Terrible.I cannot wait for the fallout and immediate backtracking.
Dang. I like this. Eliot and Clinton weren't ever a good fit. And Eliot's proving it with these emails.
What? Did they break up off screen? Will Clint finally get to fuck Brun's autism away?
>>150918472Off-panel breakup yeah
>>150918488Jesus Christ, that's a whole new level of "things never happen." Now things happen, we just don't get to see them.
>>150918472I'd rather Yay fuck Clinton. As an experiment.
>>150918472I hope Brun never comes back. Clinton can be yet another bot-fucker.
>>150918257>why should i be expected to emotionally support my romantic partner?Western relationships are cooked
>>150918257PLEASE let him develop a long distance relationship culminating in weird amputee sex with Dr Loli.
>>150918375The only good thing they had going for them was the chance of a threesome with a girl or fembot they could have doubleteamed.
>>150918472Brun has been confirmed unattracted to Clinton. She is only attracted to absurdly large female robot asses.
>>150918677That is ALL Clinton did for Eliot. And all of Eliot's anxieties were with the relationship itself. It was not a fair relationship.
>>150918257It's been a while. I don't remember Elliot being a much of a mental case, especially compared to most characters in this.
>>150918257This reminds me of a gay couple I know, except this has less physical abuse.
>>150918257This is absolutely a correct move, the mistake was ever pairing them in the first place, especially with it coming off as a consolation prize when Brun turned down both of them.This is also correct. It was pretty clear Jeph, wasn't sure what to do with her (what wouldn't get him nailed to a wall), and she doesn't have a reason to be present, with no connection to the rest of the cast.>>150918677Elliot's central problem is that he doesn't love himself, and that gives him crippling insecurity about his relationships and their honesty. A romantic partner can't fix that, because "well of course you say that you're here for me, that's what your supposed to do, but do you MEAN it!?" It's just a doom loop, and Elliot needs someone detached to tell them to stop moping and generate some self worth.
>>150918691>only reason Dr. Loli said no was they just met>only reason Eliot said no was he had a boyfriendyou might be on to something there
>>150918662see middle section of>>150918823
>>150918691Liz wants to bone her emotional support pseudo father, not some random American twink.
>>150918257They should have twin sex with each other
>>150918691I do not need the second best character and second worst character shacking up, thank you very much.
>>150918854Once Marten finally gets it through her head that she has no chance with him after he gave her so much false hope, she’s going to be seeking a rebound crush.
>>150918800He was an eternal sadsack that needed constant validation and had no confidence whatsoever. The only thing him and Clinton had in common was having cocks and being unable to fuck Brun, so once they explored those vistas there was no reason to stay together.
>>150918677Agreed Saar, in the East you would never see a partner neglect their partner emotionally
>>150918888You're right, why would Marten date an emotionally unstable girl with black hair, bravado to mask her complete lack of confidence, a proclivity for groping large-breasted girls, and zero respect for the feelings of others?
>>150918539It’s not new. The same thing happened with Tai and Dora’s entire wedding ceremony. He skipped from the planning straight to the middle of the reception.
>>150918866That's his mom, but the sentiment still exists.
>>150918949He also broke off Steve and his girlfriend (who, desu, I can't even remember the name of) offscreen and it was revealed during that reception.It's like he's afraid to show the gloom of a breakup so he just skips to the point where one side of it is just doing fine.
>>150918969Dale and Marigold are next.
>>150918257>sudden Marigold pages>now sudden Aurelia pageThe presence of Clinton and Yay is distracting, but this could be him testing the waters for more vtuber shit.
>>150918915Well you wouldn't see a wife neglecting her husband, certainly not in an explicit patriarchy. And Clinton was definitely the one getting his ass blown out.
>>150918257Elliot? The tertiary character I forgot existed? Sure. Ditch him.
>>150919201I kind of liked Elliot but I guess it's for the best. Is anyone else from that bakery around?
>>150919176Marigold should show up to ask Aurelia for advice on how to handle being recognized. And she should bring May, so that May can be in the same room as newly single Clinton.
>>150919235Only other bakery character I even remember was Black Faye. And she disappeared with Brun and Assbot.
>>150919178Eliot was such a submissive partner that I actually don't believe this. Clinton was topping that big man.
>>150918257lol the one longstanding relationship between characters we more or less never see and its the two gay guys whose relationship had no arc apart from them both realizing they were queer
>>150919404Jeph only did it for good boy points. He even started drawing Clinton far more feminine so he wouldn't feel so disgusted drawing it.
>>150919404They were gaslit into being gay by the lesbians around them, especially Clinton. It was kind of disturbing.
>>150919387Maybe but it would've led to the gay equivalent of this:https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=4090321
>>150918488>>150918539It's so fucking funnyLike I'm not even mad at this one
>>150919277>PadmaGone>Renee (worst girl)Gone>ElliotGone>Guy who fucks Marten's momNot confirmed gone, but vanishing into the mists with each passing comic
>>150918257How about a little mother/son "personal exploration" together...with each other's bodies.
>>150918621>>150919602Based, and dare I say milfpilled.
>>150919602
>>150918257Empty brown/beige rooms. No rugs, nothing on the walls, no lamps, nothing. Bravo, Hacks. You shouldn't have even drawn a background. These characters might as well exist in a white purgatory.
>>150919669Oh no! Whatever shall I do? Anon hid my post!
>>150919680Sometimes they do.
>>150919602Please, be reasonable. He's too old for her taste.
>>150919477This is not — at all — something I'm into.But that pic is so lovingly drawn.
