Beneath The Surface

he wants to try kneading elliots buns.

Kate Cole

😳 is it getting warm in here?

I immediately thought of *that* scene in Ghost except instead of clay it’s dough

RadiusUlna

*cough*

Brian

Time for everyone to put on old-timey costumes!

David Durant

LOLFOREVER

Nicolas Demers

She kinda does, actually: https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-cat-48560049 Though she seems unaware of the subtext-flirtstorm right under her nose. Obliviousness runs in that family!

Photon

The innuendo and double entendres flying. I can just imagine Clinton's mom "Check out those buns, nice and soft." LOL

Kuragari

she's probably right though

THAT'S MY SHTICK!

Yelling Bird

By the way, Jeph: thanks for mentioning baking on the pi day comic!

Mad Marie

Next week, on QC: Aurelia falls asleep during a Great British Baking Show marathon and has a vivid fantasy about a threesome with Mel Giedroic and Sue Perkins. The whole affair is judged in three rounds by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

Mad Marie

What is “The Holy Trinity?” Alex, I’ll take “Bread Metaphors” for 400.

Mad Marie

Yeah, mom has NO idea how deep into trashy romance/porn she's stepping here....

Dave Van Domelen

Episode 1, "Raising Dough", coming soon on OVENhub.

David Pipes

XD

Allison Hastings

Pretty sure I've seen this porn.

DVW

Practically choked to death on my lunchtime sandwich :-D

David Durant

"Are you trying to leaven me, Ms Ausgustus?"

Valraven

ngl i just spit out the noodles i was eating xD

or possibly sexuellererregung (sorry if that doesn't make sense...)

Mark

Roko would be very interested by the bread-based possibilities! TBH, I'm not sure how that would work in practice, but I'm not one to kink-shame.

Mark

BAKA

Bagge

W-what are you doing step-baker?

Karl Åström

Also, Clinton needs to make it clear that he has dibs

Carin Maja Brooks

Oblivious mom, trying to flirt with the object of her son’s desire!

Bruce Steinberg

MAXIMUM Awkwardness, Here We Come! 🚀

Bruce Steinberg

Guys, just *tell her*, okay? The longer you put this off, the more embarrassing and potentially damaging this will get.

Ben Russell-Gough

I HEARD YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT BREAD

Nulgar

AND THEN THEY ALL BAKED!!

Covox

Aurelia does her best baking at 3am.

Andrew

CLINTON! That was surprisingly suave.

Bagge

L

Mark Johnson

Plenty of practice, putting buns in ovens of different shapes and sizes...

MiaKitty

ah yes, the oblivious mom, unaware of her children's attempts at flirting. a classic. also, somewhere in a library, Claire's shipping senses are going haywire.

Absentia

Somewhere Roko feels a wave of fremdschäme over her and doesn't know why.

SpookyPenguin

I wanna see em smooch

Erin Moriarty

3 weeks on the lucky opportunities of the most obnoxious and unlikable character here (with a slight intermission on his sister). Interesting girl grabs onto him and he makes a new friend while talking about the love life from an incredibly nice, tall, strong, good looking guy who is a bouncer and a baker who has a serious crush on him. Meanwhile, Brun and Millie!? Clint is selfish and self-absorbed while being both whiny and occasionally petulant. Brun and Millie both represent effort for others, growth, and a lot of booty (collectively).

Flour power!

Sleepy John

Aurelia should join Deathmole :-P

Richard Muir

Look, I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we wanna see someone make an Aurelia Sandwich, just not THOSE TWO.

Jaron Mortimer

*COUGH*

Hugh Eckert

If that was subtext I think this is domtext

Alan Wiggs

This text is as sub as a german U-boat in a duck pond. On the other hand, it would be really nice for Aurelia to get more social activity by really going to some sort of baking seminar / jam session. Putting current shenanigans aside, I would have loved to see this storyline.

Evgeniy Semyonov

She's winking at Cosmo.

Hugh Eckert

and I thought https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4366 was sub text

Lucas Werkmeister

[insert 'soggy bottom' joke here] [insert joke about inserting things here]

Autographedcat

*cough*

Chris Sims

"Well, you know what they say, love goes out the door when money comes innuendo." - Marx

Captain Button

"Sorry, but no thank you, Aurelia. I think we'd rather figure those tricks out for ourselves."

Alex Borders

When your parent unknowingly joins in on the inneundo

C-Cubed

If this were an opera, the coughing would mean they both die of The Consumption by act V. But as this is usually a comedy not a tragedy, it clearly means they got into some hijinks at the bakery earlier and inhaled too much bread flour.

Mad Marie

AAAHAHAHAHAH

Onyx

I think him and Clinton are just looking away from each other.

FuryoftheStars

I love Clinton's face in the 4th panel.

I am the captian now

Aurelia: HI, I'm things!

I am the captian now

Hush, Yelling Bird. You don't even have external genitalia

Todd Ellner

Not Elliot's eyes drifting toward's Aurelia's ass! Shsjsjfjj lol

Is she winking to *us*?

Ol' Firebones

Squeeeeeeee!

SingingTurtles

D'ough!

Leak

YES YES YES

Tamara Macadam

OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO OVERDOSE ON ADORABLY AWKWARD

Doug DeJulio

Aurelia.....please stop. Wait....this is so uncomfortable and awkward...forgive me. Please, continue.

Anthony Gaglianese

cough

Jeremy C

DED

Gordon Johnson

Unlike Aurelia, Elliot can read subtext.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more awkward, there is a knock at the door. Aurelia opens it and ushers Roko in.

Simon Green

Also we now need someone for Aurelia pls

Here comes the ship, it's pulling into the station!!!

Aweeeeeee! Moar please! 😘💖🏳️‍🌈

Carrie

I may have let out a "squeee!"

I'm gonna steal that...

Shawn K. Younkin

please stop making me find aurelia hot, i have THINGS to DO

LOL at Elliot's eyebrow elevation in panel 4.

OMG! This cuteness is giving me life.

Richard Muir

Dead

doorbender

I don't normally comment but omg the pure innocent sweetness of this is killing me :D I love the possibilities for these two!

Mina (WildishWolf)

"Oh, god, I turned this into a porno!"

Daniel S

What? No. Bad.

Eric Sieck

ITS TURNING INTO A PORNO

orangejuicenut

And Elliot dropping hints without batting an eye? How unlike him. Oh... wait... those were unintentional innuendos. The best kind!

Photon

They really knead to work this out.

BALLS!

Yelling Bird

Aurelia, no Also, yes But, mostly, no

Wynn Donivan

Another dinner guest might start wondering why there's so much blushing associated with this straightforward discussion of kitchen skills.

Dean Reilly

Oh, and we got a picture of Clinton as well as Claire.

Michael Boettger

First in 'Main cast', I think

spoons!

Chris Reed (aka Animeraider)

Clinton NEVER thinks things through. He's more the "Ready, Fire, Aim!" type.

Photon

really excited to see her reaction when she realizes what's going on

runrin

Also, this is the first male/male homosexual relationship we've really seen in comic, isn't it? I mean, there's Marten's two dads, but they mostly only get talked about (although there was the wedding).

Jaron Mortimer

I think we need a "spicy" version of the possibilities for our patreon-only comics!

Chong Go

Just sayin' O T 3

Ariamaki

I love how Aurelia just slid her chair in right next to Elliot.

Photon

This is exactly how I expected this arc to go.

Scott Vogel

I mean, that applies to the family, their friends, most of this fan base...

Jaron Mortimer

So, is anyone else gonna point out that “subtext” anagrams to “butt sex” or is that gonna fall to this lapsed theatre major, as usual? 😇 (I also totally ship this, mostly because I relate far too much)

Chris Weigert

Given Clinton's dating history I would assume he isn't experienced but what about Elliott?

Michael

Definitely in “I can’t even” territory

Miyaa

AURELIA. SUBTEXT. JESUS.

Jaron Mortimer

Keep it in yoUR ROMANCE NOVELS, AURELIA

Phoenix

*screaming*

No one in this family can read a room, can they?

Morgan Bauman

She was already a very attractive mother but I think that hip swing firmly put her in MILF territory.

BioYuGi

My god, they’re all horny and not smart to a disturbing degree. lolrotfl

Miyaa

Well they haven't clued her in yet. I'm sure she would be cool with it if not a shipper as well.

Michael

gaaaaaaaaay (i mean that in the best way possible)

Hajnal Endot

Yay for them being both direct and somewhat subtle!

it's HAPPENING

Lana Del Prey

Oh boy lol

The Shadow's Lair

He really didn't think it through inviting Elliot to his mom's, did he?

JD

Wink wink nudge nudge

Michael

*COUGH*

Mom isn't quite with the program yet, is she?

Michael Boettger

Yeah but make the sub TEXT

Hope

Yay, progress!

Michael

Cough cough!

Max D S

Couldn't be better.

Michael