New Project(???): Shelter In Place

btw me putting pandemic in quotes wasnt implying it wasn't real oh my god

Tii

i know i'm 3 years late, but even if it wasn't "pandemic" related, I'd love to see these characters again.

Tii

Still holding strong, 6 months later! ;-) btw, curious about the thirst-mask booty count!

Sarah Schnell

These are great!

Rie Sheridan Rose

love them!

DresdenQ

i love this a lot and i'd love to see it continued. the characters are just as relatable as the QC crew, and it's nice to see quarantine content that's sensitive to what it's really like.

Glaive

Love it!

Jackie Meyer

I love Mrs C

Katherine Prewitt

Oh hey uh I didn't get a chance to see this when it came out but I think this is a bitchin' idea and I trust you to make this as engaging as Alice Grove and QC, if not more because something grounded here is gonna be pretty engaging coming from you to begin with

Sam

more please!

Jermops

Love it, it's still your personality but a different spin. I do kiss the blurbs at the bottom

Alphones Armorman, suitperson

My girlfriend took to making a comic about all of this as well. She hasn't done as many in the last week as she did in the first. I think getting it out there helped, a bunch. Thanks for this and hope it helps you as well.

Ronald Stimbert

This looks like it could be fun :) I'm in

Dustin

I'm already hooked...

I love these two

I can already anticipate some hilarious discussions on the breakdown of the social contract. Well done!

Boris Pelakh

Hoping for more and hoping for best

Sezoxeufu

I love them and I totally adore Mr. and Mrs. C

Rachael R

I feel attacked by that last one, with my barren DMs. Also, the roommate knows because we complain about being single sapphics

Carin Maja Brooks

Page Two made my week! /roflmao

Ian Wolfe

Tom Nook gives -normal- trash pandas a bad name. He makes you pay 10Kbells a pop for house site kits... and AFTER he has sold the site YOU prepared to some poor sap YOU have to fasttalk into coming to your island, you get back less Miles than it cost you to go recruiting...

David Howe

A. Tom Nook is unfairly demonized. The loans are interest free and you only have to pay it back if you want the next upgrade. B. Half a million? Oh, my sweet summer child. Just wait until you get to the basement.

Eric Sieck

This looks great!

JMK

Awesome!

Elf Sternberg

MOAR!!!

Julienne Ignace

Love it and can't wait to see where you go with it.

Áine Yore

I like it

Michael

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Etienne M.J. Dubourg

I'm in! Looks great!

Gregory Burnett

These are really cute! I'll never say no to more Jeph content

Aidan Cortney

YES GOOD.

Dev

I'll be commentor number 202 saying "this is great". I don't have much else to say about it though.

Ross

I love this so much. Why do I love this so much? This is glorious!

Leah Webber

Would this be a side project like Alice Grove, or just something to continue while the Corona thing is ongoing?

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Go for it.

DixonLu

I love these. Thank you.

Yes! More, please!

MamaSockster

These are wonderful!

Thank you! I have the same thought all the time reading QC: it's just weird pretending the timeline going on without the pandemic. This somehow relaxes me.

Nathaniel Tagg

It's looking really really good. the theme is just perfect for this pandemic tendency... Just one question, why is that your chars have to always be either gay or something related?, just wondering, I mean I have nothing against it, I just been noticing more and more that almost all of the new characters have this tendency, maybe Im wrong.

Great start! The "Zoom" call format was a little confusing, but overall, I really like it. Love the color scheme for them!

Chad Freeman

Love them! Please make more!

Akanksha Sharma

Like it!

Kaarchin

Please more Animal Crossing content! Love this

Awesome, love that you're using this time to fuel some new creativity!

Rich

Awesome, loving the first three and would 100% be interested in more :)

Very cool. Two glove-wearing thumbs up!

Cool. Whatever reader you're using makes these very small and difficult to see on Chrome (and increasing/decreasing page magnification doesn't help.) Is an alternate viewer available? I ended up copying the images and viewing them in Irfanview. Thanks!

M. Eric Carr

Yes! This is exactly what I needed this morning! Also the Crooked Raccoon is a menace!

Love it!

David Pipes

I like it, keep them coming please

Raul Trevino

Your ability to create chemistry and relationships quickly between characters astounds. It looks like this one has hit the ground running! Also, your colour palette for the first few strips really set the mood. I'd love to see more!

