I never said things wouldn’t get weird with this story arc. Unfortunately, today’s strip isn’t something I made up, but something that was taken almost verbatim from a conversation I had with my sister, Linda, in the hospital. Frighteningly, It’s possible I would’ve given in to her request had she persisted – she does have cancer after all and can get pretty much whatever she wants from me – but she dropped it after a while and hasn’t brought it up since. I’m hoping she’ll ask my other sister, Laura, for the nipple donation when the time comes, but if not – I may have to draw jefbot with one nipple instead of two in future strips featuring him shirtless.
And in case you were wondering, I talked to my sister and cleared using her mastectomy in the strip before I started working on it. While it may be a bit heavy for some, I didn’t want to sugarcoat the severity of the operation to remove her cancer, and Linda wouldn’t want me to pull any punches, anyway. Also, during our initial, grim conversation in the hospital about nipple donating, I can’t deny that we both found the humor in it, even then.
Yeah, that’s pretty weird, allright.
heheh. i told you! (i just didn’t warn you. heheh.)
and check you out, Insectoid – you just achieved the Shades of Firsting! wear them well – they just might help you detect people with an odd number of nipples (i know. weird.):
😎
I’ll keep that in mind for the nipple nightmares I’m sure to have tonight…
ha! sorry ’bout that. put band-aids over ’em if you fear surgeons sneaking into your room at night.
okay, now i’m gonna have nightmares…
Do you know that one our neighbors has 3 belly buttons?
wow. thats pretty weird…
3 belly buttons!? is that even possible? weird, but cool. i wanna see.
jefbot, it’s one of your uncle’s ask mombot…
Having lost both parents to cancer, I have to say, I despise the disease with a cold Klingon passion. Home hospice *both* times… the only words for that experience is… character building. But I can knock off a hospital corner in 15 seconds or less.
So for this storyline. GO FOR IT.
Finding something to laugh about in the F**King GRIM of cancer is probably DAMN therapeutic.
That’s hysterical! Even more so since I met Linda on Sunday, as I’m now imagining her voice as I read the dialogue. 🙂
However, I can’t recall ever seeing any strip with jefbot shirtless… are you planning some?
i’m glad you liked it, Kim! and, yes, i think it’s even better with her voice behind it, because it’s just so her. heheh. and i’m not sure if we’ve ever seen bot shirtless. i swear he’s appeared that way at least once, but i could be wrong.
Kim Fugal! 😉
It was great meeting YOU!
Mombot & I thought you were so nice to come to jefbot’s booth and letting me spray you with my “Sparkles” I hope it didn’t adversely affect the rest of your evening!
See you at the next convention, I had a blast there and want to go to every jefbot convention in the future. (if he’ll let me)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Linda, it was a real treat to meet you, too, and your parents! This was the first convention I’ve attended in several years, and it makes me very happy to see Jeff doing so well with something that was just a twinkle in his eye when I first met him. Maybe he’ll let me be a helpbot at a future con.
As for the glitter spray, not to worry… when you get to a certain age, there’s no such thing as unwanted attention. 😉
Drugs or just normally that way? Or can you tell?
(they can reconstruct it, anyway.)
mostly just normally that way, Geoff, but let’s just blame the drugs, this time. 😉
and yeah, my sister told me they took skin from her stomach for the reconstruction. not sure what they’re doing ’bout the nipple, tho.
I remember my gall bladder removal and how loopy I was, and her surgery has to be even more loopy-causing.
(The fact that I was able to walk someone through some technical stuff at my job when they called me in the hospital when something blew up just means that either I didn’t need to be sober for my job or I was just good at it. If the first, I needed to be stoned waaaaay more often there.)
ha! i’m afraid to ask if you’ve put that “didn’t need to be sober for my job” theory to the test, Geoff.
There are prosthetics available, but what I understand from my mother (who went through the same thing) they’re not especially good and many women opt just not to have nipples anymore when they get reconstructive surgery.
i think either of those options (prosthetic/nippleless) sound better than “nipple transplant,” Sharra. 😉
Hilarious. Nipple reconstruction is so 2011! Glad she still has an amazing sense of humor!
yep, Xin/Lin’s nipple may not be intact anymore but her sense of humor most definitely is, FunnyShaffer!
yes you do! it’s one of the most sexy things to have as a guy. nuff said
tell that to my sister, Jiro!
