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What Might Have Been

RODRIGO

What Might Have Been

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Visiting Marten's apartment is still possible, just a lot more involved.

Raymond Dannelly

I notice Anh doesn't seem even the slightest bit offended by Faye's question.

Clifton Royston

As of the next strip caption, it seems like it's canon 👀

enchantedsleeper

This earwormed me for hours, gdi xD

enchantedsleeper

Heeeey, the Wisp has just as much history in the comic as Anh does xD (Well, almost) It's been through a lot!

enchantedsleeper

Buuuuut she can still visit Faye and Bubbles 🥺

enchantedsleeper

Where can I subscribe to updates xD

enchantedsleeper

Yes! That theatrical pose was a delight.

SilverbackRon

We have already seen how Anh is fine with fictional romances. I don't see her letting go of this anytime soon.

SilverbackRon

Ohhhhhh, good point. (I was about to type out a scenario where Hanners is at the apartment visiting with Marten and Clare... then I remembered... no... that won't happen.... EVER AGAIN! 😭 💔😭

SilverbackRon

*applause*

Sean Kinlin

Fernando

Stephen Wells

For copyright reasons it's not FERNANDO

Stephen Wells

An audiobook in the sense that her maid, Aramantha, had to read it aloud to her. Aramantha is now deeply in love with Anh and even now is packing her bindle and leaving California on a quest to catch up with her and confess her feelings. "I was a fool!" cries Anh, "at last I see that what I needed was right in front of me the whole time!" They embrace, silhouetted against the flames of the burning Dang Tech headquarters.

Stephen Wells

The bean sprout? Agreed.

legobil

As a former metal fabricator I know that such venues need regular sweeping to not be a fire and explosion hazard.

Opus the Poet

I like Anh as a fictional character, as a human being I have to interact with... not so much.

Opus the Poet

It's spelled "Jeph".

Opus the Poet

Y'all. She's about to be living in a house with Pintsize. Introduction to proper smut will NOT be a problem and she is gonna learn SO MUCH

Sean Morgan

See, now? Now I enjoy Anh. Because now Anh has a personality and that personality includes self-insert fanfic about Rodrigo in Ibiza.

Sean Morgan

At one point I would have thought "You can read?" to be a horribly stupid question. But it's 2025 and the last 10 years changed that.

Kuragari

Same. I’m glad I’m not alone in my dislike

Nessi505

Hugh, it’s this one: https://youtu.be/dQsjAbZDx-4?si=nAcmt8NilH1CJS29

Melissa Wilson

Thanks, Opus!

Melissa Wilson

That is exactly what I thought, thank you!

Hugh Eckert

But funny.

Hugh Eckert

I got that detail wrong It is indeed a mop. Though it’s unclear whether Anh would know the difference or to use it with soapy water….

That Blair Guy

I suspect this all comes to a head when a filthy Anh traumatizes Hanners with her lack of sanitation.

Raymond Dannelly

That one piece of Anh's hair is my favorite new character.

Mark Krepela

True, although, we don't know how much time has passed. Martin has opened a coffee shop already.

Mark

True! Tai probably has some excellent suggestions. Just take a detour around Marigolds works.

legobil

We already had it and Hanners politely (with a touch of panic) said “no, thank you”.

legobil

**hugs** I feel your frustration.

Ailadi

Since she’s in MA and not Canada, Tai could make that introduction 😁

Ailadi

You know who’s from the same world as you, Anh? Hanners. PLEASE LET ME HAVE THIS, JEFF. 🧡❤️🤍🩷💜

Rawrisaur

So many Little gold nuggets in this strip. Anh’s dramatic pose in panel 3, Faye’s exclamation in the final panel, me imagining Moray introducing Anh to some proper smut. Ok, that final one is only me. But still!

legobil

Ohmigosh! RODRIGO! It's you!!

Michael Steamweed

She had a bad case of affluenza in her youth.

Michael Steamweed

There is a Spanish guitar riff in the room right after she said RODRIGO

(void)

'Cause we know what she's reading, know what she's reading... R O D R I GO Anh is glued to her Kobo, Doesn't need to see a nude, The erotic prose is lewd!

Graydon Armstrong

Damnit. I read all the way up to Bra Pirate.

William Burns

An electrician joke! Brilliant!

