WCT: September 21-25, 2009

[TheReaper]

I think all the puns in this thread gave me cancer.

Anyway, Jeph really does enjoy saying "WOO."

[Hawthorne]

Congratulations on your paper anniversary! I will be sending you a gift of origami paper. Enjoy.

[Odin]

Being married is only awesome for the first 5 years.

We've got 4 more years of good QC before every strip turns into Married With Children-esque stuff.

[Binary]

I dispute this comment!

My parents had their 62nd anniversary on Sunday; still very happy. 

[Bobthemagiccow]

Much like the Amish, tonight Jeph and Christi will party like it's 1499.

Congratulations!!

[Carl-E]

Being married is only awesome for the first 5 years.

We've got 4 more years of good QC before every strip turns into Married With Children-esque stuff.

Mine lasted considerably longer, although the first kid did show up in year 5. 

Keep in mind that kids provide endless comedic fodder.  Sort of like Pintsize, but without the intentionally evil aspects.  Or the horse porn. 

Weren't Meenah and that guy she married trying for kids?  Although in QC time she'd syill be in the "nesting" stage of pregnancy... that's pretty funny too, when it's not your partner...

[jonarus_drakus]

Congratz on surviving year 1 Jeph! Give me an address and I'll send you a complimentary packet of tim-tams (yes, i do remember that old request), any specific 'flavour' ? (theres like 20 different kinds now).

[workingrobbie]

Congrats Jeph and Cristi! 

I'll send you a complimentary packet of tim-tams

Mmmmm....tim-tams. Can you send me some too? Dark choc and double coat rocks. I did find them on sale at a US Target one time, but otherwise I have to get it shipped over from my family in Australia.

[LTK]

Congratulations to Jeph and Cristi! Has it only been a year? I thought they had been married much longer. Since when have I been here? Hm, just under a year. What was the comic this time last year?

[maddness]

Working on year 12 over this way and it's still pretty awesome. Kind of makes me wonder why I turned him down the first 6 times he asked me to marry him.

[Random832]

Congratulations to Jeph and Cristi! Has it only been a year? I thought they had been married much longer. Since when have I been here? Hm, just under a year. What was the comic this time last year?

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1239 the image file is dated September 26 2008.

[plethora]

Actually, it was 1237. See newspost:
YOU GUYS!

Cristi and I just got married!

Hooray!

Enjoy this guest comic from the wonderful Lem.

See you tomorrow!

Congratz on surviving year 1 Jeph! Give me an address and I'll send you a complimentary packet of tim-tams (yes, i do remember that old request), any specific 'flavour' ? (theres like 20 different kinds now).

Oh! You've just reminded me! It's nearly October, October is Breast Cancer Month, therefore it's nearly time for strawberry Tim Tams. Yesss! I am looking forward to next month, now.

[tinkerbell]

Congrats Jeph and Cristi! 

I'll send you a complimentary packet of tim-tams

Mmmmm....tim-tams. Can you send me some too? Dark choc and double coat rocks. I did find them on sale at a US Target one time, but otherwise I have to get it shipped over from my family in Australia.

Tim-tams are pretty much the best thing ever (apart from QC). The problem is that they are all we have in the way of delicious junk food not really copied well anywhere else. I would kill for just half the stuff I saw in Europe or America. Like mini dickmanns... oh yum!

[DrWhoosier]

Congratulations Jeph and Mrs. Jeph! And many more! Many, many, many, many more........

[Random832]

Actually, it was 1237. See newspost:

Yeah, well, I didn't want to link to a guest comic, since those are often less memorable in terms of context (since they're not related to the storyline), and since we were talking about whether another forum poster had been here for more or less than a year rather than the exact "one year ago today" (and therefore the goal was to see if they remembered the arc that comic was in being before or after they joined the forums), there you go.

[Tormuse]

Just logging in to wish Jeph and Cristi a Happy Anniversary!  Have an awesome day together!

[Aegir]

Congratulations to Jeph and Cristi! Has it only been a year? I thought they had been married much longer. Since when have I been here? Hm, just under a year. What was the comic this time last year?

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1239 the image file is dated September 26 2008.

Wow, Faye looks so skinny.

[Carl-E]

And Dora looks like she'd snap in two if she bent over, and Wil, standing sideways, looks like he could disappear into the corner! 

As a horizontally challenged indiviidual, I'm offended! 

snnrrrrkkkk!!

Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face there for a moment...

It's amazing how far the realism has come in just a year, though.  The man is... the man!!

[The Duke]

I noticed especially in this one Faye looked particurlarly big, especially in panel one.  And she just looks sort of small in 1239.

[IanClark]

Bear in mind in panel 1 she is wearing a large coat.

[Moxie]

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1239 the image file is dated September 26 2008.

I was astounded by Wil in that first panel. Being that skinny, even in-comic, cannot be healthy!

Concerning Faye here, I thought she looked much larger than we've typically seen her, even with the coat on. It looks more like a denim coat to me, and typically those are designed to be a bit more fitted, so it would seem odd (to me) for the coat to make her look bigger.

[ysth]

"cops" should be prefaced with "The term", to avoid the sentence structure ambiguity of having a plural referenced in the singular.

(Newbie question, but... we're kidding, right?)

The grammar police never kids.  (Bleat.)

[Nightson]

Heh, my first thought on seeing the first panel was, "Where is Dora's arm exactly?"  ::eyebrows::


Fun comic.

[SJCrew]

Man, that last strip in today's comic was fucking hilarious. That was the hardest QC has ever made me laugh. I was snickering at first, but I burst out laughing upon mention of wang-limbs. Really, it's 10x funnier when you imagine it. Crazy shit.