*looks at Xinda*
Sorry JB, you’re on your own for that one… loyalty can take you only so far, I’m afraid that if I tell her that, she might take my nipples and I’m pretty attached to mine.
wise move. 🙂
They (the doctors I mean) “took” her nipple?! Eh… ok… let me figure this out…
*thinks hard*…
I thought doctors made reconstruction or something when they did a mastectomy! Or at least that’s what happened with a friend of mine. She’s very young, so when they removed the “sick” parts, they rebuild her breasts almost immediately, nipple and everything. We were so happy for her. So, as far as I understand, you or your sister Lor, won’t have to donate any nipples to Linda. But she’s right, though, is not like you really need it! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
i believe reconstructing the breast immediately is what happens in most cases, Jcb, but in my sister’s case, i think (she’ll correct me if i’m wrong) they took the nipple along with the breast because they were suspicious it still had active cancer cells in it.
and i do need my nipple! (well, kinda. heheh.)
Can’t she just ask the Cornfather? He already has man boobs right? 😛
the Cornfather lost his moobs when he lost 80 lbs, CG. he actually has more of the Power of Scrawn than Chub now! 🙂
I knew that from your pictures on FB bot. 🙂
I was talking about the Cornfather in the strip.
Congrats to the RL Cornfather for losing all that weight I am currently working on losing about 120. 🙂
heheh. cool. sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between the comic and RL, Clayton. 😉
and good luck w/ the weight loss – let me know when you gain Scrawn powers!
HA! I love it! Best use of the word “nipple” in a comic ever.
And Clayton, I now have the disturbing mental image of a one-nippled Cornfather stuck in my head. I hope you’re happy.
VERY happy. 🙂
“best” or “worst,” Joe? heheh. or both?
Awkward….did this conversation actually take place?
GeekGirl! Yes it did, and jefbot said NO! ;(
it totally took place GG, and yep, it was totally awkward.
CAN you even donate a nipple?
The miracles of wierd-request plastic sugery. I wouldnt want to be a surgeon who has to accomodate all the wierd things people can come up with…
Oh, I allmost forgot, Is Ted going to show up?
i believe my sis asked her doctor if i could be a nipple donor and he said “yes,” Maryz. 🙁
and, yep: Ted will make an appearance before bot leaves the hospital.
AAAAHHHHHHHHH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Funny Funny Funny 😉
Verbatim! From what I can remember and I was heavily drugged!
And little bro the reason I haven’t been bugging you is because I CAN’T have the balance of my reconstruction until 9 months after my last radiation treatment. So enjoy your little nipple while you can!
Linda, you are truly a force of nature! But seeing the words “little nipple” got me thinking… aren’t male and female nipples often very different in size and shape and color? Wouldn’t you be “mismatched” with Jeff’s nipple on one side?
That would be one hell of a story to tell if anyone ever saw mismatched nipples…”Yeah, my brother was a doll and donated his nipple to make me feel better”
no! don’t encourage her, T! she’ll want to tell that story!
jefbot’s right! And I would want to SHOW everyone! “Nips by jefbot” 😉
Yes, Kim Fugal that very thought occurred to me (speaking of being shirtless) when Jeff & I were surfing in Hawaii. I looked at him, & he was very cold, and I thought, I’m going to need both of his NIPPLES and possible a small patch of another part. and no he doesn’t have a favorite. ps. please don’t mention this to jeff he’ll just freak out again…
you were sizing up my nipples for harvesting when we were in Hawaii!? now i feel violated.
Well, maybe you should’ve thought about that B4 you made me walk 2 miles in SAND, looking for the PERFECT surfing site. Remember I passed out (luckily in front of the Hilton) and making me talk to the Krazy Drunk Guy! Parasailing, mopeheads, surfing, all for $5.00 ;(
You’re bound and determined to get your ounce of flesh out of JEFbot one way or another, right Xinda?
yep! yep! yep!
*sob*
woo! happy (and relieved) you liked this one, sis! i know we already discussed what the content of this strip would be, but i was still a tad apprehensive right before i hit the “post strip” button. 🙂
and: oh, so there’s still a possibility you’ll need my nipple 9 months from now? …umm, that’s uh… great news. really. …couldn’t be happier.
