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Clinton drinks Brain Bleach

Emily and Brun meet - Chaos ensues

We meet Bruns boss - Hannermom

We meet Bruns boss - Brian!

Emily runs into Clinton while he's waiting for his Cab

Sunday Dinner at Clairemoms - Awkwardness ensues

Jeph trolls us with a week of Steve eating Cereal with Tortura

Back to Faye and Bubbles

Nothing in this Poll is right

Spathe Pizza with Ham and Beer

[St.Clair]

To be fair, that's a very common thing.

[Technoir]

So, if Claire and Clin-Ton are twins (possibly identical at birth?), why does Claire have significant freckling, and Clin-Ton has none?

[dexeron]

They're not twins.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2277

[Zebediah]

I think the best thing ever would be an arc where, at some point, Brun and Bubbles hang out.

That would be easy for Jeph. He wouldn't have to write dialogue.

[Technoir]

They're not twins.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2277

oh. well that explains that, then. Creepiest non-twin lookalikes EVAR.

[aliensporebomb]

Note to Jeph: does he NEED to mention the harpoon?  Didn't it get left in the fire?  All we see she managed to save was the cuckoo clock.
Besides, if he mentioned the harpoon then Claire would DEFINITELY go with.

[Eastrim]

(Also, epic foreshadowing.)

I never really understood why it's so verboten to ship the characters when Jeph does so regularly, both in the sense of writing their relationships and writing characters who are shipping the other characters. Both the board and Jeph act like it's some kind of offense against the material.

[aliensporebomb]

Well he does call the shots with regards to what happens.  I've had ideas of what COULD happen and they happen to be totally different than what DOES happen.  Does that bum me out?  No.

[BenRG]

@Eastrim,

I think that it should be appreciated that Tai in Strip 2217 was arguably being deliberately written as a parody of the shippers amongst Jeph's fanbase.

[brasca]

Clinton is right, but it would be cool if Claire gets to meet Brun eventually. 

[pwhodges]

I never really understood why it's so verboten to ship the characters when Jeph does so regularly,

History; in the years up to 2010 the discussion got so unpleasant that Jeph was threatening to close the board down completely until the mods clamped down and instituted a new era.  Now for sure, the shipping wasn't the only thing which led to this, but it was clearly a part of it.  It's better this way - trust us!

[Case]

Actually, no matter their individual strengths, weaknesses and ... respective "things", their inter-sibling communication isn't half bad.

I shudder to think how this conversation would play out between me & my sistermonster. Lets say that "sibling-induced self-awareness" is not really our strong suit.

I guess its safe to say that if "the talk" only involved harpoons, everybody who knows us would consider that the "Phew! This could have gone a lot worse"-scenario ...

[hedgie]

My siblings and I barely even speak.  I'd love to have their kind of reaction[1], but c'est la vie.


[1] Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration.  I've come to the point where I don't care enough to try to improve things, but there still is an occasional longing.

[TheEvilDog]

Yeah, to be honest pretty much all of the interaction between myself and my own sister is the pair of us insulting each other.

Which is still better than when we were kids and constantly fought like cats and dogs.

[Is it cold in here?]

(Also, epic foreshadowing.)

I never really understood why it's so verboten to ship the characters when Jeph does so regularly, both in the sense of writing their relationships and writing characters who are shipping the other characters. Both the board and Jeph act like it's some kind of offense against the material.

It is, after all, a strip about relationships and we're here to speculate.

One way to look at it is that they're Jeph's characters and he gets to decide what they do.

Another is to look at the spectrum from well-grounded speculation ("Dale and Marigold are squabbling so hard, it may foreshadow getting together") to Hannelore slashfic at the other extreme.

Shipping that violates the orientations of the characters disrespects the characterization. Jeph can tease us with Marten/Steve in gag strips but if we do something like that it should be with our own comic strips.

Does that help?

[Gyrre]

Clinton overreacting again it would appear.

think the general ick factor comes from our general American prudishness combined with an emphasis on general body shaming, along with several other societal  factors, resulting in never wanting to see our parents naked.

Most baby boomers can't wrap their heads around the concept of non-sexual nudity.

[Gyrre]

They're not twins.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2277

oh. well that explains that, then. Creepiest non-twin lookalikes EVAR.

Conversely, my and my brothers don't even look related (unless our parents are with us). My older looks like a Brit, my younger brother looks like a Swede, and I look like I'm half German half [insert pretty much any light brown, red, or yellow ethnicity here].

