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Absolution

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Absolution

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Well the US government is pretty weird, so that tracks.

legobil

Omg I wanna see her eat something and have it dissolve inside her and change her color

Daniel Burnett

And especially of her struggling with her crush on Marten, because that was very funny.

Clifton Royston

A comment I was *not* expecting to see, from someone I was also *not* expecting to see here!

Clifton Royston

I was just thinking about Zlata a couple days ago, and hoping we see more of her soon.

Clifton Royston

Marten's mouth in the last panel has such Elijah Wood "Alright keep your secrets." vibe. LOL

Kuragari

Crushes don't form queues, just disorganized clusters completely lacking seniority. And frequently also mutual awareness.

Taellosse

Um, I'm sorry Moray, but that's VERY weird!

Taellosse

I mean, given that the comic name is *Questionable Content*...

enchantedsleeper

Horrible *last* panel? 😂

enchantedsleeper

She'll have to get in line behind Zlata

enchantedsleeper

I still am counting down the days until it’s revealed that Moray has, in whatever form it would take for her, a huge crush on Marten.

Brian Bailie

couldn't she just like.. *ooze* over someone and "eat" all their dead skin and dandruff?

Ralph Cornwell

Detrivores UNITE!

Claudia D.

denying the antecedent!

Lucas Werkmeister

This entire strip was made just for that horrible last panel by Martin. Well done!

Wild Card

beat me to it BB

Joe

ew

Jose Alfredo Villalobos

Do not give Matt Mercer any ideas now.

Miyaa

When you've got skin of dude, and it's economical food. That's a vore-ay. Eat his shins, got a lot of skin, like tortillaaas....

Kuragari

The US government, for a start.

Phil_M

I think they're a biochemical battery

Jim Feldman

To be fair... It's been there since her first appearance: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858

Stewart MacWilliam

*slow clap*

Stewart MacWilliam

Carrie, "The Wreck of the Cubetown Ol' Boaty"?

Amelia Lewis

When a slime girl grows thin, And starts dreaming of skin, That's a Moray!

Amelia Lewis

@Yonatan, that was my thought, too...

Hugh Eckert

I love it when Jeph tries so hard to get us to unsubscribe, but the secret is we're all here for this shit.

Amy C.

Not even your own skin?

legobil

Also treats people to hot cocoa.

legobil

So, a less violent Deadpool with better skin?

Captain Button

In John Varley's "Eight Worlds" SF stories, humans pair with "symbs" which are symbiotic blobs who merge with the human to form a "pair" capable of living in free space like Saturn's Rings, living off sunlight and matter scavenged from dust and asteroids, etc.

Captain Button

When a Gelatinous Cube and a Mimic love each other very, very much...

Captain Button

Faaace meeeats https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3173

BookBeard

No, Moray. You are not weird. Of course you aren’t. Who has ever thought that.

legobil

Seems legit, Moray is performing a service to humanity. A kindness. Unrelatedly, @jeph, I saw this and thought of you (or of a very early QC storyline, anyhow 🙂)… https://youtu.be/b7h2qLU7BTc?si=RcOPmGj0RpyGIJR7

Pete Jordan

The best kind of friendships. Personally I prefer it cooked. Raw face is just gross.

Vilinda

Oh my gawd, that's even better! 🤣🤣🤣

Vilinda

Also sometimes notes. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4865

BookBeard

And stylish too. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5049

BookBeard

That was Marten actually, although Claire was tempted by the lack of pointy elbows. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5068

BookBeard

*applauds

Michael Steamweed

They'd also be effective as coats. Keep ya warm in the Canadian cold times!

Michael Steamweed

Replying to Bookbeard, Opus, & Carrie: I’m HERE for ALL of it! Jeph could lipsync a song (or three) and post a link for Patreon members, eh?

Claudia D.

you have Lowry's fucks!

Jennifer De Lurio

She has. The three of them woke up together the morning after Claire accepted the Librarian position. Claire has subsequently used the phrase "sentient waterbed with boundary issues" to describe the experience :)

Stephen Wells

"More often"? That implies Moray has already shared their bed.

Buddha Buck

Let her read Iain M Banks and ask her to cosplay as a Culture Gelsuit!

Stephen Wells

Instead she went with Gelatinous Boob. I'm happy with that!

Stephen Wells

Moray just wants to be a D&D Gelatinous Cube.

RadioDoc

https://imgur.com/a/yV0tOq3 not my thing but I do have a multipass for other things....

Carrie

He'll cut his teeth trying to perfect an alt punk version of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Carrie

Admit it, Jeph. You wrote, drew, and published this one just because you needed to get the pun out of your system.

Tim Weber

In my headcanon, Claire is nervous about telling Marten that she'd like Moray to share their bed more often, but Marten will be fine with it when she gets there :)

Stephen Wells

There would be volunteers, judging by the chat :)

Stephen Wells

She ordered ocean water with extra plankton at the bar, so there may be some kleptoplasty involved. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty)

Stephen Wells

Or Gordon Lightfoot songs.

Opus the Poet

Probably not an adapter, and inductive charging floor plate or bed, perhaps? We've never actually seen her talk about her power reserves, perhaps she doesn't charge at all and has some other energy generation mechanism? She was just kinda *splorted* out of an ultra-powerful, deep sea, medusozoa AI... thing? And those things eat the fish and other creatures that happen to get tangled up in their tendrils, so maybe she just drops a fish in and absorbs it like a Gelatenous Cube from D&D?

Atramors

I'm all for slime coats (girl or boy, I don't care) as long as they have polka dots.

Constanze Carstanjen

I doubt she eats... or can eat... she probably has a weird adapter to plug into the wall

Krestus

I strongly suggest going to Blusky to follow Jeph.

Joseph Bonnar

If people wore slime girls like coats, they could absorb skin flakes as they were shed. I'm not sure whether this is better or worse...

Dean Reilly

Or since they're in Canada: "that's a Vore, eh?"

Nick Lockwood

Jeph talked about it on Bluesky.

Stephen Wells

More singin' Marten is inevitable. His transformation into canadian folk singer has already begun. Before long he'll be wearing a flannel jacket and herringbone flatcap, sitting on Ol' Boaty's deck strumming his acoustic guitar and crooning ballads about the glory days of fishing schooners.

BookBeard

.....wondering what she normally 'eats'...

Raymond Dannelly

Every time there's Moray in the comic, I scroll to find your comment and you never disappoint! Thank you

Jan Szejko

O_o

William Burns

Dean Martin, right?

William Burns

I miss Sgt #2.

William Burns

And we thought Coffee of Doom's banter was out there...

enchantedsleeper

Counter: Pintsize will stand juuuust the other side of the border and look longingly at Cubetown (through a telescope or something idk) because he would LOVE IT here but he's not allowed into Canada.

enchantedsleeper

He's right? Did I miss some kind of behind-the-scenes discussion xD

enchantedsleeper

Wait. Sure husks and all that. But don’t just leave out the hair! It would be kinda interesting if people regularly shed hair, along with their husks.

legobil

Slightly regretting reading this while eating breakfast... Update: Also regretting reading the comments while still eating breakfast.

enchantedsleeper

It could be both.

legobil

Except it’s a bit cumbersome….?

legobil

In my head canon, Marten has been reading Patreon comments.

legobil

Daaang. The classic coffeshop banter is weird in cubetown

Bagge

Weird autistic things, with a touch of psychedelia and the 17 minute version of Inna Gadda de Vita. With the full drum solo, followed up with the long version of Nillson's Jump Into the Fire. It's a strange place, but the sound tracks are good.

Opus the Poet

because thats what friendship is two pals eating a freshly molted face together.

angrytoast777

Could be worse. She may want to wear them as bespoke flesh suits. "I'm not feeling like myself today, guess I'm feeling a little Liz..." *slurps into a pre-dressed Liz castoff

Granite

Started and ended?

Ailadi

Does this imply she currently likes to eat/absorb human dust/dander?

Phillip

It leaves the lotion off its skin, so it peels again

Andrew

Scaroused

Andrew

I think Moray should eat a person or two. Just to see if she likes it. In the event people do start to molt ;)

Ktulu

Is she wearable like a onesie? (...like Sgt. Schlock without the anger issues...)

Andi G

Bring a snorkel.

William Cole

Butts all the way down.

Opus the Poet

Oh my god Martin has to write "Cubetown: The Musical" now.

Doug DeJulio

Being able to peel a big sheet of skin off is the consolation prize for getting badly sunburnt.

Graydon Armstrong

She is the Gelatinous Cube's friendlier curvier form.

Graydon Armstrong

What, you don't like the taste of human skin?

Drazi

Moray could just vore me right now, I'm sure it's real comfy in there. Just need some way to not suffocate 🤔

Fart Captor

So slime girls have somewhat, well, reptilian tastes? Eeeegh. And egad.

Ursus Ridens

Dog Bless Spider Robinson!

Jason Harris

Go ahead I stole it from a shitpost XD

Val

Can I steal that ? I mean that sentence is almost as perfect as was Jeph's comic today.

Joseph Bonnar

When she walks out with a potato peeler, THAT'S when I'm gonna run.

Joseph Bonnar

The same, Tannerbot.

Joseph Bonnar

That was a call out

Green

What u did there.... 🤔

Shinymelon Fearnow

Am aware

Jane the Inscrutable

Oh thank God. I haven't read Absolution yet and I thought it was a reference to the joke that ends "it's your turn in the barrel" and in this context that was even more disturbing.

