Lunch Lady

Apparently, coffee.

Theadora

I love the new Cubetown characters.

David Poole

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

Daniel Rydberg

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

Stephen Wells

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!

Daniel Rydberg

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

Kattandra

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

Stephen Wells

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.

Clifton Royston

I didn't know it.

Ktulu

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

Bagge

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

wargrunt42

Not everybody knows that tho?

Julia Allen-Hesse

He's on holidays, give him a break

MikeT

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

Ktulu

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

Eric Lusby

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" :)

Stephen Wells

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

Dan Curtis

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

Hawkeye

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.

Greg Morrow

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

Mad Marie

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

Mad Marie

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...

David Paul

mo' moray mo' problems

Somebody Else

Assistant Director Claire, I call it!

Hteph

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

enchantedsleeper

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.

Grace Kieser

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

Pejo

To me it's Slavic.

Armin von Werner

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

VoxOrbisBrad

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

Bagge

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

Kyle Sternquist

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

Yonatan Zunger

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

That Blair Guy

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

Captain Button

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.)

Carl Fink

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?

David Durant

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

Brian

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

David Jackson

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

Shawn K. Younkin

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

Julia Allen-Hesse

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

Ben R

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

Coinneach Fitzpatrick

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

Miyaa

I learned a new word! W00t!

Beck Archer

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

Forgettable

More like a kilometer at least.

Miyaa

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

Is that a picture, or a window?

Drazi

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?

OldGoat

Ribbet ribbet?

Brooks Moses

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

Ísabel Pirsic

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.

Yelling Bird

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

Emma Humphries

Poor Claire.

Will Weaver

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

Magic Chopstick Games

Zacharovanny Zlatoy

Stephen Wells

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

enchantedsleeper

I am ensorceled by Zlata

Ed Marshall

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

Blake Manor

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

Stephen Wells