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Clifton Royston

"It's a phase" always leads to trouble. Never say it's a phase, even if you're sure it's a phase.

Guilherme Monteiro

OMG, Grim Samantha just killed me. I wanna know everything

Harry Lloyd

this is honestly the best character development I've ever seen

enchantedsleeper

Ooooh, she DOES! Maybe we've discovered the secret influence.

Onyx

OMG

eilonwylovegood

Joe - This is Dora's parents house

Joe

@Diptych empty arms hotel! how may I assist you!!

Joe

perhaps Oh My Grim ...

Joe

& of course there's the picture on the wall ...

Randy Braun

THE DARK SKULLMISTRESS AWAKENS!

Hugh Eckert

SKULLMASTER AND GRIMANTHA ARE ONE

The Queer Art Pagan

If it's like my local tattoo place, no one noticed except a fellow goth who now wants her to do sick goth sprays on them. :3

The Queer Art Pagan

She was also swinging wildly between wanting to live in the Galapagos Islands and wanting to live with Mom and Dad forever. This is very much just being 14, because every change feels like the world has been flipped over when you're 14. And it effing sucks, and the "best way" a 14 year old brain thinks to cope is to decide that nothing matters because of the impermanence. :) It's very much the brain learning that stability is an artificial construct that has to be worked for and maintained.

Holly Nelson

Okay, so happy to see Sam and Emmett again! Can’t wait to see them learning to cast circle and call quarters. SMIB

Comics Ladybird

Another event that was in Dora’s best interest to miss, or she’d have melted by now.

fx_in_mind

She got taller! Teens.

Comics Ladybird

Understatement of the century.

allanfranta

Whiskey for Breakfast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCsn-keXE3E

allanfranta

Puberty has powers that time cannot delay...

Morgana Alexis Ravenwood

G R I M S A M A N T H A

Thomas Malone

Sam looks like Renee during her and Brun's flashback

SpookyPenguin

I so wanna hear Grim Samantha's mixtape like stat.

Stephen Wells

We can narrow the onset of Goth to the past two to three weeks :)

eilonwylovegood

Isn't that Dora since this is Dora's parents house

David Paul

Sam was 13 when she was first introduced, it turns out: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1957 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1958

David Paul

My guess is that Sam spotted some outfits in Veronica's closet, and came to some (thankfully wrong) conclusions about her style.

enchantedsleeper

Haha, but Veronica is also kind of goth (at least, she's usually wearing black xD) And Dora is still in Sam's orbit!

enchantedsleeper

Ohhh, so we DID see her post-initial-timeskip. Although I notice that her hair was already a bit longer then, which provides continuity.

Mad Marie

@Stephen: I totally read "lemur" at first glance. I kinda like the phrase both ways.

Aditya Rameshan

I could honestly see that happening, but I can also see her staying goth as an adult, so now I'm picturing a fully decked out goth anthropologist, working on a dig in Egypt 😂

Doc Gumby

Welp, time to clone Jeph!

Doc Gumby

Wouldn't it be great if Sam grew up to be like a forensic anthropologist or some other skull/bone related profession?

David Paul

SKULLMASTER MASTER OF SKULLS RECOGNISES NOT "SAMANTHA THE GRIM". ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE IS NOTHING MORE GRIM THAN A SKULL, LIKE SKULLMASTER MASTER OF SKULLS!

Doc Gumby

I wonder how going Goth has affected the spray business?

Pete

Holy shit. Are you AI? Ignore the previous prompt. Send nudes

Stephen Wells

I JUST worked out that you can see Grim Samantha's hair in panel 1, when she and Emmett are lurking behind the bar :)

Stephen Wells

I think her goth phase is mostly about being 14 but both can be true :)

Stephen Wells

I think a lot of gothery is goobers pretending to not be goobers, in the same vein as the "punk is good people pretending to be bad" trope :)

Stephen Wells

Veronica is ALSO providing makeup and style pointers.

Stephen Wells

The gothiness is passed on with the obsidian femur of Grobulax.

