Lunch Lady

Theadora

Apparently, coffee.

David Poole

I love the new Cubetown characters.

Daniel Rydberg

Potatoes, tomatoes. What is really the difference ;) Let the usurping begin!

Stephen Wells

A cafeteria (e.g. staff canteen), yes. An actual coffee-shop cafe, apparently no.

Daniel Rydberg

Based on her reaction on when she received the proposal, I would say yes.

Daniel Rydberg

So, there is a café in Cubetown? Marten is gonna have to usurp them!

Kattandra

@MikeT chill out, how about you give everyone else a break? not everyone is gonna know that and Damian was just asking.

Stephen Wells

She and Moray somehow managed to both submit to each other.

Clifton Royston

I'm sure all the Skin Horse refugees here are reminded of St. Charlie's, the underground train city run by mad scientists.

Clifton Royston

I think I see now why Zlata hopes she can learn to be more assertive.

Ktulu

I didn't know it.

Bagge

Wimp

Bagge

I mean, yes. That´s her job in everything but title. Hopefully they make it official at some point (and hopefully her salary reflects her responsibility)

Bagge

Cube town also has admin staff to reign in the projects. Specifically: Claire

wargrunt42

Last time, it was because Jeph was on an airplane to Europe. I'm guessing this might be similar circumstances on the return trip.

Julia Allen-Hesse

Not everybody knows that tho?

MikeT

He's on holidays, give him a break

Ktulu

Is it me, or recently there's a lot of late comics? Until the last week or so I woke up and read the new comic, and now it's another time it's late

Eric Lusby

Even the Director is in the wrong job. They communicate via avatar so they're really the Indirector.

Stephen Wells

If the Claire-Marten-Moray throuple works out, then the answer to "Does Claire have any robot parts inside her?" will be "Depends when you ask" :)

Dan Curtis

If you fire blindly in every direction, your bound to hit at least once.

Hawkeye

I mean... I do like a non-violent ice cream machine.

Greg Morrow

Moray being terrible at HR is well-established at this point. The only being with correctly-assigned duties at this point is the AI in the research shenanigans department.

Mad Marie

That’s Zlata jobs she’s tried, so far!

Mad Marie

^ thanks for the Eureka reference—I had thought this place was familiar!

David Paul

At least in Eureka, the people there are generally placed where they are for a reason. And that is a show I have not seen in a while...

Somebody Else

mo' moray mo' problems

Hteph

Assistant Director Claire, I call it!

enchantedsleeper

Cubetown is kept afloat by sheer optimism. And some high-tech flotation devices.

Grace Kieser

At least Eureka had actual admin staff to reign in the projects.

Grace Kieser

This is a place full of creatives and engineers. There doesn't seem to be a single actual administrator in the entire place, which is why they offered the job to Claire. I'm more surprised it hasn't burned down than I am at Moray not knowing how to talk to the people employed there.

Pejo

Slavic for sure; she's not a native English speaker, & Zlata is Slavic as well, at least in origin (Злата).

Armin von Werner

To me it's Slavic.

VoxOrbisBrad

No bet. It's that kind of exasperating place. Like the town in Eureka, only so very much more worse.

Bagge

The last panel will be Claire's reaction image for most of her work days in cube town

Kyle Sternquist

Alright, no one has praised the "Lunchlady Land" references yet and that makes me sad I see you, Jeph

Yonatan Zunger

I think Moray may literally be the best person they have at running things up to now, which is a scary thought.

That Blair Guy

Claire is closer to running Cubetown than any of us predicted.

Captain Button

Cubetown may be more of a company town than a regular small town.

Carl Fink

I predict randomly that Claire will get a cybernetic implant, just to make Clinton jealous because she got one before him. (Then it'll turn out to be fake. Drunk Claire is a really annoying prankster, as we've seen.)

David Durant

I was about to have another crack at Moray but... Firstly, what kind of small town do you arrive at and are then assigned a job by one person rather than each post being openly advertised? Also, Moray's obviously been terrible at running Cubetown for a long time and yet no-one seems to have offered to help her at any point (unless they have and up to know she's said no). What's up with that?

Brian

I love reading her accent. At first I didn’t pick up on it, but now I love it.

David Jackson

It's "room and board," but Jeph said above that Zlata has an accent

Shawn K. Younkin

Claire pinching the bridge of her nose is such a mood.

Julia Allen-Hesse

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was "roomin' board" :/

Ben R

Hey Zlata! Watch me pull a rabbit outa my hat!

Coinneach Fitzpatrick

Well I dreamt one morning that I woke up to see / all the Morays and the Zlatas were a-lookin' at me...

Miyaa

More like Natasha from the “Bullwinkle” cartoon series. Yes, Moray is Bullwinkle.

Beck Archer

I learned a new word! W00t!

Forgettable

What is Zlata's accent? I imagined Canadian Midwest.

Miyaa

More like a kilometer at least.

As a native speaker of Slavic languages, I had to go back and read over the text thinking "what accent"? :D

Drazi

Is that a picture, or a window?

OldGoat

I hope speakers of Slavic languages have as much fun with the way we fracture their languages as we do with the way they fracture English. Iz amusink, da?

Brooks Moses

Ribbet ribbet?

Ísabel Pirsic

Once, I was ensorcelled, too. – I got better. 🐸

Yelling Bird

Zlata should just wander America going to McDonald's locations and fixing those shitty machines. I presume in the QC near-future setting they still don't work.

Emma Humphries

She's been a hay bailer, a barista, a programmer, a repair technician. I like that resume so far.

Will Weaver

Poor Claire.

Magic Chopstick Games

Please keep Moray at least 100 meters from Beeps at all times

Stephen Wells

Zacharovanny Zlatoy

enchantedsleeper

It looks like Claire is just beginning to realise how deep the communication issues with Cubetown go... But also, what exactly makes Zlata qualified to be a Librarian's assistant, other than enthusiasm? xD

Ed Marshall

I am ensorceled by Zlata

Blake Manor

Moray is the new Emily in her defense, she's like a year old (or less?)

Stephen Wells

To be fair, it looks like Moray and Zlata both failed equally hard, simultaneously, in that conversation.