Post "Who's Bi First" by "jephjacques"

Leak

Comedy is tragedy plus time, and since it's still the same day it's probably more a tragedy of errors...

Shey

I'm obsessed with Anh

Fabio Neves

This gives me flashbacks to 99% of discussions I had with neurotypical people

legobil

Agreed 100%! Too bad it is not helping, vis a vis Anh that is. 😅

Clifton Royston

Thank you both, and you're probably both right, some combination of the two. I was in a very grouchy mood yesterday (bad day.) More often I would let it slide or at least try to make a more pleasant reminder to respect others' names (especially names from other languages and cultures.)

Glenn

Anh is rapidly becoming my new favorite character, and she and Hanners together seem like they would be a very fun odd couple.

Karvil

The Webcomic Dumbing of Age; the Jeph and it's creator Willis are friends, or perhaps frenemies depending on the exact moment and the state of the current Butts Disease infections. Joyce and Dorothy are main characters with frequent sexual tensions.

Pejo

yeah,,,,, her rear end

SilverbackRon

(I don't know who Joyce and Dorothy are, what context am I missing?)

Bill Silvia

I think it's because there's no unique way to pronounce Anh in English (unless you do "An-huh"), so people latching onto the most likely pronunciation (as "Ahn") which becomes easier to remember than the proper spelling.

SilverbackRon

This does not have enough likes! Have another.

Nicolas Dao-Phan

That Hanners is sexy? Yes

Yelling Bird

Thanks Jeph! I've been having medical issues since Dec 31st 2001. There's been a lot of ups and downs, but I'm hanging in there.

Ursus Ridens

I am not going to "like" that story, but I'm glad that you're around to tell it.

Yelling Bird

Opus, that's what I was in for this last time. Had a massive kidney infection. They said they found a stone and were going to have to surgically remove it. They took a CT scan to get it's exact location and couldn't find it again.

Yelling Bird

Graydon, a lot of people have thought that I'm secretly Jeph. It's the main reason I pulled back on the intensity of my earlier posts. It's bad enough if I go too far or I misword something that makes it seem like what I'm saying is far worse than I intended it to be, but I don't want people to make the further mistake of thinking that it was actually Jeph saying it.

Chris Warren

They must become an item. I need to see this.

Mooster

I have no desire to 'ship these two. Anh is just a horrible person, as Jeph himself has said. I have a lot higher hopes for Hanners--she deserves so much more!

djellafine

Ah... Absence Of Tone In Text™ strikes again! My bad

allanfranta

@dcy665 - that is unfortunate.

dcy665 .

either or both works

jonesnori

I hope you're over it soon, Yelling Bird. I had a bout of medical stuff last month - five days in the hospital, which was about two days longer than necessary, and at that I had to sign myself out AMA on my personal specialist's advice. Much better now. I hope you will be, too, and that you'll get excellent care meantime.

jonesnori

It could be autocorrect. I know I don't always notice when it changes something on me. I usually remember to proofread, but sometimes something will slip by. And a lot of people miss more.

OldGoat

Had an old drinking buddy who's first name was Byron. He insisted people call him Ron.

Daryl Sawyer

She's been a lot better about the touching, lately, hugging friends and everything. And she was never exactly happy with her touch issues.

enchantedsleeper

Hanners is collecting... challenging friends

OldGoat

@Yenni Desroches But effective communication goes both ways. Message-Feedback-Adjust Message if necessary and resend. Ever had a boss that would give ambiguous instructions then get angry when someone asked for clarification? Yeah, that guy. Women do it, too.

enchantedsleeper

Nothing in Anh's life is ever a her problem xD

Photon

"Puns are lego for jokes."

Philip Masters

Note that Hanners IS also an heiress, and isn't... as confused as Anh. (Beware the No True Scotsman error here.)

Philip Masters

The nice touch is that Hanners is demonstrating that Good Is Not Dumb. She's responding to Anh's confusion about as rationally as anyone could, and remaining unflustered.

OldGoat

Andropyrosexual?

Photon

Naturally is... the catcher. Naturally!

allanfranta

I should have said "lawyer up" not "pay up"...

