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Eric: Also? Did you notice Marcy didn't hear the popping and crackling? They are in the *zone!*
(From PvP. Click on the thumbnail for full sized Bzortch!)
This is a few days after we discovered that "Francis" was actually the android duplicate he made of himself. And that the android has been making out with Marcy. I've been busy doing the Boston thing and the like. Weds is crashing up at my place for a few days, which is seriously cool.
Anyway. We don't yet know if this is some plan of Francis's, or if Francis has been abducted, or if his body is cooling in some ditch somewhere, or if he's adopted a superhero identity and is now striking from the darkness. We just don't know.
That's not what I'm here to mention.
I'm here to mention that the Francis android was built out of the remains of the robot girlfriend Francis had built some time ago.
Which means his ex-girlfriend and his current girlfriend have been making out, passionately.
*pause*
I am such a guy.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at June 16, 2005 10:01 PM
Comments
Comment from: kirabug posted at June 16, 2005 10:20 PM
Dude, you are *such* a guy.
On the other hand, I'm sure it's doing great things for Marcy's self-esteem, she probably just thinks she fried his brain.
After all, it's so much fun.
Comment from: kirabug posted at June 16, 2005 10:23 PM
[...after quickly catching up on the archives, how'd I miss a day??]
Well, it was doing great things for her self-esteem, anyway...
Comment from: quiller posted at June 16, 2005 10:52 PM
I would normally assume that the Sunday comic was in fact Francis. Unless the robot really has Francis's speech patterns down and is engineered with flowery phrases.
I'd have to wonder about Francis' ego though, having been outkissed by a robot.
Comment from: S. Ferrari posted at June 17, 2005 12:32 AM
Eric, have I ever told you? You're my hero...You're everything I wished I could be :-).
Seriously, I read this and just busted a gut laughing. I never would have made the connection if you hadn't mentioned. Seriously funny dude.
Course now my girlfriend is disturbed by me, but ah wel...;-)
Comment from: Archon Divinus posted at June 17, 2005 12:38 AM
Wait, I thought Francis dismantled robot Francis to make his robot girlfriend? It has been a long time since i read the archives though, and my memory isn't great. [shrugs]
Comment from: Prodigal posted at June 17, 2005 1:27 AM
The Francis Ottobot was waiting in line for Episode 3 since about when Episode 2 came out.
(Speaking of that nickname, I now can't help but picture Max Powers standing over Cole with a laser pistol, saying "It's over, Prime." But maybe that's just me.)
Comment from: JackSlack posted at June 17, 2005 4:36 AM
Actually, that was what lead me to the theory that the robot girlfriend was actually jealous of Marcy, and that this was part of her plan to break the two of them up, which had now hideously backfired.
Of course, her style was more in the murderous rampage mode, so maybe not.
Comment from: Brendan posted at June 17, 2005 9:26 AM
I can't be the only guy on the planet who, seeing his girlfriend kissing his ex, would first think something more along the lines of "oh, $@&#!"
Comment from: alienpriest posted at June 17, 2005 11:48 AM
Well, while sometimes sexy, it is not uncommon for a girl to enjoy the company of a battery operated boyfriend.
Comment from: J.(Channing)Wells posted at June 17, 2005 1:26 PM
*fwEEEP!*
Okay, that does it! Everybody out of the pool!
Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 17, 2005 2:29 PM
Nah; it's all about boyfriends that plug into the wall. (I mean, you can get cord-rechargable boyfriends which work fairly well at worst, but they lose power after about five minutes and perform disappointingly for the remaining half hour or so that you can wring out of them. Hitachi Magic Boyfriend all the way.)
Comment from: J.(Channing)Wells posted at June 17, 2005 3:31 PM
Well, at least the performance of the cord-rechargable models sounds remotely comparable.
The plugin kind, though...
Man. We're up against the machines here, and we're losing. It's like John Henry all over again.
...and now, of course, I've got the line "John Henry was a steel-drivin' man" running through my head over and over again, only now, it's become SO SO WRONG.
(I can't believe I'm doing this...)
Comment from: Sean Duggan posted at June 17, 2005 3:34 PM
*blink* Somehow, I missed the Francis-was-replaced-by-android strip, although it makes Brent's comment in a later strip make much more sense. I've never been in the situation of girlfriend and ex kissing, but I was witness to the results of the two ex-girlfriends and one romantic interest when they got together for the erotic photo shoot. Precious memories that keep me warm on cold nights...
Comment from: PatMan posted at June 17, 2005 7:36 PM
The strip where Francis swapped places with the robot was apparently this one:
http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20050519
Check out the next strip, where he drops a clue.
Comment from: Nich posted at June 17, 2005 9:00 PM
Is it me, or has this storyline been oddly dark for PvP? The laughs seem a little uncomfortable against stuff like Francis having been sitting out there all alone for a month, and that panel of Marcy sobbing into Jade's arms. Even the amount of black in 16th's strip (the one with Skull) made it as eerie as it was amusing, the two of them sitting together with pursed lips in the darkness, staring off into space.
Weird.
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