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Darnel D Cooper
About time she met one that met her standards I think,.... I've yet to see a rational, sensible Hanners drool over a person.
Stephen Wells
That was a while ago, and also I think she still likes safe, imaginary firemen.
CaptXpendable
Do Entropic Firemen put themselves out?
Lucas Werkmeister
the Patreon comments for that one are excellent btw: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15173008
Sean Kinlin
BookBeard may know the comic better than Jeph does.
awgiedawgie
I thought Hanners swore off firemen, deciding they were disgusting.
Alcaria Swain
You're like the resident archivist! You always seem to have a link ready and I feel like you know this comic better than anyone
ValdVin
Ellen in Leftover Soup has you covered. https://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=241
Opus the Poet
Drunk drivers.
ValdVin
I hope Emily's given up on defeating it. If anyone has the attitude and brains to stop entropy, she does.
Claudia D.
Ooooh, noooooo!
BookBeard
Pretty long, yeah. Eight years since it was last referenced in the comic, and Hanners herself wasn't even there for that one. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3605
DonnieRamesJio
9 years ago, woof, no wonder I forgot.
Raymond Dannelly
They still have a couple left, there's no official expiration date, and Dora is too cheap to throw out a potential sale.
SilverbackRon
Wow, that link from BookBeard took me to a section of the story I haven't seen in AGES.
Sean Brannon
Entropy is *everyone's* greatest weakness, when you come right down to it 🤔
Dean Smith
You are all 100% correct, Hanners would not truck with fremen, only fire trucks.
James Redekop
Catboy firemen Unfortunately, on a quick search I couldn't find any catboy fireman art that was open to the public. It's something like this, but cat: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31315145/
legobil
*sudden Ahn bursts in through the wall all ”kool aid style” wearing nothing but pants and helmet, carrying a fire axe and a kitten wanting to explain entropy from a 40 page Nature thesis*
legobil
That adorable look on Ayo panel 5 though be like 🤔🤔🤔 🤣🤣🤣
allanfranta
Sounds like something a group of youngsters would do, start a blood pact...
BookBeard
Anh was listening just outside the door and is now frantically googling "how to become a firefighter".
William Karr
I wonder if Hanners still has the crowbar?
Matt Pedone
I can say from experience that Australian firemen holding puppies is not particularly bad to look at on a cold January night, so I'm sure them holding kittens would have a similar effect.
Summer
Astrophysicist firemen holding kittens.
09Klr650
Probably not firemen. She discovered they were sweaty as I recall. Wait . . . . hot ROBOT firemen perhaps?
Philip Masters
Tell that to the heat they dissipate over a larger volume, increasing the entropy of the system. (Remember the laws of thermodynamics: You can’t win, You can’t break even, and You can’t quit the game. And there is no other game.)
Philip Masters
They fight it partly by increasing it. They tend to spread the energy of the fire over a larger volume.
Philip Masters
Good recall. But she didn't say that entropy wasn't her nemesis - merely that defeating it would cause a lot of problems. She is a wise woman, who understands that a nemesis that can be defeated is not a nemesis, merely a learning experience.
Todd Ellner
Precisely
Charles Hirst
Cats are telepathic - they know what you're thinking - they just don't care.
Charles Hirst
Some of us are just trying to stave off advancing decrepitude.
Opus the Poet
People like firemen. They ordinarily don't kill unarmed people for no reason.
Opus the Poet
Blood packs are still on the menu? Surely there aren't that many daywalkers in Northampton.
Alcaria Swain
It's not the deepest cut, but like, it's definitely been a while. She doesn't bring up firemen nearly as often as she used to
Freid
@Alcaria It.. doesn’t seem like that long ago? But perhaps I’m confusing things with the whole directecember (sp?) month.
Sarah Valentine
I can't believe Jeph went for "Entropic firemen" over "Kiten firemen". Then again, I'm not entirely sure the world could survive Hanners as a furry...
enchantedsleeper
I really want to check back in on Emily's progress with entropy xD
enchantedsleeper
In fairness, that WAS before Hanners' "personal breakthroughs" - I suspect she wouldn't be quite as put off by the sweat now.
enchantedsleeper
They're so cuuuute :D (Ayo and Hanners or Ayo and Yemisi? Yes.)
Kristina
The pfp being Hanners with this comment is a 10/10
Robert Heinig
"Blood Pack"? Do they steam-froth that? Before serving or after consumption? Do they discriminate or are non-vampires allowed to order too?
