Awesome / Questionable Content

• It looks to me... like it needs some more MILK!
  • It has since been redone in the more modern art style, and it's just as awesome.
• Marten's revenge on the monk.
• Marten finally calling Dora out on her hypocrisy after she invades his privacy despite him specifically asking her not to.
  Dora: Look I’m sorry, you’re right. I shoulda respected your privacy. I just didn’t think it was that big a deal.
  Marten: Oh yeah, because if I so much as blink at another girl it’s the end of the fucking world but you completely breaching my trust isn’t ‘that big of a deal.’
  Dora: Seriously? Are we seriously having this discussion?
  Marten: What’s there to discuss? I have to be on my best behavior at all times but you can apparently just do whatever you want and it doesn’t matter.
• Hannelore again, standing up to her overbearing mother.
  • And another one: "She has the voice!"
• Hannelore got hers after Faye and Sven hooking up caused drama. Faye got drunk and had wangst. This is how Hanners dealt with it:
  Hannelore: You are going to put down that bottle right this instant. Then you're going to go take a nice, hot shower while I make you some coffee, and you're going to SOBER UP and QUIT WHINING because I am NOT PUTTING UP WITH ANY MORE OF YOUR SHIT!
  • To put this in perspective: Hannelore has severe OCD and usually curls fetal and cries when put in a confrontational situation. She must really have been sick of Faye's shit.
• Also, Wil in this one. Breaks his arm in a road accident and his first priority is making sure his date doesn't feel rejected by him not turning up. THAT is chivalry.
  Wil: I fear my arm's broken.
  Penelope: What?! Why did you come HERE then? You should be at the hospital!
  Wil: A gentleman never stands a lady up.
  • Instant karma kicking Faye in the ass when she laughed on hearing about Wil's accident, seen here.
• Pretty much everything in this episode counts as a crowning moment of awesome. Especially The US Department... of kicking your ass. And he wasn't just making it up, either.
• The entire (ESPECIALLY this one)^note which is so awesome he sells it as a print drunken sledding scene.
• My name is Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham. I END MESSES. For those of you who don't remember, it was this strip. Even Angus thought that that was awesome.
• Marigold working up the nerve to open that door.
• "Let's finish this..."
• First, Pintsize and Winslow try to jump Hannelore's Roomba off a ramp. Then they succeed.
• Speaking of Angus, he gets one in this strip where he suddenly kisses Faye after Faye comments about how people are sometimes full of surprises and ends up not only rendering Faye completely speechless but also snagged a date with her as well. Gotta admire the sheer chutzpah on that dude.
• Faye giving Dora a much deserved What Were You Thinking? after Marten helps Faye through a panic attack was the cause of much fan rejoicing.
• It's not technically in the continuity of the comic itself, but it's hard to imagine an image more awesome than this. A tiny bird dual-wielding machine pistols riding a tiger (while presumably high on bath salts that he snorted out of said tiger's rectum) while fireworks go off in the background.
• Momo getting payback on Pintsize for being such a dick.
• Sam doing her damnedest to catch a snake is also really funny.
• Merely a dream sequence, but: NOW ENDS THE AGE OF MAN.
• Hannelore's birthday gift to her dad. Not even a drunken Lieutenant Porter can ruin the moment.
• Tai lays out her feelings toward Dora.
• PUNY MORTAL! YOUR THREATS ARE NOTHING TO SKULLMASTER, MASTER OF SKULLS!
• Dora's brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Faye after catching her drinking on the job. In one paragraph, she systematically rips apart the "quirks" that have been a hallmark of Faye's personality (such as being snarky, mean to customers, insubordinate, and grouchy to the other workers at the coffee shop), pointing out that, instead of them being funny, her actions are getting tiresome. The entire situation, in context, is a tearjerker, but props to Dora for saying what needed to be said.
• For many people, Claire stripping for Marten could be seen as one. We all know that she has a crippling fear of being rejected due to being transgender, so her standing up and saying "W-well, this-this is me" is nothing short of awesome. Marten's response is also a Heartwarming Moment.
• Faye finding her last secret bottle of alcohol…and then pouring it down the drain. There is hope for you yet, Whitaker.
  • Look at The Rant too; given Jeph's history, it makes it a bit of a Heartwarming Moment as well.
