jephjacques - Here's The Plan

Or - you could do it this way: https://cosmicdirtbag.com/2024/08/06/drawin-tips/

Leak

2024-10-12 12:43:36 +0000 UTC

The A Team - Anh and 'annelore...

Leak

2024-10-12 12:39:19 +0000 UTC

tilts hand While I get what you mean, Hanners gained a lot of perspective on a lot of things during her time travelling. So I don't think it's fair to assume she's just an insulated rich kid in her outlook. But I suspect it will never be made 100% clear exactly how much money Hanners has or how she uses it. (With that said, remember that Hanners said she didn't have enough money to buy Coffee of Doom. "A few million" is definitely coffee shop-buying money).

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-12 00:47:17 +0000 UTC

Oooooh! Yes please!!

Carrie

2024-10-11 21:26:27 +0000 UTC

In the dialogue of 5411, TAI asked her "Are you trying to fuck Dora's brother" and, on being told yes, said "We talked about this", so apparently this was fully anticipated.

Stephen Wells

2024-10-11 15:49:23 +0000 UTC

Hanners is clearly okay for cash, and her assumptions may have been formed by her mother. And remember that ideas about wealth are always terribly, terribly subjective and relative. “Yes, I dumped all those embarrassing investments my mother tried to give me. But of course I kept that trust fund. I have to eat and pay the rent, after all. It’s not much — just a few million.” From her point of view, dropping a couple of thousand on a nice dress for a special occasion may not feel at all strange. It’s not something you do every day, obviously, but money is there for using.

Philip Masters

2024-10-11 12:31:05 +0000 UTC

Frankly it sounds like that’d be fine with her. When both parties are “use ‘em and lose ‘em” types, the only question is who scores a small point by dropping the other one first.

Philip Masters

2024-10-11 12:21:46 +0000 UTC

Remember that another of her friends said “we’ve talked about this” with regard to her sexual behaviour. I suspect that she’s mostly just entertainingly horny from their point of view, but her friends sometimes have to reign in her more amoral impulses.

Philip Masters

2024-10-11 12:16:56 +0000 UTC

A devious suspected pervert? Yeah, she probably knows. I suspect Anh is one of those people who's ride-or-die for her friends, and more... let-them-die for strangers.

Solomon Garland

2024-10-11 12:01:07 +0000 UTC

I really like that idea. I can't decide if like that better, or the idea that she's mocking the mean girl for thinking wearing super expensive clothes is important.

Daryl Sawyer

2024-10-11 11:59:20 +0000 UTC

Slit-pupil expressions are proving much more versatile than I once would have thought ❤️💯

e.a.rowe

2024-10-11 11:57:45 +0000 UTC

Another possibility: You know who else is in Hanners' orbit and has access to a lot of money? Marigold :D Maybe they went shopping together as Hanners needed a wedding dress and Marigold grumped along (or May prodded her out of the house) or maybe Marigold needed something new of her own, and she paid because she could and wanted to do something nice for Hanners.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-11 09:18:58 +0000 UTC

Reminds me of a line from Gravity Falls: "What do you mean‽” "...Exactly what those words mean...in that order?"

Jonathan Moore

2024-10-11 09:15:05 +0000 UTC

Liz's gremlin eyes delight me every time!

Boots McGoot

2024-10-11 09:14:59 +0000 UTC

It's mysterious because Hanners did have enough to go on a round-the-world travelling spree at a moment's notice, and I doubt she was earning anything at the time because she was making herself "useful", not charging for her work. She cut off her own access to her mother's investments but maybe she has some of her own. However, I'm stuck on the part where people think it would be in-character for Hanners to casually spend thousands of dollars on a dress. I think she would see that as wasteful. She would buy good-quality clothes, and they probably need to be right in a sensory way, but there's a difference between that and spending thousands of dollars on something (marked down or not).

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-11 09:14:51 +0000 UTC

I miss Yay too, but we have gone long stretches of time Yayless. I think it will be a while before they surface again.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-11 05:56:28 +0000 UTC

"Multitudes of sexual partners" does not need air quotes, Hanners dear. It's just a fact. OMG Hanners is so cute!

SilverbackRon

2024-10-11 05:54:28 +0000 UTC

For many years running, she is consistently my favorite.

