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Momo uses Pokemon! It's super effective!

9 (19.1%)

Faye uses welding and sobriety! It's super effective!

9 (19.1%)

Marten uses big-brother advice! It...kinda works!

7 (14.9%)

Emily uses frogs! It's super effective!

7 (14.9%)

Claire uses books! It's super ineffective!

7 (14.9%)

Veronica uses stern parental discipline and threats of withheld flower-girl status at potential upcoming wedding! But, it failed!

4 (8.5%)

Delilah uses one-with-nature Mother Earth hippie powers! It's super effective and totally unwelcome!

4 (8.5%)

Total Members Voted: 43

Voting closed: 08 May 2015, 01:05

[Thrudd]

Speaking of May    will she have saved up enough for at least a quad-copter she could data link to and get in some real flight time?

Oho, and for that little extra May'ism she could do a live link from one of the HD cameras to Dales Glasses  to show off and freak out Dale.

[Omega Entity]

I hate PDAs with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

I feel that way too but I try to suppress it.  Envy is an ignoble emotion.

Just saw this. Even if I were in a relationship, I -still- wouldn't want to see it. It makes me really uncomfortable, regardless of relationship status.

[Welu]

I used to hate them but slowly once I got into a relationship I realised they don't bother me so much. Only if they're noisy, or right beside me, or blocking a pathway, essentially unless it's directly affecting me other than being in my line of sight, which I can fix, it doesn't concern me any more. Although it's mainly due to realising my Partner and I can be sickeningly cutesy sometimes and it feels really hypocritical to be like, "It's okay when we do it."

I'm liking the last two strips. Feels like a change of pace and it's nice to see more of Momo and the other character's from an outside-ish perspective.

[Meilu]

I hate PDAs with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

I feel that way too but I try to suppress it.  Envy is an ignoble emotion.

Just saw this. Even if I were in a relationship, I -still- wouldn't want to see it. It makes me really uncomfortable, regardless of relationship status.

I find this line of thinking odd. PDAs are everywhere on some level or another. Hand holding is a PDA. A kiss on the cheek, hugs of varying degrees. Humans interacting with other humans affectionately is natural human behavior. Judging people for displaying happy human emotions via normal societal interaction seems haughty. This is different, of course, if their behavior is directly affecting you (like heavy making out while bumping into you in the midst of a bus drive or airplane flight, disturbingly loud moaning during a movie at the theater, etc).

[Timemaster]

Seeing May again and seeing how she copes in the real world would be fun. But bear in mind, that ony a few days have passed in the QC-Verse since she got her job in the store. But there is a fair chance that she is loathing it already.

Momo once said, that she sees herself as a kind of ambassador for the AIs in the human world. Don´t know the number of the strip, but she referred to it as a "noble calling". By letting Emily play with her pigtails she shows her patience. Much can be said about Emily. She may be called naive, obnoxious, straightforward, childish or socially incompetent. But nobody can call her malicious. She is a kind of innocent jester and I am sure that Momo sees her this way too. She has had more than one talk with Emily about AIs and AnthroPCs. Letting herself be used as a toy shows that Momo has understood that Emily is different.
So she plays along, the same way an aduld will let itself be used as a toy by a child.

Or as the English would put it:
She suffers fools gladly.

TM

[swapna]

Man, it's kind of sad - Claire/Marten are, again, disgustingly cute with each other (there's no working in the library, apparently)

Why so stuffy?  As far as we can tell from a frame of a single instant, Claire could be minding the desk, and Marten passing by after putting some stuff on a shelf offscreen (for instance) and giving her a quick peck on the way back past.  No need to assume it's all they're doing.

Tai on the other hand looks as if she's in no state to do anything today...

Could be, could be. They just have done very few things apart from being cute with each other for the last few months, so there's no reason to assume otherwise, especially since they don't have anything that would help them work (books, documents, pencils, anything). Tai looks more busy and that's saying something.

