jephjacques - Illegal Gambling

ONE. HUNDRED. PINTZZAIZES.

legobil

2024-08-09 11:06:01 +0000 UTC

And yet I was not even surprised,.....

Darnel D Cooper

2024-08-07 09:51:14 +0000 UTC

I really don’t think it’s fair to put the the visions the AI seem to get from sniffing tea next to hallucinations a human gets from LSD.

legobil

2024-08-07 05:43:38 +0000 UTC

Heeeellllooooo square speech bubbles! Totally an AI.

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-07 01:40:07 +0000 UTC

Actually I'm pretty sure the partial line in panel 2 is her collarbone. It is visible separately from the neck seam in panel 3.

BookBeard

2024-08-07 01:32:13 +0000 UTC

If you enlarge the comic, you can see portions of the seam, but it's not continuous in that frame.

alphanor

2024-08-07 01:27:19 +0000 UTC

Presumably Sam is still operating out of their shop, although the last time we saw her doing a spray was before the time skip, so at least a few months in-universe. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4702

BookBeard

2024-08-07 01:02:47 +0000 UTC

No, it's not just you. I'm splitting the difference and figuring she's an AI.

ValdVin

2024-08-07 00:57:19 +0000 UTC

Samantha Beam (Marten's sort of step sister) does sprays (drawings with markers on the robots) using Faye and Bubbles' shop as her base.

alphanor

2024-08-07 00:23:49 +0000 UTC

There iiis a greater than 0 chance we get to keep one.

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-07 00:14:44 +0000 UTC

@Joe I yes there are 'visions' but the AIs sniffing tea for that experience all have their eyes closed and the visions are in their head. @legobil is correct and saying there are less side effects. Muuuuuch less. Trust me.

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-07 00:10:04 +0000 UTC

How is that similar to ordering 100 pizzas to a club

Green

2024-08-07 00:05:00 +0000 UTC

that's not hard. just get a dui.

Joe

2024-08-06 23:11:41 +0000 UTC

@legobil I seem to recall hallucinations at one point. @bookbeard any help??

Joe

2024-08-06 23:03:59 +0000 UTC

Is it just me or is the security lady missing her neck seam in panel 2? (It's there in panels 1 and 3.)

Lucas Werkmeister

2024-08-06 22:45:18 +0000 UTC

Does anyone remember when in the story Faye and Friend had a little girl who would tattoo at their shop? This is a long time ago, but I fell off then.

Gino Arizmendi

2024-08-06 21:39:54 +0000 UTC

Emmett will inexplicably appear in this scene; I’m calling it.

will davison

2024-08-06 16:54:13 +0000 UTC

I think she looks like what would happen if Dora and Tall May had a kid.

William Cole

2024-08-06 16:27:08 +0000 UTC

Also consider Evanescent Incinerator

Hugh Eckert

2024-08-06 16:16:28 +0000 UTC

Once I had a "Bagel and lox" pizza. Served cold. Weird.

Hugh Eckert

2024-08-06 16:14:21 +0000 UTC

Always want pizza, enchantedsleeper.

allanfranta

2024-08-06 13:35:18 +0000 UTC

Seriously, no one is really prepared to be a dad. Try as you might, the little ones will stump and surprise you.

allanfranta

2024-08-06 13:32:17 +0000 UTC

It thought that she _was_ Even at first glance.

Mark

2024-08-06 12:33:59 +0000 UTC

I assume their R&D group should have added re-entry parachutes by now: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3048

David Paul

2024-08-06 11:20:03 +0000 UTC

Is Strong Security Lady a crechemate of Evan? :)

Stephen Wells

2024-08-06 10:29:08 +0000 UTC

Well, less side effect. I think.

legobil

2024-08-06 09:46:20 +0000 UTC

TBF, it's like a cross between a beer and a tab of LSD for her

James Anthony

2024-08-06 08:35:27 +0000 UTC

I think it would be more interesting for Pintsize to have a character arc that's not tied to whatever Marten is doing. He has a life in Northampton, so I don't think he really wants to move.

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-06 08:22:06 +0000 UTC

I want pizza now...

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-06 08:18:36 +0000 UTC

Opposites attract, ergo Liz should bang Evie (and/or Moray). But Liz and Pintsize can be friends xD

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-06 08:15:11 +0000 UTC

Oh good, another hot character to fawn over. (Security guard)

Huw Morgan

2024-08-06 07:36:40 +0000 UTC

Board him up!

Bagge

2024-08-06 06:49:36 +0000 UTC

I love that Bubbles continue to wander the club with a cup of tea.

legobil

2024-08-06 06:40:37 +0000 UTC

Oh dear, I had forgotten about that. Though if that had been the case I’m pretty sure the building would have structural damage

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-06 06:24:15 +0000 UTC

Was it orbital pizza delivery?

Leak

2024-08-06 05:21:36 +0000 UTC

So is Pintsize, right here...

Leak

2024-08-06 05:21:02 +0000 UTC

Yeah, Boston pizza is an overpriced sit down chain, it's not really the kind of place people usually get takeout pizza from. Honestly I don't see most people get pizza there at all, funny enough.

Matthew Delahaye

2024-08-06 04:49:22 +0000 UTC

oh man, what would pizza smell be like for an AI? heaven, I assume heaven. ~<3

Mitsuki Ayane

2024-08-06 04:36:46 +0000 UTC

It's a shame Liz & Pintsize don't seem very interested in each other. They have a lot in common, starting with their effect on security personnel.

William Cole

2024-08-06 04:33:45 +0000 UTC

@Sarah Valentine Thanks for putting that so nicely, I think that sums up how most of us feel. I've got a pretty good memory, but I'm still awed by Bookbeard.

Clifton Royston

2024-08-06 03:52:28 +0000 UTC

I’m either getting angry robot lady, or I’m getting Crushbot. Either way, they’ll probably break something. AIs, even ones with a human standard chassis, are significantly heavier than a human of similar size.

Chauncey

2024-08-06 03:51:42 +0000 UTC

These background characters are all much too cute I wanna keep them

Fart Captor

2024-08-06 03:50:13 +0000 UTC

You would do well to be very specific about which security you want to step on you.

Clifton Royston

2024-08-06 03:47:16 +0000 UTC

Does not look like Pizza Girl to me, more like the LaLeLuLeLo fairy person as a not fairy. Also I don't believe that to be a neck seam in panel one, but rather an undershirt of some kind that just dissappears in panel three because they aren't anyone and it wasn't important to get the shirt just right. They will reappear 10 strips from now as a new character.

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-06 03:46:02 +0000 UTC

@BookBeard A natural born talent

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-06 03:37:05 +0000 UTC

@BookBeard OMG bookmarks! duh, why do I rely upon my memory? I could even tag my bookmarks! This changes everything! I was going to write some database software for fun but why reinvent the wheel here. Also The books are great for the first half of the comics. (Hint hint Jeph print another 6 books and take my money already!) You can skim through the books really quick to find something.

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-06 03:34:52 +0000 UTC

Thanks! I enjoyed replaying that portion of the comic. I kept hitting next... <3

Joseph McGrath

2024-08-06 03:28:53 +0000 UTC

Hmm. Moray could go around telling people she's the FSM. She doesn't look noodly, but people will make their assumptions about what it stands for.

Sean Kinlin

2024-08-06 03:16:20 +0000 UTC

So that's why they're so upset; they had 32767 pizzas taken from them.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-08-06 03:03:06 +0000 UTC

Wow, Claire had really long hair back then.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-08-06 03:00:53 +0000 UTC

Poor Marten wasn't necessarily prepared to be a dad, but he's become a dad.

Maurice Kessler

2024-08-06 02:59:37 +0000 UTC

Because some people can resist being goblins? It usually has better results anyway.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-08-06 02:54:30 +0000 UTC

I have no choice but to assume he did something similar to get himself banned from Canada

Green

2024-08-06 02:51:09 +0000 UTC

It caused a lot of confusion because "Prince Albert in a Can" is one of the most popular imported beers at the bar.

BookBeard

2024-08-06 02:43:00 +0000 UTC

Can security step on me? For scientific reasons, of course 🥵

Chauncey

2024-08-06 02:40:49 +0000 UTC

Oh dear, I had forgotten about that. Though if that had been the case I’m pretty sure the building would have structural damage

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-06 02:36:11 +0000 UTC

There is no such thing as too much pizza.

Yelling Bird

2024-08-06 02:35:16 +0000 UTC

The bet was that he couldn't resist the urge to order 100 pizzas to be delivered to the club

Zig Justice

2024-08-06 02:34:59 +0000 UTC

That is a brilliant pickup BookBeard!

Kurist Zero

2024-08-06 02:34:22 +0000 UTC

Not really. I use the wiki a bit and I've got a few bookmark folders of major events, particular favorites, etc. but other than that I'm just working from memory.

BookBeard

2024-08-06 02:31:20 +0000 UTC

The problem isn't that he ordered the pizzas, it's how he ordered them. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3047

BookBeard

2024-08-06 02:24:39 +0000 UTC

Plot twist: he lost the bet to Yay.

Populuxe

2024-08-06 02:23:33 +0000 UTC

That seems unlikely but the security person might've meant 0x100 pizzas

Alex Burka

2024-08-06 02:13:54 +0000 UTC

Do you have any tricks for searching through the archive? I know there's a wiki with transcripts of early comics but it dropped off IIRC

Alex Burka

2024-08-06 02:12:12 +0000 UTC

Pintsize is not allowed in Canada. He would be turned back at the border

Grace Kieser

2024-08-06 02:10:41 +0000 UTC

Perhaps it's a robotic Pizza Girl decoy that Penelope created to throw people off the scent of her secret identity.

BookBeard

2024-08-06 02:07:31 +0000 UTC

How is anyone in that club doing anything but going “awooga” (like Tex Avery’s wolf) at Bubbles?

Melissa Wilson

2024-08-06 02:06:55 +0000 UTC

My pleasure

BookBeard

2024-08-06 02:05:32 +0000 UTC

Well no that makes it much easier. We’ve seen what robots do with sustenance they can’t consume. They don’t make a huge mess of it (well, melon and punchbot do, but they’re perfect). I figure they’d confirm the bet was completed and then throw them away or give them away.

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-06 02:04:29 +0000 UTC

Not even Hutt the Pizza?

Andrea Andrew

2024-08-06 02:02:38 +0000 UTC

100 pizzas would have been overkill for a human-oriented club, this one is for robots; even if it’s not exclusive, most of the patrons aren’t going to have a digestive tract. I guess they could donate them to the homeless?

Hakurei06

2024-08-06 02:02:25 +0000 UTC

Or maybe, Pizza Girl has been an AI all along and she's just good at hiding the neck seam while in costume! ...Probably what you said, though :p

Sarah Valentine

2024-08-06 02:00:59 +0000 UTC

Moray reports on her trip to the Director and he decides that Pintsize is a perfect recruit for the wacky hijinks research group. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4968

BookBeard

2024-08-06 02:00:27 +0000 UTC

No. He called out at the club to get a Prince Albert out of HIS can. In the middle of the dance floor

Todd Ellner

2024-08-06 02:00:08 +0000 UTC

Completely unrelated, but I wanted to thank you for the old comic references that you put in so many of these comment sections (and I can't remember if I've done before). The jokes you include with them are great, but also it helps me remember the comic better since it's been going so long and my memory is so shite. One of these days I'll do a full re-read, but until then, it's nice to have a link here or there that reminds me of some goofy/relevant moment from the past of one of my favorite webcomics. So thank you for refreshing the memories <3 (Sorry if this is a bit sappy and outta nowhere, just kinda in that mood tonight)

Sarah Valentine

2024-08-06 01:59:12 +0000 UTC

Not the worst way to do it, honestly, and it’d be interesting to see pintsize get something approaching a character arc. Yes, him getting a body was a huge change, but it wasn’t necessarily an arc. More like the initial earthquake that sets up a later rockslide.

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-06 01:57:03 +0000 UTC

Good to know not to order from Boston Pizza the next time I’m in Canada.

Miyaa

2024-08-06 01:56:23 +0000 UTC

It’ll be something like raw salmon and bay leaf, which my uncle on my mom’s side – her twin brother – ordered for the family the first day of our three month trip to Thailand, where my mom is from.

Miyaa

2024-08-06 01:55:37 +0000 UTC

I mean… as long as he paid for them, then he hasn’t really done anything wrong, I suppose. I completely understand why the club would be upset, though. That is quite a random event to have to deal with.

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-06 01:55:08 +0000 UTC

I think this is more likely is just Pintsize being Pintsize.

Miyaa

2024-08-06 01:54:01 +0000 UTC

Nobody out-pizzas the butt

Eric Fisher

2024-08-06 01:50:36 +0000 UTC

Anyone else wonder if Pintsize getting his flirt on so hard is Jeph’s way of getting him to move with Marten?

Ron Hamann

2024-08-06 01:47:37 +0000 UTC

You think he's got enough Canadian Tire money to buy a hundred pizzas?

ValdVin

2024-08-06 01:46:17 +0000 UTC

I'd bet there's lots of gamboling in that club, depending on what the DJ's playing.

BobC

2024-08-06 01:45:21 +0000 UTC

As consequences from losing a bet go, Bubbles has seen far worse. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4698

BookBeard

2024-08-06 01:40:14 +0000 UTC

Ok, what do we think the toppings were on these pizzas? I'm gonna open with anchovies, pineapple and green olives.

Matthew Delahaye

2024-08-06 01:39:37 +0000 UTC

I mean, actually ordering pizza from Boston Pizza would be bizarre enough behaviour that I would 100% believe it of Pintsize.

Matthew Delahaye

2024-08-06 01:37:38 +0000 UTC

Looks like word of Dora's tea has spread

Skye

2024-08-06 01:37:06 +0000 UTC

I love Bubbles' teacup and saucer.

Dean Reilly

2024-08-06 01:34:35 +0000 UTC

If you look closely it looks like there's a seam at her neck, probably someone else and an ai

Diane

2024-08-06 01:33:51 +0000 UTC

Are we sure it wasn't 32768 pizzas?

Bob Kuykendall

2024-08-06 01:32:13 +0000 UTC

Is that pizza girl?

Mr. Ifrit

2024-08-06 01:30:38 +0000 UTC

Ooh, I bet he didn’t go with Boston Pizza or Pizza 99 and THAT’S why he’s banned in Canada.

Miyaa

2024-08-06 01:28:34 +0000 UTC

Just don't lose bets. Skill issue

Logan Nix

2024-08-06 01:27:56 +0000 UTC

Eh, he's been more benign. Yesterday he called the club and told them to let Prince Albert out of the can.

ValdVin

2024-08-06 01:27:43 +0000 UTC

You haven't seen the description of the pizzas yet.

Rich Holmes

2024-08-06 01:27:36 +0000 UTC

Dude is a menace, no matter where he goes.

Tannerbot

2024-08-06 01:27:27 +0000 UTC

Sorry, security lady, Elliot is taken.

Matt Grayson

2024-08-06 01:27:17 +0000 UTC

Depends on who had to pay for it. His cake shenanigans were messy but cheap.

Bill Silvia

2024-08-06 01:26:56 +0000 UTC

Well... we know he's good for it.

Jose Alfredo Villalobos

2024-08-06 01:26:54 +0000 UTC

Pintsize is in trouble. Nature is healing.

Mika Ears

2024-08-06 01:26:30 +0000 UTC

Honestly, of all the reasons Pintsize could get barred from a club, I'm actually quite impressed that it's this benign. Could've been worse.

Scarlet Shepard

2024-08-06 01:24:29 +0000 UTC

It was only a matter of time.

Doc Gumby

2024-08-06 01:23:12 +0000 UTC

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Comments

ONE. HUNDRED. PINTZZAIZES.

And yet I was not even surprised,.....

I really don’t think it’s fair to put the the visions the AI seem to get from sniffing tea next to hallucinations a human gets from LSD.

Heeeellllooooo square speech bubbles! Totally an AI.

Actually I'm pretty sure the partial line in panel 2 is her collarbone. It is visible separately from the neck seam in panel 3.

If you enlarge the comic, you can see portions of the seam, but it's not continuous in that frame.

Presumably Sam is still operating out of their shop, although the last time we saw her doing a spray was before the time skip, so at least a few months in-universe. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4702

No, it's not just you. I'm splitting the difference and figuring she's an AI.

Samantha Beam (Marten's sort of step sister) does sprays (drawings with markers on the robots) using Faye and Bubbles' shop as her base.

There iiis a greater than 0 chance we get to keep one.

@Joe I yes there are 'visions' but the AIs sniffing tea for that experience all have their eyes closed and the visions are in their head. @legobil is correct and saying there are less side effects. Muuuuuch less. Trust me.

How is that similar to ordering 100 pizzas to a club

that's not hard. just get a dui.

@legobil I seem to recall hallucinations at one point. @bookbeard any help??

Is it just me or is the security lady missing her neck seam in panel 2? (It's there in panels 1 and 3.)

Does anyone remember when in the story Faye and Friend had a little girl who would tattoo at their shop? This is a long time ago, but I fell off then.

Emmett will inexplicably appear in this scene; I’m calling it.

I think she looks like what would happen if Dora and Tall May had a kid.

Also consider Evanescent Incinerator

Once I had a "Bagel and lox" pizza. Served cold. Weird.

Always want pizza, enchantedsleeper.

Seriously, no one is really prepared to be a dad. Try as you might, the little ones will stump and surprise you.

It thought that she _was_ Even at first glance.

I assume their R&D group should have added re-entry parachutes by now: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3048

Is Strong Security Lady a crechemate of Evan? :)

Well, less side effect. I think.

TBF, it's like a cross between a beer and a tab of LSD for her

I think it would be more interesting for Pintsize to have a character arc that's not tied to whatever Marten is doing. He has a life in Northampton, so I don't think he really wants to move.

I want pizza now...

Opposites attract, ergo Liz should bang Evie (and/or Moray). But Liz and Pintsize can be friends xD

Oh good, another hot character to fawn over. (Security guard)

Board him up!

I love that Bubbles continue to wander the club with a cup of tea.

Oh dear, I had forgotten about that. Though if that had been the case I’m pretty sure the building would have structural damage

Was it orbital pizza delivery?

So is Pintsize, right here...

Yeah, Boston pizza is an overpriced sit down chain, it's not really the kind of place people usually get takeout pizza from. Honestly I don't see most people get pizza there at all, funny enough.

oh man, what would pizza smell be like for an AI? heaven, I assume heaven. ~<3

It's a shame Liz & Pintsize don't seem very interested in each other. They have a lot in common, starting with their effect on security personnel.

@Sarah Valentine Thanks for putting that so nicely, I think that sums up how most of us feel. I've got a pretty good memory, but I'm still awed by Bookbeard.

I’m either getting angry robot lady, or I’m getting Crushbot. Either way, they’ll probably break something. AIs, even ones with a human standard chassis, are significantly heavier than a human of similar size.

These background characters are all much too cute I wanna keep them

You would do well to be very specific about *which* security you want to step on you.

@BookBeard A natural born talent

Thanks! I enjoyed replaying that portion of the comic. I kept hitting next... <3

Hmm. Moray could go around telling people she's the FSM. She doesn't look noodly, but people will make their assumptions about what it stands for.

So that's why they're so upset; they had 32767 pizzas taken from them.

Wow, Claire had really long hair back then.

Poor Marten wasn't necessarily prepared to be a dad, but he's become a dad.

Because some people can resist being goblins? It usually has better results anyway.

I have no choice but to assume he did something similar to get himself banned from Canada

It caused a lot of confusion because "Prince Albert in a Can" is one of the most popular imported beers at the bar.

Can security step on me? For scientific reasons, of course 🥵

Oh dear, I had forgotten about that. Though if that had been the case I’m pretty sure the building would have structural damage

There is no such thing as too much pizza.

The bet was that he couldn't resist the urge to order 100 pizzas to be delivered to the club

That is a brilliant pickup BookBeard!

Not really. I use the wiki a bit and I've got a few bookmark folders of major events, particular favorites, etc. but other than that I'm just working from memory.

The problem isn't that he ordered the pizzas, it's *how* he ordered them. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3047

Plot twist: he lost the bet to Yay.

That seems unlikely but the security person might've meant 0x100 pizzas

Do you have any tricks for searching through the archive? I know there's a wiki with transcripts of early comics but it dropped off IIRC

Pintsize is not allowed in Canada. He would be turned back at the border

Perhaps it's a robotic Pizza Girl decoy that Penelope created to throw people off the scent of her secret identity.

How is anyone in that club doing anything but going “awooga” (like Tex Avery’s wolf) at Bubbles?

My pleasure

Well no that makes it much easier. We’ve seen what robots do with sustenance they can’t consume. They don’t make a huge mess of it (well, melon and punchbot do, but they’re perfect). I figure they’d confirm the bet was completed and then throw them away or give them away.

Not even Hutt the Pizza?

100 pizzas would have been overkill for a human-oriented club, this one is for robots; even if it’s not exclusive, *most* of the patrons aren’t going to have a digestive tract. I guess they could donate them to the homeless?

Or maybe, Pizza Girl has been an AI all along and she's just good at hiding the neck seam while in costume! ...Probably what you said, though :p

Moray reports on her trip to the Director and he decides that Pintsize is a perfect recruit for the wacky hijinks research group. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4968

No. He called out at the club to get a Prince Albert out of HIS can. In the middle of the dance floor

Not the worst way to do it, honestly, and it’d be interesting to see pintsize get something approaching a character arc. Yes, him getting a body was a huge change, but it wasn’t necessarily an arc. More like the initial earthquake that sets up a later rockslide.

Good to know not to order from Boston Pizza the next time I’m in Canada.

It’ll be something like raw salmon and bay leaf, which my uncle on my mom’s side – her twin brother – ordered for the family the first day of our three month trip to Thailand, where my mom is from.

I mean… as long as he paid for them, then he hasn’t really done anything wrong, I suppose. I completely understand why the club would be upset, though. That is quite a random event to have to deal with.

I think this is more likely is just Pintsize being Pintsize.

Nobody out-pizzas the butt

You would do well to be very specific about which security you want to step on you.

The problem isn't that he ordered the pizzas, it's how he ordered them. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3047

100 pizzas would have been overkill for a human-oriented club, this one is for robots; even if it’s not exclusive, most of the patrons aren’t going to have a digestive tract. I guess they could donate them to the homeless?