>>150919761Being a porn artist for years does horrible things to people, I guess.
>>150919798I mean, good for the 5 people that are into that specific scenario. Glad they have a pic to do it justice.It's unfortunate when the only pic of a concept is some chicken scratch on Pixiv from 2008.
>>150918257Hey, it's the faggot! Looks like that phase is done and the Augustus bloodline has another chance of continuing! That is, if he doesn't end up spilling his seed in his robot they/them stepsister.
The last time I gave a shit about this comic Clinton and Elliot were hooking up, I think that was probably 4-5 years ago and then just dropped and lots of boring shit happened.Why the fuck is Marten and Claire still together?
>>150919680fuckin this, what a lazy sack of bloated nuts
>>150919963Only way I can think of to keep them on track is commission them or at least encourage them when they draw good vanilla stuff.
>had May back for a brief second>now shes gone again for another yearfucking GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
>>150920102>Why the fuck is Marten and Claire still together?Jeph is working out how to break them up without getting lynched.
>>150920349I'm 90% sure he could've succeeded if he had the courage.
where the FUCK is the slime girl
>>150918257How did he manage to write a gay relationship out of the comic and somehow make it even more gay than if he hadn't
>>150919452Happened to Faye too, with such extreme unsubtlety it was really telling that it got a pass.
Does this mean Yay has a butthole? Fat robo-dumps?
>>150920702Probably a molecular disassembler.
>>150920697It's almost like people in the QC verse are born straight and only become different by psychological manipulation or trauma.
>>150919527Tangentially there is Sam, who is third best girl, and also vanishing into the mists with her dad. How often have we been back to Fayes shop since she was doing sharpie art out of there, a half dozen times? Zero mention of her. There was the thing with the they/them who crushed on her, I don't remember of the details. Probably she'll appear for a week in a year or two then fade back into the ooze as Jeph remembers he's afraid of children.
>>150920805It had the same mix as our world, but the nanites in the water are making everyone gay and infertile so the AIs can replace the humans quietly. Look at how little fuss is made about them taking homes and other resources from humans. The vague antirobot prejudice we saw was so muted and distant it was laughable, and only employment related. By the boss!
>>150920697Faye at least had shown signs of affection for Bubbles before this scene. Clinton hadn't shown any attraction to Eliot at all and then Claire basically made him climax where he sat by fantasizing about the two of them hooking up.
>>150920920Faye basically had the fanfic thing happen where they were best buddies and literally everyone around them went "BUT WHAT IF THEY FUCKED EACH OTHER TOO!?" Like, Bubbles I get, no hate on the bot, and her unrequited attraction was good story fodder. But Faye had repeatedly said she 1: wasn't into girls and 2: was definitely not into robots, so having her just change orientation with no justification beyond "she likes Bubbles" was fanfic logic, but by the actual creator of the thing. Single Target Sexuality bullshit. It's also another case of Jeph not wanting to hurt his characters, so instead of having the "sorry, you're near and dear to me but I don't wanna fuck you" chat which would have been some great character work for both of them (and also, you know, relevant to his audience), we got "great news, the nanites reset my brain and I want to fuck robogirls now!"
>>150918823>Elliot's central problem is that he doesn't love himself, and that gives him crippling insecurity about his relationships and their honesty. A romantic partner can't fix that, because "well of course you say that you're here for me, that's what your supposed to do, but do you MEAN it!?" It's just a doom loop, and Elliot needs someone detached to tell them to stop moping and generate some self worth.SON OF A BITCH.I need to invest in a therapist.
https://files.catbox.moe/r0jhaw.png
>>150921224Call me a teenager in 2001 the way I'm prepared to die for that bush
>>150921224Both, sandwch, now
>>150921224Pic related was never more relevant Also nice bush
>>150921110Real talk anon. First, you should talk to a therapist, I'm just some guy on the internet who isn't educated on human brain stuff and is not completely over their own self loathing, let along knowledgeable about yours. But I understand a general principle is that literally all of us have reasons to hate ourselves, but healthy minded people don't give that focus, they give what they want or need to do focus. That's not always great, because often you want ice cream and do not do what you needed to do, wash the dishes, but the important thing is just go "oh, I still need to do dishes" not "you stupid motherfucker the dishes are still dirty, I'm a dumb fuck that can't do basic shit." Just get on with life, even if you still don't do the dishes, you move on to whatever else without the self loathing. And it's just like building or tearing down any other habit, every time you acknowledge a thing without specifically hating yourself for it is a victory, and it lessens in frequency and impact over time. Relationship stuff is broadly the same but you have other peoples headspaces to worry about there, and it's more about understanding that they just aren't thinking about you nearly as much or as in depth as you are. And even when they do, and lie to say that they weren't bothered that you were late or whatever, they're telling that lie because that's what they want reality to be, and you just gotta let it be real.And, of course, it really fucking helps if you can identify something worthy that you're doing, in the same way money helps you not be depressed that you can't make rent, and that's another habit too. Both identify worth in your day to day and do something worthy, no matter the degree of worth. Even the dumb things that you do to avoid doing something can still be meaningful. Give likes to videos despite the algorithm watching, whatever. Or do the fucking dishes. I'm bad at dishes.
>>150921224>gentlemen I do not enjoy this premise and request this be changed to ladies.
>>150918257I feel like they are missing a key design trait, like their freckles. Unless I'm misremembering.
>>150921438https://files.catbox.moe/tq4j14.png
>>150921481Beautiful, thanks dude.
>>150921481Nice!
>>150921418Thank you, Anon.
