jephjacques - She's Only Human After All

Jeph, HOW do you always get the expressions so perfect?!? The last fram alone: I do the sly-but-harmless thing that Marten does all the time, my best girlfriend does the thing that Faye is doing all the time, and my husband does the mouth thing that Bubbles is doing all the time. YOU NAILED IT!

Sarah

2024-09-16 19:53:48 +0000 UTC

POE OPE

Hugh Eckert

2024-09-16 16:08:36 +0000 UTC

Or dtf, let's be real xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-16 15:44:48 +0000 UTC

Also, her requests/demands for a drink from him look rather like Liz-grade flirting — though sure, she also wanted booze.

Philip Masters

2024-09-16 12:12:43 +0000 UTC

Bubbles is no soft touch, though. If Faye had been harmed by Sven or had been truly wronged in the relationship, I doubt they would find the body.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-16 12:12:21 +0000 UTC

I think that Bubbles’s positivity about Sven is mostly just down to her being a good person. She really does try to think the best of people whenever possible.

Philip Masters

2024-09-16 12:07:58 +0000 UTC

No-one said anything about her being romantically attracted to Sven - sexually, sure. Marten said "Liz, I think you're projecting" because of the way she was so keen for Sven to make out with Moray. She was displacing the desire to make out with him onto Moray. Sven also wasn't looking at her, so angrily accusing him of that is like... okay, were you the one looking though (which she pretty evidently was)

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-16 06:33:29 +0000 UTC

Kinda but not really? The last time they met up, it was actually friendly. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3995 Well, mostly xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-16 06:30:22 +0000 UTC

(re Himalayan salt) she could turn pink for a few hours - not because she's got that much salt by volume, just as a diagnostic

Mark Eichin

2024-09-16 05:42:12 +0000 UTC

...but normal table salt is (often) iodized and has sodium aluminosilicate as an anti-caking agent. Those things are fine for humans but might or might not be good for Moray. I think that kosher salt is purer sodium chloride.

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-16 04:11:41 +0000 UTC

Neologism ^^ of the month, at least!

Ursus Ridens

2024-09-16 04:07:31 +0000 UTC

The tit joke was that Sven caused her nipples to become erect. At least, that's how apparently everyone but you read it.

Carl Fink

2024-09-16 01:45:11 +0000 UTC

I suspect Graydon Armstrong was thinking of Kosher=circumcised.

Carl Fink

2024-09-16 01:44:24 +0000 UTC

Thank you for your research 🫡

pseudoclever

2024-09-16 01:28:36 +0000 UTC

Faye has been mad at Sven for 4000+ comics. That might be the single longest stable "relationship" in QC

pseudoclever

2024-09-16 01:26:23 +0000 UTC

But does she have fins and scales?

Todd Ellner

2024-09-16 00:01:17 +0000 UTC

It's a committed relationship couple thing

Todd Ellner

2024-09-16 00:00:03 +0000 UTC

Sven is not looking for the drama and headaches of gremboning an under socialized ternager

Todd Ellner

2024-09-15 23:57:19 +0000 UTC

FLUORIDATION!

William Cole

2024-09-15 23:56:45 +0000 UTC

& Gen Buck Turgidson was trying to keep the commies from seeing the big board!!

Joe

2024-09-15 23:33:14 +0000 UTC

Liz is less bi than dgaf, I think.

Joe

2024-09-15 23:18:40 +0000 UTC

it's the the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!!

Joe

2024-09-15 23:16:12 +0000 UTC

ruid??

Joe

2024-09-15 23:12:50 +0000 UTC

Definitely sea salt

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-09-15 23:12:17 +0000 UTC

Yes, Sven seems to be looking for a serious relationship now, especially because he's had to face up to what he lost with Faye, and he also seems to see Liz as far too young for him.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-15 22:37:03 +0000 UTC

Also offending Bubbles by staring at Bubbles' boobs and referring to them in objectifying terms.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-15 22:32:45 +0000 UTC

...how would that be a dick joke?

James A. Whitney

2024-09-15 19:40:14 +0000 UTC

Oh, I forgot that, yes.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 17:41:05 +0000 UTC

That's what I was thinking of! "A pleasant deployment", awww Bubbles :D <3 I wonder if they had a conversation about Faye's "assocation" with Sven not long after that. clicks next comic (and again, and again) Oh, this is LITERALLY RIGHT before Sven (re-)met May! Faye really is responsible (directly or indirectly) for all of the best sex Sven's had, huh xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 17:39:30 +0000 UTC

Better to watch to make sure it doesn't go into permanent regret territory.

Steve McSheffrey

2024-09-15 16:56:56 +0000 UTC

Also Martens 🤣

legobil

2024-09-15 16:53:14 +0000 UTC

Fluid, druid….?

legobil

2024-09-15 16:51:54 +0000 UTC

I'm not sure the bisexuality is much of a surprise to her, given how enthusiastic she was about seeing sexy Elliot pics. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5297

BookBeard

2024-09-15 16:42:57 +0000 UTC

Technically they met slightly before that but the interaction was cut short by a mortified Momo, but yes May definitely knew about Sven/Faye. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3996 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4005

BookBeard

2024-09-15 16:40:04 +0000 UTC

I believe the only time we've seen Bubbles and Sven interact prior to the club was at Dora and Tai's engagement party. I don't recall Bubbles and Faye discussing the relationship with Sven at any point, but given the openness between them it seems reasonable to assume that the subject came up off-screen. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3996

BookBeard

2024-09-15 16:30:19 +0000 UTC

She blushed once around Sven because she thought he was staring at her, and she objected to that. She blushed again when Sven was present when she misinterpreted “projecting” as commenting about her nips showing through her shirt. She's also been known to blush in the past about any suggestion of her sexuality. She may be aromantic with a thing for boobs and that's it.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-15 14:54:16 +0000 UTC

Maybe use "tank" as in gas? Does Moray get gas? "When one needs to top off their tank, Claire is the one who you will thank!"

allanfranta

2024-09-15 14:36:03 +0000 UTC

One may not want it after one starts trying, too. It's confusing, limiting and frustrating.

allanfranta

2024-09-15 14:30:43 +0000 UTC

May knows. Sven literally met her while venting about Faye.

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-15 14:09:31 +0000 UTC

Didn't stop my parents. Except it was 31 and 19 when they married. And yeah, it was a mistake... she got swept away by a tall, handsome guy who was twice divorced already and would sleep with any woman who was breathing. He was a lot of Sven in that regard.

Carl Cravens

2024-09-15 13:26:05 +0000 UTC

Huh, "do not perceive me" seems more like a Yay objection.

Abhayakara

2024-09-15 13:03:39 +0000 UTC

In humble appreciation of the great @BookBeard… When you reach for some salt, so your systems don’t fault, That’s a Moray!

Darren Franzen

2024-09-15 12:24:12 +0000 UTC

Tangential, not about Liz: If Joe over at DofA can actually go from what he was to being a real boyfriend, maybe Sven can do this too.

ValdVin

2024-09-15 12:16:44 +0000 UTC

General Jack D Ripper talked about his precious bodily fluids, and Colonel 'Bat' Guano warned about answering to the Coca-Cola company

Frank Wales

2024-09-15 10:23:55 +0000 UTC

When some creep on their alt Says “I’d refill her salt,” That’s a Moray!

panpolypuff

2024-09-15 09:51:56 +0000 UTC

I think it's nice that Bubbles is positive towards Sven. Have we ever seen Faye and Bubbles discuss Sven in-comic? (It feels like a conversation we've seen, but I also can't think when). I get the sense that Bubbles appreciates what he was to Faye, and what the (not-technically-a-) relationship meant to her even if it ended badly and she doesn't look back fondly on it.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:30:03 +0000 UTC

I definitely think she and Sven could bone down if they're both into it, but I absolutely don't get that vibe from Sven.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:24:16 +0000 UTC

She was blushing a lot around Sven and was very very keen for him to make out with Moray (who I think she also has a thing for but it's less physical and more personality). Conclusions were drawn 😅

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:21:32 +0000 UTC

We basically concluded she's boob-sexual from wanting to "ride Evan like a power-loader", yeah.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:18:58 +0000 UTC

I'm not sure if she would really... care? Sven has boned a lot of people xD For that matter, May doesn't know about Faye and Sven. It was a long time ago.

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:18:07 +0000 UTC

May was into that. If Liz isn't, it's not going to become a thing. (Especially since we're assuming Sven would sleep with Liz when I really don't think he would).

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:16:46 +0000 UTC

I don't think Sven is into Liz 😅

enchantedsleeper

2024-09-15 09:15:48 +0000 UTC

Liz deserves who she wants - we were all in her position once.

Sparky

2024-09-15 09:11:27 +0000 UTC

I mean, I think that self-knowledge is a big part of Faye's "oh honey"? Because she Been There, Done That, and knows what a terrible mistake it is.

Charlotte Grubbs

2024-09-15 08:49:52 +0000 UTC

Well yes, but that's how double entendres work.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-15 08:39:58 +0000 UTC

He's in LEO with Station.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-15 08:00:11 +0000 UTC

What was his name again? I recognize the quote from Dr. Strangelove but can't remember the character's name.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-15 07:58:38 +0000 UTC

She's requesting salt, kosher is a coarser grade than table salt.

Opus the Poet

2024-09-15 07:54:54 +0000 UTC

> Kosher or regular? Was that a dick joke?

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-15 07:20:08 +0000 UTC

Adjacent is still sideboob contact. Maybe with some subtle finger movement and a shared glance. Uh oh, this is how I start accidentally writing literotica.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-15 07:17:06 +0000 UTC

I'm guessing kosher. It's uniodised, and the grain shapes have a higher surface area to volume ratio so dissolve more readily.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-15 07:13:41 +0000 UTC

Except is she susceptible? That's not really what I took from it. And it seems a bit gross to tease someone about being into someone they aren't.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-09-15 07:08:47 +0000 UTC

Six, six, and four. You have mastered what I have coined the Moiku

Duncan

2024-09-15 06:46:34 +0000 UTC

'lo Will... Why not say hi?

Duncan

2024-09-15 06:43:10 +0000 UTC

Or idolized?

Duncan

2024-09-15 06:34:41 +0000 UTC

I was referencing a song....

Vince Smith

2024-09-15 05:51:48 +0000 UTC

I highly doubt Marten, Faye, and Claire will let Liz make that mistake.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-09-15 05:41:18 +0000 UTC

Liz is eminently 'oh honey'-able

Bagge

2024-09-15 05:40:46 +0000 UTC

Ok, see, now we've gotta see how Liz withstands... The SHEEN...

Yelling Bird

2024-09-15 05:31:19 +0000 UTC

Since when do infatuation and good ideas travel together?

Yelling Bird

2024-09-15 05:29:53 +0000 UTC

I bet she'd like Himalayan pink salt :)

Green

2024-09-15 05:25:40 +0000 UTC

It is not a good idea. But young socially awkward people make mistakes!

Rémi Beaulieu-Dubé

2024-09-15 04:43:23 +0000 UTC

He's enjoying the experience of being stuck halfway through a brick wall. :3c

Sammitch

2024-09-15 04:41:42 +0000 UTC

He didn't make a pass at anyone. Gremzabeth literally dragged him up to Moray and told her to make out with him.

Todd Ellner

2024-09-15 04:33:28 +0000 UTC

Isn't Sven 28 and Liz 19? Is this a good idea for her? (Genuine question.)

ValdVin

2024-09-15 04:25:29 +0000 UTC

Okay, but she'll have to answer to the Morton Salt Company!

ValdVin

2024-09-15 04:24:47 +0000 UTC

Glad I'm not the only one lmao

Brent

2024-09-15 04:08:50 +0000 UTC

Faye: "He's a fun time in my experience but you can do bet-....actually, maybe give it a shot??"

Aeryn Monet

2024-09-15 03:56:37 +0000 UTC

doink

SpookyPenguin

2024-09-15 03:48:53 +0000 UTC

You really can't blame Sven for any of this. He didn't perv on Gremzabeth or Moray

Todd Ellner

2024-09-15 03:47:54 +0000 UTC

She needs electrolytes. It's what Morays crave.

BookBeard

2024-09-15 03:43:06 +0000 UTC

That's not a nice thing to say about Will

Todd Ellner

2024-09-15 03:38:02 +0000 UTC

Probably needs to remain isotonic

Todd Ellner

2024-09-15 03:36:32 +0000 UTC

"oh you sweet summer child" Faye Whitaker 2024 ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-09-15 03:23:40 +0000 UTC

I hope Sven doesn't develop a thing for Liz's arm sockets the way he did for May's hip joint. Blech.

Sleepy John

2024-09-15 03:17:42 +0000 UTC

When in the club, late at night And the Sven, gets denied That's a Moray!

Vince Smith

2024-09-15 03:03:08 +0000 UTC

Have some sympathy, Faye. Lord knows she's not the first one to fall victim to Sven's charms...

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-09-15 03:02:44 +0000 UTC

And whether it should be iodized.

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-15 03:01:40 +0000 UTC

Moray needs to replenish her Precious Bodily Fluids.

Sean Kinlin

2024-09-15 02:58:12 +0000 UTC

Moray needs salt huh. Now everything is making sense. Wonder if she prefers fine or coarse salt…

Hawkeye

2024-09-15 02:56:03 +0000 UTC

In orbit.

Valerie Kaplan

2024-09-15 02:54:41 +0000 UTC

I like Thomas's idea, but my money is also on "not landed yet".

William Cole

2024-09-15 02:50:00 +0000 UTC

We will probably not see Pintsize against he literally crashes the Dora-Tai wedding.

Miyaa

2024-09-15 02:49:15 +0000 UTC

voting for "not landed yet"

Minzoku Bokumetsu

2024-09-15 02:43:46 +0000 UTC

Did he make a nuisance of himself Stalking somebot who was vanishing without a trace?

Thomas Halpin

2024-09-15 02:42:51 +0000 UTC

I know the Yay/Roko/Moray plot is the main story at the moment, but I still want to know where Pintsize ended up after Bubbles bounced him. Is he still sulking behind the club? Did he wander off to get banned from some other bar? Has he not landed yet?

BookBeard

2024-09-15 02:39:04 +0000 UTC

I love the little gremlin just dangling over the arm of the couch in panel one.

SilverbackRon

2024-09-15 02:34:10 +0000 UTC

Once seen, it becomes truth.

SilverbackRon

2024-09-15 02:31:16 +0000 UTC

I forgot where we saw that Liz was into girls, but I guess her interaction with Evan would count. I mean, it makes sense, but it never bliped on my radar.

Davus Otho

2024-09-15 02:31:13 +0000 UTC

My problem was I couldn’t figure out what rhymes with “fluid.”

Miyaa

2024-09-15 02:30:33 +0000 UTC

I don't know why I assumed it was Hanners

Bill Silvia

2024-09-15 02:29:32 +0000 UTC

Faye never found out about May and Sven, did she? Well, that’s awkward. Liz becoming a real life shipper. 🤣

Andrea Andrew

2024-09-15 02:29:28 +0000 UTC

👀👀

Wynn Donivan

2024-09-15 02:28:50 +0000 UTC

I know Bubbles hand is ADJACENT to Fayes boob but I'm taking a creative interpretation and perceiving that as Bubbles gently cupping Faye's boob.

Aerin Moriarty

2024-09-15 02:28:29 +0000 UTC

Gremlins having high IQ but low WILL checks out.

William Cole

2024-09-15 02:27:10 +0000 UTC

Bubbles' face in last panel is even better than Faye's.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-15 02:25:36 +0000 UTC

you don't know you don't want it until you try. before that it's just bias. very correct bias...

Brendan Luster

2024-09-15 02:24:59 +0000 UTC

Faye and Bubble's faces in the last panel is peak!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-09-15 02:24:47 +0000 UTC

When the slime girl's immune To what makes gremlins swoon That's A Moray!

BookBeard

2024-09-15 02:24:04 +0000 UTC

Oh hooray! I was expecting to have to wait until tomorrow for a new comic! Liz, babe, you may have just discovered you're bisexual after all. It can be a bit of a shock coming from either orientation, but it's not a bad thing to learn.

Clifton Royston

2024-09-15 02:23:17 +0000 UTC

This… explains a surprising number of observations. Fascinating.

Chris Olstrom

2024-09-15 02:22:45 +0000 UTC

So I don’t mind some grembarassment, but Moray has long since stolen the show on panel 1.

Andrew

2024-09-15 02:22:03 +0000 UTC

A denial that strong is an admission of guilt liz...

Tannerbot

2024-09-15 02:21:16 +0000 UTC

When you need to top off your sea Ask if table or kosher what you need… That’s a Moray!

Miyaa

2024-09-15 02:21:13 +0000 UTC

Nope, no Goblin Mode. Relax, everyone's still safe.

BobC

2024-09-15 02:20:43 +0000 UTC

Liz is so confused

Am Queue

2024-09-15 02:20:40 +0000 UTC

Poor Liz, such an innocent gremlin.

FuzzyDragon Cosplay

2024-09-15 02:20:27 +0000 UTC

Gremlin enreddening intensifies

Zig Justice

2024-09-15 02:20:21 +0000 UTC

It's okay Liz, I get it. The gremlin brain is very susceptible to fuckboys

Cancertopia

2024-09-15 02:20:18 +0000 UTC

Fay and Bubbles smiles in the last panel, chefs kiss

Doc Gumby

2024-09-15 02:20:14 +0000 UTC

Definitely kosher...

John

2024-09-15 02:19:53 +0000 UTC

She's Only Human After All

Comments

Jeph, HOW do you always get the expressions so perfect?!? The last fram alone: I do the sly-but-harmless thing that Marten does all the time, my best girlfriend does the thing that Faye is doing all the time, and my husband does the mouth thing that Bubbles is doing all the time. YOU NAILED IT!

POE OPE

Or dtf, let's be real xD

Also, her requests/demands for a drink from him look rather like Liz-grade flirting — though sure, she also wanted booze.

Bubbles is no soft touch, though. If Faye had been harmed by Sven or had been truly wronged in the relationship, I doubt they would find the body.

I think that Bubbles’s positivity about Sven is mostly just down to her being a good person. She really does try to think the best of people whenever possible.

Kinda but not really? The last time they met up, it was actually friendly. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3995 Well, mostly xD

(re Himalayan salt) she could turn pink for a few hours - not because she's got that much salt by volume, just as a diagnostic

...but normal table salt is (often) iodized and has sodium aluminosilicate as an anti-caking agent. Those things are fine for humans but might or might not be good for Moray. I think that kosher salt is purer sodium chloride.

Neologism ^^ of the month, at least!

The tit joke was that Sven caused her nipples to become erect. At least, that's how apparently everyone but you read it.

I suspect Graydon Armstrong was thinking of Kosher=circumcised.

Thank you for your research 🫡

Faye has been mad at Sven for 4000+ comics. That might be the single longest stable "relationship" in QC

But does she have fins and scales?

It's a committed relationship couple thing

Sven is not looking for the drama and headaches of gremboning an under socialized ternager

FLUORIDATION!

& Gen Buck Turgidson was trying to keep the commies from seeing the big board!!

Liz is less bi than dgaf, I think.

it's the the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!!

ruid??

Definitely sea salt

Yes, Sven seems to be looking for a serious relationship now, especially because he's had to face up to what he lost with Faye, and he also seems to see Liz as far too young for him.

Also offending Bubbles by staring at Bubbles' boobs and referring to them in objectifying terms.

...how would that be a dick joke?

Oh, I forgot that, yes.

Better to watch to make sure it doesn't go into permanent regret territory.

Also Martens 🤣

Fluid, druid….?

I'm not sure the bisexuality is much of a surprise to her, given how enthusiastic she was about seeing sexy Elliot pics. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5297

Technically they met slightly before that but the interaction was cut short by a mortified Momo, but yes May definitely knew about Sven/Faye. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3996 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4005

Maybe use "tank" as in gas? Does Moray get gas? "When one needs to top off their tank, Claire is the one who you will thank!"

One may not want it after one starts trying, too. It's confusing, limiting and frustrating.

May knows. Sven literally met her while venting about Faye.

Didn't stop my parents. Except it was 31 and 19 when they married. And yeah, it was a mistake... she got swept away by a tall, handsome guy who was twice divorced already and would sleep with any woman who was breathing. He was a lot of Sven in that regard.

Huh, "do not perceive me" seems more like a Yay objection.

In humble appreciation of the great @BookBeard… When you reach for some salt, so your systems don’t fault, That’s a Moray!

Tangential, not about Liz: If Joe over at DofA can actually go from what he was to being a real boyfriend, maybe Sven can do this too.

General Jack D Ripper talked about his precious bodily fluids, and Colonel 'Bat' Guano warned about answering to the Coca-Cola company

When some creep on their alt Says “I’d refill *her* salt,” That’s a Moray!

I definitely think she and Sven could bone down if they're both into it, but I absolutely don't get that vibe from Sven.

She was blushing a lot around Sven and was very very keen for him to make out with Moray (who I think she also has a thing for but it's less physical and more personality). Conclusions were drawn 😅

We basically concluded she's boob-sexual from wanting to "ride Evan like a power-loader", yeah.

I'm not sure if she would really... care? Sven has boned a lot of people xD For that matter, May doesn't know about Faye and Sven. It was a long time ago.

May was into that. If Liz isn't, it's not going to become a thing. (Especially since we're assuming Sven would sleep with Liz when I really don't think he would).

I don't think Sven is into Liz 😅

Liz deserves who she wants - we were all in her position once.

I mean, I think that self-knowledge is a big part of Faye's "oh honey"? Because she Been There, Done That, and knows what a terrible mistake it is.

Well yes, but that's how double entendres work.

He's in LEO with Station.

What was his name again? I recognize the quote from Dr. Strangelove but can't remember the character's name.

She's requesting salt, kosher is a coarser grade than table salt.

> Kosher or regular? Was that a dick joke?

Adjacent is still sideboob contact. Maybe with some subtle finger movement and a shared glance. Uh oh, this is how I start accidentally writing literotica.

I'm guessing kosher. It's uniodised, and the grain shapes have a higher surface area to volume ratio so dissolve more readily.

Except is she susceptible? That's not really what I took from it. And it seems a bit gross to tease someone about being into someone they aren't.

Six, six, and four. You have mastered what I have coined the Moiku

'lo Will... Why not say hi?

Or idolized?

I was referencing a song....

I highly doubt Marten, Faye, and Claire will let Liz make that mistake.

Liz is eminently 'oh honey'-able

Ok, see, now we've gotta see how Liz withstands... The SHEEN...

Since when do infatuation and good ideas travel together?

I bet she'd like Himalayan pink salt :)

It is not a good idea. But young socially awkward people make mistakes!

He's enjoying the experience of being stuck halfway through a brick wall. :3c

He didn't make a pass at anyone. Gremzabeth literally dragged him up to Moray and told her to make out with him.

Isn't Sven 28 and Liz 19? Is this a good idea for her? (Genuine question.)

Okay, but she'll have to answer to the Morton Salt Company!

Glad I'm not the only one lmao

Faye: "He's a fun time in my experience but you can do bet-....actually, maybe give it a shot??"

doink

You really can't blame Sven for any of this. He didn't perv on Gremzabeth or Moray

She needs electrolytes. It's what Morays crave.

That's not a nice thing to say about Will

Probably needs to remain isotonic

When some creep on their alt Says “I’d refill her salt,” That’s a Moray!

Fay and Bubbles smiles in the last panel, chefs kiss