A+, 10/10, or what have you. Keep it up, Jeph.

[no one special]

Faye really needs to cut out the anime-porn before bed.

[Delirium]

Faye should know that orbital bombardments would probably destroy whatever the aliens are after, unless it's purely to genocide humanity.

[evilbobthebob]

Woah, the art is really looking awesome.

Also, wang limbs teehee 

[Akima]

Faye should know that orbital bombardments would probably destroy whatever the aliens are after, unless it's purely to genocide humanity.

But, "It's the only way to be sure."

Green robo-thumbs were bad enough, and now Jeph has to insert wang-limbs into my subconscious? That's just cruel... 

[Carl-E]

Faye should know that orbital bombardments would probably destroy whatever the aliens are after, unless it's purely to genocide humanity.

I can't think of any other reason anyone would want to come here...

"Quick, they're starting to spread out through their own solar system.  Just wipe out the nest"

[ellysianfields]

Did anyone else start randomly singing "Where is Thumbkin?" after viewing today's comic?

[Juniper Jade]

DON'T PUT THE IDEA OF WANG-LIMBS INTO THE LITTLE ROBITS HEAD. D:

[maddness]

Am I the only one disturbed by the fact that Faye is dreaming about Pintsize with wang-limbs? I mean ... what exactly is going in these dreams? 'Cause the eeeewwww factor could be rather high on this one.

[Theriandros]

And Dora looks like she'd snap in two if she bent over, and Wil, standing sideways, looks like he could disappear into the corner!

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who initially thought Wil looked anorexic.

[Theriandros]

Am I the only one disturbed by the fact that Faye is dreaming about Pintsize with wang-limbs? I mean ... what exactly is going in these dreams? 'Cause the eeeewwww factor could be rather high on this one.

Consider Rule 34 and then wait an hour on Pintsize's Twitter.

[raoullefere]

You know, Faye claims those are nightmares. But the nightmare may in truth lie in waking up.

Did anyone else start randomly singing "Where is Thumbkin?" after viewing today's comic?

Good god, yes. I suppose we could change it to:

Fear the Thumblord
Fear the Thumblord
Yes, we do!
Yes, we do!
Fleeing while we're screaming
Hoping that we're dreaming
Wanglord's next
Wanglord's next

[Is it cold in here?]

One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb lord!

[giant_bug]

"I AM THE THUMBLORD" would make a good t-shirt.

[ellysianfields]

You know, Faye claims those are nightmares. But the nightmare may in truth lie in waking up.

Did anyone else start randomly singing "Where is Thumbkin?" after viewing today's comic?

Good god, yes. I suppose we could change it to:

Fear the Thumblord
Fear the Thumblord
Yes, we do!
Yes, we do!
Fleeing while we're screaming
Hoping that we're dreaming
Wanglord's next
Wanglord's next

Lol. That is brilliant!

[MamiyaOtaru]

Thumbs? They looked more like big toes to me, which is even more gross, but just as funny. 

Which is funny because there have be instances where a big toe was used to replace a damaged/severed thumb.

Megan Fox

[michi-love]

Is it odd the thumb-limbs aren't creeping me out? They're interesting, and I imagine insanely difficult to draw, but not gross to me, for some reason.

Also... the leaps and bounds in the artwork is amazing. I keep looking back at strips from the past, and being amazed how much Jeph has grown. Kudos, dude!

[Durb Durb Durb]

Okay, tell me I'm not the only one who looks at the first panel, reads what Dora says, looks at the panel AGAIN, and thinks "is she jerking him off at the TV?"

[Kugai]

Faye should know that orbital bombardments would probably destroy whatever the aliens are after, unless it's purely to genocide humanity.

Ask the Narn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIlqrAfbbg



I love the expressions on their faces in the third panel

[Quartsize]

Boy the way Marten and Dora are sitting in that first panel it would only take a couple of teeny edits to make it risque, and you wouldn't even have to change the dialogue.   

[Carl-E]

Okay, tell me I'm not the only one who looks at the first panel, reads what Dora says, looks at the panel AGAIN, and thinks "is she jerking him off at the TV?"

Apparently not...

Heh, my first thought on seeing the first panel was, "Where is Dora's arm exactly?"  ::eyebrows::

And I had the same thought, too.  But then in the next panel I realized it was just the way she was sitting. 

[ctishman]

Can't say I didn't see it, absolute first thing.

[Delirium]

Can't say I didn't see it, absolute first thing.

oh come on, that's just patheitic.

[Kugai]

I think they're watching ID4

[Delirium]

Now, see, in the case of ID4, we don't know what the aliens were after, so there could be any number of explanations for why they didn't just bombard us. Maybe they wanted the planet or something on it intact. Maybe they were testing weaponry on us. Maybe they were hunting us for sport, or just wanted to be up close and personal whilst they crushed us like bugs. Maybe they had some kind of code of honor or religious restriction from using orbital weaponry.

[Mr_Rose]

It's actually quite likely their crazy space-lasers just don't work at orbital distances; that's a lot of atmosphere for a beam to diffuse through. And possibly they'd consider rocks to crude and inaccurate.

I mean, there was clearly a coherent plan there; wipe out the majority of the population and industrial infrastructure whilst leaving the rest of the atmosphere relatively intact. It looks more like an "invade and enslave" gig than straight up genocide.

[WestEnder67]

Is it just me who thinks Thumblord Pintsize looks cooler with more human arms?

Makes me wonder if Jeph is planning to go all Bicentennial Man/Pinnochio with Pintsize.

Except rather than an extendable nose... (I think you can imagine where I'm going with this.)