>people speculating about Elliot/Clinton getting paired up with womenIs that allowed? I thought the usual screechers hated bisexuality because it's not gay enough.
>>150920697I vaguely remember this woman being a therapist or something. Doesn't it break some kind of professional code to just shrink someone's head like this?
>>150922372Much in the same way that damn nearly every brain surgeon has a god complex that blurs the line between objective merit of their highly skilled training and their pursuit of that skill precisely so that they can feel that control, most therapists/counselors/etc. are incredibly invasive busybodies who would be ramming their nose into other people's business even if it wasn't their day job. Every person I know who has met someone who happened to be in that profession describes them as being incredibly cutting and more interested in people as a collection of problems to sift through rather than as another human being.
>>150921481Terrible
>marten and claire are having struggles while the gremlin wants marten's dick>the fags broke upStraight relationship bros, we are winning
>>150918823My ex had some insecurity issues. She broke up with me cause she couldn't handle an LDR while my other ex lived around the corner. No amount of "but I chose you" could fix those issues.
>>150921481>>150921224love your stuff. i need to draw more qc stuff, i wanted to draw claire with the gremlin dr
>>150921481>>150921224feels like he should have a bush too,for completions' sake
>>150922400Silly, there are no more straight relationships in QC. Anyone still heterosexual is single.>>150922472And wider hips.
>off-screening drama when it actually happensHoly kek
>>150918257Off-screen post-breakup arc.Maybe this is how he makes the audience thing that something could happen... by turning it into past tense so people can talk about what happened.
>>150922621think*Dang it.
>>150920349>break them up without getting lynched.I get the very strong impression that's the only reason they're still together.And the whole Claire being trans thing came out of the blue to begin with anyway. I smell an unsound fanbase behind it.
>>150920807After a timeskip they turned into teenagers and the two kids were in their goth phase when last scene.
>>150922139The two of them were into chicks before they started dating each other, so at least it fits their history.
>>150922372Emotional and mental manipulation isn’t like a drug that you need a license to administer. It’s kind of something everyone does and it can be hard to turn off.
>>150918257Buy an ad.
>>150918257>emailsHas anyone told the artist that NOBODY uses those to communicate anymore?
>>150920349I don't think Jorph has any desire to break them up, I think that he's just accidentally annihilated any and all of their chemistry because Claire has become more and more unlikeable over the years.In addition, ever since he had the universe of the comic start bending over backwards to make Claire never ever be wrong she's naturally become less of a character. Marten has nothing in common with her because she's become someone who is Always Good.These day he serves no purpose but to be 'adorably' less good / competent / driven / right than Claire.
>>150922813And it was greathttps://co.llection.pics/post/view/123937https://co.llection.pics/post/view/124486
>>150922951Maybe he was sad drunk texting Clinton so bad that he had to switch to emailing instead?
>>150919253At least Elliot can't infect May with the HIV and/or hepatitis he would have gotten from his previous gay escapades.
>>150924367>>150918827I think you keep confusing Elliot and Clinton. The redhead with the robot hand is named Clinton.
>>150923001>Marten has nothing in common with her because she's become someone who is Always Good.that's not true at all. i crave the SS Doc Marten, but she was clearly portrayed as being in the wrong by neglecting Marten.
>>150923001Is there a term for this, where an initially "side character" consumes the narrative and takes over as the main protagonist?
>>150924967inb4 mary sue>someone replies mary sue anywayinb4 idc that you called it
>>150918949You fucking serious? Planning that thing went on for a decade in our time (about a week and a half theirs)?
>>150924967Poochy
>>150925070There was a timeskip that implied the engagement went on for maybe a couple years. Enough time for >>150922813 and for Claire to graduate college, and a bunch of characters changed their hair. But yes, it was deeply unsatisfying. The event really should have just ended the comic on a nice even number of pages and a solid conclusion that would have brought the story into a neat full circle. But Hacks has a mortgage to pay.
>>150924917I think that's bias, anon. From you not being retarded.In reality, Claire hasn't *intentionally* been held accountable since that altercation she had with Clinton over Emily. For years the comic has done somersaults over itself to ultimately make her mistakes *Completely Understandable* or *Actually Not a Mistake*.Even in this instance Marten was framed as making the mistake by getting drunk so that Claire could suddenly become nurturing and Rise to the Occasion (tm).You're sensing how people *should* react to her behavior and the negative impacts on Marten, but that's not how Jeph and his paypigs see it.
Claire should be in semi-permanent chastity.
>>150925807Her hosecock cannot be contained by any cage
>>150925963You aren't thinking creatively enough.Claire is a born submissive.
>>150918965does she age backwards or something?
>>150926247Yeah, sometimes. It’s like how Faye’s boobs inflate and deflate at random.
>>150925328>solid conclusion that would have brought the story into a neat full circle.Gotta roundly disagree with that. Tai and Dora's relationship was always distinctly secondary in the ongoing plot, and never got any reckoning with the difference in life experience and expectations between the former hedonist and the current insecure neurotic. Granted, that happens to a lot of couples... who divorce once those issues finally come up.
>>150927766It’s less about Tai and Dora and really more about Marten witnessing his old ex settle permanently with another person and being entirely at peace with it. I think that was right around the time he had or was about to move to Cubetown too, opening a new chapter of his life that mirrored his original move to Northampton, thus bookending the story of the original main character. And it was an excuse to gather basically the entire cast into one location for a grand social event before letting them all go their separate ways.
>>150927964That's a fair point and perspective. From Marten's perspective, I see it.Instead we got Antenna Sexy Moan girl.
