The Morning After
I'm kind of angry at myself about this one, which means it was a good idea
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I do find it amusing that uninhibited state, she picked a body with amazing knockers.. and I must say, and I'm not guilty for saying it, then if I lived in that kind of world... I would have zero issues having a relationship with one of these artificial life forms.
That near instant boob grab reflex though.
Clearly, Amazon has a local warehouse in Cubetown.
Speaking of cracked eggs, did anybody else notice the name of this model? Keep a watch out for uplifted swans, Zlata!
Question. You said at one point that officer Roko was running on the same substrait she always had been, but you always show robots switching bodies through a cable. Did they do a special hardware transfer for her, since the drive was armored?
Her former body was destroyed, but her substrate was armoured as part of the law-enforcement package. They mentioned that she's still running on her original substrate because that's unusual.
Oh NO
This body might be an upgrade, but does it have pockets?
The trans vibes off this one are STRONG...
What do you suppose that chassis model is called? The 1950's call to us, suggesting, "The Jayne" or "Sweater Girl". And we know that Zlata still has a thing for Marten. Hmmm.
if you zoom in on the box art, it's a "Leda Titania" (apparently a guitar effects box reference, so maybe we'll find out that she also has a ¼" input socket somewhere...)
[HONK] "hold on... that's much louder than usual..."
oh this should be fun
Gotta love a story where the author can show character transformation by literally giving someone a new body.
The body model is named after a high-gain distortion pedal?
Leda, mother of Helen in Greek mythology.
Did not see that coming. Well played, Jeph!
What is Ziata's accent/vocal background? Because the last panel I read her in a russian accent.
Ukrainian I think!
Yes, it's always unsettling to see a soul in their freshly unpackaged body next to the husk they molted out of (to say nothing of that soul witnessing that husk themselves from their new vantage point!), especially when at that point the husk is the smaller shaped of the two… but by now it's clear this is just part of the growth lifecycle for AnthroPCs. So merry growth spurt, Zlata, regardless of the reason for it, though I'm afraid you're also going to have to source new skirts to go with it.
And I’d be remiss if I did not mention that she’s got great… taste in body models. In other words: Zlata, you *beauty* fool.
She's got a nose! What a garden of delights awaits you. Farts! Paper mills! Really hideously obnoxious air "fresheners"! Axe body spray! More farts! Breathe deep in your new world.
Ngl, I get the feeling that this is drunken Zlata implementing plans to turn sober Zlata into a homewrecker...
I wonder if she got the model with the toy squeakers in the left boob and right buttcheek. Be your own whoopie cushion, says I.
that. is. HILARIOUS!!
I’m curious, how did she get her sub-straight(proberbly not how that’s spelt) from one body to the other? Or did she avatar it across. I could have sworn there was lore about how the AIs are crazy durable hard drives piloting a… whatever they identify as, people, fighter drones or what ever Pintsize used to be.
Transfer of the AI consciousness/data by cable to a new body has been shown before. I believe that's how Pintsize transferred into his current chassis. The drive's durability seems to be more about surviving accidents, like when CrushBot fell on Roko.
Shoe-buying drunk -> boat-buying drunk -> body-buying drunk. Quite the escalation.
Between Zlata, Claire, Liz, Moray, and Emily, Marten’s got some odd Cubetown Harem going.
In Cubetown the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
Is there a word for autonecrophilia?
The hangover.exe program is written in Remorse Code.
Can she keep both chassis? Work chassis and party chassis?
And just like that, the perfect cover for any AI superhero is revealed! Don't just change out of your supersuit and put on glasses, transfer into a completely different body!
