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...And then HE said "that's not a femtosecond initiation optical pulse, that's my WIFE!

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Enjoyin' the egghead jokes? I think I'm a few PhD's short.

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Wanna ditch?

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Let's get outta here before they start tryin' to arm-wrestle the hunter-killer droids.

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You turned down all that money? (Meh, no big deal)

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Floating in space: "Even if I am just a glorified TSA agent, I get to do it in SPACE..."

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Space Hooch Spit Take - "So, are you and the doc's kid ####in' or what?"

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We're just friends. (I assumed...)

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It's not all it's cracked up to be.... you bump into things too much... See this scar?

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Dunno if she was playin' you or what, but you coulda handled it a little better.

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Send her an e-mail or something! No sense leavin' it off on a sad note.

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No offense, buddy, but you're not my type.

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You were seriously gonna try and make a move on me when you don't even know my FIRST NAME?

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I like big guys, y'know? I want a man who can bench press me one handed.

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You can call me Abbie. And write that email!

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"...You wouldn't believe where I'm emailing you from..."

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Hannelore? Could you meet me on observation deck 3?

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Table, candlelight, nice view of Earth... and a dressed up Station!

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Do you have a DATE? Oh my gosh! Who is she? Is she nice?

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...She's VERY nice. Have a seat. Oh no, no, I wouldn't want to be a distraction.

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Enjoy your dinner! "W-wait!"

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Total Members Voted: 67

[Milesb]

Jeph's hint*:  Don't overthink things.

* Derived from stuff he's said.

Isn't that like... what the... WCDT is... for?

onthread: Didn't Tali say something about how Marten never notices that half the girls in the library flirt with him?

[themacnut]

I'm pretty sure Marten will notice if Lt. Potter makes a move on him-her drunken state will make her bold and her resulting moves about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the nuts (Ow).

However, Marten will most likely turn her down, both due to not wanting to take advantage of her drunken state and his recent experience with Padma. He won't want to start something he knows is going to end when he goes back to Earth, and he's never been the casual hookup type of guy. Of course, since he's not used to actively turning down women, he'll do it badly, and add in Potter's drunken state being likely to make her overreact, will result in dramatic hilarity ensuing.

[akronnick]

Also, in my experience, sex loses some of its appeal in the immediate aftermath of being hit in the nuts with a sledgehammer.








...unless you're into that sort of thing.

[celticgeek]

Oops!

I just deleted a  comment on the early comic, now replaced by the real comic. 

[akronnick]

And Marten gets shot down.

In Space.







None of you can say that!

[RyanW1019]

Comic comic comic.

You know, I type /facepalm rather a lot, as it happens. This being the Internet and all. But this time it wasn't a Picard head-in-hand mental facepalm. I literally heard an audible *SMACK* as hand met forehead. Inside my mind.

Sounded a bit like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXro96CtWWg

[TheEvilDog]

None of you can say that!

Neither can you.

None of us can! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!





Wait.......




I've made myself sad

[iduguphergrave]

Smart, Marty; make eyes at the Lt. right after you told the story of what a dick you were to your previous ladyfriend. Way to go. Can't imagine why she didn't bite 

[celticgeek]

Marten's pretty suave that way.

[Is it cold in here?]

But we've established what her first name is!

[calmcalamity]

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I just wanted to check and see if anyone else noticed the comic about station trying to date Hanners before it was replaced with the shoot down comic? 

[Method of Madness]

But we've established what her first name is!

I thought we've just established that Marten doesn't know it. :confused:

[celticgeek]

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I just wanted to check and see if anyone else noticed the comic about station trying to date Hanners before it was replaced with the shoot down comic? 

Yes, I noticed, made a comment, and then deleted the comment. 

[squab]

Smart, Marty; make eyes at the Lt. right after you told the story of what a dick you were to your previous ladyfriend. Way to go. Can't imagine why she didn't bite 

To be fair, the previous ladyfriend didn't handle it perfectly.