Bagge
dust?
Gamera
I thought she got kinda turned off about the firemen thing 10 years ago?
Jack Foy
Hanners deserves a firefighter with a kitten. TWO kittens.
Carl
I wouldn't trust a cat to put out a fire
pseudoclever
Apparently Hanners changed her mind about entropy?? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3183
Andrew
Alright, let’s go around the circle. Anh, what was your weakness again?
Jon Wilson
As a physicist, entropy probably should be my greatest enemy, but no. It's Clebsh-Gordan coefficients.
Rob Vary
Roko.
Melissa Wilson
You may begin!
Melissa Wilson
Anyone else miss Yay?
Melissa Wilson
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” Hannelore would be a spannungsbogen savant!
BookBeard
Today we learned that Ayo has the exact same scheming face as Yay. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4920
Melissa Wilson
Mine, too & I’m loving the channel change because Wilco’s How to Fight Loneliness has been on replay in my head for days!
Melissa Wilson
Firemen holding kittens, while mitigating entropy…? Is it hot in here?
Melissa Wilson
“…I’m gonna hold onto it, just in case.” 🥰
BookBeard
Yet
Michael Steamweed
I recommend a good pair of squishable silicone earplugs to help prevent melted brain leakage. From...there.
Melissa Wilson
I always thought they combined to make an invigoratingly zesty dressing.
Michael Steamweed
Most are credit card and cash. One is crypto-coin only. Two will be various barter systems. (The, ah, "personal services" model coffee shop will only feature on Jeph's secret extra-spicy Patreon.) And one of the shops will use a business model designed by Cubetown Economics Department, and no one will understand how it makes a profit. If it does.
Miyaa
Tomorrow: Goth Sam and Grim Emmett admire a hearse. The hearse catches on fire because Grim Emmett is there.
Timothy Roller
Touching. It's touching, dear.
Melissa Wilson
Oh, what lucky kittens! 😍
Michael Steamweed
If ever Hanners meets an AI hunky fireman (or two) who runs a kitten-sitting service, self-sterilizes, and cleans homes as a hobby, she will be lost to everyone forever.
Michael Steamweed
Recycling body fluids?! Yeah NO way she's happy with that.
Melissa Wilson
AND beneficiaries of physics! I’m a huge fan, for example, of both gravity & friction.
Melissa Wilson
Oh! Is THAT what I’m feeling? That’s melted brain I feel… there?
Todd Ellner
Nobody ever wrote a song called "F the Fire Department"
Melissa Wilson
Firemen. Plural. Like Ted’s problems in Four Rooms. Unforgettable!
Melissa Wilson
💯 she wouldn’t even visit a solar system that contained a planet like Arrakis, due to the dust alone!
Space Modulator
Firemen technically fight entropy, don’t they? Common enemy!
Nicole Widrig
Firemen offering platonic cuddles with napping kittens
Daniel Farnitano
I'm pretty sure stillsuits are not nearly hygenic enough for Hanners.
Yelling Bird
Oh, my dear sweet Hannelore, I'll be your fireman! I've set LOTS of shit on fire! Also, Entropic Firemen would be an awesome band name.
Dean Smith
Absolutely read that as fremen the first two times
Claudia D.
😔
Steve McSheffrey
Entropic cats who work as firemen would be neat to see...
Captain Button
As long as he can avoid the Patriotism Drones...
Phaine Of Catz
God I forgot about the fireman
Paul Johnson
In 2050, Jeph will be drawing 11 different coffee shops run by 12 of his earliest recurring characters, but with 5 distinct business models.
Alex Burka
I thought she was over firemen after they showed up at her door for that fundraiser
BobC
I'm watching that mug in the espresso machine, to be sure it doesn't also disappear.
Frank Wales
Hanners secretly writes fan fiction about rescuing helpless firemen stuck up a tree full of kittens, as far as you know
BookBeard
They definitely won't steal your stuff, Ayo. Mostly because you don't have any stuff, you left it all on the bus, remember? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5137
Alcaria Swain
Been a while since we've all discussed the fireman fetish
joe velsher
Fire-kittens. I now need to plug this into meta AI to see what ridiculous images it spits out.
SpookyPenguin
kittens in fireman hats slowly running out of energy
BookBeard
Careful, it's dangerous to combine those reflexes. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1226
schmod
Eventually.
