Fly By Night
Last time I was in Toronto I walked right past Geddy Lee
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Last time I was in Toronto I saw Josh Klinghoffer play a cover of "Limelight" sans guitar solo as he, "never learned it". (It was an audience request, so he hadn't prepped). It was quite good.
sings “I saw Geddy Lee walkin’ through the streets of Downtown Toronto with a Chinese menu in his hand…he was lookin’ for a place called Lai Wah Heen’s.”
Claire comes home to find nanomachines have turned Marten into a statue of Geddy Lee made out of paperclips.
Rush rules.
Hey now…this is Chill Marten we’re talking about, here. One such as this should not rush learning a Rush solo.
Learning half a Rush solo is definitely a full day's work. especially if it's a drum solo. (Miss you, Neil.)
I mean, Fly by night IS pretty dope. If you wanna impress her, make it La Villa Stringiatto. 🤘🏽
Maybe he’ll become an internet cartoonist!
Those never go anywhere.
"You learned half a Rush solo?" "That's life, son."
In my head I keep reading Marten’s final sentence as “That’s cool, I guess.”
Given that what may very well be a representative sample of the population of Cubetown regard Marten as cute, they'll probably find a position for him come what may. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4867
Marten has reasonable expectations on Clarie's work
The fact that it was a Rush solo makes it even worse
did you draw panel one like that just to show us they did indeed have pants on?
It's now my head canon that he did.
Half a Rush solo is a lot for one day.
🎵Martin stays home 'cause he's got no job! He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot!🎵
Jeph could have told Geddy that he had taken his advice, and taken off to the Great White North. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4LoOaAWI
I hear it's a beauty way to go.
I’d be surprised if Cubetown didn’t offer Martin a job. I mean, Claire could go nepotism route and get him a job as assistant. You can never have enough competent base level admin assistants. Too often what happens is you say you need more people. And HR will either hire the most competent person they can find who will either quickly climb the ladder, leave, or spend the entire time trying to make their boss look bad because they think they’re better. Or HR will hire someone cheap who will barely do anything and be impossible to fire.
Or instead of hiring someone new, they use the money to put a new fancy coffee machine in the breakroom and call it good enough.
Wow! I really love Faye's look in panel two. Also in that panel, some snake bites and Marten could go full emo!
So Bubbs and Faye could legitimately move to Cubetown. Once the AIs there learn about the fact of an AI-Human couple "barely scrapin' by" Moray'll practically beg them to come and fill the newly developed "Co-directors of Maintenance Research" roles. Also Crushbot will be there...cause Crushbot...
"Last time I was in Toronto I walked right past Geddy Lee." So, did he recognize you and ask for your autograph? (If you were both in a room, I'd definitely get you to sign something first.)
What's wrong with being a house husband?
Could they be the first of their crowd to have kids? I could definitely see Martin as a full-time dad.
Yeah, but did you walk past Geddy Lee on purpose? I almost walked by Stan Sakai at Emerald City Comicon, but he had this cute Keroppi pencil box out.
Also, has Ollie met the Snow Dog?
I'm certain that if the move were to go through, Marten would fine a useful place to operate from.
Universal paperclips!
Release the HypnoDrones!
I still think Marten has a really good shot at either getting a job offer or being adopted as a test subject. He's got some fairly startling history with AIs and people who create them, after all. "Well, yes, Hannelore is my friend, and yes, I did go up and meet her father and Station, and my best friend is dating a former military AI, and there was that whole thing with Corpse Witch, and then there's Yay Newfriend. And Roko Basilisk, who's getting to be important in the AI rights world. And then there's Pintsize... let's change the subject?"
Marten as a test subject has me picturing him as a combat cyborg, since combat pure AIs like Bubbles didn't work out.
Wasn't it Marten who once described his love life as "like a Rush solo, complicated and wanky?"
It was indeed: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2014
To be fair, half a rush solo is more music then many pop albums.
I think Faye's stylist has clipped the fabric of her hoodie in the back for the photo shoot. Really emphasizes her tiny waist ;-)
I'm not a Rush fan, but I cannot deny their musical skill.
Plot Twist - Claire nopes out because it's so disorganized but, given all his years of experience dealing with drama and natural temperament, Martin becomes Cubetown's ideal head of HR (Human and AI Resources - HAIR?) just after hanging around in the waiting room for Claire for 15 minutes.
Fly by night away from here! Change my life again!
Marten would probably learn ¾ of a Rush tune but accidentally learn 2 Nickleback songs by mistake.
This is the kind of comment that's going to result in Rush and Nickelback duetting at the Grey Cup halftime show.
They'll have to bring up spousal hire policies and then Marten will have to decide if they're gonna get married
I think they would have to live 5 years to be considered an essentially married couple in Canada. I know of a couple who moved from Vancouver to Tokyo (housing was dirt cheap at the time) and they had to formally get married to be considered a couple in Japan.
Panel #4. Faye knows Marten, doesn't she. And would AIs be interested in musical theory? Marten, I believe has a degree.
Imagine a legion of sentient Microsoft Clippys.
Oh god no. Would be the worst Halloween comic ever.
Sounds like his dream job.