440hz
🕑 Added 2018-05-02 02:08:12 +0000 UTC You thought I was gonna cut to a week of Steve eating cereal
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Preach it. At the beginning of any Stacks shift you make a play for a cart with good wheels, ideally the shelving cart and not the plastic service carts that were bought during budget crunches.
Brad Knowles
I think maybe he's implying that she is vibrating at that frequency in panel 4.
Joshua Thomas
I wonder if there is a joke here in the use of "440hz": That's the A pitch above middle C, which is a reference standard frequency. Or is Jeph saying that Faye is going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Brad Knowles
Where is his library cart? When I was working in Stack Maintenance and shelving books, we never went anywhere without our cart of books that we were shelving or otherwise working on.
That Blair Guy
Yes, but first she's going to ask when did Marten start dressing up for the library. And then it'll be a few weeks of catching up with the other characters.
I think we all knew this would lead up to Faye coming to Marty about her problems. Lol
Jeremy Sistrunk
I swear this comic just keeps getting better and better everyday. I'm losing my mind!
Churchill (formerly TeaBear)
It says a lot for this comic that many of us would actually WELCOME a week of Steve eating cereal. Tho it would probably also have to involve Melon at some point. :D
Captain Button
She going to join the band?
Jeph Jacques
i dont read trash
Ben Russell-Gough
I'm betting that's Claire's influence. Heck, she may have even bought the shirt!
Flounder
Look at Marty, dressin' all professional!
David Paul
Marten will always be Faye's rock when she is adrift. 3730 or so comics (which even in QC time must be a few years by now) have only served to strengthen their relationship, even when they have drifted.
David Paul
Elliott-Brun-Clinton-Emily-Roko... not so much a "love triangle" as more a pentagram. Summons the demon Rel Eh'shon-shp
Ben Russell-Gough
So, anyway, I'm expecting for Friday's strip to be mostly Faye pouring out her insecurities and fears and Marten noting that she and Bubbles seem to be pretty into each other already. He'll then acknowledge the bad outcomes to Faye's previous relationships and tell her that she has to decide whether to take the risk. However, she and she alone has to TELL Bubbles where they stand and where this is going; she owes her that. We'll end with Faye's 'deer in the headlights' face and next week will be back to the Elliott-Brun-Clinton-Emily-Roko whatthehelligon whilst Faye thinks it over.
Dylan T
Goood Good
Ben Russell-Gough
Well, like a lot of writers and artists, many of the characters in QC are Jeph's crypto-SIs. Marten more than most represents who Jeph is and his development as a person through both professional goals and relationships.
Evgeniy Semyonov
It is a good tradition to re-reed this comic before major plot ad-vance-ments. :claireface:
Morgan McCauley
Bestie roommate advice times! I am excite.
Andrew Tate
Wait, is Martyn cosplaying as Jeph here?! Same shirt & everything!
CalmWeaver27
Really surprised panel #3 wasn't animated
Andrew Mitchell
I had __totally__ forgotten that Marty worked in a library. That's a sure sign that it's time for a re-read.
Evgeniy Semyonov
Well, Angus said that she became native when she used "wicked" as intensifier. <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2652" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2652</a>
Dick van Soest
NO WHISTLING in the library either!
Thomas Boys
Love hertz.
SSJ Carrot Cake
super meta
Ben Russell-Gough
More specifically: "I've got the hots for my synthetic best friend and I am really frightened by the strength of the emotional commitment I'm already feeling, based on how badly my previous two relationships ended!"
Ben Russell-Gough
Yeah, something tells me that Martin really needs to talk to Faye about this before she either explodes or phases between quantum states into a parallel universal brane! Meanwhile, looking at the newspost text... Yes, Jeph is now trolling us about expecting him to troll us!
Dave Cochran
I worry about Bubbles’ anxieties, misreading Faye’s bailing on her. The ship must sail!
Marc Pengryffyn
I *was* looking forward to a week of Steve eating cereal. But this is good too.
DVW
God dammit Jeph I need my cereal fix
Brent Catherman
They might've been requisitioned for inappropriate uses.
Marten, that's why Library policy says you're supposed to use one of the small carts!
Well, there isn't much you can do other than wait and see what Jeph has planned. Accept your fate. Come to the dark side. We have covfefe.
Stoodmuffin
I'M SO GAY FOR BUBBLES DUDE WHAT DO I DO
*continues screaming joyfully at the prospect of Faybles*
Spacey02111
I would have been so angry.....Thank you Jeph....
Paul Grodt
WHO THE EFFFFFF IS MARTEN?!?!?!
Paul Grodt
Jephhhhh, have you been reading the subreddit again? They've been pessimistically calling that outcome for the past week. They're gonna be pretty happy to be wrong.
Erin Hartshorn
And Claire will be peeking over a bush to hear the news?
Kyle Jenkins
Bros bros bros!
