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🕑 Added 2019-11-05 02:18:55 +0000 UTC

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Is it just me, or is Faye's chin more angular lately?

Daryl Sawyer

I'd put her at 13, atm. Do we have anything like a canon age for her?

Daryl Sawyer

You think she's got comparative data on Sven's junk?

Daryl Sawyer

Given how close they are to the margin, she should probably go with the 50% friend discount, not do it entirely for free. I mean, May's pretty close to the margin, too, but 50% is still pretty damn good.

Trigon Manthree

This strip has the exact same top and bottom text as 4101. Maybe Jeph did a Save As but forgot to update everything. Or it's a deliberate callback to the parallel occurrance in these two strips.

Summer Sudbrink

I thought she was 11 or 12?

awgiedawgie

Certainly not the first time a comic was misnumbered.

Alexander

Any reason for the odd IOU / 4101? Logged into Patreon for the first time in months just to find out :P

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FunkyTuba

'sup ;)

FunkyTuba

Hip-sters hehehehehehehheheh

Chris Arnold

I'm sure shes mature enough to know what pubes are :P She'd be what, 15-16 now? Should be learning that in sex ed by now

Some Ed

What? She's embarrassed every time she's caught doing something kind and charitable.

Bill Hall

Alternate text for May: “If I tell you whose pube it is, and who you will be able to rag on until the End of Days, can you drop the price by a dollar?”

Bagge

Damn it, May.

Nulgar

Hehe, "Sven's part in it"

Summer Sudbrink

Thus proving she was right to send Sam away, since she's too young for that.

Stephen Wells

Pretty sure that Bubbles' sensor suite would let her track that pube to its origin in short order. Nobody tell her please.

Peter Jensen

The dancing would certainly be a display of the quality of the repair work on her hip.

Milo

Uh it was May’s idea if I remember correctly...

Andrew

I love that the “not gonna ask” & “I’d probably lie about it anyway” is implied.

BobC

Friggin' hipsters....

Dev

Damn it Sven.

Alternate theory: Faye already recognizes the provenance of the pube, and she probably knows how May got the money for the new dermal covering. So she's not bugging May about it at this moment, because she wrongly believes that Sven is *paying* May, and doesn't have the heart to ask for money obtained under such circumstances. (How she feels about Sven's part in it is another matter.) When Faye finds out their hookups weren't for money, *then* it's going to get awkward.

*wave*

FunkyTuba

There's no other business that this is taking the place of, so no opportunity cost. Probably minimal wear and tear on their tools, and a five dollar part. If a whale came in and said "make me thicc, pronto" May would get her hip tomorrow. Faye is not giving away the store here.

Professor Harmless

Short version:multiple pubes get stuck inside the reactive lubricant. Outside of this "clump" reacts to the chemical, coating the remainder with an inert substance that protects it from the corrosive properties of the liquid. Kind of the same reason it's difficult to completely dissolve a human body.

MiaKitty

Maybe it got coated in something that neutralized the effect?

Sven's pubes have seen some... interesting sights, in their time. They're stronger for it.

awgiedawgie

She'll say it accidentally. Just don't try and get her to admit it.

Bagge

She could still do that dancing and singing thing for Union Robotics!

awgiedawgie

I'm kinda surprised the pube's still there, if May's lubricant is corrosive to hair.

Also, considering the alleged size of Sven's schlong, I'm kind of amazed that the damage is so limited.

I wonder if May will still be getting discount rates once Fay realizes the, eh.. provenance.. of the pube.

Matt Grayson

And Yay 😃

Brooks Moses

I wonder if there's a way to change to be a non-profit organization that gets funding from some outside source. Maybe Faye and Bubbles should talk to Roko and Beepatrice.

William Cole

I like that Faye has an established Seeing Stray Pubes Surcharge.

Fart Captor

Faye has the heart for business. She just might have too much soul for capitalism, which illustrates how vile privatized healthcare is

Fart Captor

May's not a mooch, she's just broke and kinda needs both her legs to work. She insisted on going back and paying them for fixing her face even though they didn't charge her for it

Mitchell Sealy

I mean, this is incredibly generous of Faye, but if her most frequent customer is essentially getting free service that does explain a lot of her financial troubles. Faye might not have the heart for this business. A lot of doctors in the American Healthcare system say it can be pretty soulcrushing, charging the way they do for such an essential service.

Peter Jensen

Well, on one hand I think it's basically only May that gets the at-cost discounts, for a number of reasons. But on the other hand, the sheer decrepitude of her body makes her in frequent need of repair. And just imagine how falling apart she'd be by now if those near-free services were unavailable. Basically indirectly enforcing long-term poverty, which I'm guessing is a comment on the state of things in the real world.