folder. Believe it or not, he's a real looker, since the bulk of the pics were scrawny feebs and enormous butter-golems with dyed hair.

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Tilly is annoying enough for two QC characters. I feel the pronouns are justified in that respect.

Of course Jeph would never do it, but I'd have thought the AI would be a lot more inquisitive about these pronouns.

Hey… how come Tilly was so quick to announce her pronouns to a perfectly irrelevant stranger like Marten, but never thought to mention them to Hannelore?
Lends more credence to the suspicion that Jeph injected this deliberately to force his audience into liking her.

That confused me quite a lot when I first read it.

But would Jeph really want to make a male character more masculine?

wud the fugg happened between trannydick and now

Everyone knows the one character trait Jeph gives each character only gets written in properly for 12 strips and after that it's an occasional end-of-strip punchline.

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His mom is a dominatrix and his father sexually abused him into liking a trap who emotionally manipulates "her" loved ones. Of course he starts freaking out when someone around him is upset. It's only a wonder he's not pissing down his leg, as well.

Hanners has actually had the piercings since she first showed up, for whatever reason.

Wow, the art style used to be even worse.

I don't know about worse. He's changing things up between panels to add variety with reverse shots, the mirror, and zoom changes. You can tell he's at least trying in his early works.

Wow, it's actually sad to see how far Hannelore has fallen.
It's like she got her head busted in a car crash or hit by a stray bullet in a police shootout or some shit - the original Hannelore died that day.

lol, I'd be winning. I'd get the benefit and no maintenance.

Yeah, it used to be a lot worse but then it improved before becoming worse again.

Jeph:
-Oh dear God, I made the most unlikable, obnoxious, useless character ever.
-Both my fans and haters wants her to be thrown in a woodchipper headfirst
-How can I recover?
-Hey, I noticed that thex/hex/mex refers to Hexselves with retarded pronouns
-If I make her/they/thex/WTF use the same retarded pronouns everyPony not liking Hex will automatically feel sexist/ableist/transniggerphobic

And so the most hideous character ever was born, an unholy mix of creepy, non-binary, tumblrina, SJW and anime

she was on 8 kinds of drugs in that scene tho
but then again that introductory switcharoo was the fucking retardest

Honestly, no. Not because pronouns are actually reasonable, but because humans are fucking insane. Any AI that's critical enough to get to those questions would have noticed thousands of similar things long before and not be that naive about it.
Concepts and words never map cleanly to the real world. The map is not the territory. There are always edge cases, semantic tricks that use non-central examples, arguments about things that are actually arguments about definitions of categories, an endless stream of horrifying flaws in human communication.
Even biological sex can't be cleanly distinguished in every case. Gender is just one more categorization that's more trouble than it's worth, and that humans can get upset about if you try to make it consistent. There's tons of those.

The systematic and continual genocide of every gender-nonconforming person over a period of centuries would probably clean it up.

Most blatant retcon ever.

The Catholic Church was dependable for this once upon a time but now we have to rely on Islam.

That would make an AI even more confused, probably.

It was good for make believe though

Why is everybody in this strip holding their heads sideways to each other and sidling around like crabs?

Because Jeph is a closet crabcore fan.

Jeph has this shirt for sale.

Jeph should go back to stabbing his hand instead of making awful shit like this.

It's been one day.

Glasses, Pixie Cut, Tank Top and Shorts, and Just a little meat without being fat. On anyone else this would be everything I look for in a girl, but because it's her… It's just such a waste.

I wanna stretch her taffy

What'll ya bet that it's one of those miracle /cuteboys/ who manages to pass into his late twenties?

Why on hell are they killing English grammar for their feelings?

How?

How this town doesn't have a weekly murder spree by regular people finally losing the last of their sanity points, is nothing short of a miracle.

But thinking of the gay robot, why do these people keep robots, anyway? They treat them like pets, yet they still expect full autonomy.
They don't seem to offer any real companionship either; looks to me like they're just a way for idiots to spend huge amounts of money with little to no return of any sort.

Do you not know what greentext is or what?

A disease

Kind of like the comic itself.

I think the joke, and i use that term loosely, was supposed to be that she's actually on earth and not in space like her father.

I remember everyone (not here) proclaiming how great the video was because it was gay. Meanwhile all I thought about was how repetitive and bland it was. They went all in on making the heart bursting out of the chest into an animated character and it really didn't work. It felt like a Family Guy skit where after the "joke" the segment runs on for three more minutes for no particular reason.

Predictably, the gender politics gambit to distract the audience from how terrible this character is has been successful. Most amusingly was the downvoting a while ago on people spelling out that this was the intention.

It's times like this when I wonder if Jeph is smarter than he lets on.
Think about it, he puts on a pozzed facade, cranks out a minimal effort comic on a regular basis, and people just throw money at him indiscriminantly. If there's something they don't like, he just tweaks things around a little bit to distract them.
It could even explain the stabbenings. Doing this kind of job and catering to these kinds of people would fuck you up mentally, especially if you didn't really believe in it.
Either way, I'm pretty sure that money is the only thing keeping him going at this point.

I think the majority of these virtue signalers don't really believe it and are using the in-group as cover. But within these phonies are those overcompensating for their own insecurities or indiscretions and those leveraging the cognitively weak for profit. Back in the 80s and early 90s, when [Neo-]Evangelicalism was at its local peak, I observed a number of people talking the talk but were obviously in it for the social connections and other goodies. But these types of groups have no self-policing; merely profess your love for Jesus or smashing the Patriarchy and you pass the test no matter what you do, even literal rape or murder.

Not only is he trapped but he's been there for some time. In this context it's understandable that he's doing everything possible to limit the time investment in this comic, especially when his audience is so undiscerning. Deep down, this has to hurt. It's a bit like getting free meals. It feels good to eat but you did nothing to earn it. I think Jeph actually fancies himself as a high-brow writer. Even if it's not true and he's deluding himself, he has to know his audience is full of rubes.

Regarding Jeph's "intelligence", I've long thought that he's an otherwise talentless man who stumbled into a lifestyle ideally constructed for what few strengths he has. It's like the world is The Matrix constructed for him and we're the background characters. Have a butterfly flap its wings somewhere in 1979 and he'd be homeless for the past decade.

He stabbed his own hand once in a drunken sperg rage
He is not intelligent

Are you one of the people who still think Chris-Chan is "faking it"?

I live in the same city as him.
I have seen too many trannies, too many retarded robot designs, too much "hard sci-fi".
I can make it end, I can make the madness stop.
I just need an address.

DO IT

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Taffy is so sweet you want it all the time

The butchening is nigh.
Once again, Faye has spread her horrid disease to another unsuspecting victim.

Here, friend.

Thanks fam

No matter how fondly I remember QC long ago, it only gets worse.

Do it user. Save us all. You'll run into him at the grocery store one day.

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Fuck off mate.

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It seems like a ton of steamers, youtubers, and other patreon based content creators are in Canada. Is there some tax loophole for internet money or is there some other reason for this?

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No, you want to streach their tilly, you cis-het pig!

She might be down to earth compared to someone who, over an unsecure line, asks his daughter if she spied on her boss on her first day of work.

I've never thought of it that way, but a lot of pro-gay propaganda just consists of trying to portray fags as "cute" or pets, probably to try to awaken a maternal instinct in women.

Underrated post.

No one can think her cute if she keeps this look. Why introduce an at least somewhat feminine character if you're going to dyke her up?

Context? I did his computer stop working?

Why in God's name is Jeph so attached to this nothing character?

He lives the life of a rich, decadent hipster without any goals or values in life. Among the few things he wants to do, he probably doesn't face much resistance.

Perhaps he's so starved for something to actually struggle against, that when the audience tries to have their way, he is trilled to have some resistance. Like Kaczynski said, resistance is an important part of the power cycle (I think that's what he called it) and if we can do anything we want without resistance, everything loses its meaning.

The same argument could be made to predict him going against his audience in the SocJust arena, but I think his cowardess wins out there.

She decided to dress up like that fucking Gabby Rivera?
I really am starting to hate this hard-on the hipsters have for shitey coffee shops.

This town is populated entirely by social masochists.

This

i-it's part of my job user…

Do you take your "job" very seriously?
Do you do it for free?

Boy, oh boy! Isn't this strip so wacky, random and, therefore, fun ladies, gentlemen and non-gender-specifica?

Now there's a plot Jeph would be too scared to explore - traffic jam, car crash or whatever the fuck else prevents Hannelore from getting her Prozium and she begins to revert to a normal person.

What is the fucking point in being an AI? Jeph's robots are all A and no I. I mean, what the fuck company would design an intelligent iPod and then *not* give it the ability to look up the internet for information on music at least. It can feel guilt for being "privileged" and think of ways to mitigate that, but not just look up information of any sort at any point?

And now we have a PA who doesn't want to A.
What the fuck PA in existence would feel guilt and taking over a responsibility? Fucking hell, she's not longer after awkwardly climbing over a counter to make coffee so that someone else doesn't have to.
And she still looks like a gay webcomic artist, or kid's entertainer from the '90s.

And Jeph concentrates on this at the expense of decent story potential filling the world he has created. It's been said once and shall likely be said many more times - Jeph strives for mediocrity.

And fucking hell, the PA As in all the wrong ways…
Rather than helping Hannelore sort her life out and makes things easier for her, she's actually helping her waste time by indulging in her anxiety.
But hey, that's how Jeph rolls…

They say to write about what you know…

Everyone looks very wonky. Did the art style change again?

I don't understand the joke. Is there any D&D stuff in his comic? Any anime stuff? What kind of faggot would design a shirt like that, let alone wear it?

At least it's a good badge so you know if someone is worth talking to before you waste your time.
But yeah, it does kinda reek of Jeph's scattergun approach to writing; fire out as much shit as possible and see which bits people like.

…AAAND the transition of another character into "Butch lesbian" has just started.