>>150925328Sam's always been a teenager, and the engagement can only have lasted at most a few months. Tai proposes to Dora around the same time Claire graduates from grad school and the time skip happens after she gets the job at Cubetown.>>150925506I don't see it. Claire is the bog standard QC sardonic with a side dose of boring because Jeph isn't willing to risk flak. The actual characters the comic somersaults over to absolve are Faye, Dora, and Tai, who are genuinely shitty to others.
>>150926098Claire is canonically a massive cunt
>>150929386Wait, Jeph confirmed that Claire got surgery?
>>150928861>TaiWait, when was Tai ever shitty to someone? She's just kind of always been the impulsive job shirking hedonist, and now that none of that gets shown she just kind of exists. We barely even talk about her anymore because there's been nothing to talk about for a good decade.
>>150918257I never quite understood why sending messages to someone you once dated looking for closure is a bad thing. I get some people would just prefer to dump everything and not think about it again, but there's no need to be catty about it, just say so.
>>150921224You have issues my friend
>>150918257Wonder why AIs cant eat in this universe, if they have the tech to simulate a human mind giving it taste buds should be pretty easy. taste is 80% smell anyway and they can do that
>>150930298Clinton is probably still trying to maintain some level of friendship, I doubt he wants to just never talk to Elliot again, and he’s probably been replying to these emails. But Elliot has always been the type of guy to wallow in his own self pity and no one can really just talk him out of it. I don’t know what sort of closure Clinton could offer a guy like him that he would actually accept. I doubt Clinton would know either.>>150918823 sums Elliot up well.
>>150924967In the era before Internet no-lifes started codifying tropes, we called this a Fonz.
>>150931400Oh yeah, an arlecchino.
is there a word for a work of fiction where every character is this super supportive, non-threatening type to the point where none of them feel like actual humans ?
>>150932109I guess I call it a therapy speak story.
>>150932109Comfy maybe?
>>150932109it's skinsuit storytelling like the kind you see these toxic as fuck communities and groups depict their horribly abusive interpersonal relationships as being on the outside.
>>150929386
>>150918949>literally just skip the parts you don’t want to draw or writeJephri might be onto something for once…
>>150921481I've been gone all day but NICE.
>>150918257Bruh, I'm fucking mad!!!!!! So only lesbian and trans relationships can exist??
>>150932415He didn’t discover being lazy.
>>150932646No one actually wants to see butt-spelunkers.
Terrible>>150932646Why do you type so retarded?
>>150932699>begging not to get dumped leads to being dumpedKino.
>>150932699Rare funny punchline
>>150932699How did Elliot get such gains while being so skittish? And Clinton has power bottom vibes
>>150922908Seriously, what does this mean and why does someone always post it here?
>>150932699The frustrating thing is when you go to therapy and then your partner quickly starts getting just as frustrated as ever because the problems don’t just evaporate and go away after like, a week. Turns out mental health is a constant ongoing process and starting therapy is just a step.
>>150918257Oh my fucking GOD WHO KEEPS READING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE????
>>150932810There's a conspiracy theory that the artist leaks his own stuff here to be remembered beyond that guy who destroyed his own comic with tranny pandering back in 2015.
>>150932699Has there ever been a flashback like this?
>>150932954There have been some things where retroactive explanation made sense, like seeing Dr. Loli's childhood, Yay shaking hands with the Director, and possibly Marten's old girlfriend (don't quote me on that). I don't know of any cases where something was explained to have happened offscreen and then he immediately realized it's better to show it.
>>150932219>>150932295Yeah 'comfy' seems to be the branding that has taken off for this.
>>150932902it's NOT a "conspiracy theory". stabby leaves it here to gauge our reactions and then adjusts the "story" accordingly. basically we are an unpaid editors.
>>150932737Many such cases>>150932954Not that I can recall. To this >>150933019 anon's point there was basically zero reason not to just tell this in chronological order as opposed to in a flashback. Super weird choice on Jorph's part.
>>150933019>something was explained to have happened offscreen and then he immediately realized it's better to show itThe thing is, as mildly entertaining as this page was, I don’t know if it was strictly necessary. No new information was obtained that wasn’t already covered by the previous page. He could’ve just pressed forward. It really would have been better to have this event included in chronological order like normal, but now it’s just kinda confusing.
>>150933066If he actually listened to us the comic would be a nonstop orgy and Claire would've been put on a bus back to leafland years ago.
>>150933119This isn’t solid proof he comes here, but here’s an example of some ideas posted recently in one of these threads. (Part 1/2)
>>150933229Here is the page he posted the next day. (Part 2/2)
>>150933119he doesn't actually listen to us, he just steal, i mean borrows ideas we drop here.
>>150919761AI postWe are so fucking cooked it's insane
>>150920697The art style was uglier back then than it is now. It's those lips
>>150933278You're getting carried away by paranoia.
>>150921224Draw him getting railed by a black guy and sucking off two more.
>>150933229>>150933241He makes them all at once a week ahead of time, doesn't he? Seems like very thin evidence.
>>150932682Fuck that, I'd like some hot twinks. Redheads are gross though.
>>150933299Show me that character on your keyboard.
>>150933302No, that's gross and gay. He should be fucking Bubbles, Marigold or Willow instead. I don't want to see the family be a genetic dead end
>>150933229>>150933241I really don’t want to start a folder of these, but this has gotta be at least the third or fourth time I’ve seen this happen. And I don’t even come to every one of these threads, I sometimes drop the comic for weeks or months and then come back.Individually, these instances can always be waved away as a funny coincidence, or a simple logical prediction, but it happens often enough that it really adds up.
