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2014-10-29

by shaenon on October 29, 2014 at 4:36 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Blayzeing
    October 29, 2014, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    D:

  2. Michael Brewer
    October 29, 2014, 4:45 am | # | Reply

    ……I see they haven’t worked out all the kinks in the Cure yet.

    • Kitirena
      May 17, 2016, 7:04 am | # | Reply

      Uh, correct me if I’m wrong, but no members of The Kinks were ever IN The Cure, nyao.

  3. Robert Nowall
    October 29, 2014, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    Who’s the background chick in the stylish strait-jacket?

  4. Zixinus
    October 29, 2014, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Bets that she is Clueless too. She probably thinks her friends are just mental patients rather than MAD SCIENTIST mental patients.

  5. Rex Vivat
    October 29, 2014, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    They let them keep smartphones? With security this low, how do they ever manage to keep mads in here?

  6. Dr. Steve
    October 29, 2014, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    Augh! Its the 80s??!! OMG – what happens when there is a dance-off with each decade dancing differently? Oh… sorry… the mind-door was open for a moment there… I’ll go back to my pad (ded cell) now and put on that snazzy jacket.

  7. Dr. Steve
    October 29, 2014, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    or, in some strange way, does the technology (along with the slang, music, and clothing, hair style) of each decade represent a certain madness for the other decades?

  8. Quin
    October 29, 2014, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    wait… is the last one current style hipster or took a cure mad scientist?

    • oneuniverse2
      October 29, 2014, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      I’d bet FUTURE style hipster having a flashback.

    • Author X
      October 29, 2014, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

      Debbi was the 80’s-tastic chick that Tigerlilly and Imogene were talking to in the last aside to the asylum. You can compare her appearance and speech here:

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/look-look-look/

      Flipping back and forth between this comic and that one is kind of spooky.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        October 29, 2014, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

        It’s the “they got him for real this time” scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

      • Anson
        October 29, 2014, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

        I only just figured out that was Debbi…

        “They cured her, and now they’re going to cure me! Oh my Gooood!”

        sorry.

      • Dave
        October 30, 2014, 2:32 am | # | Reply

        Are we sure that’s Debbi? The skin tones are different. Pink-Hair version has a darker complexion.

  9. Eddurd
    October 29, 2014, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    Quin, that’s Debbi … the pink-haired stuck-in-the-1980’s (formerly) mad scientist. Looks like they got her with The Cure …

    (TUNE: “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”, Crystal Gayle)

    Eighties girl … went away,
    She came back … just today …
    Seems they’ve toned her down,
    Because they turned her pink hair brown!

    Imogene … wants to stay,
    ‘Lily says, “Run away!”
    Debbi wears a frown,
    Because they turned her pink hair brown!

     Clothing is normal, brain has been fried!
     Gave her the Cure, now she’s been yuppified!
     Doesn’t watch “Facts of Life” or MTV!
     Phone is a Samsung Galaxy!

    Lost her style, lost her groove …
    Billy Joel … would approve!
    Now this girl’s “uptown” …
    It seems they turned her pink hair …
    Man, it’s really unfair!
    Now they’ve turned her pink hair brown!

    • Tom Flapwell
      October 29, 2014, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      You did great as always, Ed, but I thought you’d spoof a Cure song.

    • Prodigal
      October 31, 2014, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      CURSE YOU, ROBERT SMITH!

  10. oneuniverse2
    October 29, 2014, 10:06 am | # | Reply

    How am I supposed to post on this website without a petabyte connection? Did I just reveal I’m from the future or am I having a flashback?

  11. Daniel
    October 29, 2014, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    Oh my god… This is the WORST POSSIBLE THING!

    • waytoomanyUIDs
      October 29, 2014, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      I’d argue that Daylight Savings Time is the worst possible idea (that doesn’t involve millions of deaths), but The Cure (for Mad Science, not the band) comes pretty close

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 29, 2014, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

      I’ll play Devil’s Advocate here and ask “Is it?”. Othar Tryggvassen, (Gentleman Adventurer!) might disagree and argue that it’s a bit more humane then what he would do with Sparks if he were allowed his way.

