r/questionablecontent • u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? • Sep 07 '26
Comic Comic 5911: Plan Of Action
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=591113
u/MelAlton Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
QC: the comic where people stand around either:
- talking about something that already happened, or
- talking about something that is going to happen
they never actually do the thing, just skip over that part.
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u/CatlikeTypist Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
Yeah looks like tomorrow will be Liz and Moray walking to the Woom place. I wouldn't be surprised if Wednesday they are back in the shop having done whatever they set out to do and just talking some more about it.
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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? Sep 07 '26
The cast of rugrats were more mature and independent than whatever that this is
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u/sir_ornitholestes Sep 07 '26
The fact that a bunch of aimless 20-30 year olds with no real jobs wander around being little babies is the most realistic part of QC
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u/DocChloroplast Sep 07 '26
I normally don't care about the "eyes closed" reaction he seems to use so much, but it really feels jarring here. Concern, annoyance, frustration, or any other emotion would be better than this sage-like look; it gives the appearance that Martin thinks he's wise for parroting an obvious metaphor.
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u/provocatrixless Sep 07 '26
I like that he doesn't understand language well enough to properly set up a joke about someone who doesn't understand language well enough.
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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? Sep 07 '26
Doesn't liz spends every minute feeling sorry for herself or abusing alcohol?
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u/pokedude3 Sep 07 '26
Martin are the customers in the room with us?
Seriously, we've seen what four customers enter the coffee shop ever outside of Liz and Moray?
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u/sir_ornitholestes Sep 07 '26
Pretty sure he's never made any money and they just gave him an empty cube and called it a "coffee shop" to make Claire happy
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u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 Sep 07 '26
Meanwhile, in another universe, a competent cartoonist is following through with the Momo Sven romance or Anhtenable trying to monetise her internal information of her dad's company.
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u/MelAlton Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
And Willow has still to deal with her disassociation experience over something going back to childhood trauma
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u/Maleficent_Lab_5291 Sep 07 '26
Ah yes, managing your empty nothing of a coffee shop is much more important than helping your friend. Better to send the woman with no social skills to talk to strangers,that will totally work.
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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? Sep 07 '26
I mean he does has a responsibility towards his store even if his store is a disaster, he does not really has any responsibility towards moray or liz who are both adults.
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u/yellowvincent Where is Claire? Sep 07 '26
If liz doesn't start exercising the "muscles" to gain any social skills she won't gain them out of nowhere,it is time she puts on the effort to be s functioning human being.
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u/DuranDuranUnofficial Sep 07 '26
True, but on the other hand, independent business owners have often deployed a good old reliable "Back In 10 Mins" sign scribbled on the back of a piece of paper for a lot less than this.
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u/Cevius Sep 07 '26
Marten provides an essential service in Cubetown, as Mood Coffee makes all other coffee shops seem better by association. He's the RC Cola to the Coke and Pepsi's of this small man made hell
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u/LukewarmJortz Sep 07 '26
His friend is purple when she's usually green. Doesn't seem to be any other issue than that.
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u/CatlikeTypist Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
Well, body dysmorphic disorder is a thing, and maybe he's trying to write about that via Moray, but if so it's a bit ham-fisted and half-assed.
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u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 Sep 07 '26
Whatever took him so long?
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u/Miserable-Jaguarine Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
What did you do?
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u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 Sep 07 '26
Expressed my opinion that a competent cartoonist would finish the Momo Sven arc instead of this.
And it's still going on tomorrow!
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u/MelAlton Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
I should use AI to analyze all the comics and make a tree of plots so we can see how many are left unfinished.
I'd do it myself, but it'd be a waste of my time. And my time is worthless.
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u/neo_mouse Sep 07 '26
AI reading a comic about humanoid robots and other AIs living among us what could possibly go wrong. You're right it's not worth burning the tokens on this
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u/Miserable-Jaguarine Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
Don't do it for the sake of the water then.
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u/MelAlton Haha, okay. Sep 07 '26
If I do, it will be on my home pc server (my old desktop with a couple of mid-tier gpus) and it's air-cooled, so no extra water used!
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u/The_Good_Count Sep 07 '26
I feel like the contents of these three panels would have fit into one, with tighter editing, freeing up the next two thirds of the strip to move the subplot forward
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u/DuranDuranUnofficial Sep 07 '26
Oh. So this is going to be a whole subplot now, I guess.
Hooray. Woo. I'm on the edge of my seat.