After the ORGAN transplant, we can go visit Cousin Guy, together!!! 😉
I’m sure there’s someone out there with a nipple to spare . . . Supernumerary nipples are supposed to be really common (hush, I looked it up after watching The Man with the Golden Gun).
Try Craigslist. Or maybe Etsy?
If I can’t have my little bro’s nips, I don’t want anyone’s.
Plus, his being my sibling makes him a much better candidate for tissue transplantation.
True—forgot about that . . .
C’mon, Jeff—DNA is thicker than water. Metaphorically speaking.
no, no – i think you’re onto something there, Sarah W. i’ll start doing Etsy/Craigslist/eBay nipple searches posthaste!
HA! That’s funny. Oh and have you been really busy lately Jeff?
yeah, been a bit busy lately with the convention and all, Fijiman. but switching back to the Tuesday & Friday schedule helps!
I thought as much. I probably would have learned that you had done that if I had gone back and read the blogs/comments, but I just can’t be bothered to do such things sometimes.
I like how jefbot is holding his “NIPPLE” – great graphics.
thanks, Pinkee. yep, bot doesn’t want Xinda to snatch it off him right then and there!
I have a friend who has cancer when she was in her teens (she’s healthy now, it’s all gone and she’s living a very good life, they caught it early) Anyway, whenever she asked for something and her parents said no she’s whine and say, “But mom and dad, I have cancer!”
She did for laughs, I think, but it’s still one of the funniest things I’ve heard. How can you say no to someone who pulls out the “I have cancer” card! Heck, after reading this I’m tempted to donate a nipple now.
Mr. Callahan, please send a picture of your NIPPLE to jefbot, I believe he’s on facebook. Thx 😉
I’m trying but the iPhone camera just can’t do my nipple justice, might have to get a professional picture of it taken.
great to hear your friend managed to survive her ordeal with cancer, TPC! and the “i have cancer!” card has been played many times since my sister got out of the hospital. no doubt this will show up in future strips.
and: no need to send me pictures of your nipple! i ask a lot of you readers, but i think nipple donating might take things a bit too far. 🙂
I might give a kidney or bone marrow to help someone, but my nipples are MINE, dammit! So Linda, are you not willing to get a reconstructed and tattooed nipple? They can be pretty realistic. And then you can tell everyone you have a tattoo (assuming you don’t already have any)!
Yep, I gotta say that you guys are a strange bunch. 😉 This strip is too funny, and even more so since it is based on reality!
shanna, you do know that now I’m going to call you, if I need a kidney or a liver.
your comment just reminded me of a conversation i had with one of my co-workers, shanna. she had read the strip, so when i arrived at the office and passed by her desk she was all, “so are you going to donate the nipple?” i replied, “i’m trying to get my other sister to donate hers.” to which my officemate replied, “If you know anything about women, it’s that we’re very attached to our nipples! There’s no way your other sister’s going to donate hers!”
taking that into account, i can understand why you said you’d rather give a kidney or bone marrow. 😀
Quite an honor, I would think, to donate a nipple. I’d totally do that in your situation. I mean, what are you using them for anyway?
Sorry to hear about your sister. She needs to head down to Tijuana, Mexico, to the Gerson Clinic. They cure cancer like nobody’s business. They have a track record of over 10000 (ten thousand) people *completely cured* from the worst possible cancers you can imagine. And they do it by simply giving the body nutrients instead of poisoning it (like your regular hospital would). A couple of weeks there and she’ll be as new again.
Read more about it: http://gerson.org/
Watch this movie also:
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we’ll see if i go ahead with that “honor” in 9 months, Popeye! there’s still a chance it could happen…
and thanks for the info about that clinic. although, i must say, while i’m all for people exploring all avenues and alternative healing, i’d still recommend doctors and hospitals when dealing with something as serious as cancer. a friend of mine from high school who was one of the most positive, optimistic women i know, went to south america for a cure at a clinic like this and… wow. it didn’t turn out well, is all i’ll say.
I understand you feel sceptic – usually people think it’s too good to be true.
In the end, everyone has to make their own decisions and take their own responsibility and that must be respected. But it would be a shame not to do research before making an important decision. Since it’s a topic most people have not heard about, here is some more material on the subject for your convenience:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dying-to-have-known/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/beautiful-truth/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/food-matters/
All the best and may you get through this difficult time.
If you do give her a nipple, tattoo “Made on Jefbot” on it first, so every time she sees herself naked, she also sees your name.
Greg Bulmash, I have (I think) a very witty response for you, but I’m afraid it might only be funny to me. (this happens to me sometimes) And, then Jefbot will block my messaging privileges again… But, thank you for reading my little bro’s strip!
thanks, Xinda, for holding back your response. i can only imagine what you had in mind to say. 🙂
i’m always looking for new ways to advertise my lil ol’ webcomic, Greg, so i’ll think about it! 😉
HYSterical!!!!!!!!!! You go Girl!!!!!!
WOO!!!
I happen to have 3. She can have my spare as long as I don’t see it elsewhere on the interwebs. Because I’ll KNOW. A man never forgets a nipple. Especially not one of his own.
Seriously tho, I’ve been there. Someone I care for very deeply, if those that know me can imagine me caring for anyone at all, has had not one…. not two… but 3 different cancers. I’ve stuck around through chemo, and appointments, and hair loss, and the paleness and the weightloss and everything. She is the strongest person I know even before all this horrible garbage happened to her, and being otherwise helpless to do anything always drove me mad. But eventually I realized that I was doing the most important thing I could just by being at her side as often as I could.
So I know how terrifying and frustrating it can be just being the support system. But you’re not just a support system…. You’re a life line. The only thing we have in this world to physically hold onto through trial and strife is one another. It really IS the most important thing. She told me so later.
She and I will actually be at the Allentown PA Comic Con on the 19th and MAYBE the 20th walking around and getting our fangeek on in poorly made obscure costumes and asking a billion questions to artists and writers all over place and breathing hard and making celebrities nervous and uncomfortable while we get photos autographed. I plan on actually sprinkling myself down with garlic powder to simulate odd personal odor (because I refuse to skip a shower even to be obnoxious) and attempting to lick the top of Robert Picardo’s bald noggin. Hopefully she’ll have the car warmed up and ready outside for a quick getaway.
Update: It’s been confirmed by my mysterious and unknown female accomplice (yes the one I mentioned for those people who are slow or have pointy metal bits permenantly lodged in their brain and sticking out of their skull) that the getaway signal will be me running toward the car, flapping my arms like an electrocuted chicken while hooting like Daffy Duck.
The same signal as always.
I just asked Jefbot if there were anymore Comic Conventions and he told me NO, not until March 2012… ;(
Allentown, Pennsylvania on the 19th and 20th. And while it’s promising to be a really good show, I’m not expecting a complete and total circus out of it. Which means security won’t be as tight for my getaway after I lick the good doctor. I wonder what Robert Picardo’s head tastes like. Suave or Selsin Blue? Maybe Axe. 😀 Rest assured my cohort is doing her very best to try and talk me out of it. Rest more assured still that she is not valid legal council nor my spiritual adviser and her advice in such a capacity will most likely be disregarded.
Here’s a link: http://www.allentowncomiccon.com/index.html
And what you/she need to do is just reach out and claw the man-boob right off his/jefbot’s chest. Leave a nice hand shaped gouge right there. Then they can get a skin graft from the Cornfather’s butt while he’s unconscious to cover it up. You get a nipple, Jef gets a graft, and Cornfather gets the joy of telling him that he’s got Corn’s butt on his chest until the day he dies. Voila! Everyone is happy.
On a serious note sweetie, I wish you the best in your recovery. Everything will be okay in the end. I may make inappropriate jokes to mask my feelings, but I assure you my heart is not as black as iron. I will be hoping for you and yours. I’m currently watching my counterparts health like a hawk because she’s showing some signs from previous bouts that have become sort of tell-tale. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Squishy moment over. If you can’t get a nipple? Brag about being a unicorn. 😀 Why? Because I am an atomic powered monster with a heart as black as iron and freeway on-ramps for arms. See you there!
I like the way you think Infamous Nefarious!
Thank you for all the great ideas! Of course, I don’t think jefbot will be that happy with you. 😉 xoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxooxoxo
Here’s another tip for you. Natural sunlight will do wonders to keep your energy level something resembling decent AND it’s good for helping stave off depression.
Also “Because I’m a unicorn.” will also become a viable excuse and negotiation position. ~nods sagely~
no more ideas from you, Infamous Nefarious – i can see Xin/Lin sharpening her nails already!!!
Well then sir, I would recommend you start wearing a Road Warrior style giant spikey novelty football chest guard. But you can’t have mine.
