If you see Iris walking towards you carrying something sharp, Doc, RUN!
Joseph Bonnar
2025-02-14 16:30:34 +0000 UTC
I'll agree with that one.
Joseph Bonnar
2025-02-14 16:24:50 +0000 UTC
”They appear to have reached their breaking point. ”
“Oh, are they very angry?”
“No. It’s just their finger.”
legobil
2025-02-14 12:58:08 +0000 UTC
Occasionally stumbling onto a great new webcomic that already has a long post history is the one thing that keeps me going sometimes.
Justin
2025-02-13 20:23:59 +0000 UTC
Congratulations, Grace! Everyone deserves congratulations on a life change like that.
Decent people are not giving up on our trans friends.
Clifton Royston
2025-02-13 05:17:26 +0000 UTC
Don’t much like Wednesdays…I wait til 8 for the comic, I read the comic, then I’m sad because I have 2 days ahead with no comic
I look for BookBeard’s links in old comments to read a few
Just completed a re-read from 1 in November
Guess it is time to re-read LotR or Rothfuss again Thurs & Fri to fill the void
Darren Franzen
2025-02-13 00:40:10 +0000 UTC
Was the wife also in the class?
Chris Warren
2025-02-12 22:24:04 +0000 UTC
Does Coffee of Doom now do pic-a-nic baskets?
Doc Gumby
2025-02-12 19:28:55 +0000 UTC
Is that a midlife crisis or newlife crisis?
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-12 18:38:16 +0000 UTC
I also thought it was going to be a dramatic wardrobe malfunction breakthrough...
Hugh Eckert
2025-02-12 17:26:02 +0000 UTC
Turns out he was just really unhappy because he was doing yoga.
awgiedawgie
2025-02-12 17:02:54 +0000 UTC
Did we know it was winter or fall at this point? I'm trying to remember a timeskip since the wedding.
ValdVin
2025-02-12 16:59:31 +0000 UTC
CUTE GIRL IN FOGGY GLASSES!
Bagge
2025-02-12 15:51:42 +0000 UTC
If only I had as much difficulty holding Downward-Facing Spiral as I do downward-facing dog! Heyooooooooooooooo
Halloween Jack
2025-02-12 14:44:17 +0000 UTC
Goot katch ja!
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-12 13:47:59 +0000 UTC
QC 5506: Steve gets DOGE'd
Creeperkry
2025-02-12 12:56:47 +0000 UTC
Yes?
Am Queue
2025-02-12 12:55:41 +0000 UTC
Yes
Randall Norman Pick
2025-02-12 12:38:24 +0000 UTC
"One of my students had a breakout." "You mean a breakthrough?" "No, they escaped while my back was turned."
Stephen Wells
2025-02-12 11:23:42 +0000 UTC
Is Steve retired as Secret Agent or just between jobs?
legobil
2025-02-12 09:43:35 +0000 UTC
Imagine the lead up to the breakthrough. Was the wife berating or were they both completely zen?
legobil
2025-02-12 09:41:25 +0000 UTC
Is that the same as “Rocking back and forth, sobbing” or…?
legobil
2025-02-12 09:40:01 +0000 UTC
Was it a breakthrough or a breakdown. Who knows. Possibly both.
legobil
2025-02-12 09:39:02 +0000 UTC
Psychotropic medications for fun and profit.
Opus the Poet
2025-02-12 09:34:54 +0000 UTC
Next, Avoiding the Sun
David Paul
2025-02-12 09:21:05 +0000 UTC
Why am I now shipping Tortura/Cosette
Stephen Wells
2025-02-12 09:03:14 +0000 UTC
Either that or she rang the yoga studio to rant at Willow, but them being in the same class would be funnier.
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-12 07:51:24 +0000 UTC
I don't see it myself 🤔
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-12 07:50:08 +0000 UTC
I didn't know that Marigold had a wife XD
I also thought it was going to be a "breakthrough" joke about an object getting broken
enchantedsleeper
2025-02-12 07:47:58 +0000 UTC
It's pretty common when responding to a question to mirror pronouns. So Ayo said "they/them" because of a non-specific gender, and Willow used the same when replying.
Darius Jenai
2025-02-12 06:44:23 +0000 UTC
@Zak, you speak with the Voice of Reason.
OldGoat
2025-02-12 06:26:09 +0000 UTC
"It's only a mid-life crisis if your life is mid"
(coming soon from Blockhead... :P)
Leak
2025-02-12 06:18:56 +0000 UTC
it reads as if the person's gender is nonspecific when they're introduced then becomes more specific as it becomes relevant to the conversation—it's a common thing I think!
