Shorts In The Winter
OH NO
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Emmett, it’s fine! The Crocs aren’t even in “sport mode”.
I forget, what town is this? Shorts in winter, but I don't see any ice or old snow or other winter signs, no breath fog in panel five, no dormant plants. He is wearing a hoodie, but that's just a teen thing. Has QC moved to California?
There was no snow four or so days earlier, but Anh thought it was quite cold. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5513 Granted, she had just flown in from California.
Shorts in the Winter Fire in the Sky
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When dropping off our kid at the bus stop in the dead of winter, we were always greatly amused by the teen boys who insisted on standing at the bus stop, in inches of snow, with parkas on the top, and shorts.
I used to live in Maryland, and saw both snow and people in shorts walking in the snow. I found out (by trying it myself) that if my head and main body mass were well covered that it was quite comfortable. There is probably some real limit here. Doing this at just below freezing fine, but I would NOT want to try it at a really low temperature. (So down to 20 F, -7 C would be fine. Much colder and HEY! I'm a blue PEOPLECICLE!)
Hmm… circumstances say conscientious young man, body posture says he’s here under orders. Let’s see what happens when he opens his mouth!
So we want to see if apology comes out or if foot goes in up to kneecap. Got it. :)
1) I have heard that shorts in winter may in part be a response to higher than average body heat generated by puberty levels of testosterone. That doesn't explain everyone, but that may be a factor here. Not claiming any expertise. 2) I wear Crocs all the time, with or without socks. They are comfortable year round, convenient, and durable. IDGAF what anyone thinks about my fashion choices anyway. I'm nearly 62 and I'm doing what's best for me. 3) Can confirm that Crocs aren't fighting footwear, with or without the back strap in use. I LARP, and one time my boots failed me and all I had with me were Crocs. I told the GMs that I was going to have to drop to non-combatant mode.
As a shorts in winter sort of person, I think it is that we have a *lower* temperature, so things feel less cold. My normal body temperature is 97.4, not 98.6. I also radiate heat though so who knows.
FINISH HIM! ,,,with kindness and understanding.
Jose goth women are hot. I don't know where your mind is at, but it clearly isn't on the desirability of goth women.
It has occurred to me that at normal QC time progression, Dora and Tai's honeymoon will last a couple of years.
They’re still gone on the honeymoon?! Their wedding was two years ago.
Emmit's mom's cute.
...smart, compassionate, high EQ, and maybe (?) a professor. A lot going for her.
Harry and the Bendersons.
When Harry met Bubbles.
Still haven’t forgiven the person or persons on a committee for the Olympic Games 18 years ago who made it seem like crocs were our national footwear of choice.
ok, so he clearly needed to get chocked out. ~<3
He saw the light, but fortunately did not go towards it.
I’ve worn Crocs with socks, & cargo shorts — as I’m from the warmest part of Hollywood. It also works in Japan in Summer. If we’re in New England in muggy Summer — his outfit is a wash. My instinct is the character is projecting an “Eddie Haskell” vibe. My hope is an arc like “Marcie Fleach” for the character or to offer to be an ally. Maybe they’re hiding they have same sex parents and acted out? This is Jeph’s story. I agree with Finvaara. We will see if he is friend or foe.
Yeah, dry climates are good for this. Calgary is dry, and so many humans wear Crocs or Birks with socks for large swaths of the year, including winter. There is always some person wearing cargo shorts in -20C weathr though, and that I will never understand.
Look, when I was that age JNCO jeans were popular. I'm also guilty of not taking off my socks when I put on sandals to go get the mail. Let the poor boy hang himself by his words and deeds, fashion is a foreign country.
Socks with sandals? Maybe. Unlikely but maybe. I AM from Seattle, after all. But Crocs? No! Nay! Never!! With or without socks, it will take a complete collapse of Western Civilization before I'll ever be caught dead defiling my feet with those ugly fuggers!
He deserved the chokehold after all
Emmett is reading Dante Alighieri. Hot damn, that is quite the advanced read they got there. Good on them.
Emmett is the product of extreme small town boredom. That can lead to strange places.
Oh no, Emmett's mom is hot!
We’ve met her before.
If there IS a problem, Bubbles is on her way and the problem might well be her having to scrape Harry off her boots. HEY! I can hope, right?
My money is also on her arriving to either prevent further disaster or support with the aftermath xD
I foresee good things. I believe Bubbles has worked her Magic. ✨🪄✨
Ooh, Bubbles has met Harry?
What I've learnt today is that a lot of QC readers don't know how kids dress or what is cool anymore
What do you mean "anymore"? I *never* knew what was cool.
BEAT HIS ASS AGAIN
No, we don’t want you to get grounded by Professor Bennett!
I love the little smiley rocket ship behind Emmett in panel 2. or at least, I think it's a rocket ship.
See, I thought it was a cute little humidifier…
I’m beginning to think Jeph has a thing for milfs. Because, Emmett’s mom has got it going on.
You clearly have not seen Aurelia or Veronica in the archives.
