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2022-04-08

by shaenon on April 8, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. wazzawazzawoo
    April 8, 2022, 4:03 am | # | Reply

    The irony being, of course, that for most of the time she wanted to jump his bones, he didn’t even HAVE bones

    • JoB
      April 8, 2022, 5:36 am | # | Reply

      Hint: “NATO bone”. 😉

      [it’s a standard type of battery separator switch]

  2. DWVR
    April 8, 2022, 4:04 am | # | Reply

    How many people can say they married their creator? How many people can say they married their creation?

    • Raron
      April 8, 2022, 6:06 am | # | Reply

      Considering medieval royalty…. more then you think.

      • JSStryker
        April 8, 2022, 8:58 am | # | Reply

        Just look at Victorian era European royalty.

        • Sheik
          April 8, 2022, 11:14 am | # | Reply

          Which goes far to explain why WWI happened at all.

    • D. Walker
      April 9, 2022, 5:53 am | # | Reply

      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.

  3. Sleepy+John
    April 8, 2022, 4:07 am | # | Reply

    A decade of character development, neatly summed up in four panels.

    • David B Huber
      April 8, 2022, 5:11 am | # | Reply

      Indeed.

    • skullthetroll
      April 8, 2022, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

      Right? He was poetic and kind for her, she was crass and direct, for him.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 8, 2022, 4:08 pm | # | Reply

        Wait… which one was crass all those years, and which one was poetic?

  4. Eddurd
    April 8, 2022, 5:04 am | # | Reply

    I wish you had posted this last week. I just got married last Saturday and we could have used these vows.

    • David B Huber
      April 8, 2022, 5:11 am | # | Reply

      Mazel tov!

    • Joanna
      April 8, 2022, 5:14 am | # | Reply

      Congratulations!

    • Moe Lane
      April 8, 2022, 6:33 am | # | Reply

      Congratulations!

    • il biggo
      April 8, 2022, 7:12 am | # | Reply

      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 😀

      • Lady E
        April 8, 2022, 8:50 am | # | Reply

        Try the latter, I married my current at 49, so it’s possiblee.

        • il biggo
          April 12, 2022, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

          Oh well, I got my driving permit at 51 and I’m still not married, I’m three decades late on everything I guess.

    • tuiteyfruity
      April 8, 2022, 9:49 am | # | Reply

      Maxes Tov!!!

    • Thiteyfruity
      April 8, 2022, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      Mazel Tov (stupid autocorrect got me and I didn’t realize!!!!!!)

      • David B Huber
        April 8, 2022, 10:21 am | # | Reply

        I dunno, Thiteyfruity – maximum tov feels appropriate! 🙂

      • waynezombie
        April 8, 2022, 10:58 am | # | Reply

        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!

        • Moe Lane
          April 8, 2022, 11:28 am | # | Reply

          You’ll laugh!
          You’ll cry!
          You’ll kiss three bucks good-bye!

          • waynezombie
            April 9, 2022, 12:32 pm | #

            THANK YOU!

            So few people catch that reference. I mean, I know I’m a fossil, but it was such a fun short!

          • Colonelsam
            April 10, 2022, 11:35 am | #

            Jeez, didn’t know anyone remembered that line! I still use it to the befuddlement of those around me, what, 45 years later? 🙂

    • Tiff Hudson
      April 8, 2022, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      Congratulations, Ed!!

    • Robert Nowall
      April 8, 2022, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

      Belated congrats, from not realizing, from concentrating on my own posts. L’Chaim.

    • LuckyCheshire
      April 8, 2022, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

      Congrats!

    • Manifesta
      April 8, 2022, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

      Congratulations to you both, and may you share a lifetime of love

    • thejoemoose
      April 8, 2022, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

      [party squeaker] Congrats!

    • Robert Nowall
      April 8, 2022, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • Andy4Hire
      April 8, 2022, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

      Wonderful news, Eddurd! Congratulations and much happiness to you both!

    • Sean K
      April 8, 2022, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

      Service! Only Joy!

    • Towering Barbarian
      April 9, 2022, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      I hope the two of you have many happy years together! 🙂

  5. Joanna
    April 8, 2022, 5:13 am | # | Reply

    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.

  6. David B Huber
    April 8, 2022, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    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.

  7. Wizard
    April 8, 2022, 5:44 am | # | Reply

    Awesome romance. And Tip. What more do ya want?

  8. Nick Alcock
    April 8, 2022, 5:51 am | # | Reply

    I dunno, it seems to be becoming almost *standard* for Narbonic 🙂

  9. Robert Nowall
    April 8, 2022, 5:52 am | # | Reply

    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…

    • Moe Lane
      April 8, 2022, 6:35 am | # | Reply

      It had happened by this point: https://skin-horse.com/comic/the-new/

      • David B Huber
        April 8, 2022, 7:00 am | # | Reply

        Thank you, Moe! I’ll “try real hard to be the wizard” too.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 8, 2022, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      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/

      • David B Huber
        April 8, 2022, 10:49 am | # | Reply

        Thank you also, awgiedawgie. I must confess I like the strip preceding this callback a lot, too!

      • Robert Nowall
        April 8, 2022, 11:17 am | # | Reply

        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.

        • Candace
          April 9, 2022, 12:57 am | # | Reply

          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.

  10. thejoemoose
    April 8, 2022, 7:08 am | # | Reply

    WOOOOO!

  11. jdreyfuss
    April 8, 2022, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • jwghaller
      April 8, 2022, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      What does this comment accomplish?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      April 8, 2022, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      It took a lot of chutzpah.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 8, 2022, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      “Was it there in yesterday’s strip too?”

      Most people would just hit the “Prev” button and look at yesterday’s strip first.

    • Tuiteyfruity
      April 8, 2022, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      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

    • Tiff Hudson
      April 8, 2022, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

      The Chupahcabra had a spare.

  12. jwghaller
    April 8, 2022, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    I love a traditional wedding.

  13. Tuiteyfruity
    April 8, 2022, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    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

  14. melchar
    April 8, 2022, 10:29 am | # | Reply

    My eyes are leaking. Dang this is such a good comic!

  15. Robert Nowall
    April 8, 2022, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    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.

  16. mickeyjf
    April 8, 2022, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

    “How’d they get a Chupah set up so quickly? ”
    For heaven’s sake. If there’s hammer-space, there’s certainly Chupah-space.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 8, 2022, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      Or wherever-Tip-keeps-Alice space.

      • butting
        April 8, 2022, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

        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?

        • awgiedawgie
          April 8, 2022, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

          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?

  17. Shadowmehr
    April 8, 2022, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    Well, if nothing else, Our Heroes will have this for today. It just may be enough.

  18. Bernerlb
    April 8, 2022, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    If Nick can control drones, can he do flying saucers as well?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 8, 2022, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

      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.

    • Duane B.
      April 8, 2022, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

      Nick sends a virus the brings down the shields on the mothership,
      then A-sig fighters can fire missles…..Jeff Goldblume….something…something

    • Candace
      April 9, 2022, 1:03 am | # | Reply

      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.

  19. The Flower Cosmic
    April 8, 2022, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

    I just love weddings!

  20. John (B).
    April 9, 2022, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    <3 <3 <3

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