Post "Welcome Back Everyone" by "jephjacques"

Shante

I'm also having this problem! (And it's still not getting updates a week later)

Jody Raiford

RSS not working?

Cozy

marten!!!!!

oiojes

Ditto on the RSS feed. While I do get the Patreon updates, RSS is where I live

legobil

I’m about to lose control and I think I like it

legobil

She could just as well be his first customer. Right now, it still feels like she could be either.

legobil

I love this thread. Intersperse thou muck Plot thine droppings

legobil

I totally also feel like seen in this. For me, what would help is putting something important like this, into a context where I also do other things that I also do by pure automation. Such a thing could be, whenever I have finished X I also flip the door sign. The X could be a task you do close to the door or a time sensitive thing that need to be done before the first customer shows up.

enchantedsleeper

You're so very welcome!! <333

Robert Heinig

Shouldn't the next-next-newest already be on the public RSS? That's stil on "Heck Of A View"

Scott Kenney

MOOD fo' coffee

Pille

Do love the MOOD/DOOM!!

R Lin

You are a gentleman* and a scholar, and I will absolutely catch up. Thank you so much! *gender-nonspecific

enchantedsleeper

Wdym, he's got a whole customer! Coffee shop success!

enchantedsleeper

I think Marten set out to create the most chill coffee shop imaginable but may have gone overboard. xD

enchantedsleeper

Not sure how much detail you want, but I'll have a crack: - Claire was applying for a bunch of jobs after successfully qualifying as a librarian, and didn't get anywhere for some time. She started working at Coffee of Doom to pay the bills. - Out of the blue, she got an interview request from Cubetown, which is a very weird, experimental (but prestigious and highly-sought-after) research facility. - The interview call was with Moray, who is a unique AI made of green goo who is a ditzy cinnamon roll. Honestly, I recommend reading the comics themselves so you can meet Moray. Here's her first appearance: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4858 - Claire and Marten decided to visit Cubetown, and it became apparent that parts of the place were a hot mess. Claire flipped out over a security guard poking around their room (sidebar: I feel like this was a bit of an overreaction, but there we go) and demanded a meeting with the Director. The Director of Cubetown is a giant, deep sea jellyfish who communicates by splooting out Moray units (like our dear friend up there) to talk to people. - Anyway, Cubetown: hot mess, desperately in need of someone to organise the whole thing. I mean the *whole* thing. They offered the job to Claire with extremely generous terms. - Meanwhile, Marten went on a walk and met Liz, who is a young prodigy who was living knee-deep in rubbish in a basement because she was suffering from severe burnout and didn't want to admit it. He also realised that Cubetown has no coffee shop to speak of. - Marten brought Liz to Claire, who broke down in tears as she confessed her crisis. Claire was furious at the whole situation (and the fact that Liz's struggle went unnoticed for two years, see: Hot Mess™). She decided to take the job. Marten was on board and laid out his idea to start up a coffee shop in Cubetown while Claire worked as The Librarian (the caps are important). That's a very potted history, but I'm also missing out Liz's subsequent visit to Northampton, Moray following her to Northampton, and everything with the Director and Yay - if you can find the time, I encourage you to backread. :D It's good stuff.

R Lin

Alsooo since I can't think of where else to ask... Could someone give me a tl;dr on this Cubetown thing? (Sorrysorrysorry I haven't kept up since Dora and Tai started dating and it feels like when you log into Facebook after years and years and find out that all your childhood friends have children of their own.)

Ryan Barber

Chase Bliss coffee.

Chris

I love that the coffee and tea sizes are "Big" and "Small" with none of the pseudo-Italian words that most are a variation of large.

Ross

Sorry. I'm slow.

Void Hamlet

That's Marten's new business! Nice one with the name, Jeph!

Vinny

someone in the a Mood

Ross

Isn't it supposed to be Coffee of Doom, not Mood?

Bagge

YES! We start with Liz!

William Cole

Ah, it's lovely to be back!

William Cole

Well, she's not hiding out in her trash lair, so that's a good sign.

Carl G Knoblock

She has always had prominent eyebrows, but she is not wearing lipstick.

R Lin

🤜🤛

Greg Matyola

Their weather control satelites are working as intended? :D

Lea

fyi, the rss feed has died - no new content since dec 3rd :(

enchantedsleeper

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone 🥺🎵

enchantedsleeper

Liz has been getting *hands-on* with a certain Head of Security (ifyouknowwhatImean 😏) and she doesn't want her fingers to get icy. That's my theory :D

enchantedsleeper

Maybe they're afraid that if they don't obey the sign, The Librarian will come for them...

enchantedsleeper

I also came over to Patreon after Jeph left Twitter! I used to comment in the replies on Twitter. I was never averse to backing on Patreon but I was also content to follow along on the main site and not be ahead. But after the daily comic tweets dried up, I came here to get my fix and well, no regrets :D

Technoir

oh the irony of Liz telling someone else to get their shit together.

Graydon Armstrong

Is she wearing makeup? Isn't that just her eyebrows?

Sammitch

"Looks like everything's done except 'wipe off the whiteboard' so I guess I can take it easy this morning!"

Sleepy John

Coffee by Marten, Mood by Liz.

Erin Putnam

I feel like such a dingus for not noticing that 🤣 that’s what I get for partying last night.

Randy Braun

I mean he’s going with the theme in that Mood is doing everything the opposite way that Doom would…

Orlet Soir

He _is_ cultivating one. And serving depressos!

R Lin

👋been a reader of your comic since the start but fell off the QC continuity bus a few years ago. Backed you here since you left the birdsite bc ily. Directember was a delightful nostalgic reset and I'm stoked to return to being a daily QC reader. Thanks for everything, Jeph!

BobC

Wait. Snow is allowed in Cubetown? I'm gabberflasted!

Erin Putnam

No art? White walls? Sign says “closed” all day? Not gonna lie, Dora’s reaction to Marten saying he’s going to open a coffee shop was basically the same one I had. With a name like “mood” you’d think he’d try and cultivate one.

A. J. Alfieri-Crispin

It seems not enough time to get some art on the walls…

Amelia Lewis

Ah, yes, this shop is where you are, when you're in the Mood for coffee.

sjlxndr

Make like a scarab, Marten

Miyaa

It’s #a47864 in hex code form

Summer

It’s sad he’s been there months and nobody knows him well enough and also patronizes the shop enough, to know he will forget to flip the sign. (Except Liz.)

Summer

Or forego the open/closed sign, and put up a sign listing the store hours.

Stewart MacWilliam

Manage your manure Shift your scat Organize your ordure

Maarten Daalder

I was thinking of our colorful AI friend with a knack of sticking to walls. But a restaurant chain also works. XD Definitely Cheaper than occupying every available building with staff and a kitchen.

Steve McSheffrey

Okay, Liz. Be the solution. Make him a digital sign that automatically changes to say open when certain parameters inside are met.

MikeT

Sif residents would not know he was open via infrared sensors and also the nfc tag someone put on his shoe

Stephen Wells

Ooh, if he uses a Delta for the letter D it will be MOOΔ and fully flippable :)

Stephen Wells

Claire politely vetoed the facial hair attempt.

Stephen Wells

Jeph is way ahead of us all :)

Stephen Wells

Good judgement comes from experience which comes from bad judgement...

Stephen Wells

Everything is modular and folds out of the walls. Including the customers.

Stephen Wells

No, because Mood.

Stephen Wells

Okay so there is SOMETHING going on with Manos, The Hands Of Appleboom. Everybody brace yourself until Jeph stops cackling.

Lyman Green

Wb Jeph and also all of QC! Time skip yay!

Opus the Poet

Sioux, is that you?

Opus the Poet

To quote Zager and Evans, in the year 2525.