>>150933346It wasn't me, I'm the guy he was responding to.
>>150930243Literally the only character in a universe where highly advanced prosthetics are widely available and Jeph has stated outright he will never reveal the status of Claire's genitals
>>150933312No he doesn’t. He takes an hour or two to shit them out every day. That’s why the arcs can get so schizophrenic from page to page, there’s usually very little planning. Maybe sometimes he makes a short backlog, but he’s not like regular web comic authors that stick to that system.
>>150933368It wouldn't shock me, insofar as this is a community that both cares enough about the comic to show up every day despite the thread being ephemeral but isn't sycophantic. However I think it's more reasonable that there's fairly surface-level analysis of what a better/more driven/more diligent author could do with this same foundation, and that opinion will be reached in the aggregate by several disparate communities.
>>150932745Yeah Its not a run or anything but he got on base
>>150933368you're correct, and i only been in these threads for a few months, but this is the 4th or 5th instance where ideas shared by anons appeared in a comic a few days later. i'll start keeping track myself.
>>150932760Given that Eliot seeks external validation for literally everything, it's probably a combination being a way to constantly get a drip feed of praise and the only thing staving off a constant assumption of negative perception by others.Clinton possesses an Augustus Anal Annihilator like his sister and he's actually a pretty inconsiderate top.>>150933076Jeph gets experimental whenever he's interested in what he's writing.
>>150933348>that's gross and gay. Indeed.>He should be fucking Bubbles, Marigold or Willow instead. Bubbles is gay, and I don't remember which chubbos the other two are (or maybe one or both of them aren't chubbos and are sticks?). But QC is not a straight comic anymore, anon.>I don't want to see the family be a genetic dead endYou want him to fuck a robot, anon.
>>150933484>That spoilerWhat if Clinton's also trans and ftm?
>>150933278https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Map_(Windows)You fucking goob-‒—―
>>150933401>the arcs can get so schizophrenic from page to page, there’s usually very little planningThese past two pages are a great example of this.
>>150933348Bubbles is a robot and can’t get pregnant.
>>150933555Something something artificial wombs.
>>150933518Claire has confirmed that he has a dick.
>>150933590Has she? I know she's stated he lost his hand from jacking off too much, but I wouldn't put it past Hacques to either refer to female masturbation as jacking off, or have it be part of a trans thing (i.e. Claire knows Clinton has a cunt and call 'him' masturbating jacking off to respect his masc gender identity).
>>150933637>has he?No
>>150933637Dude, Jeph has been 100% consistent that Clinton is a dude. We get it, you have FtM fetish but that doesn't make your spank fantasies canon.
when did this thread obtain so many faggots
>>1509339182003
>>150933404This particular example, where an anon points out that we haven’t seen Marigold do yoga for a long time, and then suddenly we get a page with Marigold at yoga, feels like really too much. It didn’t even tie in to what Ahn was up to as was predicted/suggested, it really comes off as though he was reminded these characters exist and a new idea to do something with them just followed that reminder.
>>150932699Why add the flashback aspect when this could've just been shown before yesterdays strip
>>150919724
>>150934259Because something actually happened, and Hacks has no idea how to write build up for it. So he established that is already happened, and then showed it to us.
>>150932219>>150933051Do not sully 'comfy' with this association! Comfy is for stuff where the characters genuinely don't have drama going on. It's just a camping trip, sipping tea on a rainy day, whatever. Not for stories where drama should be happening but the plot oozes past it every time.
https://files.catbox.moe/9rze8j.jpgstill need to draw may on that cat onesie
>>150934929POV: Helping your little brother relax after a long day.
>>150933680That's good, anon. You get why we're in these threads.>>150933689I don't think you do, sonny boy. QC doesn't really cater to any of my fetishes - the only one I really want to see get sexual is Hanners, and that ain't happening outside the work of based drawfag. I'm just shitposting because I have bad taste and even worse sense of humour. I genuinely think it would be hilarious if Hacques made Clinton a tranny too.
>>150934929You're doing God's work based drawfag.
>>150933312he has a backlog of 1 day: the 1 day early patreon comicso he doesnt really have a backlog
>>150933066>>150933254>borrows ideas we drop herewell, how about the idea of marrying and impregnating dr loli
>>150934929Now that Elliot's out of the picture...
>>150932699They could have prevented this by making sure all the shirts were off the bed before buggery. Or I guess since it'd just end up on the bedsheet, get the catcher to have an enema first.Clinton for God's sake, your "sister" made you gay, just ask how "she" avoids this when she reams Marten out.
>>150935349I swear I remember him posting about starting a backlog, I thought that was what the point of the break he took last year was. But it wouldn't surprise me if he absolutely fucked that up.
>>150935418They really seem like they would make a great couple. Im actually kind of annoyed they didnt get together.
>>1509223723652, she is (was?) a PhD student in psychology
>>150933019there were a couple of panels (not entire strips) of Hannelore as a child on the space station
>>150918969>It's like he's afraid to show the gloom of a breakup so he just skips to the point where one side of it is just doing fine.jeph has become afraid to show conflict because it upsets his patreon whales
>>150934261They look like a family.
>>150936454>>150934261This panel is the timeline where Dora and Marten settled down peeking through into our Hell dimension
Clinton is the perfect twink
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>>150926098That's cute, now bend over>>150932699>Oh that's a reliefHe's been banging the mom, hasn't he?
