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2019-03-29

by shaenon on March 29, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. thejoemoose
    March 29, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Argh, more fans for Nick to chill with.

    Wait, no.

    • CFsoftie
      March 29, 2019, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      Why are there no upvote buttons here? This comment deserves and upvote!

  2. Pygar
    March 29, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    They’d have worshiped him, back in his bladed days…

  3. Frank
    March 29, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Mike plays chess, I see

  4. awgiedawgie
    March 29, 2019, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Knew it had to be coming… one last time.

  5. Robert Nowall
    March 29, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Nick has some new fans.

  6. Towering Barbarian
    March 29, 2019, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    Fangirls are fickle. ^_~

    • casimir
      March 29, 2019, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      How does one determine a fan’s gender?

      • Sheik
        March 29, 2019, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t know.
        How do the French gender fans?

        • Smithnik
          March 29, 2019, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

          That gets tricky. Ventilator fans are male [un ventilateur], but an enthusiastic follower of, say, a celebrity has different words based on the gender OF the follower. Thus, the fans in this strip are ventilateurs, but also each one is a fan [une trice] of The Mike, if they are really female-gendered, as they seem to be.
          Or, if the fans are actually male and gay, then each one is un ventilateur, mais aussi un admirateur.
          As I recall, French academics crash and burn when it comes to parsing the effects of multi-gendered terms like this, because “it’s just not supposed to work that way.”

          • Candace
            March 31, 2019, 12:48 am | #

            Yup, the reaction you describe does seem very French, based on my experience of ways to break a French person.

  7. NemoSpecific
    March 29, 2019, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Ha. The former helicopter’s new fan brigade are already sporting rotary blades. Convenient!

  8. Darwin Smith
    March 29, 2019, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    Those fans should have seen Nick when he had his own GET700 (well it was probably more advanced) driving his props. I bet it’d drop a few wire cages.

  9. Magic Turtle
    March 29, 2019, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    That punburn is so good though???

  10. Marisa Mockery
    March 29, 2019, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    If you think he’s cool now, just wait till you see the sweet propellers he has. They’ll blow you fans away.

  11. codebracker
    March 29, 2019, 5:08 am | # | Reply

    Murder by words

  12. David B Huber
    March 29, 2019, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    It appears Nick’s opponent has the choice of weapons in each match.

    No matter. He’s #1 for a reason!

  13. Robert Nowall
    March 29, 2019, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, I would have given Mr. The Mike the round on points.

    But, as Moustachio said to Alfie, June 21st, 2016, “One should not, as they say, dish it out, if one cannot take it.”

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 29, 2019, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

      I suspect there was an extended verbal curb-stomp between comics.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 29, 2019, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

        Agreed. I would suspect Nick’s volley lasted a good half hour, at least.

        • Robert Nowall
          March 29, 2019, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

          How long does it take to do the dozens?

  14. Sleepy John
    March 29, 2019, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    Osculating fans.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 29, 2019, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

      {rimshot.mp3}

    • Andy4Hire
      March 29, 2019, 9:05 pm | # | Reply

      *slow clap*

  15. Seph
    March 29, 2019, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    Even more rude than CAPTAIN BEYOND.

  16. bergerjacques
    March 29, 2019, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    So many rude, concise, and cutting remarks implied by those “…”s in Nick’s first word balloon. The mind reels.

  17. Dr. Steve
    March 29, 2019, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    What happens when fan fans write fan fic?

    • Sheik
      March 29, 2019, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Circuit breakers overheat.

      • Nomi
        March 29, 2019, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

        The fic hits the fan.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 29, 2019, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      A lot of hot air gets blown around.

  18. markhh
    March 29, 2019, 10:23 am | # | Reply

    So, Nick lowered the boom?

  19. tink
    March 29, 2019, 11:09 am | # | Reply

    I… never thought I’d write this many microphone themed sexual inneundos…

    But it’s 2019, and there’s a diss-off, so there’s a CLEAR choice of song to filk here:
    (Caution: sexual imagery)

    Hit or miss
    I guess they never miss, right?
    You got your job right, savin’ someone’s wrist, Mike
    Go searching in their throat and hope it feels big, like

    They gonna skip and feed it back like it’s a reject
    You clip like its walls in a speed hack!

    Take your every stand, meet their hight, ooh
    You used to do garage bands right
    Now you pop your ‘P’s at the open mike nights
    (And that bangs, bro)

    Shots fired, you’re fired
    You’re washed up, you’re unwired
    Your coil looks like a flat tire (Eww!)
    I bet that your copper wants a buyer
    Mic drop!

    (Mia Khalifa, iLOVEFRiDAY)

  20. Barbara K
    March 29, 2019, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

    While the tournament’s been going on, Tip’s been busy studying this matter. He reports:
    To determine sex, simply count the prongs on the plug. However, translating this to human “male-female” terminology’s tricky since we’re still arguing about which sex is more grounded.
    Gender is a matter of self-identification, and adapter plugs are commonly used to achieve gender-sex congruence or gender fluidity.
    In fan culture, other important issues are whether flexibility of directionality is morally superior to fixed directionality, although fans generally agree that flexibility of speed is a good thing.
    Tip has also asked Sweetheart which form should be used to requisition more band-aids.

    • Barbara K
      March 29, 2019, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

      A mislocated reply to Casimir’s question on fan gender

      • violetrook
        April 1, 2019, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t know… it’s pretty great even mislocated. 😛

  21. Shadowmehr
    March 29, 2019, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

    Since we’ve already beaten this particular horse . . .

    Good: do the mike drop.
    Best: get the mike to drop itself.

  22. warpzone32
    March 30, 2019, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    Fun game:
    – Look at the third panel.
    – Imagine standing the Mike back up to how he must have been standing before the drop.
    – Look at panel 2.
    – Question the accuracy of this webcomic’s physics engine.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 30, 2019, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      1. You ever see someone pass out? Do they look anything on the ground like they did when they were standing?
      2. Cartoon physics.

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