Working On It
they'll get there eventually i'm sure
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I didn''t like Emily the first time around, or miss her when she disappeared, but now I'm glad to see her. The wild and crazy Cubetown looks like an excellent fit for her, and I've been having lots of laughs. Thank you for this storyline, Jeph! I think your time taken off last year has really been a benefit to you, and therefore to all of us.
Exposing an innocent lobster to telephones seems like it could count as animal cruelty.
Only if you're exposing the lobster to social media or the Internet. If it's just calling other crustaceans it knows, it's all good.
If that's what it's like to work there - I want to work there! *laugh*
If that
now at your nearest HF store, the Bauer Butt Buffer with 3 part polishing pack. Wall mount extra
Butts disease is still showing symptoms.
What if I told you Cubetown was all an elaborate plot to recruit Emily but the Director got carried away with all the other projects?
The Director plays the long, long game.
Montage panel 2: "Now this is only a virtual primordial blackhole, but it works great as a teaching model."
Could we see Fully Automated Luxury Gay Planetary Communism in our lifetime?
Only if the post-scarcity research group sobers up in our lifetime
Is that a neutron star?
I think it's a holographic simulation of a black hole - the vertical ring around it is where it's warping light so that you're seeing the accretion disk on the other side from where you're looking at it. ('Interstellar' consulted with the physicist who worked that out.)
Quite the poshterior.
Gives new meaning to, "That'll buff right out..."
Panel 4 is another entry in the growing series of "panels that indicate that Moray, while not having actually expressed a sexuality per se, seems to very much appreciate ladies with curves" :)
It is also an entry in the growing series "Emily has unusual interactions with AIs: Rubber mallet. Programmable sweater. Theremin. Butt polisher."
no, no, I would want my butt polished too, if that were possible
Butt buffing. Buttfing!
please tell that research group to sober up and help us all out sooner
I ship the lamia lady whose name I don't remember with the two ladies in panel 4
I ship panel 4 as a polycules now. 😂🤣
The post-scarcity research group are writing a napkin report on why the economy is needed. Everyone would just drink booze and not work. To be fair, their sample size is just their research group though.
Umm, how does one apply for the butt-buffing job?
You submit a copy of your curriculum gluteae.
Butt buffing FTW. Talk about a hard-ass!
dream workplace
Emily has found her forever home.
"Good lord, we've adopted another one" —Marten, I think.
Have the short haired girl/enby, the pink androgynous AI and the swimsuit purple AI had any lines?
Nah. They're new background peeps (although I think the lobster researcher might be Crabitha, who's been mentioned before?)
That lobster is 138 years old and is RSVPing for their High school reunion.
Rock Lobster of Ages
Been thinking how Emily recently left a research institute in Auckland. And how I work at a somewhat similar organisation, in Auckland. And how we actually did have an Emily leave a few months ago. She SAID she was going to North America….
Might be worth booking a flight to Nova Scotia. Have a bit of a look around, eh?
man, it's been so long since buttfing was brought up, that it's kind of amazing we're finally getting to seat it. ~< 3
But what is the buttfor?
Who is the snake lady in the second panel (I forget her name - I think we have seen her before?) and what is her research? It looks like a small black hole! (The Tiny Attractor?)
Horologia is her name and she studies time!
swimsuit, or leotard?
Yes?
Horologia showing off her Closed Timelike Curve she keeps at the office.
Something..something..shiny metal ass...
“Silver Metal Lover”?
Somewhere in Jeph's universe a toaster is achieving sentience. And demanding tea.
Toaster AIs make bread fun! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1999 And Emily will soon proudly join their ranks. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2283
whrrr
To paraphrase Marigold, this is the greatest day in Emily’s life.
how many emiliz (lizmily?) shippers are there?
All of them.
Ahh, so they use a railgun to send coffee grounds into a black hole, truely a circular economy.
Try our new Dark Matter Roast™!
Is that lobster looking at porn? Not sure if we'd be able to tell...
I think it's a mirror. Lobster self awareness experiment. But yes, lobster porn was my first thought as well, lol.
🎵 You are my buttshine My only buttshine You make me shiny The Cubetown way! You'll never care, here How much we pay you You'll just keep buttshining away!
Annnd…that’ll never leave my head, thanks Sean! 😅
I have questions about the lobster and also the giant cannon
Re: the lobster, I'm wondering if the experiment is whatever turned it teal, or that it's using a smartphone. The cannon seems pretty self-explanatory.
Yea, Emily will be there for life.
Or at least until Jeph forgets she exists again
How can I work at the Department of Shining Sexy Robutts?
I dunno, I've heard that it can be a grind.
Saturn & practice Mommying? Head pats are nice.
Whoever came up with the butt polishing research was probably thinking along the same lines as the guy that came up with the Black Tape Project.
I can now not un-see that 😟
When you fire the rail guns And then polish some buns That's A Moray!
When you tour something rad, then you talk with a crab… …that’s a Moray!
You can do it, post-scarcity research group! I believe in you.
You’d think the huge bar tab would be incentive enough…
I love Moray and Emily having blast effects in panel one. Aside from the realism it reminds me of Beeps' job, and Melon's hobbies.
Hey, is this supposed to be free to view?
Barfleet reference?
Why is Princess Bubblegum taking notes on a visitor doing a simple buttfing?
They are researching a new, more scratch-resistant material for posterior emblems. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3949
So many new and sexy characters. Love woman with a shaved head. Hope Emily gets two jobs here.
Horologia is a lamiaform (snake-shaped) AI who researches the nature of time in Cubetown. She is always eager to talk about her theories. https://questionablecontent.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_minor_characters#H
Stop making me long for a place that I could work and love being in.
Are Moray head pats part of the payment or is that an extra bonus included in the benefits package? Asking for a friend.
<----- The friend.
Moray is the best tour guide!
Wax on, wax off?
Bite someone's shiny myomer ass?
wait until she finds out that you can't get a decent cruller anywhere on the island
She won’t miss them once she tries the jelly donuts!
Is Panel 2 one of those black hole accretion disc simulations?
Simulation? Um…
Good luck getting her out of the place.
It's really nice to imagine living in a world full of tech weirdos and AI's that AREN'T all evil :)
Eye protection is vital!
Can I send in a job application too? I want to work there.
"That chrome aint gonna polish itself"
Finally A buttfing
But what's it buttfor?
Nice railgun!
No smoke and flame as the magnets self-destruct. They actually got one that works.
So, was the lobster on PlentyOfFish?
I assumed it was operating an asteroid mine.
It's always awesome in the beginning
It's true, but also, Claire saw the problems as soon as she arrived x3 Given that Emily should be in her team (as far as I can tell?), I'm not sure whether her job is going to be new research or organisational like Claire. Which is less fun, although Emily could probably still have fun with it.