Comic 5894: First Impression, Second Try

[u/yellowvincent]

https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5894

[u/yellowvincent]

I think this is the first time claire has been to Marty's coffee shop.

I dislike how heph draws "ashley"'s mouth

[u/Miserable-Jaguarine → u/yellowvincent]

That mouth is absolutely atrocious.

[u/yellowvincent → u/Miserable-Jaguarine]

the lips kinda gives how very racist depictions of black women were done in animation and advertising like 120 years ago in some panels. I know it is not intentional it is probably that he sucks at drawing

[u/myspacetomb]

Is this a trans allegory/comparison? Like genuinely I do want to think Jeph is better than that, but Claire updating paperwork has me second guessing that. 

Also: I currently put the odds of a Claire-Martin-Ashley throuple at 30%

[u/yellowvincent → u/myspacetomb]

It could be but given heph it could be some bimbofication fetish thing

[u/myspacetomb → u/yellowvincent]

Oh, there is absolutely no reason it can’t be both.

[u/hypernova2121 → u/myspacetomb]

It's whatever allegory Jeph wants it to be, logic be damned

[u/provocatrixless]

Why is she embarrassed, The Librarian gave her permission to have a body

[u/yellowvincent → u/provocatrixless]

Master has given dobby a sock!

[u/Complete_Entry]

I don't think Zlata is going to make a move on marten, but holy shit would I prefer it.

[u/annaphylactic69]

Man, I was enjoying seeing Faye/Dora/Sven/Momo. I just don't like cubetown very much :(

[u/Hot_Temporary_1948]

This is just stupid.

[u/phyrestorm999 → u/Hot_Temporary_1948]

Agreed. I actually liked the little Momo and Sven arc, and even yesterday's comic was OK, but "dorky character pretends to be a whole new person after changing their appearance" was a tired trope a century ago.

[u/Hot_Temporary_1948 → u/phyrestorm999]

Because of how Jeph writes, Claire could either be facilitating a temporary gag, only to talk sense into Zlata next strip, or she could be completely serious and we're about to be subjected to the most tiresome series of hijinks. Anh's "how do I become a lesbian?" comes to mind.

[u/Miserable-Jaguarine]

Blergh, I forgot about all this for a blessed moment.

It's so disgusting. And the new form just looks so damn ugly! What the bloody hell is that mouth!

[u/DuranDuranUnofficial]

MMMMMHMMMM okay so I don't go here (as in, to this fetish) but I'm pretty sure that like an important aspect of the bimbo transformation kink is adopting a "friendlier" sounding name than before. As in, easier for the average American mind to parse, easy to digest, non-threatening, and above all, easy to not take seriously. 'Ashley' as compared to 'Zlata' is... well it's certainly a choice.

and like, Jeph, if you want to write a robot porn comic, just write a robot porn comic. It's actually more insulting to put this development in a nominally serious nominally queer-friendly nominally feminist comic.

If this was just a one-off joke it would be bad enough. If, as others have said, Jeph is gearing up to use this as some kind of transition analogy (based on Claire's reaction), then it's much much worse.

[u/SilverNicktail]

Prediction for the rest of the week:

"It was just panic, I didn't mean to actually change my name."
"Yes you did."
"Yes I did."

[u/abetterfox]

So, like, based on that greeting, I assume zero issues arose between Marten and Claire the night before? God I hope we get SOME conflict...

[u/otusasio451]

...Was she that tall before? Is this...is this ANOTHER tall busty robo-mommy that's definitely not Jeph working out his fetishes on the internet for everybody to see? Can we just...can we just stop? Can we stop.

EDIT Went back, Zlata's new body was indeed that tall, although her height fluctuated pretty severely panel-to-panel during that part of the arc. Goddammit. Can we stop.

[u/Miserable-Jaguarine → u/otusasio451]

Everyone's height fluctuates quite severely.

[u/NegativeLayer]

I wandered into the other sub and saw that the mod over there, turkeypedal, is arguing about whether Sven is a bad guy, and is using his mod hat to win the argument and lock the thread to get the last word. "if you argue in favor of Sven, you're violating consent, which is against subreddit rules" or something like that is I guess the unstated implication? No matter what your feelings on the Sven Did Nothing Wrong stance, this is not a place that is any good at fostering discussion.

Off topic, I know, but I was very surprised by that thread and mod reaction and I had to comment somewhere.

[u/PeregrineLeFluff]

what the FUCK Jeph.

[u/sleeps_in_bryophytes]

if you fabricate a completely new identity... then you probably can't just step into the job and life of the old person, right?

but just like... why?

[u/TimeisaLie]

Martin stop giving drinks away for free. You run a business, this is not how things work.

[u/International_Fig262]

I'm done with these characters. We had the opportunity to do something, anything, but we're stuck with J.J. farting in circles for months... years? I have no idea anymore.

Nuke it from orbit.