She still called Hanners a bitch, though xD I know you're team Anh, but you have to admit that's an overreaction to having someone unknowingly interrupt your conversation
enchantedsleeper
2024-10-14 21:29:46 +0000 UTC
(I see I wrote "staff" when I meant "cast" but it seems like everybody knew what I meant.)
Clifton Royston
2024-10-14 06:49:25 +0000 UTC
Getting railed sounds like so much more fun than getting pounded, ngl.
legobil
2024-10-14 06:48:21 +0000 UTC
I completely missed that & appreciate you calling it out 😄
Pejo
2024-10-14 05:38:32 +0000 UTC
Steamer trunk.
Opus the Poet
2024-10-14 00:46:49 +0000 UTC
I now need Hannelore and Anh to become a romantic couple.
Chris Warren
2024-10-14 00:01:44 +0000 UTC
Hanners is handling the contact a lot better than when we first met her.
Andrew Diseker
2024-10-13 22:40:01 +0000 UTC
Think of the 18+ section of Steam...
Leak
2024-10-13 21:18:24 +0000 UTC
Which is VERY lucky for Anh.
Nulgar
2024-10-13 19:22:41 +0000 UTC
that's what I said!!
Joe
2024-10-13 18:42:16 +0000 UTC
Sisters!
David Pipes
2024-10-13 18:21:10 +0000 UTC
Hanners is better about physical contact, but obviously still not 💯% Ok
Opus the Poet
2024-10-13 17:01:14 +0000 UTC
anh is the only new character I've actually liked in years and that might say a lot about me
kazoo
2024-10-13 16:44:52 +0000 UTC
If she's anyone's sister she's Tai's, because if she were Dora's sister she probably wouldn't be trying to hook up with Dora's brother. But she's probably talking about Sven meeting *his* soulmate at *his* sister's wedding.
Rob Vary
2024-10-13 15:52:50 +0000 UTC
Dora is Sven's sister, and they are speaking about Sven
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-10-13 15:32:11 +0000 UTC
Is it really getting railed if it's not on a train?
Salodni Ikkis
2024-10-13 15:28:08 +0000 UTC
I'm guessing she's Tai's sister.
danepps
2024-10-13 15:07:35 +0000 UTC
More like suitcase… 😉
A. J. Alfieri-Crispin
2024-10-13 15:02:52 +0000 UTC
She was talking to Sven, thinking that she had a chance with him, when Hannelore came along and, however politely, cut in on her. Then Hannelore started talking to her, and basically started interrogating her about her intentions regarding Sven.
Okay, we knew all along that Hannelore's intentions were innocent, but you can't really blame Anh for feeling a little irritated by all that. And now she knows more of the facts, she's being perfectly polite to Hanners.
Philip Masters
2024-10-13 15:01:57 +0000 UTC
Railed vs pounded =? length vs girth
A. J. Alfieri-Crispin
2024-10-13 15:01:29 +0000 UTC
So Ahn is Dora's sister? Did we know this/have we met her before?
PixelThis
2024-10-13 14:45:02 +0000 UTC
Panel 5: 7kHz at 120dB, but with "Gradually increasing volume" checked
Leak
2024-10-13 12:56:01 +0000 UTC
How would that work? In order to deal with her physical contact issues, Hanners would have to wear head-to-toe latex and... hang on. We might have something here :)
Stephen Wells
2024-10-13 10:10:51 +0000 UTC
I could also see Hanellore and Sven having a close platonic friendship which meets their emotional needs, also she plays wingman and helps him to rail selected hotties from time to time. We're practically there already :)
Stephen Wells
2024-10-13 10:06:06 +0000 UTC
Scrolled through dozens of comments very slowly & painfully on this web site in hopes someone would explain Anh's comment about a sister, thank you
Pejo
2024-10-13 10:05:23 +0000 UTC
There's a male Vietnamese-Australian comedian-painter (he's given up comedy for painting according to Wikipedia, which is just as well as I never found him that funny) named Anh Do.
Mark
2024-10-13 09:29:44 +0000 UTC
It would be beyond awesomeness.
Carrie
2024-10-13 09:23:25 +0000 UTC
Either that, or possessives are getting mixed up. xD
enchantedsleeper
2024-10-13 08:11:16 +0000 UTC
Not to excuse the description of Hanners, but Faye has said things that are as bad in the past. I wonder how Anh and Faye would get along, incidentally.
enchantedsleeper
2024-10-13 08:09:31 +0000 UTC
Ohhh xD
enchantedsleeper
2024-10-13 08:07:05 +0000 UTC
Now, we get some good Anh-faces
enchantedsleeper
2024-10-13 08:05:54 +0000 UTC
me too Anh, me too... ~<3
Mitsuki Ayane
2024-10-13 05:54:15 +0000 UTC
We suddenly went from adversaries to besties in 15 seconds. I'm going to laugh if they start to be friends now (but I'm here for it - it could be fun).
Onyx
2024-10-13 05:46:11 +0000 UTC
Mass without leverage will probably not prove satisfactory
Uniquitous
2024-10-13 05:36:08 +0000 UTC
It could potentially happen. Maybe. Hopefully.
Uniquitous
2024-10-13 05:34:23 +0000 UTC
So according to the website “Behind the Name” Anh is a Sino-Vietnamese name which is used in every gender (male, female, neutral) with a variety of meaning from floral (flower, petal) to heroic qualities (brave, hero). It is similar to Ying in Chinese, Yeong or Young in Korean. Anh is combined with a middle name to create a compound name that changes what Anh means by the Sino-Vietnamese characters.
Miyaa
2024-10-13 04:22:20 +0000 UTC
She's been able to do that since her walkabout! Exposure therapy is a mighty powerful treatment, though it's hell to go through
Grace Kieser
2024-10-13 04:02:59 +0000 UTC
Anhomatopoeia?
Joshua O'Madadhain
2024-10-13 03:52:25 +0000 UTC
A girl has got to have her standards.
Mooster
2024-10-13 03:49:58 +0000 UTC
Not Hannalore Von Schwarzpunkt!
Not that Patrick Foltz
2024-10-13 03:43:35 +0000 UTC
Sven can you hammer a six- inch spike through a board with his penis.
Jeff Hartley
2024-10-13 03:43:34 +0000 UTC
Getting railed is, of course, different from getting railroaded.
Sean Kinlin
2024-10-13 03:34:57 +0000 UTC
Honesty is the best policy
MikeT
2024-10-13 03:26:54 +0000 UTC
And along came Pintsize with his briefcase of dildos...
Jax
2024-10-13 03:18:19 +0000 UTC
How about Pinteize with his giant metal phallus?
Daryl Sawyer
2024-10-13 03:06:31 +0000 UTC
That's probably *too much* pounding, even for Anh.
William Cole
2024-10-13 02:41:34 +0000 UTC
It's amusing that multiple people referred to Sven as Dora's sister. Unless something happened to his gender when I wasn't looking, he's her brother. But it's cool that sibling words are maybe merging in our minds.
jonesnori
2024-10-13 02:31:40 +0000 UTC
Okay, she's alright in my book but she should still consider being less hostile to Hanelores in the future
Fart Captor
2024-10-13 02:31:39 +0000 UTC
I..also please? , 🥺
Drazi
2024-10-13 02:23:18 +0000 UTC
No touch!
Drazi
2024-10-13 02:21:53 +0000 UTC
100% came here to say this
Graham
2024-10-13 02:06:29 +0000 UTC
Hugging Hannelore may no longer necessarily herald heavy hyperventilating!
Diptych
2024-10-13 01:55:29 +0000 UTC
You know, this one kinda works if you just read the 3 right side panels vertically.
Matt Lee
2024-10-13 01:50:04 +0000 UTC
She's one of Tai's bridespeople
djellafine
2024-10-13 01:47:28 +0000 UTC
I appreciate that she finally understood the utter wholesomeness of Hanners and stopped being a meanie.
JD
2024-10-13 01:46:51 +0000 UTC
A few months with yaks will do that.
Holly Nelson
2024-10-13 01:35:57 +0000 UTC
Oh, honey..
Thomas Baxter
2024-10-13 01:35:11 +0000 UTC
Railed, rails, train, steam. It took me a moment too.
Valerie Kaplan
2024-10-13 01:33:42 +0000 UTC
You know what, good for her.
Gamera
2024-10-13 01:28:26 +0000 UTC
Ah, no. Not exactickally, no ;)
Claudia D.
2024-10-13 01:28:26 +0000 UTC
If she’s not Tai’s sister, what’s she doing there? Who invited her?
Taigan
2024-10-13 01:27:42 +0000 UTC
I know it's not what you meant, but you said "the characteristics listed" and my brain went "Tall."
Bill Silvia
2024-10-13 01:25:29 +0000 UTC
She did, but only a little bit.
Bill Silvia
2024-10-13 01:24:04 +0000 UTC
Reminds me of the game “Thank Goodness You’re Here!” where at the beginning of the game the tiny lad leaves from a high rise corporate office building where there’s a graph that shows that the corporation’s Steam sales have dramatically plummeted.
Miyaa
2024-10-13 01:22:27 +0000 UTC
Wait… do we know anything about Tai’s background? I didn’t think Tai came from a wealthy background.
Miyaa
2024-10-13 01:18:18 +0000 UTC
Not impossible. Hanners's ability to tolerate a hug like that shows she's making progress with physical contact. And "goobers" or not, they are both highly intelligent, so there isn't a mismatch there. Furthermore, they actually like each other. Hanners certainly has the characteristics she listed in #5413, and their opposite problems with sexuality might itself produce attraction.
Chas Simmons
2024-10-13 01:16:21 +0000 UTC
So that would make her name, Anh, a lewd onomatopoeia.
Miyaa
2024-10-13 01:15:53 +0000 UTC
The facial expressions? Jeph has really been showing off in this last mini-arc (#5410 &c).
ValdVin
2024-10-13 01:13:55 +0000 UTC
The faces in this conversation have been top notch
Alex Burka
2024-10-13 01:13:46 +0000 UTC
Excellent Peter Gabriel reference, kudos.
