jephjacques : Heirs Apparent

And to show that it's not a fluke... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3F4JBRhLvM

Leak

2024-11-04 11:10:31 +0000 UTC

If I got a tan in the summer, it would definitely be gone after a time skip or two.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-16 00:55:29 +0000 UTC

We'll see, I guess; Tai and Dora aren't well off, but Anh presumably manages to be friends with them if she's in the wedding party.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-15 09:15:05 +0000 UTC

cackling

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-15 09:13:13 +0000 UTC

I think at one point the tan went away, and then came back. Maybe based on the seasons?

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-15 09:12:53 +0000 UTC

Ahn, May and Pintsize are Charlie's Demons :)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-15 08:28:58 +0000 UTC

Huh. My reply full of bad puns about '80s Heir Metal bands seems to have been firmly rejected by Patreon's servers. I can't fault their taste anyway.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-15 08:27:21 +0000 UTC

How dare you say we piss on the poor.

Diptych

2024-10-15 04:03:11 +0000 UTC

of course she's being nice to Hanners, she clocked her as an heiress, which means someone she is required to rub shoulders with and be nice, at least until she discovers said heiress is a poor one (not Hannelore, just... in general, I've met her type) ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-10-15 03:55:43 +0000 UTC

Dang, that feels like growth for Hanners, whether Jeph intended it or not. I would have thought earlier in the comic she'd have been too worried about skin cancer (still a concern of mine lol) to spend enough time outside for maintaining a now, but now she seems like she'd be fine.

Sero

2024-10-15 01:48:57 +0000 UTC

Once I have a tan, maintaining it is easy. Well, easier than getting it. Some light outdoors exercise or yardwork a few days a week is all it takes for me. However, I am in Southern California, and the sun is pretty strong here.

David Blood

2024-10-15 01:25:34 +0000 UTC

I just realized with this time skip, Hanners is still tanned from her time abroad. My pasty ass actually doesn't know because I avoid excess sun, do tans actually last that long, or would she be having to maintain it?

Sero

2024-10-15 01:16:20 +0000 UTC

Ahn and Hannelore and May need to form a strange new version of Charlie's Angels.

Chris Warren

2024-10-14 22:06:05 +0000 UTC

Yep. I don’t know why people keep missing this.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 21:53:25 +0000 UTC

Good point! But she would loathe Willow's sunshine attitude, I predict. Or maybe she'd be extremely patronising and Willow would take it in good faith.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 20:36:51 +0000 UTC

She was talking about Sven finding his soulmate at his sister's wedding...

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 20:34:18 +0000 UTC

"Better" is always relative...

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 20:33:54 +0000 UTC

Er. No? xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 20:33:12 +0000 UTC

You must be an only child! (;

Grace Kieser

2024-10-14 20:31:55 +0000 UTC

Anh said in a past panel: "Imagine finding your soulmate at your own sister's wedding." Is she Tai's sister? I feel like we've heard almost nothing about Tai's family... potentially an as-yet-untapped well of new characters and relationships.

danepps

2024-10-14 20:06:49 +0000 UTC

Fisticated. Heh. That sounds dirty.

legobil

2024-10-14 19:56:25 +0000 UTC

Oh loord that was terrible ;)

Duncan

2024-10-14 19:40:03 +0000 UTC

Ungauchefisticated?

Duncan

2024-10-14 19:39:32 +0000 UTC

Hanners is so nice that I suspect she'll say something like "Oh dear, it does sound a bit implausible when you put it like that, doesn't it?" rather than taking much offence.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 19:16:55 +0000 UTC

I suspect that Anh already does yoga. Probably on a beach in Thailand, with an extremely famous and fashionable teacher.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 19:14:20 +0000 UTC

In retrospect, The Ship Who Sang is horrific from a disabled perspective. People whose bodies work differently should get help to live normal lives, not be enslaved.

jonesnori

2024-10-14 17:12:15 +0000 UTC

We do know that Hanners can play the drums! With Marten in Cubetown (who knows what happened to Amir), she'll need a new musical outlet...

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 16:54:18 +0000 UTC

I think the "awful" also encompasses snobbish and elitist, materialistic and arguably self-centred, but yes, she's also displayed a number of better qualities. I noticed her wiping a tear away at the ceremony, too!

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 16:50:59 +0000 UTC

Note that if Hanners had just said “Mom owns a bunch of companies, I don’t keep track of the details. Dad’s more on the R&D side”, Anh wouldn’t have blinked.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 16:49:06 +0000 UTC

Olaf: No she didn't. She referred to Sven being the other bride's brother. I imagine that she was invited because she's an old friend who's perfectly tolerable when her libido isn't being a nuisance. Politely calling BS on such a flagrantly implausible story hardly makes her intolerable.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 15:30:10 +0000 UTC

She had Hanners down as "just" a fellow heiress, and doesn't seem too worried about hierarchies within that class; it's not like she quoted her father's net worth or anything. And it's not her fault that Hanners's backstory is so extreme, even by heiress standards, that disbelief is the most reasonable response to hearing bits of it.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 15:27:25 +0000 UTC

That would destroy much of the state. Randall Munro has explained this.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 15:21:59 +0000 UTC

Huh? She's been quite polite and now even friendly to Hanners, especially given that she initially thought that Hanners had blocked her move on Sven. Her last line here is a little snarky, but given how wild Hanners's backstory really is, she can't be blamed for very politely calling bullshit.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 15:20:50 +0000 UTC

Anh really doesn't come across as terrible. She was a bit snarky about having someone cut in on her attempt to chat up a handsome guy, and apparently her friends regard her sexual behaviour as a little tiresome at times, but she's been fairly polite to Hanners so far, and switched from suspicion to affability as soon as the misunderstanding was cleared up. Likewise, Tai doesn't seem to find her that annoying. It sounds like she may have asked her not to treat the male wedding guests as an all-you-can-eat buffet, but given Tai's previous comments about the use of the spare room, she can't complain too much about that. (Edit: Note also that Anh was looking quite sentimental about the wedding, back in her very first non-speaking appearance in #5404, at least until she noticed Sven. And she displayed a romantic streak in the strip before this one. I know that Jeph has said she's "awful", but that's surely "somewhat sex-mad and a teeny bit sarky" awful, not friendship-ending awful.)

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 15:17:24 +0000 UTC

As Andrew says, Hanners doesn't move in plutocrat-class circles. And Anh doesn't know her surname yet; it's possible that she knows enough that when someone says "Ellicot-Chatham", she'll blink and emit a small "oh, right". And she's only been talking to Hanners for a couple of minutes at this point; she's doubtless picked up that Hanners is a little unusual, but she'd have to be very perceptive to be sure that she's ultra-honest all the time. She could just be a passable actress when she tries.

Philip Masters

2024-10-14 15:09:40 +0000 UTC

We can't totally rule out them being related, though; maybe Anh is a cousin? Also, yes, she was in the wedding party, that's exactly why this conversation is happening 😆

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 14:08:30 +0000 UTC

I feel like a significant chunk of the wedding planning may have involved Dora complaining about Sven and Tai complaining about Anh. Although Sven is better these days but I can believe he and Dora still get on each other's nerves <:

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 14:07:43 +0000 UTC

One step forward... one step sideways through the trapdoor

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 14:05:08 +0000 UTC

What about Anh and Willow, though :D Anh would be climbing the walls as Willow tried to lead her through a breathwork session.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 14:04:21 +0000 UTC

It's been a very recent subject of comments discussion 😆

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 14:03:08 +0000 UTC

I mean, we've seen Roko and the AI rights org going to bat for an assembly line whose owners were threatening to lay it off, which would have led to the loss of its body. (That was what Roko went on her drunken livestreamed rant about). This is actually a very real problem for AI. I wonder if there was ever a possibility that Bubbles' could have lost her body after she was demobbed from the military. I think she must have had some protections against that.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 14:01:34 +0000 UTC

Ha! Good point with the parallels. Let's see what happens when Hannelore asks to be friends, Y/N?

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 13:57:59 +0000 UTC

Oh, I think she's worked out who Hannelore is referring to, but that's why she thinks Hannelore must be making it up. But yeah, she should be able to tell by now that Hanners is honest to a fault xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 13:57:13 +0000 UTC

If Anh really is terrible, then I wonder why she's Tai's bridesmaid. (Maybe they were childhood friends and Tai felt like she should even though they don't have much in common any more). I find it easier to believe that they'd be close friends if Anh is a decent person. But then, I know people IRL who have had longstanding friends they actually didn't like that much or realised they were completely incompatible with. So maybe it's not that surprising.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-14 13:56:30 +0000 UTC

@Stephen: sounds cool.

Sean Kinlin

2024-10-14 13:30:22 +0000 UTC

I doubt Hanners has the visibility typical for a child of the mega-rich since she doesn't move in those circles nor is she the heir apparent to her mother's companies.

Andrew L Butula

2024-10-14 13:17:47 +0000 UTC

Anh doesn't read people very well. I think it would be obvious that Hann is being honest. Also - how out of touch do you have to be if you're part of the wealthy class, but don't know who the children of famous billionaires are?

Shawn Spencer

2024-10-14 12:23:21 +0000 UTC

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4103

Mark

2024-10-14 11:09:32 +0000 UTC

There will be a more successful cover band called Heir Conditioning :)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-14 11:01:32 +0000 UTC

Somehow this reminds me of when Winslow described his actual day and Hanners was convinced he was hallucinating :)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-14 11:00:37 +0000 UTC

💯

Carrie

2024-10-14 10:52:41 +0000 UTC

🤣😂🤣😂 Is he pretending his name is Ichabod?

Carrie

2024-10-14 10:50:42 +0000 UTC

I vote for Iris.

allanfranta

2024-10-14 10:43:46 +0000 UTC

She is at some point gonna get the Ellicott-Chatom bomb dropped on her.

Boots McGoot

2024-10-14 09:26:24 +0000 UTC

Wow, points to you for remembering her name.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-14 07:47:26 +0000 UTC

As was discussed in a fairly recent page, it is kind of shocking how many S-Tier friends and acquaintances are Marten's orbit.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-14 07:31:04 +0000 UTC

Let’s hope this was the control group.

Daniel Burnett

2024-10-14 06:04:44 +0000 UTC

"Oh, you're one of /those/ Tessier-Ashpools."

nbarnes

2024-10-14 05:37:25 +0000 UTC

Oh I just realized their dynamic reminds me of Moray & Yay. Or at least how I took Yay at the beginning of their interaction--the condescension, self-assured superiority despite the other being almost entirely unknown, & the other reacting with an innocent curiosity & being completely unimpressed & unoffended by said condescension & grandstanding & theatrics. Now we just need Anh to freak out & disappear forever lol

Pejo

2024-10-14 05:34:29 +0000 UTC

It's not just about being loaded. It's also about who she knows. She's friend with Station. She can also get a lift from experimental stealth aircraft to go to a lake.

Nicolas Dao-Phan

2024-10-14 05:10:05 +0000 UTC

There is a joke here about drool, gauche and unsophisticated, but I’m not versed enough to find it.

legobil

2024-10-14 05:01:21 +0000 UTC

I continue to forget how unbelievably loaded Hanners is.

Mark

2024-10-14 04:54:03 +0000 UTC

Everyone works for Beatrice Chatham in some way.

Nulgar

2024-10-14 04:36:15 +0000 UTC

Nah, Tai knows her, and only objected to her flirting with Sven, not her being there at all.

Nulgar

2024-10-14 04:34:57 +0000 UTC

Wheelchair is not sentient but it’s considered part of person using it. Sentient robot can change their body but were are considering chassis as them. So whole station is what Station is

Thomas Ruecker

2024-10-14 04:19:33 +0000 UTC

Anh is one of those characters, she is 100% the kind of person who will order her steak rare, get a rare steak and send it back because it's bloody. not because there is anything wrong with the steak, but because she likes putting down the staff. ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-10-14 04:10:31 +0000 UTC

Opeth reference in the title? If so… Niceeee.

Rodrigo Ourcilleon

2024-10-14 03:53:16 +0000 UTC

Get this woman a pizza. At relativistic velocity.

Uniquitous

2024-10-14 03:43:15 +0000 UTC

I love the total disconnect between these two. I hope they stay in touch.