• Doubles as a Funny Moment, but Marten shutting down Pintsize before he even has a chance to harass Claire is pretty cool.
  LOOOOM
• Clinton gets punched out for spilling a drink on a guy during his date with Emily. Emily slaps the attacker, who then decides to try and hit her when Elliott shows up.
  Elliott: Friend you have a lot to learn about interpersonal behavior. Come outside with me and I'll educate you.
  • And the best part? Elliott has almost never shown any violence in the comic, and has generally been more of a Gentle Giant. Not only that, but, as far as we know, he doesn't even KNOW Emily or Clinton. But when you hurt people around him, you're in for a world of pain.
• Hannelore's father has pioneered orbital pizza delivery.
• Faye returns to Coffee of Doom and is so disturbed by the changes in the place that she buys herself a bottle of whisky, but then Bubbles insists on accompanying her home, and just stands there in silence as Faye prepares to drink. After a massive internal struggle, Faye doesn't drink the whisky and just beats the hell out of a punchbag instead, admittedly while weeping with frustration and self-hatred. On her return to work she walks straight up to Bubbles and gives her a huge hug.
• An Offscreen Moment of Awesome for Gentle Giant Elliott. He shows up with a bandage across his nose. The cut to how he got it?
  Elliott: [clutching a bloodied nose and giving a legitimate Death Glare to someone wielding a bottle] Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. [cut back to Elliott talking to Brun] I...I walked into a door.
  Brun: Is the door okay?
  Elliott: Not really, no.
• Even though it's followed up by a Kick the Dog moment, it's impressive how Corpse Witch deals with Roko, playing off the situation and ushering her out the door before she can object.
• POW.
• It's not every girl who has friends that can call in an orbital strike.
• "I am still here." Seeing Corpse Witch finally get hers is extremely cathartic.
  Next comic follow up: I could rip you apart, tear out your mind substrate, and crush it to dust in my hands. There is nothing you could do to stop me.... I choose not to.
• Bubbles may have let Corpse Witch off...but the unknown AI isn't going to.
  spookybot: We are very, VERY bad news.
• After Hannelore discovers that her mother hired Tilly on as her PA so that she could gain a stepping stone in a business deal, she has Tilly fly them to her mother's office, barges into the middle of a meeting, throws everyone out, and reads her mother the goddamn riot act, capping it off by telling her mother to not ever contact her again unless Hannelore initiates it herself. All in all, pretty damn impressive for the resident worrywart.
  Hannelore: I don't know if you're capable of feeling shame, but you ought to.
  • It's even more impressive because Hannelore completely falls apart when she's in the lobby far away from her mother's sight. It's hard for her to summon up courage around her mother, but she's able to do it when it counts.
  • Then it gets yet more impressive because Hannelore both willingly cries on someone else's shoulder and then lets that same person cry all over hers and she doesn't even briefly freak out. This shows she's come quite a long way from her childhood where she couldn't even be in the same room with people without going in a panic attack, and later on when even someone else touching her drove her into total hysterics.
• After Bubbles and Faye finally hook up, Pintsize makes a crass comment. Marten assumes that Bubbles is about to destroy him, but instead, Bubbles grabs him Hamlet-style by the head and psychoanalyzes his actions, pointing out that his behavior is just a sign of discomfort with the situation and low self-esteem.
  Pintsize: [in tears] Please make her stop.
• Basilisk quitting the police force because she hates the fact that she had to reassure May that she wouldn't punish her for being rude to her.
• YES YOU DO
• After finding out Appleboom has been left to her own devices for two years, Claire decides to take the job in Cubetown, but not before reading Moray (and by extension the entire staff) the riot act for their negligence.
  Claire: What do I think? What I think is this young lady has been in crisis since she got here, and the fact that she was able to conceal it for so long speaks to the gross negligence of the people nominally in charge!
• Faye putting the fear of God in Appleboom after she runs her mouth a little too much and hits Faye's Berserk Button.
  Appleboom: If I can't party in bars, that means I have to engage in illicit, underage partying! Just like normal people my age!
  Faye: (annoyed) Have fun with that, kid. But it ain't happenin' at my place.
  Appleboom: Why not?
  Faye: 'Cause I got a drinkin' problem, that's why not.
  Appleboom: So don't drink. Not my problem.
  Faye: Get...THE FUCK...outta my shop.
  (Appleboom runs off)

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