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- The strip’s first major one starts in strip #500
, when Faye point-blank asks Marten if he’s attracted to her, and ends at #509, with the culmination being right in the middle when Faye reveals that she watched her father commit suicide. - When Sven tells Faye that he slept with someone else, within four panels she goes from happy to worried, then shocked, and ultimately heartbroken. She doesn’t even hit him. She just turns around and leaves.
- Dora and Marten’s breakup, both in-universe and out.
- Comic #2082, as Faye angsts over her feelings for Angus.Faye: Is that enough?
- Strip #2134: Hannelore’s backstory. Poor, poor Hanners.
- Strip #2158, sort of a follow-up to the last (but still needs context in the last few strips before it): D’awwwwwww! Ummm… This is the sweetest thing I’ve ever read from QC!
- Angus asks Marigold if the recent loud and enthusiastic sex with Faye has disturbed her and she says no. She then angrily asks whether her regular masturbation sessions keep him awake. While funny at first her angry response makes sense given that this a man she’s had a crush on for god knows how long and even if she’s over it, she’s constantly being reminded of how much fun he’s having with someone else.
- This strip makes one a little sad for Hanners.
- This peek inside her head moves her OCD from “amusing quirk” to just plain heartbreaking.
- Similarly, this strip hits close to home for OCD sufferers.
- This peek inside her head
- Anyone who has had to deal with transphobic/transmisogynistic street harassment will probably feel something reading this.
- Kind of a mix between funny and sad, but Dale looks immediately guilty after hearing May beg him not to turn the glasses off.
- Marigold’s mistreatment of Momo, and her reaction.
- And then Marigold’s reaction to that.
- And then Marigold’s
- Strip 2816. “I don’t know why I’m hugging you, but I’m hugging you.”
- And the strips before that, with Faye and Angus breaking up.
- “Go home, Faye. You’re fired.“
- Beep Beep Be…◊
- Also counts as one regarding Jeph once you see the strip’s title: Close To Home.
- "I’m not all right."
- "Who said I was rationalizing it to you?"
- So Long.
- "Give me the bottle."
- "I think I understand my Dad.".
- "Stupid."
- Friggin’ jerk-ass teens :(
- Faye crying with frustration and self-hatred while punching the hell out of a punchbag after falling off the wagon to the point that she’s bought booze. Retrospectively, also a Moment of Awesome when it’s revealed that she didn’t after all drink it.
- When an unknown AI turns up to help the gang retrieve Bubbles’ encrypted memories, they have hope that they can free Bubbles from Corpse Witch’s influence and let her deal with her forgotten trauma. The memories are completely gone, and everyone is devastated. The anguished look on Bubbles' face after she's not only allowed others to enter her mind (which AIs apparently experience as extremely violating, even when it's done for a good reason), but has learned that her precious memories have been accidentally deleted, is heartbreaking, especially given how stoical she normally is.
- Bubbles finally opens up about her squad.
- “Oh, Ma’am.”
- Pintsize reveals the real reason why he's so nice to Claire. For all his seeming sociopathy, the little guy cares about Marten and blames himself for not doing enough when Marten's relationships fail.
- Roko finds out what happened when she stepped outside of Union Robotics.
- Roko's subsequent issues with her new body are also pretty upsetting.
- Melon's response is also really well put: "It feels like something is wrong but I don't understand why. Could you maybe come out here and help me figure it out?"
- Melon's response
- Roko's subsequent issues
- "I'm sorry, dad."
- "We just want you to be happy, you stupid, STUPID-"
- Sam's parents apparently had a messy divorce, and her mother is voluntarily not present in her life aside from a card with a check and perfunctory video call every birthday, assuming she remembers that year. Over two comics Sam lets slip to Emmett just how much all this really bothers her before quickly changing subjects.
- Elizabeth Appleboom admits she's had writer's block for two years. And no one has helped her because A) Cubetown, where she works, is dysfunctional enough that no one has realized how much trouble she's having and B) she's too stubborn, prideful and ashamed to ask.
