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2018-06-23

by shaenon on June 23, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. WuseMajor
    June 23, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm… If you’re spread too thin, it sounds like you need more people. IIrc, Captain Victoria Waters has a ship and a sea monster. Perhaps she can assist with fishing zombies out of the sea?

    Also, did Anasigma steal Helen’s and Dave’s weather control device?

    • Shadowmehr
      June 23, 2018, 10:13 am | # | Reply

      Dr. Lee already had plans. Somebody in-house probably built one for this strike.

  2. thejoemoose
    June 23, 2018, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    “Metal-hurling Hebrews” is a good compliment/insult. Depends on the context, I guess.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 3, 2020, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      It’s worked for us against everyone but the Romans so far.

  3. Kitirena
    June 23, 2018, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Not true, Nickster–we gamers throw dice at people when things go wrong, nyao. Except when things go really wrong, in which case we throw rulebooks.

    • Shen Hibiki
      June 23, 2018, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      You’re confusing gamer types.
      He meant the videogamers kind of gamers.

      • BRGR
        June 23, 2018, 4:54 am | # | Reply

        There is a difference?

        • Lisa
          June 23, 2018, 8:11 am | # | Reply

          There is, indeed, a difference.

        • Steven
          June 23, 2018, 11:13 am | # | Reply

          Rather large one, at that 😛

  4. Theris
    June 23, 2018, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t expect Nick to be anti-gamer. Did he stop playing games at some point ?

    • D. Walker
      June 23, 2018, 4:09 am | # | Reply

      No, he just doesn’t identify with a particular negative aspect of the specific culture in question.

      It’s kind of like how as a Jew, he might just as easily complain about certain negative things within that particular culture – for example, the stereotype of Jewish parental control issues / unreasonable disapproval. (“Are you trying to break your poor mother’s heart, messing around with that awful shiksa, Virginia? You should find yourself a good Jewish girl to marry already! What, do I have to have one foot in the grave before you give me grandkids? Oi vey!”)

      • Theris
        June 23, 2018, 6:35 am | # | Reply

        Negative aspect of the culture… I should just assume Nick was kidding in the last panel, better than going into yet another debate about Gamergate and co.

      • matt w
        June 23, 2018, 8:26 am | # | Reply

        The thing that tipped Nick off that he wasn’t in the real world was that everyone was being polite on the internet, so he’s definitely familiar with that aspect of life.

        • matt w
          June 23, 2018, 8:28 am | # | Reply

          Also you-should-marry-a-nice-girl-and-give-me-grandkids and you-shoud-marry-a-Jewish-girl are two independent parenting issues, and one can definitely exist without the other. Though I suspect the first isn’t very distinctively Jewish.

          • Mental Mouse
            June 23, 2018, 9:56 am | #

            Phrase the second as “you should marry one of *our* kind”, and it’s not distinctively Jewish at all.

    • Towering Barbarian
      June 23, 2018, 6:37 am | # | Reply

      Fictional characters are often the hand puppets that say whatever their creators want them to no matter how O.O.C. it might be. 😛

      • awgiedawgie
        June 23, 2018, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

        Ooh… Tip likes hand puppets!

  5. mrinku
    June 23, 2018, 3:15 am | # | Reply

    Nick is broad spectrum antisocial. but here he’s clearly referencing Gamergate and being quite snarky about it. Good on you, Nick!

    • OG
      June 23, 2018, 3:20 am | # | Reply

      Unfortunately, the kind of behavior he’s referencing started before the idiocy which shall remain unnamed and has continued since.

      • BRGR
        June 23, 2018, 4:56 am | # | Reply

        It doesn’t seem like an effective survival mechanism at all.

        • s854
          June 23, 2018, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

          BRGR: From panel 2? For some politicians, having a steady stream of crises to call on is an excellent way to guarantee their continued (political) survival.

          It helps if they’re the sort of crisis you don’t actually have to do anything about until you’re ready for them, of course.

    • Katie Cruel
      June 23, 2018, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      I feel like something had to give when he literally started identifying as an attack helicopter.

  6. Manifesta
    June 23, 2018, 4:41 am | # | Reply

    And this is why Nick is my favorite character.

  7. maarvarq
    June 23, 2018, 10:07 am | # | Reply

    “Keep your _pretty_ head on the Jersey mission.” The censor program seems to have developed a sense of humour.

    • mickeyjf
      June 23, 2018, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      And you can be pretty certain that Tip missed it.

      • Efogoto
        June 23, 2018, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, that *lipgloss* can be amazingly numb to nuance.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 23, 2018, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe it’s flirting with Tip.

      • awgiedawgie
        June 23, 2018, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, Nick would just LOVE that!

  8. rayceeya
    June 23, 2018, 11:26 am | # | Reply

    Nick’s punchline in this one made me sad. Just a little too on the nose.

  9. Robert Nowall
    June 23, 2018, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

    “The Florida zombie community.” They’re called *retirees*.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 23, 2018, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

      He means the other Florida zombie community. The retirees are used to hurricanes by now and have moved inland. The zombies are slower, and can’t catch up.

      • Bruce A Munro
        June 23, 2018, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

        On the other hand, zombies probably can’t drown.

  10. Sasha Honeypalm
    June 23, 2018, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

    This is full of win. I am going to have to start referring to myself as a “metal-hurling Hebrew”.

  11. Dr. Brain
    June 23, 2018, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

    OH SNAP, NICK!

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