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Directember: Penalization

🕑 Added 2024-12-08 01:17:52 +0000 UTC

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Hugh Eckert

He probably would, anyway, and then have to deal with the consequences...

Ursus Ridens

I _knew_ that there was a problem with giving Pintsize a human-style chassis: he probably can't do that any more.

tellumo

Pintsize's face here always gave me a "not angry, just *disappointed*" vibe

Craig Griffith

I love that it takes up the last two panels like it takes several seconds for Pintsize to do it

SheepFace2000

Do you ever miss writing for the old pintsize body? It feels like it lent itself to very slapstick/absurd humour

Yulia

Ideally it would just work without glitching...

alphanor

Weird is good, weird is very good. It's what makes life bearable. Please continue being weird.

alphanor

I find that hitting refresh once or twice will go from the cloudflare page to the comic.

YsabetJustYsabet

Ball-peen hammer! (badum-ching!)

Duncan

Questionable Domain?

William Cole

King Missile!

Yulia

After it didn't work in my main browser, I used opera with adblock and I had the same problem.

allanfranta

I would recommend uBlock Origin for the ads at least.

Bill Silvia

I could be remembering wrong, but I think the military one was bought for a repair and not the one he has at the start.

Brian Appel

The title just brought to mind the old detachable penis song. What a weird thing to recall.

Fennec12

Your weirdness embiggins us!

enchantedsleeper

Paging through the other strips around this: it's funny, I had thought that Marigold didn't get together with Dale until after Angus left, partly because he's nowhere to be seen in the strip where Dale stays over and makes pancakes. I guess he found somewhere else to be? xD (I mean, I'd say he stayed over at Faye and Marten's but he doesn't really pop up there either)

enchantedsleeper

But Pintsize's chassis was originally military - and isn't that cited as a reason why he could withstand a lot of Faye beat-ups? I always thought the silver parts of his body were purely metal, too, though I imagined the green parts were more rubbery.

enchantedsleeper

I mean Delilah also doesn't strike me as the type to let a guy go ahead if he doesn't

Mark Eichin

So, more likely a Werner Herzog documentary.

Dissociated Women Incorporated

You could have the processing be in the head, but the body’s able to be controlled via Bluetooth or similar.

Onyx

Jeph - the website's been down off and on for a couple of days, just as an fyi (You probably already know lol)

Mitsuki Ayane

you know it's funny, looking back over these older comics, especially that first page, I recall seeing the art as it gradually changed and got better, can y'all believe that I was initially against the first art improvement when it changed from everyone being pasty white to having skin colors? ~<3

Halloween Jack

Are you talking about the pens with the ergonomic grips? I liked those. We used to have those bare plastic Bics and have to try to hold onto them with our sweaty little fingers because the schools weren't air conditioned.

Brian Yaras

Congrats, y'all. We've crashed QC trying to backtrack to the sloppy makeouts Edit: QD to QC. Bloody autocorrect

Charles Hirst

I usually have the QC archive open on a second monitor so I can follow BookBeard's links without going away from Patreon - but Cloudflare claims that it is working, and the problem is an Error 522 from questionablecontent.net. Oh how I miss it!

legobil

I’m gonna go ahead and agree with Jeph. That throw was an incredible gag.

Shane Wegner

It seems sensible to me that the head and body could be wirelessly linked. A Wi-Fi spectrum jammer could render him paralyzed when unlinked.

ValdVin

On my browser the feed showed only the second panel, and I thought "Oh, this one!" And I'm not alone in this.

Mirage the Fennec

NSA hookups? I think those are called wiretaps.

will davison

Another QC I’d categorize as “Old Relatable.” Problem with not being into NSA hookups is you have to try one to find out. I had to wrack my brain and finally archive-dive to figure out who this was. Padma? No, it was granola Delilah. Remember Padma, though? Is that the first time we see Marten being straight shitty? Good times. I keep editing this stupid comment. I’m now in a full archive binge. Jimbo having a BSOD looking at the fancy beer menu is a moment!

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

Nah, Marty is responsible enough to wrap it up

William Cole

With Pintsize, NOTHING is a metaphor.

That Blair Guy

I wonder what that is in QC time. I sometimes wonder if she’s going to show up with a “surprise” for Marten. (Probably not since that would radically change the strip, but I do wonder….)

jonesnori

I like new Pintsize better, but they're both good!

jonesnori

Intentionally so, of course!

Yugo Nakai

You're not wrong. Metal dents if it's thin enough, unlike most plastic! And it can be coated in rubberized plastic, too. Fits in with Pintsize having a cheap chassis.

