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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.

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

Clifton Royston

For science!

David Howe

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

Cleo Schmitz

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

I want an owl hat now

Tim Keating

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

Sarah Schnell

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

Ursus Ridens

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

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?"

David Durant

Goddam - t-shirt, right now please :-)

Joe

who's that dork??

On reading rainboooow 🎶

Leak

Hoo?

I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder :-)

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.

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.

Nalvor

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

Tyler Blair

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.

Professor Harmless

Read. Or the Owl will eat you.

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)

Todd Ellner

Mille may not be as asexual as some have guessed

Captain Button

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

Brooks Moses

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

Pooga

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

Stephen Wells

Our Bodies, Our Selves - by Yay Newfriend.

Jonathan

No shouting in the library.

Carin Maja Brooks

Wait, there's subtext?

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....

Daniel Rydberg

2 cinnamon rolls? I am almost sure I see 3 of them..

MysteriousMist

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.)

RIGHT?

Lucanid Landman

Oh hai Marten

Drakoo Dreamer

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

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

It's always nice when Jeph can work Marten into the overarching Plot... ;)

Lars Gottlieb

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

Leona

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

Derick Huth

Excuse me, I'd like to know about owels

Bagge

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

Michael Turner

Marten didn’t sign up for this!

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.

SpookyPenguin

ALSO I'M WEARING AN OWL TODAY

Kuragari

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

Clifton Royston

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

Smazzie

Marten is doing a good reference interview actually

Ian Wolfe

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

Paracog Steadham

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)."

darklion

I CAN BE ANYTHING

Gary Sumners

Owl be over here reading....

Clifton Royston

Forbidden knowledge is about crabs.

M Cohen

On reading raiiiinboooow

William Cole

You Obviously Love Owls

Daryl Sawyer

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

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.

Slashplane

New characters? Last panel is marten?

lol love it when u introduce new characters.

Hugh Eckert

Hello, Marten!

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".

Tudza

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

KingAtticus

I hope so. I think he might look cute with Claire

Pearl

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

Aussiewan

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

Andrew Mitchell

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

Shawn K. Younkin

Reliable Marten is reliable!!

MikeT

Look out for Owls

Matthew Van Gangelen

Oh thank goodness. I thought it was just me.

Daniel Burnett

I’m sure you’re right but I can’t place him.

Thomas Halpin

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

Todd Perkins

Read, Martin Reed, read!

Todd Perkins

Killing you *softly*.

Miyaa

Where is Tai when you really need her.

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

Captain Button

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

Thisguy

Hi Marten!

Tamara Macadam

hi marten

Jaron Mortimer

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

lilibat

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

Hank Heyming

Hoo hoo

Who is this guy (jk)

Elf Sternberg

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

The Shadow's Lair

I also need the poster!

David Rogers

Kinda looks like Brun is wearing an excellent Owl hat

Diptych

Hi Marten; tell me about owls.

Andrea Andrew

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

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

Michael Boettger

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

Matt Grayson

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

Kenneth Carlile

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

Autographedcat

"Ask a librarian about owls." :)

Evgeniy Semyonov

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

Yonatan Zunger

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

Yahsho Jinn

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

Kurt Lewis

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

JD

I would like to know more about about an owls.

The Shadow's Lair

Omg poor Martin. Is that Martin? Lmao

R L

Damn it Marten THEY WERE JUST THERE

David F

Please don’t ask your librarian about owls

Isaac Rivers

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

Wynn Donivan

So, so pure

Michael Boettger

Well, look who we ran into!

James Pacheco

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

Amy ☣

Reading Rainbow!

gatherer818

The subtext is killing me, though.