Sanguine Socket Layer
Added 2024-11-26 02:33:24 +0000 UTCThank you so much for all the kind comments on my "taking a break" post. Y'all are the best possible fans anyone could ever ask for, and I am so grateful for your presence and support. :)
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Holy crap @Miyaa that was hilarious!
SilverbackRon
2024-11-28 05:20:48 +0000 UTC@el_zilcho all of ‘em, honestly
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-11-28 04:39:07 +0000 UTCWHAT?! Come on, you can't leave us with half a story. Especially as our main story teller has just left the building.
SilverbackRon
2024-11-28 02:37:28 +0000 UTCI hope we haven't seen the last of Anh.
SilverbackRon
2024-11-28 02:36:10 +0000 UTCA break is totally deserved, we all need breaks!
Ariana
2024-11-27 13:57:26 +0000 UTCWhat happened to Aurelia's white streaks? 😂
Ariana
2024-11-27 13:56:49 +0000 UTC@el_zilcho Layer √-1 : the Metaphysical Layer
David Paul
2024-11-27 09:12:41 +0000 UTCYes, Enchanted puts it best. This is to me the most hopeful evidence that Yay will come back to us. Also, they are just too much fun with *SO* many possibilities for hijinks! I don't think Jeph can resist that fertile ground for too long. Although, he could do the whole moving to Cubetown arc first... sniff ... sniff...
SilverbackRon
2024-11-27 05:49:37 +0000 UTCbetter yet, auto-repost of a Best of Steve
Joe
2024-11-27 02:38:51 +0000 UTCOK, show of hands now: who else would love to see a Yay-Bembo crossover?😁
Peter Shaw
2024-11-27 01:51:04 +0000 UTCGoing to go log into my Library of America volume of Mad Magazine...
Ursus Ridens
2024-11-27 00:44:25 +0000 UTCThis discussion has been personally relevant and quite informative -- but, geez, people, we're an unhealthy bunch, ain't we just. (And take care of yourselves, folks. Especially Bookbeard -- we'd be lost for back-references without you.)
Ursus Ridens
2024-11-27 00:39:03 +0000 UTCBrilliant! But Jeph -- agree with all hypotheses until...well, we'll see.
Ursus Ridens
2024-11-27 00:28:42 +0000 UTCI have been imagining that Azathoth and Mr. Smooches went with Yay to....wherever they went. Somewhere where they can still have walikes, I'd guess. I do not like to think of the dogs having been stashed in, oh, say, Oddgizzrds's Off-Dimensional Pet Motel.
Ursus Ridens
2024-11-27 00:23:12 +0000 UTCOr do a Dinosaur Comics for the month - same panels, different plot.
Leak
2024-11-27 00:13:55 +0000 UTCYou do totally deserve a break. I'm still on the edge of my seat for the Yay plotline of course.
Spell Craft
2024-11-26 23:53:57 +0000 UTCCreate a comic Steve eating Cereal for 4 panels and have it post every day for a month.
Jax
2024-11-26 22:35:04 +0000 UTCAt the risk of walking into spoiler territory, I find it very hard to imagine Yay abandoning their dogs.
mike stone
2024-11-26 22:08:35 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/y1IE9zLKBrw?si=UfvoSM2P0HCwSLXJ
Miyaa
2024-11-26 21:28:36 +0000 UTCI’m not entirely sure what layer of the OSI model ghostly shrieks are on
el_zilcho
2024-11-26 20:25:57 +0000 UTCBeen reading this comic since I was a teen and often take for granted how consistent and comforting your work is, if anyone ever deserves a break it's you JJ.
Tjcarp
2024-11-26 20:21:56 +0000 UTCintreaging
Boots McGoot
2024-11-26 18:44:47 +0000 UTCIt wouldn't do us any harm.
Hugh Eckert
2024-11-26 17:55:48 +0000 UTCI had a flip-phone first, then a smart phone. Perhaps one day I will return to the flip-phone.
Hugh Eckert
2024-11-26 17:54:30 +0000 UTCGet some pure uranium Hold it to your cranium Burn and glow, die real slow! Oh oh oh ohhhh...
