Blood And Guts

I watched both my SSA thumb joint surgeries live. I hadn't done much research on it before surgery and when he pulled out the trapezium bone on the first one I though "well, I'm committed now". Very interesting to watch.

In the 90's, I was accustomed to attending to my cats for miner topical surgical proceedings. The vet would administer a local numbing agent, and the cat wouldn't feel anything. I found it fascinating, not gross.

I totally get it, Brun. Ran into a guy who I had the hots for while he was working outside his home. He invited me in, showed me projects, gave me coffee...desperate to keep me around a while longer, he asked "hey, wanna watch a movie?". Sure...turns out it wasn't naughty, but the arthroscopic view of his knee surgery, which he narrated for me, blow by blow. Married 'im. ;-) <3

Shocking that the girl who loves clocks is fascinated by an android’s inner workings! Love Brun’s face in this.

Do you think he did research into this or is he just making it up? It looks detailed AF

the clock junkie has a brand-new bag.

I have so many questions. Can we get a working group to consult with Jeph to write the #808080 Anatomy of Androids?

Who is with me that want's the December bonus comic to be a complete internal schematic of Millefeuille? So awesome.

Nice to see Sam working out well in the shop. :) Although I do notice that her haircut is almost as bad as mine after months with no barber.

I love the drawing in this. I *love* the detail that the femur is held into its socket with a retaining ring. That makes engineering sense. This is SO cool.

Surgery without anesthesia and the patient's not mad. Awesome! And OF COURSE Brun would love it. (Clocks!)

And Lady Brunhilde of the Flat Affect becomes aroused.

*Teardrop by Massive Attack starts playing*

Whats NSFW, Android Muscles???

OK, gotta respect your documentation work here, but… shouldn’t this get some sort of NSFW warning?

Modernize the old medical drama as Trapper John A.I.

Wherever this comic goes, I'll follow. If it turns into Scrubs with androids i won't be too mad

My guess: When Brun tells Millefeuille about how amazing her insides are, with that much excitement radiating from her, Millefeuille will feel unexpectedly happy.

Ok, I have a question that may not have an answer. Is that an actual incision into the leg or a port of sorts that opens? Are the AI bodies capable of healing or is there a type of “skin like bondo” that is applied here?

Ope accidentally created a ripper bad news everyone

Either this is a new vent for a hyperfixation or we're experiencing the inception of a very specific and untenable fetish.

This is turning into "Ben Chassis," "Carcass Welby" or "Housing."

I wonder if brun is gonna ditch her clock thing and start working on AI bodies as a hobby/job. Maybe she can get to work with Fey and Bubs.

Nice level of detail. Jeph is skilled

Yes, Brun. Your girlfriend is like a clock. Yes, Brun. She's your girlfriend now. That's just science

Butt implant cameo!!!

I like that Sam’s trying to be helpful but has completely misread Brun’s reaction.

My slop of a brain just realized bruns reason for loving clocks applies to robot inner mechanisms *pats skull*

I'm gonna say Brun's calling is to be a mortician and/or embalmer.

glorious

it's robot lupus

Damn dude, that is some awesome robotic internals art right there.

This is wonderful, sincerely. I look forward to when you start including paragraph-long science asides now that Schlock Mercenary is gone and I'm not getting my fix.

I think Brun will now feel a deeper connection to Mille because she's seen how part of her *actually* works. She literally understands Mille on a deeper level. People are an indecipherable mess to her, but she can comprehend Mille.

One does not preclude the other.

Brun's love of precision engineering was already well-established when she's talked about clocks, hopefully Millefuille will find such fascination either understandable and/or flattering, and not creepy. This could be really cute.

I wonder how many anatomy texts Jeph checked before drawing the inside of a robot thigh.

She's gonna be an engineer

Part of me feels like Brun is going to make Millefeuille uncomfortable going forward. I mean, how would any of us feel if a potential romance partner loved watching us get opened up and operated on?

You've obviously put a lot of thought into how the anthropomorphic robot bodies go together. Yay for sci-if tech that's coherent. :)

Right now, I AM BRUN 🤩 More please! Anatomical robot bodies sooooo!

Just wait until Brun wants to take her apart and put her back together....

When Brun and Millefeuille hook up the relationship is going to go like clockwork for sure.

Just: wow!

Wonder how she would have liked faaaaaace meeeeeeat?

Brun found her new clock...

A lot less goo and sloshing than the last time we saw these leg meats. 🦿💦💦

Neat! Looks like Brun found a new fixation, too. ^_^

That must have taken some time to draw!

Junior Mint?

When I saw my first cadaver I had a similar reaction, just internally. I wasn't allowed to shout in the lab.

Given that I work in EMS, I would 100% love to moonlight at Union Robotics. Just sayin

Probably based almost entirely off a hip replacement surgery, but with some shortcuts and simplifications that a robotic patient would allow. No bleeding, no concern about infection or contamination, preexisting seams, components are actually designed to be disconnected and reattached, etc. Robot surgery looks like surgery, but it probably feels a lot like working on any other machine.

I think Jeph just bought a box set of ER or something and had to justify it as a business expense.

...actually, there should be *something* in there to reduce friction among all those moving/sliding parts. Hopefully Brun can handle the sight of lubricant.

I would be 110% ok with a procedural robot medical drama!

At least there's no blood.

You know, when i started reading QC fucking FIFTEEN YEARS AGO (Holy fuck, dude, you have been entertaining me for half my life now...) If you would have told me that you would one day be posting a reasonably realistic robot leg surgery, I would have told you to stop putting LSD in your weed. XD Well done, my man. Very well done.

Who would have thought that a person that works with clocks would be entralled?

Jeph, have you had this turn in mind for Brun ever since you figured out how much she likes clocks?

I can’t tell if she’s going to go into robot surgery, propose to Millefeuille, or both.

could Brun be their next apprentice? it's a booming business! and I only partially mean that in the explosion way!

As a medical professional and former cadaver student, BRAVO JEPH your anatomical studies are showing 🔥🔥🔥

And thus begins the inexorable transition of the entire cast away from coffee and baked goods and toward femur replacements

On this episode of QC MD, Dr Bubbles and Dr Faye cure another case of Butt’s Disease.

god that is a MOOD

I find it fascinating how well this mimics actual musculature attachments and how this looks both anatomically feasible and works well as a support and limbic hardware. Bravo Jeph

I forget, what is wrong with the femur she has now?

I can see it now:Brun Khoury, Robo Surgeon.

I hope Brun starts working with Faye and Bubbles!!!

Gettin all up in that femur meat

Yeah, considering how much she likes clocks this must be insane levels of satisfying.

The ER theme is stuck in my head now.

Aaand Brun is aroused; horny even.

Figured she would be into it since she is into the intricacies of clock mechanics.

I, like most of the QC cast, have a giant crush on Brun.

how much research did you have to do for this? this looks really good!

It's like clocks, but super