Yonatan Zunger

He's trolling us.

Opus the Poet

Specifically because of the dust/dander angle.

Leslie Stevens

So, like the way Aliens mutate based on the last host?

Captain Button

Bravo!

William Cole

My partner has tried to convince me humans should molt more times than I can count. An endearingly familiar comic for me.

Leslie Stevens

I dunno, I'd be okay with kink-shaming if said kinks are racism, fascism, authoritarianism, bigotry, and the like.

Zig Justice

NO! We must set a good example for Brad.

William Cole

Anh-ilation?

Gary Levine

Check the title on Moray's very first appearance. Jeph *started* the puns! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858

BookBeard

@William Cole -Don't you think it's about time we started?!🧐

Call me Ishmael.

As Jeph has preempted the usual "That's a Moray" gag, I instead offer the following limerick: There once was a slime girl with gumption Who revealed a worrying function While chatting 'bout skin She exclaimed with a grin That she dreamt about dermal consumption

BookBeard

Nothing but butts, five days a week.

SilverbackRon

Whereas I would use glue, then peel it off. Much less painful.

SilverbackRon

JFC

sjlxndr

I too had this horrifying image...

Munk33 Magic

Perfect. Simply perfection, Jeph.

Everett Bradshaw

God. DAMMIT. XD

TwoRavens

Brilliant gag at the end!😁

Peter Shaw

Good point. I shall have to ship him his internet trophy asap.

Joseph Bonnar

I want MORE! "With a rebel yell, he cried MORE MORE MORE!"

Joseph Bonnar

And kink-tell-us-more!

Melissa Wilson

I'm going for the "15 seconds in the shower" one myself.

Joseph Bonnar

Jeff Vandermeer wrote a series, the last book was Absolution. There's a scene where a very damaged man discovered another even more damaged man stuffing human remains into barrels full of acid. He keeps repeating " get in the barrel!", counting on CIA-ish conditioning to work on Damaged Man #1. The book does include a scene where a man eats the discarded husk of a transformed man. The first book was called Annihilation and a very gorgeously horrifying movie by the same name was made . I recommend it.

Shinymelon Fearnow

See, right up to the end there I thought she was going to wear people's discarded skin, and Jeph still surprised me. :)

Yelling Bird

And every 17 years, she could add some crunchy exoskeletons to the otherwise chewy diet.

Sean Kinlin

That's more of a Faye specialty.

Doc Gumby

My mistake, I thought that was Sam and Woody.

Doc Gumby

Jeph, thank you for keeping me entertained through the doldrums of IT work

Eric Johnson

THIS is the kind of genius born from a well-deserved holiday break! It’s still paying dividends. 👍

Melissa Wilson

Trust me, Wyatt, you do NOT wanna know. Hell, -I- don't wanna know!

Joseph Bonnar

Oh, I dunno. Drinking often helps I find 😀.

David Durant

As Descartes said, just before he mysteriously vanished: "I think not."

Joseph Bonnar

Butts, butts, BUTTS! All butts, all the time!

Melissa Wilson

More of singin' Marten, please. Filk-snark FTW!

Maurice Kessler

Scorny?

Joseph Bonnar

Ha! While I was able to stifle a full-on spit take, you just made me spray my screen. Though I admittedly oughta know better than to drink around this crowd... 😛

Melissa Wilson

Seymore Butts?

Joseph Bonnar

Jeph why would you do this

Jane the Inscrutable

This is the 15 second shower comic. :)

Joseph Bonnar

Don't worry, you can totally peel layers of skin off through dense arm or leg hair and have it remain intact. Source: My last sunburn.

Izzy Omega

Only occasionally kink-ask-why

Mason Griffith

Ow.

Ken

This side of Moray is ….disturbing.

Gary Wood

VANDERMEER? Barrel? What?

KiTA

Can you please explain the reference to us?

TV4Fun

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Dallas Hicks

Long pork rinds.

Sean Kinlin

She gains the ability to impersonate that human for a short time. Sort of like Darkman.

Sean Kinlin

HOLY FUCKING FUCK JEPH- YOU READ VANDERMEER!!!! GET IN THE BARREL INDEED! 🤯

Shinymelon Fearnow

Dammit, now we’re thinking of her eyes and teeth(?) floating in there.

Ailadi

You don't remember the episode where Cliff cogitates on eating Norm's shedded skin?

Sean Kinlin

It *was* pretty satisfying to peel off sheets of skin those times I got sunburns as a kid.

Sam Shores

Marten had me dying.

Vilinda

Jeph is right, I can’t tell if this script took three seconds or three days to write.

chili sunrise

Wait: If Moray eats a husk, can we see it inside her? (And do I really want to know the answer to that?)