Hugh Eckert
2024-11-26 17:53:07 +0000 UTCTranssylvanian Count Protokul - Impaler Protokul
Hugh Eckert
2024-11-26 17:49:48 +0000 UTCI am definitely spending December wondering if my insurance will let me use Amazon for all my medical supplies. (I’m afraid they’ll say absolutely yes.)
Miyaa
2024-11-26 16:52:38 +0000 UTCcolleage of legeands
Jeph Jacques
2024-11-26 15:47:38 +0000 UTCIf you haven't seen it already, there's a "Webcomic Artist Bingo" card floating around Bluesky. Seemed relevant.
Halloween Jack
2024-11-26 15:40:58 +0000 UTCIs that what's going on with the DNS on the website? Is the eldriditch AI tech support gone to the wind? Has your webmaster refused to give the server a drop of blood?
Nathan Hinchey
2024-11-26 15:25:38 +0000 UTCThe modem/AP I got from Scumcast does have a speaker and microphone so you can use their voice command service. I disabled both of them.
Orion Rhine
2024-11-26 14:02:00 +0000 UTCYou deserve a break, of course!! But I came here to mention that I’ve been remarkably worried about Yah. (Yes, I know… fictional character, yadda yadda yadda.) Can you throw us a bone, even a little bitty one? Please let Yay (and everyone else) be OK in the end. :-) I don’t know if I’ll make it a month hiatus, wondering. :-)
Soupy
2024-11-26 13:56:34 +0000 UTCIt's actually cheaper for me to pay full price for BG strips and lancets via Amazon than pay the copay on their preferred brands. Insulin pen needles too. Health insurance is bullshit.
BookBeard
2024-11-26 13:46:13 +0000 UTCI can imagine Jeph spending the month abroad at all sorts of holiday destinations and rating them on their coffee or tea beverages. Japan is going to be tough because I’m not sure onsens will let him drink coffee while soaking in the hot springs.
Miyaa
2024-11-26 13:18:11 +0000 UTCIt's OK, Jeph, we're just greedy. We know that we'll get more comics out of you in the long run by you staying healthy than by you burning out... I meant to be ironic but OMG that looks cold-blooded when I put it like that! Stay well, have a good break and we'll be waiting for you! Besides, I haven't done a proper archive trawl for a while, so this is the chance.
Mark
2024-11-26 13:04:04 +0000 UTCBathed in the youth of her gentlemen callers, maybe?
allanfranta
2024-11-26 12:49:14 +0000 UTCTo gently repurpose a truism of electrical engineering, “Any circuit can be a speaker. Once.”
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-11-26 12:41:52 +0000 UTCI dunno, Todd. Midnight chanting and sacrifices to the SCSI bus in order to assure proper termination and throughput are just _so_ last century, you know?
Amelia Lewis
2024-11-26 12:16:59 +0000 UTCNice.
Uniquitous
2024-11-26 12:07:49 +0000 UTCBC/BS hates CGMs, you have to practically prove you'll die without one before they'll even partially cover it. But then for me they also only cover one brand of glucose meter with its attendant lancet and test strip, so I can't expect too much I suppose. I really don't understand it, for me personally I am *far* more likely to look at my phone regularly than I am to pull out a test kit and go through all the finger sticking and assorted crap. Plus the CGM will let me know when I'm too high or too low without me having to test to find out. (I actually have a FS3, I forgot that I had upgraded several months ago.)
JCfromNC
2024-11-26 11:11:49 +0000 UTCCalling it now, Yay is hiding in Aurelia's router
Nulgar
2024-11-26 11:04:03 +0000 UTC@James C you're one anthill away from remaking Hex.
