Flash Fire

Also known as ‘Movie Sign.’

William Burns

It has been said that the bridge instrument that would have been most useful on the Enterprise would have been an episode start detector :)

David Howe

Overall quite high. In fact one of the main limiting factors for electronics devices right now is that they can't shrink the circuits much further without electrons (electricity) tunneling from one part of the circuit to another so even with current technology there's probably tunneling events happening all the time (just not enough to break logic in our devices). Clinton's robot hand could have actually been the trigger as the well since it probably connects to his nerves somehow which would require ultra thin wiring.

Gregory Norris

All firefighters in QC are secretly also Quantum Physicists. ^__^

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Anybody else think "Gross Existential Negligence" would make a great title for Jeph's next webcomic?

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Wow! That's a frighteningly precise assessment. The bar literally existed to catch on fire, to advance the story Jeph is telling, and the firefighters caught on to that? How profoundly insightful. No wonder Hanners is into them.

Kyle Rudy

he looks like a red headed cockatiel

tamtheotter

Vulgar headcanon warning: It will turn out that Brun can't bear to be touched, except by Clinton's robot hand. This will lead Clinton to have more and more of himself replaced by robot parts, to their mutual joy and gratification. Jeph will be perfectly discreet about this, and no one will ever know.

I am obtuse, and took a while to realize that what Brun is saying here is not "Thank you for telling the truth about how we would never have been friends," but rather "Thank you for telling the truth about how you were feeling back at the bar then, so that we could become friends." This is why Elliott is not going to wind up with Brun. He can't just come out and say what he feels. Clinton's brashness, which has gotten him in trouble in every other part of his life, is going to make him sufficiently bold and direct that he can make himself understood to Brun. Also, duh, this is why Brun likes Renee. Renee is loud and direct enough that Brun can figure out what is up with her.

I don't think they're saying the building burning down was an "Act of God." I think they're saying it was an "Act of God" it took so long for the building to finally burn down.

Jonathan V

What are the odds of a quantum tunneling event? <a href="http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae460.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae460.cfm</a>

Is that what insurance companies are calling "Acts of God" these days? Yeesh, laws are made to require people to buy insurance for a variety of things, but no laws requiring the insurance companies to act in good faith, (if such a thing could actually happen, of course). To be fair, though, the last time I made an insurance claim (personal items insurance on my truck), they were pretty on the ball. The only issue I had was when I was claiming my $2000 folding bicycle and they wanted to pro-rate it's cost. I had to point out to them I hadn't even owned the bicycle for two weeks (backed by receipts) when the truck accident that wrecked it happened.

Joshua Brumley

Folks investigating the fire quickly switched from enumerating probable causes to trying to find the reason the place had not torched itself up to that point.... That left them pondering if there was some reason the place *needed* to exist up to that point.... They concluded that it seemed to only have existed to be a plot device in a larger narative. After this case, most of the team investigating was forced to quit and head off seeking the nature of their own existence.

Chris Gallaty

It provides pet insurance for your Schrodinger's cat. But you have to collapse the quantum state before you can make a claim.

Dean Reilly

I don't think she's worried about their friendship. I think she meant "Thank you for telling the truth... about your feelings, instead of trying to hide them." Of course, I could be wrong.

awgiedawgie

As someone whose mind works a lot like Brun's, I don't think she'll have those kinds of concerns. Of course, everyone's different, so no telling how it'll go from here.

Peter Jensen

I don't think that she ever really expected that. It was just a source of stress and annoyance to her that things after the fire didn't return to the pre-fire status quo.

Ben Russell-Gough

@Captain Button, No, only 600lb pink gorillas sitting on the coffee table.

Ben Russell-Gough

In other words, someone in that bar could literally have snapped their fingers and caused the place to burn down. Which, when you think about it, would have been terrifyingly cool. Meanwhile, I think that poor Brun is now worrying that there has to be something wrong with her friendship with Clinton, as it was originally started by him being mad at his sister. Does that mean that this friendship is a bad thing? It's so difficult for her to work these things out!

Ben Russell-Gough

That seems legit

Bagge

So it would seem that her old bar is unlikely to be rebuilt.

Brent Catherman

Whew! All caught up on DoA after Dina's QC appearance a few strips ago. I want Dina to meet Brun.

BobC

Only is you have a policy with Stranger &amp; Stranger (ask for Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent)

Andie KE8KOY

I’m starting to think Jeph can’t help himself. One day we will reach the cute-ularity!

Andrew

Does existential insurance cover the elephant in the room?

Captain Button

Better see your semi-phenomenal, nearly cosmic insurance agent.

Andrew

Only if it's gross existential insurance.

Does insurance cover that?

Captain Button

Sounds completely normal to me. But then I named it Mervin by the third... crap what's the name of the individual images again, I know, or knew rather, but I'm drawing a complete blank at the moment?

Paul Rendell

Is anyone else as distracted and oddly mesmerized by that one flippy lock of Clinton's hair as I am? I kind of want to pet it and give it a name. Yes, I am well aware of how weird that is.

Celine Chamberlin

Have I mentioned before how much I love this comic? Because I fucking love this comic.

Cody Renton

We need that in the criminal code! When the camel has a gazillion straws break his back, what’s the charge? “It’s a code GEN, sarge, throw the book at 'em!”

Holly Nelson

Awww, sad Brun.

Kajsa Anderson

Awww, Brun. But, you’re friends NOW. 👍🏾

William Hanna

Jeph, you somehow made Brun cuter

Waffliesinyoface

I’m gonna use that one at work. “Gross Existential Negligence.”

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