SilverbackRon

2024-10-11 05:50:20 +0000 UTC

Also, I just have to say it: All the different, excellently drawn hand positions in this strip really stands out to me as a great example of just how much Jeph's skills as an artist have come So so far and improved in such a major way. It's pretty undeniably cool to see, especially if you've been following along for much of it. Related to that, and this might be a little weird, but sometimes when my students - all new, budding artists who have only just begun - are telling themselves they'll never be a "good" artist, feeling like they'll just never improve, sometimes I'll show them the first round of QC comics before then showing them some of the most recent ones. (And sometimes I'll also throw in some scattered "in-between" strips to give them a sense of what that progression looked like.) Folks are Always really impressed, and it helps me show them that they already Are "real" artists even if they don't feel like it yet, but also that with time - an often frustrating amount of it - and hard work and practice and dedication, they can and Will become whatever kind of artist they want to be, whatever it means to them to be a "real" or "good" artist. :) Again, I know that this all might seem a little weird but hey, it works! I'm not exaggerating when I say that everyone is ALWAYS so so impressed. So a thank you to Jeph, for helping inspire so many beginner artists out there, all who feel like they'll just never get the hang of it. But we all already know that they absolutely will 😊

Green

2024-10-11 04:44:41 +0000 UTC

“I Am the Very Model of a Scientist Salarian“

Andrew

2024-10-11 04:34:41 +0000 UTC

"Be more or be opposite but never be less"—Janey Preger, Sprezz: The Art of Effortless Superiority (1985).

William Cole

2024-10-11 04:22:23 +0000 UTC

...in finest unspecified cellulosic, polyester, or reclaimed, mixed-fiber staple (whichever is cheaper this month).

Ursus Ridens

2024-10-11 04:04:56 +0000 UTC

Yeah, but at this point Sven's all "Been there, done [that|them]".

Ursus Ridens

2024-10-11 04:01:23 +0000 UTC

I wonder whether we could fetch Yay for a conversation or two with Anh.

Ursus Ridens

2024-10-11 03:57:19 +0000 UTC

We The Readers have been Yay-less for 29 days - who knows how many more days for the characters themselves - and we will continue to hope and pray they come home safe and sound very soon. 😔

Green

2024-10-11 02:48:30 +0000 UTC

Does... and I know this will sound rude, but... does Tai know? That one of the people she feels close enough to have as a bride's maid, does she know? That Anh is like this?

Green

2024-10-11 02:33:17 +0000 UTC

Personally, I'm assuming that WInslow helps Hannelore by e.g. telling her where to go buy a dress for a wedding.

Sean Blakey

2024-10-11 02:23:01 +0000 UTC

@David Jackson Nope, just Joyce.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-11 01:38:15 +0000 UTC

Horrid gremlins are my favorite, and this comic is chock full of 'em.

Jane the Inscrutable

2024-10-11 01:32:41 +0000 UTC

One of my former tenants used to work for one of those stores.

Opus the Poet

2024-10-11 01:25:43 +0000 UTC

@Miyaa, Hanner's mom's name is Beatrice. The "they have something in common" arc starts (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=921) here. Beatrice's Moral Event Horizon came much later.

ValdVin

2024-10-11 00:51:21 +0000 UTC

That's what I want to know. We got left hanging.

awgiedawgie

2024-10-11 00:30:59 +0000 UTC

Neither one of them knows how this works. Which makes it hilarious.

awgiedawgie

2024-10-11 00:30:03 +0000 UTC

“Not being rich” is always relative. We know she isn’t crazy-rich, but she never exactly seems to be short of cash.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 22:00:46 +0000 UTC

there's a lot of wold views being questioned behind that smol "what"

Hugo Montagut

2024-10-10 21:18:47 +0000 UTC

That's exactly the kind of place a lot of rich people shop at, at least for stuff for normal occasions. You don't get rich by spending money.

David Pipes

2024-10-10 20:11:00 +0000 UTC

Fleeeeexxxxxx...

David Pipes

2024-10-10 20:10:07 +0000 UTC

Depends: if you're trying to flaunt your wealth, boasting about getting a discount is missing the point. On the other hand, if you're trying to show off your uncanny eye for fashion and sense of style, killing it in "this old thing - I found it in a little charity shop..." scores maximum points.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 18:01:36 +0000 UTC

Yeah - Hanners could indeed have bought good-quality pre-owned (though the "60% off" maybe makes that less likely). Not much the original fashion house could do to prevent that, of course.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 17:58:21 +0000 UTC

Miyaa: "Atelier" means "studio" or "workshop". (It'd be a good word for the room where the wizard makes cursed rings of invisibility and such, though.)