David Paul
2024-11-26 10:48:20 +0000 UTCI did tech support for years, and now I want to start building speakers into routers, for this reason... Also, network engineering, for me, has always seemed like it needs a collection of melty candles and a big old ram's skull (or vegan alternative)
James C
2024-11-26 10:46:17 +0000 UTCWe are very kind and supportive, it's true. That said: *colleagues
Boots McGoot
2024-11-26 10:36:29 +0000 UTCI have "A Drop of Nelson's Blood" in my head now...
enchantedsleeper
2024-11-26 09:21:14 +0000 UTCAnd I think a bunch of people joined just to heart and comment ^^
enchantedsleeper
2024-11-26 09:20:47 +0000 UTCI think it's a bit different having a character go off-panel for a while versus one who has an entire storyline around them specifically disappearing. But that doesn't mean we'll find out what happened any time soon. It does mean that we will find out.
enchantedsleeper
2024-11-26 09:08:36 +0000 UTCIsn't there a difference between a flip phone (the 00s kind) and a folding phone (which is what Aurelia has)?
enchantedsleeper
2024-11-26 09:06:54 +0000 UTCMaybe Jeph has had enough of the bacon jokes xD
enchantedsleeper
2024-11-26 09:06:04 +0000 UTCDamn,. Robert, you owe me some screen wipes for that. Well played sir.
Adrian Challinor
2024-11-26 09:05:50 +0000 UTCWe were all very nice about the break-taking. I'm hoping this means we get more Anh when you get back. :)
Chris Warren
2024-11-26 08:33:04 +0000 UTCTranssylvanian Count Protokul?
Robert Heinig
2024-11-26 08:17:04 +0000 UTCLOL, y'all, yes to all of it!
K C
2024-11-26 07:08:26 +0000 UTCAt least we gets one more OMG TURKEYS 2024. The Canadian version would involve the Canadian Jay (aka the Grey Jay).
Miyaa
2024-11-26 07:02:13 +0000 UTCThis title is S-tier, Jeph - the 8th layer is sanguine.
Aussie Jim
2024-11-26 06:53:54 +0000 UTCThere’s more than one way to generate audio, depending on how creatively you can abuse electrical components!
Dissociated Women Incorporated
2024-11-26 06:30:10 +0000 UTCHemaTological Transfer Protocol
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-11-26 06:12:33 +0000 UTCI used to work at a place where the walls would bleed. Never did figure out where it was coming from. Good location though.
Yelling Bird
2024-11-26 05:58:01 +0000 UTCIs the ink dry on the trademark application?
Andrew
2024-11-26 05:29:36 +0000 UTCThe router transfers youth from her children whenever they are in wifi range
Andrew
2024-11-26 05:25:52 +0000 UTCIn more civilised jobs in more civilised countries, vacation time is guaranteed. You should take at least 2 consecutive weeks every year to recharge and refresh. I would suggest 6 weeks spread across the whole year. Obviously for us fans it would be nice if you got guest strips or pre-drew some stuff, for some of that time, but if you didn't we would still cope and would be back for more when the vacation is over. Relax Jeph, you more than earned this.
Adam Price
2024-11-26 05:14:42 +0000 UTCBembo Shipping! With Blackjack! And Pirates!
Captain Button
2024-11-26 05:03:57 +0000 UTC@JCfromNC • Dexcom is pretty good. Libra Freestyle 3 is continuous; 2 is technically not as it requires you to actively monitor it, and I know with Blue Cross & Blue Shield, that’s what they want you to do. They think true continuous glucose systems will generate a set it and forget it mentality. (And they aren’t totally wrong about that.) Maybe see if your insurance company will allow you to upgrade to 3.
Miyaa
2024-11-26 04:57:44 +0000 UTCI love my CGM. I just wish my insurance also loved it and would help pay for it, so that I could afford to use a DEXCOM. The Libre Freestyle II leaves a few things to be desired, IMO.
JCfromNC
2024-11-26 04:49:49 +0000 UTCBut if you're Type II and using insulin, you'd still need to measure BG to know how much insulin to use.
JCfromNC
2024-11-26 04:48:07 +0000 UTCLiterally subscribed to the Patreon to be able to comment that you deserve a break! Have loved the comic for years and don’t mind a break at all. Get some well deserved rest and recuperation.
Zac0118
2024-11-26 04:39:09 +0000 UTCA D-router you'd like to...?
Elizabeth Rosenzweig
2024-11-26 04:30:19 +0000 UTCThat's what makes it so creepy. The router shouldn't have been able to do that.
Olaf
2024-11-26 04:26:53 +0000 UTCYou could doctor-shop. For Type 2 diabetes, current evidence indicates that the fingerstick tests don't improve outcomes over measuring A1C quarterly or so.