Everett Bradshaw

That's okay, I'm sure Momo is covering for her, and she has acess to all of the... *ahem*... "historical romance". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2037

BookBeard

I think that I mostly avoid audiobooks because if I got into them, I might be in serious danger of finishing a book.

Halloween Jack

You'll have to wait a little while; Tai's on her honeymoon.

Marc Moskowitz

Not if she touches the green wire, then her potential goes to ground.

Opus the Poet

Another ABBA song, the title escapes me at the moment but I know it's ABBA.

Opus the Poet

Guess which half most of the commentariat occupy, Elf.

Opus the Poet

@Sean, it's from The Sound of Music, Do Re Mi.

Opus the Poet

I feel like, at least for me, Anh is not for enjoying. She is a tool by which we get to view more Faye and Bubbles growth

Emmu Lah

I feel like "you read books?" or something like that might have been more to the point. Implying that she's too shallow/busy being a rich party girl or whatever.

djellafine

I wish I could read like I used to. Now that I am partially sighted, audiobooks are a lot easier than reading. It's not the same.

SpookyPenguin

Maybe this is just what it looks like when she tries not to be weird.

Melissa Wilson

Teach us your secrets!

Melissa Wilson

Poor Ahn, so impaired by hautism.

Paracog Steadham

She's joking. The whole exchange is a humorous one, and Faye is upping the ante with exaggerated shock over Anh's "revelation" ^^;

enchantedsleeper

Anh probably DOES have an ongoing love affair with her clothes hangers. 🤔 They've always been here for her, safeguarding her most trusted possessions.

enchantedsleeper

*romanhce

enchantedsleeper

Guys, it's a joke, Faye is exaggerating shock 😅

enchantedsleeper

Yes, she's very good at it.

Clifton Royston

It's actually looking for the left-handed screwdriver that got her dusty. Which was why they needed someone to sweep.

enchantedsleeper

Ahhhh, a morning well-spent re-reading the space station arc :D I headcanon that Pintsize and Station are still penpals: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2169

enchantedsleeper

I love the Thursday Next books

Bagge

Really trying my best to care/like this new character and her storyline but it’s just not happening. :| Not even in that ”love to hate” style. I guess it’s just not meant to be. Just like with my fictional namesake.

Rodrigo Ourcilleon

Please Jeph, have her fall head over heels for Pintsize. Or Barry the whale wanker. Or maybe she can get a job as Melon's understudy just to make ends meet.

OldGoat

The library may be the path to awareness …

Sparky

Oh that was a perfect unexpected segue 🙏🏼😃❤️

Steve Prowse

Yes! Fantastic foreshortening, and wonderful hands!

Call me Ishmael.

Perhaps bring her by the library. I'm sure Tai has some recommendations.

Bagge

Just because they're fictional, doesn't mean that they're not real. Hell, I'm not 100% sure I'M real!

Call me Ishmael.

Ale, Ale, Alejandro!

Ken

Snort!

Ken

It is Anh's fate to find love, but it can never be with Hangers - but who?🤔

Call me Ishmael.

Good grief! I bow to such a prodigious memory!

Elf Sternberg

Uh, Blair, I only saw Anh holding a mop and she had just found it. Which strip has her sweeping?

Walt Donovan

No doubt, you were distracted by the misspelling of Rodanh.

Call me Ishmael.

Like an onion. The more you cut into her, the more she'll make you cry.

Elf Sternberg

Faye, that was rude.

Opus the Poet

Headcanon: Anh got the maids to read all the spoken parts

Andrew

You are a hero, sir!

William Cole

Long story short, she can’t go back to the island. Ever.

Andrew

You mispronounced Domingo 😆

Jaune Jaymes

https://i.imgur.com/hxqIeWq.gif

Minzoku Bokumetsu

I knew she had used it as a ringtone but I misremembered it as a different phone call. Spent like 40 minutes looking in the wrong place. Still worth it. 😆

BookBeard

Damn BookBeard, you’ve really been on a roll with those hidden gems 😉👌 🙇🏻

Ailadi

OMG how deep did you have to reach for that one

darklion

And I, am SANCHO!

Yelling Bird

Uh oh, Hanners must be nearby, I can hear her ringtone. Better restrain Anh. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2104

BookBeard

*applauds* (non-sarcastically)

Ailadi

I want Jimbo’s hat

Nessi505

*looks around the comments* Nope, definitely nothing odd about that.

