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Andrea Andrew

Another new character. Hope there’s an uncensored version.

Jasper

MARTY 🥺

Miyaa

Make sure when you charge them for the surgery you don’t charge them an arm AND a leg, Bubbles.

Chauncey

Gods, I can feel the pain on Faye’s face.

Michael Boettger

I sense a couple of major-minor emotional crisis in the offing. I'm truly concerned for. Faye and Bubbles

Andrew

Bubs: “Can we please talk about my butt instead”

Jennifer Doyle

It's the kind where you're happy for your friend, but sad for you.

ValdVin

At least this AI's extra limb is less creepy than all those extra digits AI art thinks are cool.

Andrew

Go Robot Devil and charge a different arm as payment!

Miyaa

The nude ones with extra breasts and nipples are the most disturbing.

Shawn K. Younkin

I love that she just TAPED on the extra arm...

ValdVin

I haven't seen those. I've never needed Yahoogle Safe Search before, but now I think I should use it.

Rob McBobson

I love how she didn't just remove the taped-on arm, but felt the need to talk to a professional.

ValdVin

Cubetown probably has regular holophonor recitals.

Todd Ellner

Miyaa, you misspelled "arousing"

Todd Ellner

I would LOVE to have an extra arm. Hammer, tongs, and punch/chisel/fuller

David Durant

I know Faye's his room mate and, with the exception of Steve, his oldest friend at this point, but when folks are making big life choices I'd kinda expect them to usually call their parents first - *shrug*.

InscrutableJoy

I'm assuming she did some wiring from the tutorial, but the video ended without showing how to attach the limb itself securely?

LH

soldering would be like 10x easier!!

Zak Reichle

I honestly think that Faye will be able to handle this. She'll be sad and everything but I think that she is capable of handling this in a way that isn't self destructive.🤔

Fart Captor

A WALKING DISASTER!! I love her

Josh

I’m stupid impressed with Jeph’s ability to artistically convey “scotch tape.”

Yelling Bird

I know the whole cast can't move to Cubetown. I can deal with that, just so long as Hannelore does.

TheAnntagonist

I have named all of my nameable electronic devices since 2007 after androids in QC. A few times, I tweeted at Jeph and got a direct naming. As my laptop Spider Droid Gary reaches his sunset years, my new laptop will need a name. I very much hope we learn the name of this android, bc I'm immediately charmed. This comment posted via my phone, Beepatrice.

Zak Reichle

...One of my Roku devices is named Roko Basilisk....

JTFree

He's pretty independent from his parents and Faye has been a part of his day to day life for years. I've personally been in similar situations where I've moved cities/jobs and my parents found out about it long after the fact. Thinking about it, they were probably the last people to find out in my life. Just goes to show how different people can be.

Zak Reichle

I honestly didn't know other people did this, I thought it was just me. *Edit* @Ann McIntyre: We should definitely be friends 🥹 🤯

Dean Reilly

"I also tried attaching a second butt."

Chauncey

Hannelore will make it 10 minutes before reverting to pre-tan Hannelore and possibly nuking the place from space. It takes a lot to cause Claire and Marten to lose chill. It’ll take a lot less for the rest of the cast

Vic or Vyxter

Bubbles' expression in that first panel is utter *gold*

Rob A

As a fellow blacksmith, I'll take the full Doc Ock special!

kupo

Thank you. Now I feel a lot less guilty that I named my phone Pintsize.

Darnel D Cooper

"You tube video?" LOL! I wonder what kind of progression software would beused ?

Czarzhan

Did... did she try to affix the arm with *tape*??

BobC

I remember how we all reacted when Hanners left to find herself, and returned happier and more connected, but also more "normal", no longer the center of the QC-verse. I already see how we are starting to react to Marten and Claire moving to Cubetown. It will be fine! We have a wedding coming up. Maybe two? More? The QC-verse is so big, that we run out of places on the playing board for everyone. So long between visits with our faves. If Jeph had two or three more drawing arms, I'd recommend spin-off strips. But THIS VERY COMIC shows the likely problems with that approach! Sorry, we have just ONE Jeph for our entire QC-verse. (For now, at least.) No other comic has so many faves for me, and there are lots of comics I love! Those other comics have ensembles I love, with notable members. QC has individual characters I love, no matter what they do together. I mean, is there any QC trope better than learning which cereal Steve is eating? And if he has a basement? Sam? Marten's parents? Baked goods fetish? The list goes on. Yay!

BobC

I have only one upvote. Here, take the Internet!

Matthew Van Gangelen

You need to tell your parents what city you are in. That way when your old city gets nuked they don’t start planning your funeral already.

Sean Kinlin

"I tried attaching a second butt, but only ended up ripping myself a new hole."

Marc Moskowitz

This new AI may be attempting to master the antagonistic undecagonstring instead.

Peter G

Okay, this one made me cry a little.

Dev

I have yet to be disappointed with any of the many developments and shifts QC has gone through, and I'm excited about these new developments. There's a lot of potential in this, both in developing multiple different kinds of relationships and also in shenanigans. I can't wait to see what surprises are still coming.

Populuxe

Honestly, I’m really happy Jeph decided to go in this direction with the story. I’m genuinely excited for the future of this story.

Miyaa

@Matthew Van Gangelen • I think that is Lemon.

mammalsounds

Nobody expects the Boob-Arm!

Todd Ellner

Faye suddenly looks .... years older

Dean Reilly

She's too white to be Lemon.

Halloween Jack

looking back, I realize that I was probably well on the way to becoming a true nerd when I'd lie awake at night wondering how Spider-Man getting four extra arms would even work, anatomically, and that Steve Austin's bionic limbs would just rip themselves off his torso because his torso wasn't bionic, and jeez, does anything in comics or SF actually work?

Jerry Curlin Jr

It is her eyes really. Yellow eyes just seem to be attached to the most easy to talk to fictional characters

William Cole

Maybe from the same creche. Nelmo? Olmen? Lonem?

eilonwylovegood

Lemon was super yellow and her hair/skin was the same shade. comic 4354 to compare

Captain Button

66 comments and no "The Mote In God's Eye" references? WTFIWWYP?

OldGoat

She sure looks like Lemon. And doing counselor stuff, too.

Boats McGoats

It's the turtleneck. People always look older in turtlenecks.

OhhCrapGuy

"something about my face just makes people want to open up to me" god, this is just such a mood.

Miyaa

Not really except for the dystopian future tech.

Miyaa

I can imagine the FaceTime call between Claire, Clinton, and Aurelia. “No, I’m not going to get you hired Clinton – that’s nepotism! Mom, just because Cubetown has highly experimental technology… oh you want to use it against Dad?”

JCfromNC

At least in the novel most of his chest and spine *also* had to be replaced with metal, and I think they still warned him that his arm was stronger than the rest of his body. Also, too, he wasn't ripping hatches off of tanks or running at 60mph. But he could maintain an Olympic-level running pace for pretty much as long as he had the willpower to keep going, because his legs weren't using any of his meat body's energy or dumping heat into him from muscle action. (Oh -- and his artifical eye was only a still camera that took microdot photos, because that was the tech level of the time. It didn't give him vision, much less telescopic vision.)

JCfromNC

It's possible there's a hole under the arm with some jury-rigged connection to her "nervous system" that was supposed to let her operate it, in which case she really did need to take it to a professional.

JCfromNC

Plus she has Bubbles now.

JCfromNC

I just assumed that this was our notification that at least some robot bodies only come with Barbie doll anatomy. I mean, unless you're a sex worker or a nursemaid robot, from a purely functional standpoint, why would someone design you with nipples, even just cosmetic ones?

JCfromNC

Also -- it doesn't have to be a new character, might just be an extra.

Leak

"scarousing"

Leak

Should'a used Wi-Fi instead...

Leak

Soldering - easier. Balancing - not so much.

Stephen Wells

And some casual roboboob to start the week. Roboob :)

Stephen Wells

Prehensile tails are what we really need :)

Leak

Needs a professional farewell, tho...

Stephen Wells

The gripping hand, except it clearly isn't.

Leak

Gotta work with what you have...

Leak

Lemon-ade, due to the lighter color...

Steve H

I want the Doc Ock and Treasure Planet Long John Silver combo.

Steve H

Pintsize should get the next call.

Ted Van Roekel

Same, oh strange yellow eyed bot, same.

enchantedsleeper

Would you say Hanners was previously the centre of the QC-verse? 🤔

Yelling Bird

But she loves to make order from chaos. Cubetown IS chaos.

Leak

Do you want Hanners to release the virus? Because that is how you get her to release the virus!

Bill Silvia

Yeah, my understanding was that nipples, etc., were only on premium models.

Sean Kinlin

It's just a run-of-the-mill sidearm.

panpolypuff

Same here, questionably-self-modifying-AI; it’s a blessing and a curse.

Miyaa

@Leak • Or “Bergamot” which is a lemon & orange cross-over.

David Days

Azazel, Asmodeus, etc. Yeah, I can agree with that.