*guitar riff* IT’S JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS
Is it just me or does anyone else find it odd that Ellicott-Chatham chassis apparently run WinPE code rather than Linux ELF code? Like, they're all running some futuristic version of Windows that still runs this ancient format? Is the drunk.exe stack downloaded from an old Sourceforge repo? Are they even still running binary code or is it trinary or maybe based on quantum math (would mesh with Yay's consciousness being able to be entangled with multiple bodies)?
drunk.exe and hangover.exe were developed long ago for CUDA-based AIs and are unmaintained. They run under a tweaked version of WINE, but even with the emulation layer they can still slot between the AI's mind and hardware. Some programmers raised concerns about installing hardware-altering code in a low-level security ring, but they were dismissed as "real buzz-kills."
Zlata!
I'll admit, my first thought was a roommate situation or a drunken hookup. I suppose, technically I was right on the latter.
Just a different meaning of "hookup."
It is nice to see her get some focus and character development, bless her
“Do Not Stack, Already Pretty Well Stacked.”
Boobs
Was: A tractor Now: Attractor
Shane, no.
"Zlata, you fool." Why do I hear that in Gilbert Gottfried's voice?
Next arc: Zlata is recruited to sing for Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest.
She woke up, after a night heavy drinking, in bed... with herself...
She's feeling very beside herself.
Does being so drunk you have an out-of-body experience count?
Maybe. Depends on whether the out-of-body experience was followed by an in-a-different-body experience.
Does Zlata's old body have multiple ports? She charged through the top of her head before 🤔
Power on top, data on the side, perhaps? Seems like a dubious design choice, maybe it's a Futurelife.
oh I genuinely hate this
I'd love to wake up from a hangover all young and hot.
...and poorer.
I wonder, since the box is only open at the top, how did she get the new body out?
My headcanon is that she dumped it out of the box onto the bed, then stood the box up against the wall.
Have you ever had one of those nights where you get so drunk you wake up in a new body with larger boobs?
Zlata and May would make quite a couple of pairs.
At first I thought she got an amputee body, then I noticed the feet and MY knees started screaming at the thought of sleeping kneeling down 😳😱
Huge tits and short hair for everyone
Marten's nightmare come to life. https://web.archive.org/web/20260312131749/https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1169
Now I'm wondering if AIs could have body dysmorphia. If that's where Jeph is going with this I'll be hugely impressed (again, for the n'th time)! Have this been explored in QC before and I just forgot?
Roko has had significant (ongoing) trouble with body integration, and Beeps mentioned having had to swap to a third body because she couldn't settle into her second.
This is such a QC thing to happen.
My word that was a plot twist i wasnt expecting
Happy Birthday, by the way! <3 I hope she transfers back. I like Zlata as she was and I think it fits her.
Oh yeah, I totally forgot that yesterday was Jeph's birthday. It's his own fault, he went and distracted everyone with boobs.
Gah! Do robots plump their lips?
It's set in, what...hotness.conf?
In this comic: bright saturated colors! thumbsup jpg
Moray is not good at babysitting. And who’s paying the bill?
To be fair, Moray only promised to walk her home - she's not liable for what happens *after* Zlata gets home xD
Wait, there's such a wild implication with the Hangover.exe in the first panel. It presumably implies the drunk software isn't chassis-specific, meaning it affects the AI who's drunk even if they physically leave their body. Either that, or Zlata kept going in the new body (but presumably she hasn't had much chance to do anything in it if she's still connected to her old one).
"Do not open with sharp knife" still applicable
Happy birthday Jeph!
New Zlata, who dis?
If she'd thought about it more, she could have been a Thought Leda.
*Claireface*
I wonder if pintsize will also be making a sudden unforseen appearance...
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I look forward to Liz seeing Leda and try to motorboat her boobs or mistake Zlata for Hannelore von Swartzpunkt!
ugh. haircut envy. Again with this comic!
Especially with the Rush tags, this is some 2112 level content.
Wonder if she remembered to order any new clothes with her new body? Or was she planning to go to work today in a purple skin-tight jumpsuit, presumably without a bra?
