Flash Fire

Wow! That's a frighteningly precise assessment. The bar literally existed to catch on fire, to advance the story Jeph is telling, and the firefighters caught on to that? How profoundly insightful. No wonder Hanners is into them.

he looks like a red headed cockatiel

Vulgar headcanon warning: It will turn out that Brun can't bear to be touched, except by Clinton's robot hand. This will lead Clinton to have more and more of himself replaced by robot parts, to their mutual joy and gratification. Jeph will be perfectly discreet about this, and no one will ever know.

I am obtuse, and took a while to realize that what Brun is saying here is not "Thank you for telling the truth about how we would never have been friends," but rather "Thank you for telling the truth about how you were feeling back at the bar then, so that we could become friends." This is why Elliott is not going to wind up with Brun. He can't just come out and say what he feels. Clinton's brashness, which has gotten him in trouble in every other part of his life, is going to make him sufficiently bold and direct that he can make himself understood to Brun. Also, duh, this is why Brun likes Renee. Renee is loud and direct enough that Brun can figure out what is up with her.

Is that what insurance companies are calling "Acts of God" these days? Yeesh, laws are made to require people to buy insurance for a variety of things, but no laws requiring the insurance companies to act in good faith, (if such a thing could actually happen, of course). To be fair, though, the last time I made an insurance claim (personal items insurance on my truck), they were pretty on the ball. The only issue I had was when I was claiming my $2000 folding bicycle and they wanted to pro-rate it's cost. I had to point out to them I hadn't even owned the bicycle for two weeks (backed by receipts) when the truck accident that wrecked it happened.

Folks investigating the fire quickly switched from enumerating probable causes to trying to find the reason the place had not torched itself up to that point.... That left them pondering if there was some reason the place *needed* to exist up to that point.... They concluded that it seemed to only have existed to be a plot device in a larger narative. After this case, most of the team investigating was forced to quit and head off seeking the nature of their own existence.

In other words, someone in that bar could literally have snapped their fingers and caused the place to burn down. Which, when you think about it, would have been terrifyingly cool. Meanwhile, I think that poor Brun is now worrying that there has to be something wrong with her friendship with Clinton, as it was originally started by him being mad at his sister. Does that mean that this friendship is a bad thing? It's so difficult for her to work these things out!

That seems legit

So it would seem that her old bar is unlikely to be rebuilt.

Whew! All caught up on DoA after Dina's QC appearance a few strips ago. I want Dina to meet Brun.

Does insurance cover that?

Is anyone else as distracted and oddly mesmerized by that one flippy lock of Clinton's hair as I am? I kind of want to pet it and give it a name. Yes, I am well aware of how weird that is.

Have I mentioned before how much I love this comic? Because I fucking love this comic.

Awww, sad Brun.

Awww, Brun. But, you’re friends NOW. 👍🏾

Jeph, you somehow made Brun cuter

I’m gonna use that one at work. “Gross Existential Negligence.”