Paul Nobles

I like it so far! Also Kate will be really disappointed in the next couple loans if she's that outraged by 500k.

Sheri Spangenberg

Thanks Jeph! Enjoyed the new comic, looking forward to more!

I love it!

Garth Rivers

Such awesome! Many greats! Doge approved! Git'r'done, bro!

Technoir

I enjoyed the comic bunches! I don't particularly like using the patreon interface to look at comics though. Their image display thinger is not.... well... text is hard to read... scrolling is hamstrung. eh...

Laura Kolker

I love it. I can relate to the first page so much!

Veronica VanCleave-Seeley

Love it!

Sarah Manx

Like 90% of your characters, these two are adorable and I love them immediately. I would love to see more of them

Nicholas Kratzer

I approve and look forward to more.

Cass

From Annie Youchah above: In this case it's the roommate, Kate, speaking offscreen saying (and I quote) "FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BELLS for a fucking HOUSE UPGRADE I swear to god when the revolution comes you'll be the first against the fucking WALL you fucking profiteering TRASH PANDA"

Captain Button

Too small text in the bottom left panel on the second page

Jonas

I like it.

Huh, what would QC be like under a COVID quarantine? The AIs could walk around freely, disinfecting as needed, while the humanoids would be sheltered-in-place. That would change the dynamic! Sorta Stanislaw Lem?

Great beginning. I look forward to more of their adventures.

Robert Perkins

Very enjoyable, I'd love it if you were to make more!

Tachpmg

Fantastically cute! Really enjoyed those three pages and excited for more.

Nadav

Definitely enjoying this, really hope you do more! I kinda wish comics were like series where you could just get a whole season at once and binge it but I suspect it's better to have the constant release and feedback from audience to help steer it as it goes rather than release like 100 pages sight unseen. Sorry, thinking in type, I'll hush.

Brettus Maximus

awesome :D

James Bastone

I agree, more! suggest making this into a mini series thing, maybe sell it as a one off comic thingy at cons and the like?

Mark Mckay

This is good.

Already love the characters!

Robert Giebel

That's really cute, Jeph ❤️

orange slice

....I will pay extra for this.

Those are awesome, looking forward to more :D

Severin Schols

Ahh, super cute! I really like this!

Morgan McCauley

QC is it's own little world, so make something more grounded in this weird ass reality as a side thing to hope cope with the weirdness!

Jeremy Jorgensen

I love them already!!

Jennie Huntoon

YES! YES! YES! MOAR PLEASE!

ducksauz

These are great.

Dan Curtis

Definitely would not complain about seeing more of these!

Brooks Moses

Also joining the horde of more please 😂

Kurist Zero

This is fantastic! Please make more.

Oh my GOD ! I love this so much!!! More please!

Crystal Rivet

More please

Andrew Herrera

These great I'd love to see more if you decide to go for it. :)

John Doe

It's gotten warm, but not warm enough for putting up the air conditioner. Can I swelter in place?

Tudza

No struggle but class struggle. I like their dynamics. Lots of fun

Bagge

He was displaying symptoms. Definitely wasn't smothered with a pillow.

Adam Abbott

Am I the only one who sees Elliott in Mr C? And Kate very much seems to be visually inspired by Dora... Regardless, I find these strips amusing and would Not complain about seeing more of them.

Mark Thomas

Don't stop, man!

Walt Donovan

Yes, yes, yes! More of this.

Rachel Maeroff

Love this!

Sierra G

This is excellent.

Comrade Peaches

I probably have the time, but what I don't have is a Switch, or a desire to watch any more about weirdos in Oklahoma than my life already provides

R. Francis Smith

I'm thankful to be not only employed but stupid busy through all of this, but at the same time I feel a bit left out of all the Tiger King and Animal Crossing stuff.

Magic Beans

This gave me some joy!

Anton

Thank you Jeph! I appreciate your work so much. I want to see more of these two!

SilverbackRon

Brilliant, Jeph.... and not just because my daughter and I are both playing Animal Crossing.... Frakking Tom Nook, anyway.

Tom wilson

This is already a lot of fun.

Populuxe

I. LOVE. THIS.

Kinda Squirrely

Damn that Tom Nook! Keep going! More I say! Draw, monkey!

Steamin' cup o' nut-wet, now with double the orcus chunks!