I know this makes me a dork, but when Emmett said "He's come to finish the fight!" I immediately heard Warthog Run from Halo playing in my head lol
GDI now I’ve got the Halo OST playing in my head.
He's come to apologize for his fashion crimes? (emmett, be ready with that chokehold again)
Bubbles will show up at an inopportune moment and fold this small gentleman into an origami crane.
I am immediately suspicious. Not that he’s here to fight, but…I am just suspicious. Why would he come to apologize?
'Cause his parents made him...?
I ship it!
Why? Emmett already has Sam.
Are they not Dark Emmett anymore? Did they abandon the ways of the goth??
Might just be D.E. when around G.S.
Emmett is decent, but they *are* very Kiki-coded today.
We know Sam has a Kiki bow because Brun got to wear it once.
Jeph! A twist! Oh my god!
Don't worry, Emmett. Those Crocs are not in sport mode. This is a casual visit.
Ahaha, glad someone else clocked the croc configuration, too!
I smell parental influence...on both sides
I'm not so sure Harry's parents had much if anything to do with it. I suspect that being choked until you pass out by the target of your actions may be enough to tell you that bullying is just stupid.
I had completely forgotten what Emmet's mom looked like (and still don't remember her name, though TBF, I'm in that age box where names are fleeting).
This doesn't make any sense and is likely a bad idea: Hi Fleeting, I'm Age Box.
That looks sooo much like my son
Generational filters are hard to shake. Stance to the side, scrolling on a phone: doesn't read as penitent to my ancient eyes; it reads bored. But that's not necessarily a true interpretation for the body language of a kid that age.
Plus the two aren't mutually exclusive, you can be penitent but bored while waiting to be penitent
I've got a feeling that Emmet's image is gonna change when Bubbles arrives...
"You and what army" takes on new meaning when one is friends with Bubbles.
It's even worse than the 'thorities!
Hmmm, an unexpected development. In the interest of fairness, I'm willing to give Harry the benefit of the doubt through the end of this conversation. Perhaps he's being compelled to apologize, or perhaps he's genuinely sorry, we'll find out. Let's not forget, even a big ol' marshmallow can get peer pressured into being a bully enabler. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4204
Or he is snarky/etc, then Emmett's second visitor arrives and scares him into hiding behind them?
Emmett's adversary stood there on the sidewalk, Stone-faced.
"You choked me out. I have come to respect you as a warrior."
“And to ask you, what is best in life?”
I joked on a previous strip about Jim reading The Inferno, and here is Emmett reading Dante!
This Patreon is probably just a part of Jeph's webcomic-writing hive mind that's on a delay.
OFUCK
Military-speak for Official Duck. Cf. the Offog that came apart due to gravitational stress.
Emmett over here jumping trains and chokeholding people and they got the nerve to act like Mr Green Crocs is a danger.
Emmett doesn’t fear a fight because they expect to lose. They fear fighting because they know they’ll win. It’s a mercy thing.
Well, this is very unexpected indeed. Most bullies, and from my experience most *parents* of bullies, would use Harry being assaulted (it *was* assault) as a way to court sympathy and demonize Emmett. The big question here is whether Harry is here because he wants to be or whether he has unusually insightful / sympathetic parents who've forced him to come. If he's genuinely here on his own to apologize even after Emmett *choked him unconscious* then he's a better person than me.
Yeah, I’m not sure what to make that he’s alone, not with his parents nor with his pals who had tormented Emmett.
No chokeholds, especially now that Bubbles has calibrated her sensors.
I can't beleive I lived long enough that socks and sandals, the lamest sartorial choice possible, somehow became cool
It’s much more dire. It’s socks and CROCS.
I would have figured "No chokeholds" was a given, but then, I've never raised a kid, let alone an Emmett. So, what else should Becky disallow?
I don't care what momma don't allow...
Socks and crocs? Less chokehold, more Tombstone
OH NO!!! Socks and Crocs!!!
C'mon Harry, don't be a jagoff!
definitely chaotic good
She's reading Dante Aligheri? Impressive.
I thought that book said Dance Alligator
Emmett casts doom. Doom?
DOOM!? WHADDYA MEAN DOOM!?
Wondering which part of Divine Comedy is Emmett reading? I bet it’s purgatory.
Hopefully one with a lot of burnings & torment for the wicked.
And if Bubbles turns up in the midst of this, what misunderstandings could possibly occur?
Not much and not for long. Bubbles takes zero guff
i dont trust him wearin crocs w socks smh
And the shorts in the winter!
Next Emmett’s mum won’t be allowing disintegrations, either.
If Harry wants to finish the fight, it's gonna be against Bubbles
Pretty sure he's not here for a fight. Bullies are cowards, they don't show up alone.
Win the apology!!
Is it too early to ship these two? Pleeeeeeease?
They like Sam
The question is: does Harry have a crush?
I had wondered if Harry got feelings from that chokehold that were they both older might be considered a kink, but I didn’t think Jeph would go this route.