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His Secret Shame

Hanners has never been more okay in her life

His Secret Shame

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Gatekeeping Warning: You are not a true caffeine addict until EVERY cup of coffee is a good cup of coffee. Excpt decaf of course.

Carol Metzger

It has been my experience that expressions cannot be drawn without the method acting.

Carol Metzger

Me too, that face is giving me life.

Mark

One of the reasons? Asphyxiation and incineration are a couple of others.

alphanor

used to be 8 Venusian Starbucks but they closed 4 that tried to unionize. Still, the decaf DOES suck.

Jim Feldman

NICE.

Andrew

The Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube recently made a video or two where they used their new 300 ton press to make coffee, in case you're interested...

Leak

Mmm... pastizzis 😋

David Paul

I'm getting strong "Calvin and Hobbes" vibes from all the funny faces in this comic.

Josh

Hanners is BAKED AF

Ack

3rd panel Hanners = Mr. DeMartino (DeMartinelore?) if his wrath had been traded in for her chill vibes

Clarence the Liar

Hanners + Liz = good ideas FOREVER??

Boots McGoot

Such a mental picture I have.

alphanor

!!!!!

alphanor

Hanners angry sounds a bit scary. I mean, with access to a space station full of diabolical capabilities. Hanners would make a pretty crazy super vilian!

Nick Whiting

There are different being methods that can make a better cup of coffee, each one requires different techniques, equipment, temperature and grinder settings

Maya Pilkey

I refuse to believe anything else

Zak Reichle

I want to see more of Last-Panel Hanners. I bet that her mom uses that face all the time.

Halloween Jack

There is absolutely no such thing as a good cup of coffee.

alphanor

With that face, no need for a mask!

alphanor

I wonder if Jeph adopts the facial expressions of his characters while he draws them.

TV4Fun

First we have to determine if there actually is such a thing as a "good cup of coffee."

Kevin Hicks

This would make an excellent "What If" question. We need to bombard his inbox to see how he approaches it. (I have asked a couple of questions for his blog, but I appear to have missed my mark (or they have drowned in a sea of unread emails)).

David Paul

At least she's not wearing a Halloween mask, or holding a knife.

Sean Kinlin

You and Hanners should compare notes.

David Paul

Thank you for the burst of optimism! You've given us hope! 😊

David Paul

Maybe so, but there's still money in the idea. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3480

BookBeard

@Yelling Bird • GDI

Miyaa

Claire-face dot jpeg

Miyaa

Came here to post the same. We should all strive for that level of satisfaction.

Jon K

"HeheheMwuhaha...heheheMwuhaha" to be specific.

kupo

It's still better than the coffee from Uranus.

Yelling Bird

Which one, there used to be a gremlin laughing montage on YouTube (that I don't feel like seeing if it's still there at the moment).

Opus the Poet

I'm totally stealing "you're right! I'll draft a feasibility study" as an emergency exit phrase from conversations.

Garra Wolfdog

RIP Clinton, he jerked it until his hand fell off and then died.

Dean Reilly

Def pasticchi

Duncan

Chemicals! - like Carbohydrates and Proteins?

Charles Hirst

I fucking LIVE for Hanner's face in panel 2. ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

Most planets, actually. Also - moist planets.

Leak

Panel 2 Hanners is absolutely zooted

Simpin4Holo

I'm not ashamed to admit this comic made me giggle like a gremlin.

kupo

Secret secret secret secret CoffEE

Jason Harris

Perhaps Load might be a better term. Her current chemical load.

Jason Harris

Stoned Hanners is Hilarious Hanners.

YsabetJustYsabet

I love high Hanners

Onyx

I'm getting real "Anya from Spy x Family" vibes from Hanners right now.

Jaron Mortimer

I hope drawing the facial expressions from this party has been as fun as looking at them 😅

Arraine Siefert

A relic of a bygone era. Their commercials in the memories of a generation and a scant few stores are all that really remain of that once-toasty empire

KingAtticus

Panel 2 is my favourite Hanners Face ever

It's Lina

Wow. That takes me back. I think I read that in middle school.

Taigan

Deeply creepy Hanners

BioGeek42

I saw Hanners’ face without reading the comic first and became scared

JD

I am recalling the Jupiter robots from Asimov's "Victory Unintentional."

Captain Button

Tonight: HaNnErS turns into gamzee MAKARA

darklion

Sure but you're still going to have a tepid espresso

Michael Phillips

She did say ONE of the reasons…

William Cole

better living through chemicals. the trick is the balance ...

Joe

That is an awful pun and I very much approve.

