225 – Assimilation
Well…
Marie-Neige wasn’t kidding last time. And we now have Gaia in glasses. Maybe?
I remember how badly the readers reacted when she cut her hair two years ago. I wonder how you guys will react to this.
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It’s… it’s not that hard, Gaia… You just have to learn how to grip them…
She will. In time.
Ill take that.
Gotta fap with what you can.
Joke*
Well, I think it is lovely. Maybe make it into a running joke that Gaia sometimes wears glasses despite not needing them?
It’s pretty much what’s happening now. :)
Glasses are a pain when it comes to gaining smudges.
Especially the ones that appear 10 minutes after you cleaned them and you’s swear you never touched them. But the ones that really worry me are the ones that don’t match any of MY fingerprints!
Smudges magically appear all the time.
it’s the invisible people… :p
But why don’t smudges magically DISappear too? Why don’t the invisible people sneak through the inter-dimensional rifts and CLEAN my glasses? Where’s good vs evil, yin vs yang, light vs dark universal balance here? :) Damn entropy!
(I leave broken shoes out all the time, but the elves never fix them either. :)
They make her look a lot less tough. For better or worse.
Its tactical, who expects a girl in glasses to kick their butt?
Just ask Saki.
Exactly!
Yup. Poor Gaia.
Iapet: Look, a green-haired girl. She must be that Gaia we heard about a hundred strips ago.
GPX010-Phoebe: Hm… No, she’s wearing glasses, and our specie has adaptive eyesight. She’s probably just a cosplayer or something.
Oh look, it’s the broken heart symbol on the spectacle case. Those can’t be just some simple glasses.
So far, that broken heart symbol appeared in relation to mysterious characters, and on various eyewear advertisement in-universe. I actually think those two aren’t linked together.
Or so -you- say…
I like Gaia either way. I guess she’ll wear them when she’s with the group, but remove them while doing sports?
That’s what I do, anyonway, because if you’re sweating and the glasses keep bouncing up and down, the skin gets really sore after half an hour.
@Panel 3: I don’t think there needs to be a comma before “now”.
Btw: How much time has passed since 2 pages ago? I assume it’s not the evening of the same day, because that was half a day after the video game night and glasses aren’t made that quickly.
The worse thing about sweating while wearing glasses is that your glasses get sweating dripping over them.
Why do I keep making that mistake, I wonder…
Thanks! It’s fixed.
And I dunno. A few days? A week? I guess Heatbreaker Eyewear is really quick to deliver the goods.
Obviously Marie-Neige is a member of Heartbreaker Prime. As their favorite customer, her orders skip to the front of the queue and get overnight delivery.
You’re welcome. Makes me suspect that there will be a Christmas strip on our Christmas. :-)
Will they do a secret Santa or will each girl give a gift to each other one or do they limit giving gifts to family? And I can’t wait to see how many of the girls will be able to witness Noelle. ^^
Last year was the only time in-universe Christmas happened at the same time as Christmas in real life. Since they’re, like, in early february now in the comic, I don’t think I’ll have a proper christmas strip. It will be either yet another christmas themed dream Chloe has, or just some random christmas filler. XD
Haha, whoops. ^^
Filler sounds great! Laurence = Best filler ever.
It’s not like Gaia needs a special prescription. So they just need to pop any sort of glasses in the right frame and send it. Could even be ready-made glasses (though that would probably be reading glasses, then)
Marie-Neige did order them using Saki’s prescription specifically in strip 219 though because she was amazed at the fact her eyes could adapt to them.
I’m kinda surprised Saki actually gave M-N her prescription.
I would have thought she’d just ignore it, and that Marie than ordered whatever, since it doesn’t matter.
Haha. Maybe she did make an estimate.
Although they are definitely prescription. Marie-Neige did like the idea of her needing them.
For her fingerprints, Gaia should seek the help of Kevin (Chris Hemsworth) from Ghostbusters 2016… after all, he DID remove the lenses (the only joke that got a laugh out of me) XD Still cracks me up.
I don’t think Marie-Neige would let her do that.
Gah, yeah, fingerprints and forehead grease. After a lifetime of 20/20 vision, I hit 42 and suddenly I needed glasses to read things close to me. Three years later and every speck and smear still drives me nuts.
“And we now have Gaia in glasses. Maybe?”
Then why did you already add her glasses in the top banner?
“All changes are subject to change without notice. But that policy may change.” :)
Actually, I think the banner changed midday today. Maybe the lack of objections here decided it?
Well, the new banner does look lovely, I must say.
The banner was supposed to change at the same time as the comic, but I fucked up, it seems.
You totally got me there.
Dez, your comment reminds me of a Haruhi Suzumiya outtake:
Kyon: I don’t have a glasses fetish.”
Yuki: “What fetishes _do_ you have?”
Dez: “I wonder how you guys will react to this.”
Me: Favorably–cute girls in glasses are like a tasty ice cream sundae with two cherries–something great made even tastier, nyao!
…Now if only you had a catgirl in the cast, nyao. Not that I’m biased in favor of my own species or anything, meow purr!
I also hate Kyon.
And don’t get your hopes up for a catgirl. My friend Eric would be WAY too happy about it.
Of course you hate Kyon. He told Yuki she looked better without glasses. Insanity!
But the real litmus test is which Yuki you prefer: Alien Yuki, “Old” human Yuki (squarish glasses), or “New” human Yuki (rounded glasses)?
(Caution, it’s a trick question. :)
Alien Yuki with glasses, nyao. Not only is she really cute, but she has such cool powers as well!
He wouldn’t be the only one, purr! -_^ And now you HAVE to include a nekomimi! Or better still, a meganekko nekomimi, nyao!
I got new glasses recently, and for some reason I notice smudges on them a lot more than my old ones, probably because the prescription is better. Needless to say, I can relate.
“Is wearing glasses always this annoying?”
Sometimes. I keep several cotton handkerchiefs in strategic locations so that I can wipe them whenever they get too greasy.
“I remember how badly the readers reacted when she cut her hair two years ago. I wonder how you guys will react to this.”
I have no problem with it. Glasses have become more of a fashion accessory over the past few years. Here’s hoping that the days of “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses” (Dorothy Parker) are long gone.
Is it (that annoying)?
I don’t have glasses yet, but I need them (I need to find a way to pay for them first, my insurance won’t despite indicating otherwise that they would).
I don’t have the luxury of being able to carry cotton handkerchiefs with me in work attire. Am I going to be constantly annoyed?
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As long as they make me look more intelligent and trustworthy, I guess it will work out?
Could always just do what I do, and wipe them on your shirt or pants.
Annoyingly, some of my newer shirts don’t work for wiping glasses. I think it’s because they’re part synthetic.
Well, I meant that I keep them *around my apartment*. (i.e. By my bed, by the TV, in the bathroom.) I also keep one in my messenger bag. (For when I have to bike around the city.) I should think that having *one* handy at work would be sufficient. (BTW: Unless you get a really good scratch-proof coating on them, wiping one’s glasses on one’s shirt and/or pants is *not* a good idea.)
Thank you, ElectricGecko. (Bikinis next?)
Hah! Right! It’s his fault!
Hmmm… I think Saki’s glasses actually looked better on Gaia than the token red color, but I guess it can’t be helped. Also, now I need to do something about this avatar.
I agree though. I almost ended up giving her black ones, but people were expecting red, so… T_T
Maybe I’ll change them later.
I also preferred Saki’s glasses.
Also, Gaia’s very green today. I think I’d prefer a sweater that contrasts a bit more with her hair.
Not the first time she’s worn the green sweater.
I agree, it doens’t contrast too good with her hair, but I like how green suits her sometimes.
That second panel looks awfully familiar. And the answer to your question Gaia is…oh hell yeah.
Of course it is.
I like the detail in this of having the name on the lenses, designer style.
BTW, I have a wall full of eye charts from all over the world, (for reasons you already know about.)
So will there be a new token girl without glasses if Gaia is going the megane route.
That’s an awfully good question.
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While glasses shopping with my mother the other day, we had a discussion about dirty glasses. She admitted that when I was a child, she couldn’t understand how I could wear dirty glasses and not notice. She then added that when she got reading glasses years later, she finally understood… you just don’t notice the grime until you can’t see at all or get something like ketchup on them that just straight up blocks vision
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My favorite glasses are the Clark Kent style
that he wears to hide his Superman persona.