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by Paul Taylor on August 4, 2010 at 12:00 am
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  1. geekoncall
    August 4, 2010, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Parents. Sex Talk. shudderrrr…

    • Akamar
      August 4, 2010, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Always traumatic. XD

      • Techno Gray
        May 15, 2011, 11:30 pm | #

        Agreed. Now, why don’t parents understand that?

      • Buggi
        August 9, 2011, 1:16 pm | #

        I find that as a parent, it’s fun to make your kids squirm now and then.

      • waldosan
        April 8, 2012, 7:33 pm | #

        as someone who isn’t a parent yet i find it extremely uncomfortable to talk any kind of sex with my parents…

      • Michael
        May 19, 2016, 6:07 pm | #

        Ah, ist fun and not easy to properly embarrass your teenage daughter.

    • Mirenheart
      December 25, 2010, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

      Bugs my mom with how open I am with it! 😀 (despite never having it 🙁 )

    • arjay2813
      February 1, 2011, 10:06 pm | # | Reply

      i’m fine talking about sex even with my parents, just not THEY’RE sex

    • DJenser
      November 15, 2011, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      One of my wife’s friends had a “boyfriend” conversation with her mom that started almost exactly the same way.

      She killed it by replying “Well, he’s more of a plug than an outlet, mom, but hey college starts next month, so…”

      If I remember correctly, her mother covered her ears and ran out of the room yelling “EWW!”, so I guess that whole parent/child sex-talk revulsion works both ways sometimes…

      • Agent 52
        April 12, 2017, 8:54 pm | #

        I can’t tell if I misinterpreted that or not

  2. GunnerWalker
    August 4, 2010, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I’m loving the shattered irises

    • CJhaacke
      August 5, 2010, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      What about “…and tough nails to hold onto him with.”?

      heh.

  3. frankwolftown
    August 4, 2010, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    This traumatic parent conversation is brought to by all the “too honest” parents out there.

  4. Atomic
    August 4, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Don’t forget to wear cowboy boots for traction!

    • Opus the Poet
      August 4, 2010, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

      That’s cowboy boots and spurs!

  5. SoWhyMe
    August 4, 2010, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    And Jin becomes a little girl again, if just for a moment. Apparently golem parents like to tease their children too. Though one would think Jin would be much more worldly about that sort of thing by now. But that wouldn’t be cute and funny.

    • Puck
      November 8, 2010, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

      That t-shirt she’s wearing does make her look like a teenager.

  6. stjen
    August 4, 2010, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    At least Maya is nice and supportive about it — she could be all worried and “what is he doing to my little girl?” and stuff like that,… (I’m glad she isn’t.)

    • Akamar
      August 4, 2010, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Me too.

      • CJhaacke
        August 5, 2010, 1:38 am | #

        “Yet.”

    • StJason
      August 4, 2010, 1:50 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. “What is that squishy mortal doing to my nearly all-powerful, indestructible, immortal daughter?”

      • Christi
        August 4, 2010, 2:27 am | #

        Not invulnerable, though! That’s more than enough room for a mother to worry. 🙂

      • SoWhyMe
        August 4, 2010, 2:39 am | #

        I assume you mean not mentally invulnerable?

      • W.
        August 4, 2010, 12:39 pm | #

        She’s emotionally vulnerable, even though she is physically tough and therein lies the problem. She has several millennia worth of baggage, and it is wearing on her. Maybe Gin could go to the library and talk to Phix, because she could relate to her problems. I hope so, because I like Gin.

      • jwhouk
        August 4, 2010, 6:22 am | #

        Do keep in mind that Maya comes from a drastically different culture than what we have in modern day America (or, at least, in modern day Wapsi America).

  7. Jim
    August 4, 2010, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Hahahaha !

  8. Fnord
    August 4, 2010, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Now I’m wondering if my mother is descended from Lanteans. Sometimes she would start talking with my sisters about “girly things” while completely forgetting that I was still in the room. I learned more about the female reproductive system before I turned 13 than most guys learn their entire lives.

    • SoWhyMe
      August 4, 2010, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      See? This what I was talking about yesterday. Adults often seem to think the kid isn’t paying attention or doesn’t understand and go right on talking about sensitive subjects. Of course, it’s also possible she knew you were listening and was hoping to impart some knowledge to you without the obligatory “little chat,” which can be difficult at best.

      • Cipher
        August 4, 2010, 6:52 am | #

        Parents always think their kids aren’t paying attention or “won’t get what the adults are talking about.”