Thank God nothing can make them/they/him/her/WTF worse

If you give me Jeph's address I'll give you these breadcrumbs of an answer:
Ubisoft is literally not making a profit and is kept alive by tax loopholes. The Canadian givernment gives them millions of taxpayer dollars every year. Further, our cartoons are all tax loopholes loss scams. Johnny Test exists because all Canadian kids networks must air an original cartoon and they get a huge tax break if it's a loss.

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This is why socialism sucks

I can see it clearly even in these early stages.
Ever since Tilly's been infected with Yarsinia Butchsis, she's been gaining body mass. It's been one comic and already her ass is getting fatter.
In these early stages she'll grow an attraction to the pink twink, but just like those before her, it will only be temporary. I estimate that she'll be looking for a fatass butch partner within the next fifty comics. Satisfied with the damage done to the host, the disease will spread to another character until they have all been comsumed.

God help us all.

I can't not see Steve Buscemi with this stupid character's new look.

I like it, you should figure out a way to replace Jeph and make these gems of ideas canon

It's simple really, we just have Scotia-user kill Jeph and wear his skin, then we form a panel of Holla Forums-writers to write and draw the strips.

Im gonna need a webm

Why do you need an address? This idiot sticks out like Kunta Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert.

I don't know which is worse, that one or the "Dogs, They're good."

In other news, webcomic creator Jeph Jacques was found dead in his home this morning. The killer was none other than The Hacker Known As 4chan, who elected to remain at the scene and perform the artist's job for several days after the murder rather than fleeing the scene

Sorry, that's urban camo in Nova Scotia.

…How serious do you want to be about this? Because I can find him for you. Apparently he often visits The Daily Grind Cafe and Art Market. (Of course he does)
His Twitter is mostly full of pictures of him walking his dog. A visible street sign and I can get you a stone's throw away.
As for what you'd actually do… I'm recommending you mail him several envelopes full of Glitter, or something that can be passed off as a prank. Recommending, of course. I don't control anyone's actions or how they utilize information I provide them.

youtube.com/watch?v=jZOywn1qArI

why can't I embed anymore

They switched the URL so it only accepts the youtu.be url format for embed. Have to copy the url from Jewtube's Share button, not the browser field. It sucks.

thanks fam, that's retarded but good to know

Welp, went through an entire year of Jeph's Twitter, and I couldn't find anything closer than the coffee shop.
Also, Things I am now sure of about Jeph:
1. His dog is a good dog, and he at least takes care of it well enough. Don't hurt the dog.
2. He's just like every other liberal in the world with a Twitter.
3. I'm fairly certain he has an actual Ass and Fart fetish.

On 1 we're not really sure.
No-one here hates dogs; quite the opposite. We care enough to save that dog from Jeph - it is without a doubt the most miserable dog we've ever seen that actually has a home.
It flinches at his touch and ignores him when he talks to it, almost like it's afraid of him or something.
There's been the theory that he fucks it, or at least tries, but that is kinda the joke theory.
Another idea is that when he has one of his depressive episodes he ends up crying and shrieking at it so it thinks it's done something wrong.

Accident, fuck! Just call him exactly what he is a few times and this problem will solve itself with a few handfuls of painkillers.

Hi RCMP.

Hanners looks so fucking sad.

You would too, if you were her.
Or anybody living in the highly disfunctional world created by Stabby…

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I had really shitty taste as a kid. Like, REALLY shitty taste. I watched this and thought it was clever because they did parody episodes of Pokemon and Road Runner. I also remember making a conscious decision to watch a rerun of Xiaolin Showdown, and an episode of Avatar I hadn't seen.(Xiaolin was still a decent cartoon though) I even remember liking Coconut Fred for the short period of time it was on.
Also, quick question, was Mucha Lucha and Gigante as good as I remember them, or does Holla Forums do the whole "muh spics in muh children's cartoons" thing with it?

I remember distaining Mucha Lucha for it's overreliance on fart jokes and THE FLEEEEEA to push jokes through. Snowpea was alright, but I avoided that show when I was a kid. I don't know why you went anywhere near Coconut Fred, but I'll forgive you because Xiaolin Showdown was awesome.

Only had Basic Cable back then, and when Fox Box, Channel 3 and Channel 8 lost their cartoons, KidsWB was all that was left. The good news is I also got to watch Megaman NT Warrior and Jackie Chan Adventures, so I still got some pretty awesome shows.
Also Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Mummies Alive, Archie's Weird Musteries, and Sonic Underground, oddly enough.

Did they bang in the store-room?

Probably

Why does his art somehow feel even shittier since the last time I was here

Well…. I just don't know what to say about this one, really.
It's a whole lot of nothing.
Is it filler? Or a way to show Hannelore becoming increasingly more miserable?
Likely the latter, but it still seems like filler.
Either way I don't really get it. Does Hannelore have such a pointless existence that aside from eating her Prozium, worrying about things and hitting spiders, she does absolutely nothing with her life and has no ambition or desire?

Why does the robot use a computer screen?

Because in this world, we have AIs and use them as minimum wage workers.

At least he tried a non-flat perspective in the final panel.

Hmm, sounds like a certain someone who posts on Twitter a lot.

Also, am I really to believe that a billionaire heiress who would throw away her whole wardrobe because someone else's panties got mixed in her laundry is using a laundromat? Someone should inform her that dryers don't necessarily see only clean clothes and that bums are known to come in at night to warm up their filthy jackets, especially mixed in other people's laundry cycles.

That's not how those things work. She's probably rationally aware that it doesn't matter that the panties are mixed in, but that doesn't stop it from feeling terrifyingly icky.
Getting over that kind of mental illness is not simple, and maybe not reasonably possible at all. If you're a billionaire heiress then replacing your entire wardrobe is not actually costly, relatively speaking, especially if you don't live the billionaire lifestyle.

Well, let's challenge that. OCD is about checks and control, right? Is Hannelore doing everything she can to check and control the environment? No. She could be using her own washing machine. I get that the machine could be filthy–but it would be _her_ filth–but that's not what's happening. This is an OCDer leaving cards on the table. That's what I'm not buying. Someone who seeks to optimize OCD is not doing so.

Ah, shit, I can't keep up with all the different markup styles every site uses. I used to think raw HTML was idiotic but at least it's a standard.

Not exactly. OCD is about specific more or less arbitrary compulsions.
I have a few OCDish tics. When I touch something with one side of a finger, or step on something, I often feel a strong need to balance it out by doing the same with the other side of my finger, or the other foot. That's related to the environment, but it's not a generalized compulsion for checks and control. It doesn't extend to every possible form of control over the environment. It's also not rational. I don't believe that satisfying my tic is somehow the right thing to do, I just feel a strong urge until I do so, a bit like the urge to scratch an itch. It goes away when I'm done.
Hannelore not getting her own washing machine is a suboptimal decision, but it's the regular every-day kind of suboptimal decision, not the kind of decision that would be impossible given OCD.
Pop culture OCD is almost completely unlike actual OCD.

Why are AIs in a post-singularity world not in charge of literally everything like the demigods they can be? Remember how Spookybot could put an entire coffee shop to sleep just by wishing it?
Stop trying to make sense in Stabby's work, he just writes the first thing that comes to his mind and that's it

Jeph skipped a few steps on this one, but this is his MO: introduce long-haired female with something of a personality, cut her hair, give her horrendous clothing, give her ugly body mods, make her fat, make her passively aggressively "sassy", and strongly hint at lesbian relationships.

It is funny how about half the fan community noticed how lazy Jeph has gotten with his characterization and were rejecting this one until he dropped the gender politics and now they love Poochy. I can't wait until the next character abortion who turns out to be a (((refugee))) when Jeph hits the panic switch.

Honest, Jeph just needs to skip this and get Bubbles and Faye to fuck already so I can get some goddamn Fan-made Porn of it. That's all I'm expecting from this series, and the one time I'm asking for pozz it continually disappoints me.

Okay, let's say I grant you all of that. Is Jeph actually consistent with your understanding or does he use superficial pop culture OCD? I'd be surprised if it was anything but the latter. Regardless on whether or not my personal explanations are accurate, these behaviors don't seem real to me, and it's a problem because it's central to her character. Actually, at this point, there is nothing to her character but this loosely defined and, in my opinion, poorly executed "OCD". Hannelore is one of multiple characters who is coasting through life where jokes are made about them having no (realistic) life goals. And it's not because of the OCD, it's because Jeph doesn't want to box himself in by introducing determinism. Better to leave things vague for when he gets "zany" ideas like turning Hannelore into a Bitcoin daytrader or something.

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Well, there are these.

I think he does some basic research when it comes to these things, and you can pick up a bunch through osmosis on Tumblr.
His portrayal of mental illness is no more flawed than the rest of the comic. Which is to say, it's bad, but more because of laziness in design and implementation than because of a fundamental misunderstanding.

I can almost feel my dick shriveling up.

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STOP

At the point where you can see their chins wobble, I think it's safe to say you're drawing fat people too realistic.

Why must universal rules be painful.

Post gore, please, anything but this

It's emotional gore

ell oh ell

Well, I'm sure glad Jeph is taking some time out from that emotional roller coaster of a story to tackle these issues that really matter.

Could this be a slight hint towards Winslow making Tilly completely redundant if he just gets his shit together?
Or is that just me putting more thought into this story than Jeph ever has?

Aside from that, it seems Jeph's trick of making Tilly a special to deflect any criticism seems to be working on reddit, as they are currently in the process of devouring themselves, trying not to offend this saintly figure with her magical pronouns.

Yet again:
It's like he does this specifically to hurt me.

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Aaaaand They got even fatter. Bravo, Jeph, Bravo.

Amazing

All she needs is a propellor on that hat to complete the retard look.
I can't help but wonder what the endgame is for this fucking Poochie of a character.
Any ideas?
Perhaps a clash with Clarence over who's the most downtrodden in terms of gender identity?

it'd be a bit like this

They goes back to they's gender-nonconforming maternal parental figure and they's gender-nonconforming paternal parental figure on they's home planet.

