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Decision Made (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-05 01:14:57
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2026-06

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who could have seen this coming (me, I wrote it) ((but also the whole Liz thing was a surprise even to me)) (((writing is weird)))

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Zig Justice

Characters gonna character . o O (Or so I, a non-writer, have heard.)

Wednesday

Writing is so weird, and this is a hopeful development. These are both hopeful developments, actually — Marten’s attitude here is so refreshing.

carmanut

Inb4 ppl complaining that nooooooo how can she accept, Jeph doesn't know his own characters argle bargle

Matt Grayson

Go Claire! And Librarian Consort is the coolest title ever.

carmanut

Don't @ me, I've been on the subreddit

Todd Ellner

Claire - Chief Librarian and Avatar of Cosmic Order Marten - Capybara Shaman

Reogal

Martin Reed - Ombudsman

Finvaara

Maybe Marten could look into becoming a LICENSED therapist. It might fit him.

Crushbot (security*)

Yes, because it's not like it's his story or anything. People are dumb.

Tannerbot

Well, Marten is librarian adjacent, so maybe he can get a job too?

Nicholas Lopez

Wait hold on, I just thought about it, what about Steve? No one's told him about what's going on and he has no clue. Steve was Martens OG friend and one of the first characters we were ever introduced to, shouldn't he know too? :(

Bozo The Hunk

Is Jeff possibly trying to end the series? Or is this just a big status quo change like Fae being fired from CoD? Im enjoying the series, and I totally get if Jeff wants to end it after 20 years, but I could also see QC running for another 20.

Fart Captor

YAAAAAAAY WE GET TO KEEP THE GREMLIN

Violet Elizabeth

Yeah this seems like Claire, also wonder if this is the comic on approach to an ending or not

Daniel S

I think she has a shot, but whether Claire can pull it off without wrecking her own mental health in the process is going to be interesting. Also whether Marten is finally going to find some sort of passion or direction.

NTA

Now that's you've established cubetown as a windy place, I'm looking forward to seeing more billowing hair. 😉

Mordaeus

Jeph, you're doing amazing!

Todd Ellner

If he doesn't want to go to grad school to become a therapist he could open KopiKava - Coffee for them as need pepping up, Kava for them as need chilling out.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Whoa, both "argle" AND "bargle"? Shiats getting real.

Bear C. Brown

Yes. Definitely an attempt to end it so he can finally explore the spin-off project: Adventures of Steve.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

I think that takes a lot of schooling and certificates and stuff.

Bear C. Brown

Marten Reed: Chief Busker of Cubetown

John Fiala

Unlicensed underground therapist is another way of saying "bartender"

Pejo

how does Jeph keep making Claire hotter

Pejo

ooh & there'd be more legitimate uses for a harpoon here!

Danny Beans

If she's anything like another red-haired capital-L Librarian, it's probably best to avoid the "m" word around her.

Katrina Urmson

I mean… Marten does have a lot of innate therapy skills. I dunno what he’d want to do about that though. Sometimes being a good listener and pointing out objective realities gets lost when you do actual study (or that was my experience with crossover classmates taking psychology when I was in school). I think it’s nice she pointed out he should do something in his own right. Be interesting to see how that chat continues to evolve. Also yay decision made! With clarity and self honesty! You go, Claire!

Pejo

It is not. Jeph said it wasn't, before the time skip that kicked off this story.

Violet Elizabeth

oh yeah, I forgot about that, and also forgot what/when/where the timeskip was (just the travel time?)

Joseph Houk

Jeph made his biggest decision back in #300. If he didn't end the strip then, he won't now.

Pejo

Yeah, that dovetails with Pintsize & Faye's concerns.

Chris Gropp

If I'm not mistaken, he said somewhere "it's not ending but it's probably gonna look like it for a bit".

Leitchy

Cubetown def. needs a new coffee joint...with a special tea sniffing zone so the gross coffee smells don't drown out the sweet floral scents. 😉

Adam

Didn't Jeph say something like "this is a big change but I'm not ending the comic" when the Cubetown arc was starting?

