Directember: Penalization
Added 2024-12-08 01:17:52 +0000 UTCI have no insightful comments about this one, I just think Pintsize throwing his own head at Marten is a very funny gag. I always imagined his “skin” feeling like those shitty rubber-coated ballpoint pens you use at banks or car dealerships or the like. And I guess all his processing stuff was in his old body? But sometimes not? I played it pretty fast and loose with the robot stuff for the first few thousand comics. God every part of that phrase is weird when you really think about it. My job is weird. My life is weird.
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He probably would, anyway, and then have to deal with the consequences...
Hugh Eckert
2024-12-09 18:13:50 +0000 UTCI _knew_ that there was a problem with giving Pintsize a human-style chassis: he probably can't do that any more.
Ursus Ridens
2024-12-09 04:03:16 +0000 UTCPintsize's face here always gave me a "not angry, just *disappointed*" vibe
tellumo
2024-12-09 04:02:25 +0000 UTCI love that it takes up the last two panels like it takes several seconds for Pintsize to do it
Craig Griffith
2024-12-09 04:00:37 +0000 UTCDo you ever miss writing for the old pintsize body? It feels like it lent itself to very slapstick/absurd humour
SheepFace2000
2024-12-09 01:48:29 +0000 UTCIdeally it would just work without glitching...
Yulia
2024-12-08 19:22:20 +0000 UTCWeird is good, weird is very good. It's what makes life bearable. Please continue being weird.
alphanor
2024-12-08 17:27:27 +0000 UTCI find that hitting refresh once or twice will go from the cloudflare page to the comic.
alphanor
2024-12-08 17:25:20 +0000 UTCBall-peen hammer! (badum-ching!)
YsabetJustYsabet
2024-12-08 17:15:00 +0000 UTCQuestionable Domain?
Duncan
2024-12-08 15:54:18 +0000 UTCKing Missile!
William Cole
2024-12-08 14:33:14 +0000 UTCAfter it didn't work in my main browser, I used opera with adblock and I had the same problem.
Yulia
2024-12-08 14:25:23 +0000 UTCI would recommend uBlock Origin for the ads at least.
allanfranta
2024-12-08 14:10:22 +0000 UTCI could be remembering wrong, but I think the military one was bought for a repair and not the one he has at the start.
Bill Silvia
2024-12-08 14:02:34 +0000 UTCThe title just brought to mind the old detachable penis song. What a weird thing to recall.
Brian Appel
2024-12-08 13:14:58 +0000 UTCYour weirdness embiggins us!
Fennec12
2024-12-08 11:54:29 +0000 UTCPaging through the other strips around this: it's funny, I had thought that Marigold didn't get together with Dale until after Angus left, partly because he's nowhere to be seen in the strip where Dale stays over and makes pancakes. I guess he found somewhere else to be? xD (I mean, I'd say he stayed over at Faye and Marten's but he doesn't really pop up there either)
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-08 09:26:23 +0000 UTCBut Pintsize's chassis was originally military - and isn't that cited as a reason why he could withstand a lot of Faye beat-ups? I always thought the silver parts of his body were purely metal, too, though I imagined the green parts were more rubbery.
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-08 09:03:50 +0000 UTCI mean Delilah also doesn't strike me as the type to let a guy go ahead if he doesn't
enchantedsleeper
2024-12-08 09:00:31 +0000 UTCSo, more likely a Werner Herzog documentary.
Mark Eichin
2024-12-08 07:50:05 +0000 UTCYou could have the processing be in the head, but the body’s able to be controlled via Bluetooth or similar.
Dissociated Women Incorporated
2024-12-08 06:43:55 +0000 UTCJeph - the website's been down off and on for a couple of days, just as an fyi (You probably already know lol)
Onyx
2024-12-08 06:42:49 +0000 UTCyou know it's funny, looking back over these older comics, especially that first page, I recall seeing the art as it gradually changed and got better, can y'all believe that I was initially against the first art improvement when it changed from everyone being pasty white to having skin colors? ~<3
Mitsuki Ayane
2024-12-08 06:32:58 +0000 UTCAre you talking about the pens with the ergonomic grips? I liked those. We used to have those bare plastic Bics and have to try to hold onto them with our sweaty little fingers because the schools weren't air conditioned.
Halloween Jack
2024-12-08 06:18:01 +0000 UTCCongrats, y'all. We've crashed QC trying to backtrack to the sloppy makeouts Edit: QD to QC. Bloody autocorrect
Brian Yaras
2024-12-08 05:43:19 +0000 UTCI usually have the QC archive open on a second monitor so I can follow BookBeard's links without going away from Patreon - but Cloudflare claims that it is working, and the problem is an Error 522 from questionablecontent.net. Oh how I miss it!
