We All Were, Once

Around 30 years ago, I worked with an Improve group in Miami that was successful enough that we had our own theater (actually, a series of 3 of them over the years). The first one, a little before my time, was situated above a towing company office, and ever so slightly infested with scorpions (a fact that was kept from the audience, so as not to bum them out (or make them not want to risk their lives for a few yuks). To this day, we refer to that early period in the group's history as "Mental Floss, at the prestigious Tow Truck Theater, now with scorpions." Not strictly relevant, it's just my free-association with the idea of living with unwanted scorpions. (No scorpions or humans were harmed in the making of the show. Well, actually, lots of scorpions were murdered with extreme prejudice, but our audiences were fine. We killed, but not literally.) I'll show myself out now.

Kerin Schiesser

I want to know what the not-a-super-heroine pizza lady is up to. She deserves a happy story, maybe a meet-cute with another local superhero? :D LOL

Tom Rosenbaum

Time to bring back Raven, Penelope, and Cosette?

Tachpmg

Recently turned 20, soo it's starting for me

Grace Kieser

I think that may have been the other way around!

Satan

ugh. same man, same.

Heck, I’ve been 29 the past ten years ...

prettydragoon

I stopped counting at 24, therefore I'm still a fucked-up twentysomething. Instead of a fucked-up *mumble*something.

That's making some big assumptions about the passage of time

Lucy

...I'm older than any of the QC main characters. I didn't need to know that.

Bagge

Hannelore's experience of shoveling poop will come in handy for cleaning out the cave of forty asses

Daryl Sawyer

There needs to be a welcome back party, mostly because those are my favorite stories. :p

Daryl Sawyer

It's weird. This comic has been running for so long, I could have swore at least a few of them had reached thirty. :p

They probably don't have ice cream :p

Jason Zions

Why does Dora have such a hate-on for affogato that it gets an underlined NO on the price list?

Nemo of Utopia

More than a year, I think.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Maybe not that good, but definitely nice.

Kevin Symonds

So how long has she actually been away? In real time that is

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

The Prices board: : "Good Advice 69" Ummm....

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

55. You tell 'em uncle grumpus! 😜

Robert and Ann Wells

Also I am really pleased to have Hannelore back. She was always my favorite, but I'm not supposed to say so... I love all of them! 🤗👍

Robert and Ann Wells

67. Out of my yard, kids! 😂🤗

Ingrid Nordbø

Well, she was 26 pretty early in the series, and it isn't too farfetched that four years (or more) have passed in comic time since then. I don't remember the exact number, but Dora tells Faye to "stop humming "Mrs. Robinson", I'm only twentysix!"

Lightsabr2

As a fucked up thirty-something, I’m having trouble with this page.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

"You're All Individuals!" "YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!" /small voice at the back/ "I'm not."

Some Ed

Who happens to be 20-something... and a bit fucked up, supposedly as a result. (Given the evidence of how the others have been doing, I'm not sure I buy that. I think she'd be a bit messed up even without the science.)

SpookyPenguin

We need Biff, muffy and Tad to complete the collection of fucked-up trust-fund kids

I am at a loss for words at how excited I am to see Hannelore back. I just can't hold in all the squee I have.

Elthon Maria

I'd guess Hanners is okay with -some- physical contact... likely she has a "quota" in the same way that introverts can only tolerate so much human interaction before they have to retreat and "recharge".

Bagge

Heh, the moment Dora learns that Hannelore is now OK with physical contact she starts getting touchy-feely. Why am I not surprised?

Andrew Young

Oh no. Same.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

I would think Peach??

neato

...oh good lord, I've been reading this comic since *I* was a fucked-up twentysomething.

CalmWeaver27

"Yeah, but you're OUR fucked-up twentysomething"

Grace Kieser

Oh, God! Me too! Welp, time to put myself out on an ice floe...

Tabetha Rosenberg

As a Tabetha, I beg you. Don't do it. Please.

drone r0m-3

When this comic started I was a fucked up twenty-something. Now I'm a fucked up forty-something.

Craig Griffith

This does seem to imply that Dora has hit the big 3-0.

I laughed at the "Good Advice" on the menu board

Kyle Jenkins

Break out the Arbor Day banner! Everyone needs to welcome this beautiful child home

Kriss Pang

Taaaanners

Jax

Hanners x Pintsize

Daniel Burnett

Well we already know she’s a poke slut so maybe the whole town?

TANNERS!

Bartley J Drood

Since we're all thinking it...now that Hanners can handle human contact, who will she have her eye on for a significant other?

z

"Time to add 11 characters." Nine of them are personas of Spookybot. One is a persona of Spookybot with the most AMAZING rack and back end job... And one is Pear (Melon's sister, think "genteel Southern lawyer aunt on LSD.")

Michael Boettger

And Hanners isn't really a fucked up 20-something. More of a science experiment gone a bit off.

Joel Bateman

I still can't picture Hanners swearing. I mean, it's funny, but she is so precious.

Brent

I'm a fucked up twentysomething in my thirtysomethings

Michael Boettger

Well, something quiet and restrained for a welcome back. Introduce her to the new characters and anything else she might have missed.

Matt Grayson

Stabitha? What about Stabitha?

kris mitchell

Haha I just had the same thought except it was, holy crap I started reading this in high school and now I am 30....

Frank Morris

This is good civilization.

Samantha Yeaman

Oh god, I just had the sudden fear; what if I start out-ageing Marten and pals due to the inconsistent flow of time in QC? When I first started reading I wasn't even in my 20s yet. Now I'm almost caught up to him. Jeph, you're giving me an existential crisis.

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gatherer818

Hanners is back ♥️ that party is happening