[osaka]

I don't know about you guys, but my university's library is very busy at all hours of the day (night, not so much, but at night there's almost no staff).

Actually... Outside of the months of May/June and Jan/Feb, the university library where I study is ded. Seriously. We've played Counter Strike there.

Although the situation does feel weird.

[Roborat]

Liking this new storyline.  And loved the Azumanga reference in the last panel.

[TeaOfDeath]

I felt a kind of muted hostility when I saw the PDA, and I have no idea why. o_o it's been way too long since I've had a relationship. *weeps* #ForeverAlone

In any case, I hope the storyline gets more interesting soon. Marten/Claire squees and heartwarming reunions with his Mom and Momo sidestories get really boring really fast with me. Hoping we get more Faye art and sobriety developments. I'm feeling grouchy lately, and it would be nice to see how my favorite fictional grouch is doing. :3

[Pilchard123]

Your username?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg

[Rghfrgl]

She is also unlikely to have an evil twin sister.

This is why Pintsize must never, ever find her old chassis.

[War Sparrow]

Also, last I knew, weed doesn't cause one to see colors, hallucinations, or tracers, which is what she's assumably seeing there. She dropped LSD before, after all. That's what I'm interpreting panel 3 as. You'll note it's the same effect as when the anthroPCs did their hallucinogenic equivalent way back when.

Actually, marijuana can cause hallucinations for some people. It's weird in that it has been linked to increasing psychotic symptoms*, or suppressing them. It has also been linked to reducing or increasing anxiety.

*I cannot recall if that particular study was with people predisposed to, or suffering from, psychotic symptoms. I also can't find the study. But correlation does not imply causation, and whatnot

I imagine she is on LSD or Ecstasy, though. Also shocked she hasn't been fired for it.

[Endellion]

June is a much better month.

Bah, nothing beats May (birfday today \o/ )

We've also seen her with bloodshot eyes on far more than one ocassion, with behavior indicative that she's likely not completely sober.

Also, last I knew, weed doesn't cause one to see colors, hallucinations, or tracers, which is what she's assumably seeing there. She dropped LSD before, after all. That's what I'm interpreting panel 3 as. You'll note it's the same effect as when the anthroPCs did their hallucinogenic equivalent way back when.

He did a similar thing with Raven even further way back when, although that was from paint fumes and not mind altering drugs.

[chaospersonified]

June is a much better month.

Bah, nothing beats May (birfday today \o/ )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[jwhouk]

June is a much better month.

Bah, nothing beats May (birfday today \o/ )

Happy birthday! 

[Omega Entity]

I hate PDAs with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

I feel that way too but I try to suppress it.  Envy is an ignoble emotion.

Just saw this. Even if I were in a relationship, I -still- wouldn't want to see it. It makes me really uncomfortable, regardless of relationship status.

I find this line of thinking odd. PDAs are everywhere on some level or another. Hand holding is a PDA. A kiss on the cheek, hugs of varying degrees. Humans interacting with other humans affectionately is natural human behavior. Judging people for displaying happy human emotions via normal societal interaction seems haughty. This is different, of course, if their behavior is directly affecting you (like heavy making out while bumping into you in the midst of a bus drive or airplane flight, disturbingly loud moaning during a movie at the theater, etc).

Handholding, a peck on the lips or cheek and the like don't bother me, nor do displays of affection in media. It's the hanging off of each other, nuzzling each other, excessive kissing and the like that do it. But hey, if I'm haughty because I feel some behavior should be relegated to someplace private, then so be it. At least I have some scruples when it comes to respecting the people around me, and I expect the same courtesy of the people around me.

[Omega Entity]

June is a much better month.

Bah, nothing beats May (birfday today \o/ )

Happy Birthday!

[TRVA123]

I don't mind overt PDA in public or at a concert. But when I am in a library and the counter staff is making out... that would bother me.

Its about context.

