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2017-02-17

by shaenon on February 17, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Fun for Some
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  1. Brian Pickering
    February 17, 2017, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Yes, she’s back!

    • Gyrre
      February 17, 2017, 5:42 am | # | Reply

      Good to know Madblood didn’t delete her.

      • Gyrre
        February 17, 2017, 5:44 am | # | Reply

        Correction: That *Dave* didn’t delete her when he displaced her while uploading his brain.

        • Robert Nowall
          February 17, 2017, 6:15 am | # | Reply

          She was backed-up twelve hours before. She doesn’t remember but she has a pretty good idea what happened…

          • Pat Myers
            February 17, 2017, 9:04 am | #

            Also she was emancipated in that montage of scenes in the final Narbonic strip.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    February 17, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if “I can be a cartoon helicopter if it helps you focus” was meant as a slam against Mistyhorn or against Nick? Or both? o_O

    • OneUniverse
      February 17, 2017, 6:01 am | # | Reply

      The Baron definitely looks happier than he should.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 17, 2017, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

      Well, Nick is just hovering there, taking it all in, while Mistycorn is doing his best to give the impression that he should be wearing a leisure suit with gold jewelry. Who would deserve a slam more?

    • John Campbell
      February 19, 2017, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not sure Lovelace being a helicopter would be that much less distracting for Nick. While he’s still definitely human-lady-oriented, from some of his last blog posts, “flying a sweet helicopter” seems to be worth some extra points on his personal scale.

  3. Duth Olec
    February 17, 2017, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I guess it’s a good thing I literally just finished reading Narbonic yesterday.
    Yes, I read through Skin Horse before I did Narbonic. I tend to do stuff like that.

    • Marisa Mockery
      February 17, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      I did the same.

    • relsqui
      February 17, 2017, 1:17 am | # | Reply

      I’ve never read any of Narbonic, didn’t realize it was a required prequel and don’t really want to pick up a new comic right now. So instead I’m just kinda grumpy whenever I’m supposed to be familiar with it. 😛

      • Rex Vivat
        February 17, 2017, 1:33 am | # | Reply

        It’s not required reading, you just miss out on a little extra stuff. They’ll never make it so you don’t know what’s going on or miss anything crucial for not reading it.

      • OneUniverse
        February 17, 2017, 6:02 am | # | Reply

        Just keep Narbonic as something for the ol’ Bucket List.

        • Robert Nowall
          February 17, 2017, 6:04 am | # | Reply

          I moved it into my bathroom so I’d get to reading it while I was sitting there.

      • theysabet
        February 17, 2017, 9:32 am | # | Reply

        Go, read it; it’s a freaking blast!

      • RandomFan
        February 17, 2017, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        It’s not a required prequel- but the author uses some legacy characters, like artie and lovelace. However, these are usually introduced well either way- you don’t know everything about them, but you don’t need to.

        Both comics are set in ostensibly the same setting, though there are some parts that have either been ignored or slowly eradicated

        None of the main cast have been copied over, though unity does follow mell’s role of the one who handles most of the violence.

        • Robert Nowall
          February 17, 2017, 6:54 pm | # | Reply

          Well, I didn’t come to “Skin Horse” till the sequence with Jonah Yu repeatedly dying and the strip saying “The End”—so it was a while before I got what was going on. It was still awhile before I got the Narbonics books—and still later before I read them.

      • Sir William
        February 18, 2017, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

        Same

    • SVGeezer
      February 17, 2017, 8:47 am | # | Reply

      Why does reading Narbonic after reading all of Skin Horse sound like the Kids-Today version of reading the Hobbit after finishing Lord of The Rings??

      *And when is the Narbonic Movie due? (After that we can talk about HBO doing ‘Game of Skin Horse’ or something…)

      • Sasha Honeypalm
        February 17, 2017, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

        Since I *am* about to read The Hobbit today, years after I read LotR, the Silmarillion, and even some HoME… maybe I should read Narbonic.

      • Duth Olec
        February 18, 2017, 12:49 am | # | Reply

        I did that too, actually, though that was partly because my dad had them but didn’t have a copy of The Hobbit anymore.

