FBSEALH

I just want to congratulate Jeph on drawing the monolith with the proper 1:4:9 proportions, or at least a reasonable approximation. I read and re-read 2001 and 2010 so many times as a kid. Love this reference.

Erin Halfelven at BigCloset

Only if you know where your towel is.

Yelling Bird

I LIKE MY COFFEE LIKE I LIKE MY BODILY ORIFICES! HOT, WET, AND WITH MY WANG IN IT!

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Is there such a thing as cosmic comedy?

Good cosmic horror never is!

Glenn

I hope this is never explained

Jan Szejko

Do you mean Europe? I assumed you mean Europa, i.e. one of the Jupiter's moons.

Mad Marie

I like my coffee like I like my slabs: bold, black, and mmm-mmm-Mmmm!

AlyxHaestrom

hahaha, that was a terrible, wonderful joke

David Howe

you don't want the Black Slab to tip 50% though. The latte will slide off.

Rich Holmes

(It's not. It's visible in 4631.)

Jonathan

ATTEMPT NO LATTE THERE.

Likeablejerk

The slab bends space-time

Leak

I thought Italy was in Europa? Why not just float there for a coffee?

Stephen Wells

You can't get Coffee of Doom just anywhere.

Uncle Matt

It came all the way from Europa for a cup of coffee.

Sezoxeufu

Why does it feel like the order is a dirty chai?

Stephen Wells

Black and rectangular, I assume.

Stephen Wells

Floating Black Slab Emitting a Lavender Halo is going to be pissed off when the orders get mixed up.

Jeffrey Anderson

Love the wave indicating motion.

Leak

Now you just made me imagine it in the shower... HOT!!1!eins

Leak

I heard slab tipping was pretty popular - now I know why...

Ignacio Calvo Martínez

Those vanishing points seem odd to me...

Kyle Major

gotta tip good when someone FINALLY gets your order

Absentia

first day on the job and Claire's already rackin up the cash for the ol CoD. well done.

Absentia

counter hypothesis: it's Yay's little sibling.

Some Ed

Absolutely. There's also a few that are just completely silent.

Some Ed

The invisible emu's dialog is easier to write.

Some Ed

FBSEALH finally got their drink. It's extra important to tip well when you can't otherwise communicate and the barista actually got your drink order mostly right.

Temperjoke

Hypothesis: this is actually Yaaay's true form

Thomas A. Dennis

Lil' Monolith knows that the best way to promote humanity's evolution is to tip generously.

Had to do sumpin cool for Claire's first day

Bagge

I don't know what Hannelore complain about. It's their most hygienic customer yet.

Evgeniy Semyonov

So, it's a Shame Orb's younger cousin, Slab of Slight Confusion. I wonder what their whole family tree looks like.

Joseph Bonnar

The Librarian would demand a banana smoothie here. Made with the hammer.

Captain Button

Digital Entities can't be in non-binary relationships unless they use analog computation substrates.

Ok but why do they qualify it as "the black slab emitting a low hum?" Are there other colored slabs? Slabs that emit other sounds?

Give it to us straight, Jeph. One month from now they'll be in a non-binary relationship with Pintsize. We know where you're headed.

Yelling Bird

VIVAT GRENDEL!

Populuxe

It’s picking it up for Emily. They’re working on a project together at Smif.

Dean Reilly

Did Hanners summon the FBSEALH by drawing it on the 'Be Nice To A Robot Today' flyer?

Dean Reilly

The speared sheet is the one that Hanners dropped the knife onto last week.

Sleepy John

the MMMMMMM is satisfaction.

Rich Holmes

Is this the first time we've seen the actual price for good advice, and it's of course?

Rich Holmes

Also easiest character to write dialog for

Kriss Pang

I like how claire thought to perch it on top of the monolith!

Ross

Couldn't it just have an NFC interface like my credit card? Or even Venmo? I can believe the cash register responds to an incoming Venmo.

Mad Marie

Yelling Bird! Are you trapped inside that floating censor bar that just bought coffee?

Verteiron

Did it just teleport cash into the till or did it do an wireless thing? One would be odd, the other would terrify even Yay.

Thomas Halpin

The next candidate for "easiest character to draw" is "Invisible NB Pansexual" who is really self conscious about it so they proactively warn people out loud when they're nearby.

doorbender

In the year 2525 if Jeph is still alive, if AI can survive, they may fiiiiiind, everyone is a floating slab. The end.

Chris Heg

Also sprach Zarathustra, just sayin'

Matt Grayson

In the first three dimensions, anyway…

MMMMM, it’s like “Ook” but for black slabs instead of Orangutan librarians

Frank Wales

I'll have a guess at Pintsize Classic

Floating Black Slab Emitting A Low Hum (FBSEALM). Not sure where the M comes from tho, I guess cause all it says is MMMMMMMMM

Kurt Roithinger

so, is this the first QC character to have an actual action figure? https://www.amazon.com/Toynk-Science-Fiction-Collectible-Monolith/dp/B01MEETRTD

Yelling Bird

OOOoooooOOOOoooo! I AM THE GHOST OF YELLING BIRD!

Paul Zagieboylo

I appreciate that the floating black slab appears to be proportioned as 1:4:9, as is proper for floating black slabs. An easy detail to mess up!

rThunderbolt

Slabbie is my new favorite character

Rob Vary

So... who was the PREVIOUS easiest character to draw?

Captain Button

Maybe the hum is just the only part of Slab's communications that human ears can percieve?

Shawn K. Younkin

Love how Dora gets to what's important - Floating Black Slab emitting a low hum that tips well.

Joseph Houk

ba-dum-tish.

Lana Del Prey

I have a new favorite character

Edward Clayton Andrews

Very good tipper.

Captain Button

Oops, that was Gary.

Smazzie

This is Yay's dad

Stephen Brown

Now I wanna see Hanner's speardsheet *(spreadsheet)

Paracog Steadham

Shaped like that, of course it will tip well.

Sean Kau

This was an odd diversion

Captain Button

Is he trying to impress his boss, like Gordon?

Michael Boettger

Um, what exactly will they be doing with their latte?

Chauncey

Claire is the cutest and must be protected at all cost

Max D S

Jeph entered his cubist phase in 2021, comic historians later note.

Michael Boettger

Further evidence of sentience: recognition of human social norms.

Miyaa

Jeph.

Zig Justice

All hail Slab, new star character of the comic! 🙇‍♂️

Trans4Life2021

Lol what even is going on

Cody Renton

Comic title is FBSEALM?