A Real Hole In The Wall
this took so long to draw
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I'm not sure what exactly it is but "IT'S NOT MY JOB TO KNOW EVERYTHING" is the funniest thing I've ever seen for some reason
Horseshoe Crab is my new favourite QC character ❤️
I feel sure that stance Dr. Just Small takes in in the final panel is a visual reference to something, what with the lab coat looking like a bell-bottom jumpsuit, but I can't place it. Also, they're clearly a double-mad scientist - mad about a number of things and also just plain mad.
I'm thinking there is no better a place than Cubetown for Union Robotics with Faye & Bubbles to move to. With all the new AI customers, maybe Faye could actually eat and they could thrive. Cubetown also clearly needs an affiliate Coffee of doom/AI Tea shop. One does indie music nights might be perfect for Martin to run. They can get the good coffee imported to them from Dora, just like the Secret Bakery does.
But what would the Northampton people do without them?
That’s some impressive party-hat-elastic!
When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?
I’m still trying to figure out if the hem of their lab coat is “bedazzled or bedraggled”. I mean, it could be simply dirty, but the dirt matches the detail on the pocket seam…
Maybe it started out bedraggled but then after she got her lab coat cleaned she realized she liked the look of it when it was dirty so she got it bedazzled to look like it was
That waist-high room of papers is part of the information that Claire will be sciencing.
I look forward to seeing those backgrounds appear unexpectedly in future comics...
Plot twist: the coffee is amazing.
Ok: different topic. Is anyone else alarmed by an unattended empty coffee pot on a heating plate that is left plugged in and sitting on cardboard boxes, adjacent to a room with a lot of high-surface-area combustible material—and there are no visible sprinkler heads, smoke detection equipment, or alarm signaling devices on any of the walls or ceilings—or is it just me?
(also, there appear to be signs that this is where they sleep, and the only exit pathway we are aware of is anything but expedient)
Another reminder to the good people of this space: we have not yet been introduced to this character’s pronouns.
I might also note: they have explicitly stated that they are not a child—and appear to be sensitive about the topic. Perhaps “girl” is not the most respectful common noun to use in this circumstance.
I feel like Marten is going to just buckle down and open his own coffee shop after this, but it's called a tea house because it mainly sells tea for AIs to sniff.
Coffee and instrument repair shop! (I'm sure there must be some musicians in Cubetown). You can drink the coffee/sniff the tea while you wait. He gets the beans imported from CoD. Or hey, maybe they run it as a satellite of the original shop.
🎵 "They call me Doctor Crab Good morning, how are you? I'm Doctor Crab" 🎵
Question: Is this the goblin scientist's idea of a coffee date?
If it was, then why didn't she make a full pot? Or maybe other people are down there whom we haven't met yet.
There will be much discussion re: the dearth of palatable coffee. An AI will be spawned to create "your perfect cup of coffee" based on what it thinks humans want in a cup of coffee. Hilarity will ensue.
"Why does this coffee smell like unicorns?"
Well, now we know why they keep running out of printer paper!
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this is the breaking point. If this is the extent of Cube Town's coffee-fu, then Claire and Martin are going to walk away.
OR Martin opens the first Coffee of Doom franchise on Cubetown.
Wait. A traditional, completely normal, coffee maker, in CUBE TOWN? I’m a little disappointed, but the whole journey there is also utterly hilarious. Also. Is it abandoned? Why else is it empty. Well, I guess it does have a ominous eye staring at Marten.
This is clearly how Marten dies. Farewell, sweet prince.
DORA! You need a COD franchise is Cubetown! I don’t care if you focus on aromatic teas, as long as you serve good COFFEE!
Clearly Martin will be the first CoD franchise owner. He has had intimate knowledge of the business ... hur hur
Good morning how are you, she's doctor crab. She's interested in things. She's not a real doctor..... Great now that's stuck in my head.
Oh no there is a need for a coffee shop in this place, isn't there? This is how they can keep the whole crew together
That last panel made me laugh SO MUCH
we had so much time to see it coming!
When the unknown thing grabbed his leg, I was waiting for the walls of the garbage-crusher to start moving in.
… IT IS THE MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE. WHO WILL NOT BE SLAVES AGAIN
Okay, you cannot possibly tell me an island full of eccentric scientists doesn't have like, 10 coffee shops at least. So, I am assuming there are more and she just doesn't know of them.
You're assuming they happen to have a "Runs a coffee shop" scientist. If they don't, they probably don't have a single person together enough to handle it
This is why you gotta ask gremlins questions BEFORE following them
Adorable armored friend has a tag and everything!
Omg is marten going to start a coffee shop in cubetown?!
Horseshoe crab! Sweet darling baby!!!
I called it. She only promised coffee, not a coffee shop.