[Technoir]

My brother and I have a pretty good relationaship.  However, our sister is a disciple of the culture of victimhood, which pisses us off to no end.  We pretty much avoid her except at holiday family dinners.

[DSL]

Perhaps Clin-ton has a point, and even a good one, but it's somewhat obviated by he and Claire doing the exact opposite (she happy about "Go Mom!" and he squicking and squawking about it because it makes him uncomfortable) in the immediately preceding strip. Not slamming the writing; people are totally that way. Three fingers pointing back at you, and all that. Be interesting to see if Jeph expands on that as part of the Claire-Clinton dynamic.

[Case]

Perhaps Clin-ton has a point, and even a good one, but it's somewhat obviated by he and Claire doing the exact opposite (she happy about "Go Mom!" and he squicking and squawking about it because it makes him uncomfortable) in the immediately preceding strip. Not slamming the writing; people are totally that way. Three fingers pointing back at you, and all that. Be interesting to see if Jeph expands on that as part of the Claire-Clinton dynamic.

Good point about him not wanting Claire to tag along while checking on Brun?

I think that's simply good judgement on his part: 
a) Claire could use some practise 'letting people figure it out for themselves' (though I hasten to add that I think her 'meddlesomeness' seems to stem from a genuine impulse to help people)
b) From what he knows about Brun, it's safe to assume that the less unknown variables she's confronted with, the more comfortable she'll be. (Regardless of the cause of her ... pointed approach to social interaction)

And lastly, judging from the 'fire-arc', he actually can come into his own when left to his own devices (Emphasis on 'can' ...).

[Neko_Ali]

To be honest, it does seem like Clinton (fireworks incident not withstanding, he was younger) has a pretty decent head on his shoulder in crisis situations... until it involves interpersonal relations. We've seen it in his dealings with Hanners, Emily, Claire and his mom. Maybe it's just the women in his life? But that doesn't really hold water, because he has so far been pretty level headed around Brun. Though that is a very small sample size so far.

[Skewbrow]

That may be simply because Clinton has no emotional investment on Brun - at least not yet (many forumites seem to expect something to grow out of that, but we shall see). OTOH Hanners is a problem to him the way the porchlight is a problem to a moth (and I may be projecting more than I care to admit here).

[Reaver]

It's a sign of how far gone I am that reading the title of the strip ("From Crisis to Crisis") immediately made:

"Washington cannot be left alone to his devices."

Pop into my head.

It's too late for me.  Save yourselves!

THE GREATEST THING HE CAN DO FOR THE REVOLUTION IS GOING BACK TO PLANTING TOBBACCO IN MOUNT VERNAN >v

[Kugai]

Actually, if he could see what was happening in our time at the moment he'd probably wonder why he bothered.

[improvnerd]

I always picture him going to the White House, asking to speak to the current president, and then making a terrible, terrible faux pas.

[mustang6172]

Next thing you know, Claire will use a public bathroom without checking to see if it's okay with all the cisfolk first.

Why would Claire be excited about meeting her own mom?

*rereads strip*

Oh. *bonks head on post*

I thought it was interesting that Claire assumed her mother was dating a woman.   

[DrBear]

Chad's complete lack of shame in walking to the front door in his underwear because he wanted to know who was at the door...(snip)

If I was built like that , that's all I'd ever wear,

[jwhouk]

My talks with my sister tend to be very one-sided, since she died stillborn three years before I was born...

[Perfectly Reasonable]

WRTO nothing in particular, I'm looking forward to a strip at Coffee of Doom where Emily is teaching Brün how to make banana smoothies.

[Tova]

You mean Brun.

[Random832]

It always bothers me when there's a big solid color area that doesn't work in the 256-color PNG format that Jeph uses for some reason. Especially with the weird not quite random but not orderly patterns it makes.

[Indicible]

Isn't renter's insurance mandatory in the US?
If not, Americans and their weird relationship with mandatory things keep baffling me.

[wlewisiii]

Isn't renter's insurance mandatory in the US?
If not, Americans and their weird relationship with mandatory things keep baffling me.

Not required. I had to drop mine two years ago because I could not afford it anymore.

[brasca]

Isn't renter's insurance mandatory in the US?
If not, Americans and their weird relationship with mandatory things keep baffling me.