>>150934259See, your problem is you think he’s trying to tell a story, when these last couple of pages read to me more like a stream of consciousness. I think the thought process went>there’s a page about Ahn getting interested in fitness>the subject of fitness reminds Keph there’s a yoga studio that Marigold etc go to>so he does somevpages that takes place at the yoga studio>he remembers Marigold is a vtuber so most of the conversation at yoga is about that>he remembers Aurelia is also a vtuber so he draws a page about what she’s up to>the characters closest to Aurelia are Clinton and Yay so they’re there>they have to be talking about something something so Clinton talks about breaking up with his boyfriend>we get a page flashing back to the breakup because he realizes there should be a page of the breakupThere’s no rhyme or reason. It’s not going anywhere. An idea pops into his head and he just draws it.
>>150932109Kingdom hearts
>>150937178Bruh
>>150934259Self-defense. The prior strip explicitly lays out the reality of the situation we're about to see, mainly through panels three and four: >himbo is continuing the problem behavior after the break-up>himbo objectively needs a therapist because a third party says so>twink is still supportive of the himbo's search for mental healthcareIf you open with the break-up strip instead, there's at least two panels in there where his core audience could pause their reading and go "wow, this seems like an abusive relationship, so this is actually a derogatory portrayal of gays and I'm gonna have to riot until some hands get stabbed." Starting with the post-mortem avoids that risk by defusing all the drama in advance.
>>150938200We live in retarded times
>>150919452>They were gaslit into being gayYou don't know what Gaslighting is.
>>150938462Psychological manipulation to make someone think they're crazy. Though in this case perhaps brainwashing would be the better term.
>>150934929>>150933918>>150933918>>150933918
>>150918257Mom wants to climb Mount Himbo
>>150938988why would i want do to that after that same dick was marinated in my son's shit
>>150939509Women will put up with nasty shit beyond your comprehension for a man who's taller than [arbitrary cutoff].
>>150932850You.
>>150933081I'm actually more confused now. The previous page made it sound like Elliot is still bothering Clinton, but this page almost implies he was trying to sabotage the relationship in a way that he wouldn't feel like the bad guy for ending it. But admitting that in the last pain also ruins that, so this is some of the strangest way to write this that I can possibly imagine. I think Harph is juggling meds or something.
>>150941427No no. I recognize Elliot’s behavior. It doesn’t make any sense because he has a mental illness. Anxiety disorders can just be like that. Elliot is never satisfied and always finds a way to be anxious no matter what because his brain is wired wrong. So when he gets something he thought he wanted, he just twists reality to find a new thing to be upset about.
>>150939509May have never went that way. His could still be pristine.
>>150941477Now you give him credit for an accurate portrayal of mental illness, which I didn't think we'd ever see here.
>>150941477And when people finally bail on you, proving your anxiety 'right', there's a relief that at least you don't have to worry about the rejection anymore.In essence if your brain is scrambled the fear of getting dumped is worse than getting dumped itself.
>>150941573He's been pretty accurate about portraying the illnesses he has. The alcoholism with Faye was on-point.
>>150941693Maybe I was just thinking about her lashing out at a person who didn't know her history over a little comment, but I guess that's something an alcoholic would actually do, even though we all agreed it made them a shitty person to do it.
>>150941715As someone who had a huge alcohol problem I had that period. Especially early on when you're figuring out how to be sober, a lot of people (with or without realizing it) often make things really difficult or uncomfortable. As a defense some people (like myself) develop an abrasive instinct to enforce your boundaries since many people otherwise won't actually listen to you.All that said then, sometimes it's easy to overreact when someone is being obnoxious and ignorant even they don't deserve it. Old habits die hard.Very importantly, too, having mental problems doesn't suddenly make you immune to doing shitty things.
>>150941556I misread this and thought you were (falsely) claiming that May has never done anal
>>150941807lol could have used "Might have" instead I suppose, I'll keep that in mind for these threads :P
>>150941807Christ though, it just occurred to me that they might turn to Sven for advice on how to help Marigold deal with celebrity status, bringing Sven and May back into the same room again...
>>150942269you're a thinker
>>150942403Actually, besides Marigold, everyone else there has some kind of history with Sven. Hanners, Momo, May...the possibilities there are fairly limitless. Hack you're free to steal this if you weren't already planning it.
>>150942269>>150942464Sven can't be brought back because he's had a lot of sex, which aside from provoking envy from Jeph, means he's similar to players/pickup artists, who tend not to have high opinions of feminism. Even if they do, they're not going to settle down and work a day job to buy shit for the women they've hooked up with.
>>150941589And most of us have had some form of that experience from time to time, like dreading an upcoming presentation and then it happens and it's not great but now it's happened and you're relieved. It's just that for Elliot it's a lot more pathological and continuous.
>>150942827He bought May a fucking body.
>>150942880"He needs to buy everything every woman has ever wanted and cut his balls off to pay for the crime of not texting me back." - QC Patreon supporters
>>150918257>>150932699Dude, I just wanna say thanks for putting this comic online a day early every day. It's much appreciated.
>>150932699Wasn't he buffer before and darker hair and not look like a twunk
>>150944201Bubs also had to get nerfed to fit into most panels.
>>150932699>retardWhat's retarded of the way I type? Should I be adding fr fr? No!!! I demand Marten and Claire to break up then if they going to destroy the only white on white gay couple. We keep getting quirky ass annoying botches, but we can't have quirky ass queer buff baker? I pray this isn't a set up to bring in Brun again
>>150945249>I demandStfu please you whinny little bitch
>>150945303>Defends trans girlFuck you, slut! So fucking tired of her immunity
>>150945365You have nothing to “demand,” you pathetic asshole. It's a free comics that you've never paid a penny for. JUST. STOP. READING. IT. if it upsets you this much and make your life better, and everyone else's on this imageboard too, while you're at it.
hey man you might not be aware of this but the author is the enemy and it's perfectly acceptable for us to make unreasonable demands of him because he's barely even human
>>150934929Glasses on? Kinky.
