Mind The Gap
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Amazing!!!
Jumpers that live up to their name
True yarn bombing.
So Emily is the nega-Liz: she wasn't hothoused into getting multiple PhDs and she's tall and has human arms :)
I just realized this, and I don't know if it's been commented on yet or not, but... It seems that the proper way to get new researchers into your facility in Cubetown is to call DIBS on them first!
It seems to be common for prospective employees to arrive not knowing exactly where they'll be working. For example, the janitor and Zlata. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5093
By the way, the strip title gets full marks.
Maybe small but non zero chance of clothing explosions at a cube town store.
This strip tickles my biscuits because I'm married to a librarian who happens to perform works of experimental textiles. You're not writing the Cubetown arc specifically for me as an individual, are you?
...and, I'm not kidding. She invented this kind of tactile sculpture that uses techniques from African basket-making combined with Irish lace-making to make these little topologically fascinating balls of ordered chaos. If you put one into the hands of a nerd, they become fascinated and can't stop fidgeting with it.
Making clothes that explodes was a mistake.
To be fair, that's normally what it feels like when I wear wool...
Leaving a bunch of Emily sweaters in close proximity to one another is akin to setting a bunch of primed mousetraps next to each other. or storing your domino collection upright.
How else would one store one's domino collection?
Excellent face on Marten in panel 3.
After that three-peat with the drone, a fabric fight is almost fun.
If you card once, you'll cardigan.
"Trapped under a pile of cardigans"? You absolute lovefools!
For what it's worth, given some communication, they may live and learn. Is there a chance? I suspect that they couldn't care less.
OG calculating machines were inspired by looms, and topologies are higher math stuff — so are we seeing the bending of “Space-Twine!?”
That was a load-bearing sweater
Better to be buried under Cashmere than under cashmere goats--or even worse the Kashmir region.
Technically you would be buried under all three, in the latter case.
they seam to be trapped
Your comment stitched me up with laughter. :) (I'll stop needling you now!)
Experimental textiles: Where we're gonna take the goat outta the cashmere!
And then à la chupacabra baas in the background.
What *was* her Master's thesis, I wonder? Knowing her past with fabrics and all....
I'm guessing it was evidence of quantum mechanics and it's relation to time by creating a sweater that only existed BEFORE you created it.
That exploding wool was broadly felt.
Sean!
ooh, this definitely make me think of an old friend and his research https://www.rehmi.io/wearables/index.html
🤔
When the cloth hits your eye Like a big, rolled-up tie That's a moiré!
Under what?
The clothing poor people wear to make people think they’re rich.
Naw, stay here, you can get clothes where the fabric breathes... Really, it breathes.
Also sometimes it screams, but we're pretty sure it's fine.
Being buried under clothes just for feeling some fabric? Now that's some *Draconian* punishment.
Don't you mean Dacronian punishment?
Emily is going to have to debug their cardigan printer
"Ugh, someone forgot to refill the cardigan cartridges again."
What a coincidence! Just earlier today I binge read the entire completed webcomic "Never Mind The Gap" (by View) [warning: NSFW]. Soon as I saw this comic's title, I frissoned! :)
And, hey, that yarnicane looks *suspiciously* like the one in episode #5794…
No no, that one made a *BOOSH*, not a *BOOF*. Tooootally different.
I spent 45 yrs managing retail, and we never had any explosions. I was good at my job, I guess.
We salute you for your service
Floof! I love how Moray’s hair bobbles are blown sideways by the “yarnicane”.
Also a couple of other parts of Moray :) look down slightly...
In fact, being trapped under a huge pile of knitwear can even be calming. As long as you aren't allergic, anyway. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2904
FLUMP
I'm sitting here with a lap full of knitting (afghan) while reading this, LOL! Luckily my yarn doesn't explode, or at least it hasn't yet. :)
Perhaps you just aren't knitting hard enough. Maybe try putting some oomph into it?
When she smiles with cheer While you're crushed by cashmere That's A Moray!
When scientific zeal Makes explosive chenille, That’s a Moray!
I've kinda missed the chaos theory that is Emily
given the number of her projects that needed... interventions, it seems like "chaos practice" or "applied chaos" more than theory...
The lab is now full of millions of cardigrades.
*applauds
Emily is gonna fit right in here.
Emily will get along like a house on fire which for Cubetown is literal.
(the balls of yarn roll into the lab next door, bunch of cats and feliniform AIs drop everything and give chase)
AIs in the shape of an Italian surrealist director?? oddly specific ...
Panel 3 expressions are really good.
They may suffocate but it's at least a very soft and warm demise; like a downy feather avalanche but less chance of allergies.
I'd say that someone needs to reset the 'Days Since Textile-based Explosion' sign to 0, but what are the odds that it ever gets above that number?
(it's actually carved in granite at zero)
Bold of Marten to assume that there are actual shops, given that he had to invent the coffeehouse.
Also bold of him to assume that cubetown didn't also have Retail explosions - given that explosions are a big part of their R&D output, presumably someone specializes in Productizing them too
C4 is a Cashmere, Corriedale, Camel & Chinchilla blend
This is like if we weaponized Old Navy.
"Old Nuclear Navy"
The ongoing issue is that annoying pea down there somewhere
Also, Jeph really upped the explosions these last few days! Like, is he trying to impress Emily? I’m impressed.
It's a bit chilly tonight and that sounds absolutely lovely.
Thankfully these intrepid researchers are working day and night to achieve previously unattainable levels of coziness.
Metallica - Trapped Under Nice
Devo - We Like Explosions
soft
Love panel three!
Panel 3 has me thinking Moray would be adorable with bunny ears... and also wondering about her jiggle physics. 🙄
To Moray, ALL physics are jiggle physics.
The Gap Into Textiles...
Oh Emily is going to fit right in.
I agree. And, she will take the “one size” category to new levels.
Merino is my favorite kind of textile. Though I prefer to have my merino t-shirts non-exploding.
Emily's still Euclidean but she's embedded in a 4-manifold now.
4-merinofold
Cadigonna getcha
Crushbot, for instance.
If it doesn’t explode, it’s not Science™️
this is the *real* dispute between Cubetown and EC-Station...