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Absolution
🕑 Added 2025-03-19 01:17:13 +0000 UTCfucking fuck
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legobil
Well the US government is pretty weird, so that tracks.
Daniel Burnett
Omg I wanna see her eat something and have it dissolve inside her and change her color
Clifton Royston
And especially of her struggling with her crush on Marten, because that was very funny.
Clifton Royston
A comment I was *not* expecting to see, from someone I was also *not* expecting to see here!
Clifton Royston
I was just thinking about Zlata a couple days ago, and hoping we see more of her soon.
Kuragari
Marten's mouth in the last panel has such Elijah Wood "Alright keep your secrets." vibe. LOL
Taellosse
Crushes don't form queues, just disorganized clusters completely lacking seniority. And frequently also mutual awareness.
Taellosse
Um, I'm sorry Moray, but that's VERY weird!
enchantedsleeper
I mean, given that the comic name is *Questionable Content*...
enchantedsleeper
Horrible *last* panel? š
enchantedsleeper
She'll have to get in line behind Zlata
Brian Bailie
I still am counting down the days until itās revealed that Moray has, in whatever form it would take for her, a huge crush on Marten.
Ralph Cornwell
couldn't she just like.. *ooze* over someone and "eat" all their dead skin and dandruff?
Claudia D.
Detrivores UNITE!
Lucas Werkmeister
denying the antecedent!
Wild Card
This entire strip was made just for that horrible last panel by Martin. Well done!
Joe
beat me to it BB
Jose Alfredo Villalobos
ew
Miyaa
Do not give Matt Mercer any ideas now.
Kuragari
When you've got skin of dude, and it's economical food. That's a vore-ay. Eat his shins, got a lot of skin, like tortillaaas....
Phil_M
The US government, for a start.
Jim Feldman
I think they're a biochemical battery
Stewart MacWilliam
To be fair... It's been there since her first appearance: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858
Stewart MacWilliam
*slow clap*
Amelia Lewis
Carrie, "The Wreck of the Cubetown Ol' Boaty"?
Amelia Lewis
When a slime girl grows thin, And starts dreaming of skin, That's a Moray!
Hugh Eckert
@Yonatan, that was my thought, too...
Amy C.
I love it when Jeph tries so hard to get us to unsubscribe, but the secret is we're all here for this shit.
legobil
Not even your own skin?
legobil
Also treats people to hot cocoa.
Captain Button
So, a less violent Deadpool with better skin?
Captain Button
In John Varley's "Eight Worlds" SF stories, humans pair with "symbs" which are symbiotic blobs who merge with the human to form a "pair" capable of living in free space like Saturn's Rings, living off sunlight and matter scavenged from dust and asteroids, etc.
Captain Button
When a Gelatinous Cube and a Mimic love each other very, very much...
BookBeard
Faaace meeeats https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3173
legobil
No, Moray. You are not weird. Of course you arenāt. Who has ever thought that.
Pete Jordan
Seems legit, Moray is performing a service to humanity. A kindness. Unrelatedly, @jeph, I saw this and thought of you (or of a very early QC storyline, anyhow š)ā¦ https://youtu.be/b7h2qLU7BTc?si=RcOPmGj0RpyGIJR7
Vilinda
The best kind of friendships. Personally I prefer it cooked. Raw face is just gross.
Vilinda
Oh my gawd, that's even better! š¤£š¤£š¤£
BookBeard
Also sometimes notes. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4865
BookBeard
And stylish too. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5049
BookBeard
That was Marten actually, although Claire was tempted by the lack of pointy elbows. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5068
Michael Steamweed
*applauds
Michael Steamweed
They'd also be effective as coats. Keep ya warm in the Canadian cold times!
Claudia D.
Replying to Bookbeard, Opus, & Carrie: Iām HERE for ALL of it! Jeph could lipsync a song (or three) and post a link for Patreon members, eh?
Jennifer De Lurio
you have Lowry's fucks!
Stephen Wells
She has. The three of them woke up together the morning after Claire accepted the Librarian position. Claire has subsequently used the phrase "sentient waterbed with boundary issues" to describe the experience :)
Buddha Buck
"More often"? That implies Moray has already shared their bed.
Stephen Wells
Let her read Iain M Banks and ask her to cosplay as a Culture Gelsuit!
Stephen Wells
Instead she went with Gelatinous Boob. I'm happy with that!
RadioDoc
Moray just wants to be a D&D Gelatinous Cube.
Carrie
https://imgur.com/a/yV0tOq3 not my thing but I do have a multipass for other things....
Carrie
He'll cut his teeth trying to perfect an alt punk version of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Tim Weber
Admit it, Jeph. You wrote, drew, and published this one just because you needed to get the pun out of your system.
