The Only Constant

Lovely :) I am returning from an inpatient stay. I haven't been very well. But I looked forward to catching up on your comics during my stay. Thank you for everything you do, and for the measures of happiness I have found in this story you have made. Fay's recovery hits hard, even if substances aren't my demon. It's hard to face old habits and fears, and you've portrayed her struggle and bravery beautifully.

I think I just got email spam from the world of QC. Subject line: "Machined AI Parts" (PS. Comment editing now broken?)

Clifton Royston

Theramean is a reserved word. As outlined in Theramin mining for fun and profit, making one's theramin sound like Scottish bag pipes relegates it to the class of theramean. A mean thing indeed.

dcy665 .

theramean or therameen

SpookyPenguin

I wish they were called "theremen" so the plural could be "theremina" (thus I sang, and thus anigh/came in hordes Theremina/et complebat omne forum/copia Thereminum/how shall wretches live like us/cincti Thereminibus?Domine, defende nos/contra hos Theremina!)

Ace

Lmao the plural name for multiple theramins XD

Deathmole will never sound the same

Da Nargh!!

All good. These things happen

Jackson Mccreery

Bubbles first wore the bearmonster shirt after the first time they had sex. I feel like the bearmonster shirt is pretty much hers now.

Populuxe

I’ve looked online and can’t find a good one. Adafruit has one but it only has the antenna. Where are the high end pieces??

Ben C

Bubble's smug "I-just-delivered-a-joke-face" is the best.

Bagge

Theremin kits are my new favorite running gag. Cue the Star Trek theme!

Sorastro

I like to think that Emily has been sneaking into their closet at night, and slowly replacing all of their clothing with copies made with her adaptive fit technology, because she knows it's the only way Faye and Bubs will ever be able to share clothing. Bubbles always notices, but pretends to be asleep so she won't frighten Emily. You'll know which piece just got replaced by Emily, because Bubbles will wear it the next day.

They are until they want to achieve personhood.

I had been meaning to buy my musician son one, so this pushed me over the edge.

Are AIs immortal?

Chris Heg

I still want to know whether Bubbles is wearing Faye's bearmonster t-shirt, or if she has obtained her own. Will they become one of those couples who wear matching outfits?

Dean Reilly

Emily combines all the theramins and it gains sentience. Sometime in the future Alice digs it up and recharges it. It evolves into an orbiting reflector device (the talky friendly one) which eventually becomes derelict in the far future. And then Yelling Bird fucks it. Full circle, baby!

Populuxe

the control scheme for playing the theremin must also be the method for controlling the espresso maker. composing unique songs creates unique espresso, through varying heating times and temperatures and the ratios of ingredients added

Mark Thomas

I doubt it. There’s still a lot of storylines going on. It feels like QC is far from over.

Andrea Andrew

Theraminae, from the Latin.

BobC

So do you want a theremin?

Yahsho Jinn

QC/Umbrella Academy crossover?

Richard Riley

that's the plan for Marten and Claire's eventual wedding processional.

Joe

I thought sheep was plural for shep...

Wolfger

perhaps we're approaching theremaximum, or at least a localized theremax, to continue a thread from yesterday.

Joe

at this point, they have enough parts to build the warp coil and a deflector dish.

Sleepy John

Jeph, this had better not be the wind-up to "And they all went off into adult life and lived happily ever after, The End".

Leaflemming

Oh Dear God, I am now picturing this as Faye's next art project. I blame you for the fact that I won't be able to sleep tonight.

Alex Borders

I'm disappointed that there hasn't been a rising trend of searches for 'theramin' on Google.

BioYuGi

I wish to see the Frankenstein's Theramin that is cobbled together from three or more build your own kits

Thomas Halpin

Please tell me there will be a bonus comic where a gallery of Pintsizes are playing theramins, pretty much in the vibe of the Portal2 end credits.

MikeT

I still think the plural of theremin is thereminception.

Summer Sudbrink

Faye and Bubbles go see Claire Without theramin This must be the last QC

BobC

It's that universal paperclip game, only theremins instead of paperclips.

Emma Humphries

I think Marten leaving her life would be nearly as crushing as losing her father.

Michael Boettger

It's not 'altering minds' if you fill the social network sites with theremin ads...or is it?

Douglas E. Smith

nono, "theremin" *is* the plural form. like "sheep", or "ninja". the singular form is unnecessary.

LH

I suspect a rogue AI is to blame for this theremin bussines, not Yay though since they have that one rule about altering minds and all

Tachpmg

I've seen instructions for an electronic hurdy gurdy I really want to build too.

Chase the Dragon

All the main characters but Faye and Pintsize die in the next month or so from increasingly improbable and wacky accidents. Faye realizes that it's her and Pintsize causing it, she jumps into an active steel furnace to destroy them both completely. Jeph starts doing a comic about the adventures of Elliot and Brun as they navigate a post-apocalyptic New England that is one third Lovecraft, one third Steven King, and one third Marx Brothers.

z

A couple of years ago, I got a build your own theremin kit and a build your own electronic bagpipes kit for my brother and his wife. They are both professional musicians. :)

Dave Van Domelen

Nope, this information is as new to us as it is to you.

Diptych

Collective noun? As in a murder of crows, exaltation of larks? Tautology of logicians?

Matt Grayson

How did everyone come to associate Claire with Theremins? Did I miss a strip?

Douglas E. Smith

Wait a minute, Faye could build an espresso-pooping theremin shaped like a dinosaur!

z

A "mistake" of Theramin, much like a "bullshit" of Tweets.

Nash Wolfe

As bland as Marten can be as a character, I would prefer that he not leave Faye and settle down so soon. Poor Faye. I know she has Bubbles now, but Marten is still clearly important to her, and she clearly doesn’t want to see him and Claire go.

Andrea Andrew

But I'm heartbroken. No more theremins? Emily was counting on them so she could (content redacted for national security reasons.)

Joseph Bonnar

What Is with The theremins

EnterTheHero

A bit of foreshadowing in panel 3?

Michael Boettger

Still counts as tomorrow's strip today

Hope

For Given

Joseph Bonnar