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2020-12-30

by shaenon on December 30, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. David B Huber
    December 30, 2020, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Now Artie, why wouldn’t you want to see Sergio in a maid outfit? 😉

    And I love Dr. Lee’s expression in the last panel.

    • D. Walker
      December 30, 2020, 9:35 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he’s just not into that sort of thing because it reflexively reminds him of humanity’s proclivity for classism, inequity, power imbalance, patriarchal double standards against women, sexual harassment, etc, etc…

      Artie seems like the kind of person who sees all of humanity’s flaws very clearly, and gets bummed out by them. (Or maybe that’s just me and I’m projecting a bit…)

      • D. Walker
        December 30, 2020, 9:39 am | # | Reply

        Actually, wait, no – I’m probably not just projecting.

        “It’s cute because Sergio is doing it” tells us that he would normally not find ribbons cute at all, but because it’s coming from Sergio (who presumably isn’t someone who would just blindly follow cultural stereotypes about effeminacy, gender coding, etc), Artie is able to look past those associations and just enjoy the ribbons as an act of self expression with no real connection to other things except perhaps irony.

      • David B Huber
        December 30, 2020, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

        Well said, D. Walker! I apologise for my clumsy attempt at humor.

        • D. Walker
          December 30, 2020, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

          Pshaw, nothing to apologise for, nothing awkwardly done.

          If anything, I’m overthinking wildly, as I am wont to do. As Unity put it when deciding not to destroy Virginia, my brain is “chugging away at full blast, worrying and obsessing all the dang time”.

  2. thejoemoose
    December 30, 2020, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Someone mentioned Kickstarter sketches yesterday. Perhaps those sketches might be of Artie in the maid outfit? [tents fingers]

    • Robert Nowall
      December 30, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Tip’s maid outfit would fit Artie like socks on a rooster—to coin a phrase.

      • Yobgod
        December 30, 2020, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

        You’ve obviously never seen a rooster wearing socks. Mmmmmmm.

        • Robert Nowall
          December 30, 2020, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

          Thought those things were for lambs.

    • OneUniverse
      December 30, 2020, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

      Should we pay NOT to see such sketches?

  3. Robert Nowall
    December 30, 2020, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    I see robots, I see rats. Annex One has habitats.

    • davidbreslin101
      December 30, 2020, 7:47 am | # | Reply

      With a big bug cobra hug, give Sweetheart a bone
      This old bot comes stomping home.

  4. mel
    December 30, 2020, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    oh come on, we don’t get to see the mushy stuff of them finally getting together? after all this time and all that build up? 🙁

  5. Kether
    December 30, 2020, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    I know you don’t like to mix Skin Horse and Narbonic more than strictly needed, so it’s not a required read. But I’d pay to see a small strip, even a simple picture, of Mell reacting to these two…

    You can consider it for a stretch goal for the next Kickstarter. I know I am not alone in this… 😉

    • kiralamouse
      December 30, 2020, 10:48 am | # | Reply

      It’s even more important for those of us who first met Sergio in Li’l Mell, who have this embedded in our memory. (Not to say that Mell and Artie don’t make – Narbonic spoilers ahoy – a cute pair of friends, too.)

    • David B Huber
      December 30, 2020, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

      +1

      • awgiedawgie
        December 30, 2020, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

        +2

    • OneUniverse
      December 30, 2020, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

      Yikes!

  6. Clifton
    December 30, 2020, 11:42 am | # | Reply

    Nick is, however briefly, the most emotionally stable and mature personality in the room.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 30, 2020, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

      It sends chills down your spine, doesn’t it?

  7. Robert Nowall
    December 30, 2020, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    Dumb is dumb and smart is smart,
    And the right one has been chose.
    So come on ‘cause brains are broken,
    With goofs and geeks and Sergio’s bows.
    Beings and things and Sergio’s bows.

    Don’t have no fun in Annex One,
    Go to where the current flows.
    Let’s simmer down and go around,
    Where there’s a chance for heaven-just-knows,
    And sweet romance with Sergio’s bows.

    I’d like bare essentials,
    Or skirts for maids from Tip.
    But we’ll make out, greater, straighter,
    On this rescue mission trip.

    My eyes revolt to see these dolts,
    And this both sucks and blows.
    Let’s clear out while they keep a-goin’
    Those freaks and fakers and hitting new lows,
    And we’ll be far from Sergio’s bows.

    Gimme middle-west mission, decision, decision.
    So we propose a bringing to close.
    And we presume that love is a-bloom,
    And Artie’s his with Sergio’s bows.

    Sergio’s bows, Sergio’s bows…

    —from “Buttons and Bows,” Jay Livingston / Ray Evans, sung by, well, Bob Hope and Jane Russell sung it in “The Paleface,” but the big hit was Dinah Shore.

    • Manifesta
      December 30, 2020, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

      Bravo!

    • David B Huber
      December 30, 2020, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      *Applause*

  8. jdreyfuss
    December 30, 2020, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

    Come on Nick, just because they’re currently letting the little brain do the work doesn’t mean you can’t leave them alone to do the big brain work.

    • Robert Nowall
      December 30, 2020, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      You know the saying: “Dumb people make mistakes. Geniuses screw things up royally.”

      • awgiedawgie
        December 30, 2020, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve always heard it “Dumb people make mistakes, but it takes a genius to really screw things up.”

    • awgiedawgie
      December 30, 2020, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think either brain is doing anything at the moment.

  9. OneUniverse
    December 30, 2020, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    So Sergio doesn’t do dreadlocks?

  10. Pygar
    December 30, 2020, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

    Is Narbonic down for y’alls too?

    • awgiedawgie
      December 30, 2020, 9:38 pm | # | Reply

      Yep.

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