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 17:55:14 +0000 UTC

Hanners is certainly unworldly, but if I remember she doesn't have access to her mom's stupendous fortune -- though being close friends with powerful AIs certainly can't hurt. I'm sure The Mystery Of The Not-So-Exclusive Dress Label will be resolved soon :)

Nicolas Demers

2024-10-10 17:48:21 +0000 UTC

Was that Hanner’s mom name? I don’t ever remember… that was that one time after they were both drunk wasn’t there?

Miyaa

2024-10-10 17:33:01 +0000 UTC

and usually these stores are smaller and more boutique style which seems more up Hannelore's alley

Dave, Duke of Fridges

2024-10-10 16:56:21 +0000 UTC

Lmao that's what I had to think of too. That and the fact that people get similarly confused by me, just because I only really say things when I mean them 100% exactly as said

Dave, Duke of Fridges

2024-10-10 16:55:39 +0000 UTC

Seems unlikely Hanners would shop at one of these, but there are stores (typically in large cities) that specialize in gently used designer label women's wear. I was clued in by a lady I knew who would head to LA to shop them.

Jim Feldman

2024-10-10 16:43:11 +0000 UTC

This reminds me of Sam Vimes in Discworld talking to passive aggressive diplomats to paraphrase Terry Pratchett "they're not used to direct speaking Vimes it confuses them"

Ace of Hearts

2024-10-10 16:24:12 +0000 UTC

This immediately made we wonder what stores Hanners goes to. it could anything from a totally mundane place, to space dress store.

CaseyAEC

2024-10-10 16:15:29 +0000 UTC

yay pintsize.... tbh a very plausible scenario is that Pintsize found a cool consignment shop where you can get secondhand designer & vintage clothes and recommended it to Hannelore, who filed it mentally under "dress shop" because the socio-economic dimensions are lost on her.

Sydney J Freedberg

2024-10-10 15:57:06 +0000 UTC

What are the chances that Beatrice has bought Evangeline Dubonnet--by which I mean the company.

ValdVin

2024-10-10 15:51:55 +0000 UTC

This wedding is a show with everything but Yul Brynner.

ValdVin

2024-10-10 15:48:18 +0000 UTC

"The" art of air quotes.

Maurice Kessler

2024-10-10 15:48:13 +0000 UTC

So I’m going to call the evil queen’s henchmen “ateliers” in my next RPG campaign.

Miyaa

2024-10-10 15:35:16 +0000 UTC

Hannelore strikes me as the kind of good guy who knows how evil works but wouldn’t be able to pull it off as a bad guy. I’m sure there is a trope about this.

Miyaa

2024-10-10 15:32:41 +0000 UTC

I get why Anh would go there, but Hannelore isn't that devious.

Shaodyn

2024-10-10 14:16:29 +0000 UTC

I believe in it, but what colour is it?

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 14:11:29 +0000 UTC

Wait until she finds out that Pintsize is also wearing Evangeline Dubbonet. But to be fair, she has some grounds for annoyance. When you pay bespoke designer prices, one thing you’re buying is exclusivity. If someone else can buy the same label cheap on the high street, you were sold the thing under false pretences. I imagine that the next time Anh visits Mme. Dubonnet’s atelier, she’ll be asking some hard questions about this subject.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 14:08:06 +0000 UTC

Maybe for earthbound mortals, but Hannelore…has…resources…(and dare I say, "friends in high places"). Believe in The Dress.

Claudia D.

2024-10-10 13:52:13 +0000 UTC

Sure it isn’t an authentic Evongalin Dubbon, made in China?

