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Venti

Upside-down

Caramel

Macchiato

Four splenda

Three raw sugar

187 degrees

Lack of butts

[Perfectly Reasonable]

Maybe candy will fly out...

In other news, I went to my usual Starbucks, and using my newly gained knowledge, asked for a "large plain macchiato". What I got was something with whipped cream and caramel syrup. I now know what I must do...

[Method of Madness]

What's funny is you can order an "espresso macchiato" which is actually a proper macchiato. That is, espresso and a little foam. And a "latte macchiato" which is...basically a latte? I don't really know.

Also how adorable is it that Bubbles agreed to Emily's request? And panel 3 might be both my favorite Emily and my favorite Dora.

[Zebediah]

That went about as well as could be expected, given that Emily was involved... 

[chaospersonified]

This is what I expected. It is what happens with hitting a cement wall, and I agree, totally worth it. Rubber mallets are amazing

[Undrneath]

B E R F

[DSL]

That Faye's expression does not waver from cynical not-quite-anticipation is possibly my favorite part of this.

[mustang6172]

This comic needs a soundtrack. 

[sluthy]

Emily's boobs and Dora's face in panel four 

[Tova]

This comic has made my week.

[TheEvilDog]

As soon as Emily said "rubber mallet" I knew this was going to happen...

I knew it.

And it was so totally worth it!

[mercykills]

Emily: "You want me to put the hammer down!?!"

Yes, I did stop lurking just to make that semi-dated Avengers reference.

Welp....BYE! =P

[Is it cold in here?]

Welcome, new person with a specialized cultural reference!

[St.Clair]

For every DOINK, there is an equal and opposite BOING.

[mad hands murphy]

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[Penquin47]

I love Emily.  That was adorable.  And Miss Bubbles letting it happen.

I have way too much fun when it's time to break out the rubber mallets in physics class.

[Kugai]

And Emilys day has been made.

[Mad Cat]

Panels 3 and 4 have my vote for the single most dynamic panels that Jeff has ever drawn.

Panels 5 and 6 coming a close second (third?).

[Wildroses]

I was at first going to say I thought perhaps this was not good as Emily must be convincing Bubbles that others are crazy idiots with a blithe disregard for their personal safety, but then I realised what complete crap that was. She fixes robots who willingly fight in death matches. What was I thinking? Emily is probably the CoD staff member most like the people she normally hangs out with.

[BenRG]

Now that was wonderful! A real laugh-out-loud strip! Emily's expression in panels 3 and 4 really catch how she was putting her all into this and loving every moment! Everyone else's reactions were more-or-less perfect too! Especially Faye, who seems to be having some kind of flashback to Pintsize's feud with the Roomba.

Welcome to Coffee of Doom, Bubbles. This, in case you were wondering, is a 'normal day'!

[hakko504]

1. That was fun! funniest QC in a while IMHO.

2. Dora looks more and more like Cosette in every strip.

[Storel]

That is one helluva high jump that Emily made. She looks about six feet off the ground. 

CoD's ceilings must be pretty darned high, or she would have hit the ceiling with her mallet instead of Bubbles.

[Sullivan]

We're in a universe with a space station and self-aware AIs in robots... and CoD has old-style fluorescent tube ceiling fixtures? With that characteristic old fluorescent buzz, no doubt. Hardly the atmosphere for a coffee house.

On the other hand... maybe the lighting drove Faye to drink. Well, to drink more.

[Martin]

Awesome Comic today ^^. One can see, that Jeph had fun to draw this
....oh and hi, i suppose....

[BenRG]

Hello and welcome! We're all sane here... Mostly.

[oeoek]

Fantastic!
And I am impressed by those last two panels. Three pairs of worried eyes are following the thumb, but Faye -the pro-fixer-upper at robot fights- stays unfazed and focussed at the dented victim...

(and the knocking seems to bring out some new persons; welcome all!)