Carl Fink
2024-11-26 04:23:06 +0000 UTCOf course 🖤 This comic means so much to me, the last thing I'd want is for you to burn out on it. Don't drown yourself bringing the ship to shore and all that.
Mortimer Langford
2024-11-26 04:22:22 +0000 UTCI didn't get the memo either.
Opus the Poet
2024-11-26 04:18:11 +0000 UTCI did tech support for years, and unless they made some things have been changed drastically routers don't have audio output to shriek with.
Opus the Poet
2024-11-26 04:16:33 +0000 UTCEnjoy your break! Thanks for all the years of great comics so far.
Bruce Alan Horn
2024-11-26 04:13:26 +0000 UTCCorrected, thank you.
Tim Eldred
2024-11-26 04:11:16 +0000 UTCBembo slashfic!
Todd Ellner
2024-11-26 04:10:10 +0000 UTCNo, no. From my years in tech support and network engineering this is perfectly normal
Todd Ellner
2024-11-26 04:09:21 +0000 UTCDang it. Brain said it correctly, fingers biffed the delivery.
Sammitch
2024-11-26 04:07:15 +0000 UTC*their
BookBeard
2024-11-26 04:06:07 +0000 UTCTurns out Yay has cocooned themselves in Aurelia's network, and the blood sacrifice is their mental health crisis leaking out.
Sammitch
2024-11-26 04:01:08 +0000 UTC*they
djellafine
2024-11-26 03:52:14 +0000 UTCSo true!
SilverbackRon
2024-11-26 03:42:54 +0000 UTCConsidering how long some QC characters can be gone, (seen Brun lately) it might be a while before they come back. Although I have to say, making a comic specifically about Roko being sad about Yay's absence does make me think Jeph has Yay on the mind too. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5441
SilverbackRon
2024-11-26 03:41:43 +0000 UTCSee! It's catchin' on!!
Thomas Baxter
2024-11-26 03:41:24 +0000 UTCHang on, I gotta beep boop with my fleep floop!
SilverbackRon
2024-11-26 03:38:39 +0000 UTCSure, but don't try to trick it. That's akin to those drug test results telling cishet men that they're negative for controlled substances, but also pregnant
ValdVin
2024-11-26 03:35:24 +0000 UTCI didn't realize it's been TWENTY YEARS - good gourd, enjoy your break! ❤️
Jennifer Doyle
2024-11-26 03:33:25 +0000 UTCGolden opportunity for Bembo fanfic!
Quinn
2024-11-26 03:32:25 +0000 UTC@BookBeard • It’s actually uranium near your cranium, like the Team Fortress 2’s engineer.
Miyaa
2024-11-26 03:29:09 +0000 UTCMommyMilkers is no stranger to creating new fetishes.
BookBeard
2024-11-26 03:27:25 +0000 UTCAnd then the blood glucose meter glows with eldritch runes and gives off a faint smell of brimstone. Wait, that's not just happening to me, right?
BookBeard
2024-11-26 03:26:25 +0000 UTCI was watching a TikTok video about an RV couple who changed out their RV’s locks with a high tech keypad one, but they said they think biometrics locks for the RV lifestyle are coming in the next decade. So Aurelia is ahead of the times.
Miyaa
2024-11-26 03:25:06 +0000 UTCPretty quick dye job, they were there in the previous comic lol
BookBeard
2024-11-26 03:22:56 +0000 UTCSee you should go to the continuous glucose monitoring. I’ve only had to repoke every fortnight, though I hear there are some GCMs that have a year long period between pokes.
Miyaa
2024-11-26 03:22:44 +0000 UTCHey man, you deserve it. I'll miss Bembo's nonsense over the holidays, but everyone deserves time to recharge.
K C
2024-11-26 03:20:20 +0000 UTCDyed, perhaps?
Doc Gumby
2024-11-26 03:19:40 +0000 UTCEh, I give a machine a drop of my blood twice a day (diabetic)
Marc Moskowitz
2024-11-26 03:14:52 +0000 UTCShe needs to use the Uncanny Sucking Blood port.
kaitou
2024-11-26 03:10:45 +0000 UTCThe requirement for a drop of the user’s blood can be bypassed by their creation of a small fetish made of chicken bones under the light of the moon.