At work you are supposed to be approachable, I would not approach someone who looks as though they are on a date. Even if they obviously worked there.

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

Now we see that when Jeph wants to show that Tai is high, he doesn't do subtle and realistic.

Tai kind of has what I'm now going to call the "Space is biiiiig" eyes.

[celticgeek]

Yes, May makes this difficult.

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

If I may say, maybe May doesn't make things as difficult as we make it out to be. Also, May as a character may be annoying, but at least she's interesting - come what may, May will stir the pot.

[TRVA123]

I am really enjoying this, I like seeing the world from Momo's perspective.

[Omega Entity]

At work you are supposed to be approachable, I would not approach someone who looks as though they are on a date. Even if they obviously worked there.

I had a coworker who would not quite make out on the sales floor with her boyfriend, but would do those series of small, slow kisses that lead up to it. Makeout foreplay, if you will. That bothered me to an excessive degree.

On-topic, yes, definitely enjoying the current goings-on in-comic.

[jwhouk]

A Week In The Life of Momo continues...

Suddenly a wild May appears!

Momo uses TOLERANCE!

It doesn't work!

[chaospersonified]

Oh, the comic from Momo's perspective...
At some point,

[Method of Madness]

Heh, I saw that a few times that I came up with an entire verse:

There comes a day/When April is done/You'll saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay/It's gonna (gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna)...IT'S GONNA BE MAY

[chaospersonified]

I've honestly never heard that song, so I'm just inventing the rhythm around that and I'm have fun tonight

[Method of Madness]

...where were you in the year 2000?

(Relevant line two minutes in.)

[explicit]

May's back! I'm excited for more creative swearing!

[Method of Madness]

Creative swearing is fun. "Fuckpants" might be my favourite general expletive. I forget if I made it up, heard it somewhere, or both.

[chaospersonified]

...where were you in the year 2000?

(Relevant line two minutes in.)

I was eight. The radio never turned from NPR. My music knowledge was Raffi, and basically nothing else.

[Method of Madness]

Banana phone!

[chaospersonified]

Creative swearing is fun. "Fuckpants" might be my favourite general expletive. I forget if I made it up, heard it somewhere, or both.

I personally tend towards 'fucknugget.' I'm unsure if it came out watching Battlestar Galactica in that they used that specific expletive, or that I heard them use the word 'nugget' in a derogative sense on that show and henceforth attached the cursing myself

[Method of Madness]

Fucknugget is even funnier if you're not using nugget as a derogative sense. Now that I think about it, I think "fuckpants" was from Will Ferrell's character from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Or maybe that was "fuck beans".

[chaospersonified]

Fucknugget is even funnier if you're not using nugget as a derogative sense. Now that I think about it, I think "fuckpants" was from Will Ferrell's character from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Or maybe that was "fuck beans".

I mean, at this point, half a decade after the show ended, it's just a word to me. Derogatory meaning in the original incarnation aside, I called a pencil sharpener a fucknugget three days ago. Thing worked fine, it just annoyed the shit out of me.

[Method of Madness]

Yeah, that's the difference between fucknugget and fuckpants. Fuckpants doesn't apply to anything, it's just really fun to say. If you're annoyed enough to say it, you won't be once you say it.

[chaospersonified]

Really, now? Doesn't have NEAR the three-syllable rhythm of fucknugget. I think I'm good.

[amykathleen]

Momo + May = Happy Amy.  I think May is my favorite character.  She makes me laugh every time she shows up. 

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

I'm partial to "cockwaffle", though "dunderfuck" rates highly.

[jheartney]

Is May wearing lipstick? Or is that just the inside of her mouth?

On every Momo comic this week, she starts out happy, and ends looking put-upon. Could Jeph do a comic where she's smiling in the final panel?

[Omega Entity]

Open mouth. Otherwise she's got some clowny-looking makeup going on 

[jwhouk]

Fustercluck.