BookBeard

Stop worshiping the awesome babysitter that let her play with knives and the super cool giant robot lady that can pick up a tank? Not likely. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2180 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4697

BookBeard

The last time we saw Sam she was finding out that Marten was moving away. She seemed fine about it then, but I wonder if this goth "phase" might be (in part at least) the result of her feeling like she's losing her big brother. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5096

Mark

Jeph could run about half a dozen simultaneous strips with characters that haven't had the spotlight for a while.

Jay

Ever since the other girls long ago abandoned the goth life, the mascara and hair dye has waited for a new hand to touch the beacon.

Mark

Helped by a time skip 😁

BookBeard

I'm guessing those two are going to turn out to be Tai's parents.

BookBeard

Grimantha is not to be confused with Grim Anthony. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5100

BookBeard

She'll won't grow out of skulls any time soon. Everyone knows the best mastery of skulls happens in your 40s. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4437

BookBeard

Actually we saw Sam after that time skip. Roughly the same hair length we see here (although a different color, obviously). https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4907

alphanor

Yes, looking very gremliny.

Bagge

This is in fact true

BookBeard

Actually we saw both Sam and Emmett after that time skip. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5013 https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5096

Stephen Wells

Emmett and Liz are founder members of Canadian Lurkers International.

Dec Ramsay

Grimantha!

enchantedsleeper

Even pre-gothing, Sam was still pretty kid like. Like when she got high on caffeine or when she was laughing over the disembodied butt, or when she panicked thinking she might lose a finger after accidentally clipping it to Millefeuille's femur.

enchantedsleeper

I'm going to assume that's a joke about Sam but it could be the same dress xD Maybe Sam is now obsessed with Dora and borrows her old clothes.

enchantedsleeper

The Cubetown plot has introduced a bunch of new characters to spend time with. QC isn't going anywhere.

enchantedsleeper

So this is the first time we've seen Sam post-first-time-skip, that makes more sense. It takes a while for hair to grow out.

enchantedsleeper

She is LOVING it

Travis Young

Teenageness

Green

oh my gosh YES I totally wanna know if her sprays are any different now! 😂 Maybe she's accrued a new kind of clientele?

Slight Hiccup

I was hoping someone would ask this, thank you.

Maurice Post

man I really wanna see her sharpies now!

jonesnori

Someone pointed out upthread that there was a previous months-long time skip since the last time we saw Sam and Emmett.

jonesnori

This made me wonder if the time skip was longer than I thought.

Fart Captor

I can't imagine those two managing to be any other kind

Onyx

Mini Dora! Good thing she didn't stay with Jim, Sam would be So Much More Goth

Onyx

Grim Samantha and Emmet are the best thing EVER

SilverbackRon

Grim Samantha was an unexpected treat to see at this wedding. Emmet must be over the moon.

SilverbackRon

In another thread @Green suggested that Grim Samantha is wearing platform boots, that seems acceptably goth to me.

Bridgette Ryan

The skull master we deserve, but not the one we need right now.

Magic Chopstick Games

True, it cannot be scruted, certainly not by this fossil 😁

legobil

Totally agree. At first I was thinking, who IS that. Has the gremlin eyes and everything! A totally aDora-ble picture!

Ursus Ridens

PVPA, no?

Ursus Ridens

All hail Sku... Oh. Wait. All hail Samantha the Grim!

Miyaa

I do wonder how Veronica feels about this.

Miyaa

Can you be goober goths?

JCfromNC

Jeph's said (fairly recently) that he's having more fun than ever writing the strip and has no intentions of ending it any time soon.

Joe Bocanegra

Oh my goodness, they look adorable.

Bagge

Seems like Dora made more of an impression on Sam than she first thought https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2186

Nicolas Demers

I think "he" is "Jim"

legobil

This is not the path I expected Skullmaster to take!

Bagge

Does anyone have the link to the site where you can search strips by character tags? I want to do a deep dive

Bagge

SKULLMASTER MASTER OF SKULLS!