[Brakkis]

Because it needs to be said again...

BERF

[anahata]

Not many times I laugh out loud at a QC comic, but this was one of them.
I hope Jeph's feeling pleased with himself, there's SO MUCH to like about this one.

[osaka]

So Emily can just casually catch roughly 4+ feet of air, convert all forward momentum and strength into a rubber mallet hit, get bounced straight back from said hit into the floor (there's about 6ft of clearance between her butt and the floor at this point, and there's the speed going backwards too) and she's just ok? Emily is superhuman I tell you.

[USS Martenclaire]

I think I found the reference photo for Faye's expression in the last two panels:

[Akima]

Jeph obviously had a lot of fun with that comic, so I'll forgive any liberties taken with ceiling height, perspective etc. I'm surprised that Bubbles didn't have fast enough robo-reflexes to catch Emily before she hit the floor.

[osaka]

Maybe it's not so much a thing of sheer reflexes but also one of acceleration. Emily probably catapulted backwards at a speed greater than the one she had while approaching the hit, and we could think that Bubbles' armor isn't tied to any robo-nerves so her reaction would be determined by visual input.

Considering that Emily was already on a downward trajectory when hitting Bubbles and gravity, Emily hit the ground about .3 seconds after she hit Bubbles.   If Emily was flung backwards at more than 5m/s, that means that she'd have moved over 1.5m backwards before hitting the ground. And she probably was, since Emily is 6'4" iirc and she's shown completely extended before hitting the ground. Bubbles was standing still, slightly arced backwards. Even if she took just 10ns to see and process all the information and decide to move forwards, she still only had .3 seconds to start running, move forward about 2m, bend over and grab Emily mid-air, preferrably in a way that didn't imply breaking her in half.

There might be some inaccuracies as all this calculation is off the top of my head and I'm not taking air friction into consideration, but everything seems to indicate that Bubbles would've need some really powerful servos to perform that stunt (and she tried even).

Note: Even if Emily was at the peak of her jump (which I had to assume she wasn't given the previous frame), fall time wouldn't have exceeded .5 seconds at any rate, unless she was capable of jumping over Bubbles.

[improvnerd]

All I can think of is head trauma. I know people who've died from less intense falls than that.

[comicalArchitect]

So Emily can just casually catch roughly 4+ feet of air, convert all forward momentum and strength into a rubber mallet hit, get bounced straight back from said hit into the floor (there's about 6ft of clearance between her butt and the floor at this point, and there's the speed going backwards too) and she's just ok? Emily is superhuman I tell you.

What if... she's an incredibly humanlike robot?!

[St.Clair]

I was quietly hoping someone might run the math on this.  I was not disappointed.

[Neko_Ali]

You know who could take a hit like that and enjoy it? a synth Emily.

[Method of Madness]

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Berf?

[Technoir]

Emily's boobs and Dora's face in panel four 

Loved the expression of raw joy on Emily's face mid-air in this panel.  You could almost hear the implied "BANZAIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!"

[Skewbrow]

So which berf felt worse? Marten's or Emily's?

[Thrillho]

Best QC ever.

[DSL]

I just keep seeing more things to like about "Hammer of the Dogs" every time look at it. Dora's reaction to the backswing in P3, tiny Dora in P4, the fact Emily's still moving through the air toward Bubbles at the moment of receiving her BERF. I wonder if Bubbles has a sort of reactive armor? I wonder if this is the first time Emily's taken a blow to the heqd? I wonder what CoD's liability premiums are like?

[Is it cold in here?]

Awesome Comic today ^^. One can see, that Jeph had fun to draw this
....oh and hi, i suppose....

Welcome, new person!

[Morituri]

We're in a universe with a space station and self-aware AIs in robots... and CoD has old-style fluorescent tube ceiling fixtures? With that characteristic old fluorescent buzz, no doubt. Hardly the atmosphere for a coffee house.

