In The "Flesh"
Stretchy friend...
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I always wanted Emily and Yay to develop a deep eldritch connection
Hmph.
Lived in Northampton; could not skateboard. Her story checks out.
ME YESTERDAY: Who is Emily again? ME TODAY (AFTER FIVE HOURS OF READING OLD QC COMICS): Yeah Emily is gonna be crazy in Cubetown, can't wait to see it! Huh, I wonder what Angus is up to these days...
Same!
Am feeling happy
New headcanon: The Director is the OG Iain Banks Culture Mind, and Cubetown eventually leaves Earth and develops into The Culture proper. Because only a Mind could handle the insanity that is Cubetown.
damn. now I’m never getting that out of my head. between Cubetown & Yay that would explain a lot about The Culture.
Dittooooooo <3
OK, new comic it's just Emily and Moray farting around Cube town. Sometimes Emily accidentally makes a device that speaks in ancient tongues.
Any chance of an updated cast list?
At this point, it would be the size of a phone book, assuming you didn't delete characters who've been out of the comic for over a year. Wait, that would include Emily, wouldn't it?
Sigh, browsing through elder QC again, and again I tried to google Mythic Slaughterbeast only to find out (again) they're not a real band...
You know, re: nose evolution, it's kind of interesting to look back on the first strip where Emily and Claire were introduced (which I reached thanks to BB's deep linking xD): https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2204 Claire's original design had an aquiline, sloping nose for her whereas now it's completely different and turns up at the end. I'm used to her design now but I also liked it back then, too. It's kind of funny that Emily's nose change was probably necessary only because other characters' noses changed to match hers x3
And in a completely unrelated observation, I never realised that we could have had the good ship Taiemily (Taimly?): https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2216 I think they'd be a bit too chaotic for each other, but it would have been funny.
The physical gags with Moray always make me laugh out loud. I still giggle about the time Marten used her as furniture.
Maray was impressed when Emily's resume arrived with gold stars already on it.
And the reference from Tai reading "GOOD JOB!" really sealed the deal!
Emily's nose was reshaped in a lampshading incident :)
Is that better or worse than getting your nose reshaped in a landshaping incident?
Looking forward to Liz’ first impression 👀
Finally a sensible™ person to talk science with! 🤩
Picture this: Thunderdome. 2 enter, only 1 leaves. Got that in mind, right? Iris. Emily.
How many knives?
omg that's why Pokopia's Ditto looked so familiar!!
Jeph, I'm curious about why you changed Emily's face design. Change you talk to that more? Is it something that always bugged you?
New glasses Rx. Sux when using a Cintiq.
I'm sure she can find a way to return it to it's original shape, but it will take a lot of hard work. She'll just have to keep her nose to the grindstone. *Claireface*
*slow clap*
... I suddenly have very serious concerns about interactions between Moray Energy and Emily Energy. Marten, you might want to check on the life rafts!
On the plus side, if anyone can kick Chaos Gremlin out of her rut, it's definitely Emily 😁
Off topic: now that iRobot is gone, will Jeph do a comic about the Roomba mourning for its parent?
Nose is explained. And, well, I'm now shipping Moray and Emily. Less chance of universal destruction if things go wrong. Besides, we always need MorEm.
I still stan Gremily.
When you hire science geeks And they stretch out your cheeks That's A Moray!
... I'm not sure if Moray is into that sort of thing, but you never know...
Emily is stretching Moray's mouth, to let those big words come right out.
You think Emily has hit the Big Time?
Ha! And here I thought it was just an art shift! (Or maybe it was, and Jeph added this in?)
Like how the Hulk was gray in his first appearance, and later was colored green, and years later the comics actually addressed that fact.
Nose explanation tracks.
If we're using Cubetown to bringing back characters from the dead, I want to see Cyber-Yelling Bird.
Sadly, we all know where the laser would be extruding from...
"Apparently you can't successfully do a trick by planting your nose."
Ow!
Are we certain that Emily doesn't think Moray is a pokemon?
Are we certain that Moray isn't?
LOVE Emily, just not liking the nose a bunch. But it’s STILL Emily there!
At least the nose got an explanation. Honestly wasn't expecting that, figured it'd be chalked up to a change in art style since her last appearance.
I used to skateboard. Well, I used to ATTEMPT to skateboard. I was always crap at it.
I tried to skateboard once. Well, I thought about trying to skateboard once. I mean, I was near a skateboard anyway. Well, a picture of a skateboard.
These two are going to get along swimmingly!
Emily will 100% swim in the Moray tank.
Emily's longstanding lack of AI personal boundary respect is intact. Somehow, thanks to her complete Emilyness, it rarely causes offense.
Also, in this case, Moray's complete Moray-ness.
Asked and answered!
What qualifications should Claire require, Marten? That Emily recognizes iambic pentameter? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=691
She got a crown AND a balloon. What more qualifications could you possibly need? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2945
Meanwhile, back in Northampton, Willow is suddenly feeling intensely jealous and has no idea why. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5307
Stoned Hannelore. <3
We're going to find out that Emily accidentally made The Director in what the government told her was a failed experiment in grade school.
Grimer is stretchy, but poor grimer never gets any love.
Emily is 100% going to ask if she can get a suit made from Moray's metamaterial. Maybe even weirder stuff.
We get to meet a representative of the Canadian DoD! ^.^
As they go over Emily's resume in the interview, Emily will be experimenting with Moray's "Silly Putty" qualities. Before the interview is over, she will have submitted a preliminary "Holographic Visual Manifold n-Dimensional Transfer" proposal to the Director.
Okay, I get that Jeph probably writes the scripts in advance, but I still imagine things going something like this yesterday: JEPH: Here's the new page! The readers will be psyched to see Emily, I'm sure. READERS: Nose! nose! nose! nose! nose! nose! JEPH: Aaaand I think I might have to tweak the dialogue in tomorrow's strip. READERS: NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE NOSE JEPH: ...Scratch "might".
It's not that Jeph forgot what Emily *looks like* or anything... 😅
And there’s the explanation of the nose. I look forward to the shenanigans.
Oh, this is a canon new nose, not just an art style new nose! It's a really good nose.
I love it when art style shifts are part of the canon. Like one superhero comic where a villain was a near-copy of Sailor Moon, and the reason she had huge manga eyes was because her eyes were, in fact, monstrously huge.
I wonder how stretchy I am NOT in real life. What does that even mean?
no Moray, you’re supposed to stretch the human back! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3895
Emily is probably less stretchy than Faye, but she might surprise us.
Oh I bet Moray has played a lot of Pokémon Pokopia.
Moray played for two minutes but after finding the remains of human society she couldn't stop crying.
Emily has a long list of experiments already planned.
Has she ever planned anything?
Chewie… we’re home. Chewie is the name she gave a wad of gum that got stuck in her hair a few years back.
And objection from last page explained immediately!
Oh I cannot wait for the shenanigans that have gotta be about to transpire
Whomst amongst us is NOT stretchier in real life? Whomst! ...wait
Oh, Moray and Emily are perfect for each other! I'm not sure if I should be feeling happy or scared...
I'm just going with 'Yes'
That’s why I didnt recognize her last strip. Good I’m not going crazy. I don’t dislike the change.
I SHIP IT THEY SHOULD KISS
I always got the feeling Emily was ace or maybe demi
Mine too, Moray!
She found her people