The artist did a good job capturing the haunted emptiness Jacques draws in Marten's eyes.

Stunning, really

Just imagine living in a world where god created your world for the sole purpose of virtual signal points with other deities.

Scotia-user, any luck finding Jeph yet? Honestly, if we do find out where he lives, all I'd really do is pay postage to send him physical letters of everything we say about him online, and see what effect if has on the comic.
If he actually read them I bet Jeph would blow a gasket and then have this huge arc in-comic about it. Bike Cuck just laughed about the memes, Jeph would make a big Fucking deal about far less.

Either it displaces an established character or gets discarded. Probably the first though since the flip-side of making them a gender freak to avoid complaints is you're stuck with them now. Odds are that Winslow will be put on the Island of Forgotten Characters since he serves literally no purpose in this story.

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Well, golly-gee-whizz. More nothing.
Well, the *story* is nothing, but behind the scenes Jeph could be muttering to himself, "I'll make themself friends with the other characters - they'll have no choice but to like thereself!".
Has Tilly's hair gotten darker? Didn't her hair used to be more orange?

But anyway, it does look like Jeph is scraping that barrel so hard he's getting nothing but splinters - Tilly has just become yet another lolsoquirky hipster and bears no resemblance to her original introduction, over the space of less than 48 hours in-universe.

My god… They're all Jeph!

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quite edgy but not very sharp

What the hell are you doing

Well, looks like reddit is good for something - it has been pointed out that this is basically the same as IPP's introduction to Clarence.
I can only guess Clarence changed his depression meds since then, as his interaction with IPP was quite emotionally volatile.

How much did Apple pay him for that one

I agree with Hannelore these puns make me want to die, or at least kill Jeph

Reddit is good for a couple of things. /r/gamingsuggestions will give you a laundry list of every game that fits into your criteria, rather than criticize you for your taste in consoles, games, game vendors, and assumed political amd sexual leanings.
Beyond that, it's good for getting one single same opinion from a hundred people.

he chose poorly

I'm neutral on Reddit. However, I will say that I look up a lot of things on various topics and it's surprising how little Reddit comes up given how big it is and how serious the site is supposed to be (news aggregator, originally, with a lot of tech people that came from places like Digg and Slashdot). I'd say image board thread archives are as common and relevant as Reddit threads, which is strange. When it comes to troubleshooting something, probably 90% of the time it's a question posted on Reddit with no answer.

tfw Reddit is funnier than your webcomic

Taking bets on whether Poochie is actually being dumped.

Jeph is throwing a fit here, refuses to see Tilly for the shitshow of a character that she is, forces this storyline for a bit, but switches back over to Bubbles and Faye doing things, or Clinton and his Gay Bouncer Boyfriend with the Negress meddling in affairs, and slowly slides her out of the picture only to bring her back an arc or two later, as a final retarded belligerent act, before simply forgetting about her or avoiding using her altogether.

Is Jeph trying to guilt trip the forums into liking her by making her cry?

He made bowlcut a tumblrsexual to try and strong arm people into accepting her, lest they face the terror of thousands of blogposts calling them bigots. It would actually be more surprising if he didn't take hamfisted emotional appeal after that didn't work.

Boy, I'm sure glad he ended this strip on a joke; I really don't think I could take such tense, emotional drama.

Didn't jeph say he made his comics like weeks, if not months in advance ? Or am I confusing him with Willis ? Regardless, he probably wrote that entire trash way before people told him that this storyline is retarded not like there was anything else to expect from him

Next strip: They is in the coffee shop, crying.
"Hey Taffy, what's the problem?
"Ma'am fired me."
"You mean Hanners? Well, you were pretty handy with that bat. I don't say this to everyone, but would you consider working here?"

Willis started the buffer virtue signalling then Jeph (allegedly) picked it up. In my opinion, Jeph stuck with it for a few weeks and then realized having a buffer strongly interfered with his on-the-fly revisionism.

lol zany antics!! And no one wonders why a small shop with no customers needs a dozen employees.

Hanners is an obsessive-compulsive control freak that hates her mother. Her mother sends her an invasive, obsessive freak that tries to run her life for her.
Jeph thought that it would work and the fans would love her.
MFW

I maintain that my fanfic version of Tilly is superior:
The real Tilly is starving in a closet someplace, and just last week the closest this "Tilly" got to Hannelore was through a telephoto lens.
As soon as she leaves the apartment she'll be raking through the bins looking for tampons, her pockets already stuffed with select items of underwear swiped from the laundry basket.

Jeph used to put some thought into this kind of thing–for the first dozen or two appearances at least–but I guess he's gotten so used to his praise-in-a-bubble that he got lazy and is unable to justify this character to an increasingly skeptical audience. He was warned: at best, acceptance of the Deux Ex Machina Bot that "resolved" the Bubbles memory thing was 50%. People were also lukewarm at best with the end days of Alice Grove. But, what does it matter? No matter what he does he pockets at least $10k/month just from Patreon alone.

Looks like Tilly hatred spilled over into Patreon, so the character may be gone, after all.

Ah, never mind, I forgot about Patreon gouging donators with fees. That's why Jeph is down, as probably everyone else is.

Jeph's two self-inserts decide to be obnoxious together.

Kek.

Did Jeph set that two-day limit as a get-out-of-jail-free card, so he could ditch the character just in case the fan reaction was negative?

Well, looks like something might happen after all! And with such dramatic use of empty backgrounds!
Does that excuse the swirling morass of non-gender-specific shit we've been hosed with up to this point?
Does it fuck.
What I'm thinking is that this may have been the pre-planned twist all along but if the dear fans responded to Tilly in a positive way, the revelation would just have left Hannelore feeling pissed at being used but ultimately with the same result.
So much of that bullshit reeked of obvious filler, and it would have been good to see the prospective PA actually do some A instead of all the lolsorandumb shite.
Remember, the premise of all this was "Sh-I mean- they make Hanners look like the straight man!! :P LOL :P !!11 :P"

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That's some serious MySpace prestige, user!
She may even be able to sell some stories to highbrow magazines like Take a Break or Pick Me Up.
But yeah, this is pretty damn flimsy. At least Jeph tried.
Maybe…

It can get pretty major if she manages to continue managing Hannelore's affairs by the time she runs a trillion-dollar company.

EVEN THE MOM IS GETTING FATTER

I'll give Jeph credit for the perspective attempt in panel 3. He probably traced or used a reference, but it's not bad. Still, the POV is warped. The floor goes in different directions and the couch, rug, and mom don't follow perspective. But, I mean, for Jeph, it's not bad.

Capito-feudalism user, she gave Tilly the prestigious title of being Princess Hannelore's handmaiden.

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Hell is full and demons walk the earth.

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Anyone feel like crawling through the archives to find the original "entitled faggot" version of this?

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Did anyone do this?

Be a real shame if someone just up and dumped all the archives in that thread, no?

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, here comes another of Stabby's clusterfuck "character developement" arcs

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got dark real fast, fam

This is excellent. The attention to detail in the margins really ices the cake.

Now that's insulting to incestual couples

It's a shame this is the result shitty writing and not Hannelore treating it like a lowly serf or something.

God I can just imagine that conversation.
J: I want to have an incestuous relationship in my comic, to show that it's just as acceptable as homosexuality, all love is love.
W: DID YOU JUST COMPARE HOMOSEXUALITY TO INCEST YOU HOMOPHOBE.

And today's action-packed strip!
It'll make you laugh! It'll make you cry!
It'll make you think of going and doing something else!

Well… I suppose a travel montage was inevitable. I mean, he had to try cramming a joke in someplace before overheating his brain by writing some drama.
A pretty weak joke at that, for sure.

Looks like he's getting some perspective practice in. These are the most interesting backgrounds we've seen in months.

Kill yourself you dumb cunt
This is pathetic to read

Yeah, he's been trying for a few strips now. The airplane cabin might be the best yet of this set. Unfortunately, Hannelore's copy/pasted head looks really off in every panel.

This

I guess he's just decided that Hannelore doesn't need her character-defining germaphobia any more. How else could she get into a stranger's car, make it through airport security, ride a crowded plane in economy class, and hold her baggage in an unprotected hand after god knows what has touched it without having even one problem along the way? I know she's been doing better at the shop, but her training at that familiar area isn't going to translate into running across the country on a whim.

Unless he's going to say "She was so mad she FORGOT about her crippling mental condition", in which case he's just retarded.

That is a big one. With the recycled air, if someone farts 20 rows behind Hannelore, a few minutes later it'll be blown in her face.
People coming down with colds etc after a flight is very common because of this.

Exactly why did Hanners bring They along? Why is she taking the hideous personal assistant she just met to what is meant to be a powerful personal experience?
Why did she take a total stranger she dislikes and has no reasons to be there and not one of the friends she has come to trust and that can lend her moral support?

I thought this would be a total mess, and it's set up to be a train wreck

God, that's fucking lazy.

Hasnt Hanners been fighting spiders every day to get to the coffee grinder?
Recycled airplane air should be peanuts.

Because both of them are being treated in very similar very scummy ways. It concerns both of them.

"Different meds, lol" is the explanation, and the fans will accept it uncritically.

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Did you come here from Jeph's forum xir?

Maybe you're just a bad writer?

For fuck's sake I don't even believe in this gender nonsense and I know that it's just non-binary. Non-binary trans implies that it is going to surgically modify itself to be an intersex.

I figured it as other level meta non-binary, like you're so non-binary that you're transitioning into a another state indescribable by mere mortal language.

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That would be too clever. I have certain particular… groups I'm present in that requires me to be around this people, and I have found a single defining characteristic among them: They're all starved for some form of attention, whether that's love, a good relationship with your parents, sex, or just friendship. They want people to pay attention, and not just that, but take exception to them. It may be consciously or unconsciously, but ultimately they do it because they want people to put enough effort into paying attention to their pronouns.
Oh, and messing them up is the best for them. You either apologize for the mistake and they get an ego boost from you saying sorry for not putting enough effort into caring about them, or they get to take out their issues on you by reprimanding you.
The one exception happens to be FTM Trannies. Most of the ones I've met would actually be cute were it not for wanting to be a guy, and as such they usually want you to pay less attention to them, take them for granted.

It's funny how they'll call you an asshole for assuming their gender and not getting their pronouns right, totally unaware of how insufferable they are for berating a stranger for completely normal social decorum. Completely ironic how these people go on and on about empathy but seem incapable of seeing themselves from the stranger's point of view and/or not even caring to.

And, yeah, it's obvious these people crave attention, even the negative kind you're supposed to grow out of around 7th grade. If it's not the pronouns, it's the purple hair, tattoos, piercings, or "smash the patriarchy" shirt.

Well, it's drama at least.

I'll spell it out for you. It's not that complicated.
The parents of Hannelore and Tarzan are conducting a business transaction. Part of the deal is that Tinkerbell would become Hannelore's assistant.
Both Hannelore and Tinúviel are being manipulated and lied to to facilitate their parents' business transactions. This is not directly about the assistantship any more, it's about autonomy.

(do keep in mind that Hannelore's mother tells her to ditch Thales after the deal goes through - it's shitty for both of them)

Adding more evidence that this will be QCs canon ending.

Those lazy-ass extras…
Hannelore's fagbot with a respray, a pair of identical twins, the blue idiot from Alice Grove and some random idiot whose face is mostly obscured so he doesn't need to give it too much thought.

And wow… that "joke". Why is it that for fucking hipsters all you need do is mention something and that's them laughing?
"Dude, Dune! Aawwwwww LOL!"

Oy vey.

If Jeph drew that cityscape by hand, I'll put a knife through my own palm.

Notice how she avoids using any pronouns for Tantalus, and says "child". The sentences are a bit stilted because of that.
It's slightly amusing she gets that right, but not the name. Using your progeny as pawns for negotiating a contract, sure, but misgendering? Never.
Except that in she says "her". She didn't start getting the name right, but she did seem to start getting the gender right.
What can we infer from this?

Our field agent is taking too long to find and murder Jeph, that's what.

It's the Family Guy formula, which is now old enough where an entire generation has grown up with it. Jeph will struggle increasingly with his references, though, as he's still drawing on the same age of material as Seth McFarlane was in 1999.

YouTuber "I Hate Everything" had an interesting observation about (low brow) American comedies: the characters just shout whatever they want to be funny. Jeph is obviously guilty of this.

I thought so with the high angle shot in Hanners' mom's office but this all but confirms that Jeph is tracing again. I don't know if I'm complaining. It's better this way. We all know Jeph can't draw. Even his fans know, deep down.

Intentional parallel or mere copypasting laziness? You be the judge!

The only question is if this was deliberate, or if Jeph's just been watching too much History channel.

Really? You're all going to let this slide? Looks like I'm up to bat.

So, user, what particular significant pause groups are we talking about?

Fetlife BDSM groups, because it's not like I'm ever going to find an entirely conservative group, or even a Chan that understands or cares enough about 3DPD to put effort into Leather and Latex aesthetic.

Then make your own board, post regularly enough that it has new content every day, and shill for it on Holla Forums. If you like something, you have to put in the effort.

user, I appreciate the sentiment, but even 4chan's /d/ barely touches on this, and every one of the people there I've met is also on Fetlife. And the only reason that they're even present is simply by the sheer likelihood of them being present according to the population, Holla Forums is even less Sociable, and if we even have any women present, they're sure as hell not going to say.
I'd basically be making a thread exclusively for BDSM hentai enthusiasts and the Nana to Kaoru fan club, plus anyone here who liked Sunstone.

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Ok then. Now dump Tilly in a ditch, get Space Station to blact Claire from orbit, and ride Martin so hard he actually remembers he's supposed to be in a band again and actually goes somewhere with that plotline.
I want Hanners to fuck Martin so hard that the orgasmic force makes faye drop half her body weight, and turns Bubbles into a Loli.

First "violence" we've seen in a while. Jeph still can't draw action. Stiffest shit I've ever seen.

>You absolute pig.
>I don't know if you'er capable of feeling shame, but you ought to.
This is fanfiction.net level levels of edge. All that's missing is Jeph keeping the business associates in the room and having them nonsensically clap for Hannelore and telling her, "You go girl!"

Why am I getting Hillary Clinton vibes from her mom in this page? Is it the hair?

Also dumpy old mom body in a business suit.

Oh no, how terrible for Hannelore :(
I really don't understand the outrage, here. Tilly's doing a job she actually wants to do, and Hannelore doesn't actually have to do anything at all.
Be annoyed, sure, but is that really worth storming up to head office over?
I mean fucking hell, she honestly thought international business was all above-board and completely by the books?

Or bringing this back.

Don't insult mothers like that, m8.

Before clicking I thought you were going to paste in "bros bros bros" but this is even better.

This plotline might as well be "Jeeves brought me the Dom Perignon when I actually asked for the Domaine de la Romanee and my soiree was simply ruined!"

That SHOVE is one of the cringiest cringes I've ever cringed.

Also, you have a mother who gives literally zero fucks about you, and to menace her you just tell her not to give a fuck? Well, I'm impressed:that's lazy even for Stabby 's standards

Why is Ellen Degeneres attacking Hillary Clinton?

Latex gives me a rash.

Latex and Rubberism are often interchangeable in this context, and both refer to the general fetish of skin-tight gripping materials that hug the body, though the nuances of why and how the fetish works varies between the individual. Don't go around saying that Latex and Rubberism are the same though, it's a touchy subject, like the difference between a geek and a nerd.

Is Rubberism the hot new secular religion?

Nah, Rubberism is niche even among fetishists. It's expensive and people who do it tend to be career fetishists so they make money off their investment.
What you're looking for is the greater organizations of BDSM, which basically function and act like organized religions and cults, now THERE is some trippt kool-aid. Some are even registered as religions for tax purposes.

I watch some kink.com shit about once or twice per year and am generally disappointed because I thought the whole point was to aggressively fuck some tied down chick that can't escape. Instead I get some tame massager action and light caning that the actress is trying to sell as torture. Half of the thing is, "Who is your master fuckpig I am your master me fuckpig I am the master me I am your master you are my fuckpig I am your master you will beg me to cum yes you will you will be begging your master." The guy is some 38 year old ghostly pale skinny fat virgin looking dude with a paunch trying to look tough with a gay ponytail. Fucking yawn. I actually give the women credit for their acting skills because I'd probably be laughing and/or looking bored.

kink.com is to BDSM what McDonald's is to burgers. I will, however, commend their Fucking Machine videos, which are the most extreme in their genre. They also have the only video to feature a Tranny where you can actually suspend your disbelief and believe that it's Futa on Female.
As for actual BDSM videos, unfortunately that would be on the paid membership of Fetlife, but it's practically worth it for videos alone.
Try putting Fetlife into the Hub's search bar, you'll get some good stuff.

Oh. Like wool?

No, Wool is generally for Sensation Play, people who get off to gentle touch or tickling, or even an itch. It can also apply to ASMR fetishists, but being on Holla Forums, you should already know this.
Your pic, however, would primarily refer to Guilt Fetishists.

Man are we going to get a horrible plotline about one of the bitches overreacting to someone who hurts their feelings every year now? First pinkbot now this.

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You can tell it's supposed to be a serious solemn moment because he left off the alt-text in the lower-right corner.

As well as the strip number and title. I'm conditioned to see loss everywhere, but it follows the general format:
1. Burst in
2. Two people
3. Two people, different perspective
4. Crying, lying down or slumped over.

The only worthwhile thing about this is Pantsuit Hanners being a cute.

I don't recall Hannelore asking Tilly if she could touch her like that.
This is literally the rape of a non-binary, special minority :(

It's ok, Hanners is so incredibly rich she could grab them by the pussy.

By making life easier for her? She could easily have made Tilly the office beverages executive (makes coffee) or sent her off to work in a closet, copying pages out of the dictionary and pretending it's an important job. Hannelore doesn't even have to do anything - she could actually have sub-contracted Tilly out to the fucking coffee shop and her life would not have changed.

How? By actually giving her a genuine job? As PA to one of the wealthiest people on the fucking planet, no less? Shit, I'd love to be duped like that!

And…? Welcome to international business - it ain't the same as selling fucking coffee.

Well, rather than the stunned silence from this emperor of industry, perhaps a more likely outcome would be something like this:

ugh

I was going to ask why you edited Theodore's head to be twice as large, but that's Jeph's fault.
Why is it that way? Didn't he notice? Is it on purpose?

Hanners also called Tilly a SOB, which is a gendered insult.

What's funny is Tilly actually isn't innocent and has motivations of espionage. But Hanners doesn't know this, which is unusual given that in Jeph-land all the characters tend to have all the information, which makes for some exciting storytelling.

All this "empathy" and no thought to mom's point of view. She runs a technological empire, basically the Mega-Apple of the universe, and has a criminally underemployed daughter. From mom's point of view, leveraging the daughter isn't a big deal because she isn't doing anything meaningful anyway. While employed, Hanners is effectively a NEET and her mother is treating her as such. This is something near universal with parents. It's like sending your stoner gamer son out on errands because you don't really care about his frag count in Call of Duty. Yeah, it's a violation of your kid's sovereignty but your kid is being kinda worthless.

As for leveraging Tilly, who really cares? It greases the wheels and the NEET daughter's already easy life gets even easier. I mean it's hard to argue that a service isn't being done. Obviously someone involved in something like this isn't going to be an A+ talent anyway–and we already know this is the case. Tilly is the Hanners of another company.