Much like Millefeuille with her butt augmentation, she didn't think about the clothes implications... (Well, or ANY implications)
Oh this is such a brilliant development. This is taking the whole drunk circus to ten new levels. Also, talk about EXPRESS DELIVERY. It was ordered, delivered and she was transferred before she went to bed!
Ooooohhhhh... shit! 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰🤣🥰🥰 This is gonna be GOOOOD!! Somebody pass the popcorn 😁😁😁 🍿🍿🍿
I have some right here. Extra butter, light salt, and freshly cracked black pepper.
Oh look, someone is distressed at finding themselves in a new body. Hey, does anyone else hear rumbling? Oh... oh no, here she co- *WALL EXPLODES* "LEMON TO THE RESCUE!!!!" https://web.archive.org/web/20260308061424/https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4351
OH YEAH! (Kool-Aid must have done a lemonade flavor at some point, right?)
The lips and eyebrows are really unsettling even though they look fine. I think it feels like a different comic. None of the humans have drawn lips for a while right?
It's a back-and-forth thing. Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes just a few.... we roll with it. Having said that, it does look quite different here, but we like it.
Some people get drunk and get tattoos. Then there's Zlata...
I think Anh would LOVE to get drunk, tattooed, and then jump to a new body.
Well. That's quite the upgrade.
That's a heck of a way to get a new haircut.
I think Zlata's new and old bodies should kiss 🥺👉👈
The autofellatio she can perform…. Wait.
this is a whole new kind of woke up somewhere weird
Not the worst drunk-buy I ever heard of.
Really?! Tell me what would be more weird. I’m seriously struggling.
The mass psychology this suggests is boggling.
This is amazing and also goddammit am I jealous as hell rn
I woke up in a new synth-body (to the tune of Ace Hood - Bugatti)
'CrushBot enters the chat.'
There's still time to restore yourself and send the replacement back for a refund. What does an unlocked body cost anyway? And did she buy the extended warranty?
Fool indeed, ignoring the warning label like that. It says do not stack, and yet she is quite clearly stacked.
As a human who is annoyed he has to walk around and operate the same skin sack filled with blood, bone, and organs day after day... I prefer this comic's reality. Until this is in our reality, I'll have to settle for tailoring my corpus to my preferences within my means. Also, I love this comic on multiple levels.
I so wish I'd woken up in the body of a good looking guy on waking up from a bender.
I do wonder if Zlata posed the replacement android body in the kneeling/lying position prior to upload or if that's just how she habitually gets up out of bed?
A balanced resting position.
I was surprised the robot shops don’t check customers for hangover.exe. Then realised this was an online purchase. Oh dear, oh dear.
Corporate Greed also exists in QC….? Also free will etc…
At least her old body is still there. I can now imagine a couple AIs drunkenly swapping bodies without exchanging contact info.
It was on special because every now and then that body changes in to a swan.
WAIT HOLY SHIT WHY DOES THIS LOOK LIKE HANNELORE WITH BIG BOOBS! IT'S EVEN AN ELICOTT-CHATHAM MODEL!
I was thinking the same. I even thought it was a guest artist drawing Hanners.
No, but I have been drunk enough that I *wished* I did
There's no downsides to copying yourself while under the influence of a mind affecting subroutine, is there? She's not going to have internalized any drunk party girl behaviors, is she?
Oh. Oh no, Zlata. Big breasts are fine, but you don’t need them to be beautiful.
See kids? This is what happens when you give in to peer pressure just once.
I once woke up with a hangover and an Amazon receipt with parts to build a new PC. Does this count?
Dunno. How did the computer turn out?
You broke the ONE RULE, Zlata. Never swap chassis while drunk...
The first rule of the robochassi swap club is that you don't discuss the robochasi swap club.
That’s a May copy.
In some way, yes. But she doesn't have those Mugi-riffic eyebrows.
Wasn't there another scene where AIs were talking about new bodies with huge boobies? I feel like there's a callback here.
May (!) have been.
