jephjacques : A Little Piece Of My Heart

They remind me of those squishy pillow things full of swirly liquid that were big in the 90s. I have no idea what they were called...

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-24 22:49:54 +0000 UTC

"I heard The Librarian can see in infrared..." "I heard she can see in ultraviolet!!"

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-24 22:48:52 +0000 UTC

You did indeed call it ^^

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-24 22:48:18 +0000 UTC

The 70s were 30 years ago, right? Right.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-24 22:46:31 +0000 UTC

That's from before the time skip.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-24 16:32:10 +0000 UTC

Yeah, it's a common bit, but it's also how our brains work sometimes. It feels like 1990 was 20 years ago instead of 34.

Alex Mullenix

2024-09-24 04:32:42 +0000 UTC

nevermind customs. how about the useless jobs program at TSA - they'll probably say it's too liquid-esque.

Joe

2024-09-24 00:08:34 +0000 UTC

I WANT A WOOB-WOOB!

joFinndian

2024-09-23 13:18:14 +0000 UTC

I don't think Clinton is MORE likely to own a shirt saying "queer"

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-23 10:51:41 +0000 UTC

Stick it in a freezer and say it's a cold compress.

David Paul

2024-09-23 09:40:19 +0000 UTC

Sounds like her memoirs.

legobil

2024-09-23 05:30:54 +0000 UTC

I think the people who need to know, know, and she is fine there.

legobil

2024-09-23 05:30:24 +0000 UTC

If watered and salted, will it grow up to become a spawn of Moray? Would that be clone of the same unit or a new unit?

legobil

2024-09-23 05:29:29 +0000 UTC

Deep? Like an endless pit? (Yes, I know the callback of the borrowed deodorant)

legobil

2024-09-23 05:23:46 +0000 UTC

“But may spring a leak when excited”

legobil

2024-09-23 05:22:29 +0000 UTC

Boo puns!

Opus the Poet

2024-09-23 03:00:47 +0000 UTC

Is "woob woob" a description of the motions that parts of Moray make, or are they actually vocalizing, like tribbles?

Zygo

2024-09-23 02:11:09 +0000 UTC

Nah; I'm pretty sure she can control the cohesion of her goo; she'd have to be able to in order to have enough structure to walk upright. And her skin (if the outermost goo can so be called) would have to be able to be tough enough at her feet to withstand the fluid pressure of 5′ of goo above it; think like a water balloon that tall; the pressure at the bottom is much higher and would bulge or burst it if not accounted for. So in summary, I think she has similar strength to humans if she wants to. Of course, she can puddle if she's not motivated to maintain her form, though.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-23 00:31:07 +0000 UTC

I have so many (rhetorical) questions. Does the part of Moray need to be watered and/or salted regularly? Does it do anything on its own? Can they bring it through security checks / customs at all? Can it reattach to Moray, and if yes, is there a time limit? Could it be reattached to another Moray if the Director gloops one out? Could Moray regrow it? :D

Lucas Werkmeister

2024-09-23 00:14:02 +0000 UTC

Ooooooh nooooo, Carl!

Claudia D.

2024-09-22 23:35:20 +0000 UTC

She's told several people that she's trans; I think she even wore a trans flag shirt once.

Bill Silvia

2024-09-22 23:02:07 +0000 UTC

Queer space camp? I thought Claire was still in the closet. Is it Clinton's?

Carl Fink

2024-09-22 20:37:55 +0000 UTC

Moray-brand water balloons! Labeled "Don't explode!"

Carl Fink

2024-09-22 20:37:14 +0000 UTC

Probably a wedding to attend. Note: I have no idea how the QC calendar matches that, I'm just saying that the wedding has been planned for what, 11 years in our timeline? Note 2: Yes, I know it hasn't been 11 years.

Carl Fink

2024-09-22 20:36:02 +0000 UTC

As I would a yogurt culture? So, I should discard mini-Moray in the sink and flush it down with hot water?

Carl Fink

2024-09-22 20:34:22 +0000 UTC

Why Belgium? I assume because he works for the EU (headquarters: Brussels).

Carl Fink

2024-09-22 20:32:38 +0000 UTC

I predict another time jump, this time just enough to get us to the day before the wedding.

David Durant

2024-09-22 19:56:39 +0000 UTC

Hopefully not quite that graphic :)

Andrew

2024-09-22 19:03:27 +0000 UTC

Hehe, butt jokes.

Cole Blackblood

2024-09-22 18:31:43 +0000 UTC

@Andrew: much like that head in The Thing?

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-22 18:19:24 +0000 UTC

No, I did not know you were from Europe. "Adjacent" means near or next to. I meant nothing more, nothing less. If you wish to be offended, that is your choice. Good day.

OldGoat

2024-09-22 18:09:17 +0000 UTC

Moray: A Collection of Woobs

Leak

2024-09-22 18:00:42 +0000 UTC

I realise that you're in earnest about telling me to Google "Benelux nations" but I'm from Europe, so... I don't need to do that. Trust me when I say that Belgium and Netherlands are not the same, and they're not akin to neighbouring (or even non-neighbouring) US states. They're different countries.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 17:58:23 +0000 UTC

I wish Liz were at the stage yet where she realises that her aggressiveness is (at times) due to attraction, but I think we have a way to go yet xD But I'm rooting for it

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 17:56:00 +0000 UTC

I think if she went to Evan and sincerely explained that she's been a horrible goblin because she doesn't know how to express attraction, she might get surprisingly positive results.

Stephen Wells

2024-09-22 17:39:12 +0000 UTC

Will Yay turn up as the officiant at Faye & Bubbles' wedding? I can see them in a Roman collar.

OldGoat

2024-09-22 16:13:51 +0000 UTC

@enchantedsleeper Convenient physical access, google "BENELUX nations." Where ever there's an open boarder, someone will cross it for immoral purposes. My understanding of the European Union is that crossing a national border these days is no more hassle than crossing from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

OldGoat

2024-09-22 16:04:41 +0000 UTC

That's what I was thinking

jonesnori

2024-09-22 15:25:45 +0000 UTC

It's a tracking device!

allanfranta

2024-09-22 14:01:48 +0000 UTC

Since our emotional foundation usually starts with mother, father, grand parents, older siblings, etc, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. Depends. Marten is a good foundation.

allanfranta

2024-09-22 13:55:21 +0000 UTC

one lifetime, then.

allanfranta

2024-09-22 13:52:56 +0000 UTC

Moray Butt

William Burns

2024-09-22 13:11:16 +0000 UTC

Jeph, holiday strip?

William Burns

2024-09-22 13:03:02 +0000 UTC

I suddenly want to go to Queer Space Camp. ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-09-22 12:38:14 +0000 UTC

I feel like "10 years ago" has to be a joke xD But time really is soup...

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 12:35:14 +0000 UTC

Which is the reason that we know that different parts of her have different textures. Math is hard.

Amelia Lewis

2024-09-22 12:25:58 +0000 UTC

A man can dream...

Doc Gumby

2024-09-22 11:50:48 +0000 UTC

It seems not. Apparently removing the bob on her head means she can't do math anymore: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5308

David Paul

2024-09-22 11:21:34 +0000 UTC

Gloopy goggles.

David Paul

2024-09-22 11:05:26 +0000 UTC

That's... what, a week and a half away?

David Paul

2024-09-22 11:03:50 +0000 UTC

That being said, though, her self esteem is kind of shit, and Marten has matured enough to be a reliable anchor. Just don't tell Ol' Boaty that.

David Paul

2024-09-22 11:03:00 +0000 UTC

Yay is every single point of contact for this quest, from start to finish. In a variety of increasingly ridiculous disguises.

David Paul

2024-09-22 10:57:04 +0000 UTC

Liz tearing up in panel four. Nicely done!

Anders Rapp

2024-09-22 10:38:41 +0000 UTC

And why does Space Camp have to be in Alabama? Could they perhaps move it to California?

Mad Marie

2024-09-22 10:27:40 +0000 UTC

I made the mistake of googling "Queer Space Camp". Good grief...jerks on the internet may have ruined a perfectly lovely person's childhood dream (and possibly more) this past spring. Why are some humans so mean?

Mad Marie

2024-09-22 10:25:04 +0000 UTC

It's the start of a trading sequence involving Pintsize's giant metal dick, the Obsidian Femur of Grobulax, the flying roomba and Melon's original ass. The quest takes ages, but it's the only way to unlock access to Cubetown's fourth quadrant.