[chaospersonified]

I'm partial to "cockwaffle", though "dunderfuck" rates highly.

Cockwaffle so far reigns supreme. Fuckmonkey applies to people in a certain sort of relationship, I find, though it work best if said fuckmonkey is not a part of the conversation.

[Omega Entity]

Fustercluck.

That reminds me that I sometimes call our chickens 'Mothercluckers'. The bantam rooster is named Peckerhead - he attacks on a regular basis, and damn does it hurt when he pecks you.

[Timemaster]

Yeah, May! Whoooh!

Don´t know if she really likes her work (I doubt it), but at least it seems to have some positive sides. Like torturing customers. Will she turn the shop into the Grocery of Doom?
And this is the first time Jeph shows us that the humanoid AnthoPCs like Momo and May actually have teeth. At least as far as I remember. By now they´ve only shown a structureless surface when their mouths were open. Unlike the human characters, which clearly have teeh.

Does Pintsize have teeth too? Disturbing thought...

Momo continues her daily narration and shows us how patient ans tolerant she tries to be. A fascinating contrast to May. But I understand her tolerance towards her human workmates, especially Emily. As stated above. But between AIs some open words would seem appropriate. Altough they´d propably be wasted on May. 

By the way, is May still living with Dale? That could be an explanation why he is so often over at Marigold´s and why they are so...
...active...

TM

[BenRG]

I think that Momo is right to use the word 'judgemental'. May has many negative qualities but she also has many positive ones and, bless her, does genuinely seem to want to reach out to Momo and be her friend. Momo, unfortunately, comes to the table with a set of very condescending and self-righteous prejudgements about May, not automatically justifiable ones either, which creates this wall between them.

On the flip side, when you consider the relationships with their respective humans, May is to Momo a sort of hyper-embarrassing step-sister from the wrong side of the tracks. She didn't ask to have to learn to integrate May into her life but Dale's relationship with Marigold makes it unavoidable. I think that she makes Momo (who goes perhaps to ridiculous lengths to be the 'perfect Robo Companion') nervous and hyper-aware of her own negative qualities including short temper and violent streak.

FWIW, I entirely agree with May's tactics. There are some things that should not occur in public or semi-public spaces and that is one of them. Being doused with cold water is a scientifically-validated negative reinforcement technique for dealing with these.

[CaptainFish]

Ugh, a pressure washer is so clumsy and random. Momo only deals with creeps using electric shock, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

I love how thrilled May looks to be hanging out with Momo in panel 2. Hope there's more May shenanigans.

I also hope that Momo actually has an enjoyable time in one of these strips. >_>

[Tova]

The forums made an accurate prediction - I'm impressed!

[BenRG]

Okay, some more thoughts.

Firstly, over on the Subreddit, someone suggested that Momo may be talking to her therapist. This would explain why why each page so far seem to have focussed on external problems that are making it hard for her to retain an positive attitude. To wit:

• Her human friend insists on having loud and hyper-dynamic monkey sex at inconvenient times;
• At some point, her workplace became the picture in the dictionary next to 'Unprofessional';
• A sociopathic ex-felon has decided that she wants to be her best buddy-pal EVAR!

I suspect Friday's strip will be her lying on Marten's couch, talking to Pintsize who will round up by saying: "Well, if you're asking me for advice, I'd go on a mad killing frenzy but that's just me."

Secondly, I find myself wondering how much time has passed since Marten and Claire visited Veronica's apartment. A day? More? I'm trying to think of how Jeph could give us a clue without having someone explicitly state it.

Finally, it's a nice little touch that May has a uniform shirt with a name-tag. It just lacks the 'Hi, I'm... Have A Nice Day' boilerplate to make it super-ironic.

[theMarc]

Yes!  I could seriously read about Momo and May interacting with each other forever.  They play off each other so well.

I'm partial to "cockwaffle", though "dunderfuck" rates highly.

"Dunderfuck" makes me think of a foul-mouthed version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck.