FBSEALH

I just want to congratulate Jeph on drawing the monolith with the proper 1:4:9 proportions, or at least a reasonable approximation. I read and re-read 2001 and 2010 so many times as a kid. Love this reference.

Only if you know where your towel is.

Erin Halfelven at BigCloset

I LIKE MY COFFEE LIKE I LIKE MY BODILY ORIFICES! HOT, WET, AND WITH MY WANG IN IT!

Yelling Bird

Is there such a thing as cosmic comedy?

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Good cosmic horror never is!

I hope this is never explained

Glenn

Do you mean Europe? I assumed you mean Europa, i.e. one of the Jupiter's moons.

Jan Szejko

I like my coffee like I like my slabs: bold, black, and mmm-mmm-Mmmm!

Mad Marie

hahaha, that was a terrible, wonderful joke

AlyxHaestrom

you don't want the Black Slab to tip 50% though. The latte will slide off.

David Howe

(It's not. It's visible in 4631.)

Rich Holmes

ATTEMPT NO LATTE THERE.

Jonathan

The slab bends space-time

Likeablejerk

I thought Italy was in Europa? Why not just float there for a coffee?

Leak

You can't get Coffee of Doom just anywhere.

Stephen Wells

It came all the way from Europa for a cup of coffee.

Uncle Matt

Why does it feel like the order is a dirty chai?

Sezoxeufu

Black and rectangular, I assume.

Stephen Wells

Floating Black Slab Emitting a Lavender Halo is going to be pissed off when the orders get mixed up.

Stephen Wells

Love the wave indicating motion.

Jeffrey Anderson

Now you just made me imagine it in the shower... HOT!!1!eins

Leak

I heard slab tipping was pretty popular - now I know why...

Leak

Those vanishing points seem odd to me...

Ignacio Calvo Martínez

gotta tip good when someone FINALLY gets your order

Kyle Major

first day on the job and Claire's already rackin up the cash for the ol CoD. well done.

Absentia

counter hypothesis: it's Yay's little sibling.

Absentia

Absolutely. There's also a few that are just completely silent.

Some Ed

The invisible emu's dialog is easier to write.

Some Ed

FBSEALH finally got their drink. It's extra important to tip well when you can't otherwise communicate and the barista actually got your drink order mostly right.

Some Ed

Hypothesis: this is actually Yaaay's true form

Temperjoke

Lil' Monolith knows that the best way to promote humanity's evolution is to tip generously.

Thomas A. Dennis

Had to do sumpin cool for Claire's first day

I don't know what Hannelore complain about. It's their most hygienic customer yet.

Bagge

So, it's a Shame Orb's younger cousin, Slab of Slight Confusion. I wonder what their whole family tree looks like.

Evgeniy Semyonov

The Librarian would demand a banana smoothie here. Made with the hammer.

Joseph Bonnar

Digital Entities can't be in non-binary relationships unless they use analog computation substrates.

Captain Button

Ok but why do they qualify it as "the black slab emitting a low hum?" Are there other colored slabs? Slabs that emit other sounds?

Give it to us straight, Jeph. One month from now they'll be in a non-binary relationship with Pintsize. We know where you're headed.

VIVAT GRENDEL!

Yelling Bird

It’s picking it up for Emily. They’re working on a project together at Smif.

Populuxe

Did Hanners summon the FBSEALH by drawing it on the 'Be Nice To A Robot Today' flyer?

Dean Reilly

The speared sheet is the one that Hanners dropped the knife onto last week.

Dean Reilly

the MMMMMMM is satisfaction.

Sleepy John

Is this the first time we've seen the actual price for good advice, and it's of course?

Rich Holmes

Also easiest character to write dialog for

Rich Holmes

I like how claire thought to perch it on top of the monolith!

Kriss Pang

Couldn't it just have an NFC interface like my credit card? Or even Venmo? I can believe the cash register responds to an incoming Venmo.

Ross

Yelling Bird! Are you trapped inside that floating censor bar that just bought coffee?

Mad Marie

Did it just teleport cash into the till or did it do an wireless thing? One would be odd, the other would terrify even Yay.

Verteiron

The next candidate for "easiest character to draw" is "Invisible NB Pansexual" who is really self conscious about it so they proactively warn people out loud when they're nearby.

Thomas Halpin

In the year 2525 if Jeph is still alive, if AI can survive, they may fiiiiiind, everyone is a floating slab. The end.

doorbender

Also sprach Zarathustra, just sayin'

Chris Heg

In the first three dimensions, anyway…

Matt Grayson

MMMMM, it’s like “Ook” but for black slabs instead of Orangutan librarians

I'll have a guess at Pintsize Classic

Frank Wales

Floating Black Slab Emitting A Low Hum (FBSEALM). Not sure where the M comes from tho, I guess cause all it says is MMMMMMMMM

so, is this the first QC character to have an actual action figure? https://www.amazon.com/Toynk-Science-Fiction-Collectible-Monolith/dp/B01MEETRTD

Kurt Roithinger

OOOoooooOOOOoooo! I AM THE GHOST OF YELLING BIRD!

Yelling Bird

I appreciate that the floating black slab appears to be proportioned as 1:4:9, as is proper for floating black slabs. An easy detail to mess up!

Paul Zagieboylo

Slabbie is my new favorite character

rThunderbolt

So... who was the PREVIOUS easiest character to draw?

Rob Vary

Maybe the hum is just the only part of Slab's communications that human ears can percieve?

Captain Button

Love how Dora gets to what's important - Floating Black Slab emitting a low hum that tips well.

Shawn K. Younkin

ba-dum-tish.

Joseph Houk

I have a new favorite character

Lana Del Prey

Very good tipper.

Edward Clayton Andrews

Oops, that was Gary.

Captain Button

This is Yay's dad

Smazzie

Now I wanna see Hanner's speardsheet *(spreadsheet)

Stephen Brown

Shaped like that, of course it will tip well.

Paracog Steadham

This was an odd diversion

Sean Kau

Is he trying to impress his boss, like Gordon?

Captain Button

Um, what exactly will they be doing with their latte?

Michael Boettger

Claire is the cutest and must be protected at all cost

Chauncey

Jeph entered his cubist phase in 2021, comic historians later note.

Max D S

Further evidence of sentience: recognition of human social norms.

Michael Boettger

Jeph.

Miyaa

All hail Slab, new star character of the comic! 🙇‍♂️

Zig Justice

Lol what even is going on

Trans4Life2021

Comic title is FBSEALM?

Cody Renton