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 13:04:09 +0000 UTC

Presumably, Evangeline Dubonnet either has a small pret à porter line to make some extra cash off her name, or quietly lets the occasional uncollected bespoke piece go to specialised retail outlets to make something back when a customer unexpectedly bails. Hanners, of course, enjoys special authorial benefits and walked into exactly the right outlet shop at exactly the right moment. She may also be unworldly and rich enough to pick up a $4,000 dress, marked down from $10,000, because it looks nice and 60% off is obviously a bargain.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 13:02:06 +0000 UTC

Anh: “This peasant bought the same designer as I from a store?!?” Somewhere Hanner’s Mom: angry without knowing why

Richard Lindquist

2024-10-10 12:57:24 +0000 UTC

To be fair, Anh is communicating her intentions clearly. Unless Hanners is blinded by optimism, I fear that she’ll have to report sorrowfully to Sven that Anh is unsuitable.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 12:55:06 +0000 UTC

That matches what he’s said, after all. And his behaviour so far is consistent with that claim.

Philip Masters

2024-10-10 12:52:30 +0000 UTC

Wake up ${domestic_partner}, a new “what” reaction image just dropped.

Comics Ladybird

2024-10-10 11:56:29 +0000 UTC

But what about Yay?!?!?!? I'm worried for them....

Hal Shipman

2024-10-10 11:29:36 +0000 UTC

Indeed

Carrie

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

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Carrie

2024-10-10 10:33:27 +0000 UTC

And he's a chemist too?

Graydon Armstrong

2024-10-10 09:50:26 +0000 UTC

Apparently her dipping sauce is not carcinogenic, so that's good: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4095

David Paul

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

Sigh.

Darnel D Cooper

2024-10-10 09:46:25 +0000 UTC

* A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-10-10 09:45:06 +0000 UTC

Designer stuff might be marked down when fancy boutiques have extra stock they need to offload. Of course, Anh would never shop at somewhere so decidedly low-brow.

enchantedsleeper

2024-10-10 09:44:25 +0000 UTC

Anh wishes that she was getting it :)

Stephen Wells

2024-10-10 09:11:19 +0000 UTC

is it bad that i'm warming to her

Boots McGoot

2024-10-10 09:04:49 +0000 UTC

probably, yes

Minzoku Bokumetsu

2024-10-10 08:03:44 +0000 UTC

If Mays “slightly corrosive fluids” are BBQ sauce in this context? Sure……?

legobil

2024-10-10 07:55:21 +0000 UTC

Mumei? 🤔

Chris Olstrom

2024-10-10 06:28:11 +0000 UTC

Hanners' plot to take control is working flawlessly ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-10-10 06:27:33 +0000 UTC

I like the idea that down in Hanners' subconscious, is her own version of her mom, doing mastermind-level Game of Thrones plots. But it's offset by her version of her dad singing "Tum tee tum, science sure is fun!"

Shane Wegner

2024-10-10 06:22:29 +0000 UTC

This is going to be great 😁

fx_in_mind

2024-10-10 06:10:54 +0000 UTC

I think he's trying to make an honest man of himself, Hanners recognizes this and is being supportive. At least, that's what I'm choosing to believe

Atramors

2024-10-10 05:19:08 +0000 UTC

Probably not "trying" but "thinks he is misperceived" (without the usual baggage of wanting him herself). I can't see Hanners doing that (but I couldn't anticipate her yak care during her walk about, so WTFDIK LOL).

Jeremy

2024-10-10 05:09:39 +0000 UTC

So you’re saying… he likes chicken wings?

Dissociated Women Incorporated

2024-10-10 05:09:30 +0000 UTC

He fucked a leg socket.

legobil

2024-10-10 04:50:19 +0000 UTC

The height of fashion is to wear something unique that is like what everyone else is wearing but different, which is really expensive but you got at a great price.

Sleepy John

2024-10-10 04:49:28 +0000 UTC

Luckily she is trying. Really hard. To be not evil.

legobil

2024-10-10 04:49:22 +0000 UTC

A pity Sven is not into that. Being watched I mean.

legobil

2024-10-10 04:45:43 +0000 UTC

He has dipped his meat in several places.

legobil

2024-10-10 04:42:57 +0000 UTC

This is amazing.

legobil

2024-10-10 04:41:55 +0000 UTC

I hope Jeph likes this headcanon

R L

2024-10-10 04:27:21 +0000 UTC

Hanners, I don't think Sven will be interested if this is the attitude she takes up with his friends. Or at the very least, nothing beyond a potential return to meaningless hookups.

Cole Blackblood

2024-10-10 04:23:05 +0000 UTC

I need Sven to regress to his old shitty self cuz that's what this lady deserves

Fart Captor

2024-10-10 04:22:16 +0000 UTC

It's one dress, Anh, what could it cost? 10,000 dollars?