I hope the drunk thought process wasn't "If I become sexy, maybe cute boy will let me touch butt and not report to HR."
The awkward part was when she explained that thought process out loud to Moray, who is the head of HR. (well, SR technically)
This strip legitimately made me gasp out loud. Well done Jeph
Also, the devilish call of posting this before the weekend.
Oh no...she's now nerd-girl-taking-off-glasses-and-is-secretly-hot hot
It’s the best of tropes; it’s the worst of tropes.
I have... Sorta... I will let your all's imagination play with that answer...
The answer is, "I'll be in my bunk."
Thought I was in a Lichtenstein for a minute here
"Holy Spit" (I mean it.)
I wonder how much of her salary she spent getting that body rush delivered
I bet the body shop has a storefront at Cubetown. With as many different AI forms as they have there, that's just a license to print money!
I initially saw only the first two panels, on my phone, wondered if Jeph was posting some other comic. Art seemed different, i did not know the lady. Made the rest that much funnier! 🤣🤣
Oh man! You have no idea how funny this is to me - I *just* finished reading Fools by Pat Cadigan where there's a joke about having such a wild night that you wake up in another person's body. (Also super recommend, it's a twisty scifi novel that has crazy brain tech)
Alright, another book to add to the TBR Pile.
Whole Lotta Zlata….err, Leda
I mean, who hasn't been there?
welp. at least it wasn't a stolen fighter jet.
But she still has a bomb rack! 😎
Another updated art style or just new character design?
I think you need to read the comic again to understand the ramifications. Study the panels.
I like it! Keep the new body!
I wonder how realistic robot boobs feel.
Faye seems pleased with Bubbles' tracts of land.
My dream in color right here.
DAMN
"Do not stack"?! Oh, box, I think you're _way_ too late to the party there. Zlata 2.0 is _definitely_ stacked.
"Do Not Stack - Contents Already Stacked"
I wonder if there’s a 24-hour return option. And if pre-owned bodies are sold at discount.
Would you want a pre-owned body? If Pintsize was the previous owner?
I laughed out loud, so I'm good. This beats Steve drunk-buying a boat...
Totally! I also went, “Who is THAT” in the preview.
could have been worse, could have opted for the Big Jim Slade model.
OH SHIT. Oh... oh SHIT, dude. Like... my flabbers are solidly gasted
Oh by the way, I have neglected to compliment you on your comic plotting. Your world and character building is beyond awesome. Someday you need to collaborate with Matt Dinniman and write a book!
Did she choose this body to appeal to someone? Doesn't seem like Marten's type. Someone else? Or is she going for her ideal* body image, not chasing someone else's? * Drunken ideal, which may vary...
Leda huh. LOL. Who will Zeus be, I wonder?
HONK!
Oh my.
Titania indeed.
Hahahahaha! Steve is no longer the champion of bad drunk buying decisions!
Upgrades, people. Upgrades!
Oh shiiiiiii...
Do they count as big naturals if they’re robots?
They certainly look like it
Jeph is known as the butts guy, but he really does a lot of boobs as well.
Boobs Syndrome is a very common complication of Butts Disease.
Oh no
Omg whaaaat hahaha oh no
Although FR I’m a little bit scared that for some reason she won’t be able to get back into her old body if she wants to
holy shit
Who knew Zlata had such good taste.
But only when drunk.exe?
But... can her new body be ridden out onto the water... like say, a boat perhaps?
With the floatation aids, it's probably quite buoyant.
Rush delivery, that size, she somehow still managed to get her credit card number and the address right....
It's Cubetown. There's probably a warehouse full of chassis, given how dangerous some sectors are. And as long as you can remember your CVV, the browser will fill in the rest.
Jeph will be pleased to know I was very confused until the last panel.
Ditto!
Now, Zlata, look on the bright side: You are not inhabiting a Ростсельмаш.
A what?
