Directember: Bedtime
Added 2024-12-29 21:56:44 +0000 UTCIf I'm doing the (admittedly very basic) math right, this is the second to last Directember update? I think??? It's Sunday night, which means the comic for Monday goes live on the site, which means the comic for Patreon is Tuesday? And if regular comics resume on January 2nd, Patreon gets it 24 hours early, which means January 1st, but since I post before bed, that really means it's the post I make on the night of the 31st. Yes, I really have posted 5400+ comics every night, by hand, without any kind of scheduling system. I have brain problems.
ANYWAY.
I wonder if Bubbles knows Faye read SEX GUY. Maybe they've both read it? I also never really got around to doing much with Sam and Momo being pals, I should explore that some more in the future. Especially now that Momo is Tall Momo. Which I am never, ever going to explain.
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Re the accounting for aging differences: This comic has an employment app May is looking at which asks if AIs are "at least equivalent to 18" per the Turing-Diaz Questionaire 7B. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2726 I really enjoy Jeph putting that in when we find out that Momo is four, and Yay is two (in strict human numbers).
ValdVin
2024-12-31 04:21:36 +0000 UTCI imagine "Sex Guy" using the Batman theme for music. "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na ... SEX Guy!"
Clifton Royston
2024-12-31 03:52:46 +0000 UTCA print version of Alice Grove would be great.
Clifton Royston
2024-12-31 03:17:24 +0000 UTCthat would be https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1781, a redraw of https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=258 six years later
Lucas Werkmeister
2024-12-30 21:51:44 +0000 UTCThat's definitely Aurelia in the montage, but quite a while before he began doing the grey hair streaks
Zak Reichle
2024-12-30 18:15:32 +0000 UTCI appreciate these same-moment-in-time comics as a look at what was and what may be coming... and this one comic is quite perfect in the many feelings it encapsulates... takes me right back to that place in QC history. During this month off, I re-read QC end to end along with respective newsposts - as well as Alice Grove (I'd forgotten how much I appreciated Alice Grove!) (was there ever a print version published?) Sometimes it's surprising how slowly QC time has moved but I would not have it any other way. (that Alice Grove and QC were coming out simultaneously is super impressive btw!) Brain problems or no, I appreciate your sharing these universes and characters (and music!) that live within you with the rest of us and look forward to supporting (and enjoying) your creative endeavors in the years to come. I don't know if you read all these comments Jeph... but you have in many ways shaped my perspectives on the world over the years - for the better I believe - and I am grateful. Thank you.
SomeTelephoneGuy
2024-12-30 16:25:23 +0000 UTCRight? Momo sizes up Sven, realizes May isn’t in the running anymore, takes a deep breath, says, “Fight, Momo!” and goes in for the tall unit
James Roy
2024-12-30 16:16:53 +0000 UTCI'm not the only one. Yay! (and now I miss Yay again)
SomeTelephoneGuy
2024-12-30 16:02:14 +0000 UTCWOOOOooo
Sorastro
2024-12-30 16:02:06 +0000 UTCHa, wow. Remember early Bubbles? I archive dove a bit and this was a really cool time. Remember Emily? And Bleminda(s?)? I was sueprised Claire has been around for like half the strip’s run. Still seems like “The Library Trio” Claire to me
will davison
2024-12-30 15:16:53 +0000 UTCThis is probably my favorite comic in all of QC. Simply for the romance novel just called “Sex Guy”. It’s such a throwaway visual gag, but it makes me laugh every time I think of it.
Dr. Pound
2024-12-30 14:39:52 +0000 UTCthis has been a wild trip, and I agree with the rest of the comments, would love to see more Momo. ~<3
Mitsuki Ayane
2024-12-30 13:32:25 +0000 UTCI like that Tall Momo was not explained.
