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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Kugai on 25 Dec 2016, 13:59
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BEMBO WEEK!!!
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He is Bembo, and he is wearing a cloak but no shirt in the Brutal Winter Mountains. The lizard's not the only one flirting with hypothermia.
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He is Bembo, and he is wearing a cloak but no shirt in the Brutal Winter Mountains. The lizard's not the only one flirting with hypothermia.
BEMBO: "Hey, there."
Hypothermia: "I'm gonna freeze you to death!"
BEMBO: "I love you too."
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He is Bembo, and he is wearing a cloak but no shirt in the Brutal Winter Mountains. The lizard's not the only one flirting with hypothermia.
BEMBO: "Hey, there."
Hypothermia: "I'm gonna freeze you to death!"
BEMBO: "I love you too."
BEMBO: [ Still not as Frigid as the ex Brrrr ]
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Bembo, the surprising insightful barbarian.
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This is what I thought whenever I ran into an Argonian up north in Oblivion, or most parts of Skyrim.
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So the lizardman is flirting dying of hypothermia and he didn't wear pants?
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So the lizardman is flirting dying of hypothermia and he didn't wear pants?
The only answer you will ever need is BEMBO!
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Bembo is amazing.
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So the lizardman is flirting dying of hypothermia and he didn't wear pants?
The hypothermia ate his pants, giving the lizardman time to run away and meet Bembo.
A hypothermia is a sort of cold-climate hypopotamus, right? :claireface:
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The poll is sort of an exercise in memory for those of us who followed Jeph's on-line writing of this week's strips on Twitter about a month back.
Meanwhile... Poor Lizardman needs a hug. Unfortunately for him, Bembo only needs a new set of boots.
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This is what I thought whenever I ran into an Argonian up north in Oblivion, or most parts of Skyrim.
Nah, they'll be fine. The totally irrelevant boobs will keep them warm...
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new comic; Ok, which of you jokers gave our beloved Barbarian a dictionary?
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new comic; Ok, which of you jokers gave our beloved Barbarian a dictionary?
Makes me want to see Bembo encounter The Gazebo.
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Hey. Cool.
A Bembo meets a bimbo.
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This is what I thought whenever I ran into an Argonian up north in Oblivion, or most parts of Skyrim.
Nah, they'll be fine. The totally irrelevant boobs will keep them warm...
And the Fur Armor, I suppose.
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Does her face remind anyone else of Renee?
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Angry otherworldly beauty.
This willl not be good for Bembo
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What's the completion of Bembo's thought in panel 3? It seems like he's about to say that the claimed otherworldly beauty standards of tall, thin, blonde, caucasian are mundane and thus readily obtainable and not unrealistic.
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Naw, he's about to say adhering to only one standard of beauty is too rooted in this world -- in fact, to one place and time in this world -- to qualify as "otherworldly." Apparition Lady seems to require reassurance otherwise.
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Bembo, don't disagree with the nice, pretty lady with god-tier magic.
At least we know where Fairy Girl hangs out when she isn't being pursued by Emily! Bonus points if, in some future strip, Emily corners her in a bar and is introduced to a QC-ised Bembo who is her boyfriend.
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Idiot barbarian makes a good point. It would be nice to see some dark skinned fairies, maybe with different wing shapes and colours....
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I always had the suspicion that "otherworldly beauty" would probably involve a lot more tentacles.
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With a little further thought, I can see it, kind of. Consider what she might look like to a member of an actual Bronze Age society: unusually tall, very pale, teeth "unnaturally" white and even, hair perfectly in place, no calluses, breasts more like bowls glued to her chest than proper sagging teats, etc... and what is that fabric she's wearing?
From a certain point of view, as the saying goes, she could look more like a Grey alien in lipstick than a "real" woman.
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With a little further thought, I can see it, kind of. Consider what she might look like to a member of an actual Bronze Age society: unusually tall, very pale, teeth "unnaturally" white and even, hair perfectly in place, no calluses, breasts more like bowls glued to her chest than proper sagging teats, etc... and what is that fabric she's wearing?
From a certain point of view, as the saying goes, she could look more like a Grey alien in lipstick than a "real" woman.
Agreed. And I have to wonder if Alice Grove's Gavia had introduced herself in a less hostile manner she might have convinced the townspeople she was a fairy instead of a demon.
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The only difference between faerie and demons, when you actually read up the mythology, is that faerie are typically better at selling themselves as creatures of wonder and good whose activities are 'harmless tricks' rather than atrocities. In practice, that ability to deceive actually makes them a bit worse than Cthulhu and his tentacle-bros in pure ethical terms.
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You know, the only fairy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twig_the_Fairy) I've actually met isn't a tall blonde but a petite redhead.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Twig_the_fairy_scarby_08.jpg/220px-Twig_the_fairy_scarby_08.jpg)
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Naw, he's about to say adhering to only one standard of beauty is too rooted in this world -- in fact, to one place and time in this world -- to qualify as "otherworldly." Apparition Lady seems to require reassurance otherwise.
