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2014-07-01

by shaenon on July 1, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Grillo Parlante
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  1. kicking_k
    July 1, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Oh, Nera, I missed you! And Jonah too…
    I was still catching up with the archives when they had their previous storyline, and it’s just as well, because if I’d had to wait to find out what happened to them it would have been just TOO stressful.

  2. Ken
    July 1, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Nice to know Foot is still walking – hopping? – the beat.

    • coy
      July 1, 2014, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      i LOVE foot, so tickled to hear he’s doing his thang with a certain experimental friend 🙂

      • Rex Vivat
        July 1, 2014, 11:05 am | # | Reply

        EVERYONE loves Foot. Anyone who ever says otherwise doesn’t know Foot and/or is lying.

        • Frank Hightower
          July 1, 2014, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

          Foot?! I hate foot! …who is Foot?

          • Parchment Scroll
            July 1, 2014, 6:52 pm | #

            Foot is… Foot. Here’s one of his appearances in Narbonic. http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=12587

          • Rex Vivat
            July 1, 2014, 7:20 pm | #

            Since it was an answer to my comment, I assumed it was facetious. If I didn’t, I’d have linked to the exact same week, but probably starting from Thursday’s strip.

  3. John Campbell
    July 1, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Foot! Is Zeta still with him?

    • glitterboy2098
      July 1, 2014, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      probably. why break up a great team?

    • Seph
      July 1, 2014, 4:33 am | # | Reply

      I assume she needs to be there to do the typing—giant robot feet are not known for being terribly highly endowed in the finger department.

    • Shadowmehr
      July 1, 2014, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

      Honestly, I’ve been expecting Zeta to show up sooner rather than later than this. A gonzo journalist with a talent for reporting on mad science would be perfect for making interviews with certain government agencies. Skin Horse isn’t the top of the list, but they’re the ones most likely to let things slip.

      Unless she’s interviewing Gavotte at full mental capacity, but that goes without saying.

  4. ShinyHappyGoth
    July 1, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Does the celery, in fact, stalk at midnight?

    • GDwarf
      July 1, 2014, 1:43 am | # | Reply

      My question exactly!

    • Burning
      July 1, 2014, 8:16 am | # | Reply

      Well played, sir and/or madam.

    • Manifesta
      July 1, 2014, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

      If that’s a Bunnicula reference, you’ve made my day!

  5. Eric Burns-White
    July 1, 2014, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    FOOT!!!!

    • Beachfox
      July 1, 2014, 2:14 am | # | Reply

      FOOT!!!

      FOOT REPORT TRUTH OTHERS NOT WANT FOOT REPORT!

      • Prodigal
        July 1, 2014, 2:48 am | # | Reply

        FOOT BURY LEDE… BY STOMPING IT INTO GROUND,

    • Pat Myers
      July 1, 2014, 10:05 am | # | Reply

      FOOOOOOT!

  6. Robert Nowall
    July 1, 2014, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Clark / Lex? Ew.

    • Candace
      July 1, 2014, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      That.

    • Towering Barbarian
      July 1, 2014, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Lex and Lana on the other hand might have some interesting possibilities! ^_^

      • matt w
        July 1, 2014, 2:20 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work….

        (Oliver/Lionel FTW)

    • maarvarq
      July 1, 2014, 7:00 am | # | Reply

      It takes all kinds. Chloe/Lana strikes me as more aesthetic, but then I am a heterosexual male *shrug*

      • Candace
        July 2, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

        I could actually see those two bonding over being annoyed with Clark. ;-D

    • Daibhid C
      July 1, 2014, 8:07 am | # | Reply

      If this comes as a surprise to you, you clearly don’t read TVTropes. Clark/Lex takes up almost as much space in the discussion of Foe Yay as the Doctor/the Master; a ship where one of the canon writers has said their relationship only makes sense as “bitter exes”.

      Not that Foe Yay ever makes any sense to me in any event. I’ve heard there is Discworld Susan/Teatime fic and I was just NOOOO!!

      • Robert Nowall
        July 1, 2014, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

        I didn’t say it came to a surprise to me. I just said “Ew.” After all that “K / S” stuff, fanfic where anybody hooks up with anybody isn’t really a shocker anymore.

      • WJS
        July 12, 2019, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

        For crack M/M pairings, the one I always think of is Batman/Joker. As a one-sided pairing, it almost makes sense.

    • Windy Wanderings
      July 1, 2014, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      Well in the first few Seasons it less Foe Yay and more just Ho Yay.

  7. George the Archon
    July 1, 2014, 4:22 am | # | Reply

    I’m with Eric.

    FOOT!!

  8. Eddurd
    July 1, 2014, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, The Beatles)

    There’s Jonah … and there’s Nera!
    For truth, they’re in pursuit!
    Let them make … one thing clearer,
    They want to be like Foot!
    That robot part, so cu-u-u-u-ute …
    They want to be like Foot!

    She’s driven … to distraction!
    They’re readerships minute!
    Poor Nera … wants some action!
    She wants to be like Foot!
    From Nome to Nunavu-u-u-u-ut …
    She wants to be like Foot!

     They’ll find the stories Jonah senses
     In these towns …
     ’Cause they can u-til-ize past tenses,
     And pronouns!
     And pronouns!
     And pronouns!

    Enlightening … ev’ry reader,
    With hidden facts astute!
    Her slash fic’s … their loss leader,
    So they can be like Foot!
    Their romance taking roo-oo-oo-oo-oot,
    Like Zeta did with Foot!
    They want to be like Foo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot!

    • Manifesta
      July 1, 2014, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      Bravo, Ed, and don’t we all want to be like Foot?

      You know, Jeff probably threw in “Foot” as a funny aside. Now everyone’s going “Foooooot!” and Jeff’s probably thinking “Oh crap, what have I done?” But yeah, I’d love to see Zeta and Foot again, too.

      • John Campbell
        July 1, 2014, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

        I’m not betting that Jeff didn’t know exactly what kind of reaction that’d get. I mean, he was a Narbonic fan, