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Reprint of 258 (Milk Bath!)

2 (5.1%)

You should try having an ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP.

1 (2.6%)

Oh, God, that's actually TRUE.

3 (7.7%)

My therapist won't see anyone else in my social circle.

4 (10.3%)

Wait, you're seeing someone?

0 (0%)

He misses your body (AUGH!)

16 (41%)

Wow. I broke him.

2 (5.1%)

Warning label under the boobs.

6 (15.4%)

TAKE ME, OH OMNISCIENT MACHINE PANTHEON!

3 (7.7%)

Mister Peepers! NOOOOOOOO!

2 (5.1%)

Total Members Voted: 36

[raoullefere]

I don't know why Dr. Corrine isn't interested in the rest of Faye's friends; she could buy a condo in Florida with all the dough she makes off them 

Probably because she knows all the crazies just feed on each other.  It's like making a bed, you need to get one corner of the sheet anchored first.  Spread youself across it trying to tuck in all the corners at once, and it's not going to stay put! 

Besides, she's already dealing with Hannelore, isn't she?  That'll keep her busy enough...

Yes. I'm surprised Corrine really needs any other paying clients, and I wonder if Faye gets a lower rate just for being relatively uncomplicated. But even if Corrine was willing to treat more of the gang, it would probably be a bad move to take on Faye's ex. Better to send him to someone who can deal with Sven with no preconceptions rather than trying to reminder herself Faye is likely an 'unreliable narrator.' (Ain't we all, when it comes to personal relationships?)

[peterh]

Now now, children, play nice! 

You're right, that last sentence was unnecessary. I'll fix it.

[Kugai]

Sven's just full of self revelation epiphanies these days.



And now


Svenlore

[peterh]

Aaaand Sen has hit The Learning Curve (as I was sorta hoping). 's Gonna be a bumpy ride.

Has he been sleeping around because he thinks he doesn't deserve anything better?

Or because he thought that was all there was to it. Right now he thinks that's all he's capable of.

Svenlore

Not gonna happen. But I think Hannelore may be of great therapeutic value to him (even if only because she has a solid "stop moaning about it and start fixing it"-attitude)

[Akima]

If I may fangirl out for a moment, Faye's expressions today are so excellent. And self-pity doesn't suit Sven, or anyone else for that matter. Self-revelation is a remedy best taken internally.

[jwhouk]

So what are we going to see  this week?

Angus/Faye II - The Second Date    - 13 (21.3%)
Marigold/Dale - The Final Boss Showdown    - 11 (18%)
More Singularity Jokes    - 4 (6.6%)
Sexy Robot Elohim    - 4 (6.6%)
Hanners/Sven II - The REAL Date    - 6 (9.8%)
GOOGLE IT!    - 9 (14.8%)
Asps and Burgers Explained    - 2 (3.3%)
WHO CARES - THE BOOK IS OUT!!!!!!    - 12 (19.7%) - The REAL Answer

Total Voters: 61

[pendrake]

For #1782...

1. Faye seems to be in a very good mood, but that is probably due to recent events with Angus, Hannelore, and Marten.

2. While I personally would approve of an "actual relationship" between Hanners and Sven, I do not think it would happen any time soon or even on the moderate horizon (100-ish strips).  Far horizon (300-ish strips), down the line maybe...

3. Or, perhaps cue Marigold coming in the shop at this moment...?

4. I agree with Akima, Faye's expressions were well done for this strip, panel for panel.

4. Panel #5: Aww...poor Sven .  But kudos on the art portraying that, from his downcast facial expression and slumped shoulders, all very expressive.

[jwhouk]

What I fear will happen - he will tell her how much he misses her JUST as Angus walks into the shop (again).

[Border Reiver]

If I may fangirl out for a moment, Faye's expressions today are so excellent. And self-pity doesn't suit Sven, or anyone else for that matter. Self-revelation is a remedy best taken internally.

You may (not that you need my permission).

Having just had a moment myself I disagree about it being a remedy taken internally, shared revelations can be clensing.  At least he's not taking it ------ly.

[peterh]

At least he's not taking it ------ly.

And there's the first entry in this week's Horrible Pun Of The Week contest.

