Proportional Response

I love the abort code!!

Bill Hall

I’m picturing that Dora just hears the tail end of Hanners commands and thinks it’s because Hanners thinks no one read the newsletter and is just giving up.

Steve H

Didn't station send down pizza at one point?

Jax

I'm so bad at proofreading it took like 5 tries to find the mistake there.

Diana

Speaking structurally, would this be considered a cantilevered cliffhanger?

Mad Marie

"You have an operational code for this?"

Chloë Salzenberg

Not what happened but it wouldn't have been the first time.

Chloë Salzenberg

I prefer the end of "Doctor Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". Based off the same book.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Extra-Mushroom Pizza

That Blair Guy

I am _so_ disappointed not to find #cantilever trending on social media....

That Blair Guy

its the end, time to do porn and really rake in the Patreon dollars :D

Jere

Uh, that's great, but there's a typo there... .... .... .... [reboot universe]

Ursus Ridens

What if he was meant it?

Sadly, also true.

Drazi

@Drazi: Absolutely, and absolutely. I also recognize that not all couples are as functional as they could be. I do not feel I can safely assume they're living in matrimonial bliss until either Jeph says they are or we see it in the comic.

Some Ed

ITYM "Bubbles and (part of) Yay", as Pintsize is definitely not in his military grade chassis.

Some Ed

I can't help but feel this was already planned, and possibly even in queue.

Some Ed

Damn it, yes, I *did* mean to say "happiness is it is own rewarnd." How can you argue with that sentence? Its *perfect*!

Some Ed

Nah, Jeph did not accidentally draw her nose over her glasses in panel 4. To be clear, I'm not saying that panel 4 doesn't look like it'd be incredibly painful for Claire. I'm just saying Jeph didn't do it by mistake.

Some Ed

Didn't Tilly marry Station? I feel that nuking earth should be something couples discuss

Drazi

But does Tilly get a veto? I mean, I understand there's been some amount of reorg since they first got there. But the overall effects of that reorganization have not been clarified in any detail that I'm aware of.

Some Ed

Next strip, panel 1: profile view of Station and Earth. panel 2: same angle, barrage of weapons leaves Station on their way to Earth. panel 3: weapons seen steering clear, and blow up in space (or head for the sun). panel 4: Yay in front of the counter at Coffee of Doom, looking unamusedly at Hannelore while everyone else covers their head and has their eyes closed expecting imminent doom. Hannelore has eyes closed but is standing tall looking defiant. Panel 5: Hannelore senses Yay's gaze and opens an eye, making eye-contact with Yay. Yay asks (unamused) "the fuck you doing?"

I didn't notice that until you mentioned it. Given Claire's dialog in that box, that's got to be intentional. Clever, Jeph!

Dan Wilson

I know from experience what "duck and cover" means.

Jim Feldman

actually more like Failsafe. if you haven't seen it, you should. especially if you didn't live through the Cold War.

Joe

this is the End; my only friend, the End.

Joe

Well EMP would kill all AIs and gadgets but Bubbles and Pintsize (if he was still in his old body), military grade chassis are EMP proof or at least resistant.

Darla Donahue

The murderbots NEVER get to do anything fun. All the good stuff goes to the flashy bombardment systems and they just sit there being all smug and all..

Darla Donahue

This is how the world ends. With a bang…. 300 years from now it turns into Alice Springs.

William Karr

Please don't joke about the last QC! It's the only comic I still read daily!

Laura Curry

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

Mark

Actually the last panel for the strip should just be a flash or all white box. Sort of the opposite of the Sopranos.

Jim Feldman

Chekhov's safeword

Leak

"Cancel the nukes, drop the moon instead!"

Leak

I'm sure it's not the first time that destroying Northampton in nuclear fire has been wished for.

Marc Kevin Hall

Five years already, huh

Bagge

Wait, Andrew, are you saying that the knife is Sting?! /fuckingnerd

Marc Kevin Hall

Jeph could always do like Zdarsky and Fraction did with S*x Cr*m*n*als and jump to #6969 for the last issue, just ignoring the intervening numbers. Down with dogmatic reliance on sequential numbering!

Marc Kevin Hall

Maybe they could use Emily's device to undo the typo before the newsletter was published?

I dread to think what apocalyptic scenes this might inspire, but Claire's glasses are crossing over her nose in the penultimate panel.

Cass

We've all been there!

Ruth Merriam

See, this is what happens if you give a job your best.

William Cole

So funny! I've read it multiple times now and I'm is still laughing! Cantilever!

Liam Barksdale

I love that Dora’s TREATING it like a safeword.

KCkittysnores

I am aware, just seems there is type missing in the sentence.

YourKingMob

Electromagnetic pulse, kills electronic gadgets, like AIs

J.E. Melton

Kinetic, emp, {explosive/nuclear?} Warheads?

YourKingMob

The matrix is glitching

Mad Marie

GDI

Miyaa

Only Melon's butt

Bagge

That was the first time in weeks I’ve laughed out loud at something.

Andy

This is the only time in QC history I've been tempted to quit the strip. I almost want to stop reading just so this is the end of the story for me. Alllllmost.

Kyle Rudy

Next strip, Stations offensive systems vs Bubbles defensive systems. What of the earth will remain???

Marc Tabor

*brandishes knife* “Thank you! I hope you liked it!”

TubaGinger

Station, fortunately, is smart enough to say "Yes, ma'am" and not actually do anything until they've checked with Tilly first.

Stephen Wells

Well, it was a good run, everyone.

AlexKorobeiniki

"Daggering" isn't the same as being stabbed.

Todd Ellner

Is this a comment on the Patreon typo gang? 😅😅

Duncan

I see what you did there

Photon

But Jeph has to leave the Patreon up so we can talk about it until the end of days.

I can't help but feel we are to blame for pointing out the typo.

*RELEASE TEH VIRUS

Leak

I love happy endings...

Leak

"Sunstone: Cantilever" - what better name for it's as-yet unnamed 4th arc?

Leak

HIP HOP - High In Plasma, High On Plasma

Leak

That's reather grim...

Leak

"In the grim future of WarHanner 2k21, there is only war - and Emperor Pintsize's nude mud wrestling trials beyond Coffee of Thunderdoom..."

Leak

Included in the bombardment payload is unit designated ALICE whereas Church is deployed to intercept.

Ami

It would be pretty funny if this was the last strip. You should delay the next one by a day and watch everyone freak out.

Connor Wilson

I had to go back and read the newsletter again. I'm glad I did. It made Dora's response funnier.

MasterPenDragon

Oh for sure. I assumed someone would let him know but , you know, gently

Brian Clarke

...so I take it everyone else also noticed the typo.

Michael Chui

It's actually the password for Dora to prove that she read the newsletter! Though I suppose it could also be the password to stop an orbital bombardment?

Justin

Honestly, not the end of QC I expected but a pretty good ending all things considered

Bagge

Don't die yelling bird, we need you!

Epic post of life changing power sculpted with skill that transcends mortals and what do people get out of it? "*it's"

Nicholas A Wagner

I feel like Pintsize is Sedna , actually.

Krista Elliott

EVERYTHING IS... GETTING... BLACK...

Yelling Bird

Oh, the light from the impacts will be _quite_ brilliant, for a few milliseconds.

Richard

My issue with all of the comic today is this: THEY HAVE AN OVERRIDE CODEWORD FOR THIS. This. Situation. Happened. Before.

R L

I had to read the speech bubble three times to see the typo 🤦🏻‍♂️😅

sjlxndr

CANTILEVERRRRRRR

Carrie

Damn this would have been PERFECT for an April Fool's strip.

Yohannon

I mean....a part of me feels this is a generally reasonable response. Though another part of me has not seen NEARLY enough of the cast naked yet, so I'm hoping Station has an abort sequence.

Anthony Gaglianese

QC's version of "Rocks fall. Everyone dies."

kaitou

A nuclear mushroom cloud with visible butts debris caught in the blast

Valraven

Dora's reaction is priceless and I will cherish it forever.

Thomas Halpin

She already noticed the typo on her own, and was off to make it correct.

Valraven

The real question- will the comic end on #6969 or #69420?

Valraven

As someone who used to post stuff on the internet for a living and hated "you made a typo" comments, I am 100% on Hannelore's side here.

Daniel Whitcomb

Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...

Shawn K. Younkin

I was looking for this. You took my joke, dammit!

Chuck Dee

A bit of old Hanners resurfaced, and she brought Operation Scorched Earth with her.

Sir Pants

The pace of this comic, and all the gods willing, none. xD

WELL OF COURSE I GODDAMN LIKED IT! PROBLEM IS, I ONLY HAVE SO MUCH BLOOD...

Yelling Bird

As long as it's not an orbital space cannon

Frank Wales

RELEASE THE VIRUS

Alan Wiggs

Ah, a case of real life writes the plot.

Thisguy

RAP - Rest As Plasma

Mike O'Dell

Love it!

DonnieRamesJio

I had to read this like three times to see the typo! And I couldn't remember why Dora was saying that word so thanks - I thought it was the safe word too!

Onyx

Hanners has been involved in at least one end-of-the-world scenario before. It was set several years in the future, long after she left Northampton behind. Protip: when Hanners leaves town, look for shelter.

Michael Boettger

Perfect 👌

Onyx

Please, we all know you liked it.

GAH! HELP! I'VE BEEN STABBED!

Yelling Bird

Don't worry Hanners I had to read it like 10 times before I could find the typo

Claire isn't the first one to point out the typo.

Dean Reilly

Goddammit, I saw she had the newsletter up on her phone & I scrolled back to that comic & everything but didn't read down to the password. 😓 Thanks, more-alert-than-me readers.

Pejo

It's the codeword to prove she actually read the newsletter.

Ack

It’s the code word to prove she read the newsletter.

Christopher Wolfe

Somewhat ironic (or coincidental?) given that this is a comic about pointing out a mistake, but I believe you've accidentally drawn Claire's glasses over her nose in panel 4.

And this is how my dad earned pocket money as a small boy. Grandpa got to the point where he couldn't see the typos in his newspaper after running a proof, so he called in his kids and paid them a nickel per typo spotted.

just expected it to be a typo in code, not a local coffee shop newsletter

Ryan X

cover your tracks with a crater

red sands

this is some excellent fourth-wall breaking/fan service ;)

Chelsea

Next week: Steve makes breakfast and realizes the kitchen is open air and the roaches are radioactive. Also Melon and Yay are there.

Miyaa

ohgdthe KNIFE

Vic or Vyxter

Pretty sure it's a codeword to override the Orbital Strike

Ryan X

Oh god, you've caught butts disease too - is there no limit to it's pernicious advance!

David Durant

Might still be fun to take an unannounced break from the comic right after this goes up. :-P

Trevor Key

It's the safe word. Can't remember which comic it was but it was recent

William Davy

Cantilever alone for five minutes without her calling in an orbital strike?

Mad Marie

Why is Dora saying "cantilever"? Is that a reference?

Pejo

Also, with the time it takes for a target package to reach CoD and the elapsed time between strips, we'd get at least 5-10 more...

Kenneth

And this is why you don’t point out typos unless you have a professional obligation to do so.

Another Random User

Who many generations of character offspring are we talking about?

David Durant

Last line of newsletter

Matt Grayson

Claire why would you do this

fluffy

I freaking love that idea

David Durant

Mr. Church's first name is Pintsize. No one know's why.

Matt Grayson

nah. the last strip will jsut show a giant explosion on the side of the earth where Station destroyed the town.

Absentia

I always knew a typo would cause the end of the world 😏😂

Nuke ‘em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

Andrew

I can't argue that this wouldn't be a brilliant end... But I hope to die before the true end comes.

It went *SHUNK* in the second panel

Crushogre

I forget, what's "cantilever" a reference to?

Eric Christian Berg

Unless I'm confused, there won't be a comic tomorrow, because this is Friday's comic. So, commence with the burning.

ljdbjlasfbjk

I reject your canon and substitute my own.

Buck Caldwell

i would be incredibly sad to see the strip go but an ending like this would be so on brand i would have no choice but to salute it

David

"Electro-Magnetic Pizza"?

awgiedawgie

It's not a station safe word, it's the code word Hannelore put at the end of the newsletter so Dora could prove she read it.

And where did it go?

Summer Sudbrink

Deploying pizza bombardment

MikeT

We have to wait for 72 hours to find out, don’t we?

Mad Marie

Death of OCD, as I would expect.

Slashplane

That's just Station purging every digital copy from existence.

Elberik

Next page is just a link to Alice Grove with the caption "some time later..."

Verteiron

CANTILEVERRRRRRR

Jackie Horn

Spiders?

Andrew Mitchell

I love that Dora has a Station Safeword. Has this gun been seen on the wall before? It sounds familiar but I can't place it.

Buck Caldwell

It's Schrodinger's cliffhanger. It's both funny and not funny until we see if there's a comic tomorrow. (There better be a comic tomorrow. Or I'm burning it all down.)

What will we read now?

Matthew Van Gangelen

Okay that would be hilarious though

Skyler

I guess she got that cranial uplink to Station after all!

And that's the End. QED. Fare-thee-well. Catch you on the backside. Later days and better lays. Sayonara mon frere. Peas out. We're so done we're burnt. We are an ex-parrot.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

This would have been a good one to post on March 31st, with the April 1st comic just being a nuclear mushroom cloud.

Binkenstein

Got a ways to go before that milestone, geez

at0m

Why does she have a knife?

Tannerbot

It's definitely in her foot. She won't notice till Dora slips in the blood.

This would be super funny if it were the last comic! Glad it's not though!

Conrad

RIV (Rest In Vapour)

Simon Green

Tilly is still up there to veto this, right?

Drazi

Sooo, we're not gonna talk about where that knife ended up?

Lethan Lewis

No Jeph, it would not be funny

doorbender

You can't prove it wasn't intentional that way. 😇

Drazi

We all know this can't be the last QC, we haven't even reached #6969 yet.

Orion Rhine

It's been a good run here at QC

Joel Bateman

Its too late Dora, what has been is already been done.

Michael

The end will almost certainly involve Yelling Bird.

Max D S

Jeph covering his own mistakes by writing them in?

Kate Cole