Sleepy John

Always thought 'giving head' was just a metaphor.

FreeReedz

Just like what passes for reality these days😏.

James Anthony

I always assumed his processing was just distributed, so processing of visual data and speaking (maybe hearing, though I prefer the idea that he has auditory receptors everywhere) was handled in the head, and movement was handled in the body, with planning and the like being dispersed throughout his body. Kinda like the Founders on DS9 now that I think about it.

Mad Marie

10 years later..."Delilah! her name was Delilah!"

SilverbackRon

I always thought of him as metallic! But that made the whole "punch Pintsize, make a dent" seem odd. Shouldn't people injure their fist? But then... cartoon logic. I guess finding out he was never metal kinda makes sense?

BookBeard

Come on Pintsize, that's no way to get aHEAD in life. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=21

SilverbackRon

Happy weird day to you, happy weird day to you, happy weird day, dear Ben, happy weird day to you.

Maurice Kessler

I loved seeing Marten grow up a bit.

Sean Kinlin

Worse if Marten catches the head, which then says, "Get ready for a surprise!"

Captain Button

The nuke could only be armed when the head was attached.

BookBeard

If it's anything like when he was still using it, it's mostly pigeons. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3087 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3768

Captain Button

Who was Winslow's cricket who got fried in someone's motherboard?

Captain Button

Marten was supposed to be matched with a robobluewhale

Melissa Wilson

And all of us weirdos are SO very grateful to be along for the wild, wonderful, weird ride!

Kevin McCarthy

This...THIS is the Pintsize I like to see. Humanoid Pintsize is, I dunno, kinda disturbing.

BobC

Well, for the person catching it, it certainly is one way to get a head!

BookBeard

Ursula *was* briefly his head, so technically it's the same technique. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2649

Xionwalker

I kinda miss the old antics with Martin more or less being on his own. Kinda like that was the base. Whole different feeling now that we swap perspectives all the time. I'm certainly not complaining though.

Clifton Royston

... and I see he already did, just before I could complete my answer. Excellent.

Ben R

The longer you live the weirder it gets. I have 74 years of weird.

Clifton Royston

This is covered somewhere long ago, in a conversation between Marten, Pintsize, Momo, and I think Claire. The "adoption" agency had the spider-robot-AI guy do an EEG readout on Marten, and - as Momo explains - because Marten was paralyzed with fear of the giant spider, all the measurements were wrong. As a result, the agency mistakenly matched up Pintsize and Marten thinking they would be a good match. Pintsize was a lot more aggrieved about it than Marten when he heard that he could have been matched with someone better suited. BookBeard can probably give you the chapter and verse.

BookBeard

To make a long story short, it's all Gordon's fault. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2336

Steve McSheffrey

Considering Pintsize's personality I always wondered how they wound up together.

Doc Gumby

Waiting for the Attenborough documentary on the strange biota living in Pintsize's old head.

Andrew Mitchell

Weird, but in a REALLY good way. This whole community is weird and I'm totally here for it.

Yulia

I really wanted to read that storyline again but the website kept glitching. Pages would load with all the ads but without the comic and one time I got a cloudfare time out page... I wonder what's up with that.

Eric Pike

I'd imagine that having a detachable head like that would mean that the both his body and head can communicate wirelessly and to a degree operate independently. I.e. pintsize can toss his head and still control his body to walk over and put it back on.

Typherix

I'm so glad you're so weird. 😁

Randall Norman Pick

As much trouble as Pintsize causes, I have to imagine the whole body is a remote.

SpookyPenguin

it's a funny gag but also the characters are being themselves and that's the strength of the comic which isn't weird at least not to me. Also not so much weird, but talented and lucky and a bit imposter-syndrome maybe. Artists should be treated as just like any other profession, that they aren't is the weird thing.

Summer

Probably before his chassis was demilled, his detachable head was a nuclear weapon.

beanabaybee

I kinda miss Pintsize being....pintsized

Amelia Lewis

You just know that if Yay ever got official (or excellent counterfeit) documents, their middle name would be 'Our".

Joseph Unrein

I just assumed he was plastic

Amelia Lewis

It would also be completely in character for Pintsize now.

Nikki

Ow.

Darren Franzen

Luckily we all seem to really enjoy weird!

chubbygoomba

My job is weird, my life is weird is a whole mood. Wouldn't change a thing

Cariad

A side effect of making all the robots more human looking, is these jokes would be more horrifying. Pintsize throwing his head now would have slightly different implications