Opus the Poet

Well, East of Nova Scotia and slightly South of Newfoundland. I spent a year and another winter in Newfoundland back in 61 and 62. Kinda chilly, they usta have full size American cars of the time racing on the ice out in the little bay between Placentia and Argentia.

Opus the Poet

If he doesn't who will?

Opus the Poet

What's the code for that?

Opus the Poet

Those were such a ripoff, basically all they told you was how good the circulation in your hands was.

Jeph Jacques

Hehehehehe

Jan Gampe

I am in this picture and I don’t like it 🙈

Shane Wegner

I’m liking the modular/pre-fab nature of the building. Logical. Efficient. Ecological.

Shane Wegner

Checklist. Laminate it, get whiteboard markers. Each morning check things off. End of day, wipe it clean, hang it on the counter so it’s the first thing you see walking in tomorrow.

Shane Wegner

Marten needs an operations checklist.

Mike Rodgers

Oooh new season of QC opens with a zinger

ValdVin

"It has got to be better than Tim Horton's" is actually on their billboard next street over.

ValdVin

Mood Fo(r) Coffee?

BookBeard

*gasp* sabotage! Clearly this could only be the nefarious minions of Tom Horbons!

jonesnori

Programmable still allows for forgetting.

jonesnori

And makeup! (I'm not a makeup person myself, but many people who lean femme are.)

jonesnori

I think I would dispense with the sign altogether.

Maarten Daalder

Did Marten forget to flip the sign, or did a certain entrepreneurial AI flip it back as an act of sabotage?

Gone

Looks like it’s Appleboom

fizzlefist

Maybe she just likes mittens...

Miyaa

That AI’s name would be Quince.

Miyaa

Which is the official Pantone color for 2025.

Ben R

who is he hiring to decorate?

Ohh Crap Guy

this is 100% something that would be a concern, and not only uncomfortable, but potentially dangerous, as metal could go WELL below frostbite temperatures. I don't know exactly how it's interposed to meat in the QC-verse, but it might well be necessary.

Ohh Crap Guy

I particularly find having my phone be mean about reminding me helps, because I get to "flip the sign" smugly before my phone reminds me, therefore I get to tell off my phone for being wrong.

Zygo

They're probably rated for similar environmental conditions to meat hands. You don't want your robot hands glitching--they'll go straight for your face!

Zygo

Well, it _is_ in Canada...

Mitsuki Ayane

happy new year Jeph and friends, look like we're already in the thick of it. ~<3

Rex Moser

Coalesce your excrement, Marten

Captain Button

If this is Coffee Of Doom backwards, are they unfailingly polite to everyone, even people asking for complicated Vente drinks?

Captain Button

Good point. Lockpicking skills and gadgets are a dime* a dozen. *Canadian dimes, if they still have them.

Captain Button

Feces Consolidation Segment

Some Ed

We can't tell. It's always black, but all the customers are depressed, so maybe?

Some Ed

Look, I know this is tricky, I have a hard time with this also. Here's what do to try to avoid doing this as much. Is what I say when I have some suggestions. But for this one, I just feel so seen and don't really have any good answers. Maybe set a phone alarm to say, "Make sure the open sign is facing outside the store"

James Roy

Happy New Year, folks.

Sammitch

God... I could prefix half the shit I say with "at the risk of being hypocritical".

Kristina

Exactly

Magic Chopstick Games

Group yer poop Marten

Sean Brannon

LOL the trash goblin is giving Marten the "get it together" business now! I love Liz so much <3

Melissa Wilson

🪙🪙

Melissa Wilson

Good question! I always figured it was a celebration of perfectly intelligible typographical errors…

Andrew Mitchell

I'm glad for the change, I never liked Bembo.

Andrew Mitchell

Hopefully Yay is back soon.

Captain Button

Does Mood Coffee change color with your emotional state, like Mood Rings?

Melissa Wilson

🤫

legobil

So. True.

legobil

Well, that Gecko was an absolute travesty and monster (but cute) of a landlord, so I would expect no less.

Captain Button

And you just can't hide it?

Captain Button

Metal could conduct heat away from her upper arm linkages, which would be uncomfortable.

legobil

It has got to be better than Tim Horton.

legobil

As a certified Idiot, I acknowledge and adhere to all above comments.

legobil

Right?! 🤣 And it isn’t even the first day! 😌

legobil

Also, cant Wait for Marten to get himself a uniform. Also, who will be His first employee!

legobil

Bahahahaha. I love that. ”MOOD Coffee” 🤣🤣🤣

Matthew DeVries

Why is she wearing mittens on robot hands?

Bill Grebner

The mood of Mood is apparently Sad Beige

Kristina

I'm so excited 😁

Fart Captor

Three apples tall but wearing boots to make her three and a half apples tall 🥰

Holly Nelson

Did we ever know what "teh" means, in-comic?

Be well, do good work, have fun, and keep in touch

Welcome back

Ursus Ridens

The pretty picture is of a village in Iceland. They are supposed to have the snow that Cubetown is getting.

Maurice Kessler

You'd think he would want to open the blinds (or whatever they are) and let some light into the joint, no?

Ursus Ridens

He hasn't done enough business yet to get an espresso machine...or chairs...or tables...or, what, anything?

Ursus Ridens

[In very small, ashamed letters] me too

Ursus Ridens

Actually, the sign is an Ai. It works on SETI stuff most of the time, and when it gets excited about some signal, it sometimes forgets to turn around.

BookBeard

Nah, I'm pretty sure she only does that with Bubbles.

alphanor

She still only comes up to a sitting Marten's chin.

Drazi

Took all my shit, gave it to to a shit museum. And they charge people $3.14 to see it.

Drazi

Please don't say that. It will be seen as a challenge.

Drazi

Yes, please!

Drazi

Pretty sure she at least works there

Drazi

I don't think she's little anymore

Opus the Poet

Liz has some appropriate clothes this time.

Captain Button

Of course, he hasn't had time to developed a proper arachnobiome for the coffee roaster in the basement.

Hawkeye

It appears Marten only serves coffee and tea in two sizes. Big and small. I, for one, approve of this limited size offering.

Opus the Poet

It's just jump to the right.

alphanor

That's what I thought when I first read it.

Captain Button

Are those Specials I see behind him?

Opus the Poet

An AI employee, with a snarky personality. And a body that's another pallette swap of Melon/Lemon. Something in pink maybe.

alphanor

Good to have you back! I have missed the little gremlin.

Captain Button

50 cents please!

Captain Button

Or 2095.

Opus the Poet

No, she's in love with Evan. Still.

Dissociated Women Incorporated

Surprised he doesn’t have some kind of digital sign that automatically changes when he enters in the morning (or a set amount of time afterwards to allow for prep)

Opus the Poet

How's the coffee there?

Cory Thorp

Love it!! Welcome back, Jeph!

Matthew Borus

Awww, yay. Happy new year, Jeph (and everyone else).

Rich Holmes

Hey, there's a very snazzy wall outlet

Clifton Royston

Oh it very can. I am hoping it won’t but I am feeling very pessimistic. It’s not so much our new US President as the thought of who he’ll inspire to be their worst selves.

Joseph Bonnar

Welcome back, Jeph. :)

Mad Marie

She might technically be the boss

Mad Marie

If he flips the sign, it teleports him to Coffee of Doom

Mad Marie

(puts hand up) Either that, or it's Doom Coffee and he forgot to flip the sign again

Michael Steamweed

A perfect name! I didn't catch that! Doom backwards is Mood! :D

Michael Steamweed

Did he have to rent the place? Did he just walk in and claim it?? How long before he ends up hiring her???

Shinymelon Fearnow

It also softens the blows of people reminding you of your idiot status in that moment. At least for this Registered Idiot.

Wood

It might be the boots. And that Marten is sitting down.

Dean Reilly

Volumetric Shit Compressor, Research Time: 30 min

Miyaa

I do love the ‘æ.’

Miyaa

Just jump ahead to 2029 already please.

Ben R

She's ahead of AI

Leak

@Bill: ...or when they say "exterminate"...

Ben R

It saves money on fittings if you just don't open.

LH

it *is* in canada

Ben R

Realizing you are being an idiot is a skill learned by being an idiot. I'm very good at realizing that I'm being an idiot.

Jasper

Love the time jump hahahaha

Miyaa

Green

Holy HELL this has been so much more time than I was expecting. Though I guess having to see Marten go through the work of opening a shop might be a bit repetitive since we've already seen a lot about how things are run thanks to Dora

Miyaa

GDI Don’t give Jeph any extra ideas!

Sorastro

Consolidate your fecal matter, Sir!

enchantedsleeper

Omg xD mood fo eeffoc

enchantedsleeper

It looks a lot more boring inside than I expected xD

Alcaria Swain

Like, I'm so happy to see time has passed

Alcaria Swain

That's so cool actually

Doc Gumby

Get your poop in a group.

Doc Gumby

Almost like back to the beginning. This new coffee shop, this mopey guy...

Rich Holmes

I for reals thought at first when Liz said "You forgot to flip the sign" she meant turning the big sign upside down to read DOOM. Actually it would read DOOW with a backwards D but I didn't get that far in my thinking before realizing I was being an idiot.

Doc Gumby

Uh oh. . .

Sean Kau

Mood

PatronTurtle

...is she taller?

PatronTurtle

As someone who seems out coffee specifically when certain moods hid, 100%

Ísabel Pirsic

Mood fo‘ Eeffoc?

Clifton Royston

Welcome back Jeph! It's like you never left (because you didn't!)

Clifton Royston

It's astounding! Time is fleeting.

Nicholas Lopez

OH SHIT MARTEN HAS A COFFEE SHOP

BookBeard

Next: Marten hires his first employee, a mysterious AI named Hooray Baristafriend, who is clearly a Cubetown enthusiast because they have been asking a *lot* of questions about the Director.

Clifton Royston

I take note, it's a big MOOD.

SpookyPenguin

Just MOOD on my tshirt thanks Jeph

Morganna

And quite the skip it is. Reread all the older comics during the last month. Curious to see what the QC future brings us.

Ben R

can't be worse...sigh

Nulgar

It's that relatable aesthetic of "push back getting rid of moving/delivery boxes until they become part of the furniture"

Nulgar

The apocalyptic year of 2025.... oh yeah, heads up, Americans!

Claudia D.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Kirkjub%C3%A6jarklaustur_Aerial_2023_B.jpg

nine

HEY JAFFJAGS HAPPY NEW YEAR. I mean, ahem Happy New Year. Directember was fun, it's really cool to see how QC has evolved over time. Bit like a child, you don't see it changing until you look back.

Nulgar

Faye rubbed off on her.

Everett Bradshaw

Yay! We're back!

BookBeard

As long as he doesn't jump ahead to some ridiculous far-off point in the future like 2025.

Todd Ellner

Our goblin has developed some self awareness

BookBeard

It's actually summer, the wacky hijinks research group somehow got their hands on a prototype weather control machine.

Danielle Church

omg I didn't get it until I saw your comment, so thank you 😅

Rosilin

What a perfect vibe to come back to. 😅

Wild Card

And so it begins.... again

Donna Flint

Better a keyboard smash than a stroke which is where my mind went...

Ingrid Nordbø

Happy new year, everyone! May we all get through 2025. ❤️

Donna Flint

Ya, me too

Daniel Burnett

I’m sure it’s the result of an experiment gone wrong

Stephen Wells

Please let this mean that Liz is his surly minion at this coffee shop :)

Anthony Gaglianese

I don't even drink coffee and I would ABSOLUTELY rock a 'Mood Coffee Co.' Tshirt.