Celine Chamberlin

@Michael - there's no such thing as "iced coffee that's ok".

Joe

She should get some cocaine eye drops.... for.... Many actual reasons. 😌

Carrie

Yes it is. Done enough childcare to understand 100%.

Carrie

Balance?

Carl Fink

I think @DenIvanov was saying espresso would be different because it's *by definition* made using high pressure. That's what espresso is.

Carl Fink

If it's after 8pm, I can do a half-cafe latte and sleep like a cat. (I've had kids. "Sleep like a baby" is a curse.)

Elf Sternberg

Adding caffeine to Liz's current chemical balance can only end well.

Dean Reilly

And while you can use a pressure vessel to do the extraction you still can't have hot coffee because the temperature is that you recognize as hot quickly become over the boiling point of the liquid.

Michael Phillips

Famous last words, Claire.

Charlotte Grubbs

Anything that uses heat to extract flavor from something in a liquid is going to extract less flavor in lower pressure settings.

Michael Phillips

With beautiful floating islands, and scarcely any solid land? And singing beasts that sound like cellos? Save a seat for me.

Holly Nelson

Hanelore clearly remembers the research colony that her dad forgot 😝

KingAtticus

Hanners has ALL the faces.

Populuxe

Here lies Clinton. “I’ll miss you, you stupid little brother. – Claire”

Miyaa

Would espresso be more or less the same?

Den

And cakes. Toronto is very lucky to have “Venus Bakery and Cakes.”

Miyaa

This feels like something that started as a private “What if” question to Randall Munroe.

Miyaa

Quizno’s?! What are those?🤣🤣🤣

Andrea Andrew

Pfft. You can't even get BAD coffee on most planets!

BobC

Ok, wait. This is QCniverse. They have space stations and robots. Do we know if there are canonical Venus colonies?

Taigan

Right?

Yelling Bird

Found my new pfp

Joel Bateman

Not everyone yet. The next comic is Clinton walking home when he trips and falls into a pit of enraged robot possums. His last words are "Whoa, cool chassis! Is that custAHHHHGGHHH!!!!"

BookBeard

My god, Hanners is channeling a Quizno’s ad

Magic Chopstick Games

Though I suppose you could cook it in a pressure vessel and make iced coffee that was okay

Michael Phillips

Venus coffee is almost certainly better than Mars coffee. Cuz low atmospheric pressure coffee is going to taste like lukewarm crap

Michael Phillips

Of course they're back early - they took a red eye.

Sean Kinlin

Who hasn't had decaffeinated coffee at earlyasfrack am? Isn't it a quasi normal thing?

Carrie

Jeph really built up to this one on his Bluesky feed.

Olaf

Dammit, this is bugging me. Why wouldn't you be able to decaffeinate coffee on Venus? I mean you obviously couldn't make supercritical CO2 at atmospheric pressure there but if you're trying to make supercritical CO2, or really doing anything else, while exposed directly to Venus' atmosphere then decaffeinated coffee is likely to be the least of your problems. A closed-cycle decaffeination system at a fixed and reasonable internal pressure should work fine, again as long as you don't leave it out in the Venusian atmosphere where it would melt. (And I'm not even stoned...)

Yonatan Zunger

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 yeah, they're only "acceptable".

Carrie

Her panel three face reminds me of kabuki theater somehow.

Doc Gumby

The Hanners face in the last panel is soooo scary!! What is coming next??

alphanor

And Starbuck blew up the last Starbucks

Andrew

Or was it pastels?

Doc Gumby

and he's thinking of opening a coffee shop??

Not that Patrick Foltz

He likes the REAL slow burn ships. We should hear about them some time before 2030

Grace Kieser

Coffee made at 92 bar pressure? Yes please.

Andrew

Very good Hannelore faces in panels two and three.

Wynn Donivan

The other reason you can't get a good cup of coffee on Venus is that they only have Tom Horbons.

BookBeard

That Panel 2 face...

Graydon Armstrong

Ok, High Hanners needs to happen WAY more often.

Yelling Bird

I wanna see the feasibility study!

Tannerbot

With all their arms, Venusian baristas must be amazing.

Bill Silvia

Or is it pasties? Or pasties?

Sean Kinlin

NO WHAT HAPPENED WITH IRIS AND WILLOW GOD DAMMIT JEPH

Graydon Armstrong

Good to see everyone made it home OK.

Matthew Holland

Hanners' arc of coming back and Liz's arc of...wherever she is are going to cross. Not sure if I'm ready for this.

ValdVin

Venus does have amazing pastries though.

Doc Gumby


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