Clever Reference

Bubbles cannot be stopped

Tyler Findlay

Just went back trying to find May's original holo form, and found this.. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3004 Bubbles has changed quite a bit in the last 5 years o3o

neriek

Bubbles! Verbose response off please! :)

Kriss Pang

I'm sure she can put a pretty good bit of speed on a single movement, but shes too much of a tank to be a blue... Especially in her armor. Maybe a tank that can hit 30 or 40 mph on paved roads and run FOREVER without tiring, but still a tank. The Inverse Square Law hits you harder the bigger you get. Moving her body in a running motion at the speed required to make her appear as a "red blur" to human vision would put INCREDIBLE strain on every bit of her frame, especially at the joints. Assuming even that she was capable of both doing that and withstanding it, the momentum carried by her limbs at that speed would destroy the surface she ran on and splatter body parts that she touched. It would be Impossible to both move that fast AND be gentle... Watching her surprised (unarmed, except herbody itself) counter attack would probably be more like watching the Juggernaut tear into an enemy, but with Professor Hulk's intelligence

Mark Thomas

She has assumed the "I will name it Arthur" stance.

Clifton Royston

I picture a Bubbles "furious counterattack" as a reddish blur - followed by a lot of enemy equipment and uniforms simply falling apart leaving a bunch of naked disarmed soldiers. (Yay applauding politely from the sidelines with an "old fashioned, but effective" comment.)

Matt Grayson

Bubbles doesn't mess around

Matt

... I'd read it.

And suddenly I want to watch Bubbles streaming X-COM to see how she employs guerilla tactics.

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

Yes. Just yes.

ezazel

Can I use her as a reference someday? :)

Bubs does have a tendency to get intense, doesn't she? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3277

Mark

Now Claire needs a third OTT component for her applications to go with this and Marten's cover letter https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4361

Mark

THEN unleash the spotted pucculents! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3423

Mark

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is classical literature! The History of Warfare is the next isle over!

Professor Harmless

Rogal Dorn would be proud!

Andrei Safta

Should have just paid the overdue fines...

Dean Reilly

Witty Comment.

Leak

Recon-in-force tactics are implied.

Shane Wegner

Bubbles! This is a LIBRARY! I hope you're at least using silencers! ("suppressors")

Shane Wegner

Oh god I forgot about Library War!

Fuzzy Logik

This is gonna end up with Bubbles fighting a crocodile in an australian library, isn't it?

Bagge

Maybe an ED 209 or two.

William Cole

Given that she was disabled by an EMP, but not destroyed or even damaged beyond repair, while her squad was slaughtered around her I wouldn't bank on anything man portable.

Andrew L Butula

If a Bubbles-class AI+chassis ever went rogue, I'm not sure local police forces would be sufficient to stop them. Well, if they also have a few battle-bots of their own I suppose.

Shane Wegner

I'm not clear how one would know it will be possible to "destroy in detail" -- meaning attacking fractional portions of the opposing force, one at a time -- until you know how the enemy is deployed. If their forces are concentrated, it can't be done.

Chas Simmons

Have you seen the anime called Library War? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_War

Josh Levenberg

I'm pretty sure anything less than a .50 cal would just scuff Bubbles' paint and annoy her.

George Bias

Those inter-library rivalries can get pretty intense......

That Blair Guy

I assume you mean neurodiverse, not North Dakota or Notre Dame or any of the other things Google suggested.

Pejo

I think previous strips have shown AI characters using a phone or the like instead of more direct means, just because they wanna.

Pejo

I love Bubbles so much, you guys.

Ol' Firebones

As someone who does hiring in libraries, I'd hire Claire on the basis of this reference so fast

Katy Kania

i mean, i'd certainly employ her based on that reference

LH

Bubbles strikes me as possibly nd, that's the kind of literal answer I would expect.

SpookyPenguin

So like, do you put just bubbles(AI) and then a phone number? Do you need to explain she is an AI since she has a one word name? Do people care she is an AI? They have show the gross side of the world not liking them but like, how does that work? Does she have a phone? Does it call her head?

Aaron Schulz

Bubbles: will hype you up in an interview also Bubbles: won't stand for violations of the Geneva Convention

Alex Thompson

AO is "Area of Operations", and she does have another name, but due to *things* we don't know what it is.

Two questions...What is AO? ....Does Bubbles have any other name than Bubbles?

Paul Britt

A good friend? Or a good friend housed in a billion dollars of military-grade hardware?

C-Cubed

Bubbles is amazing

😂

Everybody needs a Bubbles in their life.

I need a ride or die friend like Bubbles, dayum...

Chris Weigert

"I would interrogate enemy units as to why they launched a major ground offensive against a library." This line just tickles me.

Czarzhan

Bubbles, sweetie... Just, no.

Grace Kieser

I'd hire her

Morgan

It's a form of nepotism because they want to know if you know people who are super rich/influential.

KCT

Chill, Bubbles. What you said in panel 3 was enough. 🤣

Andrew Mitchell

I could use that kind of job reference right now.

drone r0m-3

I never got personal references on applications. Like, are they just checking to make sure you have friends?

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

Bubs is the best. I get the sense that she's much more comfortable with her personal history now, as she's still so passionate about doing what's just/good.

Melissa Smits

And THEN she'd plant succulents...

Matt Grayson

SHE WILL GET TO BUILD HER OWN LIBRARY

Nicolas Demers

I am having a 'Bubbles squee' moment. Mmm. Eee.

Douglas E. Smith

Don't forget your armor!

Brian Brewer

This is craveworthy content

Damn, I need that reference!

Jackie Horn

Those library invasion guys are going DOWN.

Leaflemming

I would kill for this reference

John Smutko

I'd watch this Bubbles defends the library movie.

Amy ☣

claire is going to get more job offers than there are libraries

Tamara Macadam

I get the feeling that Bubbles would get along well with Strax from Doctor Who. Likely a shared love of grenades, cluster mines, and acid.

Anthony Gaglianese

It’s the only way to be safe

doorbender

If only Bubbles had existed in the same timeline as the Library of Alexandria.

Samantha Yeaman

We should all have a friend like Bubbles in our corner!

Michael Boettger

I love this.

Thisguy

Alexandria could have used some defensive AIs

doorbender

I love Bubbles so much

Nicholas Lopez

Dibs on bubs for my zombie apocalypse team

Hope

I love it when Bubbles goes overboard on her statements.

C-Cubed

Claire will get every job available, wherever she applies. Or else.

gatherer818

Bubbles getting super carried away with hypothetical scenarios is the best running theme

Cody Renton

I love Bubbles ❤️

Rachael R

And Claire! Yay!

Michael Boettger

I say we dust off and research it from orbit

Magic Chopstick Games

She'd do it, too. I've seen her fortify a library.

Matt Grayson