BookBeard

2024-09-22 10:20:38 +0000 UTC

4 more years before QC can legally rent a car, which may not be possible in 2030.

Miyaa

2024-09-22 10:20:31 +0000 UTC

Gloopeus Mini-me

Mad Marie

2024-09-22 10:19:47 +0000 UTC

I wonder if a seatbelt would actually be a bad idea for Moray.

Mad Marie

2024-09-22 10:18:13 +0000 UTC

Ahhh, okay. So I did jokingly think that they were coming back for Dora's wedding, but I didn't remember Claire explicitly making an agreement not to move up to Cubetown yet, and everyone seemed to be acting like she'd start right away.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 10:15:12 +0000 UTC

Like Mr Ball Legs! It's the Santa Clarita Diet conclusion we all need!

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-22 10:14:16 +0000 UTC

I would also not say that Liz and Emmett look alike, but YMMV

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 10:13:20 +0000 UTC

Why would adjacent countries... mean they are related... I know this is a crack theory, but I am giving a little side-eye at the idea that Belgium + the Netherlands = basically the same

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 10:12:42 +0000 UTC

If it's part of her butt, that could be an uncomfortable flight.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-22 10:12:42 +0000 UTC

Wow, we got to the other side of an event (Liz coming to Cubetown)! I do think Liz will be a bit tether-less without Marten and Claire there; she's decided not to give up on everything just yet, but still hasn't figured out what she WILL do. (TIME TO GO MAKE SOME IMPULSIVE DECISIONS, LIKE SLEEPING WITH SOMEONE cough Evan cough)

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-22 10:10:04 +0000 UTC

Awwww. Marten in dad mode is so precious

Bagge

2024-09-22 09:06:59 +0000 UTC

Actually Claire can already see in infrared. She just doesn't like to brag about it.

BookBeard

2024-09-22 09:06:55 +0000 UTC

That's a deep callback.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-22 08:49:18 +0000 UTC

I'd say six months to a year IRL, about 4 to 5 weeks comic time.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-22 08:40:11 +0000 UTC

Shoulder Moray has been deployed!

MikeT

2024-09-22 08:29:26 +0000 UTC

It's a post-post-feminist anti-peri-ortho-meta-ironic classic of complete sincerity about nice butts.

Stephen Wells

2024-09-22 07:50:09 +0000 UTC

It is a truth universally acknowledged.

prettydragoon

2024-09-22 07:44:55 +0000 UTC

Sven's next song "Take another little piece of my heart-shaped ass" does such huge numbers that he can retire :)

Stephen Wells

2024-09-22 07:44:39 +0000 UTC

I'd say it says camp, but since the shirt is not totally flat, part of the "m" is not visible

Sharpless

2024-09-22 07:03:41 +0000 UTC

If that's part of her butt does that make it a gloopeus maximus? ... I'll just show myself out.

BookBeard

2024-09-22 06:22:00 +0000 UTC

When it makes a "woob woob" And it's a part of her boob That's a Moray! (I know that it's butt not boob, but couldn't resist)

Jan Szejko

2024-09-22 06:10:08 +0000 UTC

Martin collects another little sister XD

Cave

2024-09-22 05:56:08 +0000 UTC

Hah, 10 years? 10 years ago Claire and Marten had just gotten together. This comic has been going for 21 years. QC can now legally drink.

BookBeard

2024-09-22 05:53:31 +0000 UTC

Pride and prejudice and philosophical zombies.

Abhayakara

2024-09-22 05:33:36 +0000 UTC

Awe! 🫶💜

Carrie

2024-09-22 05:29:15 +0000 UTC

A few years at least, yeah

KiTA

2024-09-22 05:28:08 +0000 UTC

You say that like it ould be a BAD thing…

William Cole

2024-09-22 04:39:22 +0000 UTC

How dare you remind me of that.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-22 04:25:40 +0000 UTC

Good one!

Clifton Royston

2024-09-22 04:25:04 +0000 UTC

Guess not, maybe the woob will grow arms and legs?

Andrew

2024-09-22 04:05:58 +0000 UTC

Are we sure she didn't just do that?

Shawn Spencer

2024-09-22 03:51:53 +0000 UTC

Yeah, if this was real time, Marten would be begin every strip complaining about his knees. And Pintsize would have been there on January 6th, but only because it would have been the funniest option.

Alex Mullenix

2024-09-22 03:37:55 +0000 UTC

I thought, Queer Space Camp would be great great band name so I broke out the internet box and: https://www.stereogum.com/1949296/space-camp-bazooka-the-venue/premiere/

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-09-22 03:26:14 +0000 UTC

WOOB WOOB

Leila

2024-09-22 03:23:51 +0000 UTC

Like the Kool Aid man only less bombastic!

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-09-22 03:15:11 +0000 UTC

Kinda wish Moray could gloop-off a mini-moray that could stay behind

Andrew

2024-09-22 03:14:50 +0000 UTC

Tomorrow: Steve recruits Mariah Carey to come help Tokyo against Godzilla during the Christmas holiday season. Steve discovers this is a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Miyaa

2024-09-22 02:49:59 +0000 UTC

I am pretty sure it's Queer Space Camp, but I'm in for a shirt that says Queer Space Carp.

Juliet Alpha Yankee

2024-09-22 02:48:55 +0000 UTC

Awww, Liz. Also, that Moray fragment is requisite for acquiring a unique piece of gear that unlocks an exclusive quest.

Uniquitous

2024-09-22 02:44:06 +0000 UTC

What's the last word on Claire's shirt? I can tell it says "QUEER SPACE" in the first two lines, which made me think the last word is "CAMP", but that looks like an "R" at the end of the word.

Paul S. Enns

2024-09-22 02:43:40 +0000 UTC

Saying that Liz might be secretly the daughter of Mr. Bennett sounds like a backdoor way of turning this comic into Pride and Prejudice.

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-22 02:41:05 +0000 UTC

So say we all

Jeremy J Nickurak

2024-09-22 02:40:19 +0000 UTC

🎵Come on! Take another little chunk of my butt, now baby! Come on, take it! Take another little chunk of my butt! Oh, yeah, break it! Break another piece off of my butt, now honey! You know it's IR, 'cause it makes you see heat!🎵

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-22 02:35:37 +0000 UTC

Wear it like a super gross hat.

Simon Green

2024-09-22 02:32:08 +0000 UTC

Hah the text was off my screen at every step of getting to the comic!

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-22 02:32:06 +0000 UTC

Meanwhile, in the QC universe, it is now [checks notes] 3 weeks since the start of the comic

Simon Green

2024-09-22 02:31:32 +0000 UTC

Because of the text accompanying the comic, but also yes the Butts Disease would make it a pretty safe bet even without that.

BookBeard

2024-09-22 02:30:26 +0000 UTC

BookBeard always comes through in the end.

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-22 02:29:36 +0000 UTC

She's probably got one of those, too. (she kinda is one, really)

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-22 02:27:51 +0000 UTC

Yes, you are not the only one.

Drazi

2024-09-22 02:27:04 +0000 UTC

A few dozen? You're optimistic that it will be that soon.

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-22 02:26:54 +0000 UTC

Why are so many comments assuming it came from her butt? Just because of Jeph's Butts disease?

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-22 02:25:23 +0000 UTC

But why Belgium? He may have been up to some hanky panky there for some time. Maybe Becky Bennett can provide more information.

OldGoat

2024-09-22 02:25:10 +0000 UTC

Interesting theory, but a slight chronological hiccup: Emmett's dad presumably moved to Belgium after they were born, and Liz is 5 years older than Emmett.

BookBeard

2024-09-22 02:19:51 +0000 UTC

So I guess we won’t see Liz and Moray for a while in our timeline.

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-22 02:16:24 +0000 UTC

And in QC time, where two weeks could take 5 years, we might not see them for a long time!

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-22 02:12:55 +0000 UTC

Looking through earlier strips, specifically around the time Liz dropped her phone in the toilet (5018), I noted Emmett reporting that their father had to move to Belgium (5023), which, I do believe, is adjacent to the Netherlands. Emmett and Liz look an awful lot alike, more than can be written off to being drawn by the same artist. Meneer Appleboom and Mr. Bennett both seem to have a decent measure of asshole in their personalities. Are Liz and Bennett secret siblings?

OldGoat

2024-09-22 02:09:29 +0000 UTC

I don't think we'll be seeing Yay for a while. Either that, or they'll show up by the end of the year.