Ailadi

Ghod Rilbert?

Diptych

This strip looks like it was ridiculously fun to draw. Theatrics + anhoge = 🤭

Ailadi

HOW DID I MISS THAT ONE? Godzilla DAMN IT! How did I miss Rodanh!

Joseph Bonnar

*snrk*

Ailadi

That. Would. Be. Perfection. JEPH. Get on this!

Michael Steamweed

That hair lock is as expressive as Lemon's! Melon's, too, come to think of it.

Michael Steamweed

I feel like Ayn is getting dirty each strip...in every sense of the word.

J.R. Murdock

She has people to read for her.

Diptych

Her dramatic flair is Ahn point. Great stage potential!

Michael Steamweed

Ahn needs to read the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde. Soon Ahnough, she'll be secretly meeting Rodrigo for illicit illustrations.

Michael Steamweed

Perhaps 'romAhnce'?

Michael Steamweed

Lots of dusting and sweeping and cleaning up. The place is a machine shop, remember.

Michael Steamweed

why is faye surprised that Anh can read? She's an heiress?

Rabbit

Perhaps Rodrigo got Ahn all a-quiverin', but there was no deliverin'.

Michael Steamweed

Or maybe RODRIGAHN?

Michael Steamweed

What about RODAHN?

Michael Steamweed

Embrace toleranhce.

Doc Gumby

HISTORICAL Romance... RODRIGO... Borgia???

Errol Lobo

Wait, that might actually work. I'm pretty sure any romance with Hannelore will stay firmly in the realm of fiction for Anh anyways

AlexKorobeiniki

ANHRIGO! Start the ship NOW!

Joseph Bonnar

"Like a kielbasa into a jello mold!" (Somehow I don't think that's quite how Sven experienced it, though....) Given Anh's quest to, ah, explore her Sapphic side, she needs to deal with Dr. Heteronormative! (Also, another good excuse for a Jimbo cameo) https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526

Elf Sternberg

That's actually substantially more than I would have guessed.

Rich Holmes

Technically L-Space is a subset of Discworld, where audiobooks and movies in archaic formats live.

Gargleblarg

Nastacoff Sovietsky

Todd Ellner

Panel 4 is the first time that unruly wisp hasn’t completely irked me. Does this mean *gasp* that I am on the path to accepting her (the path of anhceptance)? I’m afraid.

Melissa Wilson

you truly are passionate about delivering those QC deep cuts

Dave, Duke of Fridges

Before the Current Unpleasantness™ defunded the NEA, it's last report on readership indicated that in 2024, for the first time in their records, less than half of all Americans read at least one book for pleasure that year.

Elf Sternberg

I'm sure Rodrigo loved her back. Still unacted upon, but not unrequited.

Ben R

I'm sure Rodrigo was great and all, but let's face it, he's no Lord Forwhyllyn. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=180

BookBeard

Parasocial Romance is a genre lacking happy endings.

Elf Sternberg

True, but the fact that she's genuinely shocked by that isn't good either 😂

Aditya Rameshan

what a fool belieeeeeeves to beeeeeeee no wise man has the power to reason away what seeeeeeeeeeeeems to beeeeeeee is always better than nothing and nothing at all keeps bringing her back...

darklion

I actually live in L-Space, I just vacation in BookWorld.

BookBeard

Based on her expression, it was genuine shock that just slipped out rather than a thought-out zinger.

Bill Silvia

I genuinely love this twist so much

Green

Jeph needs to create a one shot character by that name. Perhaps out on the Island. Perhaps wandering into Marten's cafe. Perhaps bemoaning his lonelin ess.

Michael Boettger

Natasha Rostov (I know, not very original)

adrian koren

Faye put her to work sweeping a half-dozen or so strips back. Evidently this is the first time Union Robotics has been swept.

That Blair Guy

If you turn the audiobook setting to 1.5x, it qualifies as speed dating.

Mad Marie

Faye, just because Anh doesn't read Sex Guy in her NoHo bed doesn't mean she doesn't read.

ValdVin

She's been working in the shop all morning!

Diptych

No reason for such an assumption other than statistics, and certainly no reason for incredulity if it turns out to be incorrect. If anything, I'd think being wealthy is correlated with greater likelihood of reading for pleasure — you can afford to, and you have time to. (But I have no data to back that up.)

