Virginia didn’t create him, she just modified him.
If you lose your leg, and get it replaced with a prosthetic, and then marry the person who gave you the prosthetic, you’re not marrying your creator, you’re marrying your doctor and/or technical engineer.
Nick – like all of us humans – is fundamentally a brain inside a meat robot. Virginia just removed him from his meat robot, put him into a differently shaped metal robot, then eventually put him into a new meat robot.
THE Eddurd got married?
After all the time I’ve seen you around, I can’t decide if I prefer thinking about you posting here in your diapers or you marrying at 50 😀
I… This has to be the most touching webcomic strip I’ve read at least this year and… It ranks up there with the most touching since I started reading webcomics in 2000. Heck, it ranks up there as one of the most touching things I’ve ever read in my life since the 1980s.
And it’s just four panels. Well, three. About 38 words?
Amazing work. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go sob for a bit.
At what point in their relationship did Dr. Lee realize she wanted to jump Nick’s bones? ‘Cause if it was before she extracted his brain…not much hope for a while after that…
I wondered the same thing yesterday! So yes it was in the strip yesterday. Don’t listen to these other people I get asking this. Sometimes you are in the moment and also are just being part of a community and engaging in the moment! goodness
They didn’t have time to write vows. So they ad-libbed some lines anyhow. It’s pretty much shown that jumping of bones is up on their lists here and now.
Yup. And never mind how easy it can be to source two lengths of four-by-four and a length of four-by-two, it’s just a wee bit of a giveaway that the decorations co-ordinate with Tip’s outfit isn’t it?
Now there’s a new twist… Unity barfs on the tanks and controls them, and Nick hacks the flying saucer. Meanwhile, Gavotte goes around stinging all the A-Sig troops.
The irony being, of course, that for most of the time she wanted to jump his bones, he didn’t even HAVE bones
Hint: “NATO bone”. 😉
[it’s a standard type of battery separator switch]
How many people can say they married their creator? How many people can say they married their creation?
Considering medieval royalty…. more then you think.
Just look at Victorian era European royalty.
Which goes far to explain why WWI happened at all.
Virginia didn’t create him, she just modified him.
If you lose your leg, and get it replaced with a prosthetic, and then marry the person who gave you the prosthetic, you’re not marrying your creator, you’re marrying your doctor and/or technical engineer.
Nick – like all of us humans – is fundamentally a brain inside a meat robot. Virginia just removed him from his meat robot, put him into a differently shaped metal robot, then eventually put him into a new meat robot.
A decade of character development, neatly summed up in four panels.
Indeed.
Right? He was poetic and kind for her, she was crass and direct, for him.
Wait… which one was crass all those years, and which one was poetic?
I wish you had posted this last week. I just got married last Saturday and we could have used these vows.
Mazel tov!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
THE Eddurd got married?
After all the time I’ve seen you around, I can’t decide if I prefer thinking about you posting here in your diapers or you marrying at 50 😀
Try the latter, I married my current at 49, so it’s possiblee.
Oh well, I got my driving permit at 51 and I’m still not married, I’m three decades late on everything I guess.
Maxes Tov!!!
Mazel Tov (stupid autocorrect got me and I didn’t realize!!!!!!)
I dunno, Thiteyfruity – maximum tov feels appropriate! 🙂
Maximum Tov Override: Electric Boogaloo Two The Quickening! Coming soon to a theater near you, get in line NOW!
Congratulations, Eddurd! Much happiness be unto you two!
You’ll laugh!
You’ll cry!
You’ll kiss three bucks good-bye!
THANK YOU!
So few people catch that reference. I mean, I know I’m a fossil, but it was such a fun short!
Jeez, didn’t know anyone remembered that line! I still use it to the befuddlement of those around me, what, 45 years later? 🙂
Congratulations, Ed!!
Belated congrats, from not realizing, from concentrating on my own posts. L’Chaim.
Congrats!
Congratulations to you both, and may you share a lifetime of love
[party squeaker] Congrats!
It’s a happy and joyous occasion. A memorable association. The vows here are praised, so I’m happy to raise a glass for this glorification.
Wonderful news, Eddurd! Congratulations and much happiness to you both!
Service! Only Joy!
I hope the two of you have many happy years together! 🙂
I… This has to be the most touching webcomic strip I’ve read at least this year and… It ranks up there with the most touching since I started reading webcomics in 2000. Heck, it ranks up there as one of the most touching things I’ve ever read in my life since the 1980s.
And it’s just four panels. Well, three. About 38 words?
Amazing work. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go sob for a bit.
Shaenon, Jeff, you should be very proud of this moment.
Whether creating or reporting, you’ve increased the level of happiness across the multiverse! Thank you.
Awesome romance. And Tip. What more do ya want?
I dunno, it seems to be becoming almost *standard* for Narbonic 🙂
At what point in their relationship did Dr. Lee realize she wanted to jump Nick’s bones? ‘Cause if it was before she extracted his brain…not much hope for a while after that…
It had happened by this point: https://skin-horse.com/comic/the-new/
Thank you, Moe! I’ll “try real hard to be the wizard” too.
I don’t know that she had fully realized it yet, but she had already started falling for him way back here: https://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-171/
Thank you also, awgiedawgie. I must confess I like the strip preceding this callback a lot, too!
When they first met, she was masquerading in the VR as a fat old man. https://skin-horse.com/comic/wardrobe-any-more/ And she didn’t want to hang out with him then, either.
I’m not sure it’s obvious from that strip that Dr. Lee doesn’t want to hang with Nick. OTOH, Nick was pretty annoying back then.
WOOOOO!
How’d they get a Chupah set up so quickly? Where’d they get the wood for it? Was it there in yesterday’s strip too?
What does this comment accomplish?
It took a lot of chutzpah.
“Was it there in yesterday’s strip too?”
Most people would just hit the “Prev” button and look at yesterday’s strip first.
I wondered the same thing yesterday! So yes it was in the strip yesterday. Don’t listen to these other people I get asking this. Sometimes you are in the moment and also are just being part of a community and engaging in the moment! goodness
The Chupahcabra had a spare.
I love a traditional wedding.
Nick you don’t need vows you’re Jewish they are pre written for you XD “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine” all done WHOOSH
But seriously awwwww soooooo tender <3
My eyes are leaking. Dang this is such a good comic!
They didn’t have time to write vows. So they ad-libbed some lines anyhow. It’s pretty much shown that jumping of bones is up on their lists here and now.
“How’d they get a Chupah set up so quickly? ”
For heaven’s sake. If there’s hammer-space, there’s certainly Chupah-space.
Or wherever-Tip-keeps-Alice space.
Yup. And never mind how easy it can be to source two lengths of four-by-four and a length of four-by-two, it’s just a wee bit of a giveaway that the decorations co-ordinate with Tip’s outfit isn’t it?
It’s not as easy as all that when no one has any money. But mojo, on the other hand…
And you don’t think Tip would wear anything that didn’t match the decor, do you?
Well, if nothing else, Our Heroes will have this for today. It just may be enough.
If Nick can control drones, can he do flying saucers as well?
Now there’s a new twist… Unity barfs on the tanks and controls them, and Nick hacks the flying saucer. Meanwhile, Gavotte goes around stinging all the A-Sig troops.
Nick sends a virus the brings down the shields on the mothership,
then A-sig fighters can fire missles…..Jeff Goldblume….something…something
Well, we don’t *know* yet that Pavane is the enemy. The bit with disappearing Chris and Marcie might have been Mr. Green, or another party entirely.
I just love weddings!
<3 <3 <3