Czarzhan

2024-09-22 02:08:20 +0000 UTC

Kay, I’m sorry but Liz making Marten part of her emotional foundation is extremely adorable and probably a bad idea lol. In the sense that making another person a foundational part of your emotional stability is generally a bad idea

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-09-22 02:07:07 +0000 UTC

I really do too

Zak Reichle

2024-09-22 02:05:02 +0000 UTC

Warning: Moray has NOT been evaluated for oral use! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5392

BookBeard

2024-09-22 01:57:43 +0000 UTC

I hope Moray can keep it together. She collapsed into a depressed puddle after twelve hours last time. Marten and Claire aren't moving until after Dora and Tai's wedding, which I would estimate is still at least two weeks away. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4869 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5201

BookBeard

2024-09-22 01:56:17 +0000 UTC

"We'll be back soon" See you in 2027, Liz

Green

2024-09-22 01:55:18 +0000 UTC

Reading this during the intermission at the Death Cab/Postal Service show and thinking about how they're the kind of bands you referenced at the start of this strip 10 years ago (that's when it was right, 10 years ago?). Now seeing them on stage, even they're a bunch of grey hairs. The passage of time, man.

Alex Mullenix

2024-09-22 01:54:59 +0000 UTC

Yep. Every human in that apartment is nicknamed "Flowerpits" for a reason.

ValdVin

2024-09-22 01:54:34 +0000 UTC

Same.

Andrew Mitchell

2024-09-22 01:53:48 +0000 UTC

I've seen other comic artist do it too. It definitely focuses the reader on the feels happening.

ducksauz

2024-09-22 01:52:47 +0000 UTC

But of course, Claire and Marten have a lot of arrangements and packing to do. I daunt at the very thought of packing and moving again, but they’re young - they’ll heal.

Holly Nelson

2024-09-22 01:52:30 +0000 UTC

I'm guessing swallowing it WITHOUT chewing.

Andrew Mitchell

2024-09-22 01:52:03 +0000 UTC

So how would a human install this irfrared capability? Eat/drink it? Rub it on like sunscreen? Stuff it into some other orifice? Whatever the answer, I'm interested.

Yelling Bird

2024-09-22 01:49:13 +0000 UTC

Chris-you mean…culture up multiple Jelly jars of Moray? That’s mind boggling!

Claudia D.

2024-09-22 01:48:39 +0000 UTC

[Curly voice] Wooooob woob woob woob woob woob

Magic Chopstick Games

2024-09-22 01:47:38 +0000 UTC

Does anyone else smell daffodils?

BookBeard

2024-09-22 01:47:02 +0000 UTC

🙄. 😆

Claudia D.

2024-09-22 01:45:53 +0000 UTC

Can Claire interface with it to see in the infrared too or ..

Isaac Rivers

2024-09-22 01:45:14 +0000 UTC

Just treat it as you would a yogurt culture…

Chris Weigert

2024-09-22 01:44:53 +0000 UTC

Yes, if you feed it after midnight...

Captain Button

2024-09-22 01:43:03 +0000 UTC

Pintsize.

Doc Gumby

2024-09-22 01:41:26 +0000 UTC

woob woob

DVW

2024-09-22 01:40:30 +0000 UTC

When posterior ooze Shows you infrared views That's A Moray! When you bestow to Claire Part of your derrière That's A Moray!

BookBeard

2024-09-22 01:36:26 +0000 UTC

I want to go to queer space camp

Mad Marie

2024-09-22 01:36:24 +0000 UTC

Could that souvenir piece of Moray become "an adult" Moray? You know how some animals make buds that become new individuals,? Would it be a clone of her? Asking for a friend…

Claudia D.

2024-09-22 01:33:09 +0000 UTC

OK as much as I love Moray, we need to find Yay, I'm getting impatient 😰

Pejo

2024-09-22 01:30:53 +0000 UTC

Can't she just... re-goo the IR functionality? She's practically all goo-stem cells.

Damian Paradis

2024-09-22 01:30:28 +0000 UTC

Jeph could sell those like little stress balls.

SilverbackRon

2024-09-22 01:30:06 +0000 UTC

I think it registers farts as it registers anything coming out of the body: At about 98.6F. My experience with firehole suggests it's related to Scoville Units more than degrees F or C.

ValdVin

2024-09-22 01:27:59 +0000 UTC

that'll be fun to drag through customs.

