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🕑 Added 2019-03-25 04:07:45 +0000 UTC

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Bread Boy

awgiedawgie

I'm not sure we had met Claire yet when Momo got her new body. Also too lazy (or rather too tired) to look it up.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

this is strangely relatable as I'm super going through this rn and I don't really recognize my own face from day to day =( oddly enough, not from anything in particular (though I did have a bout with some kind of infection that swelled up my face, that might have skewed things)

Thisguy

Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t from bouncer training. Part of being a bouncer would be talking to people and calming them down, before physical intervention is necessary.

And scooter repair for VespaBot.

Captain Button

Probably a superhero too. Backup for Pizza Girl and Chinese Delivery Man.

Joe

bouncer, baker, AND trained intervention counselor??

Kriss Pang

Dysmorphia sucks! :(

Kuragari

I like Roko's hair in this, even if she's a hot mess atm.

Captain Button

I was wondering if she had said anything related when Winslow got his new body, but I'm not finding anything. I do remember she chewed out Pintsize for saying something about how technology will fix it someday. Too lazy to look and see if she commented on Momo's body switch.

Matt

very good, Melon! we knew you could do it!

Hugh Eckert

Gods that last panel is just perfect.

Eric Sieck

Please don't ruin math with ketchup.

Sleepy John

Melon is the friendly puppy who sees the people walking, and runs over to stand directly in front of them so she can have fun too!

Mordaeus

Melon... Stahp...

lin sanderson

I wonder if Claire could help or relate to Roko, as it stands, Roko seems to be suffering a type of bodily dysphoria, she feels as though her body is not her own, though the way it's come about has sort of appeared in reverse to how gender dysphoria would manifest,

Bill Hall

Melon is Roko's sanity check ... if whatever Melon says or does sounds sane, then Roko isn't.

Diana

If Elliot doesn't volunteer for a phone crisis center he really should holy s*** Man I have totally had the same feeling as roko there and this really captured it well

Dave

... now with more integers!

Nancie

My new head canon is that Elliot volunteers for a phone crisis center.

Mark

That it's helping Roko as well is even better!

Andrew

Now all I can picture is the scene from Ghost but with dough.

Jason Zions

The speech bubble when Roko and Elliot are counting together. Square on the left side; round on the right side. Tiny little detail, but evocative of the moment. Wouldn't even need the pair of "who's talking" arrows to make it clear they were completely synced. Just beautiful.

Brooks Moses

Or possibly it wasn't locked.

JD

I LOVE ELLIOT SO MUCH, HE MUST BE CHERISHED AND PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS

Kinda Squirrely

One Math please, extra ketchup.

You're a kinder human than I am. But I don't have any enemies now, thank the good lord. Last one petered out 11 months ago. :)

Thisguy

I’ve really enjoyed the last few comics, and especially this arc. For all it’s comedy and butt jokes, QC does touch on some interesting issues. And while Elliot has the right idea, Melon’s random actions seem to have a similar effect on Roko. Roko is lucky to have these two.

Lisa

I was wondering where he would have learned that. You make a good point.

runrin

god i love him. such a sweet heart

Shawn K. Younkin

The fact that Roko is still playing the big sister to Melon is super adorable!!

Lars Gottlieb

Really happy that Elliot and Melon just happened to be around when poor Roko was breaking down, so she Didn't just go ahead and use that peeler on her face ..

Grace Kieser

This is likely just the beginning of her journey. Anxiety, dysmorphia and the like are more about managing attacks. With people you can medicate the symptoms, to an extent. I have no idea how this will work for an AI.

Bagge

This happens at semi-regular intervals at Eliot's job, right?

Jim Feldman

Did Elliot have to "open" the door (as in losing the deposit) or did Roko open it? It almost feels like there's a spectrum here with Melon at one end and Elliot at the other and poor Roko in the the middle trying to understand what happened.

Buck Caldwell

I haven't noticed any difference, which doesn't mean that there isn't - and, as someone whose wife has suffered from body dysmorphia for her entire life (we called it fun-house eyes), it doesn't matter. It could be a micrometer-precise duplicate of her old face, and still cause her to not see it as hers. It's in the brain, not the eyes. She knows she's in a new body, so she knows it's not the old body - so to her, it won't look like the old body.

BobC

Is this the end of Loco Roko's problems? Or is this merely a brief interlude of relative sanity? Will she enter infinite recursion again? Stay tuned for the Next Four Panels!

R L

Aaaaand ship.

Katrina Urmson

I love Elliott so much here. And Melon, really. And Roko's tired face and waggly reassuring fingers in the last panel are perfect.

Antoine Leblanc

Genuine question: do you draw her slightly differently to make the changes she perceives potentially noticeable by us, or do you still draw her the same way? (Note that I'm not dismissing her feelings as a character, I'm just curious about your process!)