[Deadlywonky]

If Jeph does decide to motivate Sven into attempting a real relationship, who is most likely to be with? The date with Hanners was great to follow, but even Sven must be able to see that she needs more work than he does to attempt a proper emotional/physical relationship, the only other options I can see are Marigold or a stranger. [or he "turns" Tai ]

finally enjoying being able to post, i've been trying to get into the forum for months (same problem as macloud)

[Carl-E]

3. Or, perhaps cue Marigold coming in the shop at this moment...?

Yes!  And she gets him to team up with her in WoW against Dale, and...

Sven winds up with Dale. 

"Being a lothario is just a cover for latent homosexuality" -- Painless (the dentist in M*A*S*H, 1970)

 

[raoullefere]

If I may fangirl out for a moment, Faye's expressions today are so excellent. And self-pity doesn't suit Sven, or anyone else for that matter. Self-revelation is a remedy best taken internally.

In the first place, that's an epiphany, not simple self-pity. More than that, I suspect it's unrealistic at best to expect stoicism from Sven. Finally, dams seldom break quietly—and, judging by that crap he sold Hanners about his relationship with Faye, not to mention various and sundry other moments we're all aware of, Sven's got the damned Grand Coulee in there.

Besides that, he's either going to say that, or suddenly get a weird look on his face. At least this way Faye knows what's going on. Better yet, it's going to be harder for Sven to ignore or dismiss it.

[Skewbrow]

If Jeph does decide to motivate Sven into attempting a real relationship, who is most likely to be with? The date with Hanners was great to follow, but even Sven must be able to see that she needs more work than he does to attempt a proper emotional/physical relationship, the only other options I can see are Marigold or a stranger. [or he "turns" Tai ]

This is a good question to any fanboy who takes YB's prophecy as seriously as I do. Let's round up the usual suspects:

1) Dora. Ok. That would be stricly illegal (and is here only for the sake of completeness). Besides I don't see a way to break up Dora/Marten without CoD (as a central scene of action) and ultimately all of QCverse going with it.

2) Faye. This one *had* potential. Can't be ruled out logically, but would take some serious creative scripting from Jeph. But, hey! May be QC is supposed to pay Jeph & Christi's eventual kids thru college? But I'm so shipping for Fayngus that this would break my heart.

3) Hannelore. Not now. Or, not yet. A possible setting for them to grow closer to each other would include revival of Deathmole and Sven joining in and adding a degree of professionalism to the outfit. Hmm. More likely Jeph can think of a better scenario, if this is in the cards.

4) Marigold. WoW & a homeric chest. Not impossible as long as they promise to keep the training wheels on for now. Otherwise somebody could fall and get hurt. But is their any real chemistry? Can't see any, but I'm a math geek anyway.

5) Somebody else? (including Cosette, Lydia,...) Minor characters for now and not there/available at this time.

and worthy of a special mention ...

6) Vespavenger. Some might think that these two would deserve each other. Not so fitting for the New Sven, but may be she has reformed, too?

[Is it cold in here?]

... self-pity doesn't suit Sven, or anyone else for that matter.

Will Faye hit him with a rolled-up magazine?

[westrim]

Wow, Sven's 28? How old is everyone in the QCverse, anyway?

What a leest!

My thoughts to your thoughts...
1. Depends on the state, but it's generally not illegal, actually. But not happening, anyway. I personally root for her breaking up with Marten when he finally has enough of her shit and finding someone else after she works through her insufferable jealousy and control issues. Sucks for Angus, but Marten and Faye came first- I'm still hoping.
2. It was clearly just a stage in their respective developments, people need to let it go now.
3. Why do people bring her up in any romantic capacity? Jeph has made it clear that while she may get better, getting "lets make out and fuck!" better is a very long way off.
4. Too early to tell. They are the two main unattached characters right now.
5. He can always add new characters I guess, but most of the periphery is specifically attached to other people, thus not available for Sven. So Lydia= no, Cosette= god no.
6. Flat no.

[jackmort]

Sven apperars to be having triouble getting past faye so i don't think he'll be getting involved with anyone for a bit, i think he'll just pine and whine for a while.
Faye and Angus seem to be a pretty good match to me, I like Angus

The most obvious result for Sven is that while he's having a crisis whatshername his intern will give him a shoulder to cry on and they'll end up together

Only other thing which occurred to me for Sven was, someone mentioned the idea of him joining Deathmole; maybe he could give Natasha guitar lessons and they might end up together *shrug*

[jwhouk]

I suspect Natasha, Ellen and Amir have all essentially been written out of the story. (We KNOW Sara's been kicked out.)