Doc Gumby
2024-10-13 01:12:56 +0000 UTC
Ha! I can totally hear her continuing… imagining what it would be like to get down with Sven, going on & on, like Jennifer Beals’ character in Four Rooms… “It's hard to stop talking about something that's so *huge*…I mean…”
Melissa Wilson
2024-10-13 01:11:42 +0000 UTC
Also, "Gimme steam / And how you feel can make it real / Real as anything you've seen!"
Clifton Royston
2024-10-13 01:09:24 +0000 UTC
Least she's honest
Hirimake6928
2024-10-13 01:09:17 +0000 UTC
That took an unexpected turn. Though I am glad to see Hanners didn't freak out that a complete stranger hugged her, lol
Aditya Rameshan
2024-10-13 01:07:39 +0000 UTC
I’m missing the reference of the Title.
Probably because whenever I see “power of steam”, I think of a mad scientist constructing a steam powered super machine or something.
Thisguy
2024-10-13 01:07:25 +0000 UTC
I've been using the phrase "Good and railed". Have I been saying that wrong?
ValdVin
2024-10-13 01:06:27 +0000 UTC
She’s putting herself in his shoes for the romanticizing. Sven, being a sibling of one of the brides… (you know… the ones that were encouraged to bride one another)
Melissa Wilson
2024-10-13 01:05:59 +0000 UTC
Not *exact*, but damn close. Note the heart eyes both times too, though.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-10-13 01:05:34 +0000 UTC
That's why I only retracted *half* my opinions about her.
Clifton Royston
2024-10-13 01:05:01 +0000 UTC
Hannelore/Sven. I know it'll never happen, but they're both extreme goobers in their own way.
Slayer Anderson
2024-10-13 01:04:34 +0000 UTC
I appreciate the callback of Anh saying the *exact same thing* as Hanners about it being romantic.
ShadowedMage
2024-10-13 01:04:27 +0000 UTC
I'm coming around, but let's not forget that she did refer to Hanners as a bitch... She needs to lose that side.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-10-13 01:03:47 +0000 UTC
Probably meant Sven is Dora's sister, though I suppose we can't rule out them being Tai's sibling.
Ashlyn Crowe
2024-10-13 01:03:42 +0000 UTC
Sven's sister's wedding, presumably.
Clifton Royston
2024-10-13 01:03:38 +0000 UTC
Ahn's smile in that one, *chef's kiss*.
Doc Gumby
2024-10-13 01:03:34 +0000 UTC
I know, right?
alphanor
2024-10-13 01:03:10 +0000 UTC
Oh. Anh struck me as self-centered enough that she would only be talking about herself. I wondered if she was Tai’s sister.
Taigan
2024-10-13 01:03:06 +0000 UTC
Dora. She's talking about Sven meeting his soulmate, not her meeting hers.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-10-13 01:02:47 +0000 UTC
I retract a good half of my opinions about Anh. She's not really a bad person, apart from being rich, she's just a dysfunctional nutcase like half the staff and half the audience.
Clifton Royston
2024-10-13 01:02:35 +0000 UTC
🎶🎵he’d come to town, and he would pound her for a couple of days🎵🎶
Magic Chopstick Games
2024-10-13 01:02:35 +0000 UTC
Hmm, note the similar wording and same heart eyes when Anh described the idea as when Hanners did a few strips back. Maybe Anh and Hanners are the soulmates... unlikely.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-10-13 01:02:07 +0000 UTC
"The World Can Be Saved By Steam!"
Captain Button
2024-10-13 01:01:50 +0000 UTC
LOL, panel 4 you can see Anh succumb to the Hanners Cuteness , no one is immune!!
Logan Nix
2024-10-13 01:01:31 +0000 UTC
Sven is Dora's sister. Dora and Tai's wedding.
ShadowedMage
2024-10-13 01:01:23 +0000 UTC
And thus Hannelore made an unexpected new friend
KingAtticus
2024-10-13 01:00:46 +0000 UTC
Very forthright
Alcaria Swain
2024-10-13 01:00:37 +0000 UTC
“Oh! Have you met Crushbot?”
Andrew
2024-10-13 01:00:36 +0000 UTC
Hanners handles hug heroically!
Doc Gumby
2024-10-13 01:00:31 +0000 UTC
Alright, I like her, lol.
AlexKorobeiniki
2024-10-13 01:00:14 +0000 UTC
Hanners is such a wonderful, pure person.
Tannerbot
2024-10-13 01:00:10 +0000 UTC
She broke the Hanners rule... She touched Hanners. But she took it well... So proud of her!
Joel Bateman
2024-10-13 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
Wait… sister? 🧐
Taigan
2024-10-13 00:59:57 +0000 UTC
The concept, firmly planted...
Alacrity Fitzhugh
2024-10-13 00:59:57 +0000 UTC
it's important to know your priorities
Brendan Luster
2024-10-13 00:59:54 +0000 UTC
Aww, Hanners stranger contact panic.
Graydon Armstrong
2024-10-13 00:59:45 +0000 UTC
Oh damn then she's just about missed her train here lmfao