Terrible
Good job Marty, give her a task any idiot can do to temporarily take her mind off her life problems.
>>153119237It's at least nice to see Marteen DO something for once instead of reacting.
>>153119370He's great at wrangling Liz.Honestly, before he left Northampton he mastered wrangling Faye as well. He's a tried and true at it at this point.
>>153119237Remember when Marten was the main character? Pepperidge Farm® remembers.Now fuck!
>>153119237Fresh ground is always better. That's like steak or the grill rested v. warmed up in the microwave
+offFucking phone posting
>>153119370It's weird to remember that at one point in addition to being the straight man he was also the one with any emotional intelligence whatsoever.
>>153119237surely this will lead to something happening
>>153119961Surely.
>>153119961It's going to be the coffee-tasting of the century! Don't sit too close or you might burst into treats from the sheer awesomeness!
I feel like this has potential
>>153120001>booba?
>>153120022gooba
>>153119961>Marten's coffee shop sees a massive spike in business he can't explain>turns out Dr. Loli is secretly using the vibrations of the coffee grinder as a sex toy, unaware that the entire apartment complex across the street can see through the window of the stockroom
>>153119237Martin and Liz work so much better together whenever they actually interact.
>>153120576It's bittersweet because it means that Jeph still has the ability to write compelling banter between characters that have interesting personalities and care about each other, he just... doesn't.
>>153120001Mobile coffee dispenser Right tit has coffee Left tit has milkPussy has the sugar
>>153120949the sugar would dissolve is the issue
>>153121013The sugar is actually a coffee syrup.
>>153119237Liz and Marten are going to be alone AGAIN.That´s no good.
Was the big goo AI boss supposed to be super sekrit?
>>153121486I think it's known that the AI jellyfish exists, but the degree of its power and complexity is a secret. I also forget a little of how much of the deeper lore is in-jokes here in the vein of nanobot water.
>>153121382It's the only good thing left in this horrible comic
Hey wouldn't it be funny if the previous Marten/Liz cockblock was a feint to throw people off and this time they're actually going to fuck, ha ha
>>153122524Having Marten cheat on Claire would make him irredeemable to Jeph's audience, so he won't do it. The real off-ramp is Claire's workaholism, because forgoing romance to eventually become a burnt out spinster is aspirational for women and approximations of such, and it paints the situation as more of a positive thing for Claire. Unfortunately, Jeph veered away from it last time, so it will take a while to come back up, if it ever does.
>>153122767As we've coped before, the way to thread the needle is through a careful combination of circumstance: Dr. Loli needs to make an advance in earnest like she has before, when Marten wasn't awakeMarten needs to be intending to let her down gently, but too confused to make a quick moveClaire needs to get information about this in a way where her anxiety causes her to be justifiably upset but overly punitive. If handled properly, it can be a situation where no one is in the wrong, all three are handling their feelings poorly, and Claire breaks up with Marten not due to anything he did but due to her increasing concern that he will do something. We saw a similar playbook with Dora where Marten didn't do anything wrong, and although he failed to do certain things right it still created a crack that Dora drove a wedge into. Also, quite frankly, Claire being all but written out of the comic and Marten in a will-they-won't-they miasma of banter with several women is the desired end state even if there's some loose ends. We're already getting the types of strips we want, we just want the bookkeeping to line up with it.
>>153122894Well said
Quick, Marten! Fuck her brains out until there's nothing left for her to feel bad with!
>>153120652It's mostly on accident. He doesn't seem to grasp writing fundamentals like conflict and growth. Recall that he admitted he was going to write out Claire and Marten after sending them to Cubetown, but then he found himself getting interested again because he now had a new setting with new potential.
He's never going to have Liz and Marten fuck. Jeph is in his 40s and wants to write Marten like a dad, but he obviously can't make Claire and Marten parents or even adopt, so he gave them a small person who is barely an adult that they can treat like a child
>>153124748That may be true but he deliberately wrote that small person having a sexual attraction to the "dad."
>>153124971Every girl has a thing for their dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FMgt-iDHfY
>>153122894Everyone forgets that the issue with Jeph's writing is never the leadup, it comes after hookup. It doesn't matter if he wrote out Claire tomorrow, Marten and Liz would go to shit the moment they actually became a couple.
He's worked at a coffee shop for pretty much this entire webcomic and he is just now trying to figure out if preground is better than fresh ground?
>>153127625He never worked at the coffeeshop, he just was friends with all the people working there. He's been a librarian/gofer the entire time after getting fired from his office job.
>>153127625Pretty sure he knows, he's just making shit up to distract her.
>>153121502Ah, okay.
Bump
>>153130291Let the thread die if it's gonna die, goddamn. We'll make another one when there's a new page, same as we have for years.
>>153130448Isn't it always the same guy making the thread?
>>153131564To my knowledge, but it seems that lately he's had more IRL shit going on and so sometimes it needs to be made when the comic actually goes on the website
No! We need Drabru to bless us with porn!
>>153119237
>>153132415Stop begging
>>153132615Hooray, more therapy and family counseling.
>>153132615Jeffer sure likes showing how much fun Marten and Liz are together.
>>153132703its ok, she is just another quirky lesbian to add to the pile. anyway we all know marten likes dick in his ass.
>>153132615MRTEN JUST FUCK HER FOR FUCK´S SAKE!
>>153132615As someone who flamed out and spent a couple years resetting before choosing a new career path, Marten's response is worst thing he could do. Liz shouldn't be lying, Moray did the right thing, and Emily's response shows why. Ultimately, past the initial empathetic response, no one gives a FUCK that you got stuck for a while. No one can do shit about their own past, let alone some acquaintances past. There's way too much interesting stuff to do now. You wanna do it, or do you want to wallow in your regrets? Ironically, Liz could have done with a trip to see the hentai god AI herself, and see how puny her problems are, but Marten fucked up in a misguided attempt to protect her.Reminder that the closest Liz has come to moving on was in Moray's goo tank. That's two wins for Moray.
>>153132615This is how it starts, tasting coffee, then the next thing you know it's a handle of gin, some hits of molly, a half sheet of acid blotter and Marten is waking up in a dress and whore makeup while Liz has lipstick and blush on her brown eye and is teen pregnant.
>>153133464No, that was a flatout asshole move by Moray that could have easily sent Liz spiraling and Marten is the one making the correct move by trying to mitigate that. Moray just freely blurted out deeply personal matters of great importance to Liz to a complete stranger in front of Liz without a second thought; in the real world that's the kind of shit that can get you a punch in the face and everyone saying you deserved it.
>>153133464No one's saying that Liz's coping mechanism is healthy, but she's crashed out hard enough to spend two years hiding in a trash bunker before she was old enough to drink. She's starting to come to terms with her own burnout and how to move forward, and rubbing her nose in it to exactly the sort of person that's well-meaning but pressuring her to perform is just going to make her regress. Yeah there's a time and place for the truth and yeah there's a time and place for introspection, but sometimes you do just need to make polite smalltalk and move on with your day instead of telling your hairdresser who asked about your job that you got fired.
dead thread redemption
>>153119237Buy an ad.
>>153133583A good hard dicking would do wonders for her.
>>153132984Yup. That's what he meant when he said he didn't like anal because he doesn't want poo poo on his pee pee. It being on Claires however is fine. Are we surprised the dude is a bottom?
>>153132615>it wasn't cool for moray to do thatIsn't she supposed to be a ditzy airhead? It wasn't malicious, get over yourself
>>153136209Stupidity isn't an excuse for outing someone's insecurities, anon.
>>153136492Of course it is, she's literally ignorant. Also that side boob in the first panel
>>153132615>Our director is nice and has tentacles!Too obvious Jeph! But ok, here you get your fetish!
>>153136209Everyone knows that one person with no filter and likes to blurt things out without thinking. Even if it's not malicious, it's something worth telling that one person not to do.
>>153132615hot coffee is on the menugo go go
>>153133464>>As someone who flamed out and spent a couple years resetting before choosing a new career pathDude no one gives a shit about your retarded rich people problems.
>>153138794I care fuck you
>>153137037Corruption of Champions in a nutshell.
>>153141476Corruption of the author!
>>153135338
>>153143245>Moray tortures (you)
>>153132415Keep begging.
>>153141476I wish this game & TiTS were good but they both suffer from the writers OC self inserts getting pages and pages and PAGES of boring smut only for them to eventually get bored and pivot to writing hyper specific fetish creatures with 3x 48" long dicks (that are all going to go inside your charger by the way) and literal boulder sized boobs with asshole-nipples that lactate strawberry flavored honey that gets you physically addicted to suckling then can calling them "mommy" or some crap.
>>153147091CoC only has some of that. All the content written before the text started requiring scrolling is still pretty good.
>>153138794>rich peopleCompared to hut dwellers and substance abusers maybe.
>>153135338kys faglord
>>153148125Ladies, please, no fighting in the porn room!