        They’re invariably wrong.

  9. Hoomi
    August 4, 2010, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    I still remember just how red our grown, married daughter turned, when my wife let loose an off-the-cuff remark about wild monkey sex.

    Ah, good times. You see, we parents go through ample embarassment and humilation when kids are little, and have no inhibitions to shouting the most personal things in the most public places. Eventually, we pretty much become callous to it, and lose all sense of shame. Around that same time, our children reach the age where they CAN be embarassed. That, my friends, is when parents have real power over their children.

  10. StJason
    August 4, 2010, 2:11 am | # | Reply

    Wait. Wait… waitaminute…. I just realized…
    Jin has a daddy… who apparently was around AFTER Maya came to Lanthis. Can a golem get pregnant? And who was daddy???

    (Side note: I just +1ed my geekness. I came to a crashing halt at 12:10 at night, ran over to this site… just because I made that connection. Yeah.)

    • SoWhyMe
      August 4, 2010, 2:35 am | # | Reply

      All that would have taken place long before either May or Jin became golems. I doubt Jin can become pregnant or carry STDs, so she’s a pretty safe lay. Well, aside from the super powers anyway. You do not want this woman having uncontrolled orgasmic vaginal contractions.

    • Eee
      August 4, 2010, 7:40 am | # | Reply

      Yes, this is the first hint Jin isn’t the result of parthnogenesis or some bizarre experiment, but that she actually had a father. (Well, ok, that doesn’t RULE OUT bizarre experiment with consequences, particularly if May was the one who wrote the Karma Sutra, but still..). I wonder what happened to him? It doesn’t sound like he was around for the Calendar Machine / Golum nightmare.

      And May breaks Jin’s mind. And irises.

      • eschmenk
        August 4, 2010, 9:30 am | #

        No one was was turned into golems until Jin was 18. There wasn’t any reason to assume that Jin didn’t have a normal father.

      • Fatuncle
        August 4, 2010, 12:35 pm | #

        Returning the favor of yesterday’s link – the only reference to Jin’s dad I’ve found.

      • eschmenk
        August 4, 2010, 11:15 pm | #

        Forgot about that. Thanks.

  11. Sarah
    August 4, 2010, 2:13 am | # | Reply

    Honey, you’re several eons old now, I understand that a woman has needs.

    Still don’t want to talk about it with my MOM!!!!

  12. Ladyfox
    August 4, 2010, 2:39 am | # | Reply

    Love her eyes in that last panel.. “MOooOOM!!!” Priceless…

  13. jwhouk
    August 4, 2010, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    Called it! One “MOOOOOOM!” comin’ up!

  14. kaibyo
    August 4, 2010, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    Hehehe! We’ve all had this experience, one way or another. It’s not so much the fact that Mom knows about noisy sex that brings our brains to a screeching, teeth-rattling halt. It’s the fact that Mom has obviously HAD experience with noisy sex. Cue the all the shuddering “eeeeewwwww!” and all the “NOT MY MOM”‘s!!!!!!” HAHAHAHAHAHA!

  15. Fairportfan
    August 4, 2010, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    As i said.

    • Fairportfan
      August 4, 2010, 6:35 am | # | Reply

      Mo-therrr!

      • jwhouk
        August 4, 2010, 4:04 pm | #

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      • jwhouk
        August 4, 2010, 4:04 pm | #

        (That’s since we can’t dish out Moxanna points here, FPF)

  16. Lee
    August 4, 2010, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    I just love how much Maya’s milking Jin’s embarrassment.

  17. Didodo
    August 4, 2010, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    Then again, maybe Jin has been hanging on to Maya`s shirttails ever since she got her back (understandably so, of course) and Maya is choosing embarrassment as the most tactful tactic to shove Jin back into her own life, and to her much-needed “outlets”.

  18. cenaris
    August 4, 2010, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know why but I find insecure Jin to be very cute, like she needs a big ol’ hug.

  19. Fairportfan
    August 4, 2010, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Kate (wife)often has a similar look when she’s rattling stepdaughter Helen’s cage…

  20. Jon Sloan
    August 4, 2010, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    “MOooooOOMMM!” That’s what one calls “The Generation Gasp”!

  21. The Old Wolf
    August 4, 2010, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    😀 LoL!

    It’s a mindset thing. It goes from generation to generation. Why is it so hard to get one’s head around the fact that our parents are no different than we are in that respect?