Photon

But she is rather toxic...

Laura Sullivan

Yea I knew someone a lot like this in my twenties, a wild 6 months of nonstop drama. Made life more interesting and the rest of our friend group has stories for days but we had to cut her out lol

CthonicBelletrist

Ok but Hanners being Anh's Big Bi Awakening is hilarious for both of them for very different reasons.

BookBeard

@Opus you recall correctly, but it was a story that Penelope was telling Faye, and therefore not definitive. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1932

Cole Blackblood

Anh just kind of latches on to wherever her mind ping pongs to next, huh?

Mitsuki Ayane

I would love to ship these two, but we all know Hanners isn't going to go for it ~<3

Jan Szejko

Except that Anh isn't masculine

djellafine

"That seems like a you problem."

Joshua Brumley

Saturize, actually.

djellafine

@nbarnes you win the comments section today

djellafine

@Joshua Generalize much?

Marc Ducharme

This is toxic masculinity in a nutshell. "She's not into me. But she's so sexy."

Richard Bruckner

passive agressive curiosity. amazing.

William Burns

Here's hoping they fix your cloaca.

William Burns

*Some* people think all kinds of consarned foolery.

Carl Fink

I think that's a coloring problem. What you're seeing as the bottom of the wineglass is meant to be a gap between Hanners' body and arm, but it colored as part of her dress, making it look transparent.

allanfranta

The problem with the rich is they don't have to be smart and act accordingly, if they screw up, they pay up and move on.

Carl Fink

You've never encountered a person who assumes that someone is seductive because that person dressed up nicely that day, for instance? I mean, I'm a guy and I've run into that.

allanfranta

They'll fix that in post.

allanfranta

Philip Masters, thank you. Out-of-context problems is a great explanation for most of my life's confusions.

allanfranta

I have had lady friends, and I was their gentleman caller. Being over 30 and having a "girl"-friend only makes you eligible to be a congressman from Florida.

allanfranta

Apparently...

Stephen Wells

One of the primary purposes of fiction is to explore situations that we don't/can't/shouldn't/wouldn't in reality.

Stephen Wells

The sound of an author starting to regret what they've unleashed on, and in, their audience :)

Philip Masters

Nah. She clearly has a high libido, and she hardly seems homophobic given her friendship with Tai. If she could get her rocks off with women, I think she'd have discovered that by now. As someone said above, she has two weapons in her toolkit: intimidation and seduction. Intimidation won't work on Hanners, but she finds Hanners interesting, so her brain has gone all scrambled and reset to the other option, despite the fact that she has no inclination to use it.

Carrie

Oh jeepers! Figure out their type or crush and see if you can help them figure out how they feel. Or, they're crushing on you and this is how they deal with it being one sided.

Philip Masters

But you don't have Anh's rather over-specialised antennae. Hannelore is an out-of-context problem for her, so of course she's misinterpreting everything.

Carrie

🥵🤩

Elizabeth Rosenzweig

I believe Lorelei is referencing the "Who's On First" skit performed by Abbott and Costello: https://youtu.be/sYOUFGfK4bU?si=cGF4RmUhWmtEBMgP

Carrie

Yay team squiggly zigzag!

gaijin 99

Especially since Hanners is elementally repulsed by bodily fluids, kissing, and even touching other people.

Jeph Jacques

Oh my god

Jeph Jacques

Thanks and I hope your medical crap gets less crappy soon!!

Boots McGoot

i don't know, third base... this is so funny, absolutely blessed dynamic

Eoin Madsen

Bi furious

Opus the Poet

These two just met today, Joyce and Dorothy are in their second semester in the same dorm.

Opus the Poet

Don't forget third base is a Home Run for Girl-Girl Action.

Opus the Poet

Penelope is not Pizza Girl, i distinctly remember a strip with P and PG pointing at each other like the Spider-man Meme saying "You." "You!"

Jan Szejko

I'm just guessing that's what Anh thinks

Am Queue

... Is this really a thing that people think?

Opus the Poet

@nbarnes I understood that reference.. I'll get my flying monkeys to lift that house off my sister and be right with you.

Am Queue

Or at least scene reports.

Opus the Poet

I can relate to medical crap, I just got home from rehab for a kidney infection, 2 months after getting home from my second fall in 2 months. I was only back from rehab 5 days from the first fall when I had the second fall, and I spent 10 hours on my back in a walk-in shower with a loofa bath mat abrading the skin off my back. Loofa mats are great for not slipping in the shower, awful for laying down on. I spent 2 weeks healing up from that one.

Clifton Royston

*cough* Man, a lot of people seem to have trouble spelling Anh when it's right in front of them on the comic page.

Travis Young

Naturally.

Comics Ladybird

Two people inexperienced in the ways of non-penetrative intercourse (or, as Erika Moen would put it, “girlfuck”) with trouble communicating together, such as, I don’t know, on laying out expectations. What could possibly go wrong?

Ísabel Pirsic

Hann’s Ahn’s first

Abhayakara

This is pretty much the quintessential QC.

Davus Otho

Anh seems like she would be very good at interacting with people...who never say what they mean. People who say exactly what they mean, like Hanners, apparently mystify her.

Shane Wegner

Hannelore is probably firemansexual anyway.

Jan Szejko

Hanners is sending mixed signals, because on one hand she says she's not into girls, but on the other, she's so sexy

Steven Ametjan

This reminds me of my friend… “I’m only gay when I’m drunk.”

Bagge

There hasn't been a single comic with those two that didn't make me laugh.

mathw

I think the problem is definitely on Ahn's end.

Graydon Armstrong

Elf, you're making me need more journal entries!

Graydon Armstrong

I had always been assuming you were Jeph's alt! Medical crap is crap, hope you're through it okay soon.

William Cole

Naturally.

Lightsabr2

Guess you're just going to let the more (ahem) amateur artists... bring this arc to it's ... um... climax.

Anthony Gaglianese

Fair

Bill Silvia

Her interest in Sven suggests she's made a lot of mistakes in clubs, tbh.

Bill Silvia

This is so close to being perfect. If only "cracking an egg" was associated with a bisexual awakening.

Eric Sieck

He sure is!

A_Shadowmage_in_the_Pearlmania_War

I love everything about Ahn and I want a comic series of her life

Ursus Ridens

So, who _is_on first, anyway?

legobil

Ahahahaha, this was so funny. All of you.

legobil

The train is leaving the station, the lights are blinking, choo-choo! Anh: What?!

legobil

Oh, Hanners. So pure, so pure. Never stop being you. Anh: More mixed signals?!

Duke

"THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKIN' YOU!!!" "Third base!" ... "Well now you've just confused the issue further."

Yenni Desroches

Yea but it's generally mixed because of how it's being read, not how it's being spoken/done

Elf Sternberg

Comedy of Eros to follow.

Yelling Bird

Jeph, I've been having another bad bout of medical crap lately, and as shitty as I feel QC never fails to make me feel better. I know I can be an asshole on here, but it's always in an effort to be funny. Thanks for everything you do.

ValdVin

Well that's just great, Zilcho. We've been out here six seconds and you've already managed to blow the routine.

BookBeard

The last confirmed sighting of pizza girl was #3642, although there was someone in CoD recently who looked suspiciously like her... https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3642 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5110

Andrew

No one expects the Spanish Anh-quisiton!

Joshua Brumley

Heh... And girls wonder why guys get annoyed at "mixed" signals. :)

Tim Starliper

Brilliantly executed.

Tim Starliper

What about OUT of firefighting gear?

Minzoku Bokumetsu

it seems fine to me, most of the left side of the glass is behind Hanners' hand Handers

William Cole

I DON'T GIVE A DARN!

Gamera

*my gear laddened hat opens up to reveal a steam powered gattling gun filled with stakes*

BobC

No, no, no. What's'er name is on third base. With Sally.

nbarnes

Her two tools are intimidation, seduction, and a ruthless commitment to her own advaHER THREE TOOLS are intimidation, seduction, a ruthless commitment to her own advancement, andAMONGST HER TOOLS ARE SUCH DIVERSE ITEMS AS.... I'll come in again.

Kristina

Ahhhhh, she's deep in the bisexual panic, huh

James Anthony

I mean the romance novel basically writes itself

Elf Sternberg

"... stungun and mace, Karmann Ghia plates say 'Lost in Space.'" Yeah, that's about the right speed for Ahn.

Joseph Houk

I don't know (THIRD BASE!)

Elf Sternberg

I made sexy mistakes on a mountain once, although in the Cascades, not Tibet. God, he was gorgeous. And unlike Brokeback Mountain, we didn't forget the astroglide.

Elf Sternberg

That's "Dr. Heteronormativity" to you, comrade! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526

Elf Sternberg

And when WAS the last time we saw Pizza Girl?

Elf Sternberg

I dunno. Season 1 Hanners was a wildly different creature. Had sexy vibes in a "Oh, sure, I'll bite your head off after mating, because I have issues" way. Still completely unavailable, but emanating a serial killer sort of sexiness. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=520

David Paul

🎶Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na na, Pizza!🎶

Andrew

Heiress / volunteer firefighter. Stranger things have happened?

David Paul

@Logan Nix they call it "The Zoo". All ages access, but only VIPs go into the animal pens.

Rob Vary

Bi's on first, Pan's on second, but I Don't Know is still on third.

BookBeard

Both Anh and the wine glass are being affected by the strong lesbian vibes of the wedding. They make everything just a little less straight.

BookBeard

The night is young.

Sean Rotter

OMG this one had me LMAO!!

Logan Nix

Now all we need is two troublemaking twins and an ambiguously flamboyant hotel manager... Maybe Hanners should quit the coffee shop and start selling candy?

Logan Nix

Or go to a random club and shovel yak poo? Not sure what kind of club that'd be though

Mad Marie

As they say, "Two heiress human; tofu gived vine."

Mad Marie

I wonder how many women are on mountains in Tibet. Lotsa monks there, just saying.

Mad Marie

Pizza girl runs in. " Did somebody activate The Signal?"

Mad Marie

I you remove "the law" in that sentence,

Doc Gumby

I suppose Ahn really is, I also keep forgetting Hanner's heritage.

Mad Marie

... Girls: definitely no. Now a woman, on the other hand...

Doc Gumby

I resemble that remark...

Anthony Gaglianese

I approve of this message.

BookBeard

Split the difference. Go to Tibet and make sexy mistakes on a mountain.

BookBeard

Both, probably.

BookBeard

"Look, I just came over to say that I don't want to have sex with you either. So the fact that you aren't interested is a good thing. Unless you are? But you're not, so fine. I mean, if your not sure...? No, okay. Me too. Good. Fine. *cough*"

LH

i feel like both of these people have never interacted with anyone like each other before. it's like a shark talking to a yak.

Doug DeJulio

She certainly seems fairly bent to me.

Matthew Weber

But has Hanners ever seen a girl in firefighting gear?

LH

it's actually just a nickname, their full name is Bison First

Elberik

When your only tools are intimidation and seduction, everything looks like a potential conquest.

KSib

I can't tell if they're gonna be great friends or if Hannelore is going to have to lay down the law at some point on her.

Sexagesimalian

See, the stem has a curve in it by design. She just rotated the glass so it became evident.

LH

well duh, you're clearly not a sexy fireman

Mad Marie

"I'm not bi-ing--YOU'RE bi-ing!" 😭

Doc Gumby

I have yet so see a sexy signal of any kind from Hannelore.

SpookyPenguin

"I'm desperate to be your friend but let's sort the sex thing out first and it's your fault ok"

SpookyPenguin

Abbot and Costello can never be forgotten for this deathless joke.

Matthew Delahaye

In panel 2, Hannelore is so flustered she has broken the stem off that wine glass. That or bent it.

Sean Kinlin

Similar to an heirhead?

The World Famous Chocomerican

I'm starting to think Anh might not be very straight.

Gamera

This is your brain on heteronormativity

Anthony Gaglianese

Anh needs to do some soul-searching. And not the 'go to Tibet and scale a mountain' like Hanners did, more the 'go to a random club and make some sexy mistakes' kind.