Tick Tock

Brad Knowles

That's only if the clocks tick. If you use electronic clocks and keep them all in sync with NTP, you're fine. ;)

Daryl Sawyer

What about young guys with shelves full of waifus?

Daryl Sawyer

lol, I love Brun so much.

Maurice Kessler

That was a cautionary shoutout to collectors everywhere. I'm thinking right now of old guys with garages full of action figures.

Matt Grayson

NO! I was sure Alice Grove was going to discover that system...

Matt Grayson

Especially wealth.

Peter Jensen

Well, no argument there, <a href="https://youtu.be/3isQI0nXQRE?t=33" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emmett Brown</a> was definitely not entirely sane.

"that way lies madness" is why i'm a patreon

ysth

dord.horse has gone away :(

Dennis Watson

My grandmother collected clocks. Lots of them, ticking, ticking. The top of the hour could be pretty intense, especially at 11 and 12. I think this is spot on.

James Redekop

This makes me think of the opening to this bit from The Goon Show: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctM_Rvgjfpo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctM_Rvgjfpo</a>

Dean Reilly

Get a big enough collection of anything and it ends up owning you, not the other way around.

Lasphy

I can't help but think of Jeremy, the Completely Sane clockmaker from Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time

Czarzhan

Depends on what makes them tick...

Thomas Boys

Collecting clocks eventually sends you a little cuckoo?

Evgeniy Semyonov

Looks like someone's been playing Sunless Skies. The whole Royal Horological Office is about something like last panel... and then it gets worse. Much worse.

Ian Wolfe

All those out-of-sync ticks really will drive you insane, though. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

Bagge

That's a real concern

Dylan T

Brun do you...know this from experience?

Sally Fields

hey, if you haven't already check out "theif of time" by (GNU) Terry Pratchett. Characters are very similar to Brun

Creepy Cat Lady

JEPH STOP MAKING ME FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR CHARACTERS FFS

BobC

Mine never lands on the tockmark when it ticks. You decide which is worse.

Jeremy J Nickurak

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8</a>

Buck Caldwell

One of my biggest pet peeves is clocks with second hands that don't land on a tickmark when they tock. I had jury duty a couple of years ago and the clock's second hand kept persistently landing about 2/3 of the way from one tick to the next, every single tock, both on the downswing and the upswing. I felt like I needed medicating by the end of the day.

Clifton Royston

The last panel makes me think of 'Midnight by the Morphy Watch', though that's more chess-focused than clock-focused.

Magic Chopstick Games

Ohh-wah ohh-wah oh ohhh

Kevin Tangney

I think you mean the collector starts "tok-ing" back. Talk, tok. I'll go now...

Grace Kieser

I think this wins the internet, today

Grace Kieser

It probably why he keeps coming back!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Clockthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f’tocking.

Ok. Brun, sometimes you scare me, even WITHOUT the harpoon.

Erin Hartshorn

That last panel, though! ❤️

Chris Gallaty

We have 2 clocks in one room, the seconds take turns going in and out of phase as one is slightly faster than the other one. I can imagine enough of them would get.... interesting.

Gary Walker

Pop into Hippie Stuff. They have a clean toilet and also incense and shit.

That Blair Guy

Brun is, in her own way, among Jeph's more interesting characters. Those last few panels bring to mind Alice (of Alice Grove, natch).

Andrea Andrew

Talk about being overclocked.

Al Hunt

When I bought my house, it was owned by the person Brun is describing. Luckily, they took their time. On quiet nights, I still hear ticking.

Mordaeus

I am absolutely here for the clock madness. I need all of it.

JD

It seems like every time Clinton talks to Brun, the conversation suddenly takes a dark turn.