Captain Button

She has the eyes down. As long as she doesn't try to fly.

Anton

I love it when a story surprises you in the creation. :)

Thisguy

I could see Marten starting a coffee shop. They apparently need one.

Jon

It would be hilarious if everyone got super accepting of the move only for Cubetown to plops down in Massachusetts for almost no reason.

Captain Button

Translate into some language so it sounds cooler.

Pejo

He did! & he's not. :)

Rob McBobson

Either you mean 500, or you feel very strongly about booty dances. :)

Rob McBobson

We all knew they'd stay or Jeph wouldn't have devoted that much time to this place, but I keep forgetting that this wasn't such a given for Marten and Claire. To them, the decision wasn't made until it was actually made.

Inahc

Livin' in holes!

Tom wilson

Now to find an excuse to move the rest of the gang up there, open a coffee shop, a garage, and some sort of counting service...

Thisguy

Thats the problem, by the time in life you realise you may be well suited to a specific job which requires years of schooling, its almost too late to go back to school. Yes, some people do, but in this case, school would probably cause Marten to lose his chill.

Peter McDevitt

maybe Marten can become the CubeTown Makeout Hobo.

Brooks Moses

These may end up being related, even!

Paul Johnson

Now I can tell friends to read this comic and say it's about The Librarian and the Librarian Consort.😁😁

Sean Kinlin

Steve probably will learn all about it through whatever secret organization(s) he belongs to.

Sean Kinlin

{(((())))} ({((()))}) (({(())})) ((({()}))) (((({}))))

Sean Kinlin

It's nice to feel needed, as long as you don't end up feeling kneaded.

Joseph Houk

LOL you're right. It was so damn long ago...

Bozo The Hunk

Makes sense. We do seem to be very slowly approaching the end of the arc, or the start of a new one.

Michael Boettger

I think Liz would the more likely one to attempt that. And perhaps her situation weighed into Claire's decision.

Diptych

The timeskip was between 4845 and 4846, and it followed Aurelia announcing she was going to eat everyone's butts.

Ace

Hey, I started the process at age 34, and now I'm doing it for a living!

Anne Welborn

Yes those first two panels really made me smile.

Violet Elizabeth

ah, so *that's* why Northampton is the largest city in Mass in QC world!

Miyaa

Oh Windy. I thought you said Wendy and I was thinking about getting a chocolate Frostie™.

Miyaa

I see you’ve been snared by Capybara TikTok too. “Capybara-capybara-capybara!”

Paul S. Enns

I was hoping she'd take it. Now we can have aaaaaaaaall the drama about leaving Massachusetts.

Lyman Green

The patreon crowd is very, very different than the subreddit crowd, from what I’ve read.

BobC

Cubetown moves to cause Claire and Marten less stress. Because Yay wants it that way.

Miyaa

I’m getting calculus and differential equations flashbacks seeing this many kinds of brackets.

Dr. Allegedly

Busking in Canada requires an audition. You need to be approved to busk

Dr. Allegedly

In a slice of life comic every decision greater than choosing coffee or breakfast is indeed jumping the shark. So you go ahead and keep boldly jumping sharks.

Todd Ellner

Never been to TikTok. Been fascinated by capybaras since first seeing them in Natural History magazine

Todd Ellner

It would be a good fit, and there's a wealth of PhD theses in Cubetown

Todd Ellner

I'm sure Steve's secret adventures have included plenty of seamanship

Mad Marie

^ is “the subreddit” part of that “the dark web” thing I keep hearing about on the NCIS?

Mad Marie

@todd: you misspelled semenship

Colleen Dewis

Can't believe it is almost 5000 comics!!! Amazing

Miyaa

How long before Claire and Marten start developing Canadian accents, starts adding “u” in words like “flavor”, and starts developing a penchons for Montréal style bagels? I give it a year.

Shawn K. Younkin

TBF- Marten probably would make a GREAT therapist.

Mad Marie

@Gamera: No worries. I’m pretty sure Jeff Jocks will keep writing comics about Fae and Martin and Clare and Bubles and Dorra and Tie and Hanelor and Pintsighs for many many years to come.

