We All Were, Once

Around 30 years ago, I worked with an Improve group in Miami that was successful enough that we had our own theater (actually, a series of 3 of them over the years). The first one, a little before my time, was situated above a towing company office, and ever so slightly infested with scorpions (a fact that was kept from the audience, so as not to bum them out (or make them not want to risk their lives for a few yuks). To this day, we refer to that early period in the group's history as "Mental Floss, at the prestigious Tow Truck Theater, now with scorpions." Not strictly relevant, it's just my free-association with the idea of living with unwanted scorpions. (No scorpions or humans were harmed in the making of the show. Well, actually, lots of scorpions were murdered with extreme prejudice, but our audiences were fine. We killed, but not literally.) I'll show myself out now.

I want to know what the not-a-super-heroine pizza lady is up to. She deserves a happy story, maybe a meet-cute with another local superhero? :D LOL

Kerin Schiesser

Time to bring back Raven, Penelope, and Cosette?

Tom Rosenbaum

Recently turned 20, soo it's starting for me

Tachpmg

I think that may have been the other way around!

Grace Kieser

ugh. same man, same.

Satan

Heck, I’ve been 29 the past ten years ...

I stopped counting at 24, therefore I'm still a fucked-up twentysomething. Instead of a fucked-up *mumble*something.

prettydragoon

That's making some big assumptions about the passage of time

...I'm older than any of the QC main characters. I didn't need to know that.

Lucy

Hannelore's experience of shoveling poop will come in handy for cleaning out the cave of forty asses

Bagge

There needs to be a welcome back party, mostly because those are my favorite stories. :p

Daryl Sawyer

It's weird. This comic has been running for so long, I could have swore at least a few of them had reached thirty. :p

Daryl Sawyer

They probably don't have ice cream :p

Why does Dora have such a hate-on for affogato that it gets an underlined NO on the price list?

Jason Zions

More than a year, I think.

Nemo of Utopia

Maybe not that good, but definitely nice.

Evgeniy Semyonov

So how long has she actually been away? In real time that is

Kevin Symonds

The Prices board: : "Good Advice 69" Ummm....

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

55. You tell 'em uncle grumpus! 😜

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

Also I am really pleased to have Hannelore back. She was always my favorite, but I'm not supposed to say so... I love all of them! 🤗👍

Robert and Ann Wells

67. Out of my yard, kids! 😂🤗

Robert and Ann Wells

Well, she was 26 pretty early in the series, and it isn't too farfetched that four years (or more) have passed in comic time since then. I don't remember the exact number, but Dora tells Faye to "stop humming "Mrs. Robinson", I'm only twentysix!"

Ingrid Nordbø

As a fucked up thirty-something, I’m having trouble with this page.

Lightsabr2

"You're All Individuals!" "YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!" /small voice at the back/ "I'm not."

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Who happens to be 20-something... and a bit fucked up, supposedly as a result. (Given the evidence of how the others have been doing, I'm not sure I buy that. I think she'd be a bit messed up even without the science.)

Some Ed

We need Biff, muffy and Tad to complete the collection of fucked-up trust-fund kids

SpookyPenguin

I am at a loss for words at how excited I am to see Hannelore back. I just can't hold in all the squee I have.

I'd guess Hanners is okay with -some- physical contact... likely she has a "quota" in the same way that introverts can only tolerate so much human interaction before they have to retreat and "recharge".

Elthon Maria

Heh, the moment Dora learns that Hannelore is now OK with physical contact she starts getting touchy-feely. Why am I not surprised?

Bagge

Oh no. Same.

Andrew Young

I would think Peach??

Minzoku Bokumetsu

...oh good lord, I've been reading this comic since *I* was a fucked-up twentysomething.

neato

"Yeah, but you're OUR fucked-up twentysomething"

CalmWeaver27

Oh, God! Me too! Welp, time to put myself out on an ice floe...

Grace Kieser

As a Tabetha, I beg you. Don't do it. Please.

Tabetha Rosenberg

When this comic started I was a fucked up twenty-something. Now I'm a fucked up forty-something.

drone r0m-3

This does seem to imply that Dora has hit the big 3-0.

Craig Griffith

I laughed at the "Good Advice" on the menu board

Break out the Arbor Day banner! Everyone needs to welcome this beautiful child home

Kyle Jenkins

Taaaanners

Kriss Pang

Hanners x Pintsize

Jax

Well we already know she’s a poke slut so maybe the whole town?

Daniel Burnett

TANNERS!

Since we're all thinking it...now that Hanners can handle human contact, who will she have her eye on for a significant other?

Bartley J Drood

"Time to add 11 characters." Nine of them are personas of Spookybot. One is a persona of Spookybot with the most AMAZING rack and back end job... And one is Pear (Melon's sister, think "genteel Southern lawyer aunt on LSD.")

z

And Hanners isn't really a fucked up 20-something. More of a science experiment gone a bit off.

Michael Boettger

I still can't picture Hanners swearing. I mean, it's funny, but she is so precious.

Joel Bateman

I'm a fucked up twentysomething in my thirtysomethings

Brent

Well, something quiet and restrained for a welcome back. Introduce her to the new characters and anything else she might have missed.

Michael Boettger

Stabitha? What about Stabitha?

Matt Grayson

Haha I just had the same thought except it was, holy crap I started reading this in high school and now I am 30....

kris mitchell

This is good civilization.

Frank Morris

Oh god, I just had the sudden fear; what if I start out-ageing Marten and pals due to the inconsistent flow of time in QC? When I first started reading I wasn't even in my 20s yet. Now I'm almost caught up to him. Jeph, you're giving me an existential crisis.

Samantha Yeaman

Hi jeph! Love the content , notice me senpai!

Hanners is back ♥️ that party is happening

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