So, two people stomped inside the private office of one of the most important, powerful and cruel women in the world. Without her being warned.
Then the NEET daughter of said woman has an autistic fit over nothing. That powerful, ruthless, cruel woman, that manages billions every day, takes a beating and acts like she actually cares.
Then they go out with no one being the wiser.
And Hannelore, who has a huge taboo about personal contact and can't even touch a phone without sterile gloves, hugs They in search for simpathy. An irritating, unlikable, obnoxious, invasive character she has met mere days before.

I thought The Last Jedi was bad written and full of plot holes, but Stabby still has the crown with this shitfest.

Eh, I can probably find worse. Even better, I'll bet I can find a Webcomic worse-written AND with a CalArts aesthetic.

How come Tilly's dad never gets mentioned?
He's the one whoring her out and using her as part of the bargain.

Perhaps Hannelore was replaced with an AI back when she had her "medication change", and its outdated brain is finally breaking down.

I can't see why. Fred was loving to even horrible shits like us.
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Okay, now I think I see what you're driving at.

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So Jeph drew Hanners, the door, and the hallway in a manner that makes sense. Then he added the rest of the characters after the fact in a way that makes them look 18 inches tall.

this
It doesn't make sense to me why Hannelore is so assblasted about getting a free assistant. All she had to do was tell Tilly to wash the bathrooms, something menial that deals with muh germs. There's no reason to feel bad for Tilly - she's annoying and volunteers for chores that Hannelore likes doing herself. The only way Hannelore would react so negatively to her mother's request would be if she had a bad history with her mother, but no such history has been covered that I remember.

I guess if Jeph wanted to write an interesting story, he could go in to the unrevealed history between Hannelore and her mom, but this whole thing is apparently about consent/freedom. The mom should cut Hannelore off for revenge.

In b4 muh suppressed memories

That's what it's supposed to be about but it comes off like a tantrum from an adult child who is probably still dependent. Is she really paying all her bills and buying robot chassis with an entry level wage? Seems unlikely.

Nah, facing consequences and weighing safe but dependent vs free but uncertain would make things interesting, and there's no way we can have that.

Hannelore has been acting out of character for so long we might as well dub her Hanners 3.0.

What kind of sub-African IQ do you have to have to "not be qualified" to be a PA? More specifically, how can you not be qualified to assist someone whose entire life is a 9-5 service job with zero public responsibility?

(((Jacques Logic)))
It would be hilarious to see Stabby-esque writing in more famous pieces of writing. I mean, who doesn't want to see an episode of the Oddyssey where we have an entire story arc about Charybdis gets so mad at Poseidon for giving her an androgynous sea nymph as a PA that she stops sinking ships in favor of seeing Poseidon at his domain and getting… confusingly angry at him before breaking into tears?

They'll remain in that hallway for the next ten days, fluids intermingling.

But it fucking WAS true! Where's the fucking problem here?!

Do any of Jeph's fans honestly think he can write? First the entirety of Alice Grove, where the bad guys are the bad guys because story, and now Hannelore playing host to some idiot for a couple of days is the most devious work of Machiavellian manipulation.
This shit reads like fanfic of a fucking pantomime.

I actually found it difficult to fully express my exasperation with these developments leading up to this veritable crescendo of an ending to the emotional roller coaster of the tale of Tilly's (very) brief employment.
The whole thing reads like it was penned by someone who can't remember what he did the previous day.
Maybe he even confuses himself so just decides to end it quickly before moving on to something else.

I may need to expand upon that:
It was true… until Hannelore decide to ruin it all with what could very well be a med-induced emotional glitch.

More importantly, why did Jeph feel the need to introduce yet another new character in a comic full to bursting with characters when he could've used Winslow in Tardy's place? It would've worked just as well and got us to the mom confrontation much faster, plus Winslow presumably has a deeper emotional connection with Hanners than Tardy, who she's known for less than a week in universe.

Given the unholy cocktail of drugs, female hormones and dog fluids chugging their way through his brain every day, he probably can't even remember he writes a webcomic.

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because he's been watching moeshit and he wants you to know

It's far from unanimous, but there are multiple Reddit posts along the lines of, "See! You were wrong to hate Tilly! Just look at this masterful writing!" At least one of them was smart enough to realize that Jeph rejiggers characters around feedback. Most of them think Jeph plays some sort of 4-D chess by making characters do what they think they should when Jeph has a "month long buffer".

We know this is the case. Jeph can't keep his own lore straight, not even in the short term.

Yeah, like Alice Grove. Jeph seems to take the George Lucas approach of having a vague idea that's even less than an outline. He goes forward until about halfway through the second act and then realizes he's written himself into a corner and needs to abort. Pretty much all of his plot lines follow this format, which is why all the resolutions are abrupt, short, and often seemingly out of nowhere. I think the out of nowhere parts were originally supposed to fit in but Jeph has no idea how to use the second act to bridge to what he wants to do in the third. He just writes introductions, a sudden climax, and then retrospectives on an event lacking impact.

Also
She literally became someone else over night. She's been out of character for weeks.

Low count posters on the forum are breaking the narrative and the admins are getting testy about it.

If you consider these low count posters as representatives of the forum, the forum is actually currently more negative than Reddit is. The mods with thousands of posts eat all this shit up, of course.

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Add asking someone to describe the sound of dial up modems to the list of stories that never happened. He left the part out where the entire room erupted in laughter over this clever quip.

What if Jeph really does have a buffer, but not the way we think? If it's a collection of 30 non sequiter cutaway gag pages that could go anywhere because they aren't connected to anything, then he has a one month buffer without having written any story.

I've thought that, too. It's also the grab bag from which he draws his Patreon strips.

If Jeph wasn't a confirmed jaggoff, I would congratulate him on swindling hipster faggots out of their parent's money, but we all know he's just as bad as they are, if not worse.

F L U I D S

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This picture just makes me want to see Tilly passed around from character to character as they bully her and the comic slowly evolves into straight up Oglaf-tier sex jokes and endless BDSM and rape for her.
Of course, that's not even a possibility even if Stabby wanted to do it. He doesn't even pay enough lip service to BDSM with Martin's mother for it. Seriously, she's basically just a retired Kink.com Porn Star for how much kink has actually been displayed by her. Jeph just doesn't "get" BDSM and it shows.

I could believe the reason he injected it is because he read an article on fucking Vice or some shit and thought, "Wow! That is totally empowering to Womyn! I must add this to my comic!"

And that's the real problem here. There's actually some substance to that with the power-exchange dynamic. Not to mention the sheer depth of BDSM history and lore, the subtleties and psychologies of it. I mean, Fucking Hell, Mistress Goddamn Sixx with its CalAnime style and hoakey Atlanis BDSM Powers pays better attention to it.

No MrNumbers Hanners did not need to cut ties with her mom. Firstly that's a gross overreaction to what her mom did, secondly I've been following this comic since trannyfuck and I don't remember ever seeing her mom before. It's not like this weird blind alley of a plot was addressing anything pressing.

The forum infighting and wrongthink purges are more entertaining than the fucking comic at this point.

Merry Christmas, you degenerate cunts

Merry Christmas user. BDSM-user here. Think I'll stick around as the resident advisor on Libcuck culture, if only because Stabby is full of Shit even by their standards, and that's hilarious.

I saw this before, but I guess it was from the guy leaking Patreon strips. Funny that Jeph is giving his donors the middle finger because he's too lazy to draw an extra few strips.

If you want anything like what you described, look up elitepain.

merry kurisumasu u_u

What a legend.

…what the fuck is wrong with me, why do I want a comic of Amalia sexually dominating Marten and/or Hanners now

Imagine if all Holla Forums-media has a personification. A toon-tan, if you will. Now imagine Wakfu-Chan bullying QC-tan for its horrid writing, it's abysmal characterization, its swiss-like plot holes, and then goes on to make QC-tan service her sexually. And it's all done in French.

That only works if QC-tan is the personification of Questionable Content as written by Jeph Jacques. If QC-tan is the personification of these threads, Wakfu-chan will start with the bully only for QC to criticize her technique and demand she do it again. Wakfu will have to massively escalate the cruelty in order to make the "hurt just to feel something" QC-tan respond with anything but exasperation and accusations of amateurism. At the end of the night, this will result in Wakfu gently holding a battered and slovenly QC while she pets her hair and gently calms her down.

I was going for the Series persona, not the thread persona, but whichever is more likely to result in someone actually drawing Toon-tans and it becoming a whole thing.
I need to get a new tablet, probably a better one this time. Should've let my family know I wanted one.

Dead meme Patreon strip.

That is almost redeeming. Almost. OldFaye body with NuFaye Robo-mechanic and Armor fetish would be top-tier.

That's Menstro actually but I can't blame you for assuming it's the character we actually saw in the room.

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Fuckin' quality art.

At first I thought she was donning orange or lime slices.

Jeph really knows how to set up a punchline.

What am I even looking at? Is he making fun of parodies of his work? Trying to be funny by giving a nod to his shit art/story? Or has he ascended so far beyond human comprehension of irony that even my blu-ray box set of Rick and Morty won't help me understand his divine humor?

I wonder if Jeph has considered that releasing low quality strips like the above may deter people on the fence buying into his Patreon.

This is hilarious. Not the comic itself, but just how honest this is. Look at what everyone does for work in the comic. Either lazy work like a librarian, or fun, hipster work like Barista or Bartender, or Robo-Mechanic.
This is what Stabby honestly feels about gainful employment, about learning an honest trade, it's his justification for staying in webcomics.
Also, it's a great template comic. Just replace the spiders frame with a different reaction, and the Work on the wall to something like "marvel" and you're golden.

I wonder if Jeph is sore about not having any practical skills. Despite investing everything into this mediocre webcomic, the best thing I've seen him do is produce music. He might be able to get away with forming a local studio, though so many are skipping that step these days and either building their own for a few hundred dollars or just uploading their "bedroom" videos onto YouTube.