ARGBLAUGBLARG I WANT TO KNOW SEE THIS MISSING COMIC THAT HAS ELUDED ME

[mustang6172]

I'm sorry if this was raised, but how does Space Hooch stay at the bottom of the bottle even in a zero-gravity environment?

[specter177]

I'm sorry if this was raised, but how does Space Hooch stay at the bottom of the bottle even in a zero-gravity environment?

Because it's SPACE HOOCH. It's been specially designed for free-fall environments.

[GroovyKinda]

Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. When Floyd sucks on the liquid lunch (not as fun as that sounds) on the Orion on the way to the Moon, it goes back down the tube.

It's considered one of the few mistakes in the movie.

[cesariojpn]

Last panel could've ended with a Harry Potter Joke.

[calmcalamity]

Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. When Floyd sucks on the liquid lunch (not as fun as that sounds) on the Orion on the way to the Moon, it goes back down the tube.

It's considered one of the few mistakes in the movie.

Or Was It?

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Tonight's strip sure makes it seem like Jeph has been reading the forums this week.  Everyone speculating Potter would got after Marten?  The reverse happens.  She shoots down the idea,  and he sort of seems like was interested in her.  Then there's the several "Geez, what is her first name?" type comments in the posts.  So the strip reveals that Marten doesn't know her first name either, yet doesn't reveal it.

[Kugai]

Darn.

Sometimes Marten just can't seem to catch a break



But at least he's consistent.     

[Is it cold in here?]

But we've established what her first name is!

I thought we've just established that Marten doesn't know it. :confused:

Her first name is Lieutenant, of course!

So there was a comic I missed? If I beg convincingly enough, can anyone share a screenshot?

[VonKleist]

Foolish Lieutenant Potter! That is the BEST time to make a move on someone!

Yup, seriously -.-

[pwhodges]

Tonight's strip sure makes it seem like Jeph has been reading the forums this week.  Everyone speculating Potter would go after Marten?  The reverse happens.

All that shows is that much speculation is wrong.  Especially the kind of speculation that is always the same regardless of circumstances.

[Soulsynger]

AWKWARD ZONE INITIATED!

... I mean come on.

Foolish Lieutenant Potter! That is the BEST time to make a move on someone!

Yup, right after you tell that (relative) stranger all about your last complicated-feelings "fling". Hey, some gals might be turned on by trainwrecks. 

[calmcalamity]

Her first name is Lieutenant, of course!

So there was a comic I missed? If I beg convincingly enough, can anyone share a screenshot?

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Didn't think to get a screen shot, but the gist was Station invites Hannelore to an observation deck while she's waiting outside Marigold's room with Francis. When she get's to the room it's darkened with a small table with settings for two by candlelight, with a good view Earth. When Hannelore inquires Station informs her that he's planning on having a romantic evening with a beautiful girl, or something like that, I only got 1 or 2 good read throughs. Point is awkward, sadly humorous hijinks ensue because Station's clearly hitting on his best friend, who happens to be an entirely different lifeform.

[sluthy]

I missed that, maybe Jeph posted tomorrow's strip by mistake? Spoiler alert maybe?

[pwhodges]

Great!  Detailed spoiler but nothing available to discuss... 

Ho hum.  I've added spoiler tags to protect the innocence of later visitors.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

Super classy, Marty. Super classy.

The Space Arc is quickly becoming the No One Gets Laid at Zero Gravity Parties arc. And yet I still love it.

Also on the spoiler, oh Station no. Oh God the incoming AI heartbreak.

[Soulsynger]

Since when has this thread been a Lamborghini-Gallardo factory?? °O
(You kno... cuz' a de thpoilers.)

... breakfast break!

And someone should open a Lt. Potter First Name Guessing Thread.

[calmcalamity]

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P.S. These are the levels of uncomfortableness as they hit me while reading the early comic accident.
1. (Hit as I was half way through) He's of an entirely different format, i.e. different lifeform
2. (Hit just as I was finished reading) They talk about Hanners naming Station at a young age. This would suggest that he was fully cognitive when she was still a child.
3. (Hit as I was beginning to write the summary for Is it cold in here?) They've indicated that Station was the closest thing Hanners had to a friend growing up, i.e. Best. This may somewhat explain Stations feelings.
4. (Hit as I was on the toilet a few minutes ago thinking about it some more and freaked me the fuck out) John Ellicott-Catham created Station, some would infer this could be considered a parental relationship, depending on who you talk to.

Four levels of uncomfortable, going from awkward to semi-creepy awkward to less creepy but more awkward to just creepy and very awkward.

[TinPenguin]

Guys, SPOILER TAGS

Well, there ya go, Marten [almost] trying to initiate something, AND all this speculation being spectacularly blown out of the water. Good morning!

[Mordhaus]

I wonder if he isn't her type or isn't her preference?

[Skaltura]

Well played Jacques, well played.

[VonKleist]

Also

obviously the correct response would have been "You mean your first name isn't Lieutenant!?!"


_{whoa, I spelled Lieutenant correctly on the first try. Not bad brain, not bad at all.}

[stringcheese]

Ummm, what's wrong with Potter's legs in Panel 1???

[Soulsynger]

Ummm, what's wrong with Potter's legs in Panel 1???

Thats LIEUTENANT Potter to you!

And its still free fall (zero-g), they're just landing slowly.

[greywolfe]

Aww Marty, shot down like a fat pigeon during hunting season.

It hurts when they are drunk, yet you STILL aren't their type!

[Akima]

Ummm, what's wrong with Potter's legs in Panel 1???

I've been wondering since yesterday how hard or easy it would be to sit cross-legged in a weightless environment. I've tried various positions and, and I can'd decide how much my weight, and the floor, keep my legs in place. Full lotus is probably the tidiest, but Lt. Potter doesn't come close to that.

Also, in my experience, sex loses some of its appeal in the immediate aftermath of being hit in the nuts with a sledgehammer.

Does that happen to you a lot?

[akronnick]

Does that happen to you a lot?

Ummm... no comment.

[Throg]

Ummm, what's wrong with Potter's legs in Panel 1???

Well, she's in zero-g, so she can comfortably balance with one foot resting on the floor in a posture that would be physically impossible in normal G. And while one leg is crossed comfortably over the other, her jumpsuit is also hitched to the side over that, which looks like an impossibly flexible third leg.

Yeah. I went cross-eyed a bit trying to figure out her, um, figure.  Not like that. 

[Black Sword]

Well, there goes that. That was so smoothly and perfectly targeted, I almost wonder if Jeph has been reading the forums.

Can only suppose the space arc is near ending. By next Friday, we'll hopefully be out of it.

[pwhodges]

This forum contains such a tiny proportion of Jeph's fans that there is simply no reason for him to take their ideas into account.

[jmucchiello]

I'm flustered. I see nothing in the art or dialog that indicates he was hitting on her. His statement of moving on is barely even flirty. In my mind, this is Marten, he might apologize for "hitting on her" even if he wasn't just because he accepts her perception of what happened over his.

And the proper response to "you were going to hit on me without knowing my first name" is "What IS your first name?"

[pwhodges]

I agree that he is only giving the slightest indication, by a minuscule lean, and the words he said - but I didn't interpret it that way until Lt Potter did; and even then, if Marten's "Sorry!" had been "Sorry?" indicating that he didn't even realise he'd done it, that would have worked pretty much as well with the drawing as it is.

[Kugai]

I wonder if he isn't her type or isn't her preference?

We didn't ask, and, so far, she hasn't told.

[kenrwill]

Booo!! I wanted Lt.Porter to be part of the regular comic! She be hawts!

[ink slinger]

Smooth or not, at least Marten finally made the first move. I don't think he's ever done that before (but, then, I don't have the encyclopedic memory that some of you do WRT the comic).

Sure, he was shutdown, but he made a move!

[TinPenguin]

If you can call that a move, then my baby cousin's footsteps must be long jumps.

[Earin]

If you can call that a move, then my baby cousin's footsteps must be long jumps.

In Space Romance, a little inertia takes you a long way.