Bagge

2024-10-14 03:40:56 +0000 UTC

I went back a couple three strips to check, and I think you're right that she was in the wedding party

Vic or Vyxter

2024-10-14 03:33:08 +0000 UTC

And a blonde (she dyes it red).

Opus the Poet

2024-10-14 03:24:17 +0000 UTC

I agree!

Randall Norman Pick

2024-10-14 03:20:13 +0000 UTC

@Sean Kinlin • GDI. I’m getting awful 1980’s band memes from this pun!

Miyaa

2024-10-14 03:13:34 +0000 UTC

@Sean Kinlin • More like Absolute Hannerlore Ellicott-Chatham.

Miyaa

2024-10-14 02:51:50 +0000 UTC

googly eyes

prettydragoon

2024-10-14 02:49:26 +0000 UTC

She's eventually going to get Hanners' name... And then we get to find out how Jeph illustrates "woman choking on her own spleen from sheer disbelief"!

GearaDoga

2024-10-14 02:47:15 +0000 UTC

Bring Sven back into the picture for a steady supply of heirs...

Doc Gumby

2024-10-14 02:37:47 +0000 UTC

The two of them should form a band, and call it Heir Supply.

Sean Kinlin

2024-10-14 02:29:10 +0000 UTC

And Hanners says "Oh, did I forget to introduce myself?"

awgiedawgie

2024-10-14 02:24:18 +0000 UTC

Invited herself and somehow inveigled her way into the wedding party!

Diptych

2024-10-14 02:22:34 +0000 UTC

@Minzoku: but is this Alpha Hannelore?

Sean Kinlin

2024-10-14 02:20:38 +0000 UTC

OK, this brings up a lot of questions. Station is obviously a sentient being, but does that encompass the entirety of the Space Station building? Or just the core control unit? Can Station quit, and be replaced? If the space station were damaged beyond repair, could his consciousness be relocated? It brings to mind the Brainship series of books by Anne McCaffrey, in which certain highly intelligent children with severe or deadly bodily issues, illnesses, accidents, etc, would be placed into a life support system and wired into ships, stations, entire cities as the central command and control. In some cases, the person - generally never seen in person, but interacted with through communication systems and such, could earn the price to buy out their contract - their hull, if you will, or equivalent - and no longer be bound to their job.

Buck Caldwell

2024-10-14 02:15:43 +0000 UTC

Each new character we meet is my new favorite

Aerin Moriarty

2024-10-14 02:09:27 +0000 UTC

time to name-drop, Hanners. time to name-drop _yourself_

R. Francis Smith

2024-10-14 02:07:42 +0000 UTC

She is about to commit the ultimate sin - be heiress to originality not ownership and thus indirectly shaming the nouveau riche. If there's anything a trust fund child hates, it's being irrelevant twice over.

SpookyPenguin

2024-10-14 01:59:28 +0000 UTC

The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction is edited to be believable

Todd Ellner

2024-10-14 01:59:22 +0000 UTC

I was thinking the same thing!

FeyOne

2024-10-14 01:57:37 +0000 UTC

No, she never said she herself was the Bride's sister. Her comment in 5416 was a mirror to Hanner's exact comment in 5412. They are both talking about Sven meeting his soulmate at his sister's wedding. i.e Dora.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-14 01:56:00 +0000 UTC

Ahn isn't just awful, she's naive and that's even MORE fun!

SpookyPenguin

2024-10-14 01:55:44 +0000 UTC

Did Anh just invite herself? THAT would be pretty hilarious.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-10-14 01:52:38 +0000 UTC

We know.

YoPaulie!

2024-10-14 01:50:37 +0000 UTC

“Writing awful people is fun.” And 20+ years of comics comes into focus. 😜

Taigan

2024-10-14 01:49:47 +0000 UTC

So, who’s got money on Anh’s dad working for Hanners’ mom?

Joseph

2024-10-14 01:49:40 +0000 UTC

Hannelore: the first person to be certified to be ISO 14644-1 aka ISO 7 certification. (Also ISO 8 certified.)

Miyaa

2024-10-14 01:47:23 +0000 UTC

Hannelore's dad does perform a useful service, he's increasing the amount of zaniness in orbit. All those regular astronauts, so serious.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-14 01:46:39 +0000 UTC

Hanners is about to accidentally assert her dominance in this interaction.

