Everyone Needs A Hobby

I thought “fartclown” was my new favorite word, but, actually, it’s “fartsplaining”.

KCkittysnores

Barnfartclown?

Janne Peltonen

Sometimes your friends have to verbally smack ya in the face. I needed this too. Thanks assbot, you’re all right every now and then.

He's surprisingly insightful for a little perv.

awgiedawgie

So yeah, this topic is a big deal to me, and resonates with some other folks I guess: <a href="https://twitter.com/rfrancis/status/1023078567494799360" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/rfrancis/status/1023078567494799360</a> Thanks for getting into this in the comic. Seriously.

R. Francis Smith

Ah, but with hair conditioner.....

David Howe

If you combine the fartclown and barnfart is that a barnclown?

David Howe

This comic hits pretty close to home. Also, something I've realised lately is how much I love Claire and Pintsize's friendship - although they seem very different personality-wise they're both open-minded and good at helping each other see common sense.

Philippa

We'll find out in six months that Jeph has been subtly increasing her glasses every day. By then they will be the size of dinner plates!

Grace Kieser

I love this. Also, is there suppoised to be an "i" in that word?

Thomas Halpin

I want to give claire a lot of fucking hugs

Stoodmuffin

I think Claire might have overdosed on YA protagonists.

Bagge

Actually, their interactions have been great as far back as the improptu 'wolf urine' presentation a while back!

Ben Russell-Gough

Actually, 'fartclown' makes me think that Pintsize has been spending too much time hanging out with Faye!

Ben Russell-Gough

Remember the barber who collected customers’ hair for an art installation she was planning? Northampton is a burgeoning avant-garde hotspot.

William Cole

Are Claire's glasses getting bigger? I think Claire's glasses are getting bigger. Don't you? Aren't they?

BobC

Actually, the word is "fartiste". HtH HAND. [/fartsplaining] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane</a>

Captain Button

I remember there was some strip ages ago where Marten said something about his age and he was surprisingly young.

Mitchell Sealy

NOW ENDS THE AGE OF MAN.

Captain Button

Usually involving sexual harassment or fart jokes. BTW, still shipping PintMay. Or MayPint. Whatever.

Ted Van Roekel

Come on, folks. This side of Pintsize is well established in cannon. He only trots it out when needed, but he's actually really good at his job as a companion. He just has.... unconventional methods.

Ted Van Roekel

When a fartclown lets one rip in a farm's storage building, that's a barn fart.

Trigon Manthree

You're the second, so far

Trigon Manthree

Pintsize becoming a good guy? What's next? Corpse Witch being rehabilitated and finding work at FartBob's Clown Circus? :P

saved panel 3, printing it on business cards, giving it to my friends when they're having relationship drama

I wonder if Jeph would consider a storyline of Pintsize becoming a well known conceptual artist. I can see some curators getting really into his work, especially as he's an AI (are there many AI artists?)

Bruce Steinberg

Pintsize suddenly becoming the avatar of the readers

Does this mean it's time to ship the two? DROIDsize?

Bruce Steinberg

Honestly, that's some of the best advice you can give a grad student. Good job, Pintsize.

C Bonesmith

I'm surprised to be the first person to mention this, but there's a typo in panel 4: "suppoised".

Matthew Reiter

Also not a sentence I ever thought I'd type.

Trevor Key

Can I request that the fart circus be involved somehow in the next set of choices for bonus comic?

Trevor Key

The Pintsize-Claire dynamic is a very good one and is probably one of the best ones in the strip. Wait, did I just say that?

Will Weaver

Marten should be able to understand since he's been there before. On that note, what exactly is the age difference between them? I think Claire said she was 24 back when she was introduced but who knows how much time has actually PASSED since then. And I don't think anyone else's age has been explicitly stated...

Peter McDevitt

If Melon is able to impart wisdom to, say, Clinton, then I will welcome our robot psychiatric overloads.

Miyaa

Or as some people say “Hey, Assbutt!”

VC

As a former thwarted library science major, Claire's struggle resonates. Maybe too hard.

Sarah Walker

I thought Claire understood after the Wolf Urine episode.

Matt Grayson

You stop abusing wild animals, you have to fill a circus with something. Clowns? Farts? Why not both?

It's fine as long as someone opens a window.

Dean Reilly

Okay, this was my favorite strip ever.

Abhayakara

Good job Claire- you actually caused Pintsize to snap.... XD

Shawn K. Younkin

I've had that conversation with an ex (the "I don't think I'm going to make it, I'm gonna fail..."). The funny thing is, she was already my ex at the time, but we remained friends afterwards. It does help saying it to someone else, even if it's just getting it off your chest.

Mark P.

FIRST TIME DROID 06 NOT WANT TO CRUSH PINTSIZE.

Matt Grayson

I dunno... Suppoised feels like it wants to be a real word :)

Andrew

How many fartclowns can you fit in a VW... and how long can they stay in there?

Andrew

yeah Claire, stop being a fartclown, Pintsize is right! ohno Pintsize is right. that's one of the signs of the apocalypse, right?

LH

I like this side of Pintsize. Like a lot.

Mordaeus

This is adorable

Nicholas Lopez

I never knew I would love Claire and Pintsize interactions so much

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Adam Friedlander

Fartclown!

Bitter Donald

Just a little typo in the 4th panel Jeph. But it's nice to see Pintsize try to be good for a change :)

I am going to start using fartclown. It is so great.

Anton

Bring on the farting elephants and the dancing bears who are also farting.

Gary Walker

Please keep the fartlion away from the flaming hoop.

William Hanna

.... He has a point, she is being a fartclown.

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