Charles Hirst
2024-12-08 05:38:05 +0000 UTCI’m gonna go ahead and agree with Jeph. That throw was an incredible gag.
legobil
2024-12-08 05:31:48 +0000 UTCIt seems sensible to me that the head and body could be wirelessly linked. A Wi-Fi spectrum jammer could render him paralyzed when unlinked.
Shane Wegner
2024-12-08 05:29:29 +0000 UTCOn my browser the feed showed only the second panel, and I thought "Oh, this one!" And I'm not alone in this.
ValdVin
2024-12-08 04:50:49 +0000 UTCNSA hookups? I think those are called wiretaps.
Mirage the Fennec
2024-12-08 04:29:11 +0000 UTCAnother QC I’d categorize as “Old Relatable.” Problem with not being into NSA hookups is you have to try one to find out. I had to wrack my brain and finally archive-dive to figure out who this was. Padma? No, it was granola Delilah. Remember Padma, though? Is that the first time we see Marten being straight shitty? Good times. I keep editing this stupid comment. I’m now in a full archive binge. Jimbo having a BSOD looking at the fancy beer menu is a moment!
will davison
2024-12-08 04:05:33 +0000 UTCNah, Marty is responsible enough to wrap it up
Adam with two As, a D, and an M
2024-12-08 04:03:42 +0000 UTCWith Pintsize, NOTHING is a metaphor.
William Cole
2024-12-08 04:02:31 +0000 UTCI wonder what that is in QC time. I sometimes wonder if she’s going to show up with a “surprise” for Marten. (Probably not since that would radically change the strip, but I do wonder….)
That Blair Guy
2024-12-08 04:01:24 +0000 UTCI like new Pintsize better, but they're both good!
jonesnori
2024-12-08 03:59:33 +0000 UTCIntentionally so, of course!
jonesnori
2024-12-08 03:56:22 +0000 UTCYou're not wrong. Metal dents if it's thin enough, unlike most plastic! And it can be coated in rubberized plastic, too. Fits in with Pintsize having a cheap chassis.
Yugo Nakai
2024-12-08 03:32:57 +0000 UTCAlways thought 'giving head' was just a metaphor.
Sleepy John
2024-12-08 03:22:41 +0000 UTCJust like what passes for reality these days😏.
FreeReedz
2024-12-08 02:57:37 +0000 UTCI always assumed his processing was just distributed, so processing of visual data and speaking (maybe hearing, though I prefer the idea that he has auditory receptors everywhere) was handled in the head, and movement was handled in the body, with planning and the like being dispersed throughout his body. Kinda like the Founders on DS9 now that I think about it.
James Anthony
2024-12-08 02:55:13 +0000 UTC10 years later..."Delilah! her name was Delilah!"
Mad Marie
2024-12-08 02:54:06 +0000 UTCI always thought of him as metallic! But that made the whole "punch Pintsize, make a dent" seem odd. Shouldn't people injure their fist? But then... cartoon logic. I guess finding out he was never metal kinda makes sense?
SilverbackRon
2024-12-08 02:48:28 +0000 UTCCome on Pintsize, that's no way to get aHEAD in life. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=21
BookBeard
2024-12-08 02:43:51 +0000 UTCHappy weird day to you, happy weird day to you, happy weird day, dear Ben, happy weird day to you.
SilverbackRon
2024-12-08 02:41:56 +0000 UTCI loved seeing Marten grow up a bit.
Maurice Kessler
2024-12-08 02:33:05 +0000 UTCWorse if Marten catches the head, which then says, "Get ready for a surprise!"
Sean Kinlin
2024-12-08 02:31:40 +0000 UTCThe nuke could only be armed when the head was attached.
Captain Button
2024-12-08 02:29:29 +0000 UTCIf it's anything like when he was still using it, it's mostly pigeons. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3087 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3768
BookBeard
2024-12-08 02:28:36 +0000 UTCWho was Winslow's cricket who got fried in someone's motherboard?
Captain Button
2024-12-08 02:28:32 +0000 UTCMarten was supposed to be matched with a robobluewhale
Captain Button
2024-12-08 02:27:48 +0000 UTCAnd all of us weirdos are SO very grateful to be along for the wild, wonderful, weird ride!
Melissa Wilson
2024-12-08 02:25:45 +0000 UTCThis...THIS is the Pintsize I like to see. Humanoid Pintsize is, I dunno, kinda disturbing.
Kevin McCarthy
2024-12-08 02:25:27 +0000 UTCWell, for the person catching it, it certainly is one way to get a head!
BobC
2024-12-08 02:21:20 +0000 UTCUrsula *was* briefly his head, so technically it's the same technique. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2649
BookBeard
2024-12-08 02:18:11 +0000 UTCI kinda miss the old antics with Martin more or less being on his own. Kinda like that was the base. Whole different feeling now that we swap perspectives all the time. I'm certainly not complaining though.