Sammitch

2024-10-14 01:44:10 +0000 UTC

That would be funny and Schandenfreude-ish for Hanners to enjoy how much her mom’s wealth has suffered since Hannelore used the voice™.

Miyaa

2024-10-14 01:42:29 +0000 UTC

Me too, I really hope Jeph follows through with that

JPMK! {verb}

2024-10-14 01:41:30 +0000 UTC

Schrödinger’s heiress, that is Hanners.

Miyaa

2024-10-14 01:39:45 +0000 UTC

"It would mean she's been trying to hook up with her (new) co-brother-in-law..." The number of animes in that genre are large enough to...be a genre, making it common and still weird.

ValdVin

2024-10-14 01:39:21 +0000 UTC

Teddy Roosevelt heard about Hannelore's mum, rose from his grave, and is rapidly approaching her on horseback.

Diptych

2024-10-14 01:38:34 +0000 UTC

No, she's not making stuff up. Her dad really does live on a space station, and her mom really does own a bunch of businesses.

Shaodyn

2024-10-14 01:34:08 +0000 UTC

I thought she was saying that Sven was the bride's sibling. I'd be surprised if she was Tai's sister, because A: they don't particularly look alike and B: it would mean she's been trying to hook up with her co-brother-in-law? Which feels a bit weird. 'Hello, I'm your new sister (with caveats). Let's fuck.'

Diptych

2024-10-14 01:30:50 +0000 UTC

Only child that we know of. There's always the chance for shenanigan plots. Both creators like some hijinx.

ValdVin

2024-10-14 01:29:44 +0000 UTC

That's why I like the word "drool". The way it rolls off the tongue.

Buck Caldwell

2024-10-14 01:28:33 +0000 UTC

Jealous much?

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-10-14 01:27:52 +0000 UTC

Ahn's expression when the penny drops is going to be priceless!

Doc Gumby

2024-10-14 01:27:19 +0000 UTC

But wait, does that mean Tai is secretly filthy rich? Did we know that?

JD

2024-10-14 01:26:45 +0000 UTC

I really thought we were on our way to a cute new friendship 😞 my naivety once again getting the better of me.

JD

2024-10-14 01:26:10 +0000 UTC

Look, I'd not be surprised in the least if Hanners had about half a dozen patents for dry-cleaning methods we've never heard of to her name.

Olaf

2024-10-14 01:26:09 +0000 UTC

She said she was sister to the bride, so I imagine Tai did. Also she was in the wedding party.

Grace Kieser

2024-10-14 01:26:01 +0000 UTC

I don't think we were in any danger of that

Grace Kieser

2024-10-14 01:25:18 +0000 UTC

I don't think so. Carla is an only child.

Grace Kieser

2024-10-14 01:24:52 +0000 UTC

She mentioned being the bride's sister, so I guess Tai had to.

Olaf

2024-10-14 01:24:39 +0000 UTC

I hate her and want to see a hundred more strips about her so she can have a full character arc. I wanna lock her and Iris or Bubbles or Roko or someone in a room together; she'll either die or come out a better human being.

Adarsh Nednur

2024-10-14 01:23:06 +0000 UTC

To be honest, Hannelore’s backstory is kinda unbelievable to those not used to the fantastic. One she hears the name though…

Thisguy

2024-10-14 01:20:55 +0000 UTC

Anh is giving me whiplash with how she's making me switch my opinion of her so fast

Aditya Rameshan

2024-10-14 01:19:43 +0000 UTC

So excited for her to tell her her last name lmao

Nicole Featherby

2024-10-14 01:19:15 +0000 UTC

I guess Anh likes to be on top.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-14 01:19:06 +0000 UTC

Tech company heiress? Is this gonna be a crossover with Willis?

ValdVin

2024-10-14 01:18:34 +0000 UTC

Gauche is such a fun word. It rolls off the tounge in such an awkward way.

legobil

2024-10-14 01:18:21 +0000 UTC

Oh, Anh is swimming with sharks right now. She has no ability to impress Hanners at all.

Tannerbot

2024-10-14 01:17:43 +0000 UTC

god dammit Anh, I thought you were redeeming yourself

JD

2024-10-14 01:17:22 +0000 UTC

I'm really starting to wonder who the hell invited Anh to the wedding?!

