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About time she met one that met her standards I think,.... I've yet to see a rational, sensible Hanners drool over a person.

Darnel D Cooper

That was a while ago, and also I think she still likes safe, imaginary firemen.

Stephen Wells

Do Entropic Firemen put themselves out?

CaptXpendable

the Patreon comments for that one are excellent btw: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15173008

Lucas Werkmeister

BookBeard may know the comic better than Jeph does.

Sean Kinlin

I thought Hanners swore off firemen, deciding they were disgusting.

awgiedawgie

You're like the resident archivist! You always seem to have a link ready and I feel like you know this comic better than anyone

Alcaria Swain

Ellen in Leftover Soup has you covered. https://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=241

ValdVin

Drunk drivers.

Opus the Poet

I hope Emily's given up on defeating it. If anyone has the attitude and brains to stop entropy, she does.

ValdVin

Ooooh, noooooo!

Claudia D.

Pretty long, yeah. Eight years since it was last referenced in the comic, and Hanners herself wasn't even there for that one. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3605

BookBeard

9 years ago, woof, no wonder I forgot.

DonnieRamesJio

They still have a couple left, there's no official expiration date, and Dora is too cheap to throw out a potential sale.

Raymond Dannelly

Wow, that link from BookBeard took me to a section of the story I haven't seen in AGES.

SilverbackRon

Entropy is *everyone's* greatest weakness, when you come right down to it 🤔

Sean Brannon

You are all 100% correct, Hanners would not truck with fremen, only fire trucks.

Dean Smith

Catboy firemen Unfortunately, on a quick search I couldn't find any catboy fireman art that was open to the public. It's something like this, but cat: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31315145/

James Redekop

*sudden Ahn bursts in through the wall all ”kool aid style” wearing nothing but pants and helmet, carrying a fire axe and a kitten wanting to explain entropy from a 40 page Nature thesis*

legobil

That adorable look on Ayo panel 5 though be like 🤔🤔🤔 🤣🤣🤣

legobil

Sounds like something a group of youngsters would do, start a blood pact...

allanfranta

Anh was listening just outside the door and is now frantically googling "how to become a firefighter".

BookBeard

I wonder if Hanners still has the crowbar?

William Karr

I can say from experience that Australian firemen holding puppies is not particularly bad to look at on a cold January night, so I'm sure them holding kittens would have a similar effect.

Matt Pedone

Astrophysicist firemen holding kittens.

Summer

Probably not firemen. She discovered they were sweaty as I recall. Wait . . . . hot ROBOT firemen perhaps?

09Klr650

Tell that to the heat they dissipate over a larger volume, increasing the entropy of the system. (Remember the laws of thermodynamics: You can’t win, You can’t break even, and You can’t quit the game. And there is no other game.)

Philip Masters

They fight it partly by increasing it. They tend to spread the energy of the fire over a larger volume.

Philip Masters

Good recall. But she didn't say that entropy wasn't her nemesis - merely that defeating it would cause a lot of problems. She is a wise woman, who understands that a nemesis that can be defeated is not a nemesis, merely a learning experience.

Philip Masters

Precisely

Todd Ellner

Cats are telepathic - they know what you're thinking - they just don't care.

Charles Hirst

Some of us are just trying to stave off advancing decrepitude.

Charles Hirst

People like firemen. They ordinarily don't kill unarmed people for no reason.

Opus the Poet

Blood packs are still on the menu? Surely there aren't that many daywalkers in Northampton.

Opus the Poet

It's not the deepest cut, but like, it's definitely been a while. She doesn't bring up firemen nearly as often as she used to

Alcaria Swain

@Alcaria It.. doesn’t seem like that long ago? But perhaps I’m confusing things with the whole directecember (sp?) month.

Freid

I can't believe Jeph went for "Entropic firemen" over "Kiten firemen". Then again, I'm not entirely sure the world could survive Hanners as a furry...

Sarah Valentine

I really want to check back in on Emily's progress with entropy xD

enchantedsleeper

In fairness, that WAS before Hanners' "personal breakthroughs" - I suspect she wouldn't be quite as put off by the sweat now.

enchantedsleeper

They're so cuuuute :D (Ayo and Hanners or Ayo and Yemisi? Yes.)

enchantedsleeper

The pfp being Hanners with this comment is a 10/10

Kristina

"Blood Pack"? Do they steam-froth that? Before serving or after consumption? Do they discriminate or are non-vampires allowed to order too?

Robert Heinig

dust?

Bagge

I thought she got kinda turned off about the firemen thing 10 years ago?

Gamera

Hanners deserves a firefighter with a kitten. TWO kittens.

Jack Foy

I wouldn't trust a cat to put out a fire

Carl

Apparently Hanners changed her mind about entropy?? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3183

pseudoclever

Alright, let’s go around the circle. Anh, what was your weakness again?

Andrew

As a physicist, entropy probably should be my greatest enemy, but no. It's Clebsh-Gordan coefficients.

Jon Wilson

Roko.

Rob Vary

You may begin!

Melissa Wilson

Anyone else miss Yay?

Melissa Wilson

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” Hannelore would be a spannungsbogen savant!

Melissa Wilson

Today we learned that Ayo has the exact same scheming face as Yay. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4920

BookBeard

Mine, too & I’m loving the channel change because Wilco’s How to Fight Loneliness has been on replay in my head for days!

Melissa Wilson

Firemen holding kittens, while mitigating entropy…? Is it hot in here?

Melissa Wilson

“…I’m gonna hold onto it, just in case.” 🥰

Melissa Wilson

Yet

BookBeard

I recommend a good pair of squishable silicone earplugs to help prevent melted brain leakage. From...there.

Michael Steamweed

I always thought they combined to make an invigoratingly zesty dressing.

Melissa Wilson

Most are credit card and cash. One is crypto-coin only. Two will be various barter systems. (The, ah, "personal services" model coffee shop will only feature on Jeph's secret extra-spicy Patreon.) And one of the shops will use a business model designed by Cubetown Economics Department, and no one will understand how it makes a profit. If it does.

Michael Steamweed

Tomorrow: Goth Sam and Grim Emmett admire a hearse. The hearse catches on fire because Grim Emmett is there.

Miyaa

Touching. It's touching, dear.

Timothy Roller

Oh, what lucky kittens! 😍

Melissa Wilson

If ever Hanners meets an AI hunky fireman (or two) who runs a kitten-sitting service, self-sterilizes, and cleans homes as a hobby, she will be lost to everyone forever.

Michael Steamweed

Recycling body fluids?! Yeah NO way she's happy with that.

Michael Steamweed

AND beneficiaries of physics! I’m a huge fan, for example, of both gravity & friction.

Melissa Wilson

Oh! Is THAT what I’m feeling? That’s melted brain I feel… there?

Melissa Wilson

Nobody ever wrote a song called "F the Fire Department"

Todd Ellner

Firemen. Plural. Like Ted’s problems in Four Rooms. Unforgettable!

Melissa Wilson

💯 she wouldn’t even visit a solar system that contained a planet like Arrakis, due to the dust alone!

Melissa Wilson

Firemen technically fight entropy, don’t they? Common enemy!

Space Modulator

Firemen offering platonic cuddles with napping kittens

Nicole Widrig

I'm pretty sure stillsuits are not nearly hygenic enough for Hanners.

Daniel Farnitano

Oh, my dear sweet Hannelore, I'll be your fireman! I've set LOTS of shit on fire! Also, Entropic Firemen would be an awesome band name.

Yelling Bird

Absolutely read that as fremen the first two times

Dean Smith

😔

Claudia D.

Entropic cats who work as firemen would be neat to see...

Steve McSheffrey

As long as he can avoid the Patriotism Drones...

Captain Button

God I forgot about the fireman

Phaine Of Catz

In 2050, Jeph will be drawing 11 different coffee shops run by 12 of his earliest recurring characters, but with 5 distinct business models.

Paul Johnson

I thought she was over firemen after they showed up at her door for that fundraiser

Alex Burka

I'm watching that mug in the espresso machine, to be sure it doesn't also disappear.

BobC

Hanners secretly writes fan fiction about rescuing helpless firemen stuck up a tree full of kittens, as far as you know

Frank Wales

They definitely won't steal your stuff, Ayo. Mostly because you don't have any stuff, you left it all on the bus, remember? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5137

BookBeard

Been a while since we've all discussed the fireman fetish

Alcaria Swain

Fire-kittens. I now need to plug this into meta AI to see what ridiculous images it spits out.

joe velsher

kittens in fireman hats slowly running out of energy

SpookyPenguin

Careful, it's dangerous to combine those reflexes. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1226

BookBeard

Eventually.

schmod

It was indeed Emily. Hanners was opposed to the whole idea. Which is probably for the best because if anyone could actually defeat the concept of entropy, it's Emily. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3183

BookBeard

Oh, that's a throwback!

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

The catnip must flow.

Sean Kinlin

Welp, time to become a fireman.

Everett Bradshaw

Good thing the box is labeled "Kittens - Fragile" or we wouldn't have known. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2929

ValdVin

She's starting with the "unpaid intern evil genius" phase.

Michael Steamweed

Hannelore has Faye's crowbar, jokingly given to her to hit Faye with if she veers towards a liquor store on the way to the therapy group.

Daryl Sawyer

It's for sure firemen

Kyle Major

We are all victims of physics.

Michael Steamweed

Entropic topless firemen holding kittens. (*Hanners' brain melts)

Michael Steamweed

Ah, sisterly approval. It eludes us all at times...

Doc Gumby

The noise I made when I got to that punchline

Pejo

I thought Juicy Lady was Hannelore Nemesis.

Captain Button

oh no

Pejo

Was it Emily? It's been so long, I can't remember anymore

DonnieRamesJio

You’re not alone, Hanners. Entropy makes *all of us* come apart.

Magic Chopstick Games

I misread that as Entropic Catboy Fremen.

Captain Button

I thought entropy was Emily's nemesis.

William Cole

In 1219 she haggles with Pintsize for sexy firemen pics. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1219 There's also one about helping shirtless sailors open a box of kittens somewhere.

Captain Button

🔥 🙅🏼‍♂️

William J. R. Fickas

Deep cut.

William Cole

Last panel Ayo is going for the evil genius bit in both pose and dialog but she's just a bit too wholesome to pull it off.

ValdVin

Someday I wonder if Hanners will try out using "xor" in a sentence for "clarity sake".

Polymathic Man

It turns out that, in the classic poster, it was a fireman on the ground yelling "Hang in there!" at the kitten on the branch.

Sean Kinlin

This is so funny because I just got to the part in jephs 5th volume of the comic where Hannelore discovers the Internet has sexy firemen on it for the first time

Maximum Turtle

It doesn't have to be kittens: https://averyatheistchristmas.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/tumblr_ng58n9hemx1tvauwuo1_500.gif

ValdVin

Entropic Catboy Firemen?

Thisguy

Ok, THAT’S funny!

Matt Grayson

I am reminded of those calendars of firemen *holding* kittens. Like this: https://coleandmarmalade.com/2023/10/25/2024-australian-firefighters-calendar-features-steamy-us-heroes-with-cats/

Doug DeJulio

Ssshhhh! You're not s'posed to let people know that kittens can talk!

Amelia Lewis

A fireman must obey orders given by a human, unless it conflicts with the First Law. ... Oh, wait, you meant thermodynamics.

Sean Kinlin

We know Marigold knows about catboy games, maybe they have a firecatboy mod? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3130

Captain Button

FIREMEN!

Paul Higdon

I relate to Hannelore almost constantly. But never more so than today.

Jono Hayward

Of course that's an inclusive "or" - if they kill you and steal your stuff, they are definitely mean.

Sean Kinlin

Firemen are inherently opposed to entropy, it's their job.

Captain Button

Firemen. Holding sexy kittens.

Joseph Bonnar

Firemen fight entropy; kittens are agents of entropy.

Sean Kinlin

Judging from the comments, we need a drawing of some catboy firemen... just saying

Meghann Jaquette

How old is the firemen reference

R S

Gotta be firemen. They fight entropy and rescue kittens.

Steve DeGroof

Fireman holding kittens talking about entropy

Anthony Sammons

Entropy isn't her weakness, it's her arch-nemesis

DonnieRamesJio

Entropic cat eared firemen

Will

Thus endeth the debate over whether she still interested.

Bill Silvia

Damnit Jeph, now that song is in my head

Gene

Shoop eh doop

sjlxndr

Tapirs.

Seidmadr

I thought she wasn't into firemen anymore. Maybe the yak encounters helped her put the one slightly whiff fireman into perspective?

Adam Friedlander

Definitely sexy firemen

Michael

Two days, two helpful conversations in front of coffee price signs

Brian

Entropic catboy firemen?

Wynn Donivan

Ahh, good to see the fireman thing come back.

Joel Bateman

entropic catboy firemen

Wednesday

The second law - firemen edition.

Matt Grayson


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