(My apologies if I come over a bit wordy in this, driving WordPress comments on Chrome for mobile is a bit like steering a brick (or perhaps an Iron Man) cut and paste and autocorrect both seem to react strangely and make editing a big of a pig.
…and apparently easy to reply to the wrong comment, too!
Credit to James fit getting there first, and much more succinctly. I’m going to step away from the comment frame now.
Yeah, regarding thet last chapter, I think you pretty much got it – the book that the movie “The Iron Giant” was loosely adapted from: The book The Iron Man The Iron Man, a much lauded and loved children’s story by Ted Hughes, then British Poet Laureate (egad) about a huge robot.
I remember that it was that miracle that is a science fictoon children’s classic, written by an author who had sufficient literary chops, that I remember it being used in classroom reading-aloud-book-time at primary school in the early ’70s! It’s possibly better known in the UK, I accept.
That’s as well as how we’ve already established Nick ‘Chopper’ ad the Tin Man, mind.
[Ah, I see that it was renamed The Iron Giant in the US from initial US book release, to avoid confusion with that Mr. Stark. That And for the record, I also enjoyed the movie adaptation.]
Oh man, Green Noah in the ‘Green Knowe’ series was FREAKISHLY scary; this ought to be interesting. What, are they going up against a giant Redwood version of Swamp Thing? Or is this a reference to Mister Green (Ira) as a hideous, shadow corporate monster? **settles back happily with popcorn to watch**
Maybe it’ll be the Cypress, and she’s on their side. She has just cause to be ticked off at A-Sig, and with the way Unity “revived” her, it could get interesting.
With sufficient coathangers, Dr. Jones can teleport Annex One to wherever they are needed! With Dr. Lee’s collaboration I would bet on projecting a 3D hologram of the coathanger tesseract for instant readiness…
I’d say don’t give them ideas, but this is probably the fastest method to get them and the building over there. Plus, I’m curious to see what Dr. Lee and Tigerlily would come up with working together. They put Nick together, maybe they could come up with a wetware-controlled teleportal. Nick might volunteer to be the wetware since he can’t fly at the moment.
Are we to assume that Sweetheart had a mental lapse, there? I would have expected something like an “um, oops, sorry”, either in panel 2 directly following her gaffe, or panel 3.
Also, why does anyone need to physically go to Washington State? If they’re AIs, the meeting is really in cyberspace, and all they need is a high bandwidth hookup.
Incidentally, in Nick’s livejournal, we got a sense of his limitations in that he was cyber-trespassing somewhere, and got smacked down hard by the Daughters if the Air, the AI collective that Lovelace is part of.
Also, Nick has picked up a new outfit, down to a stylish “Annex One” logo shirt. (Also also, the “no” symbol on Chris’s DJS shirt flips from left to right from Panel One to Panel Two.)
Good job, Sweetheart… now stick your tail between your legs and sit in the corner.
And really think about what you did, because that mental image should be punishment enough.
But the good news here is that we have direct confirmation that Nick no longer identifies as a helicopter if there had been any doubt before. ^_^
I dunno, I think he’d still rather be back in his real body without all this complication.
What confirmation?
Nick identifies as a helicopter. He’s never identified as a sub.
Yes, but a helicopter would enjoy being ridden and he would have gone with what Sweetheart meant rather than with what they meant. ^_^
Conversely, while he may prefer what Sweetheart meant, he knows what Chris and Marcie meant, which is what prompted his comment.
I sea what you did there.
That was beneath you.
Also, I see Monday began a new chapter.
Aye…
If the title is anything to go by, then we’ll be seeing a knock-em-sock-em fight between Annex One and a giant tree monster.
For those not in the know, the chapter title references Green Knowe, a series by Lucy Boston.
If “The Iron Man” referenced something besides the Marvel Comics character (the movie “The Iron Giant”?), I never did figure it out.
The book “The Iron Giant” is based on is called “The Iron Man” in the UK, so it’s a good candidate.
(My apologies if I come over a bit wordy in this, driving WordPress comments on Chrome for mobile is a bit like steering a brick (or perhaps an Iron Man) cut and paste and autocorrect both seem to react strangely and make editing a big of a pig.
…and apparently easy to reply to the wrong comment, too!
