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2019-05-13

by shaenon on May 13, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. chh01
    May 13, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    When slacker teens feel the need to feel pretty.

  2. Pygar
    May 13, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    It’s alarming how charming she feels.

  3. John Campbell
    May 13, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Come on, Nick. It’s not like you never wore a pretty princess dress.

    • Rimwolf
      May 13, 2019, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      I think that’s why he finds this all so amusing.

      • ThatOneGuy
        May 13, 2019, 7:13 am | # | Reply

        am I the only one who thinks this looks like duplicate Nick wearing a dress? I mean Aimee kind of looked different despite being a gendered duplicate.

        • awgiedawgie
          May 13, 2019, 8:44 am | # | Reply

          Other than being an inch or so shorter (which she still appears to be), and y’know, the obvious long hair, Aimee looks almost exactly like Nick.

          http://skin-horse.com/comic/it-would-2/

          • Rimwolf
            May 13, 2019, 4:38 pm | #

            In both that strip and this one, her nose is less prominent. And in this one, she’s got a bust (though that might possibly be part of the costume). But yeah, they obviously closely resemble one another.

          • Gyrre
            May 14, 2019, 10:36 am | #

            High levels of testosterone causes the nose to become more prominent during puberty. Hence Nick’s nose being bigger than Aimee’s.

  4. Robert Nowall
    May 13, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    That is the happiest expression I’ve ever seen on Nick. Be nice to your sister, dude.

    • The J is Silent
      May 13, 2019, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      That’s what I was thinking, mind you, it was harder to tell when he was a helicopter.

      • warpzone32
        May 13, 2019, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

        Hey, wait a minute. If Nick “self-identifies” as an attack helicopter, why wasn’t his avatar in the virtual world always an attack helicopter?

        • Robert Nowall
          May 13, 2019, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

          Catch the “Up in Aimee’s Room” segments of Nick’s last stay in VR Whimsey World—he was the cutest chibi helicopter there ever was.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 13, 2019, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, he will. But what kind of older brother would Nick be if he didn’t tease her a bit after finding her like this? I’m sure he’ll apologize later, in his own way. 😀

  5. Jay
    May 13, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Hey, when you have a mind-controlling princess crown, you’ve just got to adapt the rest of the ensemble to suit.

    Nevermind that it’s VR, or that the crown’s all an Emperor would need to be well-dressed…

    • Mental Mouse
      May 13, 2019, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      > “the crown’s all an Emperor would need to be well-dressed…”

      Well if you can’t see the rest of the outfit, that says something about you…

    • Frank
      May 13, 2019, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

      And that’s why we have “Biscuit is cross” http://skin-horse.com/comic/03152009/

      • Pygar
        May 13, 2019, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        This *needs* to be a stretch goal book. It also needs a sequel… “Biscuit Meets Mr. Flibble”…

  6. darkstarling
    May 13, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Nick is torn between the urge to snark and how happy he is that one of his instances gets to be the pretty princess.

  7. Robert Nowall
    May 13, 2019, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    VR world, all of us guys, see a humdinger.
    ‘Cause her hair is golden fun,
    And her wand can atomize.
    When she speaks, image maintained, like a humdinger.
    Bright pink dress that fits so right.
    She’s full in charge, shows us delight.
    When she comes by, she terrifies the neighborhood.
    Oh, we could die, would she lash out, we know she would.
    We know she could.

    Whimsey World graphic design, pretty humdinger.
    And we can see she’s well-endowed.
    Her brother Nick will laugh out loud.

    Pretty humdinger,
    Pretty humdinger.
    When she comes by, she terrifies the neighborhood.
    Oh, we could die, would she lash out, we know she would.
    We know she could.

    Whimsey World graphic design, pretty humdinger.
    And we can see she’s well-endowed.
    Her brother Nick will laugh out loud.

    Sha-la-la, la-la-la-lam, pretty humdinger.
    Whimsey graphic design (sha-la-la, la-la-la-la, pretty humdinger.)
    Yes she is, yes she is, graphic design.
    (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la, pretty humdinger.)

    —from “Pretty Flamingo,” Manfred Mann.

  8. Kyle
    May 13, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Yes. Good. Perfect.

  9. Bruce A Munro
    May 13, 2019, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    Fine work, Mr. Nowall.

    I know it’s off Magical Princess Topic, but her calling the VR “your forever home” raises some questions to me. How sturdy is this small-enough-to-fit-on-a-regular-desktop server? Should Nick be sitting on it? What is it using for a power source? Is it currently on battery power, and if so how long lasting are it’s batteries?

    • evilmidnightlurker
      May 13, 2019, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      I’m betting that Baron Mistyshorts is either completely ignorant of the server’s true mad science capabilities, or has been bullshitting everyone so he could stage a death match for his own twisted amusement.

  10. Trivena
    May 13, 2019, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    We found a princess! Can we keep her? Pleeeeease?

  11. awgiedawgie
    May 13, 2019, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    Now I get the feeling that she told the Baron to go out and “decide” who gets uploaded, but she forgot to give him any specifics on how. The Baron always thought running a bloodfight would be cool, but he didn’t think it through.

    She was probably thinking something like a lengthy EULA, but with a trick clause near the end, so only those who read the whole thing would know how to get in.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 13, 2019, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      Either that, or she did tell him how to do it, and he decided to do the bloodfight anyway. One way or the other, he’s fubar.

      • warpzone32
        May 13, 2019, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

        What if…

        What if it was her idea all along? o.o

  12. bergerjacques
    May 13, 2019, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    No one is going to OUT-Princess Nick. Not even his twin.
    http://skin-horse.com/comic/hard-to-understand/

  13. darwinskeeper
    May 13, 2019, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve noticed that Nick says “Y’alls” a lot. Is he from the American South east? I didn’t think there were a lot of Jews in Dixie.

    • Foradain
      May 13, 2019, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin, third Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America.
      I first read about him in Harry Turtledove’s Guns of the South…

    • Rimwolf
      May 13, 2019, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      If he were, he would have used “y’all” in that sentence (subject position). “Y’alls” (or “y’all’s”) is the possessive (cf. “your”), along with “y’allses” (c.f. “yours”).

      • rivermlangham
        May 13, 2019, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

        Not necessarily. People do make grammar mistakes even within the context of their regional dialect.

        • awgiedawgie
          May 13, 2019, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

          Your daft, man. Their are no mistake made in they’re dialect grammaratically. Ever.

          • warpzone32
            May 13, 2019, 7:34 pm | #

            *Evar.

      • warpzone32
        May 13, 2019, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

        I’all Dunno where y’all learned to conjugate y’all, but w’all say that’all different around these’all parts.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 13, 2019, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

      It’s claimed that Nick is from Philly…but it’s also claimed that people from Philly say “youse” and not “y’all.” So I don’t know.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 13, 2019, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

        Nick had lived in Philly for at least four years prior to being “recruited” by A-Sig, but there’s been no indication of where he grew up. He may indeed have southern roots.

  14. Barbara K
    May 13, 2019, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

    That might help account for his sense of alienation.

  15. notStanley
    May 13, 2019, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

    Grew up in Missouri, living in California, but after some “y’all” and “howdy”, folk think I am from Texas

    • awgiedawgie
      May 13, 2019, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      What? Like only people from Texas say “y’all” and “howdy”?

      • Robert Nowall
        May 13, 2019, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

        I picked up “y’all” from a forty-plus-year sojourn in Florida.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 13, 2019, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

        And I picked it up by spending every summer in Arkansas when I was growing up.

        People can’t believe I was born and raised in Michigan – home of the most mundane accent in America.

        • bergerjacques
          May 14, 2019, 9:12 am | # | Reply

          Michigan, INDEED!
          Nick might be from Kentucky. He’s got the mouth for it and the Commonwealth has a substantial Jewish population.
          Plus, we built a monument to “Y’All”.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y%27all_Water_Tower#/media/File:Florence-yall.jpg

  16. sweetuncle
    May 13, 2019, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

    Awgie….you’re still a Northern tourist. Locals and long-timers know it’s ARKANSAW.

    There ain’t no such thing as ‘Our Kansas’. Never was, nor ever shall be.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 14, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry. I know perfectly well how it’s pronounced. But I also know how it’s spelled.

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