The same-day shipping rate to Cubetown must be absolutely horrific.
it's an Ellicott-Chatham chassis, i'm thinking it was delivered by orbital drop
NGL I definitely would have done this if it were humanly possible lol. Crash out by getting a bad haircut? Tattoo? Nah just get a whole new body!
Wait…that’s an Ellicot-Chatham chassis!!!
Oh oh no!
why would anyone ever choose to run that program?
Why does anyone ever get drunk?
At least it came in a cardboard box, and not one of those plastic packs that cause injury when you cut them open.
Clamshell plastic packaging at _that_ size? Yeesh.
Hahaha, oh god you poor lightweight
well...a twist I had no idea was coming!
Hahaha I thought this was not canon until I read the last panel, because the new character made it look like a guest comic!
Old character! Just a new body!
Zlata, don’t squeeze too hard - as you can see, it’s fragile.
"Why, Zlata, you've- you've enhanced yourself."
Having to read this super zoomed in on my mobile... Panel by panel this was a wild ride! P1: Oh, Zlata got a drunken haircut. P3: Wait, Zlata wasn't that thicc P5: Hey Zlata, I've woken up with that feel before... Are my boobs bigger this morning? P6: Zlata, you (lucky) fool!
!!!
Nice!
Uh oh. Next: resisting the temptation to inhabit both bodies. Also, wondering why Yay is appearing on your shoulder dressed as a devil.
Not as the devil. One with white hair, one with black
Wake up hon, new body horror dropped
New body WONDER I say!
oh gosh if only I could just rush deliver a new body after having one too many
I wonder what the returns policy is for new AI bodies....
ahahahaaha OMG, amazing
Any chance a human can get one of those bodies? Asking for an egg.
Oh no now I have gender envy.
Online shopping plus intoxication is a terrible combo.
Steve's drunk-bought a boat. Tomorrow, Ol' Boaty winds up in the QE2.
Cuter before. Fight me.
you’re not wrong
Foreshadowing your next NSFW post.
Like the last one? He teases us.
Appropriately endowed AND suspiciously eastern european looking! HMAS Zlata, ready for launch
Unless I'm wrong, Zlata is Ukranian.
There's a novel risk of blackout drinking. Clearly drunk Zlata had some different ideas about her body than conscious Zlata does. Curious to see if this is some subconscious unhappiness with the old body-model, or just drunken foolishness - and if she'll keep it or not
I mean, she didn't feel satisfied being a combine before. I think she's still trying to find herself.
Robots pioneering efficiency by combining the eponymous morning after with The Big Makeover Reveal!
I like the new body's hair.
Short, and easy to draw.
*Slaps comic* This joke can fit so many metaphors in it
There have definitely been a couple of big developments lately.
Leda Titania? Nice!
... whoops.
Leda Titania
I was thinking "Titania" but couldn't make it out for sure.
Oh, OH YES HERE WE GO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ever wake up with new, massive honkers? Yeah, me neither.
for shame...
How did she get delivery so fast? Or is the company on Cubetown?
With the AI population, there were probably her choice of stores.
Oh… oh no. Jeph has made Zlata like Ukrainian super model hot.
I was gonna say, Jeph has done his homework on Ukrainian women photo references.
Okay but I LOVE THIS
Oh Zlata
“Everywhere I go, I go too. And ruin everything.”
Best. Hangover. Ever. lol
.exe!
AI version of drunken boat purchase?
Next Week: Steve yells “my boat” while Ol’ Boaty did the mother of all motorboat rides on Steve’s boat, which was the high tech powerboat from “Thunder in Paradise.”
Oh ..oooooh this is gonna be funny
I feel that my pfp is a good reaction here.
Between this and the "gonna flash everyone" I wonder if there's gonna be a side post
Now I am thinking of "flash" as the memory transfer method through that cable.
Oh no
Oh yes!
We've all been there
Is this the Anthro-PC equivalent of getting a tattoo done while drunk?