Vic or Vyxter

2024-10-14 01:17:05 +0000 UTC

Nope, I don't like her again.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-10-14 01:16:42 +0000 UTC

heiress to everything, everywhere, all at once

Minzoku Bokumetsu

2024-10-14 01:16:28 +0000 UTC

If she knew lol

Simon Vaillancourt

2024-10-14 01:15:58 +0000 UTC

Thanks, I hate her.

Mortimer Langford

2024-10-14 01:15:51 +0000 UTC

Especially the truth.

Daryl Sawyer

2024-10-14 01:15:40 +0000 UTC

I feel like Hannelore dropping the EC lore on Anh is going to break her.

R L

2024-10-14 01:15:31 +0000 UTC

Everything is made up Anh, even the truth!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-10-14 01:14:36 +0000 UTC

Heirs Apparent

Comments

And to show that it's not a fluke... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3F4JBRhLvM

If I got a tan in the summer, it would definitely be gone after a time skip or two.

We'll see, I guess; Tai and Dora aren't well off, but Anh presumably manages to be friends with them if she's in the wedding party.

*cackling*

I think at one point the tan went away, and then came back. Maybe based on the seasons?

Ahn, May and Pintsize are Charlie's Demons :)

Huh. My reply full of bad puns about '80s Heir Metal bands seems to have been firmly rejected by Patreon's servers. I can't fault their taste anyway.

How dare you say we piss on the poor.

of course she's being nice to Hanners, she clocked her as an heiress, which means someone she is required to rub shoulders with and be nice, at least until she discovers said heiress is a poor one (not Hannelore, just... in general, I've met her type) ~<3

Dang, that feels like growth for Hanners, whether Jeph intended it or not. I would have thought earlier in the comic she'd have been too worried about skin cancer (still a concern of mine lol) to spend enough time outside for maintaining a now, but now she seems like she'd be fine.

Once I have a tan, maintaining it is easy. Well, easier than getting it. Some light outdoors exercise or yardwork a few days a week is all it takes for me. However, I am in Southern California, and the sun is pretty strong here.

I just realized with this time skip, Hanners is still tanned from her time abroad. My pasty ass actually doesn't know because I avoid excess sun, do tans actually last that long, or would she be having to maintain it?

Ahn and Hannelore and May need to form a strange new version of Charlie's Angels.

Yep. I don’t know why people keep missing this.

Good point! But she would loathe Willow's sunshine attitude, I predict. Or maybe she'd be extremely patronising and Willow would take it in good faith.

She was talking about Sven finding his soulmate at his sister's wedding...

"Better" is always relative...

Er. No? xD

You must be an only child! (;

Anh said in a past panel: "Imagine finding your soulmate at your own sister's wedding." Is she Tai's sister? I feel like we've heard almost nothing about Tai's family... potentially an as-yet-untapped well of new characters and relationships.

Fisticated. Heh. That sounds dirty.

Oh loord that was terrible ;)

Ungauchefisticated?

Hanners is so nice that I suspect she'll say something like "Oh dear, it does sound a bit implausible when you put it like that, doesn't it?" rather than taking much offence.

I suspect that Anh already does yoga. Probably on a beach in Thailand, with an extremely famous and fashionable teacher.

In retrospect, The Ship Who Sang is horrific from a disabled perspective. People whose bodies work differently should get help to live normal lives, not be enslaved.

We do know that Hanners can play the drums! With Marten in Cubetown (who knows what happened to Amir), she'll need a new musical outlet...

I think the "awful" also encompasses snobbish and elitist, materialistic and arguably self-centred, but yes, she's also displayed a number of better qualities. I noticed her wiping a tear away at the ceremony, too!

Note that if Hanners had just said “Mom owns a bunch of companies, I don’t keep track of the details. Dad’s more on the R&D side”, Anh wouldn’t have blinked.

Olaf: No she didn't. She referred to Sven being the other bride's brother. I imagine that she was invited because she's an old friend who's perfectly tolerable when her libido isn't being a nuisance. Politely calling BS on such a flagrantly implausible story hardly makes her intolerable.

That would destroy much of the state. Randall Munro has explained this.