Clifton Royston

2024-10-10 04:16:54 +0000 UTC

That’s great writing, Jeph.

Fred Baker

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

You can differ a little, as a treat.

prettydragoon

2024-10-10 03:59:28 +0000 UTC

I'm not sure I follow you…

William Cole

2024-10-10 03:59:06 +0000 UTC

I am just wondering if Hanners is just trying to make an "honest man" of Sven.

Mark Nach

2024-10-10 03:58:36 +0000 UTC

Considering her research is most likely Marigold's manga porn stash, I cannot wait to see this applied in full!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-10-10 03:53:54 +0000 UTC

Oh, Hanners is GOOD

Maurice Kessler

2024-10-10 03:49:22 +0000 UTC

"I like to watch."

Clifton Royston

2024-10-10 03:41:35 +0000 UTC

Oh no, Hanners is over her head. Things will proceed apace and a sorrowful Dora will deliver Sven’s head to be mounted on Station. Please Jepf, deliver us from this!

Jeremy

2024-10-10 03:26:56 +0000 UTC

Headcanon established

James Roy

2024-10-10 03:21:36 +0000 UTC

Hanners has done “research” for this

Andrew

2024-10-10 03:21:18 +0000 UTC

Should we clarify ‘not at the same time’ ? No :)

Andrew

2024-10-10 03:19:58 +0000 UTC

She almost seems to be channelling Claire a bit. I wonder if Hanners has gotten high again since the party?

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-10-10 02:58:00 +0000 UTC

I beg to differ! (Please let me differ, I've been really good)

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-10-10 02:55:43 +0000 UTC

I don't like this woman

Dan Curtis

2024-10-10 02:42:07 +0000 UTC

Sven has "fucked a whole bunch"

Pejo

2024-10-10 02:35:15 +0000 UTC

Me too

jonesnori

2024-10-10 02:34:49 +0000 UTC

"Now that I've shown you 'The Plan', I'll be going"... Is this going to be a "10 Things I Hate About You" situation?

Lord Travis Lance the 3rd Matheson esq

2024-10-10 02:33:30 +0000 UTC

i like this headcanon

Logan Nix

2024-10-10 02:33:29 +0000 UTC

Evangeline Dubonnet is actually Pintsize's new clothing brand. He sells at cost locally and at a 1000% markup online.

Jonas Wisser

2024-10-10 02:30:04 +0000 UTC

Hanners knows exactly what she is doing

Magic Chopstick Games

2024-10-10 02:17:07 +0000 UTC

It’s from her retail line, “Evie Dubbs”

Magic Chopstick Games

2024-10-10 02:15:31 +0000 UTC

They then became shopping buddies and Hanners taught Anh all of her bargain shopping tricks.

Tyler

2024-10-10 02:14:51 +0000 UTC

RELEASE THE VIRUS says differently.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-10-10 02:12:30 +0000 UTC

seems like more of a David Willis kinda thing

David Jackson

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

Worried Jeph might have blown all of the animation budget on new Hannelore faces

Kai

2024-10-10 02:04:43 +0000 UTC

either Hanners is seriously trolling Anh OR Hanners went into what she thinks of as The Dress Store while visiting Station, and picked this dress more or less at random. Because Station would have a subtask running, since forever, to maintain a stock of "dresses that would look good on Hannelore" (and would make up both prices and discounts for its own amusement)

Spike McLarty

2024-10-10 01:57:35 +0000 UTC

Did NOT see this one coming! Love it!

Claudia D.

2024-10-10 01:57:02 +0000 UTC

Shut up Mr Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!

Tudza

2024-10-10 01:55:33 +0000 UTC

A nods as his a wink to a bat, eh? Nudge-nudge wink- wink

Shinymelon Fearnow

2024-10-10 01:54:23 +0000 UTC

Well, it did fly like one time.

Tudza

2024-10-10 01:53:49 +0000 UTC

Here it comes!

Alacrity Fitzhugh

2024-10-10 01:52:25 +0000 UTC

Anh...

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

2024-10-10 01:49:55 +0000 UTC

say no more! SAY. NO. MORE!

gaijin 99

2024-10-10 01:47:41 +0000 UTC

I am loving this.

Paul Higdon

2024-10-10 01:44:20 +0000 UTC

I’m half waiting for Hannelore to say “Oh No! I don’t do physical contact. I just want to watch you with him.”

Thisguy

2024-10-10 01:43:32 +0000 UTC

lolz yeah, maybe Anh isn't all bad!

Nicolas Demers

2024-10-10 01:42:23 +0000 UTC

Sven was "a bit of a goer", know what I mean, nudge-nudge, wink-wink!

William Cole

2024-10-10 01:42:19 +0000 UTC

100% trolling! I don't know how she got that designer tag on her dress, but she's got all kinds of resources, so it's totally possible.

Nicolas Demers

2024-10-10 01:41:27 +0000 UTC

I love when there's clear communication and nobody is making bad assumptions

Christopher Burke

2024-10-10 01:41:00 +0000 UTC

She's playing n-dimensional chess while the rest of us struggle with checkers.

William Cole

2024-10-10 01:39:45 +0000 UTC

Big same!

William Cole

2024-10-10 01:38:44 +0000 UTC

Hannelore continuing to be my favorite character in the whole comic

Adarsh Nednur

2024-10-10 01:35:49 +0000 UTC

Hannelore is the wingman for the Spruce Goose.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-10-10 01:32:27 +0000 UTC

Panel 3 and 5 Hannerface OMG!

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-10-10 01:23:57 +0000 UTC

Am I the only one that thinks Hannelore is just trolling her at this point?

Daryl Sawyer

2024-10-10 01:21:48 +0000 UTC

I'm imagining Evangeline Dubonnet sitting in the little dress shop she dreamed of owning, marking down price tags and wondering why her dresses only seem to sell well online.

Likeablejerk

2024-10-10 01:20:22 +0000 UTC

Someone who's flat out schemy may not be the worst match

Randall Norman Pick

2024-10-10 01:20:22 +0000 UTC

I'm honestly not sure if Hanners is just trolling Anh with the dress thing - she's sweet and nice but she's also her mother's daughter and has a lot of experience dealing with huge assholes.

Yonatan Zunger

2024-10-10 01:20:19 +0000 UTC

'The robot was also a consenting adult, but in robot years.'

Diptych

2024-10-10 01:18:52 +0000 UTC

I've always liked Hanners!

PostRetroism

2024-10-10 01:18:32 +0000 UTC

Hanners is just trailing bait at this point

SpookyPenguin

2024-10-10 01:17:57 +0000 UTC

"Sounds like a real clown boy." "You're not gonna believe this..."

ValdVin

2024-10-10 01:17:24 +0000 UTC

I do not like that air quote face for Hanners. I hope it's just a face.

Olaf

2024-10-10 01:16:55 +0000 UTC

Okay so who is this Evangeline Dubonnet and why was she making fashionable dresses and rode a gundam into a futuristic war versus demons?

Miyaa

2024-10-10 01:16:50 +0000 UTC

Don't forget the watermelon!

Dean Reilly

2024-10-10 01:16:33 +0000 UTC

And suddenly I like this woman.

Vilinda

2024-10-10 01:15:46 +0000 UTC

My t shirt is also an Evangeline Dubonnet, got it for $2 at the thrift store

Rich Holmes

2024-10-10 01:14:59 +0000 UTC

Hanners is a league of her own

Einy

2024-10-10 01:14:48 +0000 UTC

What

Miyaa

2024-10-10 01:14:42 +0000 UTC

Hanners couldn't be Evil if she tried.

Doc Gumby

2024-10-10 01:14:22 +0000 UTC

He's got "a high body count." He's "gotten around quite a bit." He's "fornicated with dozens of consenting adult human women and at least one robot."

Jaron Mortimer

2024-10-10 01:14:04 +0000 UTC

10 yard penalty for over-use of air quotes!

Tannerbot

2024-10-10 01:13:40 +0000 UTC

The "art" of "air quotes."

Adam Abbott

2024-10-10 01:13:23 +0000 UTC

She’s a rather unpleasant person, but I’m growing to like her.

Populuxe

2024-10-10 01:13:09 +0000 UTC

I'm convinced that Air Quotes Hanners is Joyce talking about Joe.

ValdVin

2024-10-10 01:13:04 +0000 UTC

She's not?

Drazi

2024-10-10 01:13:00 +0000 UTC

Not sure Hanners 100% understands the art of air quotes

Cody Renton

2024-10-10 01:12:41 +0000 UTC

Hanners is just casually lucky even to rich people. I wonder if Aunh will last past this wedding story. She seems interesting.

Andrea Andrew

2024-10-10 01:12:24 +0000 UTC

That's not where I expected this to go,but I am along for the ride.

Scott Vogel

2024-10-10 01:12:21 +0000 UTC

Hanners is making herself sound like Sven's pimp.

Bill Silvia

2024-10-10 01:11:48 +0000 UTC

Oh dear, she really doesn’t know quite how to engage when she’s not playing chess, does she?

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-10-10 01:11:23 +0000 UTC

Here's The Plan

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Or - you could do it this way: https://cosmicdirtbag.com/2024/08/06/drawin-tips/

The A Team - Anh and 'annelore...

Oooooh! Yes please!!

In the dialogue of 5411, *TAI* asked her "Are you trying to fuck Dora's brother" and, on being told yes, said "We talked about this", so apparently this was fully anticipated.

Frankly it sounds like that’d be fine with her. When both parties are “use ‘em and lose ‘em” types, the only question is who scores a small point by dropping the other one first.

Remember that another of her friends said “we’ve talked about this” with regard to her sexual behaviour. I suspect that she’s mostly just entertainingly horny from their point of view, but her friends sometimes have to reign in her more amoral impulses.

A devious suspected pervert? Yeah, she probably knows. I suspect Anh is one of those people who's ride-or-die for her friends, and more... let-them-die for strangers.

I really like that idea. I can't decide if like that better, or the idea that she's mocking the mean girl for thinking wearing super expensive clothes is important.

Slit-pupil expressions are proving much more versatile than I once would have thought ❤️💯

Reminds me of a line from Gravity Falls: "What do you mean‽” "...Exactly what those words mean...in that order?"

Liz's gremlin eyes delight me every time!

I miss Yay too, but we have gone long stretches of time Yayless. I think it will be a while before they surface again.

"Multitudes of sexual partners" does not need air quotes, Hanners dear. It's just a fact. OMG Hanners is so cute!

For many years running, she is consistently my favorite.

“I Am the Very Model of a Scientist Salarian“

"Be more or be opposite but never be less"—Janey Preger, Sprezz: The Art of Effortless Superiority (1985).

...in finest unspecified cellulosic, polyester, or reclaimed, mixed-fiber staple (whichever is cheaper this month).

Yeah, but at this point Sven's all "Been there, done [that|them]".

I wonder whether we could fetch Yay for a conversation or two with Anh.

We The Readers have been Yay-less for 29 days - who knows how many more days for the characters themselves - and we will continue to hope and pray they come home safe and sound very soon. 😔

Does... and I know this will sound rude, but... does Tai know? That one of the people she feels close enough to have as a bride's maid, does she know? That Anh is like this?

Personally, I'm assuming that WInslow helps Hannelore by e.g. telling her where to go buy a dress for a wedding.

@David Jackson Nope, just Joyce.

Horrid gremlins are my favorite, and this comic is chock full of 'em.

One of my former tenants used to work for one of those stores.

@Miyaa, Hanner's mom's name is Beatrice. The "they have something in common" arc starts (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=921) here. Beatrice's Moral Event Horizon came much later.

That's what I want to know. We got left hanging.

Neither one of them knows how this works. Which makes it hilarious.

“Not being rich” is always relative. We know she isn’t crazy-rich, but she never exactly seems to be short of cash.

there's a lot of wold views being questioned behind that smol "what"

That's exactly the kind of place a lot of rich people shop at, at least for stuff for normal occasions. You don't get rich by spending money.

Fleeeeexxxxxx...

Depends: if you're trying to flaunt your wealth, boasting about getting a discount is missing the point. On the other hand, if you're trying to show off your uncanny eye for fashion and sense of style, killing it in "this old thing - I found it in a little charity shop..." scores maximum points.

Yeah - Hanners could indeed have bought good-quality pre-owned (though the "60% off" maybe makes that less likely). Not much the original fashion house could do to prevent that, of course.

Miyaa: "Atelier" means "studio" or "workshop". (It'd be a good word for the room where the wizard makes cursed rings of invisibility and such, though.)

Hanners is certainly unworldly, but if I remember she doesn't have access to her mom's stupendous fortune -- though being close friends with powerful AIs certainly can't hurt. I'm sure The Mystery Of The Not-So-Exclusive Dress Label will be resolved soon :)

Was that Hanner’s mom name? I don’t ever remember… that was that one time after they were both drunk wasn’t there?

and usually these stores are smaller and more boutique style which seems more up Hannelore's alley

Lmao that's what I had to think of too. That and the fact that people get similarly confused by me, just because I only really say things when I mean them 100% exactly as said

Seems unlikely Hanners would shop at one of these, but there are stores (typically in large cities) that specialize in gently used designer label women's wear. I was clued in by a lady I knew who would head to LA to shop them.

This reminds me of Sam Vimes in Discworld talking to passive aggressive diplomats to paraphrase Terry Pratchett "they're not used to direct speaking Vimes it confuses them"

This immediately made we wonder what stores Hanners goes to. it could anything from a totally mundane place, to space dress store.

yay pintsize.... tbh a very plausible scenario is that Pintsize found a cool consignment shop where you can get secondhand designer & vintage clothes and recommended it to Hannelore, who filed it mentally under "dress shop" because the socio-economic dimensions are lost on her.

What are the chances that Beatrice has bought Evangeline Dubonnet--by which I mean the company.

This wedding is a show with everything but Yul Brynner.

"The" art of air quotes.

So I’m going to call the evil queen’s henchmen “ateliers” in my next RPG campaign.

Hannelore strikes me as the kind of good guy who knows how evil works but wouldn’t be able to pull it off as a bad guy. I’m sure there is a trope about this.

I get why Anh would go there, but Hannelore isn't that devious.

I believe in it, but what colour is it?

Maybe for earthbound mortals, but Hannelore…has…resources…(and dare I say, "friends in high places"). Believe in The Dress.

Sure it isn’t an authentic Evongalin Dubbon, made in China?

Anh: “This *peasant* bought the same designer as I from a *store*?!?” *Somewhere* Hanner’s Mom: *angry without knowing why*

To be fair, Anh is communicating her intentions clearly. Unless Hanners is blinded by optimism, I fear that she’ll have to report sorrowfully to Sven that Anh is unsuitable.

That matches what he’s said, after all. And his behaviour so far is consistent with that claim.

Wake up ${domestic_partner}, a new “what” reaction image just dropped.

But what about Yay?!?!?!? I'm worried for them....

Indeed

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

And he's a chemist too?

Apparently her dipping sauce is not carcinogenic, so that's good: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4095

Sigh.

* A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

Designer stuff might be marked down when fancy boutiques have extra stock they need to offload. Of course, Anh would *never* shop at somewhere so decidedly low-brow.

Anh *wishes* that she was getting it :)

is it bad that i'm warming to her

probably, yes

If Mays “slightly corrosive fluids” are BBQ sauce in this context? Sure……?

Mumei? 🤔

Hanners' plot to take control is working flawlessly ~<3

I like the idea that down in Hanners' subconscious, is her own version of her mom, doing mastermind-level Game of Thrones plots. But it's offset by her version of her dad singing "Tum tee tum, science sure is fun!"

This is going to be great 😁

I think he's trying to make an honest man of himself, Hanners recognizes this and is being supportive. At least, that's what I'm choosing to believe

Probably not "trying" but "thinks he is misperceived" (without the usual baggage of wanting him herself). I can't see Hanners doing that (but I couldn't anticipate her yak care during her walk about, so WTFDIK LOL).

So you’re saying… he likes chicken wings?

He fucked a leg socket.

The height of fashion is to wear something unique that is like what everyone else is wearing but different, which is really expensive but you got at a great price.

Luckily she is trying. Really hard. To be not evil.

In the dialogue of 5411, TAI asked her "Are you trying to fuck Dora's brother" and, on being told yes, said "We talked about this", so apparently this was fully anticipated.

Anh: “This peasant bought the same designer as I from a store?!?” Somewhere Hanner’s Mom: angry without knowing why

Designer stuff might be marked down when fancy boutiques have extra stock they need to offload. Of course, Anh would never shop at somewhere so decidedly low-brow.

Anh wishes that she was getting it :)

Hanners knows exactly what she is doing