Greg Morrow
2024-12-30 13:03:14 +0000 UTCI scrolled entirely too far to pull this up... 4601: last sighting of short Momo aug 29th 2021 5051: first sighting of tall Momo may 20th 2023 5060: last sighting of tall Momo may 31st 5444: most recent Momo sighting, just before Dec 2024
Nicole Sweetmercy
2024-12-30 11:22:27 +0000 UTCYeah MWF was super common back then, source: am old
Pejo
2024-12-30 09:44:21 +0000 UTCThe strip went to the current schedule on 2004-09-05 (strip 179, https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=179), prior to that it was the common Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule of so many webcomics
Jonathan
2024-12-30 08:24:54 +0000 UTCMaybe? I'm not sure if it works that way for employing AIs, even if you account for how differently they age.
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-30 08:16:58 +0000 UTCI started at 2x a week for a couple months, then switched to 3x per week until I went full time in September 2004
Jeph Jacques
2024-12-30 08:15:26 +0000 UTCWith a rebel yell, he cried More Momo!
Joseph Bonnar
2024-12-30 07:16:31 +0000 UTCI like to imagine that “Sex Guy” is advertised with a theme song that’s just a direct ripoff of the melody of the “DuckTales” theme
Dissociated Women Incorporated
2024-12-30 05:58:34 +0000 UTC2(nudge). Say no more, Squire.
Sorastro
2024-12-30 05:50:00 +0000 UTCHey I have a question for Jeph (or anyone else who can answer it). Jeph hasn't always done five comics per week (which is mind boggling to achieve). What was the earliest schedule and when did it change?
SilverbackRon
2024-12-30 05:17:31 +0000 UTCI would love to see Momo interacting with the new and improved Sam and Emmett, especially now that they have entered their teen goth phase. 🖤🖤💖
SilverbackRon
2024-12-30 05:13:22 +0000 UTCAs do I, now.
SilverbackRon
2024-12-30 05:08:48 +0000 UTCI will nudge this nudge
SilverbackRon
2024-12-30 05:07:44 +0000 UTCI always use QC as an example of artistic progression. It's like Rush, but with comics. :P
SilverbackRon
2024-12-30 05:07:13 +0000 UTCWould Tall Momo vacation in Long Chile? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/comments/d69z24/hey_rate_my_alt_history_map_where_chile_becomes_a/?rdt=45504
Matthew Borus
2024-12-30 04:51:23 +0000 UTCNow I am picturing Honest X14's Used AnthroPC Chassis Lot.
Captain Button
2024-12-30 04:29:26 +0000 UTCJeph, thank you. Just thank you.
Darren Franzen
2024-12-30 03:49:49 +0000 UTC...or you could return Momo's chibi chassis (bought used) inhabited by another new character. Or by Yay.
Ursus Ridens
2024-12-30 03:26:05 +0000 UTCWe never learned what Momo's age is (via the AI calculation in-universe) but since she had worked at the library didn't she have to be at least 17 or 18?
ValdVin
2024-12-30 02:47:46 +0000 UTCI was just advising a struggling artist not to give up by directing him to QC's archives. Seeing the art style progress and become more defined is inspirational.
Doc Gumby
2024-12-30 02:47:29 +0000 UTCTell me more…!
William Cole
2024-12-30 01:54:46 +0000 UTCOoh. Well, still, it's adorable.
Will Weaver
2024-12-30 01:53:41 +0000 UTCI look forward to that, but I hope it doesn't awaken anything in me.
William Cole
2024-12-30 01:53:21 +0000 UTCGood link, but I think that is Claire in the bath (no gray streaks in the hair, although that's not always consistent.)
William Cole
2024-12-30 01:51:02 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite bands.
Sorastro
2024-12-30 01:10:16 +0000 UTCJeph, I would love more Momo. Perhaps this can be a nudge to give her some momentum. Momo-momentim as it were. 3(Mo)mentum.
Sorastro
2024-12-30 01:09:24 +0000 UTCMan, I gotta say, I've really been enjoying this walk down memory lane. And it's been really interesting to read your insights, looking back on what you've done and thinking about characters we haven't seen in a while.