Tim Williams
Steve will call Tortura
Chuck Dee
That was epically bad. Good work!
BobC
Clearly, Faye is in a world of Hertz.
Origamigryphon
I knew the first thing she would do is run to Marten! What are best friends for?
Everett Bradshaw
Hurray, it's Marten! Missed him, been awhile since we saw him last. Gotta say, he's looking sharp in that outfit, too.
Miyaa
I think I’m going to need a whole another box of cereal. (No, I don’t select the bagged cereal when I make my purchases.)
So does Faye need calibration or has she been calibrated?
I was wondering who she was going to talk to, i'm glad it's marty
Bagge
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Faye should have a chat with Pintsize. There are lots of finer points to a human/robot relationship he has contemplated. Contemplated a lot.
Pintsize + Droid 06 for passion, romance, and unlimited destruction!
I'm frightened for his sake. He was last seen with Melon, and unexpected things may well have happened.
Bagge
Yes, yes, but what about Steve?
Mitchell Sealy
I'm sure Bubbles is working back in the shop. She thinks too much of Faye, and herself to go sneaking around on spy missions like that.
John M Davis
it is animated, she is moving so fast your eye can't keep up and you see double image! lol.
I wonder if Bubbles will see this request for consult out of context and be crushed by it? That would make me sad.
Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde
five will get you twenty he doesnt
So a truly evil comic creator would do tomorrow's strip showing Steve eating cereal, reading a Questionable Content strip which is obviously from the Faybles storyline, and with the last couple of panels completely obscured. But you're not going to do that, right Jeph? Right??
Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde
I think the titanship is finally going down. OMG I trust you Jeph. But if you disappoint me, I may have to stop reading qc. You held me though the character diversity phase... but I'm not sure I can live through a faye bubbles event that doesn't end happily at this point. If they get together happily I will send you 5 pounds of pulled pork, no questions asked. And an Infinity Stone... but not one of the good ones. The one responsible for plastic bottle taste in bottled water, or something on that scale. Also... remember Faye and Marten when they first met? We were all younger people with hopes and dreams...
Bob Ellis
I was expecting you to toy with us for a bit. But this is brilliant! Ramps up the tension, fits perfectly into each ones characterisation and gives us NOTHING to go on as to where Faye’s head (and heart) are at. You are really good at that. Well played.
Smazzie
Marty! She runs on steam!
SC
NOW you’re going to cut to Stevereal
Onedavewreckingcrew
440 hz is apt, because Faye is going 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'
neato
god we haven't seen this much dramatic tension in QC since Angus ...wait, is Faye just Extremely Drama?
Michael Lazare
I think it's Marven
Daryl Sawyer
Ah yes, the "holy shit I'm in love" vibration/tremble.
TubaGinger
If her frequency rises too much, she’ll become Faye#!
Daryl Sawyer
What about 420Hz?
TubaGinger
It’s a vibration frequency commonly found in music. Most Western musicians tune to Concert A4 = 440Hz.
Jon Chaisson
oggityoggityoggity.mp3
Richard Laxton
This sounds like a reference to the end of Back to the Future. Or am I reading too much into it?
No not 440Hz! Please use 432Hz for enhanced brain function and world peace! /s
Griffon
I did kinda expect Steve tbh
But what timbre is she vibrating? Oboe, electric guitar, violin?
Dark Storymaker
For Newton's sake, stop giving him ideas! HE DOESN'T NEED HELP COMING UP WITH IDEAS TO TORTURE US! 🤣
ysth
is there an animated version?
Lucanid Landman
No, no, it'll be 2 comics of Steve eating cereal, 2 of Melon, and then 1 of the return of Butt-Rocket.
No Jeph, what you are going to do is get to the point where shes about to tell her and that's when were going to get 7 comics of steve eating cereal. XD
MikeT
Faye is about to announce a serious change in her cereal choices
Kyle Major
Vibrating with axiaty
I told my husband yesterday, "he's gonna cut to something random just to keep driving us crazy." Can't tell you how much I appreciate being wrong!
John P Kowalchuk
It seems Faye has really picked up the Mass. accent with that "Hafta"
Captain Button
I wanted a week of Tortura eating human flesh.
Mordaeus
I was expecting a cut to Pintsize, personally. Thank you Jeph!!
darklion
No tuning in the library
Peter McDevitt
Clearly she is just going to pick out a cereal for Steve.
nowshowjj
I wouldn't even have been mad if you cut to Steve.
Will Weaver
Well...yes. Anyway, hey, it’s that guy again, Marley or whatever his name is.
Well, yes. :)
Obliviontoad
We call this ze Stuttgart pitch...
Cody Renton
Obligatory "omg who's the new guy"
Well, yes.
Cody Renton
I even called it on last night's strip :o
Fart Captor
But what is happening with Melon and Emily?? Is Melon okay??
Bitter Donald
You're doing that with tomorrow's strip, aren't you?
We 100% did