>>150945249>I demand Marten and Claire to break upLmao you're so stupid haha
Terrible
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>>150946241Lots of similarities between therapists and chiropractors. A good chiro will fix what's wrong with you in a couple visits and give you exercises to do at home so it doesn't happen again, content with the knowledge that you'll probably come back to their office in the future if something else goes wrong. A bad chiro just cracks your back and says "see you next week."
>>150946367Chiropractors are all quacks, the "good ones" are called physical therapists
>>150936021Probably because Jeph sucks at actually writing those issues with breaking up. I mean my god, all I see for his breakups are "blah blah blah" off screen instead of just telling the said issues
>>150946241I feel like these two hawk whatever the lesser version of onnit is. Or they make their own and say the blindness and loss of feeling in limbs means the natural bleach is working.
>>150946400Well a quack got my C1 unstuck from the bottom of my skull and made it so I could turn my head normally after 2 years of it being fucked along with all the muscles down the right side of my neck.So in my book, some quacks are alright.
>>150946241therapy works great if you're rich enough to afford a good one
>>150946619>looks at rich people>presses X to doubt
>>150946241My therapist keeps asking whats it gonna take to get me to leave. I think they’re required to do that at regular intervals.
>>150946400How I feel about therapists vs psychiatrists honestly. Therapists feel more useful for temporary issues. "My dog just died, I'm having trouble handling it." "My girlfriend and I are having strife." "I'm struggling with cutting back on this thing."Psychiatrists are who people should be going to if they have long term problems. They can also prescribe you medicine which you may really freaking need, but therapists can't.
>>150946241The way I've always seen it is that therapists are for talking through an issue that you can't get outside your head enough to view with an outside eye, and for talking through ongoing interpersonal stuff. Some people want them for the ongoing difficulties of life, sometimes because they don't have friends that aren't dipshits or otherwise can't trust for an honest intelligent conversation, or themselves aren't intelligent enough to see their issues through different facets. If you go to a therapist and repeatedly say or think "that's what I was thinking!" you don't need a therapist, you need to trust yourself.Therapists aren't the profession for curing people, that's psychiatrists. Psychologists are for determining that you're crazy, what flavor of crazy it is, and treating your for craziness. The problem with both therapists and psychologists is that a lot of them are more willing to tell you "come back next week!" than "you need more help than I can provide, go to the next tier up".
>>150946142Wait, when did they fucking move in together?
>>150946818>an honest intelligent conversationI tried 3 different therapists, and they all struck me as the kind of people who would think QC is well-written.
>>150946954That was for untrained friends, not therapists. Therapists can be as dumb as a bag of rocks and still follow their training. Of course, many others can't do that much.
>>150918257I remember actually enjoying this comic back in college around 2007-2008ish, what the hell happened? Did it get worse or did I just grow up
>>150946998Should I blame their training then, or their greed? Because if the problem is they just wanted me to come back every week, they should've done a better job at faking competence.
>>150946841Even if you don't live together you're gonna have shit at each other's houses.
>>150946954>>150947045 I've read this schizopost before.
>>150947159Time is a flat circle.
https://litter.catbox.moe/254taq.pnghttps://litter.catbox.moe/x6pa6u.pngcatbox is dead so these are just temp links
>>150947256MOMMY
>>150947256God May's body is so incredible. I still can't believe she and Sven got all weird about him donating to a body she picked out.
>>150946367>A good chiro will fix what's wrong with you in a couple visits and give you exercises to do at home so it doesn't happen again, content with the knowledge that you'll probably come back to their office in the future if something else goes wrong. A bad chiro just cracks your back and says "see you next week."the bad ones are wayyy more detailed. Like, if they wear a labcoat unironically, if they have a selling interest in nutritional supplements, or they unironically think that chiro treatments cure cancer.
>>150947256SEX! SEX! SEXXO!!SEX-SEX-SEX-SEX!!SEEEEXXXXXX!!!!!!!!
>>150947256fuck yes
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>>150947045Yes
>>150946142>His problem is that he's too kind!
>>150948289He should've remembered the first two rules of dating.1. Be nice.2. Don't be mean.
>>150946818I'm going to be pedantic because this is an issue that genuinely bothers me. Psychologists are academics who study the function and processes of human cognition, behavior, and consciousness. Psychiatrists are doctors who diagnose and treat mental disorders. Psychotherapy is clinical methodology designed to help people beneficially alter behaviors, emotions, and patterns of thought based on psychological principles. There are no "tiers," they're different professions that overlap in specific subfields.
>>150946241everyone should have access to a therapist to handle emotional shit that can't be handled elsewhere. not everyone needs a therapist, but the people most against it are typically the ones who clearly need it.
>>150948388There are both academic and clinical psychologists, especially in the US. I was using tiers loosely, though I will assert that therapy, psychology, and psychiatry definitely have an ascending order of required education in that order (even if the latter two are both usually Doctoral), and that's what I was referring to. No one says psychotherapist outside of professional circles, because that sounds like a Psycho Therapist (not to be confused with The Rapist).
>>150948289That's not kindness, that's something else veneered as kindness.
>>150947256Thank you based drawfag.
