Canadian Gothic
probably both, Zlata
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…..I only just now got the title reference. I am SMRT.
Pls explain like I’m five. Because I don’t. 🥹
Singing: "I like to party, Everybody does...." 💃🩰🕺
Did I miss a comic? I feel like I'm missing a setup for this strip.
Here: https://www.jephjacques.com/comics?itemId=aku9wclxutqtg5p14be6j65ca622k0 This is the preceding strip. The one on Patreon had a speech bubble tail error, so it might make more sense in this version.
One place I worked had a gas the MSDS said it smelled like freshly cut hay or grass for the city kids who didn't know hay from their butts. I have a very sensitive nose and smelled it and was through the door 3 seconds before the gas alarm went off. The second time that happened I was deputized to walk around the fab checking for gas leaks.
Dang! Did they nickname you "John Canary"?
I can hear Andrew W.K. in the background, gradually getting louder.
My gut feeling is that Emily is very likely pansexual, based on her core attitude of "Everything is amazing and wonderful!" Just saying I won't be surprised if Emily, Liz, and Evan all wake up in bed together at some point.
I'm here for it :D
Indeed. The potential shenanigans boggle the mind...
Well, Liz's sexuality is confirmed as "not het".
To be fair, we had ample prior confirmation of that XD
Martin waiting patiently with the bucket in case of heart burst is adorable. I am [ ] this close to shipping these two. ~<3
Marten and Moray, or Moray and Liz, or Moray and Emily, or Emily and Liz? XD
Evan needs to make sure that there is a chalkboard and a sufficient supply of theremins on hand when Liz and Emily party.
So much cute in panels two and four!!
Hackers been out in full force. They got to me via discord but I was able to kill it before they got anything important. But this was the push I needed to say fuck it and get the patreon so its all good.
Clean up in aisle 3 now, clean up in City 808 #thoon
Marten is. So. Ready.
This has potential …
I would pay cash money to see Marten’s expression after panel 4 :)
YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH
"Do you like to party?" is the most accurate to young academics things Liz has ever said
This is an FYI. (If Jeph contradicts me, I'll accept it.) As per a recent post on bluesky: His website will be down for a few more days, but he has lost NOTHING. He has multiple backups. So we are waiting for the website to be repaired and for the time needed to make sure it is sound.
\o/! That's good! I figured he has backups (and people here have said that they did, if needed) but it's still a relief.
When the jokers you know Give the green light to go That's a... more work
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the moment that led to the tragic and unexpected sinking of Cubetown later that night."
Reached for comment, authorities said “What do you mean ‘unexpected’? Honestly, we're just amazed it didn't happen sooner”.
*cues up “We Like To Party” by The Vengaboys* 🚌
Aw dangit way late to this party 😔🎉
Audience poll says, yes.
Im confused, Liz's initial dialogue in panel 1 doesn't match her last words in the previous comic, feels like there was dialogue between that panel, where she offers assistance to Emily's request to collab, and this panel where she's clearly putting up a boundary and/or turning Emily down. Unless she's responding to Moray's final dialogue in the last comic?
I think that both dialogues were supposed to be from Emily but the speech bubbles were wrong and Jeph hasn't had a chance to fix it with everything else going on. I very well could be wrong though.
I appreciate Zlata's desire to be prepared!
Physical and moral hazards are some of my favorites! The Metaphysical ones are also fun. :)
What about theoretical?
When your friend-meet-cute bangs So there's gonna be hangs That's a Moray
Does Panel 3 recall “American Gothic” by Grant Wood to anyone else?
I think that's the point of the title.
Best Frame Ever
There's even a Safety Brochure for coping with paper cuts from Safety Brochures. But reading it is inherently hazardous.
Print it as a kid's board book!
i would love to live in a place like this!!!
I love Emily's little smile in panel 4
There seems to be a mistake in this comic. You see, it's titled "Canadian Gothic" but it doesn't even contain Dark Emmett. I find this unacceptable. https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5409
That link doesn't seen to be working at the moment. I can get to archive.org, but not to qc net.
There’s a Whole Zlata Brochures.
You'll need both manuals in this case...
*vengaboys intensifies*
Marten got the mop in case of Moray. But, he's gonna keep that mop handy because of Liz. Marten is smart.
We know from the last comic that the mop is for moray... but it *really* looks like he's just Ready For The Worst as far as party-gremlining goes :-)
It can be two things at once.
♫ We like to party We like, we like to party ♪
Why, yes. Emily does indeed like to party. https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2320
I hope very much Jeph and co. are utterly successful in getting everything restored!
Oh dear God. Jeph has created the QC version of Pinky and The Brain...
Emily: What are we going to do tonight Liz? Liz: The same thing we do every night, try to solve the MLC Conjecture!
Now I want to see what kind of safety brochures they have to cover all of the stuff that goes on there.
"So You Think You Might Be A Mad Scientist?" "Okay, Boomer: A Beginner's Guide To Explosions" "The Care And Feeding Of Giant Psychedelic Jellyfish" "Handle With Claire: Avoiding The Wrath Of The Librarian"
Something tells me happiness is just around the corner.
Claire looks (looked) a little less chronically stressed, good for her
She needed to take a morning off, and get laid, and has efficiently done both recently.
And this is how Cubetown got blown up...
Given explosions are so common there, nobody thought this was any different until it was too late.
*Geriatric-looking man walks in to the shop as Venga Boys' "We Like to Party" fades up through previously unknown speakers*
This is why I’ve never been to any Six Flags.
Liz is speedrunning her 20s while Claire is getting an advance look at being the 40 something mom.
I honestly thought that was Aurelia at first, before context proved otherwise. 😅
🎵 They're both party girls In a party world. Evenings misspent, poor Evanescent! One takes off her arms, The other's five alarms, Experimenting, who knows what's fermenting! Come on Emily, let's get gremmly!
Why would they limit themselves to only two categories of hazards?
Those are the only ones she is responsible for. Spiritual and Existential Hazards are handled by someone else.
I'm getting a little concerned that Liz's story might end up turning into a reverse Faye...
Wouldn't a reverse Faye mean solving her psychological problems by bringing her father back from the dead? (Tho' I think we're in slightly the wrong comic for that.)
I’m appalled just imagining the number, range and depth of safety brochures that place would have.
And that's only the ones that have made it to print. There are lots more in the design stage, which are stalled out because the relevant committees can't agree on fonts.
I want to see them smooch SO much after this comic; forehead, cheek, hand, brain, however platonically or otherwise, these two need to SMOOCH IT OUT.
Brain?
does she even awkward?
*immediately Venga Bus starts to play. Wild bus ride with cast members around the facility, labs exploding in creative ways all around. *
When the gloopiest gal Helps you make a new pal That's A Moray!
"Do you like to taste a hay bale peed in your mouth?"
There are no safety manuals for Emily. May a merciful god watch over their souls.
Her MSDS is really more like a trilogy of doorstopper books.
Emily’s first line confused me. It didn’t seem to flow from the previous strip. So I went back and realized the last strip’s speech bubbles were confusingly laid out. I thought the comment about bouncing ideas or coding came from Liz.
*sigh* It did. Liz blurted, but now Liz is back stuck in her research block fear and was trying inarticulately to backpedal. It won't work, especially after liberal doses of partying with Saint Emily.
Is there a comic missing? Yesterday she was interested in collaboration, but today she's not? It feels like Emily asked her out and we missed it
what I said about yesterday's comic: 5th panel the pointer of the second speech bubble is off
When you get hazard pay So two gremlins can play that’s an Evan!
Emily is so cute omg
Definitely both. Probably a few others as well.