Huh? She's been quite polite and now even friendly to Hanners, especially given that she initially thought that Hanners had blocked her move on Sven. Her last line here is a little snarky, but given how wild Hanners's backstory really is, she can't be blamed for very politely calling bullshit.

We can't totally rule out them being related, though; maybe Anh is a cousin? Also, yes, she was in the wedding party, that's exactly why this conversation is happening 😆

I feel like a significant chunk of the wedding planning may have involved Dora complaining about Sven and Tai complaining about Anh. Although Sven is better these days but I can believe he and Dora still get on each other's nerves <:

One step forward... one step sideways through the trapdoor

What about Anh and Willow, though :D Anh would be climbing the walls as Willow tried to lead her through a breathwork session.

It's been a very recent subject of comments discussion 😆

Ha! Good point with the parallels. Let's see what happens when Hannelore asks to be friends, Y/N?

Oh, I think she's worked out who Hannelore is referring to, but that's why she thinks Hannelore must be making it up. But yeah, she should be able to tell by now that Hanners is honest to a fault xD

@Stephen: sounds cool.

I doubt Hanners has the visibility typical for a child of the mega-rich since she doesn't move in those circles nor is she the heir apparent to her mother's companies.

Anh doesn't read people very well. I think it would be obvious that Hann is being honest. Also - how out of touch do you have to be if you're part of the wealthy class, but don't know who the children of famous billionaires are?

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4103

There will be a more successful cover band called Heir Conditioning :)

Somehow this reminds me of when Winslow described his actual day and Hanners was convinced he was hallucinating :)

💯

🤣😂🤣😂 Is he pretending his name is Ichabod?

I vote for Iris.

She is at some point gonna get the Ellicott-Chatom bomb dropped on her.

Wow, points to you for remembering her name.

As was discussed in a fairly recent page, it is kind of shocking how many S-Tier friends and acquaintances are Marten's orbit.

Let’s hope this was the control group.

"Oh, you're one of /those/ Tessier-Ashpools."

It's not just about being loaded. It's also about who she knows. She's friend with Station. She can also get a lift from experimental stealth aircraft to go to a lake.

There is a joke here about drool, gauche and unsophisticated, but I’m not versed enough to find it.

I continue to forget how unbelievably loaded Hanners is.

Everyone works for Beatrice Chatham in some way.

Nah, Tai knows her, and only objected to her flirting with Sven, not her being there at all.

Wheelchair is not sentient but it’s considered part of person using it. Sentient robot can change their body but were are considering chassis as them. So whole station is what Station is

Anh is one of those characters, she is 100% the kind of person who will order her steak rare, get a rare steak and send it back because it's bloody. not because there is anything wrong with the steak, but because she likes putting down the staff. ~<3

Opeth reference in the title? If so… Niceeee.

Get this woman a pizza. At relativistic velocity.

I love the total disconnect between these two. I hope they stay in touch.

I went back a couple three strips to check, and I think you're right that she was in the wedding party

And a blonde (she dyes it red).

I agree!

@Sean Kinlin • GDI. I’m getting awful 1980’s band memes from this pun!

@Sean Kinlin • More like Absolute Hannerlore Ellicott-Chatham.

*googly eyes*

She's eventually going to get Hanners' name... And then we get to find out how Jeph illustrates "woman choking on her own spleen from sheer disbelief"!

Bring Sven back into the picture for a steady supply of heirs...

The two of them should form a band, and call it Heir Supply.

And Hanners says "Oh, did I forget to introduce myself?"

Invited herself and somehow inveigled her way into the wedding party!

@Minzoku: but is this Alpha Hannelore?

Each new character we meet is my new favorite

time to name-drop, Hanners. time to name-drop _yourself_

She is about to commit the ultimate sin - be heiress to originality not ownership and thus indirectly shaming the nouveau riche. If there's anything a trust fund child hates, it's being irrelevant twice over.

cackling

googly eyes

No, she never said she herself was the Bride's sister. Her comment in 5416 was a mirror to Hanner's exact comment in 5412. They are both talking about Sven meeting his soulmate at his sister's wedding. i.e Dora.

Only child that we know of. There's always the chance for shenanigan plots. Both creators like some hijinx.