I like the idea of Nick learning responsibility by caring for his human-body appendage the way you or I might care for a plant. “I’m detecting some major muscle atrophy–better put it on a regular exercise schedule and vitamin-heavy diet so it retains its usefulness!”
In the third panel Nick has shifted the locus of his consciousness to the Osprey, using it’s speakers to talk. So in the last panel, who’s more zombie?
Nick needs to return to his meat body for nourishment and ongoing maintenance at least!
You all probably know that SOME religious groups believe, very strongly that it is SEX ….yeah!! which binds our consciousness to the Earth. Until his initiation, he’s got wings….see what Shannon did there?
Something that makes me feel better about the focus on a “meat body” so that he and almost-gf can get it on: he actually does/will need the meat body for maintenance of his real body. And really, iiiif they’re just looking for a meat body only for boinking, he could go inhabit a vibrator. Now, you’d hope he wouldn’t get to a point where he was convinced (via VERY positive reinforcement) the vibrator was his real body, instead. Or, at least an acceptable alternative.
Poor Virginia. This is an unpleasant development.
Maybe another threat to her that could only be handled by his “meat body” would shift his locus of control.
Might be time to rescue Tip…
Nick is so enthused about being in his Osprey body he runs the risk of forgetting just where his brain is being housed.
This might lead to complications.
When the copter’s down and the doctor’s out,
All of Skin-Horse will be ‘round and they’ll express their doubt.
“Hey, hey, superstud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.”
What a chance you go through!
Lordy, they’ll be tellin’ you.
You don’t understand.
You’re a crime that happens to land.
Just slap-happy on it now puttin’ out to stud,
When they watch you treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.
Lordy, you should play it!
Maybe we should spay it!
Unity, missing Tip.
You should goink Virginia with rigor and grip.
Joy! It ought to thrill you!
Boy! It will not kill you!
What you know you should show.
Say! Your meat should do her fast and slow.
When the copter’s down and the doctor’s out,
All of Skin-Horse will be ‘round and they’ll express their doubt.
“Hey, hey, superstud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.”
—from “Mississippi Mud,” Harry Barris and James Cavanaugh, best known by, well, probably Bing Crosby.
Uh oh….. Okay, something about this makes me uneasy. Maybe it’s that Nick seems to be forgetting that his operating system *is housed inside* that peripheral, which isn’t a good thing generally OR healthy for a proper network; I think a certain Dr. V needs to show him that meatsacks have their good points too.
Not necessarily. A peripheral device only does what the operating system tells it to. Granted, some autonomous responses are outside his control – like blushing, or maybe something a bit more, uh, personal.
How does Unity get air past her larynx?
She’s a cartoon character, the world doesn’t take itself very seriously.
She speaks with her heart.
But her heart’s currently splattered across the floor of that A-sig base!
That’s not her heart, she got if from a guy in Paramus!
& the base isn’t even in San Francisco.
Nice one, Jim.
No, clearly she’s using her head here.
Very well, thank you.
Unity is nanotech goo animating a head. She probably only makes the mouth move when she talks in the mistaken belief it makes it less creepy.
With science.
Even if UniHitty doesn’t *happen*, I’d love to see it drawn…
This isn’t the drone, Nick. It’ll have to be fed, watered…and solids and liquids come out the other end, too.
I like the idea of Nick learning responsibility by caring for his human-body appendage the way you or I might care for a plant. “I’m detecting some major muscle atrophy–better put it on a regular exercise schedule and vitamin-heavy diet so it retains its usefulness!”
I love that.
Oh. Before you get too comfortable, Nick, see if your swear filter is still there.
It was already established that the filter had been in his brain, and that Virginia had removed it when implanting his brain into the meat body.
In the third panel Nick has shifted the locus of his consciousness to the Osprey, using it’s speakers to talk. So in the last panel, who’s more zombie?
Nick needs to return to his meat body for nourishment and ongoing maintenance at least!
Oh yes indeedy! “Always remember where your ON/OFF switch is!”
No, Unity: you still have a body, it’s just one which is all head. (Sort of like an HG Wells Martian, if she can find some tentacles).
She needs her head and shoulders to cry on.
Please don’t give her ideas. One trip to a sushi restaurant and things will get waaay more creepy than it needs to be around Annex One.
Unity doesn’t need ‘cockblocking powers’, Nick – what with the way you think of your meat body, & with Dr. Lee right next to you…
Meat body’s peripheral, eh? Just don’t go losing the dongle!
You all probably know that SOME religious groups believe, very strongly that it is SEX ….yeah!! which binds our consciousness to the Earth. Until his initiation, he’s got wings….see what Shannon did there?
Something that makes me feel better about the focus on a “meat body” so that he and almost-gf can get it on: he actually does/will need the meat body for maintenance of his real body. And really, iiiif they’re just looking for a meat body only for boinking, he could go inhabit a vibrator. Now, you’d hope he wouldn’t get to a point where he was convinced (via VERY positive reinforcement) the vibrator was his real body, instead. Or, at least an acceptable alternative.
You’re welcome.
Would Virginia be turned off by thinking of the meat as “just” a peripheral? Or even more excited?
Nick will do anything to avoid goinking Dr. Lee.
Poor Virginia. This is an unpleasant development.
Maybe another threat to her that could only be handled by his “meat body” would shift his locus of control.
Might be time to rescue Tip…
But if they do, they’ll kill everybody at that base.
I applaud the thought. Get Green, too, ASAP. When the curtain comes down, let it come down with many bangs and roars.
If only there was a psychologist present to tell Unity that her problems are all in her head.
They left him behind, remember?
They left her behind behind too.
Heh…
Maybe it’s behind his left.
Eesh Nick, at least close your eyes. That thing needs to blink or your eyes will go all crusty.
Cue Unity taking over Nick’s body in 3…
That would be all kinds of weird, especially if there’s any residual “Unity” left in Virginia.
Nick is so enthused about being in his Osprey body he runs the risk of forgetting just where his brain is being housed.
This might lead to complications.
When the copter’s down and the doctor’s out,
All of Skin-Horse will be ‘round and they’ll express their doubt.
“Hey, hey, superstud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.”
What a chance you go through!
Lordy, they’ll be tellin’ you.
You don’t understand.
You’re a crime that happens to land.
Just slap-happy on it now puttin’ out to stud,
When they watch you treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.
Lordy, you should play it!
Maybe we should spay it!
Unity, missing Tip.
You should goink Virginia with rigor and grip.
Joy! It ought to thrill you!
Boy! It will not kill you!
What you know you should show.
Say! Your meat should do her fast and slow.
When the copter’s down and the doctor’s out,
All of Skin-Horse will be ‘round and they’ll express their doubt.
“Hey, hey, superstud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.
What a feat to treat your meat like it’s peripheral crud.”
—from “Mississippi Mud,” Harry Barris and James Cavanaugh, best known by, well, probably Bing Crosby.
Poor Virginia.
Uh oh….. Okay, something about this makes me uneasy. Maybe it’s that Nick seems to be forgetting that his operating system *is housed inside* that peripheral, which isn’t a good thing generally OR healthy for a proper network; I think a certain Dr. V needs to show him that meatsacks have their good points too.
Sorry for necroposting, but wouldn’t the meat peripheral still feel and reflect the emotions of his true form?
Not necessarily. A peripheral device only does what the operating system tells it to. Granted, some autonomous responses are outside his control – like blushing, or maybe something a bit more, uh, personal.