Zak Hammerman
2025-02-12 05:12:42 +0000 UTC
Followed by: Worrier pose
Andrew
2025-02-12 05:02:52 +0000 UTC
If the wife was in the same class that would add to the awkward!
Andrew
2025-02-12 05:02:02 +0000 UTC
I don't want Ms. Dragonfang to lose her lovely zaftigkayt. I'm hoping that her winter coat just somehow makes her look thinner.
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-12 04:33:12 +0000 UTC
Gigglesnort!
Opus the Poet
2025-02-12 04:31:19 +0000 UTC
Shhhh!
Ursus Ridens
2025-02-12 04:27:11 +0000 UTC
I've taken that class!
William Cole
2025-02-12 04:07:28 +0000 UTC
And sent Cosette a nice gift basket.
William Cole
2025-02-12 04:06:34 +0000 UTC
She was going to, but then she heard that Steve drunk-bought a boat and canceled the hit.
William Cole
2025-02-12 04:05:55 +0000 UTC
I was thinking that as well.
William Cole
2025-02-12 04:03:58 +0000 UTC
Same. The struggle is real.
Kelly Walsh
2025-02-12 03:49:28 +0000 UTC
I have a trans step-daughter. :)
Yelling Bird
2025-02-12 03:26:12 +0000 UTC
You use "they/them" in the third panel for the person who had a breakthrough in savasana, and "he/him" in the fourth. Was that intentional?
Elizabeth Rosenzweig
2025-02-12 03:24:23 +0000 UTC
Well spotted,you.
Claudia D.
2025-02-12 03:21:16 +0000 UTC
I had mine about two and a half years ago! And as they go, coming out as trans was probably one of the better choices!
Grace Kieser
2025-02-12 03:12:43 +0000 UTC
I am starting to see what Iris sees in Willow, someone who has a mean streak that just needs to be trained. I mean Willow could be like when Ned Flanders goes out of control and then check himself into a psych ward after telling the whole town what he really thinks.
Miyaa
2025-02-12 03:11:20 +0000 UTC
Having lost 35 lbs in the past year and half, I’m here to tell you it sure makes yoga a heck of a lot easier! My knees thank me every day. So yay, Willow!
Claudia D.
2025-02-12 03:10:08 +0000 UTC
The last panel said "his", though, so perhaps there was even more to that Epiphany. Edit: Oops- crossed comments with BookBeard
jonesnori
2025-02-12 03:08:43 +0000 UTC
GDI I meant Nelson.
Miyaa
2025-02-12 03:08:06 +0000 UTC
And the hair whisping up from static after the hat comes off.
Doc Gumby
2025-02-12 03:05:50 +0000 UTC
She does also say "his wife" in panel four though.
BookBeard
2025-02-12 03:04:19 +0000 UTC
The weather we're having right now, her glasses should be solid with feathery frost crystals.
Holly Nelson
2025-02-12 03:02:56 +0000 UTC
I had my mid-life crisis years ago.
Yelling Bird
2025-02-12 03:01:41 +0000 UTC
Oh, see we don't get that kind of weather here, so I thought that might have been an artist mistake. The more you know!
Bridgette Ryan
2025-02-12 03:00:34 +0000 UTC
I think they might be using they/them pronouns, as Willow does say "they", not "he"...
Bridgette Ryan
2025-02-12 02:59:27 +0000 UTC
I appreciate the attention to detail with the fogged-up glasses! That happens to me all the time when I'm coming in from the cold outside.
Michael Steamweed
2025-02-12 02:58:30 +0000 UTC
I want to know if Tortura fed Cosette to the pigs. She did threaten it in https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3428
Bridgette Ryan
2025-02-12 02:57:20 +0000 UTC
Must have been one hell of an epiphany.
BookBeard
2025-02-12 02:48:17 +0000 UTC
"Welcome everyone to Midlife Crisis Yoga, let's start things off with our first pose: Downward-Facing Spiral"
BookBeard
2025-02-12 02:46:52 +0000 UTC
Considering that Willow apparently knows for certain how the wife felt about it, I give even odds that she was in the class as well.
Thunder
2025-02-12 02:45:58 +0000 UTC
Giving Cleo a deep glow.
ValdVin
2025-02-12 02:45:52 +0000 UTC
Or the secret alien clone army...
Captain Button
2025-02-12 02:44:59 +0000 UTC
Plus the hair static after removing winter hat
djellafine
2025-02-12 02:39:29 +0000 UTC
Jeph somehow made Willow cuter and I’m here for it!
Chauncey
2025-02-12 02:39:07 +0000 UTC
I think BooBoo was probably more involved...
Ben R
2025-02-12 02:37:27 +0000 UTC
being a bro to secret agents
angrytoast777
2025-02-12 02:34:43 +0000 UTC
And apparently the student took these actions (or some of them) before even leaving the studio.
Sean Kinlin
2025-02-12 02:33:22 +0000 UTC
Cleo, probably.
BookBeard
2025-02-12 02:33:08 +0000 UTC
Other than eating cereal that is.
Doc Gumby
2025-02-12 02:30:04 +0000 UTC
Willow had *that* sort of breakthrough already.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4617
BookBeard
2025-02-12 02:27:47 +0000 UTC
It was a really long time-jump, that's actually a grown-up Emmett.
TV4Fun
2025-02-12 02:27:24 +0000 UTC
But what's Steve doing?
TV4Fun
2025-02-12 02:26:32 +0000 UTC
Jeph has been playing the long game. I bet he concocted this whole panel, maybe even Willow's entire character, just to make this pun! 🤦
Gecko King
2025-02-12 02:25:49 +0000 UTC
Arthur is also the name of Melon's roommate. Officially the AnthroPC lawyer is named Nelson, but Jeph has accidentally called him Arthur on several occasions.
BookBeard
2025-02-12 02:25:18 +0000 UTC
Yeah, I see it... rats. This is throwing a spanner in my crush on Willow.
Doc Gumby
2025-02-12 02:24:51 +0000 UTC
*groan*
Doc Gumby
2025-02-12 02:22:34 +0000 UTC
This guy is in the downward dog house now.
Creeperkry
2025-02-12 02:21:38 +0000 UTC
I forgot Arthur was the name of anything except for Bubble’s plant.
Argus
2025-02-12 02:20:42 +0000 UTC
How long was that time jump? Willow looks like she lost a lot of weight since we last saw her. And good for her!
Grace Kieser
2025-02-12 02:19:29 +0000 UTC
That or her inner monologue’s engineer goes from Scottish to Gaelic.
Miyaa
2025-02-12 02:18:46 +0000 UTC
Dang, I didn't catch that!
Creeperkry
2025-02-12 02:18:24 +0000 UTC
Is it just me or does Willow without glasses look surprisingly like Emmett? I happened to glance at panel 3 before reading and thought it was Emmett which left me genuinely confused for a moment. We haven't seen them meet yet, maybe they'll turn out to be cousins or something.
BookBeard
2025-02-12 02:16:30 +0000 UTC
Tomorrow: Arthur gets hired as this guy’s divorce attorney. All the money and fees he earns goes to the nonprofit organization he represents. It’s how they are able to upscale their offices. Oh yeah, the guy wins.
Miyaa
2025-02-12 02:16:23 +0000 UTC
I'm in love with panel three Willow now!
Doc Gumby
2025-02-12 02:14:52 +0000 UTC
Smarter than the average bear?
I -think- not! (The last thing Descartes said before he inexplicably vanished.)
Joseph Bonnar
2025-02-12 02:12:20 +0000 UTC
If Marigold had a "breakthrough" in yoga, it would mean her pants ripped (which is what I thought the punchline would be)
Thalience
2025-02-12 02:12:15 +0000 UTC
Too real. LOL
Dan Isaacs
2025-02-12 02:11:09 +0000 UTC
I've been to yoga. I've been to therapy. (ETA: Both were helpful to me.)
Was there a crossover class I should be attending?
ValdVin
2025-02-12 02:11:04 +0000 UTC
So much for escapism
(╯° · °)╯︵ ┻━┻
/j
Bill Silvia
2025-02-12 02:08:39 +0000 UTC
WILLOW!!!
Vilinda
2025-02-12 02:08:14 +0000 UTC
Yoga? More like Noga!
Shawn K. Younkin
2025-02-12 02:08:12 +0000 UTC
ooh i like the fogging up of the glasses as she walks into the warmer more humid air of the shop. nice artistic touch
Tamara Macadam
2025-02-12 02:07:50 +0000 UTC
I like the detail of Willow’s glasses fogging up after walking inside, good to know even fictional characters also share that struggle