Credit to James fit getting there first, and much more succinctly. I’m going to step away from the comment frame now.
Yeah, regarding thet last chapter, I think you pretty much got it – the book that the movie “The Iron Giant” was loosely adapted from: The book The Iron Man The Iron Man, a much lauded and loved children’s story by Ted Hughes, then British Poet Laureate (egad) about a huge robot.
I remember that it was that miracle that is a science fictoon children’s classic, written by an author who had sufficient literary chops, that I remember it being used in classroom reading-aloud-book-time at primary school in the early ’70s! It’s possibly better known in the UK, I accept.
That’s as well as how we’ve already established Nick ‘Chopper’ ad the Tin Man, mind.
[Ah, I see that it was renamed The Iron Giant in the US from initial US book release, to avoid confusion with that Mr. Stark. That And for the record, I also enjoyed the movie adaptation.]
Oh man, Green Noah in the ‘Green Knowe’ series was FREAKISHLY scary; this ought to be interesting. What, are they going up against a giant Redwood version of Swamp Thing? Or is this a reference to Mister Green (Ira) as a hideous, shadow corporate monster? **settles back happily with popcorn to watch**
Maybe it’ll be the Cypress, and she’s on their side. She has just cause to be ticked off at A-Sig, and with the way Unity “revived” her, it could get interesting.
Cross-country shipping.
They ended up riding Nick after all.
Just another euphemism.
How dare you Marcie!
Also, cute kippah!
Madblood androids, perhaps?
…….and Dr. Lee was there to hear that little conversation. Darn it all to heck!
“Nobody rides me but Ginny!”. ^_~
Whoah. He didn’t swear.
With sufficient coathangers, Dr. Jones can teleport Annex One to wherever they are needed! With Dr. Lee’s collaboration I would bet on projecting a 3D hologram of the coathanger tesseract for instant readiness…
So I guess the next stop is the dry cleaners.
I’d say don’t give them ideas, but this is probably the fastest method to get them and the building over there. Plus, I’m curious to see what Dr. Lee and Tigerlily would come up with working together. They put Nick together, maybe they could come up with a wetware-controlled teleportal. Nick might volunteer to be the wetware since he can’t fly at the moment.
Are we to assume that Sweetheart had a mental lapse, there? I would have expected something like an “um, oops, sorry”, either in panel 2 directly following her gaffe, or panel 3.
Also, why does anyone need to physically go to Washington State? If they’re AIs, the meeting is really in cyberspace, and all they need is a high bandwidth hookup.
Incidentally, in Nick’s livejournal, we got a sense of his limitations in that he was cyber-trespassing somewhere, and got smacked down hard by the Daughters if the Air, the AI collective that Lovelace is part of.
Link to the Daughters of the Air entry.
“HOLY SHIT THIS HEADACHE IS LIKE SCISSORS IN MY BRAIN. it is like BURNING and STABBING and ASS and FAIL.”
And so on and so forth.
I was half expecting Nick to start blogging again, but no such luck.
Anyone notice Nick’s got his yarmulke back?
Would Tigerlily Jones keep one around the Positronic Love Tower?
To paraphrase a certain other mad scientist from an unrelated work in an unrelated media:
“What, you want a yarmulke? I’ll make you a yarmulke right now. Take me two seconds to make a yarmulke.”
“I had a yarmulke at home!”
“Nick, if I make you a yarmulke, it’ll be better than your yarmulke at home.”
Step one: remove the propeller. Step two: dye it black.
Nick might want to keep the propeller out of nostalgia.
They’d have to get it away from A-sig first.
Candace, you missed the joke.
Today I learned that the reason the Spanish had to cede Florida was so the United States wouldn’t look like a speech bubble
I was going to give a pedantic and boring response, but then I saw that it’s 65 degrees out and sunny, so… when you’re right, you’re right.
Yes. Ride Nick. Then accidentally kiss…
We established yesterday that the toilets aren’t hooked up to anything. That means Annex One, every so often, will have to go walkies.
Also, Nick has picked up a new outfit, down to a stylish “Annex One” logo shirt. (Also also, the “no” symbol on Chris’s DJS shirt flips from left to right from Panel One to Panel Two.)