      It’s bad to us because we like both Tigerlily and Imogene and know enough about them to know that they’re more or less on the side of Good but the majority of Madboys and Madgirls could possibly be dropped off the planet with no notable loss to the human race as a whole. Just how many times do Scranton or Detroit need to be destroyed by Mads anyway? o_O

      • Rex Vivat
        October 29, 2014, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

        Jones is most definitely NOT in the side of good. I don’t know what made you think that, but it’s wrong. I don’t think Imogene is, either, but at least she tried (tries?).

      • oneuniverse2
        October 30, 2014, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        Couldn’t they just use a pendant, like they did on Agatha, in that case?

        • Rex Vivat
          October 30, 2014, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

          Not really. the pendant worked only while she wasn’t really awake yet. Once that happened, while it still worked for… other things (don’t wanna spoil anyone), it didn’t suppress her abilities nor her urges anymore.

    • irdburns
      October 30, 2014, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      The trouble is that mad scientists are themselves malevolent, but they create wonders and the cure is more or less (on the less side) lobotomizing them. So we have dangerous, charismatic people who we like (sometimes) running around destroying things and killing people (awful) and making really neat non-human people to share the world with us (amazing).

      Complicating things is that the world in the Narbonverse is explicitely irrational. Sane Science is just the tip of the iceberg and only mad scientists can see the truth of things. That’s why their creations work.

      If only there was a way to cure the egoism, selfishness, and megalomania that comes with being a mad scientist rather than shut it all down.

      • Landis963
        October 30, 2014, 11:18 am | # | Reply

        If all the cured, well, cured was the evil part of being a mad scientist, we’d end up with a bunch of Dr K.s and Little Jimmies, as seen here: http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=48711

  12. Marisa Mockery
    October 29, 2014, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

    Tigerlily and Imogene need to get out fast! I like Imogene. I don’t want her to get normal’d! She’ll never find her indestructible husband that way ):

    • Rex Vivat
      October 29, 2014, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      Then again, she’d be less normal’d than Debbi… I mean, she was originally from the 50’s but was sent forward in time by an accident involving, IIRC, quantum souffle.

  13. Pygar
    October 29, 2014, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

    Now, what mad do we know who is brilliant enough to invent a cure for the cure?

    • Sheik
      October 29, 2014, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

      Someone who touts pink-heart evil perhaps?

      • Rex Vivat
        October 29, 2014, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

        Well, her initial cure was more a treatment than a cure, really. The subject needed to keep taking it to remain stable. (WARNING: Narbonic spoiler) If this one is the same, then you just need to get her out of their reach for a while.

        • Towering Barbarian
          October 29, 2014, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

          *nods in agreement with Rex*

          One important element of hope: Debbie understood what Imogene was saying and answered it properly in context. That implies the 80s girl is still there beneath it all . ^_^

        • irdburns
          October 30, 2014, 12:00 pm | # | Reply

          The Cure in X Men turned out the same way though didn’t it, at least in the movies? People affected by it eventually recovered. Which actually makes it MORE useful, oddly enough.

  14. Shadowmehr
    October 29, 2014, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

    Panel 4, Tigerlily’s expression says it all. She recognizes what was done to/for Debbi, and knows this is her future if she doesn’t get the heck out. It very neatly encapsulates her entire predicament there, as well as what awaits all the madboyz and madgirlz if Anasigma manages to get their/its way.

    Oooh, I feel a frission of excitement at where this is going 😀

  15. Guesticus
    October 29, 2014, 9:22 pm | # | Reply

    Is that really Debbi? or just some random Mad?

  16. simondavidthomas
    November 4, 2014, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

    Fornax Level sounds a lot more pervy than it probably is if you’ve ever played Mass Effect 2…

  17. Shane Wegner
    November 7, 2014, 2:35 am | # | Reply

    I accept that “Grody to the Max” is an obscenely obscure, retro Peanuts Teacher call-out.

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