One Must Imagine Claire Happy
Moray 22 got squished by a particularly florid metaphor
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Two typos in this one, in case no one else pointed them out: Top right: should be "your" not "you" Bottom: should be "boulders" not "bounders"
We don't talk about Moray 64.
Does that mean we now need containers for doing our shipping? Yes, the nerds will say a VM will do, but the difference is important!
The colors! The utterly sensuous forms floating in The Director! Just swoony!
🎵 They come in colors in the sea In front of me! They're like a raiiinbooow!!
I love how Moray's spots allowing her to understand French is the deal-sealer for Emily. Clearly, this place has it ALL
I would imagine that the only times Emily would speak either Korean, Chinese, Japanese, or another regional Southeast Asian language would be to her parents and especially if she’s angry at them. I speak from experience.
I *have* to share something I just discovered about Emily's academic thesis and her experimental cardigan. I dunno if Jeph thought these and the Department of Experimental Textiles were an amusing fiction he'd dreamed up, or if he knew about this. However, I learned literally yesterday, via Rob Ricci (a CS professor at U. of Utah who's a casual friend on Mastodon) that theoretical knitting mathematics and computational knitting are *real*. One of his colleagues at U. of Utah, Assistant Professor Jenny Lin, works on "computational fabrication", wrote her Ph.D. thesis on formalizing knit object equivalence using knot theory, and has a paper 'Semantics and Scheduling for Machine Knitting Compilers' in ACM SIGGRAPH. He says of that one "she invented an assembly language for controlling knitting machines, then proves things using knot theory about the properties of the resulting textiles." She has a web page at https://jlin98.github.io/ and everything in there is amazing stuff. Another PhD student at Carnegie Mellon is also doing related work on software-controlled space-filling knitting as a fabrication method for solid objects: yuichirose.github.io/
As long as I'm sharing, I also discovered the following IETF draft standard: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html
The Director must have a thing for Lava Lamps. Yay! More Emily!
Third panel background... those are butts, right?
The Director. It's a mass of tentacles. So smooth rounded shapes can be deceptive.
Moray 64? Is that the one with the skeletons on motorcycles?
I used to have explody days. Till I moved to the city. They don't tolerate explosions like they did out in the country.
The really odd thing is, Moray-64 was the one in motion and not the shipping container
Are you sure? I heard it was a Rolling shipping container.
MomRay is gonna put limits on Moray X-21 if it KILLS THEM BOTH.
I didn't even realize how badly i needed these two to meet
Which two? MomRay and Moray? Moray and Emily? Emily and MomRay? *ducks*
Super Moray 64......
*kids screaming at Christmas* MORAYNDO 64!!!
Moray 64 was the upgrade to Moray 32
I think there is an error in the 2nd panel, in Momray's speech bubble. It should say "I appreciate your enthusiasm". It's missing the r on your.
I appreciate you, enthusiasm
Happy Claire only exists when 'shipping
Or PUNishing someone!
No rolling "bounders"!
Squished by a shipping container? SHEESH, those fanfic writers are SERIOUS.
This is the QC Patreon. Nothing can contain the shipping.
But Moray has experience with boulders. I mean, she carries them around all day, heyooo!
Closer to icebergs water content-wise, but I know what you mean.
The Canadian government requires all Moray units to have both French and English globs, of course.
🎵 When your mom says she blocks You from all rolling rocks That's a Moray!
Oh well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9zhgDsd4P4
Last sound heard from Moray 64
Momray has a clear lack of satisfaction with Moray, yet still isnt a fan of Rolling Stones? Huh... go figure.
If Emily is taking the job, that means we get to see a lot more of her -- Yay! 😁 (Now, can we also get to see more of Yay too? If so, Emily!😁🤣🤣)
Emily Goofriend
shouldn't Momray be referring to boulders rather than bounders in panel 4?? though rolling bounders might be appropriate it some cases.
Every mom worries about her daughter encountering rolling bounders. Not to mention revolving scoundrels, spinning blackguards and the occasional tumbling rapscallion.
It sorta makes me sad that Claire seems doomed to Sisyphean tasks. - Cubetown - Moray - ...Marten.
I think Marten is pretty well put together at this point.
Moray, Super Moray, Moray 64, Moray Wii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9zhgDsd4P4
Now I wonder how much effort must have gone into developing and debugging the Morays. It must have been quite a mess!
A really gloopy mess, followd by an ungodly POOLG!
You’d think a rolling boulder wouldn’t cause any permanent damage to a Moray.
Their skin must have a bursting point. Of course they are linked to the Director so death is not permanent. Still, a shipping crate from a height and and a boulder they are rolling would have different effects. Splat vs. Squish.
When you warn your "daughter" To avoid large boulders That's a Mom-ray
What ... what happened to 64? Did she get better?
She was put back together (eventually) and decided the outside world was too dangerous, so she was reabsorbed by the Director. Serious question: does this imply that the Director is actually a new sort of hive mind? 🤔
You'd think Moray 64 would have been able to handle polygons better.
Me thinks Jeph has been watching The Pitt.
When she helps Sisyphus So her mom makes a fuss That's A Moray!
Came here just to find today's verse of the moray song
a rolling boulder gathers too much goop.
Something to cover for the next end-of-year break (or your next vacation)- the fates of the various Morays
a la Gashlycrumb Tinies
are Morays ALL numbered? is there a risk we see a MorayCube in about four or five in-comic years?
They gave them numbers, but forgot to take away their names.
to be squished would not necessarily damage a goo person?
"damage" and "trauma" can be two VERY different things XD
*Northernlion voice* Get it twisted. If you lock in, you can do anything.
Hey, Moray-64 was fine! I mean, eventually. Once they found all her globs and smooshed her back together. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4959 (Top-notch callback, Jeph!)
Interesting that her comment was "Remember what happened to Moray-64" - who was fine in the end - and not "Remember what happened to Moray-42069" - who may actually have met an untimely end in the belly of an orca. (Of course she may have been fine too. It's not clear what effect, if any, an orca's digestive tract would have on a slime-girl. She may have emerged whole, but perhaps understandably traumatized, from the other end.)
AzumAmazing!
When you get bowled over by a metaphorical boulder… … that’s a Moray!
I assume 64 ended up cubed. /innocent whistle.
Well, it was a shipping container, so it's probably closer to parallelpipeded, but I foresee what you did there. 😁
Moray-64! 😭
Claire's labor may be locally futile, but she is building for the people who come after her. Every boulder that rolls back smooths the ramp. P.S., Camus can suck it.
But if you don't get the boulder to the top it only smooths out the bottom of the ramp, eventually wearing it away and creating a steeper incline to the top, making the task harder for anyone who comes afterwards
What about Moray-69? She came back and the Director learned all about the pleasures of sex?
Nice.
She was a friend of Crushbot.
So basically a rolling stone gathers at least one Moray
One Moray y no más
Was that shipping container anything like a blue barrel?
Moray-64 was the best installment in the series
a bit of a typo, bounders -> boulders
Also, in panel 2, "you" should be "your" and in panel 3, "explody" (probably?) should be "explodey".