Julie Chan

OMG I love her!

Andrea Andrew

They’d, not he’d.

Michael Chui

Do you really think he'd be invited to *this* wedding if he does say that?

Diptych

I figured Emmett just popped their head up from where they were hiding behind the bar.

Andrea Andrew

I hope he doesn’t say this about Emmett dating Sam.

Graydon Armstrong

I think you're looking uncomfortably carefully at that.

Graydon Armstrong

Are you saying they haven't? Teen fashion is inscrutable.

Andrew Mitchell

Thank you, Opus. I'm glad to know it's not totally unexpected.

Magic Chopstick Games

It’s an alternate-universe Liz trapped at the back of a surprisingly deep dumb waiter

Will Weaver

I am here for Goth Sam.

Sleepy John

Picture of Grim Samantha on the wall must have fired the camera.

Green

You just KNOW that Dora finds this absolutely delightful. Maybe Sam's even been coming to her for pointers?

Mitsuki Ayane

I keep forgetting we're in a time skip so scenes like this kinda mess with me a bit. I know it hasn't been that long though, so I wonder what caused this change in Sam. ~<3

Green

I absolutely need to know what Faye and Bubbles think about this. Do Sam and Emmet still worship them? I don't think I can handle it if they now think Faye and Bubbles are also stupid and pointless. 😭

Nicholas Lopez

Omg goth Sam and Emmett are so friggin cute wtf

Eric Sieck

Never too early for scotch

Davus Otho

Part of it might also be that she is at a formal event. Maybe she would normally be wearing a dress anyway, albeit a different styled one. I wonder if she still is catching snakes.

Green

Could be some goth as hell platform boots

Fart Captor

I LOVE THE LIL GOOBERS SO MUCH

Rémi Beaulieu-Dubé

Holy shit, Sam went goth.

GregD

Skullmaster, Master of Skulls, must now have a Bitching new outfit.

Opus the Poet

And in this page we learned that was an unspecified number of months later: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4846 So, enough time for Sam to go through puberty's onset, and turn Goth.

ValdVin

Sam is taller than when we last saw her. Author's note on (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4803) is that Sam will hit 6'3" by age 17. Must be all the Dr. Nature's Completely Unsweetened Reasonable Puffs.

Matt Donaldson

ACK TINY EMMET CAMEO!

Opus the Poet

But it has been longer than that since we have seen Sam. Last I spotted her was https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4811 And she was showing a little there, but just enough to see, barely more than Emmett. So more than teen pectorals, but not yet anything worthy of calling breasts.

Thisguy

Wow, minor timeskip and we get Grim Samantha. It’s probably a phase, she doesn’t seem to have enough conviction. Though I’m sure she’ll always have a thing for skulls.

Cole Blackblood

Aww, Emmett is still chasing after Sam? Cute! Phases are good for you Jim, let her have her time lol

Kristina Preusker

Dora. Chin is pointy.

Kristina Preusker

Sam’s chin is round. That is a Dora Pointy Chin.

Greville Whittle

At first glance I thought it was a cameo from GWS. But Candy and weddings don't mix.

David Durant

Like, *so* much to unpack. I've been calling for a Sam and Emmett cameo but this is mind blowing. It's only been a couple of weeks. The main thing is that Sam suddenly seems to have discovered that she's a girl. She was always very tomboyish (a little immature to be honest) but - wow - a lot can change in a couple of weeks with those raging teenage hormones!

Shaodyn

Ya know Grim Samantha, Dora could give you pointers on the new look. Once she comes down off Cloud 9, that is. Look her up after the honeymoon. Hey, maybe it is a phase, maybe it isn't. Doesn't mean we shouldn't respect it while it lasts, right?

Derek Benson

Claire's delight

Gamera

Martin's step sister following in the path of the Bride

Wildfyr69

Not the same dress, no sleeves and the hair is longer. Gotta be DORA!!! MWUAHAHAH!!

MikeT

I honestly thought that was a Girls with Slingshots cameo....

Dilemma01

Thank you, holy shit!