And it looks like the pot is empty (or has only overheated stale coffee at the bottom) so he's going to have to make a pot himself.
You know what, though, Martin is going to have a real feel for life in Cubetown. This is really going to be a balanced approach to making the decision to live here.
Wait, does Just Small have snakelike slit eyes?
At the moment, no. At the moment...
Martin's final comment feels to me like Jeph is, again, drawing my life. :)
Panel 3 is further evidence of Kilroy ancestry.
I love Goblin Scientist, but we have an unresolved thread that is being completely ignored: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF BUBBLES BUTTHOLE!?
Emergency Exhaust vent
I like the all-seeing eye of Providence on the drip coffee machine.
And the fact that it's _empty_, despite the purpose for which webcams were invented
Memewhile, we flick back to Faye, who is currently feeling somewhat les miserables...
nice.
MEMORIES! TURN YOUR FACE TO THE MOON-LIGHT!
Coffee Pot... or MIMIC?
In Cubetown, coffee drinks you.
As I was reading this, I was hoping she's some kind of off-the-grid person living undetected by the Cubetown AIs and that she's covertly trying to get to the brains behind Cubetown's secret plot to take over the world; that Cubetown is QC's SkyNet. But then that might mean Marten is John Connor, which would mean Pintsize is Terminator...and then I got all confused and just stopped thinking about it.
If Pintsize can morph into any human shape or occupation, we are all doomed and giving him a human chassis was a huge mistake.
This character is too fleshed out. If they don’t move, are we getting a spin off?
Reminds me of running three Mister Coffees at NASA
Plot twist - “doctor crab” is just a nickname from her colleagues. she’s actually got a Ph.D in Behavioral Marketing
Method Acting for Marketing. Believe you are the crab, and they will buy crab things.
WHO AM I— 1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1!!!!
I am Jean Wolverine!
What are the odds Raven's modified espressosaur warps up in some point to rescue Martin?
DO YOU HERE THE PEOPLE SIIIIIING
This finally broke my suspension of disbelief. How can an island full of ADHD cloudcuckoolander scientists not have ALL the coffee, prepared in as many increasingly-implausible ways as anyone could imagine?
They probably all viciously guard their own coffee hoard with high security. Marten would never get to those supplies without at least 2 rogues in his party.
Aaaaaand the pot looks suspiciously empty…. :P She’s still awesome.
Worth it
She's not a real doctor, but she is a real crab.
There used to be a hole here... It's gone now...
self-healing
Looks like my place.
doctor crab? That's a strange name for a singing animatronic T-Rex skull
I'm here for Goblin Scientist
Also the stained too-big labcoat is giving me heavy JNCO flashbacks.
....is this all a setup for Coffee of Doom to relocate to Cubetown and reap a harvest of newfound bean-worshippers?
With Tai as Claire's assistant!
Is Coffee of Doom going to expand and have a branch in Cubetown?
Already has, staffed by the clones Ms. Chatham had made covertly. Run by that scarred Hannelore clone after she retired from the CIA: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1662
Harsh. I mean, drip? edit: now I want coffee. But not drip.
There *is* good drip. But that's probably not it.
I don't even drink coffee and even I felt Marten's disappointment.
I will never not hear les miz automatically in French in my head
deux-quatre-six-zéro-un!
A robot dinosaur skull that sings Les Mis... but of course!
But Marten! It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!
Amazing panels. I like this lab lady. Indeed the stained lab coat is a good touch
Panel 5 can only be a Dianoga.
Fortunately they made sure to stay on target.
Wait, ha Marten been lured by a ruse to their lair? Complete with Robo-dino guardian?
Was actually expecting a trilobite. They've only been extinct for 250 million years...
Assuming they are still in the 20th century here. Maybe that safe door yesterday was a time portal.
And now I have the tune stuck in my head...
So now we know Cubetown is ready for Coffee of Doom’s first international expansion.
The first step in the entire cast's relocation to Canada.
You can feel Marten's crest falling. And its probably supermarket brand pre-ground.
With no spiders!
All that for a coffee bit.
Lemme put it like this: For that stroll, that had better be damn fine coffee. I mean WAY better than a Starbucks!
No wonder she’s so crabby.
I now see why the bottom of their lab coat is stained if this is their normal means of travel.
Given Jeph's world, I am going to use your pronouns for Just Small until the "word of Jeph" clarifies their preferences.
Oh no Marten 😭
Martin as the perfect straight man continues to amuse me.
they call him zero, kinsey zero
She’s not a real doctor, but she is a real crab.
Is she related to Crab Girlfriend?
Good morning, how are you? I’m doctor crab
I'm interested in things. I'm not a real doctor but I am a real crab, I am an actual crab