Nick/Violet Sketches
Shaenon: I’ve been drawing Nick piloting the Violet droid for a while now, and it’s a pleasure to finally get to draw this ridiculous development in the strip.
Also, today’s my husband Andrew’s birthday. Everyone wish him well!
Channing: Happy birthday, Andrew!
I gotta say, if these sketches don’t inspire someone to do some fanfic already, I figure there’s no hope of it.
Shaenon: Only if the fanfiction is about all the adorable outfits Nick could wear.
Happy birthday!
(I’ve followed Narbonics and Skin Horse forever, but finally decided to comment!)
Violet!Nick meets Rarity!
Here’s a thought. Nick isn’t piloting the droid 24/7. Maybe when his mind is busy elsewhere, Tip and/or Marcie snag the droid to use as a life-size doll. Then, when Nick connects again, for whatever reason, he has no option but to go out looking like that.
Oh, and happy birthday Andrew!
Given Nick’s protests when Tip offered to do a makeover, there’s got to be a story in which Nick!Violet is persuaded (or more likely blackmailed) into receiving the full, undivided attention of Tip’s make-up kit (and possibly even wardrobe).
Still, even that’s more likely than the drone ending up as another of Tip’s conquests 😀
speaking as a roughly violet-sized rl individual, we look ridiculous in tip-sized clothes…
…which is only a qualitative comment, not a judgment on whether or not this should be drawn 🙂
happy new year andrew!
Happy birthday, Andrew. I just gave another copy of The Looney Toons Treasury as a baby present—no child should grow up without it.
Sticking with the Gilbert O’Sullivan earworm theme, we turn from suicidally glum to diabetically precious:
tune: “Clair,” Gilbert O’ Sullivan (www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9fClvdo5s)
Nick,
You took to this body so quick-
Ly. I was afraid it wouldn’t stick
But you pilot Vi-
‘Let just like you fly
I rule!
When I schlorped your brain it was so cool
‘Though Anasigma called me a fool
I knew you’d be great
And now I can’t wait
To go out to a tea room
And then, you know,
We’ll get our nails done and
Buy J.Lo Glow
Now what do you mean by saying
I’m a salt lick?
Yeah, yeah, you’re not my girlfriend. So,
Fine, we’ll play Call of Duty
Nick, Nick,
Nick
Happy birthday, Andrew. May it be a good one.
Also, Nick/Violet seems kinda nervous in some of those sketches. I think he may already suspect the kind of fanfiction we’re going to concoct for him.
What I find myself wondering is, what’s on the other side of the pages?
More sketches, this time done in landscape orientation (as with the two extracts at the bottom). The top one appears to be Nick!Violet sitting down, knees raised to chest, sticking his!her tongue out.
From one Andrew to another, happy birthday.
I wish there was some sort of “Andrew” consortium. And no, “Drew” doesn’t count.
The Andrewsual Suspects?
The Andrewminatti?
Happy Birthday, Andrew (the one known as “Mr. Garrity”).
The bit w/ nick-drone yelling – makes me think rebellious teenager – probably calling Lee mom – or “you’re not my mom”.
And the Lee stretching makes me think they went on a mother-daughter type excursion. That kinda is a sleepover (up all night watching movies or gaming) kinda expression to my mind.
Nick/Violet is yelling “You’re not the boss of me!” ‘Cuz Dr. Lee is, for all intents & purposes, cyber-Nick’s mom. I think s/he also looks slightly squicked-out by some of the stuff s/he’s hearing.
(TUNE: “Love And Marriage”, Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen)
Lee, Virginia; Lee, Virginia,
Took a plane and put a brain right in ya!
Pity poor Zerhakker!
But he can fly, he won’t at-tack her!
Nick in Violet, Nick in Violet,
Found a handy ‘bot that Nick can pilot!
Saying, “Shut the flake up!
I won’t wear girly clothes or … make-up!”
Sun, Sun, Sunday is a rest day!
Sketches, she can do!
Fun, fun, fun, she’ll wish the best day
To … her hubby Andrew!
Sketchy Sunday, sketchy Sunday,
Shaenon, take it easy, just for one day!
Then tomorrow, head out …
A strip each day
Will help to pay
The bills, so Shae-
Non, get the … lead out!
All I can foresee is that this comic may have to deal with some very strange gender issues if Nick sticks with the Violet body.
Well. stranger gender issues than it’s previously dealt with, anyway.
That makes me recall when Helen walks past Artie and Mel, saying to stay out of (a certain place). One of them then comments that they were pretty sure that it was actually Dave…
Identity is self – form is biology/engineering/cybernetics.
Good point. Of course, it could be different for mad scientists…
Oh, now this is just ridiculously adorable.
1) Happy Birthday, Andrew!
2) Re: Fanfiction – Muahahahah.
The one with ginny talking to Nick look like she’s saying: “My stars, if an interesting monster can’t have an interesting hairdo, then I don’t know what things are coming to.”
Happy birthday, Andrew.
Honestly, the whole different-characters-in-same-body trick is one of Sheanon’s most impressive bits of cartooning wizardry. I am glad, in a weird way, to see it’s something she actually works on deliberately.
I love the differences between Violet and Nick. Violet always tried to carry herself so correctly, while Nick carries his bad posture from his former human life over into his new android form.
@Channing: Well, I’d be happy to do some fanfic, but since I write porn and this is a work-safe webcomic, I don’t think it would work out very well…
I love the companion cube shirt!