Hakurei06

2024-09-22 01:26:49 +0000 UTC

Woob Woob Woob Woob Woob Woob

Anthony Gaglianese

2024-09-22 01:26:16 +0000 UTC

Anyone else notice the emotional strips have a white background

Egos

2024-09-22 01:26:05 +0000 UTC

I kept reading "Flashlight" as an entirely different word.

Dave Miner

2024-09-22 01:22:38 +0000 UTC

I felt a need to zoom in on the “woob woob” and just noticed Claire’s shirt.

legobil

2024-09-22 01:22:34 +0000 UTC

When you gift friends a bit off the place that you sit That’s a Moray!

Darren Franzen

2024-09-22 01:21:16 +0000 UTC

If you have to ask...

Brian Yaras

2024-09-22 01:20:11 +0000 UTC

It's ok there's no shortage

sjlxndr

2024-09-22 01:19:40 +0000 UTC

It lets her see, where the sun doesn't shine.

Verteiron

2024-09-22 01:19:38 +0000 UTC

what what

SpookyPenguin

2024-09-22 01:19:36 +0000 UTC

It didn't really occur to me that they'd wouldn't all be returning to Cubetown together.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-22 01:18:57 +0000 UTC

Which will be the first character to play with Moray's infrared part like it was an AI butt implant?

ValdVin

2024-09-22 01:18:56 +0000 UTC

So no move to Cubetown for a few dozen more strips then, I suppose?

Doc Gumby

2024-09-22 01:17:52 +0000 UTC

Let’s hope they go up on topatoco.

legobil

2024-09-22 01:17:48 +0000 UTC

Hm, Chekhov's gloop? I guess we'll find out in a few hundred strips

Wes

2024-09-22 01:16:23 +0000 UTC

Wait. The infrared vision is in her butt? Does it register farts?

legobil

2024-09-22 01:16:13 +0000 UTC

Liz getting a dadhug ☺️

LH

2024-09-22 01:15:50 +0000 UTC

Where do I sign up for queer space camp!?

Aerin Moriarty

2024-09-22 01:15:44 +0000 UTC

So, when are we getting plush blobs?

Orion Rhine

2024-09-22 01:15:28 +0000 UTC

Not her butt! That’s important!

Jeff Dill

2024-09-22 01:15:11 +0000 UTC

Woob woob

Nikki

2024-09-22 01:14:55 +0000 UTC

Woob for friends. I want the woob

Zig Justice

2024-09-22 01:14:51 +0000 UTC

Spaced second!

SpaceAustralian

2024-09-22 01:14:49 +0000 UTC

Oh Moray. You are a wonderful Squishy. And I wish the gremlin the best of luck.

Tannerbot

2024-09-22 01:14:21 +0000 UTC

I want one to

Inflim

2024-09-22 01:14:00 +0000 UTC

A Little Piece Of My Heart

Comments

They remind me of those squishy pillow things full of swirly liquid that were big in the 90s. I have no idea what they were called...

"I heard The Librarian can see in infrared..." "I heard she can see in ultraviolet!!"

You did indeed call it ^^

The 70s were 30 years ago, right? Right.

That's from before the time skip.

Yeah, it's a common bit, but it's also how our brains work sometimes. It feels like 1990 was 20 years ago instead of 34.

nevermind customs. how about the useless jobs program at TSA - they'll probably say it's too liquid-esque.

I WANT A WOOB-WOOB!

I don't think Clinton is MORE likely to own a shirt saying "queer"

Stick it in a freezer and say it's a cold compress.

Sounds like her memoirs.

I think the people who need to know, know, and she is fine there.

If watered and salted, will it grow up to become a spawn of Moray? Would that be clone of the same unit or a new unit?

Deep? Like an endless pit? (Yes, I know the callback of the borrowed deodorant)

“But may spring a leak when excited”

Boo puns!

Is "woob woob" a description of the motions that parts of Moray make, or are they actually vocalizing, like tribbles?

Ooooooh nooooo, Carl!

She's told several people that she's trans; I think she even wore a trans flag shirt once.

Queer space camp? I thought Claire was still in the closet. Is it Clinton's?

Moray-brand water balloons! Labeled "Don't explode!"

Probably a wedding to attend. Note: I have no idea how the QC calendar matches that, I'm just saying that the wedding has been planned for what, 11 years in our timeline? Note 2: Yes, I know it hasn't been 11 years.

