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Characters get accused of being bad people.

31 (20.4%)

Someone chimes in that they miss Claire, or that they're glad she's still gone.

47 (30.9%)

Moderators forced to moderate.

22 (14.5%)

A pun is made. Forums spiral into madness.

47 (30.9%)

Kosh makes a appearance.

5 (3.3%)

Total Members Voted: 76

Voting closed: 29 Mar 2015, 17:59

[hedgie]

And now it dawns upon Claire that her life has taken a turn for the surreal.

[Pilchard123]

What do you mean 'now'?

[BenRG]

What do you mean 'now'?

Up until now, it's been mostly run-of-the-mill college town stuff for her. Then she saw the Anthro-PC with a dildo apparently welded to his forehead.

[hedgie]

Pintsize and his head-dildo are just the tip of the iceberg.  Hanging around Marten seems to cause strangeness.  Aside from anthroPC mishaps, his whole relationship with Dora was a bit odd.  Fighting monks, the Vespa Avenger, etc.  Then there is how he became friends with Hanners, and friends/flatmates with Faye.  I think that one of the reasons that he is so accepting is that his life is just so odd that nothing can faze him.  Sure Claire has had to deal with almost her entire life with Clinton as a brother, but he's not as bizarre as Martenworld.

[osaka]

Marten: "We're still looking for a word for those brief moments of clarity in which you realize how profoundly weird your life is. I hope you don't mind jumping into my world"

Claire: "If this is a setup for "Fifty Shades of Reed" I want no parts"

[Rghfrgl]

I went back through the archive so I could say that Marten's shirt is the worse half of Angus' awful shirt.

But it turns out that's actually a perfectly fine shade of purple and his current shirt is much worse.

[Gladstone]

his current shirt is much worse.

Marten was a bit annoyed that Claire wore one of his shirts the day before, but he didn't actually want to say anything about it, so this is just his way of making sure that she never, ever borrows his clothes again.

It's like he's being AGGRESSIVELY passive.

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

The noise of people complaining?  (Yeah, I know you meant "squee", but I find the predictable complaining to be pretty terrible, too.)

People complain because every strip she's been in sense hooking up with Martin has suffered from sacran stigmata, which gets old reeeeeeally. With that said, i too am happy to see a strip with these two that isn't sickly sweet.

And I agree. That "too" at the end is an agreement. Doesn't mean that the sentiment needed to be repeated thirty times in prior threads. 

[chaospersonified]

his current shirt is much worse.

Marten was a bit annoyed that Claire wore one of his shirts the day before, but he didn't actually want to say anything about it, so this is just his way of making sure that she never, ever borrows his clothes again.

It's like he's being AGGRESSIVELY passive.

I don't know where you got that. There's not even a side-eye glance at Claire's shirt to support it. It goes straight to squee, for better or for worse

[Gladstone]

Yeah, I'm just making shit up.  Although you could argue that THE LOOM was actually Marten, speechless with anger, trying to telepathically communicate to Pintsize that "CLAIRE. IS. WEARING. MY SHIRT," and Pintsize just misinterpreted the signals...but you're right, it doesn't fit the comics that followed.  Unless Marten successfully bottled his rage until later, when he had an opportunity to rage-shop for shirts that would clash horribly with Claire's hair if she ever dared to wear them.

[chaospersonified]

You could argue exactly that, though not that Pintsize misinterpreted anything. I'm concerned I missed something and you're just fucking with me, but it's late and I can't be bothered to check.

The Marten's shirt = anti-Clairehair hypothesis is a possibility. I see nothing to disprove it, though the only support for it is common sense in color combination

[questionablydiscontent]

Wait a sec... Is that Clinton on Pintsize's head?

[Traptin]

Wait a sec... Is that Clinton on Pintsize's head?

Maybe it's both?

[questionablydiscontent]

You mean it's Clinton, who is a dildo?

[Storel]

Will the return of old style Pintsize please the commentatoriate?  Stay tuned.

(This post brought to you by Cabaret Voltaire.)

I "liked" your post just for the pleasure of the word "commentatoriate". 

It's about time the QC Wiki had an entry for dildoes.

They've made more appearances in the comic than Sara and Gabby combined.

You have a good point.

Then again, so do most dildoes...

Okay, am I the only one who wants to hear the beginning of that joke? As it stands, it's meaningless and just a verbal lead-in to Pintsize's new body mod. Who would mistake Clinton for a dildo and why? Ah, I don't know; maybe I'm just thinking too hard about something that was always meant to be a throwaway.

Could have sworn I saw someone else mention this, but I can't find it now. There's a similarly weird punchline that's become a long-term running gag in  Least I Could Do: "And that's when I bought the horse a prostitute!"

Even if this one doesn't become a running gag, I'm pretty sure we'll never hear the beginning of the joke. I doubt that Jeph even wrote it -- he probably only wrote the punchline, knowing that he'd drive the readership crazy trying to figure out the rest of the joke. The actual joke could never live up to the mystery created by just the punchline.

You mean it's Clinton, who is a dildo?

Claire could have been mistaken when she said "That's no dildo, that's my brother!"

Maybe her brother IS a dildo and she just never realized because, hey, who pays that much attention to their little brother?

Although he doesn't really look much like a dildo to me...

[Zebediah]

His robot hand may have a "vibrate" mode.

Just sayin'.