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2021-01-25

by shaenon on January 25, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. OneUniverse
    January 25, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    That zap couldn’t happen to a more deserving deviate.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    January 25, 2021, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Even without that I don’t think a sentient AI should be saying that to a skilled hacker! ^_^

  3. Sir William
    January 25, 2021, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Oh no

  4. Urlance Woolsbane
    January 25, 2021, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    I guess Pavane finally came for him

  5. doctorobscure
    January 25, 2021, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow…or is it “SHOULDN’T happen”?

    • awgiedawgie
      January 25, 2021, 8:03 am | # | Reply

      More like wouldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow.

  6. David B Huber
    January 25, 2021, 4:41 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Baron will be a better person when he wakes up?

    Lest we forget, Nick’s early interactions with Dr. Lee gave little reason to expect his current level of maturity.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 25, 2021, 8:22 am | # | Reply

      That was over 12 years ago. Nick’s in his 30s now. I would definitely expect some personal growth in that amount of time.

      On the other hand, I don’t think Baron is capable of maturing. He’s in his 60s, but he’s mentally stuck as an angsty horny teenager.

      • kiralamouse
        January 25, 2021, 9:13 am | # | Reply

        If you think the comic is unfolding in real time, we have very different interpretations of how this is going… though now that I think about it, I can’t tell offhand whether one of those interpretations is better supported by the text or not.

        • dragonbagon
          January 25, 2021, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

          Most indications are actually that comic time is roughly following real life time. The one I can think of off the top of my head is this comic in Looking Glass Land ( http://skin-horse.com/comic/this-thing/ ) referring to the events of All The Lovely Ladies as having been 5 years ago, which was the same as the real world time gap.

      • Dewy
        January 25, 2021, 10:42 am | # | Reply

        Comic time is hard to pin down when there are no dates mentioned. I only remember one large time jump just after Skin Horse was disbanded. My own internal clock feels that only about 5 years have passed since the comic started. I am probably very wrong but that’s what my head says. Stupid head.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 25, 2021, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        Just how much time *has* passed in this comic?

    • Frank
      January 25, 2021, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      “geez, I’m fried, let’s get outta here and find some shade!”

  7. Sleepy John
    January 25, 2021, 4:50 am | # | Reply

    Well, I guess the implant does work.

  8. Robert Nowall
    January 25, 2021, 6:09 am | # | Reply

    One would hope Baron M. didn’t get off on being zapped…he’ll want more.

  9. VickiC
    January 25, 2021, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    Oh Nick, violence isn’t the answer! All you had to do was say “You’re just jealous ‘cos you can’t get any.”

    • awgiedawgie
      January 25, 2021, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      I’m 50 years old, and I’ve never struck another person in anger. But if someone ever called my girlfriend a skank, my streak of non-violence would end. I would flatten the little bastard.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 25, 2021, 9:42 am | # | Reply

        Not since I was about thirteen or fourteen—but there have been plenty of times when I would have liked to.

        I’ve *been* struck in anger many times since then.

  10. Steve Jackson
    January 25, 2021, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    Nick didn’t lift a hand, and clearly had no idea that he could knock Baron around with the power of a YOU SAID WHAT? thought.

  11. Xerxes Aragon
    January 25, 2021, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

    Yay!

  12. Robert Nowall
    January 25, 2021, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

    Well, back at Skin-Horse HQ, walking over the hills,
    Nick and Miss Virginia making out for the thrills.
    They screwed Nick’s lightning till the Annex shook,
    And then they’d blow the circuits, they would really cook.
    Mighty, mighty ‘gasm, Nick and Ginny’s spasm,
    Whshhoooh…Nick’s lightning.

    Well, the humans, new men, Anasigma too
    Searching for the copter where they went to screw.
    They were looking just to rook him,
    Nick and Ginny kept a-cooking
    Whshhhoooh…Nick’s lightning.

    Well, a unicorn-like robot couldn’t stop his tease.
    He couldn’t stop a putting out some slimy sleaze.
    So Nick got mad and he powered round,
    And the unicorn was smoking as he hit the ground.
    Mighty-mighty shocking, end to all the mocking,
    Whshhooh…Nick’s lightning.

    Well, the humans, new men, Anasigma too
    Searching for the copter where they went to screw.
    They were looking just to rook him,
    Nick and Ginny kept a-cooking
    Whshhhoooh…Nick’s lightning.

    —from “White Lightning,” written by J. P. Richardson, sung by George Jones.

  13. Shadowmehr
    January 25, 2021, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    Don’t worry, Nick. You just have him what he’s been begging for since just about anyone met him.

  14. Seph
    January 25, 2021, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

    So, malfunction, or ‘extra functionality’ added by Dres Lee and Jones when they were making Nick’s cloned body?

    • D. Walker
      January 25, 2021, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Malfunction -of- an extra functionality added when they rebuilt him.

      Dr. Lee put a transmitter in his brain that allows him to control his helicopter body remotely. It is also now beginning to do other things, unintentionally.

  15. Shaenon
    January 25, 2021, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

    By the way, all credit goes to Pancha, our intrepid colorist, for the Jedi lightning effects.

    • Rockphed
      January 26, 2021, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

      Hence why you were singing her praises on Sunday?

  16. darkshallfall
    January 26, 2021, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

    Anyone got Marshmallows to roast over Baron’s flaming body?

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