Blood And Guts

I watched both my SSA thumb joint surgeries live. I hadn't done much research on it before surgery and when he pulled out the trapezium bone on the first one I though "well, I'm committed now". Very interesting to watch.

Gregory Cotton

I have seen plenty of corpses and cadavers and autopsy photos, and even saw images of my own surgeries, but I don’t think I could handle seeing my pets cut open.

Brian

In the 90's, I was accustomed to attending to my cats for miner topical surgical proceedings. The vet would administer a local numbing agent, and the cat wouldn't feel anything. I found it fascinating, not gross.

Elizabeth Siemanski

Ugh I'm jealous. Can you imagine just being able to replace broken parts?

Fuzzy Logik

In case the edit didn't come through, and even if it did, this part bears repeating: I married that one ;-)

Sarah Schnell

I totally get it, Brun. Ran into a guy who I had the hots for while he was working outside his home. He invited me in, showed me projects, gave me coffee...desperate to keep me around a while longer, he asked "hey, wanna watch a movie?". Sure...turns out it wasn't naughty, but the arthroscopic view of his knee surgery, which he narrated for me, blow by blow. Married 'im. ;-) <3

Sarah Schnell

Shocking that the girl who loves clocks is fascinated by an android’s inner workings! Love Brun’s face in this.

M Cohen

Do you think he did research into this or is he just making it up? It looks detailed AF

Drakoo Dreamer

the clock junkie has a brand-new bag.

Sleepy John

I don’t think so - remember that she hyperfocuses on clocks and mechanisms. I can imagine her spending 7 sleepless nights and coming back with a way to fix May’s hip so that it doesn’t pop put anymore. “But her old body has already been scrapped and recycled.” “Oh.”

Jason Rock

I have so many questions. Can we get a working group to consult with Jeph to write the #808080 Anatomy of Androids?

Jason Rock

Who is with me that want's the December bonus comic to be a complete internal schematic of Millefeuille? So awesome.

Tim

Nice to see Sam working out well in the shop. :) Although I do notice that her haircut is almost as bad as mine after months with no barber.

Joseph Bonnar

I love the drawing in this. I *love* the detail that the femur is held into its socket with a retaining ring. That makes engineering sense. This is SO cool.

Craig P Steffen

Why?

KCkittysnores

Surgery without anesthesia and the patient's not mad. Awesome! And OF COURSE Brun would love it. (Clocks!)

And Lady Brunhilde of the Flat Affect becomes aroused.

OldGoat

*Teardrop by Massive Attack starts playing*

Simpin4Holo

Whats NSFW, Android Muscles???

Marty BlackEagle

Ahahahaha

Jeph Jacques

How can this be NSFW if almost half the characters are literally *at work*?

hn3000

OK, gotta respect your documentation work here, but… shouldn’t this get some sort of NSFW warning?

Comics Ladybird

Now I won't be able to stop thinking of QC as a Gilmore Girls comic.

Aleks

Oh wait, Trapper Brun A.I.

Bartley J Drood

Modernize the old medical drama as Trapper John A.I.

Bartley J Drood

Wherever this comic goes, I'll follow. If it turns into Scrubs with androids i won't be too mad

Melissa Smits

My guess: When Brun tells Millefeuille about how amazing her insides are, with that much excitement radiating from her, Millefeuille will feel unexpectedly happy.

Yonatan Zunger

IIRC, the first time Sam help 'glue' mel back together as a temporary fix (I think it was even applied with a glue gun)

Max D S

Whynotboth.gif

Bagge

Ok, I have a question that may not have an answer. Is that an actual incision into the leg or a port of sorts that opens? Are the AI bodies capable of healing or is there a type of “skin like bondo” that is applied here?

David Perez

Ope accidentally created a ripper bad news everyone

Either this is a new vent for a hyperfixation or we're experiencing the inception of a very specific and untenable fetish.

This is turning into "Ben Chassis," "Carcass Welby" or "Housing."

kaitou

And it makes sense. If you develop myomer muscles for AI bodies, why not copy the arrangement from humans? Especially if your aim is to make them close to human standard.

Michael Boettger

I wonder if brun is gonna ditch her clock thing and start working on AI bodies as a hobby/job. Maybe she can get to work with Fey and Bubs.

I am the captian now

Nice level of detail. Jeph is skilled

Jeremy C

Yes, Brun. Your girlfriend is like a clock. Yes, Brun. She's your girlfriend now. That's just science

Bagge

Butt implant cameo!!!

Simon Green

I like that Sam’s trying to be helpful but has completely misread Brun’s reaction.

C-Cubed

It's never robot lupus.

Timothy Mann

My slop of a brain just realized bruns reason for loving clocks applies to robot inner mechanisms *pats skull*

Bacon Lord

I'm gonna say Brun's calling is to be a mortician and/or embalmer.

Bryan Austin

glorious

Thomas Halpin

it's robot lupus

skinnybdink

Damn dude, that is some awesome robotic internals art right there.

Joseph Loder

This is wonderful, sincerely. I look forward to when you start including paragraph-long science asides now that Schlock Mercenary is gone and I'm not getting my fix.

R. Francis Smith

I think Brun will now feel a deeper connection to Mille because she's seen how part of her *actually* works. She literally understands Mille on a deeper level. People are an indecipherable mess to her, but she can comprehend Mille.

Ack

One does not preclude the other.

Magic Beans

I was involved in a boating accident that removed a large chunk of left calf. I remember not wanting my then-fiancé to be in the room when they were doing wound dressings. Once, he stayed anyway because it wiuld have been more awkward for him to leave; he was also present when the photographer took pictures for the insurance company. We've been married 22-1/2 years nows and still going, so I'm going to say it’s not an insurmountable obstacle to a relationship.

Erin Hartshorn

Brun's love of precision engineering was already well-established when she's talked about clocks, hopefully Millefuille will find such fascination either understandable and/or flattering, and not creepy. This could be really cute.

Solomon Garland

I wonder how many anatomy texts Jeph checked before drawing the inside of a robot thigh.

Nobilis Reed (personal)

Although, with any precision machine, you do need to have at least some concern about contamination. Getting grit in the gears is troublesome enough to be a cliche, even. (And see also Clinton's hand and the fact that it would hold up much better if he'd keep the covering on it.)

Brooks Moses

She's gonna be an engineer

RoofPig

Part of me feels like Brun is going to make Millefeuille uncomfortable going forward. I mean, how would any of us feel if a potential romance partner loved watching us get opened up and operated on?

The Secret Sponsor

You've obviously put a lot of thought into how the anthropomorphic robot bodies go together. Yay for sci-if tech that's coherent. :)

James R. Strickland

LEEEEEG MEEEEATSSSSSS

Grace Kieser

That would depend on the tech level of the time. It's entirely possible that a society with integrated humanoid AI could have developed "super Teflon spray" that can easily coat the moving parts to practical frictionless-ness without being a gooey mess that bleeds out any time the skin is punctured

Mark Thomas

Right now, I AM BRUN 🤩 More please! Anatomical robot bodies sooooo!

GodsInTheCogs

Just wait until Brun wants to take her apart and put her back together....

MikeT

When Brun and Millefeuille hook up the relationship is going to go like clockwork for sure.

Andrew Mitchell

Just: wow!

Philip Kizer

Wonder how she would have liked faaaaaace meeeeeeat?

Sleepy John

Is that how this ship will sail? I'd be fine with that

Carin Maja Brooks

Brun found her new clock...

Chris Gallaty

A lot less goo and sloshing than the last time we saw these leg meats. 🦿💦💦

William Cole

Neat! Looks like Brun found a new fixation, too. ^_^

Cole Blackblood

That must have taken some time to draw!

Jeremy Westerfield

Junior Mint?

doorbender

When I saw my first cadaver I had a similar reaction, just internally. I wasn't allowed to shout in the lab.

Douglas E. Smith

Given that I work in EMS, I would 100% love to moonlight at Union Robotics. Just sayin

Anthony Gaglianese

Probably based almost entirely off a hip replacement surgery, but with some shortcuts and simplifications that a robotic patient would allow. No bleeding, no concern about infection or contamination, preexisting seams, components are actually designed to be disconnected and reattached, etc. Robot surgery looks like surgery, but it probably feels a lot like working on any other machine.

LOL- they can't even afford to pay themselves, let alone staff.

Shawn K. Younkin

I think Jeph just bought a box set of ER or something and had to justify it as a business expense.

Chris Magnelli

...actually, there should be *something* in there to reduce friction among all those moving/sliding parts. Hopefully Brun can handle the sight of lubricant.

I would be 110% ok with a procedural robot medical drama!

Yahsho Jinn

At least there's no blood.

You know, when i started reading QC fucking FIFTEEN YEARS AGO (Holy fuck, dude, you have been entertaining me for half my life now...) If you would have told me that you would one day be posting a reasonably realistic robot leg surgery, I would have told you to stop putting LSD in your weed. XD Well done, my man. Very well done.

Forgettable

Who would have thought that a person that works with clocks would be entralled?

Jonathan Streeter

Jeph, have you had this turn in mind for Brun ever since you figured out how much she likes clocks?

West Singleton

I can’t tell if she’s going to go into robot surgery, propose to Millefeuille, or both.

Matt Grayson

You beat me to that comment.

Marshall Gates

could Brun be their next apprentice? it's a booming business! and I only partially mean that in the explosion way!

Boots McGoot

It got broken in an incident with an emu!

Mandy Hoskins

As a medical professional and former cadaver student, BRAVO JEPH your anatomical studies are showing 🔥🔥🔥

LorettaYoungSilks

And thus begins the inexorable transition of the entire cast away from coffee and baked goods and toward femur replacements

Ed Marshall

On this episode of QC MD, Dr Bubbles and Dr Faye cure another case of Butt’s Disease.

Andrew

god that is a MOOD

Tamara Macadam

I find it fascinating how well this mimics actual musculature attachments and how this looks both anatomically feasible and works well as a support and limbic hardware. Bravo Jeph

Chidumebi Njoku-Browne

I forget, what is wrong with the femur she has now?

Captain Button

No NOO

Miyaa

I can see it now:Brun Khoury, Robo Surgeon.

Michael Boettger

I hope Brun starts working with Faye and Bubbles!!!

Erin Moriarty

Gettin all up in that femur meat

Michael Lazare

Yeah, considering how much she likes clocks this must be insane levels of satisfying.

Jaron Mortimer

The ER theme is stuck in my head now.

Aaand Brun is aroused; horny even.

Miyaa

Figured she would be into it since she is into the intricacies of clock mechanics.

Michael

I, like most of the QC cast, have a giant crush on Brun.

JD

how much research did you have to do for this? this looks really good!

Agnes

It's like clocks, but super

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