There She Is
!!
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I think this is the first time we have ever (LITERALLY - the REAL kind of "LITERALLY," by the way) seen Bubbles "let her hair down." At first I was thinking, "Wait, did she go get her hair lengthened?" (Because of course there's no reason why a robot couldn't go do that), and I had to go surfing back in previous pages showing Bubbles - and then I realized it always looks shorter because she puts it in a ponytail, always
she really is. As she's been letting down her guard and becoming more of her own person it is really a lovely transformation we are seeing.
Love Bubbles with her hair down! <3
Also Bubbles looks really beautiful in this page, just saying
*slams hands over mouth to contain excitement noises*
Fuck this goes so deep to gender, identity, sexuality, love, companionship, AI rights, personhood, prejudice, racism, evolution, acceptance, did I say love yet? At first I wasn't a shipper... then I became a shipper... but what stands out most is just how profound this feels to me. Somehow Jeph, you really have managed to turn something funny and cute into something powerful and meaningful. I really think this particular page is the best comic you have ever drawn. The relationship in general has made me think a lot, but this particular page has so much wrapped up in it and you really did an amazing job here man...
The cliff hanging suspense of serial stories has a grand history. Among the authors who wrote serial novels are Henry James, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas, and Gustav Flaubert. We should consider ourselves lucky that we only have to wait a day or two for the next installment instead of a week or a month as they did back then. (-;
Tonight’s comic, posted early: Panel 1 — Faye and Bubbles saying, simultaneously, “Where’d you go?” Panel 2 — Faye and Bubbles saying, simultaneously, “We have to talk” Panel 3 -- Faye and Bubbles, looking into each others’ eyes, at arms’ length Panel 4 -- They go into an embrace Panel 5 — They’re just about to kiss, when . . . Panel 6 — SECS (Steve Eating Cereal Slowly) That or panel 6 will be the old RCA Indian head test pattern. “Technical Difficulties, Please Stand By"
Now I'm afraid Faye will mess it all up... :(
AAAHHH SUCH DRAMATIC LIGHTING
Squeee?
I read that "There you are!" in the voice of those little turrets from Portal 1. ^_^
"I don't hate you"
If its anyone Other than faye I'm may become apoplectic
If it’s Hanners, I’m going to be very upset and happy all at once. If it’s anyone else other than Faye, I may just be sad. XD
Jeff, thank you for your work. I've loved Bubbles since you introduced her, and I've been following her development avidly. Now I'm on tenterhooks waiting to see what happens.
Are there going to be cherry blossom petals in the next comic?
You... You... You unmitigated tease!!! Damn you Jeff Jacques!!
how about 2-27 days in advance!?!
I look forward to a comic tomorrow in which all the other characters are squeeing over the two of them. I am...slightly concerned that this might be wishful thinking
Goddammit, what's the Patreon level to see strips *two* days in advance?
Seriously. Jeph is missing some $$$ there.
Ships are passing in the dark. A bright light flashes! Ships are passing in the dark.
Bubbles, please, please, PLEASE do not torpedo this thing with the lie "I don't really feel anything toward you" in an attempt to put things back the way they were.
Gotta say though, even though I think Tai is the most emotionally competent person in the strip, if someone told me my feelings were valid, I would cast a very cold eye upon them indeed. Validity is correctness of form, cogency, or efficacy. None of these are properties that feelings can have. Further, feelings, as feelings, can't be good or bad. They are emotional events. What counts is how you act on them, and Bubbles has acted scrupulously, though with more prudence than courage, and with complete ruthless cruelty toward herself. But fuck it, I am a horrid reptilian precisian, and Tai is doing her best.
Discussing the validity of emotions is actually quite common vernacular - acknowledging that people have a right to feel what they feel.
[screaming]
She has undone her hair and let it fall about her in her distress. I am slain.
Snog her in the chair Faye!
Plot twist: It's Corpse Witch
I know it's a small thing, and probably addressed at some point in the past three years, but does Bubble's "hair" have some sort of magic field that allows it to realign into whatever style is appropriate for the moment? it just seems, um, maybe frivolous (not sure the right word to use) in a chassis that was meant for combat.. I can totally see it in a civillian body, but . . .
Its been mentioned that she has very advanced hair that can "grow" if submerged in the appropriate chemicals. By comparison, cheap chassis like Mays have manually sewn in hair.
“I’ve been looking all over for this pen!”
Gorgeous Bubbles drawings. The pulling off the hair tie in the first panel, and three panels of letting her mane help convey emotions. Love it!
This whole arc has been so deliciously satisfying. Waiting for each new strip is sweet sweet torture. Tomorrow might kill me but I'm perfectly content to have faybles confessing their true feelings be the way I go.
I love this story arc. And I am constantly inspired by the changing hairstyles.
I think it's a nice touch the way that Bubbles is nervously playing with her hair. It's subtleties like this that give the character of Bubbles so much life and sympathy.
'DROID 06 SEE SMALL DROID, THINK CUTE. DROID 06 ATTEMPTING INITIAL CONTACT. ERROR. DROID 06 REGRETS EXUBERANCE. SMALL DROID SMALLER NOW. DROID 06 SAD.
