QC Rerun Time 2025 #I Give Up On Numbering These
Ah, Brun. Brun was kind of a weird one because she showed up like completely formed in my head, but after a while it felt like I sort of lost the thread of her character. And when you have a cast as sprawling as mine, that spells trouble, because there are usually 15 other dangling plot threads just waiting to be pulled and it's very difficult to pick up that trail again. Maybe we'll see more of her in the future, but there's just so much other stuff I need to write about (Steve, cereal, etc) that she's very much on the back burner. It's a shame, but that's how things go sometimes!
FYI, I will be skipping one update this week because it's been a year and I miss my comic weeks lining up in multiples of 5. If I have time this week in between regular work (god it feels good to be rebuilding my buffer again) I'll try to post a lil doodle or something for y'all on here. I hope everyone is having a nice holiday time! Or just a nice time in general if it's not a holiday for you. I got to pet a cat today, which was pretty great.
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I respect and trust your muse but I'm sorry it happened the way t did. I loved and still love Brun and have been struggling to get into Anh and especially Ayo.
So, as Patreon members, do we get cat pics for christmas plz?
If I could pick one character to bring back, it'd be Brun. Her strips were always my favorites. But I think she was just too chill to be a source of drama, and it's the drama inciters who tend to drive the plot. The only drama she was tied to was other folks having crushes on her. Once that was resolved, she didn't need to be in frame anymore. How about this: Brun's friend could drag her to Willow's yoga class. Brun and Marigold bond over their dislike of exercise. Brun asks Willow "This is awful, why do you do it?" And Willow isn't easily offended so she just nonjudgementally explains what she likes about it, and an entertaining friendship starts to form between two very different people. It'd be nice to see people who really like each other but aren't romantically interested for a change! A "friend-crush" sort of situation... I could see Brun being a good character for that dynamic. Brun wanting to be friends with Willow but not knowing how to go about it, and being anxious and getting support from the rest of the QC cast. Then Iris gets jealous of Brun's interest in Willow, making her even meaner than usual. And Brun is just like, "I don't like you. You're mean to people." Forcing Willow to face the fact that her friend Iris is deeply problematic and abusive to people Iris likes, and eventually confronting her about it. Very funny Drama, Trauma, and Healing ensue. (Haha this was just meant to be a "I wonder what sort of drama Brun could be involved in" and turned into an unexpectedly detailed fanfic!)
I like this.
Brun, Sam, Mom, Elliot, Jimbo, Sven. BUT WHERE'S RAVEN! I miss Raven.
Raven has ascended into Eldritch Horrordom.
I'm very pro-Brun. But not in a skeevy way.
Pro-Brun… possibly in a skeevy way
I miss Brun!
"A sweaty daffodil" iirc
If you get a cat, you can get free pets every day. Just saying...
I choose to believe Brun is still sleeping face down in Millie's ass to this day
Brun can’t sleep anywhere else, Millie has a REALLY comfortable ass.
You should *always* pet available cats. It sort of fills in potholes in your day.
Unless the cat does not want to be petted.
I AM VICTORIOUS - SO RELATABLE
PET THAT CAT
Take your victories where you can, in this life.
I, for one, welcome our Steve and cereal overlords.
haha, aw, yeah, that was a good one
I think that even you lost Brun's thread means you were successful in developing her!
In a way (and not in other ways) Anh is "What if Brun was rich and a better liar?"
This is how my brain works (if you want to pretend that my brain works): Brun returns. Renee joins the Goblin Adopters group chat.
i *do* miss brun... she's just so wonderful!
Speaking of side characters what vanished into the Void Of Unknowing, when was the last time we saw Raven?
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2079
This comic made a strong impression. I don't think I've specifically re-read it more than any others, but the last two panels replay in my head somewhat often. I love it. I also love Brun gently standing up for herself and refusing to be brushed off in panel 3.
And the fact that she knows what "Don't worry about it" actually means shows that she's pretty good at reading social cues ;-)
Petting a cat is always awesome, whether it's innuendo or an actual cat.
I‘ve just spent the last hour indulging my annual trash tv binge (aka ‘Emily in Paris’) with my cat sleeping on my lap and I was just thinking ‘sometimes, life isn’t half bad’. For me…that’s kind of a seismic realization. But never fear, 5 mins on Reddit or Facebook and I’ll be back to normal.
Haha I call Emily my “hate watch”
🎵 "Raise your hands! Raise your hands, if you're sure!"
Someone link me the last comic she was in plz
Possibly this one: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4510 Or 4502 for the last time she spoke.
And yet another cast member gets the nickname "flower pits".
Pet cats are good. Brun definitely would need a sep story arc of a few years to unwrap and rewrap.
Maybe Brun should get a cat.
So... She's on the back bruner?
I liked Brun and will be happy if she returns, but the one I'd most like to see again is Emily. She was the autistic-coded character before we had an explicitly autistic character.
Seems like she would be a natural for Robot Research Realm.
Wanting the number to line up is real.
Millefeuille should return. With her new girlfriend, Brun. :)
Enjoy yourself and relax!
I suspect seeing Brun and Millefeuille being quietly happy together in the background of a Northampton scene would make a lot of us happy too :)
Ngl, was not a fan of her. Unpopular opinion. I know.
While she lasted Brun was my very favorite
Brun needs a few strips with Iris.
Brun would tell some knife jokes. "Hey hey..."
Kitty? KITTY!!! (If you find my body in the mountains surrounded by puma tracks just know that my last words were "Here, kitty kitty kitty".
I have often thought about the possibility of coming face-to-face with a large cat in the wild, and being delighted about it, and then it being the last time I ever take delight in anything...
Cat. Cat tax. Gimmie photo of Cat, please.
Y'know, you're totally allowed to skip numbers, or use fractional numbers or imaginary numbers or quaternions, or do whatever you want to do to make the numbers work out however you want. What are we going to do? Fire you? I mean, it'll give the Questionable Content Extension developer a conniption, but that's their problem.
What about Brun's evil twin on that curling team?
I miss the boy couple
There's a difference between clueless and cue-less, but I have no idea what it would be.
I miss Brun. As the only character who is both (confirmed) autistic and (by my own interpretation) probably ace/aro, I identified with her in a way that I don't with the others. I do agree that trying to force her into the story when the ideas have dried up would be doing the character a disservice, but I nevertheless remain hopeful that one day the plot will require her particular brand of well-intentioned brutal honesty once more, and she shall rise from the back burner like a laconic yet forthright phoenix.
I'm not autistic, or at least not diagnosed, and I'm not really ace though maybe somewhat ace-adjacent, but I miss Brun too. Can't help but like a character introduced with a harpoon.
Brun on a back burner? Brun does not have a good history with burning...
I miss Brun.
Hey Jeph! David Willis (of DOA fame; certainly Jeph and Dave have never heard of each other or their comics) does a bonus-comic-voting thing. If ever Jeph takes up that sort of thing, I totally vote Brun. #teambrun
"FINALLY I AM VICTORIOUS!"
Skipping an update to get the numbers back on track is one of the most relatable things ever, even if I want to see Brun come back.
Ah Brun. I love her, I miss her, but I understand why she's not showed up again. While everybody will change over their live, the amount of change varies greatly, and while Brun is a bit of an oddball she seemed to have a nice support system to feather any changes in her life - even down to her friggin flat (and workplace) burning down. And since she's not well connected to a lot of the "big" characters (she started the comic connected to Clinton, Gabby, Elliot and Hanners, and Clinton and Elliot took of on their own, and the connection to Hanners was mostly due to shared neuro-spicy clock admiration) there isn't a ton of room for her. Might there be space later on? Possibly. Never give up hope :D
Right now Brun is probably greatly concerned with the recent power failures screwing up the US's official time.
oh i also miss the comics lining up on multiples of 5 but thats because maths autism mostly
We absolutely (subconsciously) expected 5 updates a week, no more, and probably skipping holidays. Many of us ND folx do like our nice reliable routines.
Brun is my absolute favorite member of the entire cast. ("I am very good at my job!" https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3215 ) I am desperately hoping you bring back Brunfeuille someday. As somebody who is on the spectrum myself, the clocks comic ( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4247 ) was so validating.
I just need a little more closure on her and Millefeuille!
Millefeuille! Millefeuille! Millefeuille!
Brun! If Elliot goes to a group session - maybe she can knock some sense into the lad. Somehow.
Great idea! Brun runs a group therapy sesh at the local UU church. Elliot gets roped into it. Wacky therapeutic hijinks ensooo! ( i don't want her to be on the 'back-brun-er...)
To quote Yay, "A kitty you say?" Pics or it didn't happen!!
It really does seem like she was gonna be important, possibly even as Clinton’s new girlfriend, but she ended up not mattering to that or any plot connected to the main cast.
Next year: Steve eats a box of Magic Spoon… and turns into a bunny.
Hmm, which was the last comic to feature Brun? It has been a long time, and I enjoyed her flavor of autism.
Someone linked it further up the comments here. ("Up" being younger on my system.)
I miss Brun.
Same!
I’ll be honest, she wasn’t one of my favorites. She was good in short doses. Have a happy Christmas!
Brun FTW!
Doodle the new cat! Right??
I do miss Brun but I get that the cast for this comic is massive. I hope she's doing okay.
take your break you deserve it!!
Winning
Happy catmus
(Just call them all #69 or #420.)
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