She does have a point about the ears, though ... (I know, I know - 10 cents in the pun-jar ...)
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new comic; Ok, which of you jokers gave our beloved Barbarian a dictionary?
I was going to say, Bembo seems a lot smarter this time around. Or perhaps just better-educated? Has he been getting some (gasp) schooling??
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With a little further thought, I can see it, kind of. Consider what she might look like to a member of an actual Bronze Age society: unusually tall, very pale, teeth "unnaturally" white and even, hair perfectly in place, no calluses, breasts more like bowls glued to her chest than proper sagging teats, etc... and what is that fabric she's wearing?
Wasn't Ancient Rome a Bronze Age society? And yet they were highly civilized. (And most people's teeth were in excellent shape until sugar became a major part of human diets around 200 years ago.)
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Does her face remind anyone else of Renee?
Nope.
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Fair enough.
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This is what I thought whenever I ran into an Argonian up north in Oblivion, or most parts of Skyrim.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was a little strange.
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Wasn't Ancient Rome a Bronze Age society? And yet they were highly civilized. (And most people's teeth were in excellent shape until sugar became a major part of human diets around 200 years ago.)
No. The bronze age ended with the discovery of iron smelting about 1000 BC.
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Wasn't Ancient Rome a Bronze Age society? And yet they were highly civilized. (And most people's teeth were in excellent shape until sugar became a major part of human diets around 200 years ago.)
No. Mycenaean Greece was as was Ancient Egypt. Roman culture did not arise till long after the replacement of bronze with iron.
It's earliest form (Kingdom to the Republic) was about ~500 BCE and grew on the strength of their iron swords.
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Perhaps the farmer ought to have either specified dead wolves or said "skins" instead of"pelts".
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Pelt me with wolves twenty times? Strange request, but...ok!
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Wasn't Ancient Rome a Bronze Age society? And yet they were highly civilized. (And most people's teeth were in excellent shape until sugar became a major part of human diets around 200 years ago.)
No. Mycenaean Greece was as was Ancient Egypt. Roman culture did not arise till long after the replacement of bronze with iron.
It's earliest form (Kingdom to the Republic) was about ~500 BCE and grew on the strength of their iron swords.
The Etruscans were smelting iron armor and weapons while the Romans were still bronze. They helped form Rome and then were conquered and absorbed into the growing Empire. They took over a lot of the priesthood duties.
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Hey. Cool. A Bembo meets a bimbo.
By the 1920s definition of the word, Bembo IS a bimbo. (source (http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm))
Fixed the link - Method
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I get the feeling that Bembo is a literal Barbarian
Or just needs claarer and more precise instructions
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Airborne wolf attack! Well, if nothing else, Bembo has redefined the bad news that a wolf can mean for a farmer!
It's the nonplussed look on the wolves faces that gets me! "Why is mad giant human carrying me around?"
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Farmer Questgiver's lucky he didn't ask for bear asses.
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Idiot barbarian makes a good point. It would be nice to see some dark skinned fairies, maybe with different wing shapes and colours....
In Chinese folk-stories, and the films derived from them, fairies usually have no wings at all, flying instead by supernatural means. They just appear as beautiful girls in vaguely Tang-dynasty robes, until they turn into foxes, deer, snakes, swarms of bees etc.
Bembo is a "catch and release" barbarian. The farmer used to be an adventurer like you, until he took a wolf-bite to the knee.
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Farmer Questgiver's lucky he didn't ask for bear asses.
God, the drop rate on those is way too low. I've killed 23 bears so far, not a single one of them had an ass...
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I get the feeling that Bembo is a literal Barbarian
Maybe Bembo's character was inspired by Corporal Carrot Ironfoundersson (http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Carrot_Ironfoundersson)?
How did Angua put it? "One needs a very complex interior life to appear that uncomplicated" ? :? (GoGo Discworld-quotation-miners!)
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I can only remember "Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.", but I doubt that's the one you mea.
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Aaaaand so much for Bembo being any smarter or better educated than before... :roll:
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Today's (tomorrow's?) strip was written for Jeph by, and features, Shelby.
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What is keeping the Wolf Queen (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3384)'s crown on her head in the last panel? Glue? Pins? The power of funny? I think it would have been funnier if it had fallen off.
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What is keeping the Wolf Queen (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3384)'s crown on her head in the last panel? Glue? Pins? The power of funny? I think it would have been funnier if it had fallen off.
A talking wolf, standing on her hind-legs, holding a sceptre and irately scolding a Barbarian who just lobbed her subject pack at a farmer ...
... but what snaps your suspenders of disbelief is the fact that her crown doesn't fall off? :-o
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rXe-e6fRATY/TH8NQowOsJI/AAAAAAAAAIc/ecdXEmZ_eQg/s1600/BWbraces18.jpg)
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Looks like somebody has been putting points into 'animal friendship'.
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What is keeping the Wolf Queen (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3384)'s crown on her head in the last panel? Glue? Pins? The power of funny? I think it would have been funnier if it had fallen off.
Elastic chinstrap hidden under her fur.
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Now I'm getting the feeling that Dungeons and Dragons night featuring Jeph Jacques is one long acid trip of lateral thinking and weird reality! :laugh:
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I AM BEMBO, SCRITCHER OF BELLIES.
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Now I'm getting the feeling that Dungeons and Dragons night featuring Jeph Jacques is one long acid trip of lateral thinking and weird reality! :laugh:
Man, that D&D sesh with Jeph was Fishered ...
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/1f/41/21/1f41210b2391b2b23ccfb9e690b84f8c.jpg)
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Poor timing, Case. Poor timing.
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Now I'm getting the feeling that Dungeons and Dragons night featuring Jeph Jacques is one long acid trip of lateral thinking and weird reality! :laugh:
That's pretty standard for D&D nights everywhere, in my experience at least. Remind me to tell you the story of the time I taught an ogre to meditate. :-D
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Poor timing, Case. Poor timing.
Huh? You think so? I'd figured she'd fall on her butt giggling manically at the thought she'd be remembered in her very own proverb ...
Patron Saint of lateral thinkers everywhere is how I think of her.
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Payment shall be made... in scritches!
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Aaaaand so much for Bembo being any smarter or better educated than before... :roll:
Because he figured out Queen Shebly's weakness and used it to defeat her without harming her? That seems pretty smart to me.
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Poor timing, Case. Poor timing.
Huh? You think so? I'd figured she'd fall on her butt giggling manically at the thought she'd be remembered in her very own proverb ...
Patron Saint of lateral thinkers everywhere is how I think of her.
A woman who dies by drowning in moonlight, strangled by her own bra? Yeah, she'd find it hilarious.
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Aaaaand so much for Bembo being any smarter or better educated than before... :roll:
Because he figured out Queen Shebly's weakness and used it to defeat her without harming her? That seems pretty smart to me.
No, I was referring to the previous strip, where he was pelting the farmer with live wolves...
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Technically fulfilling the quest without killing wolves? Still pretty clever.
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Must have learned that trick from The Barbarian Handbook
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Just when you thought Bembo took those two levels of Ranger for the Two Weapon Fighting...
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Technically fulfilling the quest without killing wolves? Still pretty clever.
:roll: I don't think the farmer considers the quest fulfilled -- I certainly wouldn't, if I were him.
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And in the final Bembo strip of the year Bembo demonstrates he's culturally sensitive.
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Or maybe he just likes crickets? Good protein, I hear.
Actually, the lizard queen looks a little surprised to me -- perhaps she didn't expect the barbarian to start eating their greatest treasure?
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It's a lizard society.
Lizards eat crickets...
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Chest full of onions.
But what I really wanted to post was this:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/747177174755577858/1NZv4h4F_400x400.jpg)
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Man this week felt too short... I want more Bembo :(
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It's a lizard society. Lizards eat crickets...
Not just lizards, crickets are nutritious. Bembo knows where it's at.
(http://www.followmefoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Beijing-Bugs-Eating-Wangfujing-28.jpg)
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When you spend most of your time questing miles and miles from the nearest village and food, you quickly come to realise that anything with the right balance of proteins and vitamins is nutrition. I'm pretty sure this isn't Bembo's first bug meal. Heck I doubt that it's even his first live bug meal!
In fact, I seem to remember that the Mongols (the RL 'barbarians', or at least the horse tribe version) consider spit-fried locusts a staple dish.
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Live cricket (1000)
Weight 0.1 Value 1
Recover 1 health.
Leap 1 pts for 1 seconds.
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That Lizard queen is totally a Salazzle. Bembo is in the Pokemon world, it's canon!
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I'll stick to eating Jet Planes
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Argonian gifts are the best gifts.
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Next year's holiday week: Bembo vs. Yelling Bird. Two memes enter. One meme leaves.
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I think Bembo is less annoying than Yelling Bird.
But I also think a whole week of him is a bit much. I'm impatient because I really want to know what happens next in QC.
OTOH Bembo is most likely here because Jeph is working HARD on what happens next in QC. Getting it before it's ready means getting something that's not as good as it could be.
So... wait through Bembo week. whine, whine, okay. Take the time you need to do the main thing right.
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As I understand it, Jeph drew the Bembo strips early, like a month ago, so i suspect the reason Bembo is here now is so that Jeph can take this week OFF. Lots of other people take the week between Christmas and New Year's off -- I always do if I have enough time off left -- so why shouldn't Jeph?
A little time off to relax and recharge his (figurative, I presume) batteries gives Jeph what he needs to get back to working hard on QC next week.
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Anyone else wondering if Bembo will end up fighting Yelling-Bird cultists?
(Like the snake cultists Connan fights, but more swear-y)
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Anyone else wondering if Bembo will end up fighting Yelling-Bird cultists?
Actually, I think that Bembo already is fighting Yelling Bird cultists; he's doing it here and on other comic discussion boards. :laugh: