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2019-02-14

by shaenon on February 14, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. palenoue
    February 14, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    I’ll bring the camera!

  2. Moe Lane
    February 14, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    So, NICK is Number 1?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 14, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      He had to scavenge clothing. Kind of like how Chris is wearing a DJS shirt now (although I was kind of surprised they didn’t have any D of I stuff lying around).

      • Knuckles
        February 9, 2022, 10:51 am | # | Reply

        Thank goodness Annex One had a well-stocked gift shop.

    • Seph
      February 14, 2019, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, it’s the Annexe 1 logo, hence why Ira was wearing one. You can see it on the side of the (building)x giant robot, too.

    • D. Walker
      February 14, 2019, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      Hardly! He’s not even half the man Will Riker is! He’s not even half the man a -shaved- Riker is!

    • shikomekidomi
      February 14, 2019, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

      The only appropriate answer to questions about who is number one is “You are number six.”

      • dornbeast
        February 15, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

        I am not an number! I am a free man!

        • Candace
          February 15, 2019, 1:00 am | # | Reply

          Thumbs up!

  3. Otakubouzu
    February 14, 2019, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or perhaps there is some connection with the Tikis Gavotte takes out in previous strip?

    • Robert Nowall
      February 14, 2019, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      It’s just you, but perhaps there is.

    • pdp15
      February 14, 2019, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      Not just you, I had the same thought.

    • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
      February 14, 2019, 7:15 am | # | Reply

      i think those conical structures are apiaries, so yes. that castle looks like Alien Bee HQ.

      • Rimwolf
        February 14, 2019, 10:17 am | # | Reply

        So Unity wants to make a Bee movie?

        • Dr. Steve
          February 14, 2019, 10:35 am | # | Reply

          Rimshot for Rimwolf!

      • D. Walker
        February 14, 2019, 9:52 pm | # | Reply

        I was interpreting it as vaguely Southeast Asian temple architecture, along the lines of Angkor Wat.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 14, 2019, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

      They may act as keys for the Bee Temple dungeon, and Our Heroes will have to return for a cutscene with Gavotte to gain them in order to advance the game . . . , er, the story. Yeah, the story.

      I gotta cut down on Legend of Zelda.

  4. Barbara K
    February 14, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Nick liking things is rather unsettling…

    • awgiedawgie
      February 14, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart seems to agree with you.

    • waynezombie
      February 14, 2019, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      Quick! Get Roger Corman on the line!

      • awgiedawgie
        February 14, 2019, 11:05 am | # | Reply

        He’s probably a zombie somewhere… which of course he would find very fitting.

  5. Robert Nowall
    February 14, 2019, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    What’s wrong with Sweetheart’s memory?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 14, 2019, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      Her memory’s fine. And she can’t remember Nick ever saying something is beautiful. Or saying much of anything without one or two swears mixed in. Last time he was in a forest with her, he was massacring trees and loving it.

      His comment in the third panel is more like what she’s used to.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 14, 2019, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Also, if it makes Nick want to holy shit what the hell, does that mean that his meconium moment is upon him?

    • LogicMouse
      February 14, 2019, 2:32 am | # | Reply

      Thanks so much for causing me to look up the word meconium, Robert. That’s a direction I really didn’t need my brain going tonight. 😉

      • Robert Nowall
        February 14, 2019, 8:10 am | # | Reply

        Shaenon put it out there a couple of weeks ago, so don’t blame me!

        • tyersome
          February 14, 2019, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t think that could possibly be true as I’m pretty sure Shaenon isn’t a newborn …

          • s854
            February 15, 2019, 1:04 am | #

            tyersome: You mean it isn’t something you keep as a memento?

  7. Robert Nowall
    February 14, 2019, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    And, for what it’s worth, from the size of the trees, I’d say the area has been logged and those are second-growth. Not unspoiled wilderness, but new wilderness instead.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 14, 2019, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Even in unspoiled wilderness, old trees die and young ones take their place. Plus wildfires. Nature follows a cycle of death and rebirth with or without man’s interference.

      • Bruce A Munro
        February 14, 2019, 3:28 am | # | Reply

        It’s usually more of a mess when man [1] gets involved, though. Big trees often survive normal wildfires, less so the monsters our shitty forestry practice tends to lead to.

        [1] Well, modern man, anyway. Some American Indians were pretty skilled at getting the forest just the way they wanted it to maximize game using controlled burns.

        • Khno
          February 14, 2019, 5:15 am | # | Reply

          Uh… I live in a country where many forests where planted by 16th finance/war ministers wanting to be able to build ships. And they are only messier than this in the sens it looks more wild even.
          Also modern foster care means to let many things rotting on the forest soil.

        • Manifesta
          February 14, 2019, 5:47 am | # | Reply

          Bruce, I’m writing a book on exactly this topic—indigenous fire regimes. Is this your area of expertise?

          • Bruce A Munro
            February 14, 2019, 10:47 pm | #

            No, just remembering what I read in a book about reconstructing the landscape of early New England. It’s really quite fascinating how much of pre-Columbian America was not a “wilderness”, but a land shaped by human activity.

    • smurfton
      February 14, 2019, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      I did some research. The Olympic National Forest (1897), and Olympic National Park (1938) were both created to protect the area from increasing logging. There are still some old growth trees in the forest, but not as many as it would have had.

  8. Bruce A Munro
    February 14, 2019, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if some of the Whimsy Corp robots decided to break away and start their own theme park. (With beer! And robo-hookers!)

    • Moe Lane
      February 14, 2019, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      God help us all if the Mouse ever decides to really lean into exploiting that particular revenue source.

      • Leslie
        February 14, 2019, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

        Gonna happen. Self-driving nicely-padded Aero-stars, darkened windows etc, one or two professional
        sex workers….Let the good times roll.(or whatever)

        In THIS) c(o)untry there are few opportunities for women to get rich….self-driving cars will be employed, a woman or a couple of them can get a car financed, and the rest may become history.

  9. bryceanderston
    February 14, 2019, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    Huh. How much of the outside world *has* Nick seen? He’s spent the last (er…) twelve years and change as a helicopter, and before that he stayed inside so much he literally didn’t notice his brains being sclooped and put in a wifi-enabled fish tank, so I guess this really is his first time seeing a forest as a place that actually exists.

    • bryceanderston
      February 14, 2019, 4:04 am | # | Reply

      Double huh. Rereading Nick’s introductory sequence… he’s changed a lot hasn’t he?

      • s854
        February 14, 2019, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

        bryceanderston: Still changing, I think. He hasn’t told Virginia how he feels about her yet.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      February 14, 2019, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      Interesting that this real place he’s so impressed with is just a hologram. Or a perception filter. Or a cloaking device of some kind.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 14, 2019, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      As a helicopter, he’s seen more of the world than most people ever see. And he knew it all actually existed. This is just the first time seeing it from ground level through human eyes.

  10. bergerjacques
    February 14, 2019, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    Nice gear change, Nick.

  11. theysabet
    February 14, 2019, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    Well HELLO, place-where-Gavotte’s-tikis-originated-from. Are there bees?

    • Dr. Steve
      February 14, 2019, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      Don’t ask! Oh… too late… here they come! The warrior bees will take you to see the Queen.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 14, 2019, 10:51 am | # | Reply

        Oh, Tip is just going to love it here!

        • Shadowmehr
          February 14, 2019, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

          Wrong kind of Queen. He’ll actually be terrified and doubling up on epi-pens just in case.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 15, 2019, 2:59 am | #

            I was being facetious. I know how Tip feels about bees.

  12. =Tamar
    February 14, 2019, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

    Who’s controlling Violet Bee now?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 14, 2019, 6:27 pm | # | Reply

      Last we saw, that body was under the control of – and therefore, for all intents and purposes, belongs to – Bubbles the water cooler, aka Captain Olympia Waters. With the exception of the brief time when she loaned it to Sweetheart to infiltrate The Institute, Bubbles has been in that body ever since Nick decided he didn’t want to use it any more.

  13. Theitzal
    February 14, 2019, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

    I wanna see Unity in the next mortal combat

  14. Seph
    February 14, 2019, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    Shouldn’t Nick be wearing the jumper with the heart patch, being the Tin Man and all?

    • Candace
      February 15, 2019, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      No, because he hasn’t found his heart yet. (Or, at least, he hasn’t really acknowledged it.)

  15. Hypercomplex
    May 10, 2021, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    Having been to Olympic National park, I can say that Nick’s reaction is entirely justified.

  16. Hypercomplex
    May 10, 2021, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

    The place is so beautiful it’s almost unreal…

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