next strip is Steve eating cereal, per time honored tradition.
Joe
2024-08-27 00:19:33 +0000 UTC
I thought hanners-face dot bmp was https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4525
Lucas Werkmeister
2024-08-27 00:12:02 +0000 UTC
humans are imitation seawater after all
Lucas Werkmeister
2024-08-27 00:08:13 +0000 UTC
Such smug shenanigans should sometimes be slightly sinister.
Doc Gumby
2024-08-26 20:44:34 +0000 UTC
Yay and Moray shake hands, the Director's voice says NOW ENDS THE AGE OF MAN, comic strip ends.
Stephen Wells
2024-08-26 20:16:09 +0000 UTC
because wifes
Fart Captor
2024-08-26 20:03:11 +0000 UTC
Silly Spookybot, stacking statements with sequential s-syllables to substitute for sub-standard social skills.
BookBeard
2024-08-26 19:04:18 +0000 UTC
I can't wait for Yay vs Bubs, it's gonna be lit
darkuncle
2024-08-26 18:53:45 +0000 UTC
My thought exactly. If that's true, Yay's reaction should be picturesque.
Hugh Eckert
2024-08-26 16:51:44 +0000 UTC
Why not both?
Hugh Eckert
2024-08-26 16:50:18 +0000 UTC
"We carry the ocean within us; our veins mirror the tides." - Diane Ackerman
Hugh Eckert
2024-08-26 16:48:03 +0000 UTC
There really isn't a minimum safe distance anymore...
allanfranta
2024-08-26 16:05:00 +0000 UTC
Why marry when you can just tarry?
allanfranta
2024-08-26 16:01:14 +0000 UTC
murky and occluded present danger...
allanfranta
2024-08-26 15:57:39 +0000 UTC
if she had a seam, the hydraulic pressure that keeps her formed would create a razor of fluid decapitating anyone in a 360 radius up to about 3'...
Jared Cyr
2024-08-26 14:52:53 +0000 UTC
She doesn't have any parts to have seams. She is an amorphous semi-liquid (who is, so far the only such being - other than the other Moray units).
alphanor
2024-08-26 12:49:34 +0000 UTC
Well she (and her... others) are secreted directly from the goop that makes up the "Director" (which seems to be like a giant Jellyfish). So... I think her entire body is basically nanite compute/memory/io nodes in a viscous suspension? So it since she is not robotic in nature, makes sense that she has no seams.
Kurtis S Whittington
2024-08-26 12:41:57 +0000 UTC
Just now realized; Moray has no neck seam. She the only one without one?
Doc Gumby
2024-08-26 12:28:34 +0000 UTC
Oh my god, it’d be like that old video of two Furbies talking to each other
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-08-26 11:05:22 +0000 UTC
As soon as I saw the opening panels, I knew exactly the references you were making 😂
David Paul
2024-08-26 10:29:36 +0000 UTC
The point was also hammered home in #3395 and #3396, as well.
David Paul
2024-08-26 10:24:00 +0000 UTC
Came here to say this (and showing my age)
Chris East
2024-08-26 08:28:27 +0000 UTC
Jeph, I hope you're recovering well. We're all out here parasocially worrying over you!
Clifton Royston
2024-08-26 08:14:22 +0000 UTC
And ‘’testing’’…
Greg Matyola
2024-08-26 07:31:27 +0000 UTC
yeah I thought that Moray was permanently autonomous. She explained it at some point recently
djellafine
2024-08-26 06:34:04 +0000 UTC
They saw each other recently when Yay and Roko were at the repair shop.
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5240
BookBeard
2024-08-26 04:46:08 +0000 UTC
I think Liz is catching on to social niceties faster than Yay.
Yelling Bird
2024-08-26 04:37:07 +0000 UTC
I hope that things go well and Yay doesn't get so distracted that they cause themselves problems. Some part of me suspects that semi-autonomous Yay might be a sort of Sandbox experiment by the rest of Yay, and not fully possessed of unlimited self control.
Thomas Halpin
2024-08-26 04:34:31 +0000 UTC
Is this the first time Bubbles has seen Yay since they helped with her memories? I'm excited to see how their interaction goes!!
Mandy Hoskins
2024-08-26 04:31:02 +0000 UTC
Does Moray qualify as a translucent and present danger?
Sleepy John
2024-08-26 04:26:03 +0000 UTC
Nailed it, Yay
Bagge
2024-08-26 04:24:54 +0000 UTC
As you rightfully should call it. Sipping on your own gooey bag of Moray. Well, you won’t get a straw, really. But still!
legobil
2024-08-26 04:15:08 +0000 UTC
Unlike Pintsize, Liz has no crumple zones.