Stephen Wells
In my headcanon, Claire is nervous about telling Marten that she'd like Moray to share their bed more often, but Marten will be fine with it when she gets there :)
Stephen Wells
There would be volunteers, judging by the chat :)
Stephen Wells
She ordered ocean water with extra plankton at the bar, so there may be some kleptoplasty involved. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty)
Opus the Poet
Or Gordon Lightfoot songs.
Atramors
Probably not an adapter, and inductive charging floor plate or bed, perhaps? We've never actually seen her talk about her power reserves, perhaps she doesn't charge at all and has some other energy generation mechanism? She was just kinda *splorted* out of an ultra-powerful, deep sea, medusozoa AI... thing? And those things eat the fish and other creatures that happen to get tangled up in their tendrils, so maybe she just drops a fish in and absorbs it like a Gelatenous Cube from D&D?
Constanze Carstanjen
I'm all for slime coats (girl or boy, I don't care) as long as they have polka dots.
Krestus
I doubt she eats... or can eat... she probably has a weird adapter to plug into the wall
Joseph Bonnar
I strongly suggest going to Blusky to follow Jeph.
Dean Reilly
If people wore slime girls like coats, they could absorb skin flakes as they were shed. I'm not sure whether this is better or worse...
Nick Lockwood
Or since they're in Canada: "that's a Vore, eh?"
Stephen Wells
Jeph talked about it on Bluesky.
BookBeard
More singin' Marten is inevitable. His transformation into canadian folk singer has already begun. Before long he'll be wearing a flannel jacket and herringbone flatcap, sitting on Ol' Boaty's deck strumming his acoustic guitar and crooning ballads about the glory days of fishing schooners.
Raymond Dannelly
.....wondering what she normally 'eats'...
Jan Szejko
Every time there's Moray in the comic, I scroll to find your comment and you never disappoint! Thank you
William Burns
O_o
William Burns
Dean Martin, right?
William Burns
I miss Sgt #2.
enchantedsleeper
And we thought Coffee of Doom's banter was out there...
enchantedsleeper
Counter: Pintsize will stand juuuust the other side of the border and look longingly at Cubetown (through a telescope or something idk) because he would LOVE IT here but he's not allowed into Canada.
enchantedsleeper
He's right? Did I miss some kind of behind-the-scenes discussion xD
legobil
Wait. Sure husks and all that. But donāt just leave out the hair! It would be kinda interesting if people regularly shed hair, along with their husks.
enchantedsleeper
Slightly regretting reading this while eating breakfast... Update: Also regretting reading the comments while still eating breakfast.
legobil
It could be both.
legobil
Except itās a bit cumbersomeā¦.?
legobil
In my head canon, Marten has been reading Patreon comments.
Bagge
Daaang. The classic coffeshop banter is weird in cubetown
Opus the Poet
Weird autistic things, with a touch of psychedelia and the 17 minute version of Inna Gadda de Vita. With the full drum solo, followed up with the long version of Nillson's Jump Into the Fire. It's a strange place, but the sound tracks are good.
angrytoast777
because thats what friendship is two pals eating a freshly molted face together.
Granite
Could be worse. She may want to wear them as bespoke flesh suits. "I'm not feeling like myself today, guess I'm feeling a little Liz..." *slurps into a pre-dressed Liz castoff
Ailadi
Started and ended?
Phillip
Does this imply she currently likes to eat/absorb human dust/dander?
Andrew
It leaves the lotion off its skin, so it peels again
Andrew
Scaroused
Ktulu
I think Moray should eat a person or two. Just to see if she likes it. In the event people do start to molt ;)
Andi G
Is she wearable like a onesie? (...like Sgt. Schlock without the anger issues...)
William Cole
Bring a snorkel.
Opus the Poet
Butts all the way down.
Doug DeJulio
Oh my god Martin has to write "Cubetown: The Musical" now.
Graydon Armstrong
Being able to peel a big sheet of skin off is the consolation prize for getting badly sunburnt.
Graydon Armstrong
She is the Gelatinous Cube's friendlier curvier form.
Drazi
What, you don't like the taste of human skin?
Fart Captor
Moray could just vore me right now, I'm sure it's real comfy in there. Just need some way to not suffocate š¤
Ursus Ridens
So slime girls have somewhat, well, reptilian tastes? Eeeegh. And egad.
Jason Harris
Dog Bless Spider Robinson!
Val
Go ahead I stole it from a shitpost XD
Joseph Bonnar
Can I steal that ? I mean that sentence is almost as perfect as was Jeph's comic today.
Joseph Bonnar
When she walks out with a potato peeler, THAT'S when I'm gonna run.
Joseph Bonnar
The same, Tannerbot.
Green
That was a call out
Shinymelon Fearnow
What u did there.... š¤
Jane the Inscrutable
Am aware
Yonatan Zunger
Oh thank God. I haven't read Absolution yet and I thought it was a reference to the joke that ends "it's your turn in the barrel" and in this context that was even more disturbing.
