Questionable Sympathy
hmmmmm
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Eheh Claire's expression in the last panel XD
That is some extreme Yay-pout in the first frame.
Maybe Martin is a robot and doesn't even know he is.
Are there any chill AI's in this universe?
I just remembered, this whole origin story started with Yay's will-they-won't-they getting jealous over Clinton and Elliott and kicking Yay out for the night. I kind of wish I could hear Yay's side of that whole incident now.
I’m in my 30’s now, and have been reading this comic since early middle school. Marten has been a guiding light of positive masculinity for me, and I cannot accurately describe how precious this story has been.
In my fifties here. Kind of the same, brah. I still aspire to that level of chill.
Martin's ability to be the nexus of all these characters with maximum chill is what's held the comic together all these years. I've sometimes wondered how an "everyman" character with no major plot threads centred on him can work as the central character (less so these days) but it's his chill and empathy that holds it all together.
Yay in panel 1 reminds me of Sweetie Bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5bubWyRwoA
It's almost as if when you suffer from webcomic protagonist syndrome you get phased by fewer and fewer things
Marten had two ways to cope with his odd life: chill or debilitating anxiety. I'm glad chill prevailed.
Yay's :C face in the first panel xD
Yay's face in panel 1 reminds me of Jonathan, the opthalmologist's loyal scribe, when unhappy.
Another Dr. Glaucomflecken fan! :D I wait for his updates almost as "patiently" as I wait for Jeph's ...
Marten has seen some shit.
Oh no! Someone has a passing understanding of how to person. That's suspicious
Certainly is from my experience!
Marten used to be chill. Then he put on his hoodie.
Martin is -THE- link to Alice Grove...
omg I snort laughed twice
This is so adorably perfect
Marten's secretly a Hydra sleeper agent.
I mean not impossible but… why would Jeph pick him as the starting point in this universe. Also there has been zero Marvel specific references.
as a New Yorker now living in the midwest, I found midwest niceness Very suspicious
Marten always wins the chill cookoff. (not a typo)
His speciality is no-alarm chill.
Is that a painting of an unmade bed behind Yay? I mean, it's probably a semi-abstract landscape or something, but doesn't it look like a rumpled blanket?
I think it's a landscape
Witcher: Hmmm.
Somehow I keep being surprised that this is still the same day of the job interview (as evidenced by Claire's unchanged outfit)
I think this a side effect of being pintsize's best friend.
I dunno. Marten puts up a cold front but inside he might be kinda stormy.
Sus
I knew it!
He's not an alien, he just, by chance encounter, became one with the chill.
"Tell me more about this Earth custom called 'suspicion'..."
His totem is the capybara
I knew it. Marten's an alien.
Marten knows if he was ever spied on they would just fall asleep watching him cause he is just so chill.
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3905
this is the fourth day at the Augustus house and no Cosmo. this needs to change.
TBF I'm shocked Yay hasn't stalked Cosmo down yet.
Secretly an alien who is also a lizard person.
Renember: the shape changing lizard people are actually a front for the shape changing hamsters who REALLY run everything.
I swear, Marten fell backwards into being a zen master... Also, yay was very, forthcoming, in their sharing. My goodness.
Marten does get angry, to be fair. He blew up at Dora a couple of times before the broke up, and he beat the crap out of that martial arts monk with a skillet.
And panel 3 Clairface.
That is the face of a woman about to engage in shenanigans.
And Yay lived such a secretive existence that they can't envision friendship and acceptance. A bit sad really.
I think it might be more complicated than that. Yay has capabilities that confounded Station, who as far as everyone knows is one of the heaviest of heavyweights as far as AIs go. They are as close to a god as the QC universe probably has. When we first meet them they're not so much righting a wrong as indulging in whimsy and maybe a bit of subconscious ego stroking. They probably believed themselves to be so far beyond regular people that any sort of meaningful relationship would be impossible, and in all probability no one would be more surprised than Yay to see who close they've grown to the QC crew.
Yay is such a dork in panel 1… look at them, they’re so unhappy!
Marten's superpower is empathic chillness.
Came here to say this
Best Yayface yet in panel 1!
>:[
TEH
All of that Chill had to go somewhere.
Averaging across the room, there are four adults with a healthy level of chill. Unfortunately.......
He has to be chill. He lives with Pintsize
In time he will transfer some to the Augustus family. And all will be well.
marten got all the chill that the augustus family shouldve had
Perhaps he is a chill sink, just absorbing all the ambient chill! Maybe that's why NoHo is so weird: there's no chill left for anyone else.