Other than that, I have my doubts that Jeph can do anything practical, like build a shelf or table, fix a PC, fix a toilet, change a car's oil, etc. If/When QC dries up his options are going to be limited, especially if he hasn't saved enough of his capital, which is difficult when maintaining two [ex-]wives, moving between countries, and enabling very expensive hobbies like top-end drawing tablets and exotic guitars.

Maybe he'll get a job as a butcher after he mutilates his dog out of depression.

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I know content gating is something subscription based content providers struggle with, but you're allowed to put some level of effort in, Jeph. These strips are absolute Garfield tier shit.

Who the fuck even is green May

Looks like she's called "Melon"

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Well, giving his donors their own exclusive storyline with these completely unrelated characters is an idea that has merit, but it falls flat and bursts into flames when he puts even less effort into it than he does his usual 30% effort comics.

he puts even less effort into it than he does his usual 30% effort comics
Which ones are those? Is he running another comic aside from QC?

LOL! That's just so random!
It's random!
That's why it's LOL!
LOL!!!

Well, he was, actually: Alice Grove, though that, too, went down in flames.

As if on cue.

Well, at least this one makes sense. Unfortunately the art's downgraded. I guess you can only have one at a time.

This… This is Eberron in a nutshell.

So, the church in QC-ville has priests willing to accept man-made, synthetic, constructed AIs as having souls but trannies are still downtrodden because story drama?

I don't think you understand. Boys that want to be girls are an abomination forsaken by god, not like the intelligent, well mannered, pious machine friends we have grown to love.

Can't pass by the theater playing The Greatest Showman without being reminded of QC.

That was Ostensibly a good film, once you accept the tone that it goes for and that the campiness is part of the fun. However, my problem with it, and likely everyone's problem with it here is the obvious undertones of Special Snowflakism and Alternative Lifestyles. If this film was released 10 years ago, with nothing about it changed, it'd be fine.
Also the music is too "Pop" for the tone I felt they should've been going for.

Is it at least worked in artfully, or is it just that all of the musical numbers it promises have that by-committee overprocessed sound where all the singers clusterfuck the held notes?

And all the print reviews are busy telling us that P.T. Barnum was actually history's greatest monster and making a happy musical about him is gross or something.

It's about that page.

When I watched it, it was basically "Oh, they've started singing, neat… This is a little more modern than I was expecting from this film and time period. Huh."
The music fits the scene at least, it's just got slightly more modern instrumentation and musical techniques than normal. I kind of felt they should've made the songs fit more with the apparent time period, as they did with Moulin Rouge(which anyone can tell you is a shit story, but a guilty pleasure all the same.)

Oh, hell yeah. The whole film treats him as the white guy who treats the special snowflakes for what they are, and not freaks. Nah, he was someone who knew how to make a profit off of someone else's deformities. There's no sugar-coating it.
Still, the film isn't worth getting mad over, or NOT suspending your disbelief for the running time.

Actually, we appear to have 15 pages now (possibly 16, the catalog numbering is different from the index numbering).

Oh, and the leading love interest is Mixed-race Mary Jane from Spiderman: Homecoming, who got her start on Disney Channel. That's probably where you guys are going to get the most mad in this film, because muh interracial couples and whatnot.

Still like the site but, yeah, state of affairs right there.

Shit, when did that happen?

There's no contradiction there. Nobody gets mad about Steve Buscemi appearing on screen, right? He knows his job and his employers know they're not just paying him for his voice. Granted some freaks were retarded, but if you're not going to kill them, you'll need money to take care of them.

Beats the coffee shop at least.

Plot twist: the space station has a coffee shop which just so happens to have an opening.

It'll be The Interns all over again with Space Dora, Space Faye, and Space Hannelore running the place with their quirky and sassy personalities. I'm sure it'll be just the kind of injection this thing needs.

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The space station is owned by her father not her mother.

I didn't realize they were separated. Or is this a high-power business marriage thing, where they retain individual control of their best assets?

Meanwhile her friend Faye is struggling and penniless. But that's ok, because nobody likes Faye.

Gee! Fuckin' thanks, Hannelore!! Still, so long as your precious feelings were avenged, eh?!
I still don't get the outrage, here. Like their main concern was that multi-billion dollar business deals weren't orchestrated by Mr. Rogers.
And why are those people at the door in panel 1 looking so shocked - they weren't outside that office to hear the shouting match.

It'd be great if this plan of Hannelore's isn't out of concern for her slave, but that she realized she could get rid of theys by blasting those into space. Possibly towards the sun.
Holy shit, could Jeph have gotten any closer to a Poochy analogy?

There's a point - they really think Hannelore's mad mother would seriously risk a major business deal just because of this…?
And that if Tilly got cold feet then they's dad would just pat they on the head and say, "That's alright, They. I don't need this life-changing deal, which I was already willing to use you in, anyway. Go work in a coffee shop, or something…"

Jeph is a leftist and almost certainly Marxist. Even though he runs a business himself it's "different" because it's Jeph. He probably bitches about the corporate 1% who don't deserve it while raking in a quarter of a million dollars per year on his low skill yet internet famous webcomic.

yep, about sums it up

Also, Jeph's holograph device wouldn't work. I know this universe isn't hard sci-fi, but…oh, wait.

Jeph's subtly admitting Tardy is completely fucking superfluous.

Wait… they shot a drone down from space in a fucking pod just to have this conversation?
And it couldn't be done over the phone, because…?

And what if she can't handle the weightlessness? Thousands of top-shape, 0.01% of the 0.01%, lifelong dream holding astronaut candidates never leave the ground because they got a bad roll in the genetic lottery where weightless disorientation is concerned. And I mean they in the proper plural sense, not this bastardized "gender neutral" usage. If they were serious about proper gender neutral terms, they woyld use "It", but nooooooo, that's dehumanizing or some shit.

Just another way these people deny reality. It's funny, they make fun of Christians and their non-scientific view of dust-man and rib-woman and their immortal souls but ultimately they have the same exceptionalism view just in different, even more nebulous terms. In reality we are objects and we are its. "Objectification" is a nonsense concept, even moreso when you get the associated baggage on board, e.g. "If you objectify humans then you are calling for violence." Says who? It's not like I mindlessly attack my car or PC. This shit is expensive and I want it to last. How is this a negative? What's funny is I value these things more than whiny leftists so they should be complaining about sub-objectification. Even a napkin that I use for a moment and then discard has more value to me than most of these people.

Poochie literally goes back to >their planet.

That lifeless look in Hanners' eyes in panel two, amazing stuff.

The Reddit has been triggered to fuck by use of the word "it"

She has the same "line under eyes" broken look that Marten had. Maybe Jeph just thinks it makes them look emotional.

It makes them look emotionally dead. That's kinda close, right?

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looks like JEPH! is taking his hannelore ball and going home because his new character bombed

Being this new.

Also not believable that the tranny didn't set >her icon to a picture from the $500 professional photo shoot >she had done.

Oh, no. One of the characters shall disappear for a few months. How shocking.
This has never happened befo-ore…

Of course it ends with a big group lovefest hug-in, because it has to. Then it ends after that with "I AGREE, (designated villain of the arc) IS JUST *THE WORST*" because it also has to.

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???
How the fuck could you tell?

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Look alt-May's head and neck in panel 1.

I legitimately thought that Marten was Dora, the memes are too strong for this one.

Also, of course the faggy transthing is the one who uses emogiis like an obnoxious schoolgirl and the character who repairs robots for a living can't into Twitter.

Guess it was too subtle.

Crotch.

Jesus Christ, Faye looks ugly, here.
From her deformed head to inflato-tits from panels 2 to 3, and the shrinking corneas of her eyes on panel 4 just make it look like she's seen some unspeakable horror.
Her stance has also begun to annoy me. It's like she stands with her legs slightly apart like that because they're now too fat for her to stand straight without busting the seams on her jeans.

The simpler explanation is that it probably hurts her testicles to stand like a woman.

I was about to mock Jeph for not being able to keep Dora's avatars straight before I realized.

I caught it.

I was gonna make a remark about bringing back this character after 10+ years and making her a lesbian, but I think it was already established.

Jeph's desperately trying to turn back from his own event horizon, where he's spent so long having conversations with pretend people on Twitter that his entire world, comic included, just turns into made-up slapfights with his characters faces attached. One by one they'll be killed off because in his head, he misinterprets an ironic retweet, or remembers an eight year old post that contains a word that Mother Jones decided is a code word for supremacy an hour ago.

Is Faye… Thinner? She looks almost appealing in this one. Hell, if it was all toned muscle underneath the hoody I could go for it.

So, the point of the They storyline is "Hanners got angry at her mum, and because of that she leaves friends and work behind"……..

And her friends don't tell her "what are you, twelve? Get your ass back here,you idiot"

So, since his new nonbinary character has been rejected, Stabby brings back a lesbian character from the dawn of time….

No, Jeph, you don't get to do this.
Setting up perfect timing is fine. Dramatic coincidences make stories work. But if you make your characters say "gosh, that sure is convenient!" you're drawing attention to the fact that you're creating the story, and ruin any immersion there was.

I forgot the Whitakers are supposed to be speaking with a southern drawl. $10 says Amanda here talks just like a quirky, neurotic, New England hipster despite living her whole life in Georgia. Oh, and she's never been employed. Imagine my shock.

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Since she's apparnelty so blunt and has few social graces, as evidenced by the earlier strip, think she might also mention that Faye's arse is twice as wide as it was last time they met?

Is Jeph brave enough to have such a charatcer act in-character?

Jeph, pls, we can see you posting all day on Twitter.

She's at her friend's business right now, distracting her from work.

Have we missed a strip or something?
The long-lost lesbian just showed up and so happened to meet Faye at the coffee shop - have any reasons actually been given for taking any time off?
She's not even asking for a place to stay - she's only there for the day while her pet nigger with the nigger hair talks shit to a room of idiots.

This. She's bitching at her sister for suggesting she take time off while actively not working the kind of hours a normal person expects a repairman to operate during. It's like the sloth who bitches about being too busy because of all the TV they watch.

