Classic Claireface

He WAS open to moving! So that worked out xD (Also yesssss Doratai proposal)

enchantedsleeper

Venus de Milo, A Farewell to Arms, etc

Thomas A. Dennis

Tried to rescue Moray-42069 from the orca. Or vice versa.

Stephen Wells

"Bitten off by a giant squid." "I'm the reason escalators have been banned in most of North America." "Honey badger pen at the zoo. They really need to make stronger railings around those things, you know?" "Born without them; these are prototypes." (my bet for the real explanation.) "You know how they tell you not to try to open elevator doors as they're closing? This is why." "Sharktopus." "Combine harvester; I was four years old and I wanted to see how it worked." "I used to bite my nails." "Well, how did YOU afford to get your doctorate? Sold 'em on the black market, of course."

YsabetJustYsabet

I hope she gives everyone that asks a different explanation.

Brian

oh neat

Brian

Darker beers are just light beers that pretend to be goth,.

Brian Lort

And the very next one is another of my favorite moments.

Clifton Royston

Omg I remeber this!! Wild.

DaddyUmbreon

I GUESS!

DaddyUmbreon

^three of a kind beats two pair

Mad Marie

^slow clap

Mad Marie

I kind of hope we never actually find out how the arms happened.

Merle Blue

Also, darker beers are bitter beers.

Merle Blue

She has two pair. She charges one set while wearing the other.

Carl Fink

And that's how she lost an eye...

PixelThis

just for historical perspective, this is the early days of Marten realizing Clare's work might take her elsewhere! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3978

jimbo

^ Now that they have robot limbs, maybe someone can fix what was cut off in its prime?

Mad Marie

They’re on the ocean; the salt air causes things to oxidize quickly.

Mad Marie

“bzzt!”

Mad Marie

“…and that’s how he lost the other hand!”

Mad Marie

And what happened next will shock us...

Sean Kinlin

She's gonna get that joke entered into the Archives at CubeTown and Clinton is gonna stab her in retaliation.

Elberik

I'm busy counting the number of people Claire *hasn't* told this amusing story to, because it saves time.

ValdVin

Darker beers are better beers. :)

Chris Warren

Oh we of little faith. We should never have doubted you

Stephen Wells

Did they all switch to darker beers or was the swap to something non alcoholic successful?

Zak Reichle

"first one on" isn't really an issue. think Addams Family's Thing.

Joe

“Doctors in Cubetown are furious over this one weird trick…”

Mad Marie

Wristwatches that are really mostly batteries. Or shoulder pads, if those are still a thing for women's clothes.

Captain Button

Good thing there’s nothing she’d sell her arm for.

Andrea Andrew

She really loves to give a hand to people.

Andrea Andrew

Now I want to se her swap left for right and go play the piano in the corner.

Sleepy John

Would have been when I couldn't get the arm to detach if it was me

Zak Reichle

They'd likely have to be special-ordered/custom-made, since that's probably not a standard retail option, but I can't think of a technical reason why not. She should probably think seriously about the pros and cons of such a modification, though. While there are obvious upsides: reaching significantly higher and further than her height would normally permit, retrieving items from the floor or low shelves without crouching or bending over, and, with practice, probably even running significantly faster in the semi-quadrupedal fashion of most apes and monkeys; there are bound to be drawbacks, too: performing almost any task of manual labor or dexterity will, at minimum, require readjustment thanks to needing to either be done farther from her body or with her arms bent into new and potentially awkward positions. Just imagine having to type on a keyboard with your hands held sideways - or having to magnify all the text and images by 30% to see what you're doing clearly, because now you have to sit a yard farther away. Far better, I should think, to upgrade her arms to extend, rather than being twice as long as normal all the time (plus, get a pair of leg replacements with the same feature!). Stilt Man may be a lame super-villain in Marvel Comics, but that's only because he's trying to go up against Spider-Man and The Hulk!

Taellosse

The practical way'd be bracelets or gloves with some sort of power receiver in them. Either that or a really biiiiiiig charger-pad under the sheets. (Ooh, now *why* don't AIs have large charger-pads that you can slide inside furniture cushions, pillows, etc.? Even plug-in ones'd be practical. "S'cuse me, gotta go plug in the guest futon...") Or, of course, Egrizzlabeth could charge alternate arms each night.

YsabetJustYsabet

Given we've seen several of the AIs needing to recharge every day, I wonder how Grimlizabeth does that same for her arms. Having them plugged in while sleeping would surely just end up in a mess of wrapped cables - but taking them both off to charge gets us into the how-do-you-put-the-first-one-on issue.

David Durant

Like Firefly, Owl House will live on in quotes long after it was cut off in its prime.

David Durant

So that

Bagge

She was easily disarmed.

Wayne Farmer

"Typical. You start detaching body parts on a Disney show and everybody wants to get in on it." Edalyn Clawthorne

Daniel Drazen

Then it’s probably good that Faye and Bubbles chose not to become arms dealers.

BagFullOfLizards

Faye and Bubbles better get the referral.

Doc Gumby

GDI!

Leak

Two years in a damp cellar with no arms maintenance? *sigh*

Ruth Merriam

claire-face dot jpeg

Miyaa

Turns out the arms race is real!

Daniel S

Come to think of it, this and that third-arm lady back in Northampton mean there must be an international arms trade in the QC world.

Captain Button

Mad Marie has spoken, this is the highest point this comment section can reach, it may as well end now.

Comics Ladybird

Totally called it!!!! Wooohoooo! (throws both arms up in the air and they promptly pop off)

Mad Marie

Panel two is really beautiful, Jeph. There’s a quiet confidence and dignity to it.

Mad Marie

So could she attach arms which are twice as long?

Somebody Else

Claire, it isn't funny if he isn't here to loudly object.

Daryl Sawyer

This is a banger. Thanks Jeph.

Ian Alexander

Wait what if she had that focused dysmorphic disorder about her arms, there was a famous (well internet famous) website by a woman who had this and she planned to have her arms removed in an "accident" and replaced with steel protheses.

SpookyPenguin

Man, I am NOT excited by the prospect of robot arms. I like my fleshsticks where they are.

darklion

"A Farewell To Arms 2: <i>Hello Cyborg Parts</i>"

Leak

I love that Claire tells that same joke to every new person she meets when she can.

John Seiler

I'm wondering if the arms have bluetooth or other wireless connection. As in, can Liz make the arm move while Marten is holding it?

Sean Kinlin

Oh oh no

Miyaa

CALLED IT!

Hey, fun fact! A person with one or more artificial limbs has less alcohol tolerance than a person of similar size with all natural limbs. Lower blood volume means each drink hits harder!

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Looking back, the arms do not appear to be a recent development, she likely had them before coming to Cubetown. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4984

Brent Ward

Ok, either masturbation can't do that, or I'm Superman.

Yelling Bird

Ok, that answers one question...but raises so many more.

Ben French

Why? Why does she have robot arms? Was it due to an accident? Was it a choice? Enquiring minds HAVE to know.

Andrew Mitchell

Claire is so stoked to lie to these people

chili sunrise

I wonder if they're interchangeable... Depending on the connector orientation, that would either make the hands backwards or the elbows would bend the wrong way (easier for scratching your back I would imagine).

kaitou

She seems a bit concerned about the possibility.

Chris Crowther

Turns out Marten has a very…disarming personality.

Daniel S

Notice how the rest of the pub looked to see what was happening and then went back to their drinks. "Oh, never mind. Just somebody taking their arms off. Say, that reminds me of a story..."

Tony Granziol

This is like the second or third time Claire has told someone that and they finally believed her.

Nicholas Lopez

Frak. I had not noticed the seams before

TheCaptainTrout

With hot-swappable arms, I wonder if she can connect alternate manipulators.

Nutjob

So wait, is she going to grow up to be The Major in Ghost In The Shell? (Who had a traumatic childhood event when her cyborg hand crushed her doll.)

Captain Button

Ow 🤕

Zak Reichle

So she's already smol for 19, and has at least two artificial limbs which means she's gotta be a major lightweight at the bar.

Tim Eldred

Oh God imagine getting your hair caught in your arm seems tho

Fart Captor

Might explain why she's reluctant to talk to her folks if the arms are a recent development; kinda the tattoo reveal times 5. "Mom, Dad. I have something to tell you." Mom: "OH, God. You're pregnant." "What? No!" Dad: "You got a dumb tattoo, didn't you?" "NO! I have artificial arms!" Mom: "Oh go...wait. WHAT?!"

Joshua Brumley