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Confused, please don't tease.

Sarah DSarah D Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
This is my first posting and I was just wondering if there was anyone willing to explain the newest comic to me. Does this suggest that John Coulton is a Love Machine? I realize that this is a stupid question and the the message is probably very clear, however, I have never heard of JOCO outside of this strip.

Any clarification is appreciated :rotate:

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I also didn't really get this comic, and I'm really smart, so don't feel bad.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    I also didn't really get this comic, and I'm really smart, so don't feel bad.

    Phew, if EM couldn't get it.. Then I don't feel bad not getting it.

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  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The idea is that Coulton has a lot of groupies and that Gabe would in fact "go gay" for him.

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  • Sarah DSarah D Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh I seeeeeeeee. Gabe is now in line for the luvin'. And that makes Tycho cry? Am I getting that right?

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  • ScosglenScosglen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Sarah D wrote: »
    Oh I seeeeeeeee. Gabe is now in line for the luvin'. And that makes Tycho cry? Am I getting that right?

    That, or Gabe is in fact one of the people who just emerged from the trailer.

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  • Sarah DSarah D Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Fabulous :lol:

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I thought that the girl emerging from the trailer was Gabe's wife, who had just been brutally fucked by Jonathan Coulton who was in fact a cold steel robot who takes advantage of adoring fleshlings, and Tycho is either horrified by Gabe's complicity in this cross-species transgression or by the fact that Gabe is unaware that his paramour's depths were plumbed the cold iron rod of one of our soon-to-be mechanical overlords.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Scosglen wrote: »
    Sarah D wrote: »
    Oh I seeeeeeeee. Gabe is now in line for the luvin'. And that makes Tycho cry? Am I getting that right?

    That, or Gabe is in fact one of the people who just emerged from the trailer.

    That's what I got out of it. Tycho knocks and a line of groupies come streaming out, including a robot and Gabe.

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  • Farout FoolioFarout Foolio Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I was at the create-a-strip panel, allow me to clarify.
    The idea is that JOCO engages in kinky orgies including hot redheads and robots. He is not one himself.
    Tycho is jealous.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Farout Foolio wrote: »
    I was at the create-a-strip panel, allow me to clarify.
    The idea is that JOCO engages in kinky orgies including hot redheads and robots. He is not one himself.
    Tycho is jealous.

    that is far less sinister and thus less interesting.

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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The red head, the robot, and Gabe all just got done with some JoCo lovin. Tycho is expressing jealousy. There were plans to remove Gabe's shirt and show JoCo in the background in the 3rd panel, but with Gabe's system crashing (see Wednesday's strip) that didn't happen. Don't feel bad, I was at the panel where they drew it, and even still none of this is all that clear to me.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't get why so many people don't get it.

    Panel 1: Tycho goes to knock on Coulter's trailer.

    Panel 2: Tycho is suprised by a number of Jonathan Coulter's pleased-looking groupies emerge, implying sexual relations.

    Panel 3: Gabe emerges, looking even more pleased than the previous groupies, the implication being that Gabe had sex with Jonathan Coulter (building on the implication offered by Panel 2). This hurts Tycho to the depth of his fragile soul, hence the crying.


    Voila.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I think one thing that might have helped would be to have Gabe more inside the trailer, if he is indeed coming out. It seems like he could have just walked up. The removal of his shirt would have helped, too.

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It's because you don't see anything of gabe in panel 2, and even if you did, it could have been gabe + redhead and robot + coulton.

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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Sir Carcass wrote: »
    I think one thing that might have helped would be to have Gabe more inside the trailer, if he is indeed coming out. It seems like he could have just walked up. The removal of his shirt would have helped, too.

    I thought this as it was being drawn. But for the pose to look right, he would have to be holding on to the door frame with one hand, and the "double thumbs up" was a key element.

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  • Monolithic_DomeMonolithic_Dome Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Sarah D wrote: »
    I have never heard of JOCO outside of this strip.

    Any clarification is appreciated :rotate:

    Allow me to rectify this situation.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BmK8PYm504
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z53WLtowYBo

    and more

    I thought that the girl emerging from the trailer was Gabe's wife,

    Kara's hair is brown
    20051125h.jpg

    Brenna (Tycho's wife) is closer, but it's not her either
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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The groupie had purple hair at first, then black hair (maybe just really dark brown), then someone in the audience asked him to change it to red.

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  • pogo mudderpogo mudder Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I get the whole, Tycho thinking Gabe's just had it away with JOCO, but what still isn't explained is why JOCO is a robot. Also is the girl emerging from the trailer supposed to be felcia day, cause she did a duet of still alive with him at PAX and they mention it in the 'news' related to the comic.

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  • Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I wasn't at the Create a Strip panel but the red hair was added by the audience. I'm pretty sure that the audience meant for it to be Felicia Day after her duet with JoCo singing Still Alive.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    pogo mudder wrote: »
    I get the whole, Tycho thinking Gabe's just had it away with JOCO, but what still isn't explained is why JOCO is a robot. Also is the girl emerging from the trailer supposed to be felcia day, cause she did a duet of still alive with him at PAX and they mention it in the 'news' related to the comic.

    JOCO isn't a robot. He just had sex with one.

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  • JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Not really, Atlus. The girl that asked Mike to change the girl to a redhead was a redhead herself. Probably just some self insertion.

    But Pogo, JoCo is not the robot. The idea is that Coulton was having a 4 way with the girl, the robot and Gabe. And that's supposed to be jealousy on Tycho's face. Scott Kurtz helped Mike come up with that expression. I don't really like it.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    JustinSane07 wrote: »
    And that's supposed to be jealousy on Tycho's face. Scott Kurtz helped Mike come up with that expression. I don't really like it.

    Yeah, I didn't get "jealousy" out of it at first. It looked more like, "Oh, the humanity" to me.

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I didn't even know who he was. I had to google him. Apparently he is a less witty, but more hip Tom Lehrer? I don't know.

    So, at least I'm more of a loser than you are.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I thought the implication was that Coulton was having and orgy with gabe, a groupie, and a robot.

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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dyscord wrote: »
    I thought the implication was that Coulton was having and orgy with gabe, a groupie, and a robot.

    you are correct sir.

    EDIT: damn, this made it to 2 pages?

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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh, dear, even I know who the robot is - he likes sex with fruit. I was also at the draw a strip, it made perfect sense then...

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  • tardcoretardcore Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I am lost. What comic is everyone talking about?

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I had thought it was Felicia Day coming out of his trailer... Which made me sad too.

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