And sharpen them ninja avoidance reflexes.
i told you i wasn’t planning on doing any more comic-cons this year, Xin! there are a bunch going on every month around the U.S. if you look for ’em. (and if you really want to spend the money to fly to different states to attend.) 🙂
sorry to hear about your friend’s struggles with cancer, Infamous Nefarious, but from your description she seems like a strong, amazing woman, and with a friend like you and the right medical care, it sounds like she has the best tools to fight it! and what you said about support systems and lifelines is right on; i hope if something horrible ever happens to me, i’ll have that.
have fun at the PA con! and my best wishes and healing vibes go out to your friend!
Yep….this cracked me right up. Not that it’s a funny subject in the least but the conversation amused me. Maybe because it seems like something my sister and I would say to each other. Like “Come on! You don’t need a liver Sissy…you don’t even drink!”
Sorry no comment on the last comic. I’ve been sicker than I’ve been in years with the stomach flu for 4 days now. Saturday and Sunday was so sick hubby had to force me to eat and I couldn’t get out of bed. So not pretty.
Mucho Love and Support for La Famila Bot!
Get better Pixie!
I always love reading your comments!!!
Lin/Xin
i think humor’s the only way to deal with something like this, so glad you got a laugh out of this one, Pixie. 🙂
4 days of stomach flu!? ugh. hope you’re already feeling better! (and let’s hope hubby doesn’t get it once you’re over it.)
thanks for the love and support!
This is a perfect is why this webcomic is quickly rising to my #1 favourite webcomic out there 😀
Alot of comics attempt to deal with serious topics usually with disastrous consequences, but with JEFBOT you find the perfect balance in tackling the issue at hand with the respect it deserves and at the same time finding a way to make it humorous.
Keep it up Jeff and as always, my best to Xinda/Linda 😀
Thanks Kaze! 😉
many thanks for the kudos, Kaze (and for my rising rankings on your favorites list.) i’m definitely trying to balance the respectfulness/seriousness/humor in telling my sister’s story, so i’m happy to hear you feel i’m getting that balance right.
I never knew it was possible to have a favorite nipple. Fortunately, I don’t have that problem. Good luck with the surgery Linda! I know that male nipples are generally useless, that doesn’t mean there isn’t sensation from them (I accidentally got scratched by a wire hanger across one once, holy crap did that hurt!!).
I will get a wire hanger and check jefbot’s nipples and see which one is more sensitive. Thanks for the suggestion KenderBryant!!!
“No more wire hangers!!!! EVER!!!!!” God I love that movie. When my nieces were little and accused me of being a meanie I would have them sit with me to watch a movie…THAT movie. They would be all wide eyed talking about how much they love thier titi.
GAH we’re talking about JB’s nipples again! Jef dahlink, you make have to get an appointment for a nipple tat.
I loved Joan Crawford! And all my hangers have the fuzzy stuff on them so nothing falls off. (I bought them at Costco, 50 hangers for $20.ish) 😉
HA! i haven’t seen that movie in a loooong time, but i remember that horrifying scene, Pix! i guess i should remove all the wire hangers i have before the next time Xin/Lin comes over so she doesn’t perform any tests…
i don’t have a favorite nipple either, KB, but i guess i should cherish them both more now, seeing as how i might be parted with at least one of them soon. 🙁
and i remember when i went surfing a few years back and didn’t wear a t-shirt or wetsuit – my gods, i could barely sleep for a couple days due to my nipples both having an extreme raspberry from all the friction that happens from getting up and down off the surfboard. so much pain, i couldn’t even wear a shirt without putting band-aids over my nipples, so i can relate to your “wire hangers” story!
the mental pictures are disturbing. Thanks Bot really needed that.
you’re lucky i didn’t post pictures, dj! (yes, there are pics. my sister made me take them.) 🙁
Oh man. The dialogue in the third panel had me rolling!! Well done Bot.
thanks, TCG! sometimes life’s just as funny as fiction, even during crappy situations.
Indeed. But trying to get some humor in during a crappy situation does help out sometimes. Especially with nipple swaps. 😀
Dude, just make a call to the morgue and see if you can get a second-hand nipple off an organ donor. A nipple’s part of the skin and the skin is actually an organ, so it shouldn’t be that much of an issue.
True story. I knew a guy in a thrash metal band back in 99. The band was called…. dun dun dunnnnn ‘Corpsenipple’. And they were freaking awesome. One day they just disappeared. No one has heard from them since.
Rumros speculate however that GWAR may have rolled into town and eaten them to absorb their power into their own.
i would totally listen to a band named “Corpsenipple,” Infamous Nefarious! too bad they disappeared.
Metaldude555, I don’t want a used NIPPLE! (stop thinking what you’re thinking)
My little bro is alive, so technically his nips are still New! 😉
Right?! Who wants a dead nipple?! Gross
hmmm… a second-hand nipple you say, Metaldude555? that gives me an idea for a new storyline about: XINDA’S ZOMBIE NIPPLE!!! *cue scream*
First off, I have a weird dislike for the word “nipple” myself…I don’t know why….
Secondly…I do believe my right is my favorite one too!!
I hear they can fashion a nip nub and then tattoo in the coloring to make it look just like a normal boob, without all of the braille bumps hahahaha
I really did like my right breast/nip the best! (she had a name) She now has a new name, and I would tell it to you but, knowing Jefbot he’s going to want to use it and I don’t want to be a spoiler…
Named it, eh? I name almost everything else in this world (or cover it in glitter lmao) but I haven’t named a nip. I shall work on that. And look forward to the reveal of your nip name. I am not happy with the left one…the older I get, the further away from center it becomes. I figure we’re not on speaking terms any longer. *snort*
You are too funny!
I’m sorry you’re not on speaking terms with your lefty, I can give you some tips for speaking with your (too easy) special parts. I spoke with my right breast/nip daily and look what it did! But, now that righty’s gone, my left breast/nip and I have become really really close, I check her all the time and tell her to be good or I’m going to CHOP her off too! 😉 xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxox
My husband (TheDorkKing) must have had the same kind of relationship with his fingers!! He lost parts of 2 of them in an industrial accident, and now he threatens the others or else!! He also tells people he lost his finger parts because I cut them off…that’s what happens when you try to take food from me 😀 LOL
I’m super glad you’re in good spirits now…I will relay your story to my bewbs, tell them to behave or they will get it!
and 😀 xoxoxoxoxoxoxo to you too, little lady!
Now I find this interesting as my righty is also my favorite nippy. I wonder if it’s because we are all right handed? Are you ladies also righties? Or I could be over thinking it?
I’m right handed too. But, I use my left hand alot, as well… 😉
Yep, I’m a righty….and I too use my left hand bunches…I was doing some young lady’s makeup today and found myself using my left hand when I switched sides…surprised my own damn self!
if someone had told me a year ago that my “BOTladies” would be chatting with my sister about their nipples, i (probably) wouldn’t have believed them. but here we are.
OH! We’re BOTLadies! *fangirl squee/swoon*
Ya know, it amazes me what the males of the speices seem to think we talk about. It’s not all tea and knitting. We get down right dirty.
Did you know that tea with the ladies was actually how women got together to discuss things like sex and such? So much for lace gloves and scones huh?
OH i want to have a tea party now! I say we make a pact if any of the BOTladies are in the same area, they should find a local tea room and have high tea!
Fantastic! I’m willing to drive anywhere for SCONES, with whip cream and tiny little sandwiches. My sista really likes High Teas as well, but, with both of us there together, somebody is likely to get jet-propel liquideded (xindism) or a meatballed, Jeff & Cool Hand have developed superfast jumping & lungeing reflexes, but that’s another story.
i had a weird time with the word “nipple” myself when i first started working on this strip a few days back, ESQ, but since then, i’ve typed and used the word so many times that i think i’ve gotten over it! heheh.
how freaky would it be if the “braille bumps” spelled something out!?
I’m told that those braile bumps spell out “Don’t drag the PLOW!” (AKA NO TEETH!)
This sounds like a conversation that my sister would subject me to.
I don’t think my sista will give me one of her nipples…
it’s doubtful.
Perhaps a really good purple nurple can aquire a nipple?
DORK KING! If Jefbot even tries to give me a PURPLE NURPLE, something on him will turn purple and then I’ll hunt you down and give you a Purple Nurple!
Um…. Ouch?
Now that I found out that you’re married to the EVSQ, your stock has gone up, and you may live… 😉
Thank you kindly. Although, ESQ can tell you that when I do die, it will probably be at the hands of some woman who just met me.
Damn, and I was going to give you $5 to give him the ultimate purple nurple!!!
I would’ve done it for FREE for you ESQ!
heheh. glad (and sad) you can relate, DK!
This is too funny…and how does the saying go? Laugh or go crazy? I think we can safely say this family does both with hilarious results. 😉
ha! so very, very true, T.
*sob*
This keeps getting funnier every time I read it! In the last panel, I love how jefbot’s hand covers almost his entire chest… it’s like he’s thinking, “I need everything! I don’t have that much body to begin with, so I’d like to hang onto what’s there!”
Hmm, if you did donate, what would they replace it with? Maybe nothing? I did once meet someone who had no navel, which looked very strange.
I think it would be better for jefbot to get tattoos, instead of ME! 😉
but you already have a tattoo! i don’t!
i’d probably replace it with a bionic nipple, Kim. with an attachment for a laser or acid spray.
I wonder if we could do a “donate a nipple” drive on Facebook…
I WOULD SUPPORT THIS!
Maybe Jeff could auction off sketches of a one-nippled Jefbot to help the cause.
i would be up for sketches, Joe, especially if it helps me keep my nipple. 😉
Clayton Gee! Great idea! Go do it and see how many nipples we can get! I don’t want them, but it would be really interesting and then we can donate them to other people who really need them! 😉
ewww… i don’t think people should be sending us nipples, Xin. maybe we can just do a drive for money, and then buy one. 🙂
You know a slice of pepperoni might work just fine.
nipple drive! YES, CG! 😀
My only question is, did Xinda already know which nipple she wanted you to donate? I mean, she’s trying to replace her favorite nipple, I could see her being a bit picky about what she uses for a replacement….
(I’ve never said/typed the word nipple that much before…)
same here, AgentKeen – so much nipple’age going on here!
and, apparently, in Real Life, Xin’s been scoping out my nipples, figuring out which one she wants most, so apparently, she is picky. *shudder*
There’s plenty of flesh donors out there.
The nipple don’t have to come from family.
Flesh is an organ after all.
I’m truly sorry to hear about the nipple tho. Nobody wants to lose a nipple
I know it sucked John, I was in shock about it for awhile.
I tried to negotiate with the Doctors but they were pretty blunt about what would happen if I didn’t give it up, there wasn’t any room for negotiation, and I hate being told NO. ;(
So, what can you do, it’s just a boob/nip and I thought on the bright side, at least their letting me keep all my other parts… and then of course there’s jefbot who has the same DNA as me! 😉
DNA. yeah. darn.
I’m sorry the doctors were such ass holes about it, but at least you pulled through well.
That’s what’s truly important.
I don’t think any of us would want to see anything happen to you
that’s right! it doesn’t have to come from me!!! right, Xin? right, Xin!?
Exactly, as long as the blood type is an exact match, DNA match is unnecessary.
This isn’t a CSI investigation, it’s simple flesh repair.
Jeff:
I just discovered your strip today and started reading at the first. I want to send my best wishes to your sister for a speedy and complete recovery.
thanks for the “best wishes” for my sis, Newsman! she needs all of that she can get. 😀
so does that mean you read through the entire archives in one sitting? if so: wow!
thanks Newsman. I think he’s great too! 😉
i have been reading your comic for a long time and have never felt the need to comment. however, this has made me want to say something. first, you do excellent work. and i am very happy with the strips you have done about your sister. second, my father has cancer as well and it’s very scary hearing it and having to tell it. we found out last christmas. and it’s been almost a year of him fighting it. i know what this is like. and third, i have nothing but hope for your sister. she can do this. and she can do it with great support from you and your family. and as trite as this sounds, really keep up the good work. 🙂
Having lost both parents to cancer, I have to say, I despise the disease with a cold Klingon passion. Home hospice *both* times… the only words for that experience is… character building. But I can knock off a hospital corner in 15 seconds or less.
So for this storyline. GO FOR IT.
Finding something to laugh about in the F**King GRIM of cancer is probably DAMN therapeutic.
Is it bad that a strip that I think is one of your funniest of all time deals with your sister’s cancer? Well, it is.
I’ll donate a lot of things, but not my nipple! Not even my least favorite nipple! 😉
LOL I was expecting more serious, but this is good. But it made me choke on my water! D: Thanks Jeff!