Miyaa

*Roko enters the chat.*

Mamadoc

Could Cubetown (or Yay or the Space Station) create some kind of transporter between Massachusetts and Cubetown? If not, Martin needs to open a coffee shop/bakery.

Miyaa

Does this makes Aurelia the Mother Librarian?

Mad Marie

I sure hope Marten and Claire aren’t related!

Mad Marie

It always struck me as a missed opportunity that () didn’t turn out to be what the word “elipses” means.

Miyaa

Marie NO

Mad Marie

Next-door to voles!

Miyaa

Or maybe an auxiliary librarian!

LH

is that the same subreddit that banned Jeph

Alex Borders

A year in-universe time? That'll likely be sometime in 2030 our time, amiright?

SilverbackRon

That is what I came here to say. Claire's hair + wind = Awesome

SilverbackRon

I am surprised he didn't save Decision Made for 5000

LH

just realised ... #500 was eighteen years ago. it is old enough to vote. wtaf!

Diptych

It's a hell of a thing that there are multiple subreddits and they're all terrible.

Adam

nah, 5,000 is the one where Cubetown accidentally Sublimes. oops, spoiler.

Mad Marie

Right before Hanners first appeared, cigarette in hand.

Mad Marie

‘Questionable Content, The Motion Picture’ Starring Jason Statham as Ol’ Boaty

Ashley Thomas

ok that last line made me laugh out loud for real.

Flash

Honestly, the Librarian feels like the shadowy secret final boss of the place

Annina

he can use the boat he sort of accidentally bought to visit ;)

Dean Reilly

I think the difference is that we're y'know, PAYING to be here.

Shawn K. Younkin

Please- it's the "Considerate" CubeTown Makeout Hobo.

Shawn K. Younkin

You... don't feel strongly about booty dances?

Kenneth

Dang..i was hoping 5000 would be Dora and Tai's wedding...

Dr. Allegedly

Anything that slaps seals into orbit while having moose on the menu is a no from me.

Frank Wales

5,000 is the one where Pintsize wakes up in the shower with Bobby Ewing and the entire cast of St Elsewhere

Chris Heg

Hoping "Decisions are made" doesn't become "Mistakes were made".

Calmweaver

Honesstly? The Librarian, with a capital T, is actually a pretty cool title

Carl Fink

Or possibly next comic. QC does time jumps.

Carl Fink

I agree with two folks upstream. I can see Marten creating the anti-Coffee of Doom, where the baristas are sympathetic and chill and the atmosphere is soothing. Except the Secret Bakery is already the doppelganger of Coffee of Doom, so ....

Vic or Vyxter

I think so, too. I can't remember if he finished an undergrad degree?

Lex

As a very giid friend of mine once said, for some writers, they are "less their character's omnipotent gods, and more a panicked biographer chasing after them with pen in hand". 😁😅😋

Mirage

I am stealing "Librarian Consort" for my D&D campaign and you can't stop me.

Yelling Bird

I knew it. Jeph made so many characters that he filled the last town and had to move to a new one.

Shey

The best kind of therapist

wargrunt42

The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind. Both in the figurative and literal sense.

Dan Curtis

In Klingon Marten would be the Ngeb Chargwl

MikeT

Marten Reed, AI-Frontier Psychiatrist

Yaacov Lazar

;In proper LISP style: (me, I wrote it (but also the whole Liz thing was a surprise even to me (writing is weird)))

K P

That first panel is just fantastic.

That Blair Guy

If Claire is “‘the Librarian' with a capital L” then clearly Marten is “‘the Guardian’ with a capital G”. I assume Judson and Charlene are onboard with this. By now, Flynn Carson has likely adjusted to the existence of other Librarians. But man…. I suspect Colonel Baird is gonna have a conniption about Marten…..

Viktor

I mean, his mom is basically a therapist, she could give him advice. (this is a joke, do not use your dom as a therapist, most of them are also just barely holding it together)

Bookbeard

The gang will go through the arduous process of accepting this huge change, only to find out that someone in Cubetown has invented teleportation and they can commute there and back instantaneously.