'Shipping Sven with anyone right now isn't going to work, IMNSHO, because Jeph will see the ideas and go in the opposite direction.

Heck, he could kick Sven out of the strip entirely and turn him into a priest or something.

[Skewbrow]

What I fear will happen - he will tell her how much he misses her JUST as Angus walks into the shop (again).

My thoughts on that scene (in chronological order):
- Arrgggh!
- "Savor the awkwardness, it's almost pleasurable."
- It's a small town. Angus and Sven are gonna bump into each other many times (at CoD in particular). Might as well face any remaining awkwardness and deal with it once and for all.

[bicostp]

Wow, Sven's 28? How old is everyone in the QCverse, anyway?

Early to late 20s.

I think there are only a couple other confirmed ages: Dora is 26 and Hannelore is 22. (Too lazy to find the link right now, sorry. I think it was around when they went to do karaoke.)

[Is it cold in here?]

Dora was 26 then, but she's a year younger than Sven (#337) so she must be 27 by now.

[bicostp]

Unless his birthday comes earlier in the year than hers, then there's a period of time where their rounded age discrepancy is two.

Or this confirms that at least a year has passed in comic-time.

[Heliphyneau]

3. Or, perhaps cue Marigold coming in the shop at this moment...?

Yes!  And she gets him to team up with her in WoW against Dale, and...

Sven winds up with Dale. 

"Being a lothario is just a cover for latent homosexuality" -- Painless (the dentist in M*A*S*H, 1970)

 

No, no, no, no, no -- Sven can't end up with Dale.  He's meant to be with Marten!  OMG SVEN AND MARTEN ARE THE OTP!  YELLINGBIRD AGREES!

Ahem.  Sorry.  I'm not much for shipping anyway, but apparently even Sven realizes he's got some shit to work through before attempting a relationship.  Hmm, maybe after starting to see a therapist on the other side of town, he'll randomly meet Dr. Corinne elsewhere and they'll get involved without knowing until later that he's the Sven Faye was talking about, and then . . . AWKWARDNESS ENSUES.  What?  It just means that everyone has to go put on Victorian formalwear again, and that's always fun.  ^_^

The expressions were indeed awesome in today's strip, but what I liked most is that Faye was nice to Sven because he was nice to Hanners.

[Mr_Rose]

Ah yes, the long neglected slash/ships: Marten and Sven; Dora and Tai; Faye and Dr. Corrine; Dale and Steve; Cosette and Marigold; and of course the incomparable Hannelope!

[Carl-E]

Hannelope!  I love it! 

Rhymes with canteloupe, right? 

Let the hyperventilating begin! 

[Kugai]

*Slips in quietly, looks around sneakily and smirks*










































HANTAI!


*Runs like 'eck*




 

[westrim]

*Slips in quietly, looks around sneakily and smirks*

And people think I was bad, at least I didn't lengthen my post too.

[raoullefere]

That blank space represents every time Kugai has longed to but refrained from plugging 'Hantai' ever since the great Shipwrack of—(hell, whenever it was; I don't ship much, and, possessing some slight cleanliness or mind, never use couple portmanteaus, so I hardly noticed).

And no, I don't mean every line. I mean every damned pixel.

Hannelope!  I love it!  

Rhymes with canteloupe, right?  

Let the hyperventilating begin!  

If you mean Penelope's, no doubt it would.




Inscrutable.

[akronnick]

HANTAI!

That blank space represents every time Kugai has longed to but refrained from plugging 'Hantai' ever since the great Shipwrack of—(hell, whenever it was; I don't ship much, and, possessing some slight cleanliness or mind, never use couple portmanteaus, so I hardly noticed).

And no, I don't mean every line. I mean every damned pixel.

That's what happens when you keep it bottled up for too long.

That shit'll fester, y'know.

[Carl-E]

[Shadic]

Sad Sven is sad.

[charybdis]

Delurking to say, Hanners, I know you mean well but good God that was creepy as fuck

[laizeohbeets]

LOL HANNELORE.

[akronnick]

And now Faye is wondering if she'd rather be with Old Reliable Angus or New and Improved Sven...



