Honk Honk

Chris Heg

English borrowed from Yiddish

Some Ed

I kind of recall thinking that May's predilection to odd metaphors was defensive preparation against this eventuality. She would try to tell everyone about it in great and graphic detail, but in such an obtuse manner that only Yelling Bird would understand what she was saying.

SARA J DAVIS

I feel like they deserve each other. Both assholes who are "trying" to be better.

Daryl Sawyer

Maven Blackbriar

Satan

lmao, i can't imagine Hannalore having sex with Sven. who KNOWS where he's been? (many places. many, many places. just think of the potential GERMS, poor Hannelore might have a meltdown)

Oh.. Oh Momo. No, Momo.

Daaaaaaaaaaaang

Stephen Smoogen

Captain May-ven to you!

awgiedawgie

I could see May and Momo. Opposites attract, and they really do care about each other. I can't see Hannelore with any other human, as much as I would love for her to be able to. Her reflex to bodily fluids is far too strong.

Cliff

So, wait... Do they not remember meeting?

Cliff

There's a Mar-vell / Marvel joke in there somewhere...

DF

'Maven' is also the name of Google's assassination AI work for the American DoD.

May will never be allowed to have sex because if she did she would immediately tell everyone about it in great and graphic detail, thereby opening doors that Jeph has discreetly kept shut.

Philip D Jones

I’ve loved May since she was introduced. I can’t see May and Sven as a couple. Sven and Momo, maybe. Even Sven and Hanalore when she returns from her walk about. (Someone will have to introduce Hanalore to sex. I can’t think of a better candidate than Sven.)

Philip D Jones

Philip D Jones

I’m an open minded, liberal kind of guy, but I’m finding this human-robot sex thing is starting to get creepy. Particularly if the robot is not purpose-built for the task. Even then having an AI installed in a flesh-light is not something I want to contemplate. Also, maven is an English word.

otp

Stephen Smoogen

I wasn't sure how far down the cutting of letters to go. I originally had MaySven.. took out the S and thought Maven might be some character already in the canon.

MikeT

I was more relating Sven to Brienne

Lasphy

Maven?

Stephen Smoogen

We now see the next couple in Questionable Content: May-ven. In this we will explore Sven gaining some modicum of self-awareness and May learning to care for another being. Oh what am I saying, we are just looking at pages of these as May and Sven stand by a wall.

Dean Reilly

Does she even have a sister to bang, though?

Evgeniy Semyonov

Well, it's way better than Man or Men... Maen. On the other hand, Svay is dangerously close to Svaye, which was a disaster as we all know.

Andrew Tate

We are calling this Svay, though, right?

Andrew

Her “oh man did you just fall for that” isn’t bad either!

MikeT

I wonder if May will pull a Jaime Lannister here...

Joseph Bonnar

Sometimes? Why not beat the Christmas rush, and love her ALL the time? :)

Stoodmuffin

God, I love May, sometimes.

Erin Moriarty

Is it weird that of the characters on QC with effed up lives that Sven is the one I most want to see get their life together?

Bagge

Yes.

Elf Sternberg

If Sven has fans, does that make us an Obtuse Clown Posse?

Diptych

Both of these idiots make some good points!

Charlotte Grubbs

I am deeply charmed by Sven feeling the need to demonstrate how a bow tie might spin. (...shit, is this how he gets you?)

Andrea Andrew

Eh. I ship it.

Bagge

Did she like... stifle a giggle in the last panel? Shit, even May is not immune to that Sven smarm-charm

neato

hooray for may

Chris Heg

Obtuse clown.

Shawn K. Younkin

That wasn't her being subtle...that was just Sven being dumb.

R. Francis Smith

BECLOWNED

Buck Caldwell

YES.

BobC

Wait. Was May just subtle? I've never before seen her kind of snark morph into that kind of subtle.

Sleepy John

Panel four. May actually looks ... almost ... cute, in an insulting and condescending way.

Alcaria Swain

........ I feel like I shouldn't ship this.... But I kinda do. If only because of May's continual opportunities to clown on Sven

JD

Is it wrong that I'm starting to ship them?

Alex Mullenix

That circle gesture is real nice, Jeph. Good work.

Samantha Yeaman

His immediate look of "I must reflect on my entire perception of my own intelligence" in panel 4 is wondrous.

Stuart Telfer

Omigosh the expressions in the last panel xD

Grace Kieser

Sven is kinda dumb

svlorp you dolt

Lord Crusade

Sven you idiot