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Jeph got bored of the other characters in it (and, arguably, Marten too), so they stopped appearing. They still release music via Jeph writing it, although he changed the name recently, so...who knows.

Marten has been working on his music dreams a lot lately and has actually got a gig opening for 21 Pilots in NYC. When Marten becomes THE focus again it will be about the fallout good and bad from his band getting big.

or

Marten goes back to school and becomes a Music Teacher who plays shows on the side.

edited 26th Apr '17 12:03:44 PM by Wildcard

Basic problem for the classic Roommate Com form; having a character be in a band is cool, but then it turns out that writing about a band doing band stuff is terribly hard to make entertaining. Ménage à 3 suffers from the same issue.

I always thought it would have been cool if Marten became a music teacher. Like he started teaching kids guitar and charging for it and discovering this little niche for himself outside the library.

wheeeeeeee

:D

Very cute for all involved.

Aww...cute. Marten better get his turn.

It's good to have a friend who can probably bench-press a small car.

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How...how far away from eachoter do Marten and Claire live?

They seem to live in a town small enough you can walk everywhere.

They're supposed to be in Northampton, Massachusetts, right?

The town is roughly 36 square miles, and has a population of 28.5 thousand.

do not press the button

Behold the most useless question ever asked. OF COURSE he'd push it.

I have to admit that I don't get this strip at all.

I think that plant belongs to Bubbles.

Yes, it's Bubbles' plant and he was planning to do something pintsizey to it.

Ah, right, yes.

Is 'look of the long suffering mom' a trope, because if it isn't it totally should be.

That's how you react to a cool robot in a society that has reached the point of building cool robots.

"Engineering schools weigh the most, but Catholic schools have the most mass."

Goddamnit, Jeph!

Honestly, I could imagine a lot of real world humans who would be unhappy that we had accidently created sentient life.

Not to say that the way the comic handled it was particularly subtle or interesting. The "douchebag yelling biggoted comments in the street"-archetype is kind of...heavy-handed in comic book form.

Honestly I'm more curious about the moral ramifications of AI taking human lives in wars. I can imagine that a lot of people (and robots) would be upset about this. Especially when you consider the technological gap there must exist between the U.S. and it's enemies. The comic has never really talked about different countries in the QC-verse and wether or not they have their own form of AI.

EDIT: I totally miseed the alt-text. Not bad, Jeph, not bad. It's been a while since we've had such a deliciously groantastic pun.

edited 1st May '17 5:39:30 AM by GutstheBerserker

That was discussed quite a bit. Most AIs don't wants AIs involved in wars because of that exact reason—they're worried how humans will take it. But since AIs now have full rights, they can't actually stop anyone who wants to join the military, and the military happily takes them because having a soldier who can personally fight a tank is too great to pass up. Bubbles was in an experimental squad, but the whole thing got canned after the incident.

EDIT: Also, though not stated outright, I would assume that AIs are worldwide.

edited 1st May '17 11:45:18 AM by Discar

If you were gonna question the morality of an AI taking a human life in a war, wouldn't you already be questioning the morality of a human taking a human life in a war? It seems like the AI in the strip are individuals subject to the same government that humans are, so I don't see how that would come up.

Robots are stronger than humans, and the other side may not have any. It would be similar to using tanks against foot soldiers.