Sleepless In Northampton

Digi

Rereading (from 2024) and had to comment that this page is so beautiful. Thank you Jeph for writing something that can be read & reread again & again!

Brando

Just catching up now, and as a former roller derby referee I can confirm that derby is plenty of an emotional mess as is, and people do pay to watch it. More people really should.

Ruth Merriam

Elfin Claire; Door Bustin' Bubbles; Big Sloppy Emotions for Everyone!

ValdVin

Is this a nod to another trans redhead with glasses in a nearby webcomic?

Stephen Wells

Platonic pyjama-clad pillow fight time first!

Skate on wheelies to escape the feelies!

Connor Wilson

AIs in the QC-verse aren't really "designed" at all from what I understand. Humanity knows how to make them, but doesn't quite understand how they work.

Michael Keogh

Naked pillow fight time!

Raphael

That's not a flaw. that's awesome. Bubble's text in third panel is pure literary quality, in its form and in what it implies.

Drew Basford

Big lady

Will Weaver

I swear, Claire has never looked as cute as she does in the fifth panel of this comic.

Pejo

Yeah, I get it, still sucks. They figured out on-demand configurable drunk & sober, can upgrade their bodies at will, can usually go to sleep whenever they want for presumably however they want; anxiety is just one more human flaw they need to figure out. :)

Armin von Werner

I find the full frontal nose faces always a bit surprising, I guess we just don't see them that often and the side views of the character's noses are quite defining.

dcy665 .

This just popped up in my email; I am still smiling at Claire's upturned face, and the "big sloppy emotional roller derby"

James Dore

The grace, respect and care shown in accepting things at face value should not be underestimated.

Lightsabr2

Bubs has a visible waste band in P2 & P3, anyway.

Michele Williams

We've seen that before with Roko and some of the others. Anxiety is part and parcel with sentience; any brain capable of both higher thought processes and complex emotion is capable of hyperfixating on 'what-if' scenarios to the point where it creates a feedback loop. The AI in this world are capable of everything from love and hate to body dysphoria and sexual attraction, anxiety is just another card in the deck.

Bagge

OK, but does either of them have pants?

Pejo

Major design flaw that AI can get anxiety too, WTF

Zak Reichle

So was Bubbles pacing and saw the light from Claire's phone?