Agile Thinking

But as we all learned a long time ago, Claire is the true Kwisatz Had'erscotch.

Clifton Royston

There are many ways to combust

Greville Whittle

3.6 Roentgen , not great not terrible...

William Burns

What was Zlata doing before and does someone need to be doing that job now? Reactor tech...?

David Durant

Gotta give Zlata cred for inventing the underling to the Librarian position before it even existed.

Daniel Rydberg

Nobody else knows that Claire and Marten take turns being the one who does the Librarian Voice in bed.

Stephen Wells

Internally combust, like a vehicle engine? Did you mean to use the word “spontaneously”?

Mad Marie

Marten, Moray and Zlata as the Three Musketeers, the trusted agents that The Librarian can dispatch to do her bidding.

Stephen Wells

Technically, I don't think either of them has actually worked as a librarian. Marten's a library assistant and Claire only just got hired for her first post as a qualified librarian.

Diptych

"Number One" is a Royal Navy expression; Patrick Stewart used it instead of "XO" because he's British (even if his character is French).

Chris Crowther

Considering how long Clair and Martin have been working as librarians together I'd suggest he'd be her number one to her captain and whoever else would be the assistant/aide, to use a Star Trek analogy.

MercuryBuddha

Get her angry enough and you might externally combust.

BookBeard

Sure, I COULD view the world in hyperspectral ultra-high resolution, but I find the experience of imperfectly corrected astigmatism so much more AUTHENTIC!

William Cole

-I'd- internally combust if I ran into an angry Hannelore.

Joseph Bonnar

OOK.

Joseph Bonnar

For hot swapping different magnifications and/or different points of view.

Adam Abbott

Maybe they can’t afford repair/replacement, or also, don’t want it. Maybe they prefer the look of things with an extra lens for whatever reason, the way some people prefer non-digital photography?

Katrina Urmson

Swing and a miss, strike 2

MikeT

Yup, heard Zlata's last line in Marcy's voice. The glasses help.

Doc Gumby

Claire is going to be busy as The Librarian. I suggest she delegate the SH! training--Marten has the experience. (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2212).

ValdVin

...and then you took an ILL request to the knee?

Joshua O'Madadhain

I like where this is going!

Yelling Bird

I used to be a librarian...

Yelling Bird

If they are responding this way to Marten and Claire, they'd probably internally combust if they encountered an angry Hannelore.

Greville Whittle

Yeah I was going to say there's a lot of crossover between the Dom voice and the Librarian voice.

Onyx

That, and he did work in a library for years.

Thisguy

Library Science!

Mad Marie

For the same reason humans wear clear non-prescription glasses: fashion.

The glasses are purely decorative.

Chris Heg

Are we saying that The floating black slab that emits a low hum might be an evolved Companion Cube?

David Durant

Rephrasing... Why would an Android have poor vision that they need corrected with glasses... When they could just have the eyes replaced or fixed?

Kermit Woodall

...friendship?

Eric Sieck

firm, organised, authoritative attitude, whip, glasses,

SheepFace2000

Uh, yeah, me too. Goats are so cute.

Simon Green

Same reason they need faces.

Brian Mann

I miss Goats.

Brian Mann

@Uniquitous: Now, there's no use crying over every mistake.

Brian Mann

Anyone surprised Marten has The Voice has perhaps forgotten his mother was (is? I forget if she’s retired) a professional dominatrix. The Venn Diagram between skills required to be a librarian and to be a dominatrix is closer to a circle than many people realize.

Michael DK

Marten once walked the librarian Wyrding Way, but he met Claire and realized his journey was complete

Alan Wiggs

To look smart, of course

Alan Wiggs

Zlata and Marten are going to end up with a Patti/Marcy friendship, aren’t they?

Cameron W.

Claire is a very loyal person. Moray will be her right-hand doofus.

Stephen Wells

Or is it the other way 'round?

Uniquitous

To look librarian-er

fashion

Valk

I dunno, I get a doof-vibe from her, though maybe a different tone than Moray or Beeps (who each have their distinct tones, too).

James Redekop

Why would a robot/android need glasses?

Kermit Woodall

For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.

Jonathan Taves

Moray, Beeps, and Liz, maybe. Zlada doesn't come across as a doofus; quite the contrary.

John A. Aiken, Jr.

Beer is the mind killer, beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, hopefully via the kidneys.

Simon Green

They do what THEY CAN because they must.

Simon Green

One of my favorite things I once saw was an apology card that said on the outside something akin to, "I'm truly sorry that I called you an idiot" and on the inside it said, "I thought you already knew!"

Jon Callas

Goopfy.

Leak

Nobody knows, that's why they hired Claire.

Bill Silvia

I think Moray is also thinking of Claire as more Chief of Operations than Librarian.

Bill Silvia

oh my god I would protect moray forever, she is a perfect goofball

Ed Marshall

Marten can use the Voice. He is the cheese bath haberdash

Carin Maja Brooks

It's a good thing Beeps is back in MA... If the Moray, Zlata, and Beeps ended up in the same room, the doof density might result in a black hole of doofusishness.

James Redekop

They do what they must.

Uniquitous

Marten: "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done, is done."

Sean Kinlin

I’ve spent a good ten years in academia. They barely do any science there in real life, why should Cubetown be any different?

Miyaa

social science experiments ftw

Ísabel Pirsic

Does anybody in this place actually do any science??

mathw

Goofy goop.

Sean Kinlin

I think Moray is inductee #1 to Claire's cult of personality. Or at least, she fancies herself such.

Sean Kinlin

The Voice truly is inside of *everyone* 😵☢️✴️

Ísabel Pirsic

Moray is such an adorable doofus. I have no idea where she is gonna be slotted into the cast herd, but right hand A.I. isn't on the list, I don't think.

Tannerbot

Oh lmao, you silly goop

Fart Captor

Also isn't Moray already in the de-facto HR department? So she wouldn't even be in the running for Claire's minion.

Elberik

Ah yes, Agile Thinking(TM) - giving us instant classics like "You Ain't Gonna Need It" and "Move Fast And Break Things". See also: OceanGateGate.

Leak