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🕑 Added 2020-06-03 01:07:40 +0000 UTC

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God damn Jacques, you got me right in the feels

oof. as someone who lost a parent in a traumatic way at a young age....this is painfully realistic.

Kuragari

One of those things I think about since my mom died when I was 17.

That was one of the most real and intense strips you have done. Thank you

Jeffrey Nonken

Giving up what you have now to get back what you had is going backwards. You'd be killing the person you are now on a might-have-been.

Dev

I SURE AM

Dev

Aw dang, poor Faye. This is rough.

Catherine Germann

I'm not crying, you're crying. :'(

Marc Tabor

Humans, full of emotional landmines. <3

Bubbles face in the last panel is a work of art and more expression in a single drawing than a lot of people can manage in their lives. Well done, jeph.

David Pipes

Absolutely true. It can take most of your life, or unfortunately longer, for some.

Sarah Manx

The webcomic creators I follow seem to be sharing a brain this week. Yesterday it was crabs, and today it's apparently death. (Regardless, this was beautifully done, as always. 🧡)

Mark

Little need to fear that, fortunately- https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3016

Mark

Joseph found the strip. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3256

jimbo

damn. that stuff never really leaves you, makes me wonder how human beings survive at all.

Tim Weber

If you didn’t read QC from the beginning (or at least strip 500, which was 15 years ago) and want to read up on Faye’s Dad, someone called pjunk has links to all of the relevant strips in this Reddit post called “Milestones: Faye opening up about her dad” https://www.reddit.com/r/questionablecontent/comments/6d3uba/milestones_faye_opening_up_about_her_dad/ Caution: There’s quite a lot more onions to be cut when you follow that link.

FeyOne

Oh... Faye... *Hugs*

Bagge

*cries*

Brad

That got me right in the feels. Thank you for not walking away from the hard parts.

My dad died when I was 17 years old. 55 years later? True, so painfully true.

Frédéric B.

The lesson Spider-man didn't learn.

Thomas Halpin

I forgot my permission slip, I didn't know there was a feels trip every day this week.

Two of us

Clifton Royston

Faye finally getting to this point rounds out the story arc that started 17 real-world years ago. Given that it's shorter in QC time, I think she's done damn well to get here however long it's been. It takes a lot of us out here in the RW a lot longer to deal with our shit.

VGreenGoblinV

Christ, it was literally my father’s birthday....

R. Francis Smith

I lost my mom when I was a kid, and I've got a family with nearly-grown kids of my own now and yeah, right there with Faye, of course I am. I've always had the trauma of it but the trauma isn't all I am, and I think my mom would understand.

Julia Allen-Hesse

I hear ya Faye 😿

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

I’d say the relationship of Faye and Bubbles is some of your finest writing ever, but it’s more honest to say you keep up this standard of excellence on almost every character relationship you’ve written. You’re knocking it out of the park, and also extracting tears across the board.

You made me sob. Fuck you Jeph. Thank you.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

aww, so sorry for your loss =(

SilverbackRon

Emergency Bunny Rabbit is an excellent substitute if you don't own a Worry Hat.

Bailey Tighe

Ffffuuuuuuu... I just had a flashback to the strip that showed Faye when "it" happened. Fast forward to now, and not only has she grown up physically, but mentally as well. And her finally coming to terms with what she experienced (and having Bubbles there to comfort her) really hits hard. Jeph, you know how to force tears out of everyone. Kudos.

GodsInTheCogs

I just lost my dad and OOF

You making a 6"3 big beard 350 pound crying like a baby

GREAT NOW IM CRYING AT SCHOOL

Hugh Eckert

Gods, yes, I know I do.

Sorastro

The feels

Oof this got me right in the feels. That second panel broke my heart!

Diptych

Oh Faye. 😞

Alex Borders

Um. Wow. OK. Time to break out the emergency bunny rabbit. (A plushy I hug when I need some uncomplicated tranquility and joy in my life. Like now.) Emergency bunny rabbit has been seeing a lot of use, lately.

Maurice Kessler

Wow. Lovely. That was good theater.

Cody Renton

how dare you make me feel things

Creepy Cat Lady

This is absolutely brilliant storytelling, illustrated perfectly both in word and in image. Bravo, Jeph.

I believe I need to up my Patreon commitment! I don’t know how you’re planning to round out the week, but if that damn shouting bird shows up...

Matthew Van Gangelen

No that would be an orgy. And those are on hold during the covid-19 crisis.

Tim Eldred

Bubbles has no idea what she lost on her way here. Faye, by contrast, knows exactly what she lost and is coming to terms with it.