Xionwalker
2024-12-08 02:12:28 +0000 UTC... and I see he already did, just before I could complete my answer. Excellent.
Clifton Royston
2024-12-08 02:12:27 +0000 UTCThe longer you live the weirder it gets. I have 74 years of weird.
Ben R
2024-12-08 02:11:06 +0000 UTCThis is covered somewhere long ago, in a conversation between Marten, Pintsize, Momo, and I think Claire. The "adoption" agency had the spider-robot-AI guy do an EEG readout on Marten, and - as Momo explains - because Marten was paralyzed with fear of the giant spider, all the measurements were wrong. As a result, the agency mistakenly matched up Pintsize and Marten thinking they would be a good match. Pintsize was a lot more aggrieved about it than Marten when he heard that he could have been matched with someone better suited. BookBeard can probably give you the chapter and verse.
Clifton Royston
2024-12-08 02:10:31 +0000 UTCTo make a long story short, it's all Gordon's fault. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2336
BookBeard
2024-12-08 02:09:28 +0000 UTCConsidering Pintsize's personality I always wondered how they wound up together.
Steve McSheffrey
2024-12-08 02:01:06 +0000 UTCWaiting for the Attenborough documentary on the strange biota living in Pintsize's old head.
Doc Gumby
2024-12-08 01:49:40 +0000 UTCWeird, but in a REALLY good way. This whole community is weird and I'm totally here for it.
Andrew Mitchell
2024-12-08 01:43:16 +0000 UTCI really wanted to read that storyline again but the website kept glitching. Pages would load with all the ads but without the comic and one time I got a cloudfare time out page... I wonder what's up with that.
Yulia
2024-12-08 01:41:57 +0000 UTCI'd imagine that having a detachable head like that would mean that the both his body and head can communicate wirelessly and to a degree operate independently. I.e. pintsize can toss his head and still control his body to walk over and put it back on.
Eric Pike
2024-12-08 01:38:50 +0000 UTCI'm so glad you're so weird. 😁
Typherix
2024-12-08 01:36:44 +0000 UTCAs much trouble as Pintsize causes, I have to imagine the whole body is a remote.
Randall Norman Pick
2024-12-08 01:35:43 +0000 UTCit's a funny gag but also the characters are being themselves and that's the strength of the comic which isn't weird at least not to me. Also not so much weird, but talented and lucky and a bit imposter-syndrome maybe. Artists should be treated as just like any other profession, that they aren't is the weird thing.
SpookyPenguin
2024-12-08 01:35:07 +0000 UTCProbably before his chassis was demilled, his detachable head was a nuclear weapon.
Summer
2024-12-08 01:35:05 +0000 UTCI kinda miss Pintsize being....pintsized
beanabaybee
2024-12-08 01:32:54 +0000 UTCYou just know that if Yay ever got official (or excellent counterfeit) documents, their middle name would be 'Our".
Amelia Lewis
2024-12-08 01:29:53 +0000 UTCI just assumed he was plastic
Joseph Unrein
2024-12-08 01:29:23 +0000 UTCIt would also be completely in character for Pintsize now.
Amelia Lewis
2024-12-08 01:28:10 +0000 UTCOw.
Nikki
2024-12-08 01:27:47 +0000 UTCLuckily we all seem to really enjoy weird!
Darren Franzen
2024-12-08 01:25:32 +0000 UTCMy job is weird, my life is weird is a whole mood. Wouldn't change a thing
chubbygoomba
2024-12-08 01:25:08 +0000 UTCA side effect of making all the robots more human looking, is these jokes would be more horrifying. Pintsize throwing his head now would have slightly different implications
Cariad
2024-12-08 01:23:27 +0000 UTCAh, the ol' Pop-n-Bop!
Zig Justice
2024-12-08 01:23:05 +0000 UTCI never thought of this Pintsize as having "skin." I always thought of him as being made of some sort of aluminium alloy.
Bill Silvia
2024-12-08 01:22:54 +0000 UTCLater, he just uses Ursula to express his displeasure
Taigan
2024-12-08 01:22:34 +0000 UTCIt really was a funny gag, and your sharing of the body texture just makes it funnier.
Steve Graves
2024-12-08 01:22:33 +0000 UTCYay, weird! Also; Yay? Weird.
Andrew Denton
2024-12-08 01:21:23 +0000 UTCYou know, that’s exactly how I imagined his skin as well. Kinda weird.
Brian
2024-12-08 01:21:05 +0000 UTCweirdly awesome
Brendan Luster
2024-12-08 01:20:43 +0000 UTCGood job he upgraded to the new chassis! He’d be all sticky and flaking by now.
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2024-12-08 01:20:33 +0000 UTC
