Whoops forgot to do a title for this one

And pink hair

at0m

As a tall human named Evan, I guess I've gotta get bigger boobs

at0m

That's a far from reassuring title of the comic...

Patrick McGuire

As chill as he is, I think that would REALLY upset Marten.

Holly Nelson

Ugh, I’ve had that. My sympathy, and sometimes it does spontaneously improve for no explicable reasons - I’ve been very lucky for the last 10 years and hope you may be too.

Clifton Royston

Someone has to get in touch with the Live Gene Editing and Transmogrification departments, to help Claire become a proper Librarian. Oook oook!

David Paul

OH DEAR OM! She'll rupture L-Space! OOOOK! EEEEK!

Joseph Bonnar

Can we please see the whole contract? Or at least the un-cropped version of panel 1?

I guess Claire’s covered in case of pool noodle mishaps? Nice

Hawkeye

@Jeph posts to Patreon Sat - Wed nights.

KCkittysnores

Given all the immigration etc. bits in the second visible paragraph, I had wondered what happens to Marten if they don't get officially attached (married?) soon. Or has adopting Liz de facto done that?

Charles Hirst

"We'll fix it in post."

Joe Vandevander

Loop Poodles.

Robert Heinig

On the subject of signatures, I made my signature back in 1975 so that I could reproduce it when my arthritis got so bad that I could barely hold a pen, which happened once in 2020 and again in 2023, and may happen again before the year is over. So yay past me, thinking ahead.

Opus the Poet

Nice catch. No, what we've seen doesn't mention Marten at all.

KiTA

So… forgot to push the button tonight?

John M Davis

Pool noodles.

Zak Reichle

Er, isn't Lobster Related the mortal enemy of Crab Girlfriend?

Joseph Bonnar

I -think- it's on page 139 of codicil 17b, paragraph 192, to wit: "If your significant other chooses to remain, no guarantees can be made for their safety."

Joseph Bonnar

Um, is there anything actually in the contract about Marten living aboard Cubetown? About Marten being _allowed_ to live there??

Ursus Ridens

Just a second, here -- "lobster-related"....what?

Ursus Ridens

Librarian²

Zak Reichle

Did I miss something? Pool noodles?

Robert Heinig

Oh no, now she's going to be DOUBLE librarian.

Skeeter Zymbal

This guarantees the new venue for QC for at least a while. I'm really glad you're willing to change things up

Justin Seifert

That's not the title of the contract image. That's the title of this whole page.

Stavros Karatsoridis

I have reprinted documents at work because I didn't like my handwriting, even ones that were only going to be seen by maybe two other people and then thrown away before the end of the day.

Orion Rhine

Why does the contract image have a title of "Violence And Regret and Evan"? What does Evan have to do with this contract? I mean, the other two might apply... :^)

Christopher Beer

1. My signature is much worse... much much worse 2. Marten should get glitter and stickers 3. The title should be "Signature move"

Hugh Eckert

Clinton is going to lose his mind.

"Moray is just nude all the time and it's fine" has been the most consistent thing about Cubetown throughout this visit :)

Stephen Wells

Ooh! I bet I can tell a person’s personality from reading all of their documents!

Mad Marie

I am told the name for the people who can do this is "Forensic Document Analysts" because "Handwriting Analysts" has been taken by psuedoscientists who claim they can tell your personality from your handwriting.

Captain Button

Well, it's the appearance of it in the sense that someone has to be able to look at it and be satisfied that "yes, this person signed this". I think no matter how much you change your writing style that there are always identifiable traits that you're not even aware that you have. But you're getting in to the realms of graphology there.

Chris Crowther

It makes you wonder what the point even is when the owner can change their own signature on a whim... But I think the appearance of it is not what makes it legally binding, otherwise electronic signatures wouldn't be a thing.

enchantedsleeper

So did Shakespeare's, it's fine.

Stephen Wells

I'd read it!

enchantedsleeper

Spin-off comic?

Matt Pedone

Same here. I worry that someday it won't stand up to scrutiny in a court.

Sean Kinlin

It's a subtle technique to give the sense that it's a human looking over it, maybe skimming it one last time before signing it. It also doubles as a way to make some of the contents funnier by leaving out some of the context.

Daniel Blom Paulsen

My signature changes absolutely every time I do it.

Chris Crowther

No I don't mean the rest of the contract, I mean the very first line and the words that get cut off on the right hand side. He clearly already wrote the text, because the sentences are continuous, they're just missing a word or two on each line. Since it's comprehensible text to begin with, it's just annoying to try and read it with only a couple of missing words. It's like when you see a meme that's just a reddit or tumblr post, but it's been copied and reposted from somewhere else, and for whatever reason like, the bottom quarter of the very last line will be cut off. It's still readable, but it's annoying to read. I assume it happens because people are just bad at image editing software that they use to crop screenshots? But Jeph is an illustrator, he obviously knows how to use Photoshop, why crop what he had already written, but do it badly?

Matthew Ramada

It also saves Jeph writing a whole fake contract xD But also, the whole thing would be nigh impossible to make out

enchantedsleeper

All QC strips should be called Violence and Regret and Evan.

enchantedsleeper

It is.

Matt Grayson

The g in Augustus is squished. She should be ashamed. /s obviously.

David Bradford

hehe

Mad Marie

I like it…it’s kinda fun to imagine the rest. Personal preference I guess?

Mad Marie

Wait. But that is a gorgeous signature. Not at all sloppy. Oh, Claire. You perfectionist.

Daniel Rydberg

I avtually first thought that the ’title’ was the header for the contract…

Martti

Probably the pen she has in her hand.

Rob Vary

I'm constantly seeing memes online where people cut the edges of a screenshot off, for reasons I still to this day don't understand, but I never expected to see it IN a webcomic.

Matthew Ramada

It counts replies, so you may have missed expanding one of the threads.

Michael Chui

OK the comment counter is telling me I'm seeing 87 out of 89 comments, but I don't see anywhere the other two comments could be hiding. Does the counter not reset when someone deletes a comment?

Opus the Poet

GDI now the jingle goes off in my head.

Miyaa

I’m convinced the title for this will be 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS

That Blair Guy

YAS Claire gets to be in the 12 Foot Skeleton Owners Club! :D <3

The Queer Art Pagan

Also Rob Sheridan is practically squealing with glee over the inclusion of Giant Skelly in the QC universe

MikeT

...she used Adobe PDF Sign for this, didn't she

MikeT

😱

Carrie

ahgahd, Claire, watch out for that “lodging” clause, and make sure you get paid enough that if you have to leave, you *can*

Wednesday

The number of hootinany in that one clause alone is very exciting and disconcerting.

DaddyUmbreon

I'm willing to bet most of the readers here are millennials, so probably safe to assume we've not closed on houses.

n0s482

Moray is likely doing the tiny-triple-clap thing in the last panel.

Mad Marie

Tell me you've never closed on a house...

Jennifer Doyle

Please, I really want to read the full contract. It would be funny.

Davus Otho

My signature isn't even in cursive, lol

Wynn Donivan