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🕑 Added 2024-12-02 01:53:23 +0000 UTCSo this strip is in the middle of a storyline where Marigold and Aurelia are both vtubers (video game streamers who use animated avatars instead of their actual likenesses) and meet up in real life. Making Marigold a streamer was a great idea, because I had struggled to give her something to do, character-wise, after she got together with her boyfriend and became marginally less of a trash goblin. Aurelia being one too just seemed natural, and has made it a lot easier to integrate her with the “main” cast (such as that is, anyway). I love her face in the last panel. I don’t think I’ll ever be really happy with my art, but I’ve definitely gotten to the point where a good face can sell a joke that otherwise might not land.
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jonesnori
ValdVin, same. She seems quite young to me!
Hugh Eckert
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ValdVin
I could only approach Aurelia's age if I wound time backwards.
ValdVin
Red Baron is a pizza brand which exists in New England supermarkets. I have yet to find Mama Carlotta's Weinerschnitzel, but I know it must exist somewhere.
Spell Craft
And I love these hints that this is where Claire gets it.
Abhayakara
Aww, this was fking adorable. Be happy! (I know it's easier said than done, but really, you totally have my permission for what little that's worth! : )
Dean Reilly
One minute you're wondering, the next you're bookmarking some VERY weird websites...
Stephen Wells
I honestly thought Flavor Profile would be about spider coffee :)
PickyUploader
NICE!
Leak
Is it run by Dr. Oetker?
Motyka
Just a small note: on the site, this strip has the commentary you wrote for #2160.
legobil
Btw, anyone feel like some Automatic German Pizza? I hear it’s a great place to eat. Very efficient and polite personnel.
legobil
The confidence in her face in panel 3 is also great. Showing that comfort in her role etc that you could imagine on stream.
William Cole
4839 is an outstanding epilogue to the trilogy.
SilverbackRon
It is so cool to see the huge difference in artwork from episode one, reprinted yesterday, to more recent pages. It is one of the things I have admired about QC over the years and one of the things I always mention to new people when I introduce them to it.
BookBeard
Happens to us all eventually. In fairness, time *is* passing about 4-5 times faster for us than it is in the QCverse.
Aerin Moriarty
I'm so glad you made them both streamers, I've really loved a lot of those story lines and it fits both of their characters so well.
BobC
Move to IRL and lose the lulz. Sigh.
Jon Delfin
I'm that guy: palate
SilverbackRon
I didn't know the relevance of the colors back when this came out. Thanks!
David Chaplin-Loebell
Right? I think a fair number of us are in that boat. I was 30 when I started reading QC, in 2005, and I figured I might be a little older than the main cast. Now I have a kid who's 25, which I figure is just a little bit younger than the main cast. Aurelia is probably older than me, but not much.
SilverbackRon
Some of them can be quite entertaining. I find them on Twitch. Be warned, this can become an endless time-sink if you discover you have an interest in watching other people play video games.
Drazi
That's what she said 😝
Cozy
god i love her 😂
Taigan
Realistically, me too. But I have no mom-vibes so I technically qualify as younger. 😅
Diptych
Sorry - that sound just now was it hitting me that I'm probably closer to Aurelia's age than to the main cast's.
Sleepy John
Which one is reserved for the wi-fi? Or is that Roko? ;)
Miyaa
4836 - 4838 is Jeph’s three episode masterpiece.
ValdVin
Not to mention "Milk from Contented Cows", but alas, that's been taken for decades.
A. J. Alfieri-Crispin
“Authentic German Pizza”
Jose Alfredo Villalobos
I want to invite her over to Thanksgiving dinner.
T.
I have no connection to this shop, just googled trans flag crop top and this looked like the closest one to Claire's https://www.etsy.com/listing/1745376935/transgender-crop-top-hoodie-crop-long?ref=share_v4_lx
Veronica Jane
Dang that first spin of the random button was an almost twenty year jump. Feels like we're starting from both ends and working towards the middle
Captain Button
Give a new meaning to that old "Oats that have already been through cow" joke...
Veronica Jane
I'm almost certain there's eight million etsy stores where you can buy a shirt with a trans flag on it
Diptych
I bloody love that trans flag crop top. It's adorable!
Not that Patrick Foltz
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just around the corner on any street, women in woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from milk he'll never know.
Taigan
Aurelia is the old lady I hope to be.
Mitsuki Ayane
I live for Aurelia accidentally flirting with other characters. ~<3
Darren Franzen
Thank you, BookBeard, for another journey through the historical archive that only ended with the awesome hockey-puck-to-the-butt reference!
Mandy Hoskins
This whole story thread taught me that vtubers exist. Still never seen one, but now I know they're out there!
Shey
I hope you have people around you who can hype you into wearing it and that it leads to feeling more comfortable with your body (whichever come first!)
BookBeard
The oat milk, of course, comes from the lower left boob. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4548
Hope
We have different priorities and i respect that
Doc Gumby
I want to buy Marigolds, and she doesn't even have to wash it. Just pop it in a ziploc bag, that'll be fine, thanks.
Adam Abbott
You can see that guy's ear straining towards their conversation.
Harsh and Joan
That face still gets me, I always thought these two were a great match, friend chemistry wise.
BookBeard
Sure, that was an embarrassing moment, but at least she didn't tell the entire Internet about it! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4838
Hope
Fun fact please let me buy Claire's top
Maurice Kessler
"This goddamn town..."
ValdVin
It's been two years since this. NoHo co-ops are now selling MommyMilkers420 milk and oat milk, which, per the commercial, "Puts all the other cows to shame!"
Andrew Denton
I don't think he'll wonder. I think that he has a very clear - but wrong - idea.
Cancertopia
I love them together so much, if you ever did a spin-off comic I'd want it to be just Marigold and Aurelia hanging out. They have great chemistry!
Buck Caldwell
Thank you again, Jeph, for making a beautiful redhead cartoon lady who's actually age-appropriate for me to have a crush on. And how...
Ashbury Haight
Once I get more comfortable with my body, I want to get the trans flag crop tank top Claire is wearing here
Tannerbot
Wow, I do not remember this page at all. It is fantastic!
Armcannon Productions
The face of regret.
Michael
Everyone learns that lesson eventually.... hopefully.