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Me literally thinking of "Jimbo the Drag queen" and being incredibly confused for a minute.

Colleen Dewis

I miss Jimbo. He was a trip.

Jonathan Bushee

He's a distant cousin of Pedro Cerrano, so we can all understand the ladies' reactions.

Ursus Ridens

I had to Google "Ass Swordsman Tetsuo" to find out, and then the nice old woman kicked me off the library computer.

ValdVin

Fascinating, Clifton! DID they forget about it? Or was it a test to see whether you were flattered or offended by their nonchalance?

Melissa Wilson

Jimbo lives inside of all of us.

Call me Ishmael.

Huh. I first heard it during the singing around the keg after a rugby game

Todd Ellner

Waddaya mean? He's been snoozing right there at the end of the bar the whole time!

Call me Ishmael.

Oh, but I so wanted it to be!

Call me Ishmael.

It has been established somewhere (help me, Bookbeard!) that AIs don't experience time like that. I would suspect that Bubbles just scanned the section headings of the Wikipedia article, except that I don't believe Bubbles has ever lied (except about Faye's body odor).

Call me Ishmael.

There are, but who else will give us a book that is "Trashy, poorly-written, incredibly sexist towards BOTH genders, and the most entertaining thing I've read all year"? https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=768

ValdVin

This entry is the dream of every reader at Smart Bitches Trashy Books.

ValdVin

She's going to suggest they read Sex Guy together later :)

Stephen Wells

Please please please make this a jumbo book and bring him in. One of my favorite characters

Joshua

The three need to update: the 1925 silent film "Don Q, Son of Zorro" is considered to be in the public domain … It’s ready to be gender neutral.

Sparky

It took my three reads to realize that she says "defies" in panel 2, not "defiles."

YoPaulie!

Opportunity missed....or new quest unlocked?

Tim Starliper

Certainly nobody in the comments section here,

Tim Starliper

Not just me then. *phew* was worried there for a moment.

Tim Starliper

Is it a bad sign that I could *hear* that guitar in my head as I read the comic?

Tim Starliper

The anime wiki entry for ahoge specifically warns against confusing it with either ahegao or eroge :)

Stephen Wells

Rodrigo, El Hombre De Fuego :)

Stephen Wells

Cheese pun not ready yet, need to rennet through the process another couple of times.

Stephen Wells

Faye looking up at Bubbles is adorable :3

Duncan

I keep reading "ahoge" as "ahegao".

Hugh Eckert

One of my faves... I think I first ran across it in "Masks of the Illuminati".

Hugh Eckert

"King Hereafter" is just so good. Thorfinn = Macbeth is part of my headcanon now...

Hugh Eckert

They are all extensions of the same being. Rodrigo exists simultaneously across all possible universes.

BookBeard

@Call me Ishmael & @enchantedsleeper. Blargh, one of us wrote a decent response to this question on a different comic and now we can’t find it 😓. Simply put, as a multiple system, we can relate to Yay (minus the extra bodies, lol). We can have a group reaction (Hercules!) or individual responses (shut oneself in a ‘room’). It’s complicated, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Ailadi

Dorothy Dunnett has a similar effect on many.

Courtney Welch

There certainly is more than one historical romance protagonist named Rodrigo, from El Cid Campeador himself (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) on down. But none of them can compare to Rodrigo Ernesto Ortega Serrano. And I should know, I have had crushes on more than one fictional Serrano. (Oh, Heris! *swoon*)

prettydragoon

I've feel the same after reading Michael G. Manning's books. I just can't get into any other series with magic, although I'm pushing myself to get through the Dresden Files since the writing style is similar.

Leonard Volk

Dangit. Beaten to a 'Reos' joke by.... {checks clock, does math} ...no more than 2 hours.

Ray S, 2nd nickname

Well, yeah... but the rest of them just write boring crap.

awgiedawgie

No, but the last appearance by Jimbo in 2014 was.

Populuxe

You know what's horrible? I have an extremely redneck cousin named Jimbo (legal name, y'all, I swear, I have seen his Driver's license) who I haven't seen in about 20 years, and *guess* how he's evolved in my head by now; just GUESS. Gods.....