BookBeard
It was indeed Emily. Hanners was opposed to the whole idea. Which is probably for the best because if anyone could actually defeat the concept of entropy, it's Emily. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3183
Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson
Oh, that's a throwback!
Sean Kinlin
The catnip must flow.
Everett Bradshaw
Welp, time to become a fireman.
ValdVin
Good thing the box is labeled "Kittens - Fragile" or we wouldn't have known. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2929
Michael Steamweed
She's starting with the "unpaid intern evil genius" phase.
Daryl Sawyer
Hannelore has Faye's crowbar, jokingly given to her to hit Faye with if she veers towards a liquor store on the way to the therapy group.
Kyle Major
It's for sure firemen
Michael Steamweed
We are all victims of physics.
Michael Steamweed
Entropic topless firemen holding kittens. (*Hanners' brain melts)
Doc Gumby
Ah, sisterly approval. It eludes us all at times...
Pejo
The noise I made when I got to that punchline
Captain Button
I thought Juicy Lady was Hannelore Nemesis.
Pejo
oh no
DonnieRamesJio
Was it Emily? It's been so long, I can't remember anymore
Magic Chopstick Games
You’re not alone, Hanners. Entropy makes *all of us* come apart.
Captain Button
I misread that as Entropic Catboy Fremen.
William Cole
I thought entropy was Emily's nemesis.
Captain Button
In 1219 she haggles with Pintsize for sexy firemen pics. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1219 There's also one about helping shirtless sailors open a box of kittens somewhere.
William J. R. Fickas
🔥 🙅🏼♂️
William Cole
Deep cut.
ValdVin
Last panel Ayo is going for the evil genius bit in both pose and dialog but she's just a bit too wholesome to pull it off.
Polymathic Man
Someday I wonder if Hanners will try out using "xor" in a sentence for "clarity sake".
Sean Kinlin
It turns out that, in the classic poster, it was a fireman on the ground yelling "Hang in there!" at the kitten on the branch.
Maximum Turtle
This is so funny because I just got to the part in jephs 5th volume of the comic where Hannelore discovers the Internet has sexy firemen on it for the first time
ValdVin
It doesn't have to be kittens: https://averyatheistchristmas.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/tumblr_ng58n9hemx1tvauwuo1_500.gif
Thisguy
Entropic Catboy Firemen?
Matt Grayson
Ok, THAT’S funny!
Doug DeJulio
I am reminded of those calendars of firemen *holding* kittens. Like this: https://coleandmarmalade.com/2023/10/25/2024-australian-firefighters-calendar-features-steamy-us-heroes-with-cats/
Amelia Lewis
Ssshhhh! You're not s'posed to let people know that kittens can talk!
Sean Kinlin
A fireman must obey orders given by a human, unless it conflicts with the First Law. ... Oh, wait, you meant thermodynamics.
Captain Button
We know Marigold knows about catboy games, maybe they have a firecatboy mod? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3130
Paul Higdon
FIREMEN!
Jono Hayward
I relate to Hannelore almost constantly. But never more so than today.
Sean Kinlin
Of course that's an inclusive "or" - if they kill you and steal your stuff, they are definitely mean.
Captain Button
Firemen are inherently opposed to entropy, it's their job.
Joseph Bonnar
Firemen. Holding sexy kittens.
Sean Kinlin
Firemen fight entropy; kittens are agents of entropy.
Meghann Jaquette
Judging from the comments, we need a drawing of some catboy firemen... just saying
R S
How old is the firemen reference
Steve DeGroof
Gotta be firemen. They fight entropy and rescue kittens.
Anthony Sammons
Fireman holding kittens talking about entropy
DonnieRamesJio
Entropy isn't her weakness, it's her arch-nemesis
Will
Entropic cat eared firemen
Bill Silvia
Thus endeth the debate over whether she still interested.
Gene
Damnit Jeph, now that song is in my head
sjlxndr
Shoop eh doop
Seidmadr
Tapirs.
Adam Friedlander
I thought she wasn't into firemen anymore. Maybe the yak encounters helped her put the one slightly whiff fireman into perspective?
Michael
Definitely sexy firemen
Brian
Two days, two helpful conversations in front of coffee price signs
Wynn Donivan
Entropic catboy firemen?
Joel Bateman
Ahh, good to see the fireman thing come back.
Wednesday
entropic catboy firemen
Matt Grayson
The second law - firemen edition.
