The Power Cosmic

Paieidolia. Learning big words from the web toonz. 😎

MrFrenchFries

Due to Jeph, I have had to buy the phatest dictionary possible to keep up with his relentlessly vast lexical horizon 😵

Jamal Taylor

Apophenia FTW.

well, Clinton is a weenie and a cynical one, no denying

jimbo

Willow joins the Brawl.

Randall Norman Pick

"Character a decides to make character b their friend... and so on." We never would have known it's you favorite trope, reading this comic. It is such a well hidden trope.

Bagge

This is actually how I make friends.

Rebecca

Jeph does seem to introduce new characters that have dramatic racks. I'm convinced May's fund drive was so successful so he could draw her new body A LOT.

I did what now? ...Huh, so I did. But, to be fair, I was specifically shipping them as good friends, like so many other people in this comment thread are doing. Not as romantic partners. :)

Brooks Moses

Good lord, look at the cans on her! (Sorry, haven't read QC in a few days)

Brian English

I think someone shipped them that first day they started talking. It's a habit/twitch/reflex at this point... ETA: on comic 4449, user orangejuicenut, and reply by user Brooks Moses. Judging by hearts, many others.

Am Queue

Apophenia is probably the name of the next character to be introduced.

Ardent Slacker

Not out loud, I haven't.

Ardent Slacker

And "causal pareidolia" would be seeing such patterns in cause & effect. Although it might also be called an anthromorphization of random chance, IE "fate".

Ardent Slacker

If you're chill about it, it's casual. If it's about the web of fate, it's causal.

Ardent Slacker

Well... Willow is a stand-in here for everyone already shipping Elion. Jeph's got a playbook, pholx.

Photon

Yet.

Julie Chan

I feel a lot of pride for our fandom that no one seems to be shipping them.

pseudoclever

There is much chemistry between these two

David Perez

Getting dangerously close to the 4th wall there, Jaques

Kyle Sternquist

The last panel is giving me Susie Derkins vibes

Same. Sometimes the best friends are the ones who don't have a choice.

Silver Surfer reference detected *beep boop*

Matt Lee

"Although, conflux of universal coincidence aside, his grumpy attitude didn't help him any when it came to the stabbing," the defendant concluded. Upon review of 240 pieces of evidence supporting this claim, the jury agreed, voting to unanimously to acquit on all charges.

Shane Wegner

Apopheniacs of the world, unite! :-)

LOL- I am BOTH Clinton and Willow here. XD

Shawn K. Younkin

Immediate crush forming.

Kevin B

This is how you end up friendless and alone, Clinton.

To be fair, she's been an unwitting (but not unwilling) spectator in several Clinton/Elliot moments, so she's probably invested in this point. Like when you're in a waiting room for a long time and next thing you know you're into the soap opera they have on the TV.

Daniel S

It was Steve, and oddly enough, we were talking about her just 5 strips back, so I have the link handy: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=820 What does this strange coincidence MEAN? It must MEAN SOMETHING?

Clifton Royston

I like her a lot, excited to see more of her in the future

Spacey02111

Put your tongue back in your mouth unless you intend to share it, Willow.

OldGoat

I give it a week (comic time)

Jackson Mccreery

That reminds me: whatever happened to the smart woman who worked at the Morg and was flirting with one of Martins friends?

Darnel D Cooper

There is this thing of "deep conversations with total strangers" that has happened to me more than a few times, with me on each side of the situation. Part of it is a willingness to trust innately, to risk misplaced trust, in the hope of finding a bond, however fleeting. I've had this happen on the dance floor, the motion and music combining to make possible the sharing of very personal things. It's happened in Starbucks lines. And more recently in a COVID-distanced line waiting to get into a store. It often starts with someone saying a thought out loud, to the universe at large rather than to anyone specific. Then a response happens. I believe it requires living in the moment, awareness of one's environment, and continuous observation. And, also, being open to random things. Precious things.

BobC

Takes one to know one...

Jennifer Doyle

Looks as likely apophenia as pareidolia. Seems more about connections than a visual pattern.

For others who, like myself, don’t know the word: “Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music.”

Populuxe

"Perfectly harmless paieidolia," she said, as the bombs fell.

Emma Humphries

Clinton, stop.

Hugh Eckert

idk if Clinton "I Stalked The Daughter of The Inventor Of AI Because I Am A Huge Fanboy" Augustus gets to accuse someone else of being a potential murder-stalker

Morgyn

I didn’t really give my best friend a choice in the matter. We were both nerds and both new at the high school, and I just started calling him on the weekends—at his unlisted number that I snuck out of the teacher’s grade book. Thirty-seven years later, he spends his vacations with us and my kids call him Uncle Charlie. It’s totally a thing.

I give it 9 months comic time (5 years in real life) before Willow & Clinton are at they “can you help me bury this dead body” level of friendship.

Miyaa

Yeah Clinton, you weenie.

Jackie Horn

... So would this be an example of casual pareidolia? :)

Yonatan Zunger

Willow is another character in here who has power eyebrows...

Joseph Bonnar

Serious mood from Clinton in that last panel and I can very much relate. That sort of hippy-dippy shit just does my head in. Despite that, I really like Willow and I'm impressed by her ability to turn her head, close her eyes and poke her tongue out, while continuing to walk forwards and (hopefully) not crashing into anything.

Andrew Mitchell

Idothat-vine.mp4

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Alacrity Fitzhugh

(For me, at least.)

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Honestly, I've made a couple of brute force friends like this before. No regrets.

Vicki McLachlan

Causal pareidolia is the name of my new age/techno band.

Michael Boettger

If you keep creating great new characters at this rate, you're going to have to start posting at least 2 comics a day just for us to get anything close to enough of each character.

JD

Seriously. I want to see her in the main cast of characters.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Pareidolia. A new word!

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Willow is perfect.

Taran1s