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[BillyxRansom]

how old is claire i thought she was like a teenager why is marten confused about this iamconfuse halp!

[celticgeek]

All of the interns are graduate students, so they are all probably at least in their early twenties. 

[BillyxRansom]

All of the interns are graduate students, so they are all probably at least in their early twenties.

oh okay, thanks.

i was confused because isn't she a library employee? i remember (maybe, i think i remember this right) one of the first comics where we get a good idea of where marten works, there was at least one girl or something i think that worked there who was a high school student? idk i'm very confused now. smh

[Zebediah]

Claire is twenty-four.

[celticgeek]

Thanks, Zebediah.  I knew that was there somewhere, but I had to go to an appointment before I found it. 

[Is it cold in here?]

http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/Claire_Augustus

[ASmellyOgre]

All of the interns are graduate students, so they are all probably at least in their early twenties.

oh okay, thanks.

i was confused because isn't she a library employee? i remember (maybe, i think i remember this right) one of the first comics where we get a good idea of where marten works, there was at least one girl or something i think that worked there who was a high school student? idk i'm very confused now. smh

No, you're mixing up the interns with the students Gabby tutors.  You're also remembering that incorrectly.  The idea there was that Marten mistook college freshmen for high school students, showing his advancing age.

[SethDeAlba]

All of the interns are graduate students, so they are all probably at least in their early twenties.

oh okay, thanks.

i was confused because isn't she a library employee? i remember (maybe, i think i remember this right) one of the first comics where we get a good idea of where marten works, there was at least one girl or something i think that worked there who was a high school student? idk i'm very confused now. smh

No, you're mixing up the interns with the students Gabby tutors.  You're also remembering that incorrectly.  The idea there was that Marten mistook college freshmen for high school students, showing his advancing age.

thats deeper than I thought it was.....

[Bluesummers]

Yeah, when Marten gets confused, don't feel bad. It just means it's okay for us to get confused too. ^_^

[Cthulhu]

Am i the onlyone who isn´t interested the characters ages ? i mean for one in the comic we see no passing of years, yet a lot of things have happened since the comic started, if we'd go with the events they would've been at least 4 or 5 years older, if we'd go with every strip being 1 day of their lives, considering some times different strips use different parts of the same day we'd still have almost 5 years, so they should all be in their 30s by now. Since i've chosen not to take interest in that i just go with it, characters are the age Jeph needs them to be for the situations he creates.

[Zebediah]

Hey, we just spent the past two RL months on a single weekend. QC time doesn't pass at a fixed rate.

[Pilchard123]

Good grief, has it really been two months?

[Cthulhu]

But, how do you tell how much time has passed? i see no indicator that implies a regular time season or anything similar.

[Is it cold in here?]

No, of course not everybody's into the "pretend it's a documentary" game.

[pwhodges]

At times there have been attempts to work out the timing of the whole series of comics; there are some accounts of the results in the wiki, I think.  That said, QC time is different from our time, as there are occasionally references to current events (or bands or something) in spite of the comic having a different period of time between them.

[jwhouk]

On top of that, Jeph can be a bit cagey about "how much time has elapsed" between Marten meeting Faye and now.

[DSL]

Is Webcomic time all that different from its predecessor, Comic Strip Time?
I remember, back when the local big rag carried the Spider-Man daily strip, it once took Spidey an entire week to fall halfway down the side of a skyscraper, all the while carrying on a conversation with Green Goblin (IIRC) who was pursuing him. I think Spidey finally found a spare web cartridge or landed on a convertible or something.

[Carl-E]

Is Webcomic time all that different from its predecessor, Comic Strip Time?

Only in that Jeph doesn't do four-color Sunday strips that are completely separate from the strip's continuity. 



Thank god. 

[DSL]

Is Webcomic time all that different from its predecessor, Comic Strip Time?

Only in that Jeph doesn't do four-color Sunday strips that are completely separate from the strip's continuity. 
Thank god.

Far worse: Adventure-strip Time (Not to be confused with Adventure Time), with Sunday CMYKs that are rehashes/punchlines of the previous week's continuity. (This could sometimes confuse the hell out of readers of papers that ran only the Sunday strips.)

[Method of Madness]

CMYKs?

On top of that, Jeph can be a bit cagey about "how much time has elapsed" between Marten meeting Faye and now.

About 2400 strips would be a Jeph-like answer.

[Pilchard123]

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black  -  colour strips

That last K might not be correct, but it's definitely black and it fits.

[Method of Madness]

It was the K that threw me off, yeah.

[TinPenguin]

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key

[pwhodges]

K is indeed Key; but in practice it is also blacK, as a perusal of the part numbers of the cartridges for any colour printer will confirm.

[HappyHavoc]

It has to have been about what now 2 years?

[Is it cold in here?]

Someone nerdier than I must have tracked the seasons changing. Sven is a year older than when he was introduced.