YsabetJustYsabet

2009 wasn't 11 years ago...

Frank Wales

I read that as Joe-80, and wondered if he was some experimental predecessor to Joe 90

Frank Wales

Was Rodrigo a fireman?

Frank Wales

By extended fanon logic, that means Jimbo is Thanos

Frank Wales

'Prolapse Monthly' gives the book two fists up

Frank Wales

Plenty (most?) of AO3 Rodrigo fic is about that very thing.

Michael Steamweed

Something about rennet, I haven't had my coffee yet.

Doc Gumby

There HAVE to be more authors in the QC universe than just Jimbo!

Doc Gumby

Oh yeah? The DEAD PARROT expected them.

Joseph Bonnar

JIMBO 😭

Pejo

this is the kind of guy who's sentences are punctuated with Spanish guitar

Stray

Honestly tho, not really, no

Magic Chopstick Games

Plot twist: Bubbles just downloaded the e-book and read through it in an instant never having read it before.

legobil

After the first panel I was going to say that Bubbles was jumping to conclusions a bit, because there must surely be more than one historical romance protagonist named Rodrigo. But clearly, Rodrigo is unique.

Phil_M

I first read Bubbles' 2nd speech box as 'The scene where he defiles Bishop Castillo!" which would be from a rather different genre.

Mark

Bembo belongs at the far end of that genealogy.

Opus the Poet

😃

Opus the Poet

Faye has just realised why Bubbles calls their favourite sex toy "Rodrigo".

Stephen Wells

Sex Guy is Rodrigo Ernesto Ortega Serrano's unimaginative third cousin once removed.

David Paul

Anh, and Anh's ahoge. Anhoge, if you will.

Stephen Wells

Yeah. I mean, who could and would ever become absolutely smitten with a fictional character like that...

David Paul

I’m genuinely flabbergasted that Bubbles and Anh share this. I’m also 💯 here for it.

legobil

This didn't go even slightly how I expected and I'm delighted :)

Stephen Wells

I had to Google "Magical Love Gentlemen" back in the day to see if it was a real anime/manga.

SilverbackRon

I expect that this was a mistake/resolve on Jeph's part to have Yay use the same bubbles as the other AIs. If they had switched back and forth with clear delineation as to contexts (e.g. talking to humans vs talking to AIs), I would buy that it's Yay doing it and not The Creator.

enchantedsleeper

It needs its own entry on the cast page...

Mark Eichin

@Call me Ishmael. I sort of agree - I don't necessarily subscribe to the idea that one of Yay's selves would break away or be independent from the other Yays, or that they would develop a different set of goals. However, I think that they are located in different places geographically and so it makes sense for one Yay (maybe two) to be the one based in Northampton, unless Yay's selves are regularly travelling from wherever their central apartment is to swap out. They *are* one person, but they can have varying reactions to things - see for example when Yay met Aurelia, they described one of their selves as having shut itself in the bedroom to play loud music. Just one had that reaction. I would view the selves as more like different sides to Yay, who might have emphasis on different things, but with the same base interests and motivations. Just a thought, anyway.

enchantedsleeper

This is why I subscribe to a vibes-based approach to the comic's timeline xD It's totally been more than four years, whether you can find a rational explanation for it or not.

enchantedsleeper

Rodrigo x Drusilla fic when?

panpolypuff

It's been almost 3k chapters since we've seen Jimbo...

Granite

+1 ‐ Let it be written by Jimbo

Granite

Mr. Depp was interested, allegedly, but after becoming insistent on using some of his leftover headgear from "The Lone Ranger"...

Ray S, 2nd nickname

I had to Google the name to see if this was a real person.

Ray Cornwall

You're right! And that *was* "defiled"!

Call me Ishmael.

Hm, yes, I can see him in that role. Good call!

Michael Steamweed

Oh, Mr Rodrigo...

Bagge

@enchantedsleeper, I think all instances of Yay are equal and identical, continually synced. Despite their choice of pronouns, they are one person. Think of their response to meeting Hercules.

Call me Ishmael.

Jimbo, son of JoeBo, son of Jembo, son of Bembo, son of Crembo, son of Blebmbo...