Opus the Poet
He's trolling us.
Leslie Stevens
Specifically because of the dust/dander angle.
Captain Button
So, like the way Aliens mutate based on the last host?
William Cole
Bravo!
Leslie Stevens
My partner has tried to convince me humans should molt more times than I can count. An endearingly familiar comic for me.
Zig Justice
I dunno, I'd be okay with kink-shaming if said kinks are racism, fascism, authoritarianism, bigotry, and the like.
William Cole
NO! We must set a good example for Brad.
Gary Levine
Anh-ilation?
BookBeard
Check the title on Moray's very first appearance. Jeph *started* the puns! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858
Call me Ishmael.
@William Cole -Don't you think it's about time we started?!š§
BookBeard
As Jeph has preempted the usual "That's a Moray" gag, I instead offer the following limerick: There once was a slime girl with gumption Who revealed a worrying function While chatting 'bout skin She exclaimed with a grin That she dreamt about dermal consumption
SilverbackRon
Nothing but butts, five days a week.
SilverbackRon
Whereas I would use glue, then peel it off. Much less painful.
sjlxndr
JFC
Munk33 Magic
I too had this horrifying image...
Everett Bradshaw
Perfect. Simply perfection, Jeph.
TwoRavens
God. DAMMIT. XD
Peter Shaw
Brilliant gag at the end!š
Joseph Bonnar
Good point. I shall have to ship him his internet trophy asap.
Joseph Bonnar
I want MORE! "With a rebel yell, he cried MORE MORE MORE!"
Melissa Wilson
And kink-tell-us-more!
Joseph Bonnar
I'm going for the "15 seconds in the shower" one myself.
Shinymelon Fearnow
Jeff Vandermeer wrote a series, the last book was Absolution. There's a scene where a very damaged man discovered another even more damaged man stuffing human remains into barrels full of acid. He keeps repeating " get in the barrel!", counting on CIA-ish conditioning to work on Damaged Man #1. The book does include a scene where a man eats the discarded husk of a transformed man. The first book was called Annihilation and a very gorgeously horrifying movie by the same name was made . I recommend it.
Yelling Bird
See, right up to the end there I thought she was going to wear people's discarded skin, and Jeph still surprised me. :)
Sean Kinlin
And every 17 years, she could add some crunchy exoskeletons to the otherwise chewy diet.
Doc Gumby
That's more of a Faye specialty.
Doc Gumby
My mistake, I thought that was Sam and Woody.
Eric Johnson
Jeph, thank you for keeping me entertained through the doldrums of IT work
Melissa Wilson
THIS is the kind of genius born from a well-deserved holiday break! Itās still paying dividends. š
Joseph Bonnar
Trust me, Wyatt, you do NOT wanna know. Hell, -I- don't wanna know!
David Durant
Oh, I dunno. Drinking often helps I find š.
Joseph Bonnar
As Descartes said, just before he mysteriously vanished: "I think not."
Melissa Wilson
Butts, butts, BUTTS! All butts, all the time!
Maurice Kessler
More of singin' Marten, please. Filk-snark FTW!
Joseph Bonnar
Scorny?
Melissa Wilson
Ha! While I was able to stifle a full-on spit take, you just made me spray my screen. Though I admittedly oughta know better than to drink around this crowd... š
Joseph Bonnar
Seymore Butts?
Jane the Inscrutable
Jeph why would you do this
Joseph Bonnar
This is the 15 second shower comic. :)
Izzy Omega
Don't worry, you can totally peel layers of skin off through dense arm or leg hair and have it remain intact. Source: My last sunburn.
Mason Griffith
Only occasionally kink-ask-why
Ken
Ow.
Gary Wood
This side of Moray is ā¦.disturbing.
KiTA
VANDERMEER? Barrel? What?
TV4Fun
Can you please explain the reference to us?
Dallas Hicks
ššššššš
Sean Kinlin
Long pork rinds.
Sean Kinlin
She gains the ability to impersonate that human for a short time. Sort of like Darkman.
Shinymelon Fearnow
HOLY FUCKING FUCK JEPH- YOU READ VANDERMEER!!!! GET IN THE BARREL INDEED! š¤Æ
Ailadi
Dammit, now weāre thinking of her eyes and teeth(?) floating in there.
Sean Kinlin
You don't remember the episode where Cliff cogitates on eating Norm's shedded skin?
Sam Shores
It *was* pretty satisfying to peel off sheets of skin those times I got sunburns as a kid.
Vilinda
Marten had me dying.
chili sunrise
Jeph is right, I canāt tell if this script took three seconds or three days to write.
ValdVin
Wait: If Moray eats a husk, can we see it inside her? (And do I really want to know the answer to that?)