Jeph has done a great job of making Bubbles look more... human. Remember when she was a hardened battle robot with no emotion? We've come so far.
I enjoy that her head is obscuring just enough of the sign for it to read "Bubbles' Hair". :)
The military AI ban has been lifted, the Army needs Bubbles for a top secret mission, the VTOL is waiting outside, she'll be out of contact for the foreseeable future, let's go, soldier!
To quote Tom Wilson in 'Wing Commander IV - The Price of Freedom': "You've been drafted, Colonel! Have a nice day!"
High time Pintsize had a.. romantic interest ... although I'm not entirely sure how that would manifest itself....
My heart, my Fayebles shipping heart!
If this is anyone else but Faye.... I swear to Spookybot, I will hunt you down, Jeph..... :p
Panel 4 is amazing!
when did her hair get so long?
Panel 4: Cutting Crew's "Died In Your Arms Tonight" spontaneously starts playing on the store's PA system. Dora isn't even slightly ashamed.
... It occurs to me my kids watch Lego Batman too much.
That face! MELT
"There you are!" "Huh?" "You lost your pen. No wonder since you got no pockets" Pen girl until Friday!
Okay, so if that story is going to continue with current pacing and intensity, I have only three viable options: construct a device that would violate some of the most basic laws of nature and let me see tomorrow's comic today; find a way to bludgeon myself into coma for precisely 24 hours; or attain enlightenment and sever all of the emotional attachments to this world, including this comic. I wonder, maybe QC is just a decade long experiment on advancing technological progress of humanity and personal growth of its readers?
I think it's a subtle way of introducing us to the prospect of AIs as fellow citizens.
OMG THAT LIGHT AT THE END imagine if QC just ended right there
i think there would be riots and death threats
Who is it? Will Faybles finally ship? Find out next time, on Dragonball Jeph!
i approve of this
Here comes the army
Que "There She Goes" by The La's and we have it nailed at the transition to the next page.
Oh, COME ON, Jeph! Can you have made Bubbles any more a romantic protagonist as you have in panel 4? :-D I mean, c'mon, fess up: You only gave Bubbles longer hair so you could do the dramatic 'hair twirl' didn't you? There are those who will say that whoever is talking from off-shot isn't necessarily have to be Faye and I agree. However, I don't think that Bubbles would react to strongly to anyone else.
OH MAN
First thought seeing the title in my inbox- song of the same name by the Witches.
Why did I not receive a warning that bubbles was made cuter?
That must be Marten. If it were Faye, this would have to have been a Friday comic
I love Bubbles fidgeting with her hair in panel 1
I haven't been this nervous since my last first date.
So, Pizza Girl is back?
She never left; she's just very, very good at being subtle.
We know Faye isn't out much in the sun, buy she can't be *that*pale...
Nice anime lighting in the last panel.
MY HEART CANNOT TAKE THIS, AND BUBBLES' HAIR IS DOWN AND IT'S ADORABLE!!
I swear to baby jesus if its Marten I'm gonna flip a table...
It's Eve Of Destruction, from the last strip's title! She's finally tracked Bubbles down and will have her revenge!
So, hey, what is BARRY up to these days?
He's doing a ten-stretch in the Federal hoose-gow for public indecency with an Elephant Seal.
Her Nemesis from the War has finally caught up with her!
It's that damn Helicopter ..
Hoping for Officer and a Gentleman but Faye can't lift Bubbles.
Argh, I have only one day to prepare myself for whatever comes next. It won't be easy.
Jeph, how in the heck do you convey an emotionally vulnerable giant tank robot lady so damn well? And that last panel... will lead directly to Steve eating cereal.
That would be both hilarious and cruel.
That last panel is Great!
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsWgrf3XLKQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsWgrf3XLKQ</a> Yeah, this is appropriate. Edit: Not a coincidence, strip title is a direct reference; the "!!" in the comment seems to confirm it.
Damn you! You had to show me that :(! Now i'm going to have to watch it like 50 more times.
aaaaaaaaaaa the nervous hair touching aaaaaaaaa bubbles I want you to be happy so badly
Omg the moment is almost here arrgggghhhhh Jeph is killing us!!
Slowly and methodically... BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
I'm amazed and delighted that Bubbles actually said she was romantically interested in Faye, which at least cuts off one possible Bad End to this arc
I didn't have any doubt on that point. The way Bubbles looks at Faye, with such affection in her eyes - oh, my heart, my heart.
MY HEART IS GOING A ZILLION MILES AN HOUR
Awesome!
did the world just trip into lovey dovey void world
Dagnabbit Jeph, making me feel feels
All of the feels!!
Oh my heart, oh my precious heart. I may die.
MY FUCKING HEART
Omfg omfg omfg it’s so beautiful 😍 Bubbles is just adorable.
Oh Bubbles' faaaaaace, Jeph your art has gotten so advanced in the decade I've been reading these!!!!! ❤
*loud heavy breathing*
!!!
Bubbles needs a hug.
-indistinct screaming-
-muffled squeaking-
The suspense is killing me!
I hope it lasts.
JEPH, PLEASE! D':
This.....is.....TORTURE!! XD
Yeah, even Steve would be like "It's too much! Show me the next strip and I'll tell you everything!"