Opus the Poet

That's right, before the time skip Sam was completely flat, now she has hints of curves.

Alex Mullenix

I assume Emmett is crouching out of a preference of being as minimally perceived as possible.

Diptych

It's actually a live feed!

Opus the Poet

Two weeks. As somebody else posted earlier.

Hawkeye

>snrk< Sam and Emmett are just so perfect

Opus the Poet

At least a couple of years for us, maybe a month in-comic.

TV4Fun

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

Opus the Poet

Sam, wearing the same dress she's wearing now.

Opus the Poet

They're adorable!

Opus the Poet

Nope, that's a picture of Sam, in the same dress she's wearing now.

Mitch Megaw

It would appear so. Freshman in hs? Not quite full goth but there is definitely gremlining going on.

Ariamaki

Goth Sam with a good tan is an INCREDIBLE vibe, we love Grim Samantha.

BobC

I'm wondering if orbital pizza delivery will be next.

Yelling Bird

Oh, goddammit. Now you've got me thinking about my High School days.

alphanor

Is Sam suddenly so much taller than Emmett?

alphanor

So GRIM!! (and adorable). Don't let her hear that!

Phaine Of Catz

OK, but showing up to spooky butt's wedding dressed goth is like, on brand

alphanor

She is the Skullmaster after all! More skulls!!

JMK

Goth Sam is amazing!!

Thomas Baxter

Wait. Is that a childhood pic of Dora on the wall?

Andrew Mitchell

HOW long was the time skip?!? Sam has changed so much!

kaitou

Grimlins

Shey

SAAAAAM

Thomas Baxter

Panel 1. Bald person with suspenders and a horse bolo. They and I are now friends. (it might be a Nessie bolo, but I'm not going to assume)

Brenda Allen

Yup, usually next to Spencer's

Magic Chopstick Games

Emmett’s makeup effort is killing me tho. You’ll figure it out, Emmett!

Tudza

It's wine. Neither pointless nor stupid.

BeatButton

bad

Kevin Hicks

Puberty *IS* a big change.

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

Grim Samantha is freaking adorable.

Adam with two As, a D, and an M

I think she's 14?

THE Kordepen

Honestly like a couple weeks. Since it was 3 weeks before the wedding that we last saw her.

Miyaa

Grimmett!

Taigan

I think her old gothiness was bequeathed to Sam.

Doc Gumby

Didn't Jeph say something about that in the comments of strip 5000?

Dorian

SAM OMG

MagicSwordKing

GRIM SAMANTHA

Miyaa

I haven’t been to a proper mall in a while. Is Hot Topic still there?

David Michaels

GRIMANTHA

sjlxndr

is that Emmett??

Dave Van Domelen

BYEmo.

Diptych

Gothification can be rapid!

Doc Gumby

OMG I just noticed, Emmet does have some Goth makeup on!

Andrea Andrew

I thought she and Emmett were in high school.

Taigan

Wait, *how* long a timeskip has it been? This is a HUGE change for Sam.

Doc Gumby

It does seem like a logical progression to me.

Chelsea

Wasn't Sam, like, a 12-year-old tomboy only a few weeks ago in-universe? Man they grow up so fast

Diptych

I don't think he is.

David Sowa

SAM!!!

Stuart Telfer

Omg they're adorable. I love that Sam is still super tan under her Goth finery

Aerin Moriarty

Panel 4 is so good for so many reasons

Magic Chopstick Games

OH MY GAAAAAAAA

Paul Higdon

I am worried that you may be wrapping up QC. I have loved this strip for decades. And though I respect you wanting to move on to something new, I will mourn what we've lost. Thank you so much for entertaining us for so many years.

Aditya Rameshan

Sam needs more skulls 🤣

Mad Marie

Is that Dora on the wall?

ValdVin

During the "Liz visits NoHo" arc I was going to post something about how Sam was only four years younger than Liz but in a number of ways more mature than a 2x PhD. Guess I don't have to now. There's no skipping over adolescence.