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2017-04-11

by shaenon on April 11, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. thejoemoose
    April 11, 2017, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Well, her creator was a little skinny nerdy guy, so…

  2. Chris Upchurch
    April 11, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Her creator was a skinny nerdy guy with a goatee. Nick lacks the crucial element.

    • Sora Hjort (@SoraHjort)
      April 11, 2017, 7:50 am | # | Reply

      Nick can’t goatee, he’d have to be Mad, preferably of the evil kind.

      • rylen
        April 11, 2017, 7:55 am | # | Reply

        2Nick can grow one to help differentiate. Let’s say that one continues to exist and dates Lovelace while the original pines over Dr. Lee. That’ll make him the evil twin.

    • Cloudster
      April 11, 2017, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      One Nick needs to paint half of his face black, and the other white. The other goes white and black. Easy! I saw it on a documentary the other night.

      • Candace
        April 12, 2017, 1:16 am | # | Reply

        This.^ So much.

      • davidbreslin101
        April 12, 2017, 7:23 am | # | Reply

        Oh, that series that follows an exploration starship? Pretty good, though I must say the captain’s a bit of a cowboy.

      • Shamormo
        March 17, 2018, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

        And in the mirror world a few arcs back.

    • glitterboy2098
      May 14, 2019, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      Lovelace wasn’t in love with madblood though. and Nick is basically a skinnier, non-smoking version of Dave.

  3. Forzin
    April 11, 2017, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Oh Nick, you sell yourself short.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 11, 2017, 7:45 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I imagine he doesn’t stand much over five foot six…

      • OneUniverse
        April 11, 2017, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

        I resemble that remark.

  4. dr brain
    April 11, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    she didn’t *like* her creator. she fell first for a big chubby beardy guy. (hmm, where’s dr lee’s avatar…??? 🙂

    • Marisa Mockery
      April 11, 2017, 1:51 am | # | Reply

      He still programmed her personality. She may have disliked Madblood’s ego, not his physical form.

      • dr brain
        April 11, 2017, 11:26 am | # | Reply

        we never saw her say anything nice about madblood. she was def. all there for dave, though, who was not little or skinny.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 12, 2017, 8:01 am | # | Reply

          Maybe Madblood wanted a son.

    • Towering Barbarian
      April 11, 2017, 5:46 am | # | Reply

      Not the first time that a girl who gave her father a hard time cared more about him then she realized. Kids can be like that. ^_^

    • Frank Hightower
      April 11, 2017, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      Freudians have slipped

  5. Althalus
    April 11, 2017, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    We really need a cameo from Madblood or some of his android duplicates.

    • Seph
      April 11, 2017, 4:24 am | # | Reply

      As I recall, Moustachio was created by a previous iteration (possibly ancestor?) of the Madblood we know and pity.

    • Dawnk41
      April 11, 2017, 11:44 am | # | Reply

      Wait, didn’t the hamsters kill them to ride on them like Segways?

      • Daibhid C
        April 11, 2017, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

        Not all of them, some appear in the final strip, looking none the worse for wear.

      • Trivena
        April 11, 2017, 8:08 pm | # | Reply

        The hamsters only got the couple dozen that Dave took on that road trip, the rest (I think about 14,976 of them?) are fine.

  6. Jonathan Fisher
    April 11, 2017, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    Man, can you print the last 1-3 panels on a T-shirt for those of us nerds thinking of finally starting dating? Perfect material to take to a public gathering with those interested in connecting, while signalling “I’m actually getting interested, but truthfully, way too scared for physicality, sorry. Can we just talk?”

    Jonathan Fisher

  7. Jerry Aethers
    April 11, 2017, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    I honestly didn’t see that coming. I laughed so hard 😀

  8. Marisa Mockery
    April 11, 2017, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    Tbf I think Nick’s awfully cute too….Shaenon you designed the perfect nerd boy!

    • SVGeezer
      April 11, 2017, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      Nerdy Protestants everywhere are sad!

      (Perfect? Sob!)

      • D. Walker
        April 12, 2017, 7:03 am | # | Reply

        There’s your problem. Nerdy Protestants? Nobody thinks Protestants are sexy! I mean, come on! Scripture alone? Justification by faith alone? Translating sacred texts? Such a turn off!

        No, you gotta do like them smoking hot Jews do! Read in the original language! Back up faith with good works! Listen to the wisdom of the rabbis and religious authorities! You think just any schmuck can pick up the sacred word of God and properly interpret it it without first receiving special training and education? What a load of bupkis! Don’t be a schlemiel!

        • SVGeezer
          April 12, 2017, 8:12 am | # | Reply

          Hey! They’ve been following a “code” as best they could as soon as printed books and reading became common!

          Just call then “hackers” and we can all move on the the next strip..

  9. Q
    April 11, 2017, 4:25 am | # | Reply

    Woo Madblood reference!

  10. John Campbell
    April 11, 2017, 4:49 am | # | Reply

    I think Lovelace just has a thing for flannels.

    • OneUniverse
      April 11, 2017, 6:48 pm | # | Reply

      That would explain a lot.

  11. Robert Nowall
    April 11, 2017, 7:46 am | # | Reply

    Nick, whichever one he is, just has to complain about the opportunity of a lifetime.

  12. Kroykali
    April 11, 2017, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    …and then promptly removed his brain and destroyed his body.
    I’ve wondered if Shaenon has ever regretted that.
    A future storyline could include the discovery that Dr. Lee never actually disposed of his body, but has kept it in cryostasis.

    • Kether
      April 11, 2017, 9:09 am | # | Reply

      Well, I’m pretty sure there are many scientist out there, mad or otherwise, that could clone Nick’s body just form some neural debris in his brain tank, without even needing to have Narbon-level biotech expertise.

      What I’m not completely sure is how would he react to that.

      • John Smith
        April 11, 2017, 9:40 am | # | Reply

        Dr Lee designed a weather control machine for a secret santa. If her and Nick could just get over themselves, they would have zero issues with any, ah, physical aspects of dating. The issue is definitely not lack of technology.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 11, 2017, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      Reportedly, the disposal involved MREs and mystery meat.

  13. sorcyress
    April 11, 2017, 10:46 am | # | Reply

    How much money would one have to pay for some sexy Nick on Nick make-outs art? Asking for a friend. >.>

    • rylen
      April 11, 2017, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

      How about a flesh one doing car show girl poses in front of a helicopter one?

    • s854
      April 11, 2017, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

      sorcyress: This is the Internet, so someone’s probably already drawn it.

      Is this the first time we’ve had confirmation that Nick used to look like this?

    • Pygar
      April 11, 2017, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      No; we saw him in a VR version of his own life so perfect he didn’t believe it was VR.

      • s854
        April 11, 2017, 6:19 pm | # | Reply

        Pygar: We did, but we see him as he really looked or as something which only reflected his self-image? Or did Virginia’s team zap the bit of his brain which would have made him notice the differences in the VR?

        • Pygar
          April 11, 2017, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

          Why get his… eclectic… apartment right, but change his face? IIRC the clincher was that the virtual people on the fake net were… polite!

    • Robert Nowall
      April 11, 2017, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks for an image that’ll take weeks to scrape off.

  14. Chrisn
    April 11, 2017, 11:57 am | # | Reply

    From the sound of it, more money than any of us will ever see.

  15. casimir
    April 11, 2017, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

    (After “Hot Blooded” by Foreigner)

    I’m self-loathing, my ego hates me.
    If they taught it in school I’d have a Ph.D.
    Come on baby, snap out of this trance.
    I’m self-loathing, I’m self-loathing.

    I don’t have to read your mind
    To know what you have in mind,
    But I think you should know
    That you’ve been designed to be reality-blind.
    How could you know that I’m really a schmo?

    So I’m telling you, I’m just a nerdy wandering jew.
    Though now we’re two, no way we’d be with a fox like you.

    ‘Cause we’re self-loathing, my dupi and me.
    If I could shoot him it would be fine with me.
    I’d self-annihilate if I had the chance.
    I’m self-loathing, I’m self-loathing.

  16. sietsebb
    April 11, 2017, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

    Well…

    Jewish? Check. Here to save the [Wimsey] world? Check. Three and one? Check: fully man (who generates), fully spirit (who is begotten), and fully Osprey (who proceeds). Perhaps he *is* the Messiah.

    … unless he accepts Lovelace’s proposal. In that case he’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.

    • sietsebb
      April 11, 2017, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      Blast; this was meant to be a reply to SVGeezer, but the commenting system has displaced it. The mildest of rebukes for my blasphemy? Ah well.

      • Saberbeam
        April 13, 2017, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

        @sietsebb: God, looking over your shoulder as you typed up said comment, probably figured something like “Well it’s not too blasphemous and he meant it for the funny. I’ll just misplace his comment a bit 😀 “

  17. adam
    April 11, 2017, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

    You know Nick, you are turning down a hot girl. Even if she’s a virtual-only chick who has the hots on you due to misplaced freudian familiarity of your old form.

    • OneUniverse
      April 11, 2017, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

      He’s still stuck on Virginia Lee, so turning down a hot woman could be in his longer term self interest.

      • D. Walker
        April 12, 2017, 7:09 am | # | Reply

        To be fair, Lee is probably still stuck on him too.

  18. WJS
    August 1, 2019, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    …So Lovelace has daddy issues? Not a surprise, I guess, considering what her early life was like.

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