Clark Bennett

So excited to see where we go!

djellafine

Or heck, programmable. Remotely, from a phone.

Ben R

For some reason I wasn't expecting snow in Cubetown.

BookBeard

It seems he ended up going with a different building. Similar walls and floors, but with a very different entrance. I imagine many of the structures in Cubetown are some sort of modular prefab units. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5126

djellafine

"Coffee Of Mood" probably would have been too on the nose

djellafine

MOOD! I GET IT

Adam Eaton

I love panel 2. Liz seems somewhat more mature somehow? But still our favorite gremlin.

Uniquitous

The decor seems somewhat... absent. He should put up a few indie rock posters

Dave, Duke of Fridges

Keyword: "Tried" lmfao

Lene

The only thing I regret is that we don't get to see what Bembo has been up to this year

Peter Jensen

Ok, thought that was a keyboard mash, until I saw Iceland ...

enchantedsleeper

ANOTHER timeskip???? At this rate QC is going to be in 2005 before we know it.

BookBeard

'Teh-spresso', surely.

The World Famous Chocomerican

Or a hipster beard

The World Famous Chocomerican

Marten, get your shit together. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it's together. And if you gotta take it somewhere, take it somewhere ya know? Take it to the shit store and sell it. Or put it in a shit museum I don't care what you do. You just gotta get it together... Get your shit together.

Jose Alfredo Villalobos

Yes!

Grumzz

Happy new year! Glad to have you back but also glad you managed to take some time off!

Sparky

Happy happy! Back is good.

Grumzz

Damnit my brain is slow and I missed this hahah

Matrim Cauthon

MOOD mirroring DOOM heh

Kelly

Delightful! Welcome back - I'm excited to be here!

Shawn K. Younkin

Why even lock the door? It's Cubetown.

chubbygoomba

Woo time skip!

Mitchel Huffa

Mood is Doom backwards. Of course.

Tom Wells

Welcome back Jeph. “Some time has passed”. Ya think? 😁. Love the name of the coffee shop. And yes, “Mood Coffee” merch please

Olaf

Yay! It's good to be back. I mean, for the comic to be back.

Shawn Pedersen

Mmm, delicious time skip. Happy New Year from the Hrifunes Inn near Kirkjubæjarklaustur, Iceland!

Veronica Jane

I was really hoping a time jump would mean Marten had grown a terrible moustache

Foal Papers

Welcome back! I hope you’re well rested. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for your wonderful characters, and by extension, for us. Very best wishes for the new year! :-)

Populuxe

Is the coffee shop made of shipping crates? Because I like that aesthetic.

Fr0thgar

Happy new year everyone ❤️ Love the name 😂

Bill Silvia

Automated signs are dangerous if you don't have enough employees to cover for illness, weather, etc.

Tim Eldred

He's gonna just put another sign on the door that says (if the door's unlocked come on in)

Sean Kinlin

Seems like he failed to open it. At least this day.

Cancertopia

We're so back baybeee (Hoping this is just marten being kind of a himbo and not a sign of internal distress due to a breakup or something 😬)

Foal Papers

I hear this in my head in the manner of “Extra Olympia Kyklos” and giggle. So, thank you for that. :-)

Nicholas

“Get it all together and put it in a backpack.”

Jamieson

Why is it not called "Teh coffee"?

Benzy

Coffee of Doom meet MOOD Coffee!!! It's a whole vibe.

Celine Chamberlin

Whelp. That's a mood.

Jason Wotzko

Agree, though 'Teh Coffee' would have caused so many eye twitches amongst science boffins

Leak

You'd think someone in Cubetown could have automated the sign for him...

Wednesday

I feel like Marten is going to run Apple Diagnostics and then tell me my system isn’t really experiencing intermittent heat issues. Which is to say I *like* Mood’s aesthetic.