William Burns
2024-11-26 03:03:12 +0000 UTCEmbracing new things keeps you young. Aurelia's hair isn't even grey anymore!
Dean Reilly
2024-11-26 03:02:27 +0000 UTCJust noticed the grey streaks in Aurelia's hair are missing.
BookBeard
2024-11-26 02:59:21 +0000 UTCAre we all required to have flip phones past a certain age, and as usual I did not get the memo, or is it strictly a parent thing?
Olaf
2024-11-26 02:56:56 +0000 UTCMan, I've been reading your comic for a few years now, and even went back to the very first one and read them all in order when I first started. I loved every one of them and couldn't wait for the next one! That being said, take all the time you need. It's really helpful to rest and relax to recharge your creative batteries, so that just means the wait will be at least 7x worth it later on! Besides, after 20+ years, I'd say you've earned it. 😎 Thank you for the fantastic stories and awesome characters all these years. 20 years fly by real fast sometimes, eh?
Justin Howe
2024-11-26 02:56:18 +0000 UTCAnd best believe there will be another vacation next year!
Xionwalker
2024-11-26 02:53:49 +0000 UTCI don't even want a DILF, let alone a MILF...
Steve McSheffrey
2024-11-26 02:52:22 +0000 UTCThere's that eLdRiTcH security. When Yay locks down a network they do NOT fuck around. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4593
BookBeard
2024-11-26 02:52:21 +0000 UTCHate me all you want, but Aurelia is on trend here. We'll all be rocking flips soon enough. We'll say thing like "Hold on I gotta flip my flop" and "Wait! My flip is floopin'" and "Did your fleep floop?" This is how we all end up "fleeping on our floops". Mark my words.
Thomas Baxter
2024-11-26 02:50:14 +0000 UTCYeah, that was my thought. I'm just glad it's a whole month. Anything less would've been too little.
Xionwalker
2024-11-26 02:48:28 +0000 UTCThe phone was obviously and totally flipping out.
BobC
2024-11-26 02:44:50 +0000 UTCi hope yay is still out there. ive literally had dreams about them, its becoming a problem (im dead serious)
Tamara Macadam
2024-11-26 02:42:49 +0000 UTCDon’t we all
chili sunrise
2024-11-26 02:40:16 +0000 UTCyay
Cozy
2024-11-26 02:40:16 +0000 UTC“The files are IN the computer??”
chili sunrise
2024-11-26 02:39:11 +0000 UTCI guess Yay craves blood of hot milfs
Andrea Andrew
2024-11-26 02:38:56 +0000 UTCThey want a drop of blood? What is she trying to do connect to wifi or is she trying to start a membership with Blockbuster or what?
Shawn K. Younkin
2024-11-26 02:38:39 +0000 UTCTime for Parliamentary elections
Bill Silvia
2024-11-26 02:38:23 +0000 UTCSo that's where Yay is. The router.
SpookyPenguin
2024-11-26 02:38:18 +0000 UTCClaire does technically have an IT degree, at least in some classification systems. Granted, the central technology of her studies was books, but those still count!
Diptych
2024-11-26 02:38:05 +0000 UTCI’m willing to consider this proof that Yay is just hiding in a bush somewhere
chili sunrise
2024-11-26 02:37:56 +0000 UTCOh good, if there's evidence Yay's still around, this is it.
Randall Norman Pick
2024-11-26 02:37:28 +0000 UTCIt even made ME happy to see how many of us tapped the heart on that last post.
Gerald
2024-11-26 02:37:07 +0000 UTCThat's just Yay just showing they still care.
Tim Eldred
2024-11-26 02:36:48 +0000 UTCNo jeph, if we were real fans we would have known you hadn’t had a vacation in so long and we WOULD HAVE FORCED YOU
Emmu Lah
2024-11-26 02:36:04 +0000 UTCI mean, 3 factor authentication is probably more secure...
Tannerbot
2024-11-26 02:35:29 +0000 UTCWay to eldritch up her phone there, Yay. Hmph!
Doc Gumby
2024-11-26 02:35:02 +0000 UTC
