- Richard: Keep calm, Richard. This thing between Melody and you is solely based on mutual attraction. After all, you two have nothing in common.
- Richard: Melody surely sees it the same way.
- Melody: Hello, Sandra. I’m Melody.
- Sandra: Hello.
- Melody: I heard you like raccoons. So I translated the first chapter of Ulf Hohmann’s seminal monography “Der Waschbär” for you.
- Sandra: WOW!! THANK YOU!
- Richard: F.U.C.K.
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Very clever – thoughtful presents work most of the time :-).
LOL I think Richard has the right thought going on right now. To think your own daughter would be on your side only to leave your side.
Foxtrot, Uniform, Charlie, Kilo =)
Either it something very important is missing between 675 and 676, or I’m totally misunderstood phrases in first frame… I really hope for a flashback 675.5 or something =)
Things develop unexpectedly for Richard, but Melody seems astonishingly well prepared for all possible outcomes. If she gets Woo too on her side, I’m afraid Richard is lost.
Melody is a……monster. Lol.
@ Trimutius:
I would upvote your comment so much if I could.
Ulf Hohmann is called Edoardo Piranis in Germany?
Point to Melody—getting on Sandra’s good side.
What’s with this clishe about kids hating their parents dating other people. I never cared about my mom dating and liked both my step dads, still go to family barbecues of the first one, and after my mom died I still hang out with the second. Maybe its cause my real dad was such a terrible person that anyone seemed better?
I believe the more appropriate response is “Et tu, Sandra?”
Guess richard has even further worries 🙂
melody was (at least, that’s what told richard’s colleague) the head of MIT’s robotics departement – and sandra’s a math geek :p melody’s probably the only one among the cast that can talk mathematics with sandra 🙂
So, if we do the math 😉 richard is even more neck deep in trouble ^^ (and sandra will get a new mommy ? Dawww :p)
Huh. So, in English, the book is German, and in German, the book is Italian? What is the actual language of origin?
Could Melody become a step-mum?
@ Lucario:
The authors are also different, so I’d wager that both are actually in German/Italian.
Welp, Richard’s doomed… TO LOVE! AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
@ Sgt_flyer:
Well, Yuna apparently could, so I’d bet Cloud could, too.
modulusshift, So Sondra, Cloud and Yuna can all speak math with Melody. I foresee a group hug coming with Richard in the middle, “Please, Daddy, can we keep her? Please, please, please?” And Woo nodding sagely off to one side.
And for those who did know it, that’s a real book by a real biologist, a rather prominent one, at that.
And the HMS Ricklody sails ever onwards, the two captains arguing over code in perpetuity
@ Steven:
Same thought here.
I’d not mind at all if my mother (who has divorced from my father a little while ago) started dating someone else.
The only thing I’d make clear is that if the guy turns out to be a douche (and only IF he does), then I’ll hunt him down and make him regret he was even born in this world.
But if he’s a cool guy, then he can be free from worrying about me liking him or not.
Plus, I know how to differentiate an actual douche from someone who has tried but just thought it didn’t work.
It’s not deciding to leave that’s the problem.
It’s doing something really awful during the time he stays.
Huh. I wasn’t expecting Sandra to be against her dad dating someone but I suppose it’s likely that her Dad told her stuff about his new arch nemesis.
JustARandomPerson wrote:
I feel like the one difference is that she loved her mom, but her mom died… I can definitely understand that Sandra would feel like that.
Last chance to abort, ABORT!!
She’s only at the doorstep, last chance to kick her out ABORT!!!
Prediction: Melody actually works for the Ukrainian Secret Service and is plotting to assassinate Woo, who unknowingly read dangerous Ukrainian documents that could cause global panic. In the dramatic climax, Larisa comes to Sandra’s, Woo’s, and Richard’s aide with a flamethrower, screaming, “For Mother Russia!”
As some who is still on good terms with both parents, I never really minded my step parents and have actually gotten along with them quite well.
I think for the most part it’s simply a problem for some people, but for the most part it’s the media exaggerating said issue for purposes of tension and sometimes humor.
Well done Melody – “First Chapter” – so Sandra will want to see Melody at least another 12-20 times.
Sorry Richard you are caught – Hook Line & Sinker
LOL I can relate somewhat. My wife was one of 4 women pursuing what was considered a male discipline (engineering) at the university I attended back in the 60s. Fortunately for me, unlike Richard, I wasn’t intimidated by a woman with brains and found her very attractive. I was actually able to hold an intelligent conversation with someone who was smarter than most of my other classmates. We’re together after 46 years of marriage still sharing the same interests. Beauty fades; intellect persists. Richard should consider himself lucky!
@ Trimutius:
The last panel of 676 means that nobody could think of a good way to transition, either.
Great I’m all caught up now.
This looks interesting.
@ Steven:
somehow I think this has more to do with Richard telling her stories of Melody than her not wanting her father to date. Could be wrong though.
We lost Sandra
I look at the third panel and my first thought is “my, Sandra has gotten tall.”
Don’t resist it Richard, give in to the shipping.
Starts getting suspicious. Is she an alien spy?
Quick! Google! what is a Waschbär?
….oh
there goes Sandra… poor Richard.
And welcome Sandra’s new mom Melody
I think the annoyance stemmed not so much from dating competition as from messing with her dad’s code.
Melody made a brilliant first attack, only a step to avoid the jealousy of Sandra and put it on his side.
Ricard better start saving for rings and Tuxedo (Yes Ricard you’re -Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo Echo Delta-)
Steven wrote:
It’s more an issue of how secure the child is. If the child is going though a phase where they’re heavily relying on parental approval to booster their self-confidence to deal with what they’re going though, they likely to react Badly to a perceived threat to that security.
It’s official.
There’s been many arcs I’ve thought might be my favorite.
But I think this one puts them all to shame.
I’m laughing SO hard at each one.
Everything in them is perfect.
It’s the best arc yet.
author”>Trimutius wrote:
You and me both. This has no in comic rationality and makes no sense. Totally destroys my suspension of disbelief.
Hopefully we will get the flashback.
Is that just supposed to be an exaggerated “fuck”, or an acronym?
One: “monograph” is idiomatic, “monography” is a very old variant with only a secondary meaning of “monograph” (at least in US English).
Two: Richard is outmatched. He is soon to join team P != NP. K&R indentation will follow.
WHY hasn’t he fired her yet?!??
Richard, inviting a woman to your house to have dinner with your daughter isn’t sending “Let’s keep this casual” vibes.
well i guess its up to woo now to save Richard… but knowing woo i wouldn’t expect too much
To all the “what is it with kids hating their parents dating” errata…
Remember, this is a week later. Who is to say Sandra hasn’t heard of Melody through her father’s complaints. Her first assumption is probably that this bitch queen forced her father into this somehow.
@ Steven:
That sounds about right.
Bit unexpected… especially because I laughed (with both the present and the “Fuuu D:”). This is more like it!