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I'm gonna guess the one that can fly is Elliot, although I'm not ruling out it being Nanase, carrying Ellen.... Great job with the expressions on their faces!

I love Dan's commentary about whether to leave out the swearing or not. I suspect Rhoda will be even less likely to get detention for her outburst than angry-Diane or angry-Susan would be. She looks scary! I do hope it's only temporary....although Rhoda going off on a long furious rant is appealing too....like watching a kitten being fierce!

Me too! It's well worth making this a Sunday-newspaper-comic sized NP.

Dan seems to favor mind-altering effects which can be counteracted at will. I suspect Susan would be more reluctant to drink it if she were stuck with the effects until it wore off, than she would be if she could snap out of it if she had need to.

I make a distinction between conversational speech, such as dialog, and more formal speech meant to convey information; my writing usually reflects that distinction. That said, my language tends to be a bit more formal in either one than most folks. Eh, who cares? As long as it doesn't bug anyone too much, it's just what feels right, y'know?

I suspect she will happily jump on board this 'ship. Yeah, I'm kinda hoping the next panel is the girls breaking apart as they realize the whole cafeteria is applauding....

Anyone else read the actual book Jurassic Park, instead of just watch the movie? The company that made the park raised money by showing off a little elephant the size of a cat. Or, of course, there's the minmoths in Girl Genius. If you prefer real life, there's the dwarf mammoth... I love it when a writer comes up with a clever variation on this sort of thing. What I'm tired of is writers who think they're being clever, but are really just repeating the same old, tired cliches of SF. Someone already brought up the original The Terminator as an example of this type of story being well-done. River Song's timeline might be considered anothe good example -- at least, the consistency with the first episode we saw her (spoilers omitted because people might be watching the series on Prime or DVD), which was maintained during the rest of her appearances. Exactly. Some people insist on referring to some sort of "original timeline" which was then altered by the time traveller, but there never was an alternate timeline with a proper stable time loop A stable time loop doesn't mean there's no free will. Kyle Reece chose to make a one-way trip to rescue Sarah Connor. Sarah chose to take his hand and come with him. The Doctor chose to answer River's distress call, and River chose to carry out her actions at the end of that first encounter. Their actions are no more predestined as far as their choices go than what you did last week was. They have free will, the time loop just shows some of the effects of the choices made before their causes. People still have to take the actions, to make the choices involved.

Wow, even your car thieves are nice guys, giving the kids a lift home and making sure a neighbor was there to look after them! I do believe that sort of thing could happen here, too, but the news media seems to prefer running the sort of story where the thief abandons the car with the kids still inside of it (see heat death discusdions), or makes them get out by the side of the road wherever they happened to be when he realized they were there, or somesuch. Statistics say we are much safer and less likely to be the victims of crime, violent or otherwise, than previous generations, but because the media tells us everything about every dramatic crime in the country, our perception is that we're all in more danger than they felt that they were.

Yeah, another cause of death I hear about all too often is forgetting the baby is in their car seat, usually due to some break in routine combined with the baby sleeping quietly, and leaving then in the car which then overheats in the sun. It's not generally neglectful or uncaring parents this happens to, quite the opposite. Our brains apparently have a regrettable tendency to check off items on our mental to do list based on what we usually do, instead of what's happening on a non-routine day. Sadly there are a lot of important lessons to be learned from the misfortune of others. I've always made sure to keep the back door into the garage locked ever since hearing about how Steve Wynn's daughter was kidnapped by men who got in by triggering her garage door to open, and then walking right into her home through the unlocked back door that connected the garage to the house.

Downtown Chicago has been putting in a whole bunch of new bike lanes, including a number that are separated from the automobiles by space and/or barriers. There are also a number of long roads into the rest of the city that have a bike lane, although those usually have parked cars closest to the curb, then the bike lane, and then the moving traffic, meaning parked cars can and often do open their doors without checking their rear view mirror first and end up swinging their door directly into the path of a cyclist. Some of the newer bike lanes are wide enough to stay out of the way of most doors. There's also the Divvy bike-share program, where you can check out a bike from one of a number of stations around Chicago, ride it for up to half an hour, and then return it to a station near your destination. They have a few vans whose job is to collect bikes from a station that's got too many bikes and not enough places to park new ones, and move them to a station that's running out of bikes. My health insurance plan offered a discounted rate for a membership, so I got an access key a couple of years ago and have used the bikes to do stuff like park at a location that's free to park, and then ride the bike into an area that costs big bucks to park. I don't go into the city often enough to really take advantage of it, but I can see how great it would be for someone who lives and works there! I've seen video of places, mostly Scandinavian or nearby to them, where there are many more bikes on the streets than there are cars, and the walls of buildings have a solid line of parked bikes along them with a small gap for doorways. People had canvas trailers behind their bikes for carrying their shopping and such. Here, you'll occasionally see such trailers used to carry small children or pets, but I don't think people would trust for their stuff to still be there if they parked their bike and trailer and left it for any length of time. My own bike has a nice big basket in front of the handlebars, something I could put my backpack full of books into when biking to classes without having to unpack it into the small side baskets I see these days to either side of the back wheel, or having to wear the backpack while biking, which is hot and hard on the back. I haven't seen big front baskets for sale anywhere for ages now, no idea why they fell out of fashion....

More specifically, two mirrors that meet at a 90° angle. Stand in the middle of that angle (the 45° point) and you get a reversed mirror image. I want one of these! :-)

I love that he's finally got Sarah's cup size as rather small, even if it is on Nanase's chest! Based on how she acts and feels about them, and how variable they seem to have been in-comic, I've always pictured Sarah as being an A-cup, maybe as much as a B-cup -- enough to make a bump but not really enough to have much sag to them, even without a bra. I also like the effect the change in size has on their clothes. Not only is Sarah's shirt strained to bursting, but Nanase's is sagging, hanging over her belt in a nicely realistic way. Even her sleeves reflect the sudden looseness. It's one of those details that really make the picture work! Thinking about how undersized shirts usually fit, there probably shouldn't be so much slack at the bottom of Sarah's shirt to the sides; her new breast size/shape is wider, not just bigger right in front, so the sides would be stretched forward and outward. Now I'm curious what other things that scale can rebalance....

Is it just me, or is Lavender's tail positioned rather....suggestively? Okay, now I'm picturing that the final outfit was underneath his regular clothes all along, and his pants slid off to reveal the skirt....a very un-Edward thing to happen given his apparent attitude about Tedd transforming, but I suppose that could be a result of his own upbringing making him extremely embarassed and ashamed about his own secret cross-dressing. In that case, maybe Lavender is helping him to accept himself, and thus accept Tedd more too! (Hmmm...hmm....nope, not a new head-canon, but an interesting idea nonetheless)

I'd kind of like for each of her to get an OMG realization -- I hate when the child-self/mirror-self/alter-ego does nothing but tell the regular-self stuff and look smug!

I think it's a sign that the "tattoos" on Diane's arms are either henna or some sort of upper-arm bracelet. I'm going with henna, or maybe those temporary tattoo stickers.

Ah, so that's why Oklahoma the Sooner State! It's officially named for their cheating the system! Well, that didn't last that long, they've already reclaimed Hong Kong! "Columbia" was our national symbol in untold editorial cartoons and elsewhere from the early days of the USA. That "Uncle Sam" is just an upstart usurper! TOH, thank you for sharing your poignant story with us! Here's the SatW version of these events! Actually, Abraham Lincoln put a classic colon-closed parentheis in his notes for a speech.

Nah, the Hummor is a different great big vehicle! I suppose by the time you were in any shape to get a license plate number, she was long gone....you could still report it to the police, just as you would a car causing an accident for any vehicle -- you have just as much right to use the road and not be cut off as anyone else! They just wouldn't have much to go on, but at least it would keep the accident statistics accurate, which can eventually help get more bike lanes put in.

I usually don't get that way except through severe sleep deprivation. Thus, I will make the obligatory suggestion that you get plenty of sleep. And chicken noodle soup, that stuff could cure anything! (Except death, apparently that requires whiskey...)

Watching an old episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, of which I've caught fairly random episodes. Hettie was reciting a character's background, and the hometown she gave was my hometown! :-D I'm sure to the writer it was probably just a dot on a map, but it's still fun to hear. And maybe it's not just a dot on the map, maybe one of the writers is from there, or went to college there, or something. The guy on MASH was a deliberate reference to the U of I, after all....

Ooh, hadn't thought of that option! If it's him, I hope he's also screening everything from viewing by bystanders.... True, most of the times I've heard it, a color is specified, but which color doesn't seem to be consistent. "Don't think of a purple elephant!" or "Try not to think of a pink elephant, see what happens." I think it's more of a "has a crush on her." She's been too shy to do anything so overt as hitting on Diane.

What if you only included NP stories that are clearly labeled as canon, like "Question Mark"?

Yup, cars were kidnapped for ransom a lot by those guys. We can be glad they're finally shut down (although who knows for hiw long), or bewildered and disappointed it took this long....the song was written in 1972!

Puts me in mind of trying to pin or plate bird bones, which can also be rather brittle. Here's hoping you have a successful surgery and a smoothe recovery!

The sort of people I'm picturing complaining would think there was nothing wrong with people reacting with comical levels of dismay at being turned into a girl and being desperate to turn back into a boy. It's the very exploration of identity and sexuality, normalizing it and making it seem there's nothing wrong with it, that such people would object to. Oh, I wasn't saying Patreon had a problem with LGBTQ+ elements, it was the people making complaints about the site that I meant. Patreon may just have an automated system, where if x number of people flag the site as inappropriate for children, then they'll designate it as such and it's up to the artist to dispute the designation or to accept it. Most big sites don't go checking up on what people post unless someone complains. Certain groups of people will make vociferous complaints about two men kissing, lips only, but won't say a peep about a heterosexual couple french kissing and groping each other. Art with cis straight couples are thus less likely to be labeled as "adults only" because fewer people are complaining about them. Even Dan's pinups are, well, pinups, with a degree of innocence to them. I don't think anyone would consider Dan's stuff to be "porn." They'd be perfectly acceptable on page three of certain newspapers in the UK. As far as near-nudity goes, Dan's stuff is the squeaky-clean end! If you're counting having kids as "implied action" then Nanase's parents are at least equal to Adrian. And there have been several references to "sexy time" between Ellen and Nanase, too. But I think we've already had at least a couple of threads about the odds our characters are still virigns....

I don't know what the reasoning was, but I can't help but fear it was due to having gay, trans, genderfluid, etc. characters. Considering the old description of EGS as "Easily the most perverted squeaky clean comic on the net," it seems rather sad that it's being segregated by a rating. That said, things certainly have evolved to the point where the "squeaky clean" appellation may not really apply anymore....