I've only been in since 2008, but Jeph hasn't disappointed me yet...

A sheep

This isn't everyone fucking at all.

Caleb Hill

I love how well you drew the emotion in her face in panel 2

z

... Feels wrong somehow. There's a leap somewhere that makes no sense.

Levi

damn this hits close to home

Joseph Bonnar

One final comment, then I'm gonna shut up for a while. (At least 17 seconds!) Tomorrow's strip will be the end of week cliffhanger, right? What the HELL is Jeph gonna do to top this off?

MikeT

Has Faye ever told Bubbles that story??

Yonatan Zunger

OMG, I love these two so much. And I love this entire series. And... yeah.

Dylan T

Woof. This hits hard

Jonathan Smith

Random internet stranger zen hugs!

emmavoid

I've lost a parent, and... yeah.

Jonathan Smith

Jeph - kudos man, seriously. You're crafting this great story with dynamic and changing characters facing serious issues, and you are telling it with sensitivity and grace. And still managing to throw in a random butt joke at times. Love it.

Rosilin

SO MANY FEELS

David Perez

This was so well done. Excellent storytelling

Miyaa

One page of Faye & Bubbles post cuddles scene first, then Melon silliness.

Fay Roberts

And just like that: punched in the feels. Ohhh, she really needed this. ❤

Joseph Bonnar

By the way, Jeph? If there is some way to get today's strip as a print, I'll pay good money for it.

James A. Whitney

Aaaaaaaaaaaand there's a long-game full circle. Well played.

Chase the Dragon

Dude too much feelz and seriousness! Break it up!

Risa Wolf

Ho-lee-crap. Damn Jeph you're good.

Joseph Bonnar

NOT what I expected at all. Bloody hell. Jeph even made ME cry, and the last time that happened there was an unsupervised child ripping onions apart in the grocery store!

William Cole

Heartbreaking, yet hopeful (the whole arc, but especially this page). Well done, Jeph.

QC comments are the best comments. Just what I need...

At least she had Bubbles right there when this hit. That is too big to deal with alone in the dark.

My mom was a grade-A POS and her dying saved me in a lot of ways. Took me near a decade to have the moment Faye is having. This hits different.

awgiedawgie

And after all this seriousness, I think we're about due for a little Melon or Pintsize silliness... or even Steve eating cereal (with another surprise visit from the cereal fairy).

Sara Grace

I lost my dad 20 years ago tomorrow. This comic. It hits hard.

Yes, they talked about her dad’s suicide in the series of strips where she was gonna get drunk and Bubbles insisted on staying with her. If that’s what you were asking? (Sorry if this was rhetorical not trying to comicsplain to you)

Forgettable

OW MY FEELS. ;n;

Shaun

Choo choo, all aboard the train to Uglycryville

Gerry

So many onions being cut...

Everett Bradshaw

This is a great moment in Faye's road to recovery. Let's all savor it <3

Vicki McLachlan

Jeph. I respect you and the story you are writing. And I'm in it for the long haul. But if you are setting us up for Bubbles' mysterious ex to come and mess things up, forgiveness will not be granted.

Brooks Moses

Yeah. I mean, I have found that talking over my catherses with my therapist has helped with making the "getting better because of it" work even better, but still; this is a good thing indeed.

Verteiron

Damn does bubbles even know about this?

Joseph

Right on the feels

Rob

Oh Faye, <3

Emma Humphries

Damn, after everything from the past week of RL, and you got me in the feels.

I think that’s very mature of Faye to acknowledge 💜

Samantha Yeaman

Faye. <3 I think she's finally coming to terms with her trauma. So proud of her.

awgiedawgie

I think almost everyone can relate to this. You want desperately to undo something horrible in your past, but you can't, because doing so would destroy something wonderful in your present.

Michael Boettger

Oh my God. No, she doesn't need therapy. She's just experienced a catharsis. And she'll only heal and get better because of it.

Celine Chamberlin

Damn it, Jeph, you're really hitting me hard right now. Have I mentioned how much I love QC? Because I absolutely fricking love QC.

Kajsa Anderson

Happily, that's a false dichotomy.

Miyaa

She has a therapist, but it might be good for Faye to make an emergency appointment anyway.

BioYuGi

Oof, that's a big hit. But, for better or worse, she's right. The big decisions in her life from that came from his suicide, especially her tendency towards alcohol which eventually led towards her getting fired, hence how she met Bubbles in the first place. And if that hadn't happened, would Yay have ever come in to help Bubbles? And it's important to think that just because she got him 'back', he wouldn't be 'better', and that might just make things worse.