    • UglyShirts
      August 4, 2010, 9:14 am | # | Reply

      YOU BITE YOUR TONGUE.

      My parents were just really, really good friends, and stuff.

      Yeah.

      • Fatuncle
        August 4, 2010, 1:20 pm | #

        Friends. With “privileges”.

      • jwhouk
        August 4, 2010, 4:05 pm | #

        I believe the term was “benefits”.

  22. valis_kr3
    August 4, 2010, 10:02 am | # | Reply

    JI’s mom rules!!!!!!!

  23. ziggy78eog
    August 4, 2010, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    Man, and I thought having “the conversation” with my parents was embarrassing. I wonder if Jin’s mother is going to be like this when they are out in public ( and here is to hoping that she is).

  24. NikkTemplar
    August 4, 2010, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

    I…really don’t like Jin’s mom. Something about her…bothers me.

    • SoWhyMe
      August 4, 2010, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

      I agree. Maybe it’s just the way she’s drawn but she looks like she is hiding something and watching what she says. She used to be a master manipulator and liar. May still be. Of course so is Jin.

      • KaiserFrazer67
        August 4, 2010, 11:05 pm | #

        I wondered if anyone was thinking the same thing as I was! Could Mayahuel possibly be at the root of her daughter’s psychological problems?

  25. txmystic
    August 4, 2010, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

    Jin’s eyes in the last panel betray the fact that were it not for Mayahuel’s presence, she would be doing exactly what her mother suggests…

  26. Lisa Marie
    August 4, 2010, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

    AAAND its official..jins mom is my favorite person ever right now hahaha

  27. kingklash
    August 4, 2010, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

    Jin’s lucky Momma May doesn’t have baby pics to show everyone.

    • SoWhyMe
      August 4, 2010, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t know. May had access to really advanced technology (for the day) of all sorts. Perhaps she has a stash of something akin to pictures stored in clay jars somewhere. “And here’s Jin when she stepped out of her diaper and ran into the celebration crowd.”

    • jwhouk
      August 4, 2010, 4:06 pm | # | Reply

      …but perhaps PHIX does… 😉

      • Metroknight
        August 4, 2010, 7:39 pm | #

        Do you think scrapbooks with photos would be something that would end up in the Library with Phix?

      • Fatuncle
        August 4, 2010, 9:00 pm | #

        Huh. Didn’t think of that.

  28. Mick
    August 4, 2010, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm …..Momma what big sharp teeth you have!

    Ok I’m sayin it…Her mom is hot

  29. Alaric
    August 4, 2010, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

    I’m thinking Jin’s reaction stems from her being in Wapsi long enough to pick up some modern mores, that Maya just hasn’t yet acquired (or doesn’t care to).
    So who (or what) is Maya’s outlet right now, I wonder…?

    Oh, and Jin is so cute in that last panel!

  30. Silver C.
    August 4, 2010, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

    This is a refreshing comic. 😀 It’s good to know that even supernatural creatures can still have awkward moments with their mother about boys like the rest of us do. :p

    • kingklash
      August 5, 2010, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      The concept was illustrated perfectly on The Critic.

      “Nobody’s cool when their parents are around.”
      “Not even Sean Connery?”
      “Not even Sean Connery.”

  31. Jon
    August 21, 2010, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    Kinda soothing to know that not even immortals are spared the awkward parent/sex talk haha!

  32. Centaur1971
    October 31, 2010, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    isn’t that just like a mom?

  33. Mutt
    November 19, 2010, 3:33 am | # | Reply

    I once came across a conversation like this between my then girlfriend and her mom as they were making dinner together… I arrived earlier than expected and saw the whole exchange from the living room. Dinner was a bit awkward…

  34. GaijinGuy
    May 29, 2012, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

    Agh, TMI! TMI! Nobody wants to hear their parents talk about sex! There’s just some things the mind isn’t ready to process!

  35. SteamPoweredSunglasses
    May 31, 2012, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    I am falling over laughing.

    “MOM!”

  36. Tindi
    October 18, 2015, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, that’s my mom, too. Apart from the whole “supernatural golem who just returned from being locked in time for however long” part. At least, as far as I know.

    Let’s be fair, though: wouldn’t you want to know that YOUR kid was happy?

  37. Perrin
    June 10, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Just the sight of Jin gobsmacked like that has made my day. I really hope her mom sticks around to bring her these kinds of experiences more often…

  38. Bratty Roger
    February 13, 2022, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

    I love Jin’s expression in the bottom panel.

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