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2019-02-05

by shaenon on February 5, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. awgiedawgie
    February 5, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Good job, Sweetheart… now stick your tail between your legs and sit in the corner.

    • WuseMajor
      February 5, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      And really think about what you did, because that mental image should be punishment enough.

      • Towering Barbarian
        February 5, 2019, 2:02 am | # | Reply

        But the good news here is that we have direct confirmation that Nick no longer identifies as a helicopter if there had been any doubt before. ^_^

        • Knight Porter
          February 5, 2019, 2:08 am | # | Reply

          I dunno, I think he’d still rather be back in his real body without all this complication.

        • Owlmirror
          February 5, 2019, 2:13 am | # | Reply

          What confirmation?

          Nick identifies as a helicopter. He’s never identified as a sub.

          • Towering Barbarian
            February 5, 2019, 9:02 am | #

            Yes, but a helicopter would enjoy being ridden and he would have gone with what Sweetheart meant rather than with what they meant. ^_^

          • awgiedawgie
            February 5, 2019, 11:24 am | #

            Conversely, while he may prefer what Sweetheart meant, he knows what Chris and Marcie meant, which is what prompted his comment.

          • warpzone32
            February 5, 2019, 3:47 pm | #

            I sea what you did there.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 5, 2019, 4:51 pm | #

            That was beneath you.

  2. awgiedawgie
    February 5, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Also, I see Monday began a new chapter.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      February 5, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Aye…
      If the title is anything to go by, then we’ll be seeing a knock-em-sock-em fight between Annex One and a giant tree monster.

    • Owlmirror
      February 5, 2019, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      For those not in the know, the chapter title references Green Knowe, a series by Lucy Boston.

      If “The Iron Man” referenced something besides the Marvel Comics character (the movie “The Iron Giant”?), I never did figure it out.

      • James Moar
        February 5, 2019, 3:28 am | # | Reply

        The book “The Iron Giant” is based on is called “The Iron Man” in the UK, so it’s a good candidate.

        • georgethearchon
          February 5, 2019, 3:40 am | # | Reply

          (My apologies if I come over a bit wordy in this, driving WordPress comments on Chrome for mobile is a bit like steering a brick (or perhaps an Iron Man) cut and paste and autocorrect both seem to react strangely and make editing a big of a pig.

        • georgethearchon
          February 5, 2019, 3:44 am | # | Reply

          …and apparently easy to reply to the wrong comment, too!
          Credit to James fit getting there first, and much more succinctly. I’m going to step away from the comment frame now.

      • georgethearchon
        February 5, 2019, 3:38 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, regarding thet last chapter, I think you pretty much got it – the book that the movie “The Iron Giant” was loosely adapted from: The book The Iron Man The Iron Man, a much lauded and loved children’s story by Ted Hughes, then British Poet Laureate (egad) about a huge robot.

        I remember that it was that miracle that is a science fictoon children’s classic, written by an author who had sufficient literary chops, that I remember it being used in classroom reading-aloud-book-time at primary school in the early ’70s! It’s possibly better known in the UK, I accept.

        That’s as well as how we’ve already established Nick ‘Chopper’ ad the Tin Man, mind.

        [Ah, I see that it was renamed The Iron Giant in the US from initial US book release, to avoid confusion with that Mr. Stark. That And for the record, I also enjoyed the movie adaptation.]

      • Ysabet
        February 5, 2019, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

        Oh man, Green Noah in the ‘Green Knowe’ series was FREAKISHLY scary; this ought to be interesting. What, are they going up against a giant Redwood version of Swamp Thing? Or is this a reference to Mister Green (Ira) as a hideous, shadow corporate monster? **settles back happily with popcorn to watch**

        • awgiedawgie
          February 5, 2019, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

          Maybe it’ll be the Cypress, and she’s on their side. She has just cause to be ticked off at A-Sig, and with the way Unity “revived” her, it could get interesting.

  3. dvandom
    February 5, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Cross-country shipping.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      February 5, 2019, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      They ended up riding Nick after all.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 5, 2019, 10:44 am | # | Reply

        Just another euphemism.