Captain Button

Has Claire been initiated into the Mysteries Of L-Space?

Bookbeard

That was my first thought after the "Librarian with a capital L" comment. This is the crossover I didn't know I wanted and now can't live without.

Sarah Valentine

Not gonna lie, it's unrealistic but now I'm kinda hoping for this

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Japanese is Shisho haigūsha (sort of) Maori is "whare pukapuka hoa wahine" (per Google Translate, seems very similar to Hawai'ian tho)

Andrew Mitchell

Goes well with "The Director" jellyfish AI. It's a buddy cop situation.

Fart Captor

We need to protect her adorable long messy hair from Jeph and his scissors😤

Andrew Mitchell

Oh, wow, thanks for pointing that out. I can't believe it's this week.

Morgan Byrd

Jeph I just want you to know that Panel 4 Claire is the coolest anybody has ever been, 10/10 well done

Bookbeard

I suppose there are more realistic options available too. An ultra high speed hover-shuttle service of some description would be well within the technological bounds already established in this universe. Teleportation is more fun though.

Bill Silvia

People say that, but in my experience a bartender is more someone you have to shout your order to because bars are always obnoxiously loud.

Bill Silvia

Going back through the log to see just how much time has been spent here. My first observation is that we haven't seen Clintiott since the start of the trip to Cubetown, despite their major subplot in the previous IU day.

Bill Silvia

So far we are at 76 strips here, which is the longest in any given location but not the longest on any one day.

Bill Silvia

But that's how cats show you give them a happy!

Miyaa

And space, twice.

Jade Stephan

Marten might actually be a good therapist... with the right training ofc.

James A. Whitney

Writing is definitely weird. Even if you're someone who plans out how the entire plot will go, sometimes in the moment your characters will surprise you and you'll be like "no, this other thing is definitely what they would do".

Todd Ellner

Claire's Beau ain't no Ho

Halloween Jack

Is this the part where Claire becomes the official protagonist of QC?

Todd Ellner

Ben Aaronovitch has written THE occult police series, Rivers of London. Nobody has done it nearly as well. It's mostly novels, but there are some comic books as well. In one of those graphic series, "Detective Comics", the main character Peter Grant is being interviewed for promotion to Detective Constable and gets asked "Why did you join the police?" "You know when something terrible happens? And everyone runs around demanding that somebody do something..... but they don't have the faintest idea who that somebody is? I don't have that problem." Claire, meet Peter. Peter, meet Claire. You have a lot in common.

SpookyPenguin

This makes me happy, go Claire!! What a journey to this point. We stand in the doorway.

Leak

"The Guy"

Andrea Andrew

If anything, Faye becomes the official protagonist. Marten’s been demoted for quite some time.

Charlie Rose

Omg Marten should totally become a therapist

Stephen Wells

Well they're both Pacific-islander languages, related.

Stephen Wells

Cubetown has the resources to fund his training.

Fennec12

My favourite current series.

Bagge

Marten should start a coffee shop. The coffee is just a pretence for the 'come and chill'. He would perform an important community service, as already shown

Robert L

The Confidant.

David

Wait, did we just find out what Marten is gonna be when he grows up?

theaardvark

Yes! I started this story arc not wanting them to leave but now I need to find out what happens when Claire kicks Cubetown's arse into line.

Leak

If they didn't want Steve fucking the boat, why did they make it so fuckable? (It's secretly a Transformer, innit? One that can't swim?)

Miyaa

“Mistakes were Made” is tomorrow’s episode where Faye used Pintsize as a test subject for her robot bidet. Even though she know someone else beat them to it.

Leak

Leave Yay out of this - Cubetown's cluster is fucked enough as it is...

Leak

AMAZEBOWLS.

Leak

Compiler error on line 1: ")" expected.

Miyaa

“Thank you!” says the Director. “May… I… hug you?” “Oh no, that’s harassment and I am well averse in Cthulhu Wars to know how that ends!” angrily replies Claire. Meanwhile, Marten Reed is imagining the kick ass top hat the Director could wear. Could the Director wear a monocle?