Sparky
Husks arenāt what Moray thinks. Dead skin cells would need some thing. I just donāt feel us human-types should do that. I will go listen to the variations of āSwayā now.
William Cole
If I've learned nothing else from QC, it's that characters can ALWAYS get weirder.
William Cole
It's ok, we don't kink-shame.
Ailadi
Weāll say this though- holding our phone at armās length we canāt read the text but the art- positions, angles, perspectives- are, in our modest opinion, excellent and intriguing.
Ngrasta
Like pork rinds!
Michael Boettger
If Moray eats a husk, does she absorb any DNA or something of the shedee?
MikeT
Wake up babe, Jeph just offered up a new fetish
Captain Button
We need a Bladerunner to handle all these skin jobs.
schmod
Pintsize is gonna come visit Cubetown and immediately do a heelturn. āNope. Too weirdā
Doc Gumby
(the best kind of horny)
Doc Gumby
See?!?!?!?!
Kristina
That's for sure-ay
Elizabeth Bear
They crackle like nori snacks.
Kristina
Butts!
Michael DK
Absolute 10/10 Marten face in panel 6
Doc Gumby
Panels one through four reminded me of Norm and Cliff at Cheers. Panels five and six, not so much.
Charles Hirst
Babies suck their toes - or try to. Some adults also suck toes - interpersonal redundant integument recycling.
Ashbury Haight
I'd let Moray eat a little bit of my skin ngl
fluffy
getting ahead of the Patreon comments on this one, huh
Mad Marie
6 months or whatever.
Devin Gates
Mark me down as scared AND horny
Ailadi
Weāreā¦. Weāreā¦. um, innured to this occurring with toads and frogs (who consume their shed), and collect the sheds of our sneks, these are good and natural. This comicā¦ is kinda yikes š¬
Eric Christian Berg
*ahem*
Doc Gumby
Excellent band reference. *thumbs up*
Doc Gumby
Now Jeph is doing them? It's spreading faster than butts disease!
ValdVin
Are you sure it wasn't a David Attenborough video of reptile life?
Populuxe
After several months of puns in the comments based on Dean Martinās āThatās Amoreā, Jeph punks us all and puts us in our place.
Randall Norman Pick
How long have you been sitting on that one Jeph?
Miyaa
Eww, donāt give Nebraska and the people who made Big Red any ideas.
Tannerbot
Well, I am now very scared of Moray.
Diptych
Not sexual, not horrifying, but a secret third weirdly satisfying thing.
Anthony Gaglianese
Alright, that settles it. I'm partying with Moray.
Laura Sullivan
Lmao
Miyaa
Schrƶdingerās Webcomic. Guys, Jeph hits peek hipster comic vibe.
Ross Weckesser
Moray Greenā¦is people!
Sean Kinlin
And she washes it down with some Husker Dew.
voyager-ngc5195
I'm less worried about Moray eating skin, more worried that there's probably a reason terminated employees have a final exit interview with The Director.
Lee and Sarah
Most people reading this: š¤¢ At least one person, who has learned something new about themselves today: š¤š
Zig Justice
Is it weird that I leave husks?
Val
What the actual old fashioned Kentucky fried fuck?? XD
Cody Renton
Sometimes you can trace back the exact line of thought that lead to a comic, and I think that's beautiful
JMK
She wants to eat your skin, Marten!! Run!
Miyaa
Welp. Jeph had joined in on the Sinatra Moray puns.
Madeline Hunter
Om nom nom, delicious outermost layer of human! She means well, bless her heart.
Yonatan Zunger
Also I just noticed the subscript text and I'm mentally trying to reconcile this conversation with the relevant joke and every possible combination of this is disturbing as hell.
Dave, Duke of Fridges
What the FUCK
Colin McBride
Apparently the number one thing being developed in Cubetown is fetishes.
Sean Kinlin
šµCome on! Eat another little piece of my skin now, baby...
Michael
Well that's definitely a real fetish someone has
Mr. Ifrit
Moray watched that one Lit video and had been forever changed.
Shaodyn
Moray just got even weirder. Which I didn't think was possible.
Triscaleon
This is easily your best and worst pun youāve ever put into a comic. I am both proud and horrified to be a reader. Thank you and please donāt do it again.
Zig Justice
Moray could totally eat my husks. ...Wait. Is this a fetish?
Yonatan Zunger
Today's comic did not go the way I was expecting it to go, at any stage.
Sean Kinlin
Jeph could not resist the siren call of the song.
William Davy
Has Jeph been planning this pun since Moray's introduction?
ValdVin
Jeph has won the thread tonight. And he didn't even enter it.
Alcaria Swain
This comic is never a bore-ay
wyatt wustrau
What's going on in your head
Bryan
What.
Tamara Macadam
cannot tell if this is the best comic or the worst