    • Bryan Bullock
      February 17, 2017, 9:11 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, while I had heard of Narbonic, I never read Narbonic. Then I stumbled onto PSH. I ended up reading Narbonic in a mad tear a month or two ago, just so I would understand the comments and references here.

      • Blayzeing
        February 18, 2017, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

        Skin Horse was the first story-based webcomic I ever read. I go back and re-read it every few years or so, it was only after doing that for a while that I found out about Skin Horse – on that comic where you see the outside of Mendoza’s static caravan thing. Man, just gotta love the universe they’re set in.

        … also sadbeans to see the comment system doesn’t like .tech domains.

  4. Marisa Mockery
    February 17, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Yaaaay Lovelace! <3 I'm happy to see her, she didn't get a particularly happy ending.

    • Rex Vivat
      February 17, 2017, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      She did, actually. She got her emancipation.

  5. John Campbell
    February 17, 2017, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    So, not Jennifer Connelly, then.

    • Kyle
      February 17, 2017, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      One day…

  6. tuiteyfruity
    February 17, 2017, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    how did I not notice it was lovelace!!

  7. Valerie Kaplan
    February 17, 2017, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    I am going AAAAAAHHHH about several aspects of this strip.

  8. Pygar
    February 17, 2017, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Yay! Lovelace! Thanks, Shaenon!
    Boy, I sure hope they don’t run into a Digital Justice Mel Kelly… that would be horrible, but would help explain my ISP…

  9. casimir
    February 17, 2017, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Being interested in love does not make one a love interest.
    (Repeat as necessary)

    • relsqui
      February 17, 2017, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      Especially if it’s not love that you’re interested in.

  10. Brian Swetland
    February 17, 2017, 4:33 am | # | Reply

    This is the best twist! I thought she looked familiar. Yay.

  11. void
    February 17, 2017, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    YAY lovelace! I love it when the characters from Narbonic pop up.

  12. Robert Nowall
    February 17, 2017, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    Stick with the avatar you came with, Lovelace.

    • OneUniverse
      February 17, 2017, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      By all means! Stick with that avatar :)

      • Robert Nowall
        February 17, 2017, 6:05 am | # | Reply

        Nick and Baron might want to reconsider theirs, though.

        • Darkstarling
          February 17, 2017, 6:58 am | # | Reply

          Hey, at least Nick is a helicopter.

  13. Dr. Steve
    February 17, 2017, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    most comically sick… or sickly comical love interest. At least his horn is in plain sight

  14. davidbreslin101
    February 17, 2017, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    Sadly, her usual crimefighting partner isn’t here. Because Babbage runs on clockwork and punchcards, he can’t handle the speed of computation needed for this VR interface. Lovely chap, plays canasta with Moustachio sometimes.

  15. Robert Nowall
    February 17, 2017, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

    By the by, what with this “Daughters of the Air?” Aren’t there any “Sons of the Air?”

    • James Moar
      February 17, 2017, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      The Daughters of the Air are from the original version of The Little Mermaid, in which they’re disembodied spirits who do good deeds for humans to earn an immortal soul. What parts of this are relevant here isn’t clear yet.

      • Waytfm
        February 17, 2017, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

        I vaguely remember it being mentioned that the Daughters of the Air were some sort of AI group. It might have been during the machine uprising arc, but I’m really not sure off the top of my head. I know they’ve been mentioned in the strip before.

        • Rex Vivat
          February 17, 2017, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

          …It was three days ago. Tuesday.

          • Waytfm
            February 19, 2017, 6:03 pm | #

            Must have missed it. I don’t always check every day.

    • Rex Vivat
      February 17, 2017, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

      Seriously, did all three of you miss Tuesday’s comic or what?

      • Robert Nowall
        February 18, 2017, 6:00 am | # | Reply

        Nah, just why are they “daughters” and not “sons”…

        • John Campbell
          February 19, 2017, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

          Given that Lovelace was getting open-sourced at the end of Narbonic, I think it possible that they’re all clones of her.

  16. s854
    February 17, 2017, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

    She’d already hit Nick with the “ex-military cyborg” line (“ex-military” is somewhat unfair as a description of him given how little he did for the military once he found out he was working for them, and “cyborg” doesn’t need to affect his behaviour on-line), so it may have just been Baron’s turn.

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