Heart Of Darkness

Wow, this one is really moving.

George Wilson

I have struggled with depression my whole life, including thinking about ending it. But I will never do that, because I have seen how devastated my friends have been after a friend or relative ends their life early. Faye's pain and lifelong suffering is so brilliantly represented by Jeph. QC adds to my resolve never to make that terrible choice. I would like to think that someone's life might be saved by this story.

Andy Sleeper

*hugs*

Dustin

Memory can be like a muscle, if not exercised it atrophies. Still there, but lost in all the other fleshy bits around it. But unlike muscles, sometimes the brain likes to bury certain fleshy bits "for our own good."

Dustin

I just realized.... her death anniversary just passed and you post this. How long now since my Misty been dead. 4/5/2005. I will miss her forever. How true it is. I can't remember her voice anymore. I can see her blonde hair wet with rain smiling at me but I don't remember her voice.

The Shadow's Lair

So very, very true. The gaps in our memories can be very strange and aching. I recently was given a bunch of stuff from my elementary school days. I don't remember the carefree child I was then. Nearly fifty years of time and all the trauma along the way, it makes sense, but I feel I *should* remember. A strange sensation, indeed...

Hugh Eckert

She is absolutely struggling to not put her ear up to the wall in the next room over..

Emerson

Wonderful comic! I am crying while i write this.

William F Stevens III

Should we be worried that there are "opposing forces" with small arms, artillery, and EMP weapons?

Summer Sudbrink

waaaaaaaah!

John Ridley

Damn you, Jacques!!!

DVW

Ouch. Right in the Feels.

Lucy

...fade out to the chorus of Passenger - Holes...

Volker Wegert

Given, bubbles is around the apartment for some time, they must have taken their precautions.

Theo Jakiemów

I was only nineteen / Redgum <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw</a>

Theo Jakiemów

Heh just clicked your link to see how the kickstarter was going. 24 days to go and you're already 14k over the goal. Congrats.

Paul Rendell

Jeph has done this quite often in QC. His characters, whether they hail from a space station in low earth orbit, or were originally created in a laboratory somewhere, are still only human, with all the trials and tribulations that lie therein.

David Paul

That is a great explanation of what happened. And I am sure a human soldier may have found themselves in the same situation: shock caused them to not be able to remember the names or faces of their squad, but they know that they were there at their sides and still feels the loss of them no longer being there.

Wild Card

Rereading the strip ... curse you, dictation software. And it got the rest so well.

Bob Ellis

Rereading the street for the third or fourth time. I just realised how much I liked that first line of Bubbles.' What prompted this?' is such a very Bubbles answer. Not quite guarded. Or even wary. Then the word came to me. Tactical. Observer, evaluate, consider, deal with. So very her, I think.

Bob Ellis

Jeeps, that final frame is the best writing you've ever done. And wonderful art.

Ralph

Installments like this make me proud to be a backer. Thank you, Jeph.

Devin Pike

Thank you. I've been waiting for this to come up. Thank you for handling it like this. Works for the audience and fits the Bubbles we're coming to know and like.

Bob Ellis

Thank you. You have stepped out of the world of webcomics and into the world of serious literature here.

Liked for "Faybles"

Todd Whitesel

Thank you, Jeph.

I don't know if this is building up to a romantic relationship or a solid friendship without the romance, and honestly, I'm good either way. I'd like to see Faybles come true, but if not, that's okay, too. The relationship Jeph has built here is a thing of beauty on so many levels.

Celine Chamberlin

Ok, maybe not.

lilibat

Guys can't we just have a couple of gal pals without it getting all robosexual?

lilibat

I love that last line.

Erik Hawkinson

I would get involved with the feels, but I have to say this: That bed is gonna break.

Gary Walker

I'm not crying, you're crying!

Nicki Faulk

The alternative to that grief would be not having known them.

Al Hunt

Faye has the fabrication skills to make a sturdy bed.

Jamison Town

Bubbles must be lightweight to not be crushing the bed like she's The Thing (FF)!

Chris Hewson

This reminded me of something I had papered over from long ago. Fuck. Two friends died.

BobC

Is it wrong that my second thought was "that's going to be murder on the bed springs"?

Jonathan V

MY SHIP IS COMING IN AND IT IS LOADED WITH FEELS

Asher Rose Fox

Every now and again you write something that really hits home. And with the beautiful art! Ugh. Scuse me while I go sob in a corner now. xP

Sara Grace

If Claire could see them, she would explode from both her ship appearing to come true and feeling sorry for both of them.

JD

Also: Jeph, did you forget Faye's scar, or her top too high?

Buck Caldwell

*squees, but quietly, out of respect*

Adam Friedlander

Nice perspective work on panel 5. That can't have been easy.

Buck Caldwell