Darkness Incarnate
Oh my god how has it been 2 years since we last saw Grim Samantha
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You gotta play cool cop and rational cop.
from my social circles i would say yes, the goth to clown pipeline is real.
I have been waiting patiently for Grim Samantha to reappear. Yay! Sam really needs to learn about the existence of Perkygoths and Sparklegoths! There are many many goth varieties, she could expand her repertoire and not have to renounce her bursts of enthusiasm and excitement.
I hope she metamorphoses into Clown Samantha soon
Storing road flares, obviously
Goth lifecycle 😂 Aww, I love Sam's earnest enthusiasm at the eyeliner compliment.
You will go to Dora for tips, yes?
Grim Samantha should meet Dank Samantha. They have a lot in common and would probably get along.
I want Anh and Samantha (Dank or otherwise) to be friends. I like them together. They have good energy. Wait, two years? Damn.
I was looking forward to seeing these two together again ☺️
So Bubbles is now chill enough to wheel out the standard hazing pranks when subject to sufficient Anhishness. (The Anhish are like the Amish, but completely different.) But more importantly, we're going to see how Anh and Sam interact. I suspect that if Anh can keep her thin facade of plutocrat-princess cool running well enough while Sam is around, Sam is going to be perpetually caught between the need to despise such things and a raging desire for Anh's approval. I can certainly believe that Anh is something of an expert on makeup application, and would be very happy to catch up on the sort of teenage girl mutual grooming rituals that her old social circle likely disdained as uncool.
I want to know more about the variations of goth life cycle in this universe.
I read Anh’s misnaming as “Dank Samantha,” and I can’t stop grinning, even though that probably means I need new glasses.
My vision must be really bad. I'm still seeing "Dank Samantha".
The fact that Anh’s roommate, a presumed daughter of another billionaire, went goth and now is a circus clown really reveals what daughters of billionaires become in this universe which is better than in any other possibilities in any other universe.
Tai did go to uni with Anh, though, so Anh's fellow students weren't exclusively billionaires' kids. Unless Tai has been hiding something pretty massive this entire time xD
fear most... GrimDark Samantha. ~<3
In the grim darkness of Samantha there is only eyeliner?
Is Anh a normie? Clowns are failed Goths?
They MIGHT be SUCCESSFUL Goths.
I see a Grimsam and I want to paint it black....
Wow, it has been a while since we've seen Grim Samantha! Love the comic, but I would appreciate a zoom control on the comics. We old folks don't have the best eyesight any longer, and the speech bubbles can be a bit difficult to read without the ability to zoom in.
Not sure which device you're using to view the comic, but I can zoom in fine on pc and on Android. Click to view the picture directly, then on Android it's two fingers, expand them to zoom in, pinch to zoom out. On pc there are browser shortcuts, or you can use the menu, but it still starts with clicking the image directly.
#5408
I started reading from there, and am now on strip 5628, and I need to beg Jeph to do this... Jeph? Jeph? Jeph? We really, REALLY need an arc in which Gremliz starts hoarding modular synths! Walls of them!!!
The buttfor is an elusive creature. It hides in the smallest crevice and tightest cracks. I’m sorry Anh, you will just have to keep looking.
Oh. I have another one. “I’m sorry Anh, the buttfor you are looking for is in another castle. “
{Mind Blown} How does this guy pack so much into 5 panels? The first two setup a prank so amazing we didn't need to be told the punchline, and if that's not enough...GRIM SAMANTHA!!!
Grimlin?
Goths were a really strong subculture when I was young, it wasn't my thing but despite the vibe many of them were cheerful. That might be an Australian goth thing, we can't help enjoying ourselves.
Remember that there are subspecies; perky goths, mopey goths, spanky goths...
But is clown the final form?
How many layers of black is GrimSam wearing? I count at least 2 hoodies in there, each a slightly darker shade of black.
Looking forward to seeing how Grim Samantha interacts with her spray customers (I hope we see Swordsmary), and how much her style has changed.
She's so adorable!
Small typo: it's spelled "sophomore". Freshmen don't sopho much, but by the second year they sopho more.
It wasn't a typo. That's how Anh talks.
Gods, Jeph, why did you have to remind me of the passage of time with that description? My bones hurt now
I would commend Anh's memory, but this was, like, 4 days ago in-universe (ok, likely a couple more, but you get what I mean)
A few months at least. The wedding was in early autumn and they are now in mid winter. There was a time skip while Claire and Marten moved.
This is how fast Jeph generates great characters: a webcomic about Marten's, Dora's, Claire and Clinton's, and Faye's parents would be wonderful. Not like QC, probably, but very much worth reading.
You mean like a prequel? Cause in the present, only Dora's parents are still together... If a prequel, when would it be set? If we're backdating from the present, like The Simpsons did a couple times, the parents would've been young adults in the '90s...
