The Start Of It All
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I think Claire is likely to take the job because Jeph is clearly having too much fun writing these characters. Unless we're reading the stealth pilot for a Cubetown spin-off.
Sum up !
I would be getting the hell outta this place. This kind of nonsense I don't have patience for.
Proud of Marten for standing his ground - gotta love that character growth!
as George Burns said on the Muppet Show "That's nice. It's nice to hear a joke that's older than I am."
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams
about where i expected the comic to go at least in the footer
I love her
In the beginning, there was Nothing. Then God said, "Let There Be Light!" And there was *still* Nothing. But you could see it!
Seems like a Zen Koan
This place gives even a neurodivergent nerd like me pause...
I mean, Marten's personality is awfully disarming.
Wake me up when The Sun is a Deadly Lazer
You could be killed by Twilight (depending on where and when on Earth you are): https://what-if.xkcd.com/141/
A Farewell to Arms, QCCU style
I dated an amateur cosmologist once. Could sift through data for hours upon hours, looking for supermassive black holes and evidence of dark matter, but couldn’t be bothered to locate the clitoris.
Sounds like the attraction between those celestial bodies just wasn't sufficient.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
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Im an amateur astrologist.
Astrology is a tough job…every time you encounter someone born in late June or early July you end up having to give them a Cancer diagnosis.
Goblin: briskly explains the entire nature of the universe. Readers: miss it all because we are all still thinking about Bubbles' butthole 24/7.
We're contemplating the universe in miniature - just a slightly different version of navel gazing.
While Marten is in the basement listening to Just Small, Claire is accepting the job.
When Marten left, Claire had already started doing the job :)
I have a feeling that this is going to turn out to be a very important, is not a fully good, reason.
In the worlds before Monkey, Primal Chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless eons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of heaven, the moisture of the earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as Creation and it became MAGICALLY FERTILE. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathãgata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said "With our thoughts, we make the world!" Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of monkey was IRREPRESSIBLE. (everybody sing)
Where’s this version of Monkey from? Edit: I really like this intro! I just want to know the medium & source in case I want to check it out.
here's the problem, Marten: they're *all* like this here
He shouldn't have turned down the coffee
When one turns down a cup of coffee, it spills on the floor.
Am I the only one who did not expect a Sound of Music joke from Marten?
I'm sure this comic series is just full of references, most of which I don't get because I'm old and deaf. But Sound of Music references I can get!
They do not seem practiced in the art of persuasive speech. I imagine writing grant applications may be a frustrating exercise for this one.
Which is how they wound up living/working in a janitor's closet.
Behold lo, the old gods failed to stop Ragnarok yet again! Thus the universe began anew; the never ending cycle starts once more!
"The beginning was the end Of everything now The ape regards his tail He's stuck on it..."
Recombined? MAKE US WHOLE!
Honestly? I keep thinking that she looks like he and Emily had a kid, which is HIGHLY HIGHLY UNLIKELY OMG NO. And yet. Also, that looked a lot like a sleeping bag on the floor; is she living there? Betcha.
They are afraid of Cubetown gaining too much Claire-ity.
GDI Sean
I'm not convinced that Martin is being nice to the ND goblin.
Kinda goes both ways though.
I swear to gosh if that is marten's time traveled child
I keep wondering if perhaps Padma or Delilah is going to hit him with a surprise one day.....
I'm going to wager that she is some kind of Chaos Scientician, and is worried that Claire is going to decrease local entropy and ruin her research. [and/or ability to freely be a gremlin]
"Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil..."
I was just trying to think of that one—what’s it from?
They sing of arms and the librarian...
After we've seen the "best coffee on all of Cubetown" how much hope do we have for Just Small's secret cookie stash?
Maybe they are maple sandwich cookies. Does he Dare have some?
Slightly different from an amateur cosmetologist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson does my makeup. His work is out of this world.
Is she gonna say "You can't control DE CHAOS! Organization will kill this place! We need our madness and our bad coffee in order to make...stuff! Like the weird jiggly-juice robot-ladies!"
Yeah, this is my theory
Has the Crisis in Cosmology been resolved in the QCverse?
Aurelia’s dog needs petting! Hurry: someone! Quick!
Was awaiting RexHead to join him in a duet there
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams
In fear and hot water, Man Is Born!
"13.787 billion years ago, the universe came into being. Four days (equivalent) after that, the Director did, too."
LOL. Wonder if Jeph saw s6e18 of Barney Miller - has a comparable gag...
A beginning is a very delicate time....
Have we previously considered that Martin might be the Kwisatz Haderach?
If one wishes to make an apple pie from scratch, one must first create the Universe.
I thought you said you were an "amateur cosmetologist", and I was briefly terrified.
I’m an amateur cosmetologist, myself. When I look in the mirror, my client sometimes looks terrified, too.
"There are some that thought this was a bad idea..."
"Flash! Two tiny amoeba formed."
... and that was the first multicellular organism. After that everything went downhill fast.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Something tells me that this is their workspace and they're afraid clair will make them organize it
Seems likely
I have a bad feeling about where this is going
As the alarm on the starship boobie prize was fond of saying, "Warning, this is a plot complication! Warning, this is a plot complication!" (And if you haven't heard Bobby (Boris) Picket's song, "Star Drek", it's on Youtube.)
I don't know if they are obsessed or they have prescience or if they are just nuts.
They can be all three. Why assume that Just Small is limited?
And now we theorize if Cubetown is evil.
Yay would have warned them? (Yes I know, Yay; but they’re trying to grow).
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool Neanderthals developed tools We built a wall (we built the pyramids!) Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries That all started with the big bang (bang!)
How dare you remind me of that show.
Aww, compassionate (maybe) tiny gremlin. I figure she is trying to warn them off of crazytown.
Well sure, but Claire is already well aware of the crazy. What could she possibly say that's news now?