Natty Zaharia
2024-12-30 01:07:08 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/fiC_yiHKZiY?si=PzNXPHzypb4BdFBn
James Dominguez
2024-12-30 01:00:11 +0000 UTCI like this headcanon.
jonesnori
2024-12-30 00:55:15 +0000 UTCBut she's never going to be satisfied. She'll eventually buy a new model, Crushbot height but willowy build (as opposed to Willowy build). A few years after that, Attack of the Fifty Foot Momo.
Daryl Sawyer
2024-12-30 00:07:09 +0000 UTCPaging Bookbeard...
djellafine
2024-12-30 00:06:01 +0000 UTCThat’s the explanation I assume.
Thisguy
2024-12-30 00:02:16 +0000 UTCI share this head cannon
Nessi505
2024-12-29 23:55:29 +0000 UTCI’m pretty sure she was influenced by the Andrea True Connection… “Momo MORE!” (How do you like it? How do you like it? Ooooooh… How do you like your love…?
Melissa Wilson
2024-12-29 23:52:36 +0000 UTCObviously Momo is tall now so that her tall wife, May, couldn't keep teasing her by using her head as a boob rest
Fart Captor
2024-12-29 23:51:31 +0000 UTCI’d assume that Bubbles knows by now, and is fine with that fact.
Brian
2024-12-29 23:50:27 +0000 UTCHannelore would be cleaning… Roko dreaming of bread…
Melissa Wilson
2024-12-29 23:44:46 +0000 UTCIt would probably be a huge crystallized Momo that is there to squash regular sized Pintsize.
Miyaa
2024-12-29 23:39:40 +0000 UTC…and let's not forget that, until January 3rd, your bedtime occurs in the Paris time zone, and now you have a recipe for mixups.
Comics Ladybird
2024-12-29 23:18:33 +0000 UTCTired: Momo went Tall Momo because she saw a persuasive ad and found a good deal on the Tall Momo model. Inspired: Momo went Tall Momo because of the model's espionage features. She splits her time between bodyguarding Marigold and partnering with Steve in his infrequent secret missions.
Michael Steamweed
2024-12-29 23:16:34 +0000 UTCVladVin: Thanks, but that was not the one I was thinking of. Steve was in bed with Cosette (or someone) and one of them was asleep and snoring.
Captain Button
2024-12-29 23:08:33 +0000 UTCMy headcanon says that Momo went tall because she doesn’t think Sven goes for short.
James Roy
2024-12-29 23:02:20 +0000 UTCI assumed it was because she got sick of jokes from May (also, Marigold is a kajillionaire now, so why not?)
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-29 22:58:24 +0000 UTCIn his phone! :D
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-29 22:57:24 +0000 UTCCaptain, it's here. Steve and Cosette, among others. And Aurelia's taking a bubble bath with The Sexual Duke (a book, not some hot younger guy from Smif). https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4510
ValdVin
2024-12-29 22:56:55 +0000 UTCSee, and here I thought it was because Momo had "aged" beyond hanging out with Sam, but it turns out it was because Jeph forgot to revisit their friendship xD ...I would love to see Momo interact with Grim Samantha, NGL. And how would she get along with Emmett- I mean, Dark Emmett?
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-29 22:56:15 +0000 UTCa fun thing that has happened occasionally is that Jeph himself has retconned a couple of the earlier strips. I can't find it, but there was an early strip where Faye splashed some milk in Martin's (long ago) ex's face at CoD, and then Jeph redid it, in his updated art style, like, 9-12 years later. Anyone know where that one is?
Chelsea
2024-12-29 22:48:31 +0000 UTCI just assumed Momo got exposed to comic book radiation and grew instantly over the course of 3 or 4 panels. But it's still the same body she purchased years ago.
cromulent
2024-12-29 22:44:03 +0000 UTCHahaha, that is a good take on it. She may physically be the youngest but she has the most maturity of them all. Most of the time.
SilverbackRon
2024-12-29 22:43:39 +0000 UTCWhat's there to explain? She just wanted a taller, more adult body, considering that she is the adult out of her group.
Shawn K. Younkin
2024-12-29 22:40:09 +0000 UTCEvery time skip Momo gains a few inches. No one will comment on it until she is no longer able to enter CoD without ducking.
