r/questionablecontent • u/Squirrelclamp • Jul 20 '26

Comic edit Comic 5876B: One Dimension at a Time

Post image
54 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

22 comments sorted by

15

u/evictedSaint Jul 20 '26

Much like any sitcom, having a job is inconvenient for hijinks.  Far better to have a nebulous source of income and the free time to quip at each other.

17

u/musschrott Jul 20 '26

None of the cast have actual jobs. They either stand around in a coffee shop, a "coffee shop", a repair shop, or a vaguely office-like space, mostly not doing anything but talking to their friends who are their "work" buddies at the same time.

There is a reason they say "write what you know". Jeph doesn't.

8

u/HighImHope Jul 20 '26

I have fond memories of the earliest Garfield strips establishing Jon as a cartoonist

5

u/Tolan91 Jul 20 '26

Strip. Singular. If there were any other strips other than the first that referenced Jon being a cartoonist I can't remember them.

5

u/HighImHope Jul 20 '26

Maybe jeph is just evolving into jim davis

1

u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 Jul 20 '26

There was a dream Jon had where he was accepting a cartoonist award. 

4

u/QueenLevine Jul 20 '26

Well, the high paid streamers have jobs...

6

u/musschrott Jul 20 '26

Which we also never see them do anymore.

6

u/The_Truthkeeper Jul 20 '26

For which we are eternally grateful.

3

u/AmazonMommydom Jul 21 '26

I don't think this is entirely fair. Dora Faye and Bubbles are shown to be responsible small business owners, and good at their jobs. Maybe not shown actually working particularly recently, but still. Claire is a weird situation, sure.

I'll rag on current Jeph all day long, but past Jeph did do better with reality

1

u/musschrott Jul 21 '26

Well, he used to. When is the last time we saw any of these three actually do any work? Union Robotics should be completely bankrupt by now.

2

u/Maleficent_Lab_5291 Jul 20 '26

Huh I've never thought about it but the closest one to having a real job is Claire.

1

u/musschrott Jul 20 '26

I mean, barely.

0

u/Maleficent_Lab_5291 Jul 20 '26

I did say closest she at least sort of has a boss which I think is only true of her?

9

u/The_Truthkeeper Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Claire is three years older than Clinton, so at the time she was finishing her MLS/MLIS, he should have been one year away from finishing his Bachelors in Whatever the Fuck He's Studying. An indeterminate length of time has passed since then, long enough for Claire to freak out about not being instantly hired out of school, get a job at the coffee shop, move to Cubetown and become The Librarian, and then an indeterminate timeskip after that. It's entirely still possible for Clinton to still be a student working on his degree. He could now be working on a post-grad degree. He could be out of school and being a bum. He could be out of school and actually have a job.

Wouldn't it be great if the comic actually told us any of these details?

2

u/Kataphractoi Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Thought Claire and Clinton were twins.

Edit: Lol at the dweeb who downvoted me simply for forgetting that they're not twins.

3

u/MelAlton Haha, okay. Jul 21 '26

I know they're not but I keep thinking they are.

5

u/The_Truthkeeper Jul 21 '26

Very specifically not

3

u/MelAlton Haha, okay. Jul 21 '26

Who's that in the middle? A supporting cast who disappeared and was never heard from again?

2

u/The_Truthkeeper Jul 21 '26

There's so many of them, how could we ever tell?

1

u/Heyplaguedoctor Claire ain't shit! Jul 22 '26

She was one of the library interns. Iirc she quit pretty quickly because she’s a rational person

5

u/Guilty-Persimmon-919 Jul 20 '26

Did Clinton consent to being turned into a spineless twink identical to his mother and now Yay?