Leak

Cubetown is wherever Jerry Gilliam's Brazil took place and Marten is Archibald Tuttle...

Leak

Megalodon'ts.

Leak

I think Jeph might have something nice planned for strip 6969...

Leak

Usually, that many characters are called a "series of novels"...

Leak

Marten Sr., Esquire?

Sarah Manx

Unsolicited anecdote—Many years ago at work, I created an entire project codename scheme around rodents so that I could call something "Capybara." They're just the best.

Daryl Sawyer

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think Panel 2 Claire may be among the most beautiful things I've seen.

KCkittysnores

My SIL trained as a therapist in her 40’s. It was fine, and she’s really good at it. Given that Marten is in his 20’s, he’s way far from “too late”. And he’s been actively considering getting training in something. Some people retrain for one career after retiring from their first career. But geez louise, the boy’s not 30 yet.

William Cole

Is Cubetown *also* funded by the US Department of Kicking Your Ass?

Bill Silvia

The Director would probably extrude a new Moray just for the purpose of hugging Claire. Claire will probably allow it, as long as it is not Moray-69.

Todd Ellner

Did you save Naked Mole Rat for the ugliest subproject?

Carol Metzger

KopiKava sounds a lot like Copa Cabana to me. But thinking about Marten, not sure he has the personality for running a coffee shop. More like Lucy van Pelt and her lemonade stand. Pick a table, sit and read, be available to whoever shows up.

Carol Metzger

... ... ... Have you seen the fnords?

VoxOrbisBrad

Panel 4 is extremely awesome as well!

enchantedsleeper

I love them both in that panel! The little smiles, their hair blowing in the wind, Marten tucking his behind one ear...

enchantedsleeper

The Secret Bakery is CoD's doppelgänger but they still have more than their share of snark xD

Miyaa

Wonder if there are Morays who identify as males and how many of them refer to themselves as “Murray?”

YsabetJustYsabet

At least *she* didn't have to be turned into an orangutan to get her job...

joe velsher

Although I would read the shit out of that rip-off

Mad Marie

So if Canadian spelling often adds a u to an o, does that similarly apply to the shape of Montreal bagels?

Mad Marie

Her business cards have a hole at the bottom centre and begin with “Librarian, The”

Mad Marie

Marten Reed, Media Resources Assistant II

Armin

Frontal nostrils are weird.

Chapel

that's just how I was born :(

Dru Freeman

@Jeph. Been following since shortly after issue 1 when we first meet Marten an Pintsize. I think it’s been an amazing 5,000 issue journey for you and the characters and can’t wait to see where the future brings them. Congrats and thank you for a great strip.

Ron Hamann

He has a bachelors in listening to music and saying “hmmmm.”

Ron Hamann

Could see Claire hiring Tai, then Dora opens a new Coffee of Doom.

Daryl Sawyer

Considering Marten's original title was "office bitch", and the length of time he spent working in a position of authority in a library, do you think he'd be qualified to do HR?

David Paul

Given that Cubetown is into all sorts of fields of study, it would not surprise me if they are somehow caught in a reality-altering <s>spell</s> experiment of some kind.

Ursus Ridens

Panel 1 is as close as we're ever going to get to Clair Augustus as Kate Winslet.

Armin

Just hope they don't turn visible/invisible from one panel to another... 😀

Dan Glick

All of my arty friends are becoming therapists in their late 30's, pretty sure Marten is on the path.

Some Ed

Coffee bartender

Some Ed

No, being an administrative assistant and then a library supervisor does not particularly qualify one for being in HR. To be clear, I'm not saying that he wouldn't do better at it than Moray-X21, who probably had no experience or reason the Director thought she'd be particularly well suited for the task. I'm just saying that his work experience to date has not particularly prepared him for it. His general outlook on life may have done a better job at preparing him for the job than his work history.

Some Ed

Every artist who has gotten to know and care about you has gone to study therapy? Does this say something about you?

LaPrimaNerda (Sarah Davis)

As a librarian myself, I'm just angry that I never thought of calling any of my partners "Librarian Consort." Freaking sounds awesome AND its gender neutral.