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Me Too.
Anh being treated like Nermal for Faye peak.
Abu Dhabi, it’s far away!! Abu Dhabi, that’s where you’ll stay!! Abu Dhabi, the place to be for any person that’s annoying me!!!! 🎶
Abu Dhabi? ...that hits different these days...
I used to have way too many of those Garfield books. Numbers five and seven seemed to be omnipresent.
my friend's Garfield podcast has a patron tier exclusively for Jim Davis and nobody else. it's £10,000 and has no perks. i think they set it up as penance for what he's wrought. nobody made them do this
Anh just needs to dial back the assumptions that life is a bad soap opera. (It’s a six-panel comic that needs a punchline for each strip.)
es una telenovela ...
This is the only way to make Garfield funny.
Holy shit a Garfield reference in 2026 my comic life has gone full circle
I used to read those Garfields where Nermal was threatened with Abu Dhabi and assumed it was some unknowable Saharan location. Now I live there and it’s just skyscrapers and beaches a decent place. Ok yes, yesterday there were explosions but that’s some orange guy’s doing.
From a fat orange cat to an orange fatcat. There's a certain poetry to it, in a depressing, "this is the worst timeline" kind of a way...
Anh, no! That's not a healthy way to ask for help! Use your words! Bubbles, and to a lesser extent, Faye, are here to help!
I grew up in Dubai so reading Garfield comics I always thought it was odd to box up Nermal or Odie and mail them off to Abu Dabi, that's only like 45 minutes away. Wouldn't you want to send them somewhere far far away like Kansas?
Kansas? *shudder* Not even Garfield would wish that fate upon his enemies...
Anh, don't do that, Anh. We used to make Abu Dhabi related threats when we were the amusing kind of angry with our coworkers back when I was in the Army. Two and a half decades ago, that's when that was.
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As someone who had an imaginary friend named Nermal growing up, i take personal offense to this comic /lighthearted
Were you aware of the Garfield character Nermal? Because this joke is borrowed from there. https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/Abu_Dhabi ❝In the context of Garfield, Abu Dhabi is also the location where Garfield repeatedly attempts to send Nermal to (with varying degrees of success) over the years.❞
I read through the comments hoping someone would define "Nermalizing". I gather it had something to do with the comic strip Garfield.
It's been too long since I read the old strips, so I can't recall whether it is purely a cartoon joke. The cartoon version comes with a song: https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_(song) and is associated with stuffing the kitten [named Nermal] in a box and shipping them to Abu Dhabi.
Okay fess up, how long have you wanted to use the term "Nermalize"?
my theory - Jeph has been writing QC all this time just to use in in this comic. the series ends tomorrow.
Anh needs a quest; Building a family using choice would be part of it. Helping people to heal from crappy parents is another piece of the puzzle. I will hope her way forward is positive.
What, *another* quest? But she hasn't even found the buttfor yet!
NERMALIZE! NERMALIZE!
I'm so glad to find out I'm not the only one here old enough to get that reference
I'm sorry Anh. *mutates into eldritch horror*
The Anhoge looks nervous or depressed; that's a pretty big tell.
I hate it when people do that. My dislike for Anh had dimmished somewhat, but it has been restored.
It's a coping strategy, and the fact that she told Bubbles what she wanted means she's already on the path to dealing with it
I know for a fact that Jim Davis is an avid fan. Although, tbf, "fact" don't mean what it used to mean.
I understood that reference
Abu Dhabi? What, is Mali not good enough? I hear Timbuktu is nice this time of year!
Did you know that people in Dubai don't like the Flintstones? But people in Abu Dhabi do!
GDI Josh!!!
Normalizing!!!!!
Just as long as they're not normalizing Nermalizing.
The lesser-known piece of MIB tech. You've heard of the Neuralizer, this is the Nermalizer.
♫ Abu Dhabi that's where you'll stay! ♪
Abu Dhabi? in this climate?
I'm envisioning 'QC minus Faye' now...
Early QC with "QC minus Pintsize" has some gas i reckon
Jim Davis doesn't read anything published after 1985.
Faye then goes on an extended rant about hating Mondays.
...or loving lasagna.
As long as Faye doesn't ask Bubbles to throw a crated Anh to Abu Dhabi. Bubbles doesn't quite have that range.
She does if she puts her whole ass into it. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5370
"Nermalizing" brought back some childhood memories. I think he tried to do it to Odie too.
Bubbles watch the Anhoge for clues.
Poor Ahn. She wants to talk but doesn't know how to get others to cajole her into talking. :P
I understood this reference
Ahn still fails to realize that Bubbles is not going to respond in a normal human manner. She will have to learn (Faye will be the instructor.)
Liz: "Hey, get your own Nermal crate! This one's taken!" https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5205
Thanks a lot, BB. I just got sucked into reading the whole Liz-in-NoHo arc.
May is probably the Garfield or at least the most Heathcliff like of all Questionable Content characters.
Dark, adopted by another cast member, and trouble?
Did I miss something around the last time we saw her that this might be about? Or is it either a new development or just about her general sitch?
I was thinking the same thing. I feel lost
Well, that’s the reaction I’d expect from Bubbles. That’s the reaction I’d expect from Faye. And I’ve no idea what’s going on with Anh.
Acknowledging vulnerability is admitting weakness. She still needs to be reminded that she’s among genuine friends before she can do that.
Who else didn't realize Abu Dhabi was a real place for decades? Also Timbuktu.
I preferred Timbukone. The sequel is just never as good.
Please no Nermalizing of any QC characters. It will bring the Curse of Garfield. QC will become repetitive and substance-less. We do not want that.
I guarantee he does read your comic
Jim?
Faye showing off her geography skills is always a pleasure.
CAnhjole
shes just like me forreal
Jocular cajolery?
But…but who’s Odie?
Clinton?
I got that reference…I am Garfield old.
Not only am I Garfield old, I'm also Tabby Tubby .
Poor Nermal!
Anh, part of becoming a better person is leaving those games in your old life.
Not admitting weakness isn’t a game. It’s an ingrained survival strategy.
Oh Anh, you poor thing. 🫂
How far into drawing that second panel do you think Jeph got before cursing his decision to change perspective and have to redraw the whole background?
My lasagna Nermal!
Las-Anh-gna