The Other Shoe Drops

DP

Yes.

Bernhard

is that its tongue or a plate?

Gemma Hentsch

Makes Hannalore's less qualified biodonor even less likeable. Not only does she completely ignore her daughter's requests and preferences, she abuses her daughter's vulnerabilities so as to gain corporate advantage. Where's spookybot when you need them...

That horse is nicer than -I- deserve. (Of course I AM a flaming jerk, but...)

Mark

I came back today to see tomorrow's strip, forgetting that it was Friday! :-( Does this count as a Friday cliffhanger?

BobC

Most of the time I know I'm little more than an accumulation of excrement. But when HammerMom appears, I know I am a bouquet of flowers. Vive la difference!

William Burns

That horse is much nicer than she deserves.

Diptych

I thought they had the serving tray clenched in their jaws, but their tongue unfolding into a tray is an amazing image.

MikeT

Is Robohorse serving the drink up with his tongue?

ysth

Nice manga collection she's got there.

Boter Bug

Ooh, good catch, looking like Alice. (Though I don't think "Grove" is part of the character's name.)

Boter Bug

I don't think it's reliance; it's realizing that she and Tilly are in the same boat of being used and they'll face off against it together as equals. (Just, each person playing to their strengths. She's calling on Tilly's strengths right there.)

Boter Bug

Yeah. I understand people expressing discomfort, but they shouldn't just assume that Jeph will be like, "Here's an uncomfortable character who will stay that way forever!"

Simran Khalsa

Though all that space is why she can have a robot horse butler. Perhaps she built to accommodate larger than usual servants, or pitched battles for domination. Plenty of room to maneuver there. (Plus, likely no, everything she sees is hers to command).

Celine Chamberlin

Do you think Hanners' mom ever looks around and realizes how alone she is? The fourth panel really highlights that for me.

Jeff - thanks for your strong rebuttal of Patreon's planned change. I read your Washington Post review, and have changed my pledge up from $1 to $4.

Hugh Eckert

<a href="https://youtu.be/AJclNBsMggE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/AJclNBsMggE</a>

DUNNNNN da DUNNN DUNNN (imagine the Dragnet theme, my indication that Mother is in for it. I would certainly hate to have Tilly and Hannelore teaming up against ME.)

Janne Peltonen

Hanners looked quite a lot like Alice Grove in that last panel. See, for instance, SPOILER ALERT, the last panel of <a href="http://www.alicegrove.com/post/163216900934/alice-grove-ends-tomorrow-if-youd-like-to-see" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.alicegrove.com/post/163216900934/alice-grove-ends-tomorrow-if-youd-like-to-see</a>

Fletcher Williams

I love that we get to see that mom is still using the wrong name and Hanners isn't. Nice touch to the character differences.

I think a bunch of these comments are missing that shes already relying on Taffy (as if Taffy was REALLY going away...)

Man, when Hannelore makes a snap decision like that... WATCH OUT.

TubaGinger

It's almost like Jeph had a plan the whole time.

Meg Taylor

Team up!

Gino Arizmendi

I saw your interview on the Washington Post! I was like “I KNOW THAT NAME!” :Oc

Matthew

My thought exactly, Will. Damnit! We'll have to wait until Sunday!

Nicki Faulk

Oh snap! My money is on Hanners! &lt;3

Cleo Schmitz

I suspect Tilly is going to support Hanners, she IS her PA after all. It's HannerMom who is in for a shock.

Will Weaver

Oh, it’s on now.

Flounder

What a bongo.

Patrick Jackson

I have never enjoyed a readers comment more than this one :-)

Gary Walker

Panel 1: ben &amp; Jerry's fuckin' and cream.

David Paul

Hannelore <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1103" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">can</a> <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1108" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">be</a> <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2682" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">rather</a> <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2683" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">assertive</a>. <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=916" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">But has she grown enough to take on her mother?</a>

I don't think so. She REALLY doesn't want that... After all, she would then have to release the virus. <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2443" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2443</a>

I think Hanner's sense of honor demands that Tilly be there, if only to see justice done.

Lars Gottlieb

Good. Catharsis ..

Andromedakun

And this is the moment when Hannelore overthrows her mother and becomes the boss of Ellicot-Catham enterprises :P

Sian

I was going to say, didn't Tilly already leave hannelore's employ? But I guess she'll be keen to continue trying to be Good Assistant.

Thomas H

It looks a lot like an Okapi to me… which is technically a giraffe 😊

Thomas H

Actually, only one side… (perhaps I tried yesterday to tell a joke like that w/o the details) One version » "There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. And they have just crossed the border into Scotland and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window … <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/a-mathematical-cow-joke/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/a-mathematical-cow-joke/</a>

Jan Gampe

As a fan of "Steam Powered Giraffe", a horse wasn't my first impression here :D

Bagge

Ooooh, here I thought Hannelore's mother was doing it for Hannelore. Silly me.

You know what? Hanners has gotten strong enough to face down her mother. I suspect Tilly is in for one HELL of a shock.

Kyle Major

Much anger and shouting to come

Chris Crowther

Hannelore's father lives on a space station, her mother doesn't.

Andrew Mitchell

'Plane' tickets? To get to a space station? They *are* living in the future.

Chris Luthe

When you said a week or two ago that an important plot development coincidentally fell on a Friday...?

Chris Crowther

And on the flight H&amp;T can bond over being pawns in their respective parent's machinations.

Dylan T

Oh holy shit this is going to be intense.

Czarzhan

It would be disrespectful for a daughter to directly lay a smackdown on her mother. Asking your personal assistant to, however...

The robohorse.

Kyuusaku

What the hell was that thing that delivered the drink?

Captain Button

As far as we know, only the front of the robohorse is in the house...

Drakoo Dreamer

You think Hannalore is gunna lay the smack down on her mom, hit her with a chair and wwe up in there.

Lars Gottlieb

It really does.

That makes an awful lot of sense ...

Ting

Nice