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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.

jimfromtx

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

For science!

Clifton Royston

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

David Howe

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

Cleo Schmitz

I want an owl hat now

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

Tim Keating

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

Sarah Schnell

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

Ursus Ridens

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?"

Michael Boettger

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

David Durant

who's that dork??

Joe

On reading rainboooow 🎶

Hoo?

Leak

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

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.

Stephen Wells

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

Nalvor

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.

Tyler Blair

Read. Or the Owl will eat you.

Professor Harmless

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)

Gabriel Nichols

Mille may not be as asexual as some have guessed

Todd Ellner

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

Captain Button

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

Brooks Moses

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

Pooga

Our Bodies, Our Selves - by Yay Newfriend.

Stephen Wells

No shouting in the library.

Jonathan

Wait, there's subtext?

Carin Maja Brooks

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..

Daniel Rydberg

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.)

MysteriousMist

RIGHT?

Oh hai Marten

Lucanid Landman

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

Drakoo Dreamer

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

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

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

Lars Gottlieb

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

Leona

Excuse me, I'd like to know about owels

Derick Huth

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

Bagge

Marten didn’t sign up for this!

Michael Turner

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.

Diptych

ALSO I'M WEARING AN OWL TODAY

SpookyPenguin

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

Kuragari

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

Clifton Royston

Marten is doing a good reference interview actually

Smazzie

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

Ian Wolfe

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)."

Paracog Steadham

I CAN BE ANYTHING

darklion

Owl be over here reading....

Gary Sumners

Forbidden knowledge is about crabs.

Clifton Royston

On reading raiiiinboooow

M Cohen

You Obviously Love Owls

William Cole

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

Daryl Sawyer

The crew is a bunch of farmhands and a copy of The Idiot's Guide to Boats that they all have to share.

William Cole

New characters? Last panel is marten?

Slashplane

lol love it when u introduce new characters.

Hello, Marten!

Hugh Eckert

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".

SilverbackRon

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

Tudza

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

KingAtticus

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

Pearl

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

Aussiewan

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

Andrew Mitchell

Reliable Marten is reliable!!

Shawn K. Younkin

Look out for Owls

MikeT

Oh thank goodness. I thought it was just me.

Matthew Van Gangelen

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

Daniel Burnett

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

Thomas Halpin

Read, Martin Reed, read!

Todd Perkins

Killing you *softly*.

Todd Perkins

Where is Tai when you really need her.

Miyaa

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

Nicolas Demers

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

Captain Button

Hi Marten!

Thisguy

hi marten

Tamara Macadam

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

Jaron Mortimer

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

lilibat

Hoo hoo

Hank Heyming

Who is this guy (jk)

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

Elf Sternberg

I also need the poster!

The Shadow's Lair

Kinda looks like Brun is wearing an excellent Owl hat

David Rogers

Hi Marten; tell me about owls.

Diptych

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

Andrea Andrew

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

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

Michael Boettger

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

Matt Grayson

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

Kenneth Carlile

"Ask a librarian about owls." :)

Autographedcat

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

Evgeniy Semyonov

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

Yonatan Zunger

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

Yahsho Jinn

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

Kurt Lewis

I would like to know more about about an owls.

JD

Omg poor Martin. Is that Martin? Lmao

The Shadow's Lair

Damn it Marten THEY WERE JUST THERE

R L

Please don’t ask your librarian about owls

David F

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

Isaac Rivers

So, so pure

Wynn Donivan

Well, look who we ran into!

Michael Boettger

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

James Pacheco

Reading Rainbow!

Amy ☣

The subtext is killing me, though.

gatherer818