As I would a yogurt culture? So, I should discard mini-Moray in the sink and flush it down with hot water?

Why Belgium? I assume because he works for the EU (headquarters: Brussels).

I predict another time jump, this time just enough to get us to the day before the wedding.

Hopefully not quite that graphic :)

Hehe, butt jokes.

@Andrew: much like that head in The Thing?

No, I did not know you were from Europe. "Adjacent" means near or next to. I meant nothing more, nothing less. If you wish to be offended, that is your choice. Good day.

Moray: A Collection of Woobs

I wish Liz were at the stage yet where she realises that her aggressiveness is (at times) due to attraction, but I think we have a way to go yet xD But I'm rooting for it

I think if she went to Evan and sincerely explained that she's been a horrible goblin because she doesn't know how to express attraction, she might get surprisingly positive results.

Will Yay turn up as the officiant at Faye & Bubbles' wedding? I can see them in a Roman collar.

That's what I was thinking

It's a tracking device!

Since our emotional foundation usually starts with mother, father, grand parents, older siblings, etc, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. Depends. Marten is a good foundation.

one lifetime, then.

Moray Butt

Jeph, holiday strip?

I suddenly want to go to Queer Space Camp. ~<3

I feel like "10 years ago" has to be a joke xD But time really is soup...

Which is the reason that we know that different parts of her have different textures. Math is hard.

A man can dream...

It seems not. Apparently removing the bob on her head means she can't do math anymore: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5308

Gloopy goggles.

That's... what, a week and a half away?

That being said, though, her self esteem is kind of shit, and Marten has matured enough to be a reliable anchor. Just don't tell Ol' Boaty that.

Yay is every single point of contact for this quest, from start to finish. In a variety of increasingly ridiculous disguises.

Liz tearing up in panel four. Nicely done!

And why does Space Camp have to be in Alabama? Could they perhaps move it to California?

I made the mistake of googling "Queer Space Camp". Good grief...jerks on the internet may have ruined a perfectly lovely person's childhood dream (and possibly more) this past spring. Why are some humans so mean?

It's the start of a trading sequence involving Pintsize's giant metal dick, the Obsidian Femur of Grobulax, the flying roomba and Melon's original ass. The quest takes ages, but it's the only way to unlock access to Cubetown's fourth quadrant.

4 more years before QC can legally rent a car, which may not be possible in 2030.

Gloopeus Mini-me

I wonder if a seatbelt would actually be a bad idea for Moray.

Ahhh, okay. So I did jokingly think that they were coming back for Dora's wedding, but I didn't remember Claire explicitly making an agreement not to move up to Cubetown yet, and everyone seemed to be acting like she'd start right away.

Like Mr Ball Legs! It's the Santa Clarita Diet conclusion we all need!

I would also not say that Liz and Emmett look alike, but YMMV

Why would adjacent countries... mean they are related... I know this is a crack theory, but I am giving a little side-eye at the idea that Belgium + the Netherlands = basically the same

If it's part of her butt, that could be an uncomfortable flight.

Awwww. Marten in dad mode is so precious

Actually Claire can already see in infrared. She just doesn't like to brag about it.

That's a deep callback.

I'd say six months to a year IRL, about 4 to 5 weeks comic time.

Shoulder Moray has been deployed!

It's a post-post-feminist anti-peri-ortho-meta-ironic classic of complete sincerity about nice butts.

It is a truth universally acknowledged.

Sven's next song "Take another little piece of my heart-shaped ass" does such huge numbers that he can retire :)

I'd say it says camp, but since the shirt is not totally flat, part of the "m" is not visible

If that's part of her butt does that make it a gloopeus maximus? ... I'll just show myself out.

When it makes a "woob woob" And it's a part of her boob That's a Moray! (I know that it's butt not boob, but couldn't resist)

Martin collects another little sister XD

Hah, 10 years? 10 years ago Claire and Marten had just gotten together. This comic has been going for 21 years. QC can now legally drink.

Pride and prejudice and philosophical zombies.

Awe! 🫶💜

A few years at least, yeah

You say that like it ould be a BAD thing…

How dare you remind me of that.

Interesting theory, but a slight chronological hiccup: Emmett's dad presumably moved to Belgium after they were born, and Liz is 5 years older than Emmett.