Amazing! Can't wait to see more~!

emmavoid

I like these characters a lot. Would definitely enjoy seeing more of them

Stuart Telfer

Excellent -- a rich vein worth mining, and one that feels right for who we are now

kwixote

Actually, masks (or bandanas) make all others safer when you're an unknowing carrier spewing viral contagion where ever you go.

I am glad to be where I am now. I know that if I was in my previous living situation of a few years ago and told to shelter in place, my Roommate would have...mysteriously vanished about three weeks in.

z

Also: Based parents

Jonah Hillman

I love this! Please make more!

Jonah Hillman

Thrice-damned Tom Nook!

Emma Humphries

That damned Tom Nook!

Emma Humphries

What do you have against Trash Pandas, anyway?! ;-)

Bill Hall

i want to see a comic where all the humans are sadly looking out the window as the robots frolic merrily to spite them. they don't even care about frolicing, but they know it cheeses the humans off.

I'm for it, it's relevant af

Francis

"Atta girl." Now that's a cool dad. *nod nod*

Karel P Kerezman

This is fantastic. Can't wait for more.

Isabel

Okay, I love these two. Looking forward the future strips. <3

Amy ☣

Oh man, these are great. Thanks so much

Charles Fitt

omg they were roommates!!!

LH

These are sweet. I'm missing out on thirst-traps, but I love your inter-character interactions. Interly. {blinks}

Shlom

I love it

Hey! The new project looks interesting -- but face it, we get enough about pandemic pounded into our heads. We _need_ that plague-free alternate Northampton (alt-hamp?).

Ursus Ridens

She didn’t call him a raccoon, she called him a trash panda, which is an insult to raccoons despite them not being pandas. And since she’s being insulting to him in the first place, calling him the wrong animal works fine.

Thisguy

Not bad. I don’t mind the odd “current events” comic. Though I hope QC keeps going in its own world. I need the escapism.

Thisguy

Yeah, there is some phrases here which go right over my head.

Thisguy

As someone who’s been playing more Dungeons and Dragons lately, my definition of DM is “Dungeon Master”. I have a feeling this is not the definition used here.

Thisguy

Love the new characters!! More please!!! <3

Andrew Mitchell

My DM is a merciless party killing machine. The DM is me. I am a Dungeon Master. DOOOOOM

Damien

Thank You!!

Rose Mary Heiman

Thank you, Jeph! Your work helps to keep me sane, day by day.

WTH is a "thirst trap?" [/CluelessOldGuy]

Captain Button

{sigh} My DMs are a barren wasteland too :(

Bartley J Drood

I love them omg

Rose Ekblad

First post and it's already gay, socialist and playing Animal Crossing. Extremely on-brand and extremely good.

Diptych

More please!!!

Absynthe

I'm attached to them already. They're adorable. Thanks for sharing. Please keep these coming!

Yassss. Also fuck Tom Nook

MisterNormie

I'm with the others: a) this is adorable and b) glad that QC doesn't have a pandemic. I really loved Alice Grove, too.

Hugh Eckert

Just wait until the internet goes down. THEN we'll see some isolation!

BobC

Love the new comic, but please continue to feed my need for QC - They are the normal I want to return to!

Clark Wells

Quarantinable Content right here

Love them.

Joseph Bonnar

This is good stuff. If you can continue with this I would appreciate it bro!

Chase the Dragon

This is adorable

Andrew Carmedelle

Dads understand. Some of them, anyway.

Sleepy John

Well... I was really hoping for a DORD revival, but I guess these'll do.... (But seriously, these are very cool! It feels a little like old school QC updated for the current hellscape. Who could ask for anything more?)

William Cole

YESSSS MAOR

Mark Redacted

This was awesome! I request more!

Thomas Halpin

I do appreciate QC didn't magically get a pandemic so it can relate. That being said, I like the comic that can relate to this RL situation.

Slashplane

Actually bandanas are a lot more comfortable. Seeing as the masks don't actually make anyone safer, may as well be comfortable.

Ash359

lesbians!

Tamara Macadam

I love them both already.

Maelwys Myrddin

I really love this. I don't comment often/ever but these are wonderful.

This is fantastic!

RaptorShadow

This is amazing and I would absolutely love to see more.

Love it, would love more!

Errol Lobo

Oooh, these are good. Looking forward to more!

Peter Jensen

This is pandemically golden. Thank you Jeph

I'm loving these!

Yes! I've been finding it hard to read things that take place in a non-pandemic world. This is exactly what my heart has been looking for!

The parents have sold me on this, I want to see more!

Chris Gropp

Very nice. Wouldn't mind seeing more of these. :)

Eric Christian Berg

This made me really happy. I will be very pleased if you do more, but I also know that creativity isn't as simple as "people like thing make more of thing" so just do you.

I had to refresh my page a couple of times before I could click on the thumbnails to get it to zoom in, I think Patreon is being weird. In this case it's the roommate, Kate, speaking offscreen saying (and I quote) "FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BELLS for a fucking HOUSE UPGRADE I swear to god when the revolution comes you'll be the first against the fucking WALL you fucking profiteering TRASH PANDA"

My only issue is Tom Nook = Tanuki, not raccoon. Otherwise, agreed with everything Kate yelled.

Devin Gates

Really digging this. I hope there's more.

Autographedcat

I want moar

Chris Driggers

I have no idea what everyone else is doing, but I'm reading this on my laptop and in the second comic, where the daughter's talking to her parents, in the third panel where daughter has a alllllll that dialog crammed into a teensy speech balloon? I can't read a word of it. :( For whatever reason, it's coming across as three thumbnails at the top of the post, rather than as the large, page-size pages we usually get. Clicking on them makes them enlarge a bit, but not nearly enough. What am I doing wrong? :( :( :(

Angie Penrose

This is amazing! Second comic was so fucking funny and good!

These were really cute Jeph! I appreciate you finding a way to tell some 'pandemic tales' while we're in the middle of it! Hope you & yours are well :) please post more of these two if you feel inspired!!

cakecake

i love it!

Kenneth Carlile

I must have more, make it so.

Noevad

Oh my God. you guys. they are *roommates* 😍

David Jackson

This sounds like the life of our neighbors daughter who used to only be there once a week. She's now stuck. She bought and lived in AC for at least 2 weeks according to her mom.

This is really cute 🥰

and they were roommates!!!

Yes! I love this!

Ethan Fardoux

yes! This is awesome!

Jonathan Disher

Im down with this, feels good haha

Drew Basford

So fun! *Please* continue.

I love it and I love them

This is awesome! I love it! Looking forward to future pages. 💖

Heather H

Keep these coming!

Bradley Richard

I'm amused at the idea of an old guy with a golf shirt praising class struggle.

I love this! I hope it continues!

Lyssadelia

This is gold. I love it!

nowshowjj

Very like!

Dave-o

Yes please!!

I love this and I need more of them

ViennaStar

More please.

Ron Braithwaite

You had me at “fucking profiteering trash panda” 😁

John Simpson

These two are great. Continue to proceed!

Mahlernut

Fucking trash panda....I'm gonna kill him

PlasticArmyMan

Yes, these are great!!

Jason Goodman

Omg please do more! This is adorable :D

Spacey02111

I wish to know more of these people, please continue

Matt Wellington

+1 for more of these please!

Kaos7heory

The preview on the app notification for this post just said "ter in p" and of course I read that as "ternip" and I thought it was gonna be about a country bumpkin farmer with bad spelling.

Forgettable

Yes. Good. 😍

Rosilin

These are great! I look forward to more in the future!

Loki the Poisoner

This is great.

Oh, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing it with us. :)

Yonatan Zunger

YESSSS I LOVE IT

This is amazing Jeph. Same vibe as QC but different environment. If it gets the creative urges out, fully supportive!

Kaleb C2

These are fantastic!

So good. Yes pls, moar.

Vianki Bruenderman

Yaaasss. This is great!

Ooh, I love the colour palette in these, it's gorgeous. Also I happened to be playing Animal Crossing the very moment I read this; I relate to Kate so hard.

Samantha Yeaman

I think we’re all in agreement that this is now a thing and we want more. Thank you and good luck ✌🏻❤️

I wanna play AC with Kate now

Axl Angulo

I love it omg

dirtknight

More of this please

tabletopgm

I absolutely love this.

Alex Thompson

This is super rad, thanks for sharing this project!

I love it! Thank you!

😂 this is awesome - her parents are hilarious!

Lee B.

I love this!! Nice work!!

I'm liking this alot!

Michael Boettger

Ooooh I love them!

Dave, Duke of Fridges

YES JEPH OMG PLS

Alcaria Swain

Oh my gods I love it.

Bailey Tighe

This is wonderful!

Tara Cook