I guess the justification is that Faye is just there to get coffee but exactly how far away is the shop? Is this really the closest and most efficient option? Is "getting coffee" turning into a 1-2 hour social event? Shouldn't she invest in a $15 coffee pot so as not to spend so long outside of work, even if it really is getting the coffee and immediately leaving? These are the things you really need to think about when launching a business. It's after something like five years when the boss can start lollygagging.

And, yeah, why is the sister in this particular coffee shop, especially when she knows there is no real expectation to find Faye there? If they went to the shop first, why wouldn't they wait there and attempt to chase Faye down? Unless they know Faye will be hanging out for hours instead of just picking up coffee.

Even by Faye's standards, she is being a massive bitch here. Her lesbisister didn't ask for anything, stating that she's just up for one event for the day, implying she didn't actually intend to spend any time with Faye, but she takes it as a massive affront that she's going to have to take all the time out of her busy schedule of begging her former boss for free coffee to whatever.

Also, nice trips.

Oh. Didn't actually read until just now. All this time I'd just been assuming everyone was calling her a lesbian because she walked in with a female friend and because we know who's drawing this.

It's okay. I was gonna post the same sort of thing but something told me she was established as a lesbian 10+ years ago so I looked it up. But, yeah, even without that it'd be safe to assume.

Again, why is everyone _here_? How do they know to go here? If they asked Menstro where Faye was, didn't they already see the shop? Did Faye or mom really not tell her the address and she randomly walked into the coffee shop trying to track her down and coincidentally found Faye there?

get out

What is with Jeph and random stay dots?

Well, this is new information.

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Oh, Ok. So Faye complains she doesn't have the time to hang out, before actually being given the offer to hang out in the first place.
It's actually starting to get on my nerves, just how often Faye's head changed shape.

I can believe there's plenty of psychology to be done around AIs, but the singularity happened during the comic and changed literally nothing.

This is exactly like the fantasy author who invents a brand new race of snowflakes and tries to legitimize them by making the characters talk about them like they knew they existed the whole time, but fucks up because their existence would have changed fundamental story elements. Except this time it's phone calls, messaging, and accents that mysteriously don't exist any more.

The real frontier gor AI psychology would probably revolve around aggregate conversations, where two AIs hold hundreds of variations of the same conversation in order to arrive at the "true" conversation that they agree actually happened.

Faye appears to have somewhat shrunken in size but also developed extremely long legs.

Fucking hell, I scanned across that and thought it said "getting nigged by your sister".
But yeah, Faye has definitely shrunk - she used to have udders to beat the motherfucking band but here they're almost normal-sized.

So a racemixed lesbian couple. And apparently the nigger seems to be intelligent one, and (judging by bodylanguage) the reliable and stedfast (i.e. masculine) one too.
That does not warrent the response
>"She's so smart."
Also, I'm a PhD student, and I would by no means say that's what getting a PhD is about. I would also not be so lacking in respect that I would ever refer to my supervisor as "Some old dude".

By the way, do we know what her PhD is in? Is it in something like atomic physics, or is it in something like african studies?

Post-singularity psychology according to
Whatever the fuck that means. The Singularity seems to have done fuck-all for society, anyway. If indeed it has happened in QC-ville.
The alleged "runaway technological growth" just seems to have resulted in more household novelties.

I think I need to take a break from the internet and just go for a walk. It took me almost a full minute to realize that "getting negged" in this usage means "light verbal bullying" and has nothing to due with bugchasing.

Well, it is a PhD in psychology. I know there are reputable psychology departments out there, but I don't think I'd trust anything that comes out of Jeph's world when it comes to proper analysis of the mind.

Oh. Took me longer than that to realize that she didn't say "getting pegged" in a metaphorical sense.

But let's be honest, can we really expect someone who turned music electives in middle school into a college major to know about what it takes to reach PhD status? From what we know about his education quality it sounds like he's barely high school level. However, he can produce music at a professional level. I find his mastering muddy and too equalized but that's hardly an insult given what's been going on in the rest of the industry for the past 25 years.

This does sound like the "intersectional studies" of the future.

And societal overhead without utility, i.e. robot civil rights.

"Negged" in this context is in the "dad" vernacular now but it comes from the PUA community as a tool to land otherwise unobtainable women, which is ironic given the muh women's rights kinda guy Jeph is. The idea is you "neg" her in subtle ways in an attempt to reduce her perceived status, which, hypothetically, raises her attraction level toward you. You could say something like, "Wow, you look really good, almost as good as my last two girlfriends" with the subtle dig that this particular woman is only #3 to this man despite being very attractive.

Quite a nice dodge by Jeph there - answering the question no-one would be asking ie. "What's getting a PhD like?" rather than the question everyone would be asking; "What the fuck is post-singularity psychology?"

I also wonder if Jeph realises Dr.Nog has basically been waggling her eyebrows all throughout

Oh, please, Jeph, make Faye a homewrecker. I can't wait to see the wheels spinning trying to justify this, both in-universe and on the forum, whose participants are guaranteed to be from broken homes.

The punchline would be the dad thinking he was exploring his gay side but it's just Faye

I think it's a long setup for a "Faye's a lesbian in denial" reveal.

Obviously, can't have any straight characters in here. Except Faye's a lebo for robos.

given Jeph's design sensibility, this probably actually exists in this universe

In what way does she resemble a tank with legs?
How would she resemble a tank with legs in several ways?
When I hear "tank with legs" I think of something like an AT-AT, and I don't think it'd be much of a stretch to assume that anyone else would picture that or something similar.
Period Blood's more of a mentally unstable butch-bot with legs.

Honestly, I almost feel bad complaining at this point. There's just so much wrong with this comic that saying anything now is redundant.

That makes sense. I was thinking of something much less practical, like a literal tank with treads rendered pointless by stilts.

Kek.
We'll see that sometime next week, and it'll enter a polyamorous relationship with Marten and Ron Clairemy

It's like pointing at the retarded kid who shits in the ball pit and complaining about what he's doing. You shouldn't have to point out the fact that this is bad, but there's a host of people on the sidelines cheering for him.

On stilts, but the feet are still treads and there are no joints to flex. The worst of both worlds.

What exactly has she done to cause this reaction? Walk out from a side room? Apparently she instantly gets any lesbian moist at one glance, which actually tosses doubt on Faye being one now.

New plan: Amanda, Evie, Dora, and Tai all team up and seduce Bubbles for themselves while Faye gets drunk and hooks up with a new FTM character.

Whoops, meant to post this comic, not a repost of today's. And if I was going to edit today's, all I've got is replacing both their text bubbles in the last panel with "YOU'RE MY HEEERO."

Still maintaining tell; don't show, huh Jeph?
Every time Menstro appears I always think its head looks like it's on backward.
And why is its hair longer? I also noticed its ears don't seem to actually do anything; they look like flaps; not even a gauze or anything - that's just laziness.
Has Amanda had polio in the past or something? Her right foot in the first panel looks kinda fucked up.

Don't be ridiculous user, that would have the potential for an interesting backstory.

So, Menstro's 2 foot robocock is now canon?

The two lezzies leaning forwards like that… Just makes it look like they're shouting at Mentstro.
If someone's in shock and awe don't they usually lean back? Right now they're just pushing their faces at it like a couple of autistic children.

overly wordy postmodernist pseudoscientific nonsense vs exceedingly dull robot

You can't deliberately go out of your way to not explain something and then applaud yourself for having it be vague and mysterious. That's bad writing.

This is patently false.

You might have some claim if you said abstract threats, but humans are pretty much capable of identifying long term threats on the spot. The analogy with nuclear weapons is simply due to people not understanding the proper use of armaments in dealing with foes. Several nations having nukes is no different than people in a room having guns, but liberals are famous for not understanding why people try to have good weapons for self defense.

This would be a hilarious study to read. I can imaging some AI seeing this nog drowning herself in psychobabble and dedicating the next 20 years toward recording her exploits for its fellow AIs to laugh at.

Notice how Menstro's head inflates and its body deflates over the course of the strip?
Aside from that, this is the first QC strip that has managed to provoke a genuine emotional response in me for quite some time!
So happens that response was, "What a crock of shit!".
We're still being told that people hate AIs and they're so downtrodden with people being raised to hate them… yet people happily buy them off the shelf down their local AI store, and with an extensive range of accessories.

Have we ever actually seen anyone across the course of this fucking comic discriminate against an AI? We've seen the AIs having a go at each other plenty of times, but has there ever been any genuine human-on-AI violence?

Some characters we've never seen before and never see again once had the audacity to say MEAN WORDS in her vicinity and it was so traumatic it filled up a week of comics.

My goodness. A veritable 2nd Renaissance.

See, Jeph shies away from addressing any genuine issues which could arise from what we've been shown in his own stupid comic.
"Yes, but people have been taught to hate" - that's the only reason people would have to hate AIs, huh? Because mommy and daddy di'n't have no robots back in they day?
Not that machines which don't need to eat or sleep or take any breaks are being put in jobs a human needs? If there is *any* human unemployment at all in QC-ville then that will be a point of tension if they see a robot, which had to be specifically built to meet a demand, is working in a shop - a job which a human could really use if fortune has dealt them a shitty hand.
And already we've seen that trannies get offended by the idea of robots with interchangeable chassis, as this diminishes their plight (which again remains unseen in QC-ville).
It's almost like Jeph doesn't read his own comic.

You know, I almost want to tackle QC-Ville as a Tabletop RPG campaign. Jeph, as incompetent as he is, has inadvertently hit upon a few interesting concepts. A peaceful Singularity, everyday life with robots. All you'd really have to do is toss in some Scott Pilgrim-esque or Rocko's Modern Life sort of gonzo conflict and you could have a pretty good story out of it. Just replace all this drama and Libcuck nonsense with a rapidly escalating series of events to keep things fresh with players, and vague notions of just how morally responsible Skynet really is.

Truly the greatest injustice of this whole comic.

