Margaritas!
Shaenon: Drawing for a friend’s birthday.
In other news, the Skin Horse 6 Kickstarter campaign is flipping rad. We’ve passed $17,000 and opened some new backer levels and stretch goals, so check it out. And please continue to spread the word!
Channing: Thank you, Shaenon’s friend, for being born. That way, we get to see another lovely Nick and Lee. And yes, thanks to all Kickstarter contributors. We love you all.
Love it!
(Drunken brain surgery ahoy!)
She does have that Helen Narbon “should I drink this?” quality… Nick is right to be cautious!
Attn: Nick
Note the rather large ice bucket under Dr. Lee’s chair.
That’s not an ice bucket.
Aww she’d not drug anyone who wasn’t scheduled for extirpation anyways. So even if Nick was so scheduled, he might as well enjoy a drink.
Let me guess, Nick’s shirt says ‘Polybus’, right?
Oh thank god. I was worried I was the only one into conspiracy theories enough to instantly recognize a partial of the POLYBIUS logo on sight.
Wait a minute… what the hell am I saying? This is a comic about the shadow government. Of course I’m not the only conspiracy fan here. Derp.
please please PLEASE if you’re going to make those hook up do so before the final arc 🙁
I’ve always suspected Nick comes with attachments (pun intended). Now whether she’s ever revealed them to him… I doubt it.
I can *just* barely imagine some of the subconscious triggers she’s put into him (including some NSFW ones). “Blueberry Waffles” has already been taken as a safe word/phrase.
I’m pretty sure that Nick is an observant Jew, so why is he sitting next to a shrimp cocktail?
Somebody else put it there while he was distracted by the rather large drink in front of him?
Well, he doesn’t seem to be the most observant brain in a tank…maybe he didn’t notice right away.
maybe those are radishes
Dr. Lee’s been ordering a bunch of appetizers since the second margarita.
…and I’m sure she’s aware that chiles, avocado, and shrimp are known aphrodisiacs. She is the sly one!
Well, even if Nick considers himself “observant,” being observant means different things to different people. To some folks, it’s about following all or at least many of the provisions of the Law (like shellfish avoidance) because it is the Law; to others, it’s more about adopting the cultural markers (like shellfish avoidance) that differentiate Jewish folks from non-Jewish folks; to still others, it’s about hewing to a general moral orientation but not necessarily sweating details (like shellfish avoidance) that aren’t as obviously moral.
Also, shrimp are tasty.
Nick looks either alarmed or surprised, like maybe he just got there (as in, was just suddenly brought there unexpectedly via Virginia’s mojo), so he probably is not in any way responsible for any of the things on the table, or possibly even the very large margarita he’s holding (with both hands, as if he were trying not to drop it, perhaps because he wasn’t expecting it.)
Are they in a Tiki Bar?
And are those margaritas they’re drinking?
aw yes yes a thousand times yes!
I’d like to see a storyline where Nick gets his old body back, it gets cloned back but has an empty cranium so Nick remote controls it from the helicopter thing, and the bodies have a really short lifespan since they’re clones so every now and then the current one spontaneously turns into really runny goo and a new one pops out of a booth, But then again I’d love to see the return of director English but we all know that’s never happening. I’d also like to see a version of Nick that’s a mad scientist version of Nick based around the archetype he portrays. (Are Nick and Virginia even around the same age?)
I’m pretty surprised they haven’t managed to get Nick a gender-appropriate drone by now. I’m sure Dr. Lee could arrange something. (He seemed to enjoy running the Violet Bee/Bubbles drone for a while, until he realized that being in a female-like body made certain things “weird”, and therefore uncomfortable, from his perspective. He may be a flying machine now, but his gender-sense is still very obviously straight male.)
Still, compared to Garth Algar’s drink…