BookBeard

Jimbo is inevitable.

BookBeard

@Melissa Wilson ... or put your filthiest smut out on special display when you know somebody respectable will be coming to visit, depending. I was slightly surprised when having dinner with some potential friends and they had 'Lost Girls' out on one of the end tables, but I think they just forgot about it.

Clifton Royston

It's ghostwritten by Pintsize.

KiTA

But now the "S" stands for "Speedwagon."

Elf Sternberg

Maybe he got sober. I want to see him and Faye meet at an AA meeting.

Call me Ishmael.

Pedro Pascal is RIGHT THERE.

Elf Sternberg

Please please please let it be by Jimbo, lol

AlexKorobeiniki

People think the things I said about cheese were insincere, but Emmental of it.

Diptych

You mark my words, this will eventually result in the two of them doing "Alejandro" in karaoke.

Halloween Jack

I have traveled a lot in my quest to find a good place to settle down.

Miyaa

That was pretty Gouda, @Diptych

Miyaa

Truly the best historical fiction sci-fi bodice ripper book series ever written

Magic Chopstick Games

If Jeph doesn't get on this fast, we're gonna develop the next 2 weeks of QC episodes as Anh, Bubbles, Hanners, and Momo all discuss Rodrigo.

Michael Steamweed

Whey outta line, BookBeard

Magic Chopstick Games

Would make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.

Michael Steamweed

And handsome EMTs.

Michael Steamweed

The wonderful Murderbot!

Michael Steamweed

Claire De Tamble understands, though she disagrees (being partial to her own husband).

Michael Steamweed

Please be careful if you meet any Juanitas any time soon!

Michael Steamweed

Headfanon is now accepted.

Michael Steamweed

Man, that was 11 years ago. Assuredly Jimbo has been a successful literary phenom ever since! Maybe he will be the Guest of Honor at RodrigoCon 2025!

Michael Steamweed

Wow, that cheese pun would never have a curd to me.

BookBeard

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUI...er, hero.

Michael Steamweed

JIMBO WILL ALWAYS RETURN

Bex

Might maybe possibly be him. Though he was working on a steampunk epic back then. Maybe he got the Zorro inspiration after that.

Michael Steamweed

Now I'm wondering if Hanners has ever read the book.

Michael Steamweed

Such a cheesy response.

Michael Steamweed

I heard that they wanted either Antonio Banderas or Johnny Depp to star as Rodrigo, but neither was available, so the project fell through.

Michael Steamweed

Live for both of us!

Vilinda

You're far too kind! I think I need to reinforce the mnemonic by making the letters and their order part of the rhyme.

Diptych

Thank you! We must have read it somewhat recently, then couldn’t place it in the correct timeline. Also, glad that wasn’t a dream lolol.

Ailadi

That's a very…extensive…headcanon!

William Cole

My god, has it really been that long?

William Cole

Yep, that definitely happened. Just not recently. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526

BookBeard

🤣🤣

Sean Kinlin

WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME RODRIGO?

Yelling Bird

Keep it up! I think you're making a difference, and the verses are fun.

jonesnori

We’re with Diptych on this. Yay did have round bubbles for a long time (which kept us all scratching our heads), but has been transitioned to the square “AI” version.

Ailadi

That was at the convention at Smif, wasn't it? That was pretty far back - Marten was still dating Dora.

jonesnori

Well apparently we’d dreamed a scene where Marten ran into Jimbo recently, who shared he’d moved into a new genre (young adult werewolf fantasy) and was giving Marten a run down of his new book. Perhaps we shouldn’t read QC just before sleep?? 😆

Ailadi

Marten asked Bubbles the same question, early on. She liked it for the physical and performative aspects (and she’s definitely “performing” here) 😂

Ailadi

¡Queso, Rodrigo!

Diptych

Bubbles in panel 2 has big Wallace energy.

Sean Kinlin

Thank you, Todd! That was delightful.

Melissa Wilson

And while he dies in that book, in the next one there is a strangely familiar AI named R.E.O.S.

Sean Kinlin

It may be amongst the most perfect names to be chanted by a devoted crowd!

Melissa Wilson

Aaaaand there we are! The common interest that will serve as the turning point in this dynamic! New begrudging friendship is imminent!

Glenn

“Relaxing” is not always an appropriate term; this depends heavily upon whether the dramatis personae includes handsome firemen.🔥

Melissa Wilson

Same.

Doc Gumby

Hmph. Too bad the guys imaginary. I'd like to see the sort that could get bubbles attention,.....(Wondering for a friend).

Darnel D Cooper

lmao, dorks

Fart Captor

Quite a while. Pretty sure he hasn't even got a mention since his last appearance in 2014. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2667

BookBeard

Tomorrow: Steve and Cleo meet up at Jimbo’s palatial estate which is at the end of a multibillion dollar RV park and Margaritaville-like retirement complex off of Cudjoe Key in a man made island structure which Jimbo claims is where his father Joe-Bo is buried. Which is a joke because Joe-Bo is actually buried behind the Wall Drug Store in Wall, South Dakota along with his 16-wheeler.

Miyaa

Doesn't sound nearly florid enough for early Jimbo, imho.

alphanor

Me too

mshenna

Live, Juanita!!!

Darren Franzen

I read it the same way, though minus the limerick

mshenna

Momo enjoys reading physical books. She finds it relaxing (sometimes). https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2958

BookBeard

Just when you thought you'd seen the last of old Jimbo

Lorelei

Hmmm... it *could* be Jimbo, barely. Anh said she read this novel four years ago, and best estimate is it's been 3.5-4 years in-universe since the comic began. And Jimbo didnt even get published until at least a few months in. Not impossible, but it would have to be one of his earliest works.

BookBeard

Sooo. Anh and Jimbo are running off together?

Edward Engle

Glad to know I'm not the only one

Shey

R O D R I GO Tells the church where it can go, Bathing in the mountain stream, He is Anh and Bubbles' dream.

Graydon Armstrong

I figure square speech bubbles just denote that it's an AI speaking, and don't tell us anything about how that specific AI sounds.

Diptych

Read it as Defiles. From a cell in the Church of St. Giles. Came a scream that was heard round for miles. Said one Friar "Goodness Gracious, our Brother Ignatius has discovered the Bishop has piles "

Todd Ellner

Not gonna lie, I read "defies" as "defiles" and was like hmmm, I'd read that.

Jen Edwards

Dunno what I was expecting here, but certainly not this.

Joseph Bonnar

Ms Beam had her first son, Jimbo, young. He had a troubled life and became a barfly, but eventually found his calling as an author of speculative fiction. Her second son, after her marriage to Mr Bean, never knew of the half-brother who shared his name. He went into the baking business, selling coffee and pastries to the swell set.

Diptych

IIRC, Yay can choose between rectangular and round (unless it was a graphical mistake).

Bill Silvia

@Bill but Yay also has square speech bubbles? So does Moray, for that matter (I referenced the "Danger Very Close" strip to check) and I'm not sure how likely it is that she has a voicebox floating in there.

enchantedsleeper

Holy crap. When was the last time we got a Jimbo shout out?

Populuxe

Her wayward lock of hair just cracks me up.

SilverbackRon

Ayy more bubbles characterization

Gamera

I feel like reading versus downloading would be a matter of personal preference. You know, like buying pornography in print. Somehow it feels more real (& more delightfully dirty), when it doesn’t just disappear, when you close the browser window & it needs a clandestine storage location, when someone respectable comes to visit.

Melissa Wilson

Actually, they're brothers - their parents weren't very imaginative with names.

enchantedsleeper

Yeah, I'd believe that. We've seen AI faces that range from a simple image on a screen (like Winslow's old body) to a mouth part that is used for speaking but is clearly not human standard (like Pintsize's old body) to human standard (like Bubbles' appears to be).

Diptych

I believe Yay is the only AI with lifelike speech capabilities.

Bill Silvia

I also assumed that. Though we know that May had issues speaking when her voicebox corroded - but you could posit that only cheaper bodies work that way. Maybe more elaborate bodies have lifelike speech capabilities.

enchantedsleeper

I half-seriously believe that Jimbo cleaned himself up a bit and got a conventional job. He runs a bakery now, and just goes by 'Jim'.

Diptych

We've seen Momo enjoying books, so it looks like they read the same as us. Maybe marginally faster, but most of the human-style ones aren't build to think any faster than us. They can text and surf in their heads, but I'm guessing they consume that stuff the same way

Nicolas Demers

Which of the Yays do we think is most into romance novels 🤔 (Probably the one who's spent most time around Roko)

enchantedsleeper

Are you familiar with Murderbot?

Ben R

You don't need to do anything! Simply be.... RODRIGO.

enchantedsleeper

He has referenced using the wiki to remind himself of stuff xD (But I highly doubt he has time, or indeed the desire, to update it)

enchantedsleeper

This side of Bubbles, I find it... intriguing!

Doc Gumby

D'you know, all along, I've been assuming that AIs with human-style mouths have been speaking in a human-style way using their artificial lips and tongues!

Diptych

I forgot about Jimbo. Kinda makes me wonder how does Jeph keep up with all the characters throughout the years. Like, does he have a spreadsheet? Or, is he active in the wiki? I imagine he has character sheets in a folder somewhere. I’d love to see that

Chauncey

And thusly it shall be headcanon!

Melissa Wilson

She does but it's not required for speaking, she can roll her r's inside her voice box. She saves her tongue for sexy times with Faye.

Opus the Poet

I’ve been doing so-so the last couple of months but this new-found respect for my name made me chuckle. I needed that. But now I feel like I need to live up to it. D:

Rodrigo Ourcilleon

I also read it as "deifies"!

Gargleblarg

Call it an unpopular opinion, if you must, but it just doesn’t get any better than Outlander’s James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser (pardon me whilst I swoon & sigh lustily). I’m just having such a hard time believing that any self-respecting historical romance fan girl could assert otherwise.

Melissa Wilson

At least, I assume the rectangular box means any tongue that exists is purely for recreational purposes.

Bill Silvia

this is DELIGHTFUL im cackling

Logan Nix

When AIs consume text, do they read it or download it? I mean AIs other than Yay Newfriend. Obviously they download straight into their brain.

Opus the Poet

she's endeared herself to Bubbles, there's no going back from this 😂

Logan Nix

But...Inigo Montoya

Tudza

I also read it as defiles, and I had to read it 3 more times to register the right word. I feel like defiles is funnier than defies 🤣

Aditya Rameshan

Didn't see THAT plot twist happening 😂

Aditya Rameshan

The name definitely sounds like one Jimbo would pick! I want it to be Jimbo so much; I miss Jimbo!

Paul Josef Veselovsky

🎵 Anh, Anh, how are you spelled? There's a way to do it and do it well! A comes first, that's plain to see N is the very next entry! H can wait until the end That's how we spell our brand new friend! 🎵

Diptych

Wait, does Bubbles not have a tongue?

djellafine

Faye, you could have been bonding with your girlfriend over Rodrigo Ernesto Ortega Serrano rather than reading Sex Guy. Opportunity missed.

ValdVin

I misread it as 'deifies', and thought that's one hell of a promotion for a bishop!

Diptych

Okay, cutest possible continuation ever xD

enchantedsleeper

Oh there's no getting rid of Ahn now

Cas Wanden

Bubbles rocks!

Opus the Poet

Love this, Love this, LOVE THIS for Bubbles and Anh. Absolutely not how I was expecting their friendship to begin. Also, yes, please, make it canon that Jimbo wrote this. Please.

Green

What does "rr" sound like with rectangular text boxes and no tongue to roll?

Bill Silvia

Definitely need Ahn & Jimbo to meet!

Jeremy

Please have it be Jimbo's work. I miss him and his hat.

Celine Chamberlin

RODRIGO!

MagicSwordKing

I misread panel 2 as "defiles" and hoo boy does that change the meaning of this dialogue.

Yonatan Zunger

I love everything about this

Shivani Seth

I miss Jimbo!

Grace Kieser

Rodrigo

Drew Basford

I love when bubbles gets to be the giant dork she is.

Tannerbot

Oh my god I love this

Andrew

Every new fact I learn about Bubbles makes her the best character again.

Argus


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