YsabetJustYsabet

Yeah, but *duct tape* at the very least (or Gorilla Tape for better results.) Not plain old office tape; I am weirdly horrified by that.

Elf Sternberg

Pretty sure we're still wondering why Bubble has a butthole, right?

Elf Sternberg

That's what QC needs-- More Culture references to go with the Dune jokes.

M.

The main question is: did the arm improve her ski-boxing?

BobC

I'd say she was the most popular character for quite a while, especially as reflected in the depth of the discussions in Patreon comments. The number of arcs centered around her was also large and very diverse (e.g., Station). Marten has always been the "glue" of QC, but as Jeph's artistic and storytelling skills continued to grow, more things happened around Marten than through him or to him. An early example may have been the Steve & Tortura arc. (Oops. Now I want cereal.) All of Jeph's character creations are ingenious and endearing, and I'm sure each of us has our personal favorite characters and specific arcs involving them. However, for the character that took QC in the greatest number of new directions, I'd put Hanners at the top of my list. Second on my list is harder for me to decide upon. Maybe Bubbles, for her personal drama and evolution as a character, and also for being a fellow veteran. Maybe Faye. Sigh, maybe even Pintsize. So many great characters in this tier. Oh, wait. I'm wrong. Jeph's best character EVER must be Yelling Bird. AMIRITE? 🤣

Andreas_B

Her expressive dance capability has improved by 25 %.

Todd Ellner

The left hand is the gripping hand. The two right arms are the smol ones

enchantedsleeper

Nah, their hair is wrong for Lemon. But they might be a related citrus AI!

Hugh Eckert

Just hope that Jeph doesn't try to scotch tape the extra arms on based on a YouTube video...

Hugh Eckert

The "lost your grip"ping hand...

Hugh Eckert

Marten should hire this new yellow haired bot lass as a barista at Teh Cubetown Coffee. With or without extra arms. They both have the same "people just open up to me" vibe and would work well together.

Fart Captor

I gotta say Jeph has gotten really good at facial expressions. There's been a lot of very specific and relatable Claire faces, plus Gremlizabeth had a whole series of excellent faces yesterday, and Faye's reaction to the news today is so subtle and painfully real ❤️

Captain Button

Usually yes, but canonically there are some Moties the other way around.

Todd Ellner

Marten in panels 3 and 4

Nicolas Demers

"I'm good, Yay offered to drop a satellite on him the night we met. Yes, I'm pretty sure they were serious. No, I haven't taken them up on the offer. Yet."

Cole Blackblood

I relate to the AI. Let me tell you: it can be either really weird or really hilarious when a stranger you said one sentence to suddenly tells you their deepest secrets/issues (hilarious referring to the time a mom did it in front of her daughter who looked at with a very strong "Wtf" expression - I had told the mom I liked her dnd shirt)

Daryl Sawyer

Seems to happen a lot in Northhampton. Remember Roko and Beeps?

Comics Ladybird

Melon, N… Wait, though I’m getting shades of the time Melon tried to… carve herself a navel, this isn’t her. Hello, new lady-presenting AI. New lady-presenting AI, NO.

World of Atkelem

Turtlenecks carry their own space-time distortion. When I wear mine I get sideburns.

Todd Ellner

Faye seems to be holding up pretty well. Does Bubs have other stressors?

Ursus Ridens

Well, maybe, but it wrought hell on her snooker-skating.

Ursus Ridens

Oh gosh -- I just noticed that Bubbles' hairstyle is turning into Emmet's. I don't think that this portends anything at all -- well, I hope not.

Ursus Ridens

Well, Jeremy might be able to use an extra arm (Seven not objecting), but blondie here?

David Paul

Cubetown is where she manufactures The Virus.

Some Ed

Vector... oh wait.

Some Ed

@Joseph Cotton: we actually had that notification more or less the same time we learned there was a human standard option. I mean, it's implied in "human standard option" that there are bots that don't have that option.

Some Ed

Given his mom's line of work, his mother most certainly shouldn't have gotten the first call. To be clear, I'm not saying that she shouldn't get a call or shouldn't get respect. But when your mom's job is to tell people what to do because they get off on being told what to do by an attractive woman (as well as a bunch of other parts of the job that are totally irrelevant to this point), it's important to set some boundaries and distinguish yourself from her customer base in more ways than simply not getting off on her telling you what to do..

Some Ed

The virus makes order from chaos. That's its purpose.

Some Ed

Wait, when did Peter get four extra arms? Was it before or after the launch of Spinnerette?

Halloween Jack

Way before Spinnerette; look up "The Six Arms Saga" on Wikipedia. Bonus: first appearance of Morbius!