Bill Silvia
2024-12-29 22:25:21 +0000 UTCNot-on-an-automatic-payment-plan gang ✊🏽
ol' Alex J
2024-12-29 22:20:58 +0000 UTCI love that last panel. Bubbles' story is one of the best in this entire continuity.
Maurice Kessler
2024-12-29 22:20:39 +0000 UTCMomo has implemented augmented reality. It's just that she constrained the augmentation to one dimension.
Sean Kinlin
2024-12-29 22:17:57 +0000 UTCNever explain anything Jeph. Just keep being Jeph.
GregD
2024-12-29 22:17:18 +0000 UTCBut what is Momo's Ultimate Form? (We know Pintsize's Ultimate Form is the one from "NOW ENDS THE AGE OF MAN!")
Captain Button
2024-12-29 22:11:27 +0000 UTCIt’s where Momo and May have super fast charging stations so they really need the humans to go to bed.
Miyaa
2024-12-29 22:11:17 +0000 UTCYour post made my brain hurt.
Lawrence David Thompson
2024-12-29 22:10:54 +0000 UTCI absolutely adore the little chibi Claire icon in Marten's thoughts.
Will Weaver
2024-12-29 22:09:27 +0000 UTCAh. My brain didn’t think of the “24 hour early patreon perk” but, then again I wouldn’t mind if he took an extra day off. Like, if you don’t have to work 31/12 or 1/1, then why would you 😅
legobil
2024-12-29 22:08:13 +0000 UTCI think there was at least one other sleeping montage, with one being Steve and Cosette.
Captain Button
2024-12-29 22:08:10 +0000 UTCMomo evolved from mini Momo to regular Momo to Aloof Momo. She still kept her tentacles and electricity abilities, they are super effective!
Miyaa
2024-12-29 22:08:04 +0000 UTCHe did announce (on Bluesky) that the new comic will be released here on 1 January 2025. Just in time to order those red envelopes 🧧 for the Chinese New Year.🧧
Miyaa
2024-12-29 22:06:27 +0000 UTC"trying to get them in bed" you say :3
Wynn Donivan
2024-12-29 22:06:04 +0000 UTCI'm still confused by Momo's hair, which was really long after it got regrown, but then suddenly tied up and the same length as before.
Packy Anderson
2024-12-29 22:05:54 +0000 UTC🎵She sees you when you're sleeping She knows when you're awake She knows if you're a Skullmaster So be kind to every snake You better watch out, You better not cry You'll be so devout To the scolding A.I. Tall Momo is coming, to town...🎵
Sean Kinlin
2024-12-29 22:05:54 +0000 UTCIt's incredible to see how your style has evolved over the years! It's so weird because it's like I don't remember the earlier art. My brain has retconned the entire series in your current evolution.
Beth Goode
2024-12-29 22:05:31 +0000 UTCBonus Patreon comic of Steve and Cleo sleeping while Ahn reads “Now That You’re Bi.”
Miyaa
2024-12-29 22:04:35 +0000 UTCWe need a new version, but with couples sleeping! Marten & Claire, Faye & Bubbles, Clinton & Elliot, and Dale & Marigold are awake & playing games while Momo and May are trying to get them in bed.
Miyaa
2024-12-29 22:02:39 +0000 UTCI like to imagine Faye and Bubbles cozied up in bed at the end of a hard day reading Chuck Tingle to each other
Cancertopia
2024-12-29 22:01:09 +0000 UTCI'm currently rereading your comics. They're wonderfully done, and I enjoy them immensely. Thank you for creating such an amazing world. 🤗
George Passantino
2024-12-29 22:00:25 +0000 UTCFor your sake, Jeph, I hope this is the last. Surely you’re not gonna work New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day.
legobil
2024-12-29 22:00:24 +0000 UTCWhat's to explain, really? She's tall now.
Wynn Donivan
2024-12-29 22:00:24 +0000 UTCI was so confused by tall Momo. Good for her though
Skye
2024-12-29 22:00:07 +0000 UTC