Sammitch
2024-08-26 04:08:33 +0000 UTC
Also Moray does seem at least moderately disinclined to rejoin the Director.
Damian
2024-08-26 04:06:00 +0000 UTC
Oh, this is a fantastically bad idea. But Yay is in their teenager phase, so, that's really not going to stop them.
Michael Chui
2024-08-26 03:57:21 +0000 UTC
Moray won't be able to see what Yay really is. But when she rejoins (POOLG!) the director, won't that being have all Moray's memories to study?
If I were Yay I would keep a distance from Moray.
Joseph Bonnar
2024-08-26 03:35:27 +0000 UTC
More of an involuntary nap than suspended animation, but a fair point nevertheless.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3393
BookBeard
2024-08-26 03:33:50 +0000 UTC
That's because her situational awareness protocol is too busy determining how many people are currently checking her out.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3489
BookBeard
2024-08-26 03:23:53 +0000 UTC
We hold this truth to be self-evident.
Scott
2024-08-26 03:22:04 +0000 UTC
Not to mention their combined levels of well meaning ineptitude. They might destroy the world through good intentions alone.
BookBeard
2024-08-26 03:19:45 +0000 UTC
But what about dora-face dot png https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2226
Or hanners-face dot tiff
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1490
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-08-26 03:18:54 +0000 UTC
AI shit about to get real (said no tech company ever)
SpookyPenguin
2024-08-26 03:16:09 +0000 UTC
Well, *we* are, but Bubbles and Roko aren't.
Carl Fink
2024-08-26 03:10:00 +0000 UTC
Liz knows when not to bother rolling for initiative
Andrew
2024-08-26 02:40:12 +0000 UTC
It’s not really a rumble, more a goopy slither
Andrew
2024-08-26 02:39:07 +0000 UTC
2nd panel Moray ?-face !!
LH
2024-08-26 02:30:25 +0000 UTC
“Ugly bags of mostly water.”
Foal Papers
2024-08-26 02:23:00 +0000 UTC
You know, with her seemingly limitless perkiness, maybe the most dangerous person for Moray to meet would be Beepatrice. The reinforcement loop would spiral out of control.
William Cole
2024-08-26 02:17:25 +0000 UTC
Defo getting the civilian to Minimum Safe Distance.
William Cole
2024-08-26 02:05:43 +0000 UTC
I thought we were more like brine mixed with saltine crackers than strictly be 70% water.
Not even close. Remember that when we met Yay, they were able to put *humans* in suspended animation with just a thought. They're on another level.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-26 02:02:32 +0000 UTC
It's not even a good power move, though. If the target doesn't catch it, it's useless. If they do, it puts them on the defensive and makes you look like you have poor social skills. Which for Yay, yeah.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-08-26 01:55:45 +0000 UTC
Yeah, technically she's too young for me too, but if I were back in college I woulda been following her around like a lost puppygirl
Fart Captor
2024-08-26 01:55:27 +0000 UTC
To be fair, bubbles doesn't know just how many hazards there are in the club right now
Phaine Of Catz
2024-08-26 01:48:47 +0000 UTC
Roko in panel 3 is such a mood I have felt numerous times.
Shawn K. Younkin
2024-08-26 01:34:22 +0000 UTC
I think Moray does know who Yay is and it's a genuine reaction. Yay has stated in a roundabout way she had looked into cubetown and I'm sure The Director has cataloged her time(s) of access.
Joe K
2024-08-26 01:32:53 +0000 UTC
We are not just saline sacks, but we are all At Least that.
Chloë Salzenberg
2024-08-26 01:32:31 +0000 UTC
"You are privileged to make our acquaintance" carries a whiff of Tomkinson's School Days.
ValdVin
2024-08-26 01:32:11 +0000 UTC
Me too, except Liz. Still too young.
Andrea Andrew
2024-08-26 01:30:34 +0000 UTC
Were they ever technically enemies? Spookybot came to them to help (back when they had normal speech balloons). Roko didn’t exactly threaten them with arrest time.
Andrea Andrew
2024-08-26 01:29:52 +0000 UTC
Opening lines resembling "you're very pleased to meet me" are definitely one way to establish a new relationship
Frank Wales
2024-08-26 01:27:55 +0000 UTC
We're more of donut than a sack
Joe K
2024-08-26 01:25:42 +0000 UTC
Panel 1: Bubbles looks pleased to see Roko.
Panel 2: Bubbles is mildly curious by what Roko means.
Panel 3: Bubbles rolling her eyes and getting Liz out of the range to figure out what Yay is.
Czarzhan
2024-08-26 01:24:18 +0000 UTC
How dare you, Sir Euan. How very dare you. How DARE you make me chuckle.
R L
2024-08-26 01:24:08 +0000 UTC
Oh Bubbles *knows* some bullsh*t's about to go down.
R L
2024-08-26 01:22:51 +0000 UTC
Liz is imprinting on Bubbles like a duckling
Todd Ellner
2024-08-26 01:20:25 +0000 UTC
oh boy i'm sitting in antici - wait for it - pation
of whats going to happen in the next strip.
Hawkeye
2024-08-26 01:15:44 +0000 UTC
Whatnots? Where are my whatnots? -rolls out personal x-ray machine-
Holly Nelson
2024-08-26 01:12:25 +0000 UTC
I'm still on the Roko x Yay enemies-to-lovers train but MorYay is promising too
Adarsh Nednur
2024-08-26 01:02:28 +0000 UTC
The interaction between Yay and Moray is going surprisingly well for Moray because she doesn't know to be insulted and Yay probably that as some sort of power move. Like, for a normal person Yay could threaten them when they jab back at Yay's obnoxiousness, but Moray won't give them an in.
Davus Otho
2024-08-26 01:01:02 +0000 UTC
Despicable. Wish I'd said it.
Maurice Kessler
2024-08-26 00:56:53 +0000 UTC
I'm sitting here, trying to imagine the initial interaction between Yay and Liz. It's probably not a complete coincidence that there are 3 people between them at the moment.
Steve DeGroof
2024-08-26 00:56:16 +0000 UTC
She saw the yeet.
Timothy Roller
2024-08-26 00:49:48 +0000 UTC
Yay, no
Wynn Donivan
2024-08-26 00:44:03 +0000 UTC
Seriously? Senorita saline sack? Yay's setting themselves up for quite a fall.
Doc Gumby
2024-08-26 00:37:15 +0000 UTC
Do you hear that rumble in the distance? A horde of MorYay shippers approaches. Take cover!
BookBeard
2024-08-26 00:30:34 +0000 UTC
Liz is far to gremlin to figure it out, especially once Yay starts winding her up.
Tannerbot
2024-08-26 00:29:17 +0000 UTC
Yay should be hearing boss music right about now.
Anthony Gaglianese
2024-08-26 00:29:14 +0000 UTC
Not "just", we do also have bones and whatnot.
Matthias Urlichs
2024-08-26 00:29:14 +0000 UTC
Moray's face with the question mark in the second panel is such a mood
thelibrariancat
2024-08-26 00:26:49 +0000 UTC
These are not all of the characters from this comic whom I would marry but they are all characters that I would marry 🥺
Fart Captor
2024-08-26 00:26:36 +0000 UTC
Yay may not have an elevated opinion of themselves, given their capability, but they are remarkably smug about it anyway.
Tannerbot
2024-08-26 00:25:39 +0000 UTC
Liz, at this point no one needs any warning that you can be a huge pain in the ass.
Rich Holmes
2024-08-26 00:25:11 +0000 UTC
The bar is the best place to send Liz. She's armless.
Euan Troup
2024-08-26 00:25:10 +0000 UTC
Umm, aren't human beings just a sack of saline with some proteins mixed in?
Captain Button
2024-08-26 00:24:46 +0000 UTC
No, but Roko would glare at them if anything went sideways anyway
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-26 00:24:01 +0000 UTC
She just saw Pintsize get tossed. She's not gonna end up the same way. And she loves Bubbles, butbsondo we all.
JMK
2024-08-26 00:23:58 +0000 UTC
"Saline sack"? THAT's your opening, Yay?
enchantedsleeper
2024-08-26 00:23:24 +0000 UTC
Could bubbles take yay?
Kenneth Harris
2024-08-26 00:22:38 +0000 UTC
I’m just waiting for Liz to figure out what Yay is. That interaction would be interesting, to say the least.
Chauncey
2024-08-26 00:22:24 +0000 UTC
100% chance that next time I'm in the hospital on painkillers or whatever (it's a when not an if) my addled brain is somehow gonna remember this specific comic and I'm gonna call my IV "senorita saline sack"
Ashbury Haight
2024-08-26 00:22:12 +0000 UTC
Liz and Sven? That will be fine. Better than Liz and Yay interaction at least. Bubbles did good threat assessment
Brittany Huckey
2024-08-26 00:21:22 +0000 UTC
Dun dun DUUUUNNNNHH!
Matt Grayson
2024-08-26 00:20:59 +0000 UTC
Gotta love the honesty from Liz here.
Armcannon Productions
2024-08-26 00:20:52 +0000 UTC
Yay is starting out completely in character, being totally insufferable, and so is Moray, being a total sweety. I think Bubbles is clearing the field of any potential collateral damage.