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2022-06-10

by shaenon on June 10, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Moe Lane
    June 10, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Well. I stand corrected.

    • Rockphed
      June 10, 2022, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

      The way the two of them go at it, this is much more reasonable.

  2. Urlance Woolsbane
    June 10, 2022, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    D’awww

    Now I’m going to be sad if this turns out to be some sort of virtual reality scenario

  3. Jerry Aethers
    June 10, 2022, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    So about 5 years passed somewhere? I must have got off at the wrong Tardis stop.

    • Duane B.
      June 10, 2022, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      That parking brake is tricky.

    • Tamsyn
      June 10, 2022, 4:41 am | # | Reply

      strip about four days ago said five years, yeah.

      • fluffy
        June 10, 2022, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

        Oh dang, I interpreted that as just being five years earlier in in-strip time, and the usual wobbliness of comic vs. real-time. Now it makes a lot more sense.

    • Wizard
      June 16, 2022, 4:00 am | # | Reply

      Just a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

  4. thejoemoose
    June 10, 2022, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    OH! I should’ve seen that coming!

    • Moe Lane
      June 10, 2022, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      I dunno. Shaenon doesn’t usually work that blue.

    • Doghouse
      June 10, 2022, 2:11 am | # | Reply

      More to the point, so should Jonah…

  5. dvandom
    June 10, 2022, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Five Year Gap, oh dear.

  6. Tiff Hudson
    June 10, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    I love that #1 is already giving the Taylor stare.

  7. Robert Nowall
    June 10, 2022, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    The way they’ve been going at each other I can’t say I’m surprised.

  8. Owls
    June 10, 2022, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    Man, Nick looks so satisfied in that last panel. I’m glad for him.

  9. Robert Nowall
    June 10, 2022, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Also…three girls?

    • Duane B.
      June 10, 2022, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

      Three…maybe two?
      Nick gave three “names”, but the speech balloon showed two voices.
      I don’t know if the youngest can speak yet.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 10, 2022, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

        They’re all “your mom” so that would suggest they’re female, even the future one.

        • awgiedawgie
          June 12, 2022, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

          Clearly, you don’t understand “your mom” jokes.

      • Zero
        June 11, 2022, 5:11 am | # | Reply

        Children who have not yet been born are notoriously bad at speaking.

  10. Pygar
    June 10, 2022, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    In this strip, Nick could be telling the truth…

  11. woozy
    June 10, 2022, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Hmm… my understanding of “your mom” jokes must be faulty. (Or Nick’s is… but that couldn’t be possible.)

    • Prodigal
      June 10, 2022, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      You know who else has a faulty understanding of “your mom” jokes?

      • Mnifesta
        June 10, 2022, 12:40 pm | # | Reply
        • Manifesta
          June 10, 2022, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

          Sorry, apparently multiple handclap emojis won’t post here.

          • Aname
            June 10, 2022, 1:12 pm | #

            I thought it was intentional.
            Having your avatar just giving Prodigal an open mouthed silent stare as though you couldn’t believe they actually went there.

          • Prodigal
            June 11, 2022, 12:58 am | #

            I have to agree with Aname. Either way, thank you so much!

    • Robert Nowall
      June 10, 2022, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t think it was a nice thing to say to the godparents.

  12. Glotos
    June 10, 2022, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Wow. That WAS a lot of sex.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 10, 2022, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      Yeah… they had to have had sex at least three times in those five years.

      • bergerjacques
        June 10, 2022, 10:45 am | # | Reply

        Not with that Zerhakker expression… and I’m willing to bet Nick and Ginny Zerhakker-Lee take their multiplication seriously.

        • awgiedawgie
          June 10, 2022, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

          True. If the first two are twins, they only had to have done it twice.

          • Robert Nowall
            June 10, 2022, 3:00 pm | #

            Not if they’re fraternal.

        • Barbara K
          June 10, 2022, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

          It’s a mitzvah!
          If Nick’s seriously religious, birth control may not be on the program.
          Ginnie should hang onto those maternity blouses…

  13. Jay
    June 10, 2022, 2:45 am | # | Reply

    This is a comic of Mad Science, sirrah. What makes you think sex was involved at all?