Rich Holmes

Huh. Why is Anh all dirtied up? We see her blouse(?) in 5519, but Anh doesn't seem like someone who would wear a dirty top.

Walt Donovan

Responding to Greg: It would be very "Purple Rose of Cairo", yes?

Claudia D.

Illiterate - no, she obviously went to a high priced school. But capable of enjoying a novel? That doesn't really apply to that many people so it's not unreasonable to assume she wasn't the sort who reads for pleasure.

Shawn Spencer

See, if we all listened to podcasts on our radios, we wouldn't have that problem.

ValdVin

Look if the Goblin is redeemable, than Anh is redeemable.

Shawn Spencer

She needs to confer with BookBeard

Two Wheels

That you can read comment was out of pocket, even for Faye 🤣🤣🤣

Aditya Rameshan

It's mostly surprising she reads for pleasure.

Shawn Spencer

She’s a fan of romAnhance novels.

Gary Levine

Jeph I swear to Ghod you better not let our beloved Hanners be sullied by this...this CRETIN!

Kevin McCarthy

Or to a different tune: Rodrigo I've just read a boy named Rodrigo And though he's fictional Rodrigo's really all To me

Rich Holmes

(wearily, with great effort) Yes, but you know what I mean.

Diptych

But, she has potential...

Donna Flint

ok, it was a bit mean of Faye, but i did still laugh

Logan Nix

Anh cannot be with Rodrigo, as she has not yet figured out a way to enter the BookWorld.

Sean Kinlin

The only thing Anh can't read is the room.

Creeperkry

I mean, your point isn't wrong, but Anh and Marten are also very much not real

Ace

I can't place the tune, but this is great!

Sean Kinlin

Honey, none of them are real.

Donna Flint

But I mean having a relationship with a fictional character couldn’t be that odd?

Greg Matyola

R O D R I GO She is learning espanh̃ol R O D R I GO Spends her days on Duolingo

Graydon Armstrong

This is so much. <3

Josh Bacon

🎵 Before you comment, remember the order The N comes first and the H comes after! Her name is Anh, A - N - H That's how it's spelled on every page! I hate to insist and I beg your pardon But Ahn's not real and neither is Martin! 🎵

Diptych

Panel 3 is life. You can tell she is putting all the sauce on a bad Spanish accent

Thomas Baxter

Oof. This level of disconnect from reality might really be problematic, as opposed to just anhoying.

Graydon Armstrong

I CACKLED AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT ME FUNNY ON THE BUS NOW

Tamara Macadam

Really nailing that whole “being normal” thing Ahn.

Taigan

The fourth brother, he's fictional

Jason Wotzko

An important step in liking her, at least to me, is that she greatly mellowed out now that she's no longer stressing about wanting to do things with other girls. So now she's just a rich girl caricature and a relatively well meaning one at that.

Damian

I continue to love her ahoge, especially in panel 4 😍

Lucas Werkmeister

Low blow from Faye there, though. Anh may be a train wreck but there's nothing to suggest she's incapable of enjoying a novel, let alone illiterate.

Rich Holmes

“There was something in the AIR that night… The STARS were bright. RodriGO!!!” ✨

Melissa Wilson

The hair wisp is as lively and expressive as ever.

Doc Gumby

Ahnrequited love is the cruelest cut of all.

Greg Matyola

Ugh...she is so annoying, but I know she needs to grow, so I'm trying to like her.

Everett Bradshaw

Any excuse to get Jimbo in for a cameo.

Orion Rhine

Olivianh

Eric Sieck

And here I was listening to a podcast about how our smartphones are making kids and many adults less intelligent.

Miyaa

Also Rodrigo wasn't covered with grease with his hair going crazy

Rich Holmes

I now need a sequence about Rodrigo sung off key to the tune of Espresso

Sarah

Bet Jimbo wrote said historical Romance.

Gone

Did Rodrigo talk to the hand?

Captain Button

Is Rodrigo coming soon to the main cast

Jan Szejko

Ahn has layers. I like it.

Tannerbot

Burn!

Gary Wood

I'm as surprised as Faye is.

Doc Gumby

book townie love is the most unrequited type...

Brendan Luster

Faye has the slyest little smile to go with "Have you".

ValdVin

Oooh, perspective shot!

Andrew Denton


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