Grim Samantha is great 😂😂 'Life is nothing but a massive pain... and so am I 🤣"
I kept wondering why the comments were talking about "dank" until I magnified the comic for the 3rd time and re-read the 3rd panel and the footnote. I am both a total square and very tired.
i love any and all iterations of samantha and emmett
I want her to meet Liz. Like, so bad.
GRIM SAMANTHA!!! I love her
I am now choosing to believe that circus clown is the eventual pokemon evolution of Goth teenager.
Box of Feet
Faye, later: How are there 11 left feet in here but no right feet?
2 what, now??
Don't worry. Years aren't real. They can't hurt you.
More goblins we need to adopt.
This is the goth lifecycle: https://studiohunty.com/tamagothi/
Ahnother victim of the "buttfor" joke.
Epidemiologists think this phenomenon may be related to Butts Disease.
Great strip, but... Jeph, we NEED Dark Emmett!
Oh, I like this version of Samantha. I relate to her. :)
Faye uses hers to turn Bubbles on.
Oh no, she's has ligma.
…storage!
“Goth person who’s really bad at maintaining the typical gloomy goth personality” is always a fun character archetype
Reminds me of this cartoon I saw decades ago, with a goth dude at a café, thinking, worried, "Sure, it's tasty with a coffee and a coconut chocolate ball... but is it metal?"
I LOVE HER AND HER SPOOPY FACE
Unrelated but I love your new profile picture!
an lol moment...until I remembered how creepy I find circus clowns
SHE IS GOTH THAT'S NOT A CLOWN HOW DARE YOU
Sam! I’ve missed her!!
That's GRIM Samantha! Not, and I emphasize NOT... Grim Sammy.
Bahahaha
Great to see G.S. again, but where’s my person Emmet? (I can’t remember if they got a new name.)
It's Dark Emmett. 'Cause everything's all dark 'n sad 'n stuff. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5409
Also, I just read the comic a second time and noticed the box of feet.
It's much more efficient than storing all the inches separately.
THE SKULLMASTER IS NOT DANK! THE SKULLMASTER IS GRIM!
(Tai steals skullmaster mask) I AM DANKMASTER, MASTER OF DANK!
Sam, she anhderstands you better than you think.
what, Ahnother round of this? :)
ICP just got a new recruit
In robot terms? It's an exhaust port.
never overlook a good exhaust port
You have too many characters, my guy.
Naaaaaaaah.
I think it's likely that many of us may have woken this morning to find ourselves in the Grim Samantha space. But... I can't help but be filled with joy at seeing her show up this evening!
Ahhh, how I have missed Sam.
I want to see Sam's pet snake! I'm sure she has at least one, and she insists that it's her familiar.
Thank you Sam for interrupting The Classic Line! Also, Grim Samantha seems to be a thin facade over normal Samantha.
DANK SAMANTHA ☠️
Dank Samantha will make her debut on April 20th.
Grim Sam glim-glam.
DANGIT, Sam! You interrupted Bubbles' delivery of The Classic Line!
Oh my god yay for seeing Sam! I want to give *all* of the hugs but that would not end well. More importantly, where's Emmett and has there been ❤️kissing❤️? if so I might just outright die of the cute.
Very grim and dark kissing, presumably
Grim Samantha is growing up so fast. And she's gothing at a 19-year-old's level!
I can't say I disagree with Sam right now.
I'm now sold on ahn
I was so distracted by the cute that I didnt realize the 2 years part til after my 1st comment and damn how has it been w years?!?!
What's a buttfor? ... is it for storage? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4975
Shooting arrows at?
Is this where we learn that Anh is just incredible with kids/teens?
.... The goth to clown cycle might actually explain something about my tastes.
I mean if you look at trad goth makeup and clown makeup, they're not the same, but also possibly not that far apart either.
Grim Samantha is adorable
"Ugh! Don't patronize me, normie!"
That "15 tries" comment came directly from Jeph and you can't tell me otherwise. 🤣
Bubbles has a real sharp deadpan. I couldn't not laugh if I were in her shoes. It will make the eventual reveal exponentially better.
It's sort of two years I suppose, if you go just by the year number. The wedding was October 2024, so it's been about a year and a quarter.
Thank you for arresting my existential spiral.
i was rereadong the comic recently and coildnt believe how long ago the wedding was
2 years? That cant be right.... dear lord
But how many of her years?
2 years makes me realize how unaware I am of the passage of time.
Time is fake.
Aww, now I'll never know what's a buttfor. 😔
Don't worry, if you ask around enough I'm sure someone will tell you.
...and, after the cold winter, a beautiful, colorful circus clown emerges from the goth chrysalis in the warmth of the spring.