Or at least she was, until Hannelore snuck up behind her and scared the Bejeezes out of her!

[Dliessmgg]

Reenactment time!

      ( he misses your body )               ( AUGH )
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[Delator]

Not sure what made me laugh more, Hanners' statement, or the facial expression that went with it. 

[JackFaerie]

And now Faye is wondering if she'd rather be with Old Reliable Angus or New and Improved Sven...

Ugh ugh ugh, I will say it again and again: Faye had as much (if not more!) to do with the disastrous failure of that "relationship" as Sven did. Certainly more in the set-up if not the eventual dissolution. (A dissolution that her various issues and the selfish way she went about dealing with them made pretty much inevitable.)

[tom103]

OK, that's official, Hanners is now my favorite QC character... I just love the crazy look on her face when she says "he misses your body"  

[Promethean Sky]

Delurking to say, Hanners, I know you mean well but good God that was creepy as fuck

You know you love her for it. As to I.

[akronnick]

Ugh ugh ugh, I will say it again and again: Faye had as much (if not more!) to do with the disastrous failure of that "relationship" as Sven did. Certainly more in the set-up if not the eventual dissolution. (A dissolution that her various issues and the selfish way she went about dealing with them made pretty much inevitable.)

I don't disagree, and I think Faye was having as much of an epiphany as Sven, something along the lines of "Maybe he has changed, and it seems like he may still be into me..."

This strip may be foreshadowing an arc where Sven actually makes a whole-hearted effort to get Faye into a relationship, a real relationship, and Faye has to choose between him and Angus, who she's been slow rolling her way into something she genuinely cares about.





This of course leads to Angus challenging Sven to single combat, and Malaysian Battle-Spatulas at dawn, for niether shall live while the other survives, or something...

[charybdis]

Delurking to say, Hanners, I know you mean well but good God that was creepy as fuck

You know you love her for it. As to I.

Yes, yes I do. Mostly because I have done similar things.

[srpilha]

This strip may be foreshadowing an arc where Sven actually makes a whole-hearted effort to get Faye into a relationship, a real relationship, and Faye has to choose between him and Angus, who she's been slow rolling her way into something she genuinely cares about.

This of course leads to Angus challenging Sven to single combat, and Malaysian Battle-Spatulas at dawn, for niether shall live while the other survives, or something...

Nice idea for an arc, I'd say; plus it's somewhat similar to the "choice" Marten went through, between Faye and Dora. Quotes because he didn't really have a choice back there, of course.


And I'd like to say I love Sven's subtle expression in panel 2: truly seems like he died/puked/fainted a little inside.

[snubnose]

I suspect Natasha, Ellen and Amir have all essentially been written out of the story. (We KNOW Sara's been kicked out.)

Ellen yes.

Natasha hmm mostly.

Amir nope, he's still in the band, so he's definitely still around. What happends to that band, anyway ?

[Kazukagii]

As always, Hanners remains a pillar of astute observation. Actually despite the joke effect, it makes sense for Hanners to say this. After all she was out on the date with Sven in strip 1764 when he outlined in detail how much he missed Faye's body. Good show Jeph, good show.

[ysth]

Ah, glimmers of the old creepy stalker Hannelore

[iduguphergrave]

good God that was creepy as fuck

This. 

Still made me giggle (nervously).

Faye will have nightmares about this moment tonight.

[Carl-E]

Ah, glimmers of the old creepy stalker Hannelore

Maybe so, but how much you wanna bet that Faye'll be pumping her for more info in the next strip or so? 

And, who is creepier in that case?

[Arky]

Score yet another one for Hanners.  Last few strips since the date were a bit quiet (except 1779!), but this was hysterical.

Any Red Dwarf fans who have the DVDs will remember how in the cast commentaries, the gang talk about how competitive they all were to get given the best punchlines or "woofers" to the extent people would counting them up and cajoling the writers to give them a bigger share.  Somehow how I could see a behind-the-scenes strip with the QC gang tallying up who has the most punchlines.... and some of them getting just a little competitive about it, too.



Oh, and YAY for finally being able to sign up for the forums!

[raoullefere]

Sad am I, that Hanners buying that is. Better of her I thought. But deeds to the Brooklyn Bridge have I, that move must.

[peterh]

Fully woken up you yet have not?