I won’t miss it.
Bet you a nickel we haven’t seen the last of the little fucker.
Incidentally, my daughter’s boyfriend and I are both now referring to our (respective) dogs as “Inspector Pancakes.” Emily, you are the BEST.
(They solve MYSTERIES!!!)
Thank you. Everyone has been alerted.
Okay, this is just petty but there’s a continuity error is today’s strip. From the dialogue it’s clear that the second panel immediately follows the first one. But somehow Tai has magically acquired pants between the two panels.
My guess is there will be a revision within a short while correcting the color in the first panel.
I don’t think so. In the first frame, Tai is getting dressed, buttoning up her shirt. In the second, they are in a different room in front of the window, and Tai now has pants on. The conversation paused.
I have a hard time accepting there was a pause in this conversation:
“I’ll talk to Sven.”
“Don’t do it just because of me.”
“I’m not. I thought I was being strong but maybe I’m just being stubborn.”
Quite frankly, if Jacques intended there to be significant pause in these lines, it’s a much bigger mistake than the one I pointed out.
How long does it take you to put on pants? I’ve never taken longer than that segment of conversation would take if the pants actually fit.
I don’t think it’s a pause, it’s just that Tai is getting dreamed while they’re talking, and it takes time to say things. Imagine the image in panel one is where they are when Dora starts talking, and the image in panel two is where they are when Tai finishes speaking. The five seconds of so it takes to say that dialogue is enough time for Tai to stand up and pull up her pants.
I think the window is just a change in the camera angle.
Is there a FAQ or source for how androids work in QC-world? I know that Jeph said a few strips back that he’d created a whole working system for AI’s and warfare (that we may never see) but the companion androids that we see seems fairly nonsensical from any realistic point of view. I just roll with it for the story’s sake but reading his comment about combat AI’s made me think that he must(?) have a framework for the rest of them beyond “silly characters who also happen to be robots 'cause why not?”
I imagine he’ll be back in the Christmas-New Year’s filler strips with Sweet-Tits.
I had seen complaints about the art going downhill before but it wasn’t until recently that it really started to hit me. Maybe Jeph’s just rushing his artwork but Dora’s face in this comic just looks really sloppy/rushed.
Heh. Must not be a big comic fan. Talking is a free action! (This used to be the prior, if a bit egregious, example)
Yeah, I don’t see where a septum piercing is exactly the most rad life-changing decision Claire’s ever made.
True, but…gross. She’d look like livestock.
On the plus side, if Claire ever ran into an owl and a pussycat who were interested in getting married, she could sell it to them as a wedding ring. For one shilling.
Claire seems way too … nervous to get a septum piercing. I mean, she was in her 20s before she got ear piercings. Septum piercings are a bit to far in the “body-mod freaks” spectrum for me to believe she’s considering it and that this isn’t author-bleed-over.
Well, but I think it’s a little harsh to call Claire a pig!
On the other side of things, Claire is really set up to be Jeph’s ultimate Mary Sue. He has piercings and tattoos galore - we may be seeing her undergo yet another transformation.
:dubious:
If it can be hidden or removed without making you look like you’re some sort of MIB alien, it can hardly be described as ‘far into the “body mod freaks” spectrum’. Hell any facial or ear piercing more commonly described in terms of its location than its gauge hardly even counts. Now, when she starts talking about getting plugs or tunnels (… actually, in today’s strip, she kind of did, albeit something of a different kind of plug), that’d be getting deep into body modding.
Now, a septum piercing is a bit more of a ‘tough guy’ look than I’d expect from her, but that’s a totally different thing.
To be fair to her, she was a boy for we-don’t-know-how-many of those 20 years before she got her ears pierced.