It's dreadfully simple to make tubes that fit those fixtures but have a row of LEDs in them instead.  You just replace the ballast with a step-down transformer you strip out of a wall-wart case. 

Saves you money on your electric bills, cuts that annoying buzz and gets rid of the even-more-annoying 120Hz flicker (100Hz if you're European ) at the same time.

[Kugai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BydGYKnG6M

[Sullivan]

We're in a universe with a space station and self-aware AIs in robots... and CoD has old-style fluorescent tube ceiling fixtures? With that characteristic old fluorescent buzz, no doubt. Hardly the atmosphere for a coffee house.

It's dreadfully simple to make tubes that fit those fixtures but have a row of LEDs in them instead.  You just replace the ballast with a step-down transformer you strip out of a wall-wart case. 

Saves you money on your electric bills, cuts that annoying buzz and gets rid of the even-more-annoying 120Hz flicker (100Hz if you're European ) at the same time.

Um, well, unless you have a very good filter on that power supply (unlikely for most wall warts) or use a SMPS (unlikely for cheap wall warts) the LEDs are still going to flicker.

And you're not going to save much. Even at the exorbitant rates I pay I'd be looking at breakeven in about 30 months; with the average rates in the US it'd be more like 90. That's not bad but it's not worth tossing out already-paid-for T12 bulbs that have a lot of years left in them.

On the other hand you have NO idea how impressed I am that you said 120 and 100 Hz instead of 60 and 50!

[Thrudd]

We're in a universe with a space station and self-aware AIs in robots... and CoD has old-style fluorescent tube ceiling fixtures? With that characteristic old fluorescent buzz, no doubt. Hardly the atmosphere for a coffee house.

It's dreadfully simple to make tubes that fit those fixtures but have a row of LEDs in them instead.  You just replace the ballast with a step-down transformer you strip out of a wall-wart case. 
Saves you money on your electric bills, cuts that annoying buzz and gets rid of the even-more-annoying 120Hz flicker (100Hz if you're European ) at the same time.

I have a family member in the business though pixel boards are still his bread and butter.
LED replacements are making inroads through the industrial channel though the consumer products are mostly overpriced crap.

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The cheap Chinese ones either use a step down and run on 12 volts dc or run on 120 VAC directly. Both are continuous duty and not all that efficient and the AC units may be dimable but have a short relative life span due to being over-driven and can flicker as badly as a fluorescent with a crappy ballast transformer. That 12volt transformer will be a huge power waster with hum and heat so efficiency goes to crap overall but still better than florescent.

The good ones have power regulators built into the lamp, don't need transformers, last almost as long as LEDs are theoretically supposed to last, and have a very high efficiency with a 10% duty cycle even though they do strobe at a high enough frequency to not buzz normally.
The down side is they are expensive and super bright bright bright. You are supposed to face them upwards to the reflectors so you don't blind yourself.

On the ceiling height thing in CoD, if the building is previous turn of the century then heights of 10 to 12 or even 14 feet would be pretty standard.

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Although electric wiring was universal by the 1890s, incandescent lighting remained weak and inefficient… Natural light was the most important factor in setting the dimensions of a commercial space, because until the introduction of fluorescent lighting in the 1940s, sunlight was the principal source of illumination for interiors.

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Eh, I sometimes forget that norms have no clue on things like the actual hum frequencies they are exposed to.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

That Bubbles would actually allow this .... And then try to save Emily from the consequences of her own ... Ravenity?

Somewhere Raven feels an impulse to grin maniacally --- and she doesn't know why.

[SubaruStephen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BydGYKnG6M

This is EXACTLY what was running through my mind when I got to the last panel(s).

[Method of Madness]

Berf.

[Radium_Coyote]

that would make Bubbles Captain America.  Which honestly I would find very comforting.

[Kugai]

But would that make Faye The Incredible Hulk?


*Ducks behind Bubbles*