jephjacques / Advanced Diplomacy

"Find out sometime next year on yet another episode of... Questionable Content!"

Leak

2024-11-10 00:15:07 +0000 UTC

Anh ihilation (2018)

Leak

2024-11-10 00:13:03 +0000 UTC

Good catch!

enchantedsleeper

2024-11-03 03:06:37 +0000 UTC

Imagine Faye coming up to the bar to sit for a bit (but gently declining another drink from Emmett and getting a water instead). She overhears some of what Anh is saying and gives her a bit of advice from her own experience of grappling with queer feelings - without having any idea that Anh is talking about Hanners xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-31 09:56:37 +0000 UTC

So... Faye, then XD

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-31 09:52:39 +0000 UTC

Someone else commented on it, but he's doing some nice subtle things with light and shading that make it feel more dimensional.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-31 03:58:44 +0000 UTC

Absolutely right

Clifton Royston

2024-10-31 03:57:44 +0000 UTC

Occam's gay-zor am i right

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-30 00:03:37 +0000 UTC

Is Jeph handling perspective differently lately, or is there just an unusual depth of field in this number?

Ursus Ridens

2024-10-29 03:56:08 +0000 UTC

Bookbeard, this is why I used the word press. As in firmer than before maybe with some explanation he feels or sees as justification.

Carrie

2024-10-29 02:51:38 +0000 UTC

Because Hanners is wealthier than she is.

Rob Vary

2024-10-29 02:31:53 +0000 UTC

I think I'm in love with Anh. She needs to become a regular character.

Chris Warren

2024-10-28 23:35:07 +0000 UTC

it was pretty dark outside in https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5425 already (last panel, window), though I for one didn't notice it at the time

Lucas Werkmeister

2024-10-28 23:26:29 +0000 UTC

"I declare you weed and weed. You may smoke the doob."

Clarence the Liar

2024-10-28 21:17:03 +0000 UTC

Afterwards I saw them kissing in one of the cars 😳

Green

2024-10-28 20:44:03 +0000 UTC

More like a 66 or 99. And 99 is already married to Maxwell Smart

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 20:38:53 +0000 UTC

Anh isn't up to Claire's standards

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 20:37:31 +0000 UTC

Because people who have no morals do have Standards. More importantly, there is no reason to needlessly turn potential allies into enemies.

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 20:34:47 +0000 UTC

More verbal hi-jinx to come tomorrow I'm sure. I predict at least one face palm.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-28 17:52:38 +0000 UTC

Did we ever get Ahn’s surname? Because I would think Baka would be an excellent last name for her. Ahn Baka.

Miyaa

2024-10-28 17:16:21 +0000 UTC

Which we will definitely need a Patreon version of.

Miyaa

2024-10-28 17:15:08 +0000 UTC

Otto Korrect is Hannelore Von Schwartzpunkt’s henchmen and eventually a kind of a boyfriend in a Doctor Drakken and Shego way.

Miyaa

2024-10-28 17:12:32 +0000 UTC

Comes with being Veronica’s kid.

Miyaa

2024-10-28 17:09:02 +0000 UTC

Not at the wedding, those table rentals are expensive!

Miyaa

2024-10-28 17:06:01 +0000 UTC

She's very goal-oriented. Her goal is getting railed. She has not yet achieved her goal.

Hugh Eckert

2024-10-28 17:05:34 +0000 UTC

God no. Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse is terribly overrated. Better to go to a family run steakhouse for privacy.

Miyaa

2024-10-28 17:04:46 +0000 UTC

Anh’s basal brain works on the fight/fuck/financially buy out triad

Ísabel Pirsic

2024-10-28 16:58:09 +0000 UTC

Anh is honest, seems to have a sentimental streak, and doesn't seem to bear grudges. I'd truest Tai and Cleo's judgement on her, and they keep her around.

Philip Masters

2024-10-28 16:06:03 +0000 UTC

Hanners may have realised that Fay, for all her other virtues, isn't really mediator material.

Philip Masters

2024-10-28 15:44:31 +0000 UTC

Her categories aren't limited to "rich" and "boring"; she's happy to hang out with Tai and Cleo, and then there are the people she wants to shag. So you can add "attractive" and "entertaining and non-threatening" to the list, for a start. But she does tend to open dealings with new people with "seduce" if they're attractive, "intimidate" otherwise. But "intimidate" bounces right off Hanners, and she can't fit her into any other categories, so her brain has got scrambled and reset to "seduce".

Philip Masters

2024-10-28 15:41:46 +0000 UTC

She's amusing to watch and doesn't really try to hurt people unless she has a clear reason. That makes her worth keeping around as a friend. From this, she's apparently become part of a fairly tight group of friends. Now, one of that group is getting married; excluding any of them from the bridesmaid group would be blatantly hostile and mean and might destroy the group. So you invite her along, ask her nicely not to let her libido cause trouble, and appreciate the tear she shed at the ceremony.

Philip Masters

2024-10-28 15:35:25 +0000 UTC

She still wants to bang Hannelore, just not her boring friend.

William Cole

2024-10-28 15:17:17 +0000 UTC

I dunno. Isn't she kinda Kinsey-six lesbian? She might prefer to politely refuse offers of MFF threesomes.

Philip Masters

2024-10-28 15:17:08 +0000 UTC

She is a very well-brought-up heiress. I'm sure that she is generally terribly polite about being mean to people. It's an art. Plus, it looks like she doesn't actually go round being horrible to everybody on sight. Despite the comedy set-up, she's really not unremittingly evil. She may be stunningly rude when she feels it's necessary, but she mostly preserves the niceties. Being pointlessly rude just alienates people and makes life more difficult.

Philip Masters

2024-10-28 15:15:42 +0000 UTC

https://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/ and https://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/ specifically:)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-28 14:38:30 +0000 UTC

At least Tai has her head on straight (pun not intended)

Huw Morgan

2024-10-28 14:35:19 +0000 UTC

Wait, why is Ann worried about politely declining something?

JourneymanWizard

2024-10-28 14:03:27 +0000 UTC

This is a fun thought.

Carrie

2024-10-28 11:50:19 +0000 UTC

I'm sure she's never tried. Declining that is.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 10:52:33 +0000 UTC

This is literally a Dresden Kodak comic :)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-28 09:59:58 +0000 UTC

@William Cole: excellent! 🤌🥹

Zak Reichle

2024-10-28 09:49:42 +0000 UTC

Given her orbital pedigree, Hanners is the one that seems so down to Earth...

David Paul

2024-10-28 09:43:17 +0000 UTC

Orbital Uber Eats

David Paul

2024-10-28 09:39:26 +0000 UTC

A suplex is just an over-complicated 69.

David Paul

2024-10-28 09:37:04 +0000 UTC

Now I'm imagining Maxwell's Demon using Occam's Razor to make Pascal's Wager on the Ship of Theseus while sailing towards Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

Mad Marie

2024-10-28 09:24:27 +0000 UTC

Honestly, how much experience does Tai have with politely declining threesomes?

Dean Reilly

2024-10-28 09:22:09 +0000 UTC

Okay, but if Claire is standing right there then I need to know what she thinks of this situation XD Because I feel like she'd find it hilarious. Or she could Librarian Anh into leaving Hanners alone.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-28 09:17:26 +0000 UTC

I misread that as "weed", and I think some weed would probably help

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-28 09:14:09 +0000 UTC

Theory: Anh was not actually invited to be a bridesmaid; she assumed her way in the door.

Mad Marie

2024-10-28 09:13:08 +0000 UTC

It might be a five, the amount of cleaning equipment Hanners would require is probably sufficient to be considered its own entity

Ste Saunders

2024-10-28 08:11:29 +0000 UTC

It wouldn't be a threesome, Anh, Marten is in a happy relationship. It would be a foursome.

Nulgar

2024-10-28 07:25:47 +0000 UTC

The wedding is grant-funded and getting Anh out of the house for the day was a stipulation of the grant?

Bill Silvia

2024-10-28 07:19:44 +0000 UTC

If briding wasn't already an exhausting affair, I would agree. A bi person who is not currently being wedded would be very welcome to give some perspective.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-28 07:17:32 +0000 UTC

Tai and Marten should totally both be mediators

Bagge

2024-10-28 07:09:16 +0000 UTC

I once saw Occam and Hanlon get into a knife fight in a car park.

Diptych

2024-10-28 06:38:07 +0000 UTC

If they got Veronica involved, in could be Anh no Dom(me)ine.

William Cole

2024-10-28 06:07:28 +0000 UTC

To be fair, Anh has appeared in less than 10 strips so far, and Hannelore has probably had 1000, and two substantial changes in personality along the way. She was kind of a creepy stalker at the beginning. I'd be willing to give Anh a chance and see how she develops, if she becomes a regular.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 06:01:26 +0000 UTC

@Mad Marie: I suppose most people assumed the hypothetical that you had your own razor? Perhaps they were all borrowing Occam's razor on that occasion.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 05:49:45 +0000 UTC

Maybe Anh once rescued Tai by pulling her out of the path of a runaway invisible emu, and now Tai owes her an incalculable debt. It could have happened. You can do anything in backstory!

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 05:45:11 +0000 UTC

I'm getting more the impression that Anh experiences the whole world as either "people I want to fuck" or "people who want to fuck me", and from her viewpoint there is not nearly enough overlap between these two groups. (This might be only how she feels right now in the grips of HORNY, and not life in general.) Thus the last previous conversation - if Anh didn't want to fuck Hanners, then it must mean that Hanners wants to fuck her - but no! She is now trying to comprehend how Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham, whom Anh can not ignore because she is Rich, could possibly be neither one of these two groups. Add a 3rd person, Marten, and she immediately resets back to default.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 05:42:21 +0000 UTC

Anh, no 2024...

Leak

2024-10-28 05:38:17 +0000 UTC

Cue up smash cut to the aftermath of the orgy. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4008

Quasitling

2024-10-28 05:35:12 +0000 UTC

Well done, I mean arrrrgh

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 05:32:06 +0000 UTC

Damn you Otto Korrect!

Opus the Poet

2024-10-28 05:12:20 +0000 UTC

Poor Hanners. So defeated… 😩

legobil

2024-10-28 05:08:29 +0000 UTC

Ahn no horribilis

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 05:07:33 +0000 UTC

It can also turn unicorns into narwhals.

Andrew

2024-10-28 04:46:01 +0000 UTC

Anh yes!

Andrew L Butula

2024-10-28 04:24:43 +0000 UTC

They meant Dora.

jonesnori

2024-10-28 04:21:36 +0000 UTC

He already said he wanted to open a coffee shop, based on my vast experience of "coffee shop web comics" isn't that already destined to be his path?

Mark Eichin

2024-10-28 04:17:20 +0000 UTC

"there is no other possible explanation other than people want me" lol

djellafine

2024-10-28 04:14:02 +0000 UTC

You know, I think Hanners inadvertently nailed Marten's ideal career path here. With his chill demeanor he would be phenomenal as a professional mediator. And with the kind of over-the-top personalities that Cubetown attracts, that's probably a service they could really use.

BookBeard

2024-10-28 04:12:59 +0000 UTC

Yeah, but as a bridesmaid?

jonesnori

2024-10-28 04:12:13 +0000 UTC

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

Jan Szejko

2024-10-28 04:07:35 +0000 UTC

I guess I can buy that.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 04:04:32 +0000 UTC

The vibe I'm getting is "old friend you feel obligated to invite even though you don't really want to."

BookBeard

2024-10-28 04:03:36 +0000 UTC

Clearly Anh would just interpret a suplex as another come-on.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 04:02:42 +0000 UTC

The space princess role was always a better fit for her than heiress. "Okay Anh, let's get dinner!" pizza crashes from orbit

BookBeard

2024-10-28 04:01:04 +0000 UTC

Strike that last, Tai's face shows that Anh's already succeeded in annoying Tai again. How did she get invited as a bridesmaid?

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 04:01:01 +0000 UTC

A suplex is the answer to this problem.

Dan Curtis

2024-10-28 03:57:52 +0000 UTC

Don't bring a razor to a railgun fight.

William Cole

2024-10-28 03:50:36 +0000 UTC

[cracking knuckles] Martin steps in!

Maurice Kessler

2024-10-28 03:49:38 +0000 UTC

What's left of Anh after that would fit in a teaspoon.

William Cole

2024-10-28 03:47:32 +0000 UTC

So THAT'S how Jeph gets the rest of the cast to Cubetown!

William Cole

2024-10-28 03:42:55 +0000 UTC

you always make me laugh.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-28 03:33:54 +0000 UTC

"There's no license, we didn't even want th--" "I pronounced you married, and my word is law!"

ValdVin

2024-10-28 03:28:10 +0000 UTC

When Occam's Razor meets Ellicott-Chatham's Razor...

kaitou

2024-10-28 03:09:42 +0000 UTC

All of Northhampton could be leveled in the resulting volleys of hostile misunderstanding and failed communication. So yeah, sounds good, and I hope Jeph goes for it.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 02:57:28 +0000 UTC

On which side, someone else's bold misconceptions of what you were up to, or as the one holding the misconceptions of what someone else is up to? (In one particular social disaster I think I was both.)

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 02:53:37 +0000 UTC

Night is falling on the wedding reception and Anh's bold misconceptions are not yet corrected. Can Marten's power of chill aura save the evening? Or can he at least get Anh out of Hanners' hair and back to annoying Tai or Sven?

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 02:50:58 +0000 UTC

Yes! This is how I've been feeling about everything since the time-skip to the wedding.

Clifton Royston

2024-10-28 02:48:35 +0000 UTC

That's what I said too!

Adarsh Nednur

2024-10-28 02:46:09 +0000 UTC

Oooooh, Ahn thinks that she's great so Hanners must be trying to get with her or something.

Davus Otho

2024-10-28 02:45:54 +0000 UTC

My Anh Theory is that she divides people into a) boring, and b) rich like me. But now she has met someone who is fabulously rich, but who presents as a Boring Tribe member also. Anh literally has no idea how to relate to Hanners, so she’s trying on various approaches from her sadly limited repertoire of social connections.

Holly Nelson

2024-10-28 02:44:52 +0000 UTC

You may be, but I like the way you think.

awgiedawgie

2024-10-28 02:42:21 +0000 UTC

At this point, I’d like Hanners to channel a teeny-tiny bit of her mother, completely out-heiress Ahn, and scare an inkling of manners into her. I may be evil.

Nancie

2024-10-28 02:38:36 +0000 UTC

Actually, no. Iris is capable of real affection. She just isn't capable of expressing it. Anh, so far, has zero redeeming characteristics.

Carl Fink

2024-10-28 02:24:38 +0000 UTC

The funny part is how Jeph anticipated your thought and gave Fay an excuse to not be around for this. Hey, where's Penelope? Where's Emily, who used to work at the library? Were they in the background somewhere?

Carl Fink

2024-10-28 02:22:43 +0000 UTC

Occam's Threesome? That sounds unlikely, and yet... I'll see myself out.

Kelcrow

2024-10-28 02:17:16 +0000 UTC

Yeah, but he would assume he just misplaced it.

BookBeard

2024-10-28 02:15:43 +0000 UTC

Doris is Marvin's friend, she just married Tay. Geez, some people just don't pay attention...

BookBeard

2024-10-28 02:13:29 +0000 UTC

Well, Occam would at least notice his razor going missing…

Jon

2024-10-28 02:11:11 +0000 UTC

Beyond Ahn being a piece of work. I feel as if Jeph put some extra work into the shading/lighting of this issue.

Chauncey

2024-10-28 02:08:57 +0000 UTC

Fun fact: Occam's razor can be used to shave stripes off of zebras to make them regular horses.

Mad Marie

2024-10-28 02:08:51 +0000 UTC

Happy ending: the Bros show up, take her up to Sven's room and rail her until she forgets about Hanners, them, and possibly her own name in a haze of neurotransmitters and hormones

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 02:07:54 +0000 UTC

One time I borrowed Occam's razor to shave my legs, but then realized that most likely nobody would notice (or care).

Mad Marie

2024-10-28 02:04:59 +0000 UTC

I'm holding out for "Men Who Crawl Out From Under Rocks and the Women Who Take Them Home". Worldwide bestseller. But nobody buys it for herself. It's always for a friend

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 02:04:04 +0000 UTC

They very well may be in totally different libraries.

Chauncey

2024-10-28 02:03:19 +0000 UTC

At this point, he’s less the main character and more the absolute force that instigates the story’s events. Almost like the “deus” for the QC machina.

Chauncey

2024-10-28 02:02:06 +0000 UTC

[DBZA Vegeta voice] Anh, YES!

Christopher Burke

2024-10-28 02:01:16 +0000 UTC

It's autumn though, the trees are all colorful.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-28 02:00:51 +0000 UTC

the hilarious misconstruing that is going on is amazing, especially when neither of them is interested in the other, what is happening? ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-10-28 02:00:24 +0000 UTC

Anh might be the only thing here denser than the bones of Bubble's chassis.

rhekke

2024-10-28 02:00:09 +0000 UTC

Ahn believable? Ahn bearable? Ahn intelligible?

Todd Ellner

2024-10-28 01:59:47 +0000 UTC

Yeah. I was pretty sure this arc progressing at 30min/strip. Assuming this arc is set in the Spring, we’d have another week before nightfall.

Chauncey

2024-10-28 01:59:23 +0000 UTC

Who's Doris?

Mad Marie

2024-10-28 01:59:18 +0000 UTC

The same page? I'm not sure Anh and Hanners are in the same book...

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:55:34 +0000 UTC

As long as Iris agrees to leave all her knives behind, sure.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-28 01:55:34 +0000 UTC

At last! We may finally get to see Marten Reed: Unlicensed Underground Therapist, without having to wait for him to set up shop in Cubetown! 👍

Melissa Wilson

2024-10-28 01:50:55 +0000 UTC

Unrelated (strip 4995) but I forgot about Pintsize's "World's Worst Grandma" shirt 😭

Pejo

2024-10-28 01:46:37 +0000 UTC

Short book, though. Foreword: " " Chapter 1 " " Epilogue " "

Amelia Lewis

2024-10-28 01:45:51 +0000 UTC

That's about the best outcome at this point.

Randall Norman Pick

2024-10-28 01:45:50 +0000 UTC

Or Bubbles. I would love to see her psychoanalyze Anh into oblivion.

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:44:21 +0000 UTC

This evening can only end with Beeps misinterpreting some sort of social cue and declaring them wed.

Clarence the Liar

2024-10-28 01:43:20 +0000 UTC

Dora's dad's books could help her change that lens or at least remove the horny filter

Pejo

2024-10-28 01:42:42 +0000 UTC

this whole mini storyline is silly as hell & I love it, Hanners is lovely & Anh is the worst

Pejo

2024-10-28 01:41:44 +0000 UTC

Like a bulldozer!

SilverbackRon

2024-10-28 01:41:41 +0000 UTC

it would have been way more fun to ask fay for help. she would have been real blunt and gotten right through ahns shit.

Ashley Thomas

2024-10-28 01:40:22 +0000 UTC

At this point, I am ready to vote for it.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-28 01:40:15 +0000 UTC

That would end up with Iris asking her other roommates if she really is that bad. (Yes.)

Miyaa

2024-10-28 01:39:51 +0000 UTC

He already tried, but Claire wouldn't go for it. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4996

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:39:43 +0000 UTC

It's too late, she's been caught in the weirdo attraction field.

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:38:42 +0000 UTC

"How To Communicate With People Who Assume Everything Is In Bad Faith" would be an instant bestseller, methinks

Logan Nix

2024-10-28 01:38:04 +0000 UTC

This is so uncomfortably my love-life...

Yelling Bird

2024-10-28 01:36:48 +0000 UTC

I like this!

Carrie

2024-10-28 01:34:33 +0000 UTC

I grew up with pigs. There are definitely things thicker than pigs.

Miyaa

2024-10-28 01:34:30 +0000 UTC

Foursomes and moresomes are great if everyone is on the same page about things.

Carrie

2024-10-28 01:33:58 +0000 UTC

It got dark out pretty quick.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-28 01:32:53 +0000 UTC

Anh's Razor, meanwhile, apparently holds that you should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by horny.

David Jackson

2024-10-28 01:32:26 +0000 UTC

Not the bored looking guy! He’s the main character!

Miyaa

2024-10-28 01:32:06 +0000 UTC

He should press to officially be that for his position @ Cubetown.

Carrie

2024-10-28 01:29:48 +0000 UTC

That feels like an absolutely terrible idea. I vote yes.

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:29:04 +0000 UTC

Oh man, been there.

Timothy Roller

2024-10-28 01:28:30 +0000 UTC

She was interrupted while trying to get into Sven's pants. Now she's horny and seeing everything through that lens.

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:27:21 +0000 UTC

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Carrie

2024-10-28 01:26:50 +0000 UTC

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by everyone being super weird. - Hanners' Razor

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:21:02 +0000 UTC

Ugh! (translated: But of course!)

ValdVin

2024-10-28 01:18:58 +0000 UTC

Foursome then???

Peter McDevitt

2024-10-28 01:18:53 +0000 UTC

It's not the first time people have made this assumption about Marten. I guess he just has that vibe? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=861 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1402

BookBeard

2024-10-28 01:18:44 +0000 UTC

Even Tai is tired of Ahn's shit. That's the mark of a true friendship!

Grace Kieser

2024-10-28 01:17:54 +0000 UTC

Oh my, Yes.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-28 01:17:05 +0000 UTC

Anyone else really want Ahn and Iris to meet up?

Taigan

2024-10-28 01:15:38 +0000 UTC

Where's Liz when you need her?

schmod

2024-10-28 01:15:13 +0000 UTC

Denser than a neutrino.

Summer

2024-10-28 01:14:41 +0000 UTC

"Boring-looking"? Anh has no memory of anyone ever needing a Dad Friend.

ValdVin

2024-10-28 01:14:40 +0000 UTC

I think Doris's wife needs better taste in friends. Someone needs to tell Anh that Marten is the Librarian's consort.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-28 01:14:37 +0000 UTC

You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Joseph Houk

2024-10-28 01:14:30 +0000 UTC

There can be no other possible explanation! There just can't be! Inconceivable!

SilverbackRon

2024-10-28 01:11:05 +0000 UTC

Don't bring Marten into this, she'll become a permanent found family member!

Bill Silvia

2024-10-28 01:10:59 +0000 UTC

Ahn is officially thicker than pig sh*t.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-28 01:10:26 +0000 UTC

Never attribute to malice, what can be explained by massive self absorption.

Tannerbot

2024-10-28 01:10:21 +0000 UTC

Anh is terrible in a way we don't see very often.

Shaodyn

2024-10-28 01:09:44 +0000 UTC

Yep. Definitely with Hanners on this.

Drazi

2024-10-28 01:09:41 +0000 UTC

Does she has to make everything about sex?

Simon Vaillancourt

2024-10-28 01:09:33 +0000 UTC

Excited to see a new character who is The Worst in this particular way.

Cathal Mc Ginley

2024-10-28 01:09:24 +0000 UTC

Advanced Diplomacy

Comments

"Find out sometime next year on yet another episode of... Questionable Content!"

Anh ihilation (2018)

Good catch!

So... Faye, then XD

Someone else commented on it, but he's doing some nice subtle things with light and shading that make it feel more dimensional.

Absolutely right

Occam's gay-zor am i right

Is Jeph handling perspective differently lately, or is there just an unusual depth of field in this number?

Bookbeard, this is why I used the word press. As in firmer than before maybe with some explanation he feels or sees as justification.

Because Hanners is wealthier than she is.

I think I'm in love with Anh. She needs to become a regular character.

it was pretty dark outside in https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5425 already (last panel, window), though I for one didn't notice it at the time

"I declare you weed and weed. You may smoke the doob."

Afterwards I saw them kissing in one of the cars 😳

More like a 66 or 99. And 99 is already married to Maxwell Smart

Anh isn't up to Claire's standards

Because people who have no morals do have Standards. More importantly, there is no reason to needlessly turn potential allies into enemies.

More verbal hi-jinx to come tomorrow I'm sure. I predict at least one face palm.

Did we ever get Ahn’s surname? Because I would think Baka would be an excellent last name for her. Ahn Baka.

Which we will definitely need a Patreon version of.

Otto Korrect is Hannelore Von Schwartzpunkt’s henchmen and eventually a kind of a boyfriend in a Doctor Drakken and Shego way.

Comes with being Veronica’s kid.

Not at the wedding, those table rentals are expensive!

She's very goal-oriented. Her goal is getting railed. She has not yet achieved her goal.

God no. Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse is terribly overrated. Better to go to a family run steakhouse for privacy.

Anh’s basal brain works on the fight/fuck/financially buy out triad

Anh is honest, seems to have a sentimental streak, and doesn't seem to bear grudges. I'd truest Tai and Cleo's judgement on her, and they keep her around.

Hanners may have realised that Fay, for all her other virtues, isn't really mediator material.

She still wants to bang Hannelore, just not her boring friend.

I dunno. Isn't she kinda Kinsey-six lesbian? She might prefer to politely refuse offers of MFF threesomes.

https://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/ and https://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/ specifically:)

At least Tai has her head on straight (pun not intended)

Wait, why is Ann worried about *politely* declining something?

This is a fun thought.

I'm sure she's never tried. Declining that is.

This is literally a Dresden Kodak comic :)

@William Cole: excellent! 🤌🥹

Given her orbital pedigree, Hanners is the one that seems so down to Earth...

Orbital Uber Eats

A suplex is just an over-complicated 69.

Now I'm imagining Maxwell's Demon using Occam's Razor to make Pascal's Wager on the Ship of Theseus while sailing towards Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.

Honestly, how much experience does Tai have with politely declining threesomes?

Okay, but if Claire is standing right there then I need to know what she thinks of this situation XD Because I feel like she'd find it *hilarious*. Or she could Librarian Anh into leaving Hanners alone.

I misread that as "weed", and I think some weed would probably help

Theory: Anh was not actually invited to be a bridesmaid; she assumed her way in the door.

It might be a five, the amount of cleaning equipment Hanners would require is probably sufficient to be considered its own entity

It wouldn't be a threesome, Anh, Marten is in a happy relationship. It would be a foursome.

The wedding is grant-funded and getting Anh out of the house for the day was a stipulation of the grant?

If briding wasn't already an exhausting affair, I would agree. A bi person who is not currently being wedded would be very welcome to give some perspective.

Tai and Marten should totally both be mediators

I once saw Occam and Hanlon get into a knife fight in a car park.

If they got Veronica involved, in could be Anh no Dom(me)ine.

To be fair, Anh has appeared in less than 10 strips so far, and Hannelore has probably had 1000, and two substantial changes in personality along the way. She was kind of a creepy stalker at the beginning. I'd be willing to give Anh a chance and see how she develops, if she becomes a regular.

@Mad Marie: I suppose most people assumed the hypothetical that you had your own razor? Perhaps they were all borrowing Occam's razor on that occasion.

Maybe Anh once rescued Tai by pulling her out of the path of a runaway invisible emu, and now Tai owes her an incalculable debt. It could have happened. You can do anything in backstory!

Anh, no 2024...

Cue up smash cut to the aftermath of the orgy. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4008

Well done, I mean arrrrgh

Damn you Otto Korrect!

Poor Hanners. So defeated… 😩

Ahn no horribilis

It can also turn unicorns into narwhals.

Anh yes!

They meant Dora.

He already *said* he wanted to open a coffee shop, based on my vast experience of "coffee shop web comics" isn't that *already* destined to be his path?

"there is no other possible explanation other than people want me" lol

You know, I think Hanners inadvertently nailed Marten's ideal career path here. With his chill demeanor he would be phenomenal as a professional mediator. And with the kind of over-the-top personalities that Cubetown attracts, that's probably a service they could really use.

Yeah, but as a *bridesmaid*?

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"

I guess I can buy that.

The vibe I'm getting is "old friend you feel obligated to invite even though you don't really want to."

Clearly Anh would just interpret a suplex as another come-on.

The space princess role was always a better fit for her than heiress. "Okay Anh, let's get dinner!" *pizza crashes from orbit*

Strike that last, Tai's face shows that Anh's already succeeded in annoying Tai again. How *did* she get invited as a bridesmaid?

A suplex is the answer to this problem.

Don't bring a razor to a railgun fight.

[cracking knuckles] Martin steps in!

What's left of Anh after that would fit in a teaspoon.

Wait, why is Ann worried about politely declining something?

Okay, but if Claire is standing right there then I need to know what she thinks of this situation XD Because I feel like she'd find it hilarious. Or she could Librarian Anh into leaving Hanners alone.

He already said he wanted to open a coffee shop, based on my vast experience of "coffee shop web comics" isn't that already destined to be his path?

Yeah, but as a bridesmaid?

The space princess role was always a better fit for her than heiress. "Okay Anh, let's get dinner!" pizza crashes from orbit

Strike that last, Tai's face shows that Anh's already succeeded in annoying Tai again. How did she get invited as a bridesmaid?

Yes! This is how I've been feeling about everything since the time-skip to the wedding.