    …okay, okay, apart from the prodigious amounts of sex.

    But natural conception would rob Ginny of the chance to make Improvements! to their genes!

    • Duane B.
      June 10, 2022, 5:17 am | # | Reply

      I think Tiger Lilly had hinted about making “improvements”
      to Nicks new body.

      • Shadowmehr
        June 10, 2022, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

        Those might have been more mechanical than genetic though.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 10, 2022, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

        Something’s been said about Nick’s gonads working his jaw with a little string.

      • Glotos
        June 10, 2022, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

        Odd how that makes this come to mind…

        https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Spoink_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

    • theysabet
      June 10, 2022, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

      If you’ve read Narbonic, you know that sex was involved, and very likely in the most ridiculous ways, places, dimensions, swapped bodies, eras and maybe species. Wouldn’t surprise me at ALL if Nick was preggers at some point.

  14. Kyle
    June 10, 2022, 7:12 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if this is a ramp up to the introduction of nieces and nephews. I wouldn’t really try to predict Aimee and Lovelace either way.

    Also, wow, this entire five year gap is pretty tempting fanfic bait, isn’t it?

    • warrenrose4254
      June 10, 2022, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

      Okay, now I’m picturing kids who are two-thirds human-presenting AI and one-third Baron Mistycorn 😀

  15. Seph
    June 10, 2022, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    This whole week has felt epiloguish. I feel like we’re not far from the end now.

    • bergerjacques
      June 10, 2022, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      Shaenon writing “we’re not quite done yet” was my first clue…

    • woozy
      June 10, 2022, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

      There’s probably a word for a final chapter that is mostly epiloguish and takes place some time after the books final events but unlike a true epilogue does indeed reveal so essential narrative elements (often told through flashback exposition). This “Roger, it’s good to see you– when we were last together you were rushing into that burning building. Well, Fred, Ursula the seabiscuit was never the same that when she lost the election…” type narrative is common enough it ought to have a name— I feel *that* is what this final chapter feels like.

  16. Sheik
    June 10, 2022, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    Be fruitful and multiply.

  17. Shadowmehr
    June 10, 2022, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

    Odd, I don’t see any obvious propellers on either of the kids . . .

    • Robert Nowall
      June 10, 2022, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      “If you’re very, very good today,” Dr. Lee said, “you can go for a ride in your father.”

      • Dewy
        June 10, 2022, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

        It took my brain a few seconds to remember Nick’s other form. I had to read the sentence 3 times trying to figure out how Robert did NOT say what I think he said. Context really is everything, sometimes.

    • Duane B.
      June 10, 2022, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

      The props would be on either arm, not on head or nose.

  18. David B Huber
    June 10, 2022, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

    Given the competitiveness between teams Zerhakker and Wilkin, I wonder how many – ah, “off-spring” – Tip and Tigerlily will show up with?

    • Duane B.
      June 10, 2022, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

      So, you are wondering how many they
      *drum roll* wind up with?

      Had to say it (I’ll see myself out)

      • David B Huber
        June 10, 2022, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

        *Applause*

  19. Robert Nowall
    June 10, 2022, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    When Annex One calls,
    Five years have gone by.
    I’m here inside chopper heaven.
    I’ll fly to this site,
    A little night flight
    Will put me in chopper heaven.

    We made this base a happy place with lots of room.
    It’s for the best this vessel carries bride and groom.

    Just Ginny and me,
    And babies now three.
    We’re happy in chopper heaven.

    —from “My Blue Heaven,” words by George A. Whiting, music by Walter Donaldson, sung (first) by Gene Austin.

  20. Robert Nowall
    June 10, 2022, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

    Jonah Yu gets upset about learning of Nick and Virginia concerning the birth of their first, but that’s not the worst—two others were born while sojourning.

  21. DaisyFM
    June 10, 2022, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    Question: Are the kids part helicopter?

    • awgiedawgie
      June 12, 2022, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

      Give Virginia a little more time, and they could be.

  22. Steve Jackson
    June 11, 2022, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

    Insert “helicopter parent” joke here.

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