>>150947256>catbox is dead I keep seeing that being thrown around but I've had no issues with it recently (links all load, no problems), was it the AWS outage or something else? I remember it went *down* down like... a year or two ago, but then that got fixed reasonably quickly. Is there something new going on with it?
>>150948289>>150949184Yeah no, he's not being nice to Elliot. I don't remember the dude being this much of a wreck. It's almost gleeful how fucked he's making him
>>150950289Some countries and ISPs block it. It's not down.
I need some clinton lewd for reasons
>>150947256Tiddies!
>>150950356>>>150944201The taller less of a wreck version from like 14 years ago
>>150950460Yay ones too. Twinks are a nice mix up between the petites and thiccs.>>150951285So becoming gay unlocked a flood of other issues? I wonder what Clinton will be wrestling with down the road.
>>150948421That might be true if the therapists were able to handle said emotional shit.
>>150918257Wait Clinton was dating the big bear guy? Why is EVERYONE in this comic so fucking gay? Not as in homosexual, but as in so FUCKING GAY.
>>150951741They were set up to have a threesome with a brown retard girl but the author decided that it would be offensive, and he thought interest in a threesome automatically translates to full-blown bisexuality.
>>150951768>he thought interest in a threesome automatically translates to full-blown bisexualityI dunno why it took me this long, but I think I figured out another reason I wanted that threesome so damn badly.
>>150951397>I wonder what Clinton will be wrestling with down the road.I hope it’s phantom pains
>>150951844Are you saying you're a bisexual?
What if Clinton decided he was a woman too? Wouldn't be the first te a pair of twins trooned out.https://youtu.be/p0UvKHCSbLQ?si=kETUpThzCY9LC5ni
>>150951995What are the chances 3 adopted children of a celebrity all do so?
>>150932902>who destroyed his own comic with tranny pandering back in 2015.How does "top webcomic on Patreon" qualify as "destroying"?I know popularity doesn't mean quality, but it's still hard to take what you say seriously when you make statements like this?
>>150951863With Claire's connections and maybe Yay putting in a good word, Clinton can get his robotic hand replaced with a goo one. A straight link with the Director so they can better understand human intricacies.
>>150952489Clinton has always been able to afford a better robot hand, and has always chosen not to because he thinks vintage robotics are aesthetically cool. For a while he was purposefully walking around with no artificial skin on his hand and the joints exposed, until he got too much gunk in the hand and it broke, so Faye convinced him to wear a sheath (the Doylist explanation for this change is that it’s easier for Hacks to draw a white glove than it is to draw a cool robot hand).
>>150952456Because despite having 5 threads a week (or one long super-thread like this), we still get people coming in to each thread like "What the fuck, this is still going? I haven't heard about it in X years." This is the single biggest thing it's known for among non-readers, even bigger than the handstab incident.
>>150952620oops forgot image
>>150951397>So becoming gay unlocked a flood of other issues?No, he's always been a self-sabotaging sad sack.
>>150951973Not very, but I’ve been in a threesome.
>>150952620>handstab incidentthis was over a decade ago, anon. only the truly dedicated would even know about this.
>>150952745Technically, You and Me was February 2015 so it was also over a decade ago.
>>150952606Claire has joked that Clinton lost his hand from masturbating, and I think there was also a vague allusion to a “fireworks accident,” but I always kinda wondered if maybe Clinton self harmed himself just so that he could be a cyborg.I think the trans and trans ally readers would fucking hate that too much for it to become canon, though.
>>150952489I misread goo at first as a typo for good. I’m now realizing you meant he could have a hand made of Moray goo (possibly made out of Moray herself). That would be cool, maybe Clinton might be into that.
>>150952907If Moray is going to become a prosthetic, she should really be someone’s boob, or a pair of boobs.
>>150952955Depending on how invasively she's attached to Clinton, she can give him a pair.
>>150952456>Abbadbbadoo that lowFuck this gay earth
>>150952620>"What the fuck, this is still ongoing? I haven't heard about it in X years."That was my thought for every other webcomic I'd heard of previously in that list. It's not at all related to QC; it's just a symptom of a consolidated internet. Any comic that isn't propagated by normie upvotes on real social media and crossposted here as rage bait may as well not exist, regardless of quality.
>>150952456Why did so many of them start their Patreons so late?
>>150953557They either decided "Why not, free money" or their own merch sales started slipping so they decided they needed to get on this train.
We need an arc where Clinton and Claire's mom fucks them straight
>>150952456>Zach Weinersmith.Huh. At best SMBC gives a few chuckles.At worst, it is Reddit-tier junk like the whole Open Borders is Better Economy junk.It is not memorable.
>>150946142So, are we just gonna keep the comic rewinded to the past now, or is it gonna return to the “present day” in Aurelia’s kitchen soon?I’m sure this event isn’t all that far back, but the comic moves at such a fucked pace that it can take a whole year and hundreds of pages in real time just to cover a canonical weekend. And we haven’t seen Elliot or Clinton in a long ass while so they probably broke up like a week ago in comic time. Which, actually could fuck up the timeline quite a lot, since Yay only just resurfaced recently and this breakup is probably pre- Return of Yay. Hell, this event is probably happening before Ahn moved to Massachusetts. Doing a flashback like this makes shit more confusing than usual and I hope he wraps this up quick. The breakup did not need to be shown in the first place, but stretching it out beyond the first page is just continuing to make things worse. If he switches to a whole new perspective outside of Clinton like to Cubetown next, I’ll feel even more lost.
>>150947013It was not that good back then, but it also has gotten worse. Somehow it keeps drilling to new rock bottoms over and over.