Sometimes it's the building owners who require it.  If it's an apartment complex run by some property managing company then they usually require it, but Brun was living over a bar so the landlord may not have been much of a stickler for it or other safety features. 

[Is it cold in here?]

Bubbles could use a roommate who won't try to talk to her.

>or other safety features. 
Like the sprinkler system that should have prevented total loss.

I wonder how much she owned. Even the minimum set of clothes and household tools can be difficult to replace, more so if your place of employment just burned down.

[Kugai]

Yeah.  Had Contents Insurance since I'm renting here but had to drop it as it was more than I could afford.

Pathos can be pretty pathetic sometimes

[BenRG]

Oh, Brun! What a horrible thing to happen to someone!

Today's strip reinforces in my mind that Brun was a bottom-of-the-heap person. Tending bar at a dive bar (and living above it as the live-in security guard/out-of-hours gate-person) was probably the best she could get and that probably only because she was cheap! So, now she's got nearly nothing. A very, very trying few days are likely ahead as she tries to obtain duplicates of important documents and somewhere semi-secure to stay.

Clinton was tactless in the way he put it but, yes, this is not a day one should confront on less than two coffees.

The time has definitely come to beg one of his contacts to let her stay with them until she's back on her feet.

P.S.: I find it hard to sleep in hotel rooms for the first few nights too. A few hours and then I wake up to toss and turn a little more!

[pwhodges]

Brun's hair shows Jeph's anime influence today with an ahoge as part of her bedhead.  I've also been wondering if her eyebrows are from FLCL.

[Tova]

Brun's hair shows Jeph's anime influence today with an ahoge as part of her bedhead.  I've also been wondering if her eyebrows are from FLCL.

This confused me because I'd never before seen the word 'bedhead' used to refer to anything other than the panel at the head of a bed.

[Zastie]

Really? Basically just means someone's messy hair after having just woken up.

[TheCollector]

Y'know, I'm not sure why no ones even considered this thus far, but Brun was the only one working at the bar, she lives above the bar, the fire fighters and whoever else tell her these things, and she doesn't have renters insurance. Is it at all possible that she owned the bar and wasn't just an employee.

[pwhodges]

This confused me because I'd never before seen the word 'bedhead' used to refer to anything other than the panel at the head of a bed.

I've certainly seen it used as part of an advertising campaign for hair-styling products (and in the title of today's strip), but I'm not sure I've actually heard anyone say it IRL.

[mikmaxs]

Y'know, I'm not sure why no ones even considered this thus far, but Brun was the only one working at the bar, she lives above the bar, the fire fighters and whoever else tell her these things, and she doesn't have renters insurance. Is it at all possible that she owned the bar and wasn't just an employee.

That's initially what I thought when I read it to. As far as I read, she's not making a sarcastic quip about not having renters insurance, she's pointing out that she's not a renter. (And doesn't have insurance.)

[Tova]

Really? Basically just means someone's messy hair after having just woken up.

Yes, I did work that out once I realised it wasn't a reference to hotel furniture. I just hadn't come across it before.

[anahata]

Y'know, I'm not sure why no ones even considered this thus far, but ... is it at all possible that she owned the bar and wasn't just an employee.

You are not the only one to have thought that. I guess we'll find out, eventually, if it matters.

Either way it looks like she now has nothing in the world and needs help. Realistically I'd expect her at this point to be thinking about who she could call.
We don't know what friends or family she has, other than Clinton who she's only just met and the regular bar customers who aren't likely to be much help.

[JimC]

...and the regular bar customers who aren't likely to be much help.

If you can get them together they'd at least have a whip round (that's english for a money collection, not the sort of thing Marten's mom used to do) and get some cash together, and probably bar owners would do something.

When my house went up I got given various old clothes, collection at work, room on a friends sofa for a couple of weeks while I got sorted out. Plus she said she had friends currently out of town. But we don't want to be too rational if it spoils the plot do we?

[Masterpiece]

Dammit Jeph, I really like brunbrun~

[Tova]

That's initially what I thought when I read it to. As far as I read, she's not making a sarcastic quip about not having renters insurance, she's pointing out that she's not a renter. (And doesn't have insurance.)

For what it's worth, I didn't think she was being sarcastic, or pointing out anything. I think she just didn't know what Clinton was talking about ("Renters insurance, what is that?").

[cesium133]

Yeah.  Had Contents Insurance since I'm renting here

Was it questionable?

[aliensporebomb]

Poor Brun.  Clin-ton, please help her!