In this universe Sergio is the only Skin Horse-adjacent male to be on away missions, since Tip is a girl and Nick never joined. It does make some sort of sense that Artie would fall for the only male in the party to assist in the “If I Ran the Zoo” storyline.
(For that matter, since Skin Horse never interfered with Project Whirligig, Dr. Lee would have had a lot less facetime with Skin Horse and might not have met Artie through them.)
Artie has always been like this. He’s “good” through a mixture of rebellion against Helen, and fetishising being “the good one”. The end result isn’t true goodness, but self-righteousness.
Come on, Sergio, listen to his voice.
He’s obviously Ted Koppel.
Could be worse, Artie could sound like Howard Cossell.
Well, Frank Cashen sounded like Howard Cosell, and he seemed to get by…
I see Artie has solved the problem of changing form without ending up nekkid … avoiding yet another area of awkwardness.
Dang it! There goes the eye candy!
Still hasn’t cured his hiccups, though…
Heh. Forgot about that.
Sergio will remember eventually. Gradeschool with Mell probably resulted in a lot of trauma-locked memories.
As was pointed out yesterday, that was only a one-day substitute teacher gig. I keep forgetting that part.
Given that that accurately describes pretty much every teacher he had, I’m not sure it’d make all that much different
Huh. I don’t seem to remember that happening, myself, and I only read Lil’ Mell a few months ago. I can’t honestly blame Sergio for forgetting.
Artie is their teacher the first day, which is why he is so confident that he can handle her.
http://www.shaenon.com/lilmell/?p=10
We don’t know how long Artie’s hold on was and he was off screen. He might have just scampered behind a curtain to quickly dress once changed.
I don’t see a phone booth.
“Kangaroo Rat??”
ANYone can clearly see he’s actually a Pygmy Capybara.
Capybaras don’t have long tails, though, and a much stockier physique.
To me, Shaenon’s gerbils always looked like jerboa.
maby somewhere in the ark that came after “my brother sam is dead” he met up with him
sorry I meant “if I ran a zoo”
Artie, I’m disappointed. You didn’t do the math for this encounter?
…is it wrong that I’m flashing back to the Justice League episode where Luthor and Flash were bodyswapped?
“And now I can learn the Flash’s secret identity!” *Faces mirror, pulls off mask* “…” “I have no idea who this guy is.”
Yeah, I liked that moment. Wouldn’t be a problem when unmasking Batman.
Sure, we know who he is in the regular universe—he’s Tip Wilkin’s inhumanly hot male lover. (And sometimes Doctor Lee’s lover, too.)
In this universe Sergio is the only Skin Horse-adjacent male to be on away missions, since Tip is a girl and Nick never joined. It does make some sort of sense that Artie would fall for the only male in the party to assist in the “If I Ran the Zoo” storyline.
(For that matter, since Skin Horse never interfered with Project Whirligig, Dr. Lee would have had a lot less facetime with Skin Horse and might not have met Artie through them.)
“Scorecards! Get yer scorecards! Can’t tell the players without yer scorecards!”
I’m waiting for a fan fiction timeline, ala “Pulp Fiction”, so I can figure out what happened when.
Oh, Artie…..
Sergio, if you live through this and *don’t* go looking up your continuum’s Artie, then you’re a damn fool.
I don’t know…I think Sergio has fallen for Boob-Tip. There may not be any coming back from that.
I’m still reeling from the revelation that Artie settled down long enough to be someone’s boyfriend.
I’m reeling from the revelation that Mr. Proletariat would be both this selfish and this, well, evil.
Artie has always been like this. He’s “good” through a mixture of rebellion against Helen, and fetishising being “the good one”. The end result isn’t true goodness, but self-righteousness.
mad science, at its maddest and most sciency, remains!
Wait, is he a gerbil? Or is that simply what he chooses to identify as (even if he is actually a pygmy tree-kangaroo)?
Have you read Narbonic? He is most definitely actually a gerbil.
“Also, I was your substitute teacher once.”
“…Which makes this pretty awkward, in retrospect.”