  4. thejoemoose
    February 5, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    How dare you Marcie!

    Also, cute kippah!

  5. awgiedawgie
    February 5, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Madblood androids, perhaps?

  6. thedoctor55
    February 5, 2019, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    …….and Dr. Lee was there to hear that little conversation. Darn it all to heck!

  7. Towering Barbarian
    February 5, 2019, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    “Nobody rides me but Ginny!”. ^_~

  8. Seph
    February 5, 2019, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    Whoah. He didn’t swear.

  9. David B Huber
    February 5, 2019, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    With sufficient coathangers, Dr. Jones can teleport Annex One to wherever they are needed! With Dr. Lee’s collaboration I would bet on projecting a 3D hologram of the coathanger tesseract for instant readiness…

    • Sheik
      February 5, 2019, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

      So I guess the next stop is the dry cleaners.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 5, 2019, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

      I’d say don’t give them ideas, but this is probably the fastest method to get them and the building over there. Plus, I’m curious to see what Dr. Lee and Tigerlily would come up with working together. They put Nick together, maybe they could come up with a wetware-controlled teleportal. Nick might volunteer to be the wetware since he can’t fly at the moment.

  10. Owlmirror
    February 5, 2019, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    Are we to assume that Sweetheart had a mental lapse, there? I would have expected something like an “um, oops, sorry”, either in panel 2 directly following her gaffe, or panel 3.

    Also, why does anyone need to physically go to Washington State? If they’re AIs, the meeting is really in cyberspace, and all they need is a high bandwidth hookup.

    Incidentally, in Nick’s livejournal, we got a sense of his limitations in that he was cyber-trespassing somewhere, and got smacked down hard by the Daughters if the Air, the AI collective that Lovelace is part of.

    • Owlmirror
      February 5, 2019, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      Link to the Daughters of the Air entry.

      “HOLY SHIT THIS HEADACHE IS LIKE SCISSORS IN MY BRAIN. it is like BURNING and STABBING and ASS and FAIL.”

      And so on and so forth.

      • Trivena
        February 5, 2019, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

        I was half expecting Nick to start blogging again, but no such luck.

  11. Kyle
    February 5, 2019, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    Anyone notice Nick’s got his yarmulke back?

    • Robert Nowall
      February 5, 2019, 10:43 am | # | Reply

      Would Tigerlily Jones keep one around the Positronic Love Tower?

      • warpzone32
        February 5, 2019, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

        To paraphrase a certain other mad scientist from an unrelated work in an unrelated media:

        “What, you want a yarmulke? I’ll make you a yarmulke right now. Take me two seconds to make a yarmulke.”

        “I had a yarmulke at home!”

        “Nick, if I make you a yarmulke, it’ll be better than your yarmulke at home.”

        • Robert Nowall
          February 5, 2019, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

          Step one: remove the propeller. Step two: dye it black.

          • Shadowmehr
            February 5, 2019, 8:42 pm | #

            Nick might want to keep the propeller out of nostalgia.

          • Candace
            February 6, 2019, 12:04 pm | #

            They’d have to get it away from A-sig first.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 6, 2019, 1:09 pm | #

            Candace, you missed the joke.

  12. Frank
    February 5, 2019, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    Today I learned that the reason the Spanish had to cede Florida was so the United States wouldn’t look like a speech bubble

    • Moe Lane
      February 5, 2019, 11:43 am | # | Reply

      I was going to give a pedantic and boring response, but then I saw that it’s 65 degrees out and sunny, so… when you’re right, you’re right.

  13. Rob Clark (@theelusivefish)
    February 5, 2019, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Yes. Ride Nick. Then accidentally kiss…

  14. Robert Nowall
    February 5, 2019, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    We established yesterday that the toilets aren’t hooked up to anything. That means Annex One, every so often, will have to go walkies.

  15. Robert Nowall
    February 5, 2019, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

    Also, Nick has picked up a new outfit, down to a stylish “Annex One” logo shirt. (Also also, the “no” symbol on Chris’s DJS shirt flips from left to right from Panel One to Panel Two.)

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