ValdVin

Husks aren’t what Moray thinks. Dead skin cells would need some thing. I just don’t feel us human-types should do that. I will go listen to the variations of “Sway” now.

Sparky

If I've learned nothing else from QC, it's that characters can ALWAYS get weirder.

William Cole

It's ok, we don't kink-shame.

William Cole

We’ll say this though- holding our phone at arm’s length we can’t read the text but the art- positions, angles, perspectives- are, in our modest opinion, excellent and intriguing.

Ailadi

Like pork rinds!

Ngrasta

If Moray eats a husk, does she absorb any DNA or something of the shedee?

Michael Boettger

Wake up babe, Jeph just offered up a new fetish

MikeT

We need a Bladerunner to handle all these skin jobs.

Captain Button

Pintsize is gonna come visit Cubetown and immediately do a heelturn. “Nope. Too weird”

schmod

(the best kind of horny)

Doc Gumby

See?!?!?!?!

Doc Gumby

That's for sure-ay

Kristina

They crackle like nori snacks.

Elizabeth Bear

Butts!

Kristina

Absolute 10/10 Marten face in panel 6

Michael DK

Panels one through four reminded me of Norm and Cliff at Cheers. Panels five and six, not so much.

Doc Gumby

Babies suck their toes - or try to. Some adults also suck toes - interpersonal redundant integument recycling.

Charles Hirst

I'd let Moray eat a little bit of my skin ngl

Ashbury Haight

getting ahead of the Patreon comments on this one, huh

fluffy

6 months or whatever.

Mad Marie

Mark me down as scared AND horny

Devin Gates

We’re…. We’re…. um, innured to this occurring with toads and frogs (who consume their shed), and collect the sheds of our sneks, these are good and natural. This comic… is kinda yikes 😬

Ailadi

*ahem*

Eric Christian Berg

Excellent band reference. *thumbs up*

Doc Gumby

Now Jeph is doing them? It's spreading faster than butts disease!

Doc Gumby

Are you sure it wasn't a David Attenborough video of reptile life?

ValdVin

After several months of puns in the comments based on Dean Martin’s “That’s Amore”, Jeph punks us all and puts us in our place.

Populuxe

How long have you been sitting on that one Jeph?

Randall Norman Pick

Eww, don’t give Nebraska and the people who made Big Red any ideas.

Miyaa

Well, I am now very scared of Moray.

Tannerbot

Not sexual, not horrifying, but a secret third weirdly satisfying thing.

Diptych

Alright, that settles it. I'm partying with Moray.

Anthony Gaglianese

Lmao

Laura Sullivan

Schrödinger’s Webcomic. Guys, Jeph hits peek hipster comic vibe.

Miyaa

Moray Green…is people!

Ross Weckesser

And she washes it down with some Husker Dew.

Sean Kinlin

I'm less worried about Moray eating skin, more worried that there's probably a reason terminated employees have a final exit interview with The Director.

voyager-ngc5195

Most people reading this: 🤢 At least one person, who has learned something new about themselves today: 🤔😏

Lee and Sarah

Is it weird that I leave husks?

Zig Justice

What the actual old fashioned Kentucky fried fuck?? XD

Val

Sometimes you can trace back the exact line of thought that lead to a comic, and I think that's beautiful

Cody Renton

She wants to eat your skin, Marten!! Run!

JMK

Welp. Jeph had joined in on the Sinatra Moray puns.

Miyaa

Om nom nom, delicious outermost layer of human! She means well, bless her heart.

Madeline Hunter

Also I just noticed the subscript text and I'm mentally trying to reconcile this conversation with the relevant joke and every possible combination of this is disturbing as hell.

Yonatan Zunger

What the FUCK

Dave, Duke of Fridges

Apparently the number one thing being developed in Cubetown is fetishes.

Colin McBride

🎵Come on! Eat another little piece of my skin now, baby...

Sean Kinlin

Well that's definitely a real fetish someone has

Michael

Moray watched that one Lit video and had been forever changed.

Mr. Ifrit

Moray just got even weirder. Which I didn't think was possible.

Shaodyn

This is easily your best and worst pun you’ve ever put into a comic. I am both proud and horrified to be a reader. Thank you and please don’t do it again.

Triscaleon

Moray could totally eat my husks. ...Wait. Is this a fetish?

Zig Justice

Today's comic did not go the way I was expecting it to go, at any stage.

Yonatan Zunger

Jeph could not resist the siren call of the song.

Sean Kinlin

Has Jeph been planning this pun since Moray's introduction?

William Davy

Jeph has won the thread tonight. And he didn't even enter it.

ValdVin

This comic is never a bore-ay

Alcaria Swain

What's going on in your head

wyatt wustrau

What.

Bryan

cannot tell if this is the best comic or the worst

Tamara Macadam


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