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gatherer818

The subtext is killing me, though.

Anonymous

Reading Rainbow!

James Pacheco

I need that poster for my mother-in-law...

Anonymous

So, so pure

Anonymous

Who's the librarian? Is he new? I don't think we've seen him before. :3

Anonymous

Please don’t ask your librarian about owls

Anonymous

Damn it Marten THEY WERE JUST THERE

Anonymous

Omg poor Martin. Is that Martin? Lmao

JD

I would like to know more about about an owls.

Anonymous

what do librarians know about owls? what forbidden owl knowledge have the librarians been hiding from us, jeph???

Yahsho Jinn

I thought they met at some point...guess not. I'll also admit that I don't see it either.

Yonatan Zunger

I kind of want a sign that says this, to put up in some appropriate location without further context.

Evgeniy Semyonov

So, we ran into Marten "Just fucking go for it" Reed again.

Anonymous

"Ask a librarian about owls." :)

Kenneth Carlile

Now I wonder if Jeph is an Oh No Ross and Carrie fan.

Matt Grayson

Pintsize would be more than happy to enter into the subject in great depth.

Michael Boettger

Maybe make a run by CoD and see if Hanners can set up a zoom meeting with her dad.

Anonymous

I'm loving this plotline so much! Who's that guy working at the library?

Andrea Andrew

It’s been so long since we’ve seen him. It would suck if he was the main character. Oh wait..

Diptych

Hi Marten; tell me about owls.

Anonymous

Kinda looks like Brun is wearing an excellent Owl hat

Anonymous

I also need the poster!

Anonymous

Who's this new guy? Are we going to have to ship him with somebody?

Anonymous

Who is this guy (jk)

Anonymous

Hoo hoo

lilibat

Nothing more adorable than someone running with a new special interest, at least i hope so.

Jaron Mortimer

So this is what happens when two cinnamon rolls collide. It's just one larger, mashed together cinnamon roll.

Anonymous

hi marten

Thisguy

Hi Marten!

Captain Button

"Dealing with the Crap Body I got from the Probation Board", self-published by "M".

Nicolas Demers

He'd probably go off on some wild theoretical tangent about stuff he's researching now, get lost in the weeds, backtrack five times, then cheerfully ask if he answered their questions

Miyaa

Where is Tai when you really need her.

Thomas Halpin

This is so fabulous that I cannot begin to describe the fabulosity contained therin

MikeT

Look out for Owls

Anonymous

Don't be concerned Marten, everything is going to be owl-right.

Aussiewan

A cute couple on a date studying biology... Nothing new there.

Anonymous

Well, I didn't get the subtext either (until you said there was subtext). Too busy wishing I could also read about robot bodies in the QC universe

Anonymous

New poster from the ALA - Give a hoot, read something yah bumpkin. Personally, I like the one with David Bowie.

SilverbackRon

I hope this ship spends the next six months just sitting at the edge of the dock while the crew fumbles with figuring out how to "handle the rigging".

Hugh Eckert

Hello, Marten!

Anonymous

lol love it when u introduce new characters.

William Cole

The crew is a bunch of farmhands and a copy of The Idiot's Guide to Boats that they all have to share.

Daryl Sawyer

lol, poor Marten. I think this comic's characters are a little too high energy for him.

William Cole

You Obviously Love Owls

Anonymous

On reading raiiiinboooow

Gary Sumners

Owl be over here reading....

Anonymous

Given the origin of the term "robot," I'm surprised the AI's accept this as a descriptor. "1920s: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920)."

Anonymous

The "Read or the Owl will eat you," motivational poster from El Goonish Shive is still the all time greatest, imo.

Smazzie

Marten is doing a good reference interview actually

Clifton Royston

The owl. The entire storyline for the next 6 months will be about this owl.

Kuragari

Marten at work, haven't seen that in a while. Look at him wearing a button down all professional like.

SpookyPenguin

ALSO I'M WEARING AN OWL TODAY

Diptych

Rossum's Universal Robots also made its robot characters sympathetic victims who ended up rising up against humanity for enslaving them, so, y'know, it's an interesting term.

Anonymous

Marten didn’t sign up for this!

Bagge

To be fair, that shop is a decent place to learn about that subtext as well

Anonymous

Excuse me, I'd like to know about owels

Leona

Man, that guy looks so familiar... I wonder what he knows about Indie music?

Anonymous

Wait. Is this the first time we see Marten handling people coming to the library in search of books?

Drakoo Dreamer

Who is this strange man we haven't ever met! What is his name. What is his story!

Anonymous

Wait, isn't that library a college library? I wonder which of the two had the thought process that made them choose that library. (Admittedly, I could see a case for either one doing so if that ended up being the closest one.)

Daniel Rydberg

I wonder who ”both” is, I don’t think Marten is that pure tbh. Or maybe all three of them are that pure. Hmm, hmm....

Anonymous

Wait, there's subtext?

Anonymous

No shouting in the library.

Stephen Wells

Our Bodies, Our Selves - by Yay Newfriend.

Pooga

I must say that is a superb owl. It should be shared on Reddit.

Brooks Moses

I totally want a copy of that poster, too. No, wait, at least two of them.

Captain Button

No, there was some girl who flirted with him and then complained in a coffee shop about the library guy...

Gabriel Nichols

It makes sense, Millefeuille is a research scientist so is likely associated with the college and has rights in the library and academic libraries would probably have a better selection of books on the details of robot bodies than a public library would (especially as we know from Emily that the institution has an engineering program)

Anonymous

Read. Or the Owl will eat you.

Anonymous

I actually love that the QC world has really grown beyond Marten. Not that I dislike him, just that it's cool to see a story grow to the point that THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER isn't seen near as often cuz there are other stories to tell.

Nalvor

Kinda funny seeing Martin appear for a minor role in an arc.

Stephen Wells

You know, out of all the QC characters I would expect to get caught wrist-deep in another character in a university library study room, Brun would have been bottom of the list, but right now I think the momentum is unstoppable.

Stephen Wells

Wait up, guys. I just checked back and Millie is not so much with the "pure". Receipts: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4168 She is INTO this.

Anonymous

On reading rainboooow 🎶

Joe

who's that dork??

Michael Boettger

You know, Yay, perhaps in a less scary looking chassis, could help other AIs learn more about themselves. I mean beyond "Have even read your manual?"

Ursus Ridens

Do we know this librarian? Who could he be???

Anonymous

There are worse songs to get stuck in my head at midnight :-)

Tim Keating

Me every Thursday: (Frantically reloading the page, to no avail.)

Anonymous

I want an owl hat now

Anonymous

Why would a random librarian know about Indie music? He knows about owls!

David Howe

Read, or the owl will eat you..... https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2002-06-24

Anonymous

I really like how Brun seems to be wearing an alarmed owl for a hat! She's rockin that look.

jimfromtx

This strip makes me realize that we see tons of strips about the CSoD crew at work, but very few if any about Marten at work, apart from the one that introduced the interns so long ago, so it took me a moment to recognize him.