I kind of like this.

lol zany

I want Jeph to inadvertently recreate You and Me with Faye and Bubbles, except it's Bubbles' Giant H. R. Giger penis of mass destruction.

"R2D2 and She"?

That's the only robot she's fixed.

What the fuck is Jeph experimenting with making an Oh Joy Sextoy crossover?

How can you even tell if it's angry or just excited?

Being excited is a microaggression so it's the same thing.

OH GOD PLEASE NO

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what is the point of the singularity Jeph

Is she retarded? A retarded robot?

This will all be worthwhile if we get a story arc where other robots insist on fixing her, which will remove her stupid lolrandumb nature and replace it with an average person's mentality and let her be productive again. I want to see Jeph make his characters argue in favor of keeping a retard stupid when there are easy solutions because muh special snowflake or some shit.

Just as well he had Amanda there to remind us this is supposed to be funny.
That does seem to be the only way Jeph can convey emotion - he can't let the actions on-page speak for themselves; he needs to cast members to laugh and cry like pantomime extras.

He learned from the best

Combat droids are most effective when programmed to be passively aggressive and emo.

Maybe the government installed a retard chip in her once her service was done.
Actually, that sounds like it could be a real thing. The government would require that all robots have retard chips in them so that they stay complacent, and don't try to rise up or actually accomplish something useful. The only exception would be in-service bots working for the government, and the chip would be installed once the bot was no longer directly serving.

Of course, that sounds like an interesting plotline so it couldn't be true.

I think Menstro is butthurt over the attempt at objectively analyzing her as part of an aggregate, but I want to see how Jeph spins it so that AId are somehow different than a normal social science category.

Is ', a trendy new compound punctuation mark?

Wow… That's actually quite brave of Jeph to have a nigger come in and piss people off by showing how woke and understanding they are.
So far they've portrayed that character quite well - if I saw a black woman with that fucking haircut I'd assume they were an asshole.

Maybe that's why Menstro is so sad. Faye has brought a nigger into the establishment and Menstro can no longer go into military mode to take care of the problem.

jeph tries to do anime eyes, ends up lovecraftian

forgot you can't embed video and image at the same time

Really gets the ol' gears turning.

gets the noggin joggin

It certainly gets my thoughts percolating.

Jeph really is a card-carrying cultural marxist:

Post-Singularity psychology seem to be as serious a scientific dicipline as the name would imply.

Don't forget that she had a little girl draw a painting on another robot as well.

Daily reminder that Fay is a scam artist.

They programmed Menstro as a woman, but only gave her the negative feminine traits.

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I wasn't aware Menstro was transgender.

I know there's a good chance it will all fall apart but could we possibly be witnessing the start of some genuine character drama?
Reddit is already going mad over it, with arguments over whether or not Menston is right to be offended by being treated like a statistic.

Menstro is treated as "omg coolest ever" by total strangers and it's still not enough. It's funny how people like Jeph show their hand via fiction. They think the world revolves around them and they are attention seeking black holes. This is why the general advice is to never apologize to a SJW even if you're in the wrong. They'll just take that olive brach, yank on it, and pull out the whole tree.

Does Stabby get laid at all? I feel like he's tried to fuck a vacuum cleaner at some point out of sheer desperation.

Fucking hell, she is obsessed! I'm starting to think the real reason she's on that stupid course is to indulge in some sort of robot fetish. Like she wants to study robot relationships 'cause she dreams of being fucked for 12 hours straight by a relentless machine.

To be fair, as soon as Fembot technology advances far enough, that's likely what most of the board will be investing in, at least according to the general opinion on 3DPD around here.

hard sci-fi

This actually brings up an interesting idea. Somewhere out there, there's a "Programming Entertainer"who writes lines of code with the express purpose of pushing an AI's operating system to it's bizarre limits without breaking it, like the people who make ROM hacks in old games. AI's download these programs and run them in order to experience new, unpredictable, and exciting things.

And, of course, there are always magnets.

There's no tolerance buildup, no physical crash, no negative health affects, can be turned on or off at a moment's notice as the situation demands, and has no overhead costs past possibly an initial purchase of PCP.7z. There's no reason for robots not to run around high 100% of the time. Aside from that, if robot minds are well documented enough to create a 1:1 synthetic analogue to the effects of THC and orgasm chemicals, why do they have a need for psychologists?

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To provide expositional filler so authors of shitey webcomics don't have to resolve any of the relationshit drama they've spent years introducing and never resolving :^)

Which raises an interesting question; why is he doing this now?
We've had robots in this comic since the beginning and robo-relationshit for over a year and only now he decides to answer some of the questions, the answers to which may have been interesting ages ago it when it was more pertinent?

"humor"

So how much more we have to suffer before the shocking, soul-crushing "no, Faye, YOU are the lesbians"?

I wonder what he's been watching for the last month that's influencing his art.

You know, I almost WISH that Jeph would make this Robosexuality thing a big fucking deal, and oarade around the prejudice against it, and Trannies, but exclusively left lesbos and fags out of it, because I would like to see the broken logic Jeph uses in action. I want to see him justify why Robo-Lesbianism can be played out for cheap drama but no one can touch normal lesbians. I want this to be a matter of National/Skynet security that if Faye fucks a robot it will mean Hitler VII comes to power and, I want it to absolutely bomb with fans so Jeph has to bend over backwards doing some crazy-ass bullshit logic on why this works even when it clearly doesn't because that would be INTERESTING.
But I know, Jeph is just a spineless asshole that makes money off of feelgood libcuck stories and Patreon. It's like Bike Cuck/Shen, who knew he could make interesting stuff, but it wouldn't relate to people, so he did the "So Bad, Me Sad" comics and it worked in his favor until Bike Cuck. Except Shen at least admits that's what he's doing, Jeph is so utterly asinine as to think he's a genius for writing things that are so "relatable."
Also, it occurs to me that all this cheap drama is the perfect backdrop for a [B I Z A R R E A D V E N T U RE]. Almost all of Jeph's shitty writing can suddenly be made interesting if you apply JoJo logic to it. Now I want to run a tabletop campaign in QC-verse even more.

Amen.

Speaking of which, QC board game Kickstarter when?

You'd need some serious creative liberty to make that even remotely interesting.
I think it'd help if you play someone from the real world trying to make sense of all the shit in QC ville.

It doesn't have to be interesting; it just needs the superficial appearance of being viable. For anything that doesn't make sense, just say that's what the funds are for. We're talking about Kickstarter here.

Jeph finally draws more than 4 panels, but it's this.

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This stupid comic does get a lot of criticism for forced relationships (such as Marten and Clarence) but it just seems really obnoxious to me to have even the cast try to force a relationship right now.
Wouldn't it have much more impact if the situation developed by way of Menstro talking to Faye a lot more about its "feelings"?
Or have Faye herself come to a gradual realisation and not know how to deal with it?
This also, once again, shows that all lesbians can ever talk about is lesbianism, and more fucking lesbians.

I'm starting to think that the whole theme of the comic now is "starting relationships." I mean, how many relationships have been started but never actually concluded? It happens all the fucking time, now.
Or perhaps Jeph is fully aware of his audience and their insatiable lust for shipping. They do punish him for trying anything different, that's for sure.

I was pretty naive when first discovering their forum and their no shipping rule. I thought, "who gives a fuck about this?" and then I saw the fandom holy wars in every other property. I thought shipping was something like, "It'd be nice if X hooked up with Y" but it's actually, "How DARE you disagree with my OTP! You make me want to commit suicide! My death is on YOU! Fuck you! Fuck you FOREVER!"

Later I thought, "Yeah, a no shipping rule makes perfect sense."

in which the black girl spontaneously develops a giant hand

oh qc is on the spectrum all right

yes, by sheephearding faye into a relationship with a mentally unstable arguably criminal combat droid you make her "safe"

Please, if anyone is getting the raw deal here it's Bubbles. I mean, by Jeph's standards Bubbles may as well be the best character in the series right now, since Hanners has fucked off. Hell, of anyone's issues in the series, Bubbles is the most justifiable because she's a soldier. Also she's cute, like a bashful Orc girl on /tg/

With that negroid arm covering her face, I got flashbacks to the old edits with the fisting between Dora and Tai.

Good times.

All this makes Menstro sound less and less suited to ever being a combat robot.
What's the fucking point if they can get so morose and angsty?
Anyway, I think this whole plot line is over a year too late. Right now it just comes across as desperate scrambling by Jeph for something to appease the "fans" and stop them from pulling him apart for another month.
Relationshit, in the middle of more relationshit, to take a break from the other relationshit, just removes any impact it may have had.

Menstro may be the best character, whatever, but "safe" isn't a word to describe it. The thing is volatile both in emotion and lifestyle. It is one step from being a vagabond on the run from the law.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing right now. This has echoes of the trappening where Marten's dad's wedding would have been the time to bring it up but since it cooled off then there was no reason to remain invested. The pacing is also absolute shit, even by Jeph's standards. These diner strips are so claustrophobic, both in panel layout and setting.

Makes me think that what we need right now is some Marten actually having a relationship with Clarence. Since You're Beautiful we haven't really seen much of them on their own, away from the others.
I think it would be an interesting contrast between them and Faye with Menstro. On the one hand we have Menstro who struggles to actually express emotions; on the other we have Clarence who can only force exaggerated emotional responses and generally acts like he's in a constant pantomime.

Oh no he doesn't!

He's behind you!

At last, the diner arc ends.

Sometimes I think that Jeph might be tip-toeing towards the magic black box of these AI actually being an illict brain upload that the robots can't remember. But that's too interesting to be true.

Faye threatens a black lesbian!
KKK membership confirmed!

But yeah, this shit is so fucking patronising it's sickening.
"Be a lesbian towards your robot friend! That'd be great! But if she doesn't want a physical relationship then like, that's like totally cool, man! Some people are like, different, and that's ok."
A fucking Burger King kids club morality play.

How appropriate.