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[Rghfrgl]

Exciting preview. 

[Gladstone]

Favorite new Claireface. 

Please be wonderful pun, please be wonderful pun, please oh please.

[Pilchard123]

This week:

The Reminiscences of Mrs. Augustus

[MooskiNet]

No forensic analysis of the tumblr pic?  Color me disappointed.

[cesium133]

No forensic analysis of the tumblr pic?  Color me disappointed.

Well, clearly it's a mugshot from when Claire snaps and kills Clinton.

[Gladstone]

Kill Clinton before he and Emily have gone on their first date?  She'd better not!

[cesium133]

No, this is after their first date goes too well, causing Cthulhu to inhabit Clinton's body.

[Gladstone]

I guess that's acceptable.

[BenRG]

My call? Emily repeatedly proving that there is no such thing as 'as weird as you can get'. At the end, Clinton will either be running screaming down the street or smitten for life!

[Kugai]

She's watching Marten in the shower

[Gladstone]

She's watching Marten in the shower

"That's IT.  I have HAD IT.  Pintsize is banned from the bathroom entirely.  How the hell does someone paste macro shots of human assholes to a shower wall, anyway?  How am I supposed to get these off?  These industrial-strength chemicals aren't doing a goddamn thing..."

[BenRG]

No forensic analysis of the tumblr pic?  Color me disappointed.

I think that this is her and Marten bantering and/or making bets at how long Clinton's sanity can hold out.

Actually, on the subject of Clinton fleeing, I've been looking at Friday's strip again. In panel 4, does it look to anyone else that Clinton is trying to stop Robo-hand from running away?

[Kugai]

Either that, or doing what it did with Faye.

[Pilchard123]

Not until you mentioned it.

[Undrneath]

As fun as it would be I don't think Emily would be a good long term match for Clinton

[Natswash]

No forensic analysis of the tumblr pic?  Color me disappointed.

Well I don't recognize the background but there's a shadow on the side she's not looking towards, so possibly Tai/Claire/Marten Triple team date set upping?

Anyone notice most of the baristas were paired off, and now it's happening to the librarians?

[Endellion]

Exciting preview. 

An absolutely adorable claireface. I hope that's going to come in Monday's comic, although I think it'll be more Clinnnntonnnnnnnn.

Also. Counting down the time until someone makes that face their avatar.

5...4...3

[valkygrrl]

Also. Counting down the time until someone makes that face their avatar.

*Waits for the newest member of the Claire Clone Club*

Just one? I'm a few...

[jwhouk]

As fun as it would be I don't think Emily would be a good long term match for Clinton

Is there any pairing in this whole comic that would be a "good long term match"?

[wlewisiii]

As fun as it would be I don't think Emily would be a good long term match for Clinton

Probably not, no, but it would be a growth experience for both and that's a big theme of our illustrious author.

[hedgie]

She's watching Marten in the shower

"That's IT.  I have HAD IT.  Pintsize is banned from the bathroom entirely.  How the hell does someone paste macro shots of human assholes to a shower wall, anyway?  How am I supposed to get these off?  These industrial-strength chemicals aren't doing a goddamn thing..."

Time to call Hannelore.  She can clean anything that isn't blood-related.

[sluthy]

Comic!

...wat.

[Natswash]

Poor Clinton

[bhtooefr]

I actually cannot even.

[jwhouk]

I have a feeling that Emily is one of those people for whom "mellow yellow" is, indeed, a mind-altering drug.

[BrusselSprouts]

Emily isn't just weird. She's a mad genius being pulled down by the system. She's a super villain waiting to happen.

[Natswash]

Emily isn't just weird. She's a mad genius being pulled down by the system. She's a super villain waiting to happen.

Take cover, her spark is coming through!

[Schmorgluck]

Okay that's... BenRG put it better than I could.

My call? Emily repeatedly proving that there is no such thing as 'as weird as you can get'.

I already knew that because I read Dr McNinja, but Emily does a good job as well.

At the end, Clinton will either be running screaming down the street or smitten for life!

Can't it be both? With Pepe le Pew-like chases maybe?

[Stoon]

Emily isn't just weird. She's a mad genius being pulled down by the system. She's a super villain waiting to happen.

Take cover, her spark is coming through!

Yes!  Help the satellites become friends with each other.  Then, when they've become friends and gathered together, UNLEASH THE VOLCANOES FROM THE VOLCANO SEEDER OF HELMUT OF SIENA!

[sluthy]

That last panel. Still not sure what she's doing in the last strip/first panel here but then it heads toward normality. Until the last panel - a normal laugh would have closed eyes, a maniacal laugh would have crazy eyes. This looks like she's going back to panel one. I repeat...wat.

[Gladstone]

Marten and Claire have probably fled the building by now.

[Natswash]

Marten and Claire have probably fled the building by now.

As have any new freshman

[hedgie]

Emily isn't just weird. She's a mad genius being pulled down by the system. She's a super villain waiting to happen.

Take cover, her spark is coming through!

Yes!  Help the satellites become friends with each other.  Then, when they've become friends and gathered together, UNLEASH THE VOLCANOES FROM THE VOLCANO SEEDER OF HELMUT OF SIENA!

Until they start carving bits of South America with their lasers out of boredom.  Of course, that'd be after a space gate explosion.

[brown paper bag]

When I think of Emily, I think of this:

 

Crap like this needs to stop.

[explicit]

Ya, I'm pretty attracted to unstable too. Things can't get boring if you have to wear armor to bed.

[BrusselSprouts]

Maybe this arc will be what stops the Flanderization? She has a chance of actually having a character arc now, though one might argue the damage has been done

[Method of Madness]

As fun as it would be I don't think Emily would be a good long term match for Clinton

Is there any pairing in this whole comic that would be a "good long term match"?

Wil and Penelope?

[BrusselSprouts]

As fun as it would be I don't think Emily would be a good long term match for Clinton

Is there any pairing in this whole comic that would be a "good long term match"?

I would argue that Marten and Claire have a good foundation for a long term relationship. Especially since their relationship started out of mutual interest,  rather than drama

[sluthy]

Faye and Angus were a good couple until work collided with issues.

EDIT: Not to mention Steve and Cosette who, despite bonding over not much more than lust at least to start with, are now the second longest main cast coupling in the story.

I was just about to say longest, but then realised Wil and Pen got together over 300 strips earlier.

[Penquin47]

Satellites can't be friends?  Why not?  That sounds like a good thing!

Emily is weird.  And scary.  But I love her and would totally hang out with her in real life.

[brown paper bag]

Pretty much all the main characters started out with some defining quirk that was supplemented by a developing personality. We had Dora starting out as an over the top flirty goth, Faye was a broken girl who was aggressive and punched Marten a lot because she had a crush and that makes physical assault okay, Hannelore was just a basket case who usually didn't even need provocation to freak out. They all got more interesting over time, became more nuanced with realistic human personalities. Marigold grew away from being a stuck-up douchy gamer nerd. Wil went from overly dramatic poet to a relatively temperate barkeep. Even Clinton went from a total creep with no sense of personal space to a protective brother and relatively agreeable guy to hang out with.

Then we have Emily. She started out a bit weird and enjoyed squashed bananas in a glass but was generally friendly and kind. Now crazy is her thing. Craaaazyyyyyyyy.

[hedgie]

We don't know what, if any, mental issues Emily has.  She just might be a bit odd.  The issues of most other characters have been explored already.  Despite her strangeness, she's competent enough at her job, as well as her major, is relatively happy, compared to most of the main cast, and can function, even if it's only in her unique way.

[Nyithra]

Doesn't this seem a little over the top, even for Emily?

[Ravenswing]

Doesn't this seem a little over the top, even for Emily?

Certainly my notion.  Emily's always been endearingly loopy, but I don't care much for the last two strips' worth of padded cell, batshit-insane.

[SubaruStephen]

Maybe she's on a new medication and needs to lower the dose?
That would explain the increase in weirdness as the stuff would take a while to reach full strength.

[brown paper bag]

We don't know what, if any, mental issues Emily has.  She just might be a bit odd.

Odd is fine. Mental issues are fine. Lack of mental issues are fine. I just hope she won't only be all about the crazy, because it would mean that Jeph can't think of any interesting ways to develop her character.

Kinda like Sven. He's the one immutable object in the comic. His character has grown the way slime grows on raw meat in the hot sun. He started as a selfish and dishonest philanderer, and after his long absence during which he reflected on his life (meaning Jeph spent a long time scratching his head about what to do with him), Sven came back as a full-blown sociopath who couldn't even get the basic concept of other people having minds and desires and plans of their own.

[greekstreek]

We don't know what, if any, mental issues Emily has.  She just might be a bit odd.

Odd is fine. Mental issues are fine. Lack of mental issues are fine. I just hope she won't only be all about the crazy, because it would mean that Jeph can't think of any interesting ways to develop her character.

I just don't want this to devolve into serious mental issues flippantly masquerading as cute eccentricity, and have that be the end of it. This comic takes characters seriously enough that if Emily is actually mentally ill she should be given a story that realistically addresses that problem instead of just dismissing it as "oh Emily, she so craaazy". This behavior goes a shade beyond eccentric for me.

[Nyithra]

We don't know what, if any, mental issues Emily has.  She just might be a bit odd.

Odd is fine. Mental issues are fine. Lack of mental issues are fine. I just hope she won't only be all about the crazy, because it would mean that Jeph can't think of any interesting ways to develop her character.

I just don't want this to devolve into serious mental issues flippantly masquerading as cute eccentricity, and have that be the end of it. This comic takes characters seriously enough that if Emily is actually mentally ill she should be given a story that realistically addresses that problem instead of just dismissing it as "oh Emily, she so craaazy". This behavior goes a shade beyond eccentric for me.

I agree and as a person who has dealt with mental illness myself I don't really appreciate a craaaazyy character being played for humor.

[Natswash]

Or Claire could have forewarned her of Clinton coming, and asked her to kick it up a few notches

[KOK]

Until now Emily has just been "marching to a different drummer". Now she is really crazy.