Babality

This hits me right in the anxiety center of my feels. I have an exam today and I have been stressing about this course like crazy.

Next story arch.... Single White Librarian.

Chris Gallaty

shhh ur fine we lov u keep being a badass

Vik M.

Have you met many librarians? She's studying for the <b>perfect</b> job for that.

awgiedawgie

Being a smart-ass clearly improves Clare's mood. She needs a job where she can just make devastating quips all day long.

Clifton Royston

I remember one time when my eldest was barely a toddler and she was poking at this... trumpet stand? Or something. Anyway, someone was like "make sure she doesn't carry that off" and I said "no way can she lift that" and whoosh she one-hands that bad boy to head level. Toddlers are terrifying.

R. Francis Smith

I love that Marten continue the habit of making Claire coffee anytime they have a heavy conversation.

Bagge

Maybe it only came up in your RSS feed today because <b>it</b> got posted late, too. o_O

awgiedawgie

Depending on what you did, and just <i>how</i> disappointed it made her, you just <b>might</b> die. She'd probably feel bad later for killing you, but if you deserved it, well...

awgiedawgie

Babies are vicious tho

Minzoku Bokumetsu

I don't remember the monks...what strip/arc was that?

Danya Michael

ah, now THERE'S the dynamic we've come to expect of these two!

Matt

Yeah... I never objected to losing those matches... &lt;gooey dad-of-daughter="" sigh=""&gt;&lt;/gooey&gt;

Jason Zions

Baby fighting? No, it's wrestling where babies win every time. I can't count how often I was pinned by infants who celebrated victory by falling asleep on my chest, sometimes for hours.

BobC

We will forgive lateness if you share lots of puppy pics.

Erin Moriarty

Fail 'til you succeed, Claire.

Jeffrey Nonken

Yup. He has grown up a lot since we first met him. Character development is one of the (many) strong points of QC.

Matt Grayson

BONUS COMIC! Marty v. Baby.

Tim

Evidence suggests that Clinton would also be supportive: <a href="https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3773" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3773</a> and the next strip...

Hugh Eckert

It was the Beastly Baby: <a href="https://goreyana.blogspot.com/2008/11/beastly-baby.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://goreyana.blogspot.com/2008/11/beastly-baby.html</a>

Hugh Eckert

Never get in a fight with a toddler. They have no idea of their own strength and don't hold back. They can wreck anything. Tore my glasses apart...

Andrew Daviel

Marten's appalled expression at the suggestion that he could ever be disappointed in Claire

Scott Kenney

Your new baby kicked your ass?

Jeff Hartley

Puppies are as bad as newborns for sleeping

Stern lecture from Bubbles? That is the new standard for extreme punishment...

All together now: WE FORGIVE YOU, JEPH!

Coincidences in webcomics - Something Positive from earlier this week (which only came up in my RSS feed today for some reason) <a href="https://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08212018.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08212018.shtml</a>

Mark

Hahahaha. Love this so much. Now you (Jeph) have to show us what Marty vs Baby was like.

Andrew Mitchell

I'd die if Bubbles was disappointed in me, that would be worse than any arsekicking. Oh man.

Denise Webber

And that would still be enough, because Bubbles is frickin' enormous and badass.

Reyn Goldfur

It would look a lot like Martin va Angus.

Ted Van Roekel

I'm visualising Sideshow Bob and Cecil's sissy slap-fight at the end of that episode of The Simplsons.

Ben Russell-Gough

Bubbles’ stern lectures sound worse than kicking one’s ass

Brian

Why do I want to see Martin and Clinton in a nerd fight?

I couldn't handle how cute Claire was in that last panel.

Oh, and Jeph? SHAME on you for blaming poor Ollie!

Ben Russell-Gough

As I've said before, this is very much all about Claire's self-expectations, not what anyone else expects of her. Regarding his fighting skills, Marten has beat up some kung-fu monks but I'm not sure how much of that was a fluke. I don't think that they were ready for his skillet-fu! In any case, asking Bubbles to give someone a stern talking-to is a far worse fate than any application of physical violence. Knowing that she is DISAPPOINTED IN YOU is very much a fate worse than death!

Ben Russell-Gough

Those that would profess the ease of taking candy from a baby have likely never *actually* been tasked with doing so. Just saying.

Chris Gallaty

“Marten vs. the baby” has my bonus strip vote in perpetuity.

William Cole

Also, babies have those razor sharp fingernails, it's just not a fair fight. As for why this was posted late, a couple more puppy pictures will definitely ease forgiveness ... :-)

Peter Jensen

Marten’s Dad’s wedding debrief?

Matt Grayson

In Bubbles’s current mood, she’d smile, close her eyes, and say “Be nice to your sister.”

Matt Grayson

I can think of zero times in this comic when Clinton has given Claire crap for anything except in respons to a larger crap she gave directly to him.

Bagge

In Marten's defence, that baby was a jerk.

Bagge

C'mon, Clinton is 7/8ths scale Marten. Unless he has a buzzsaw attachment for his prosthetic hand, I think Marten could take him.

Dean Reilly

Don't sweat it Jeph; I'm sure my F5 button will forgive you, some day.

Lars Gottlieb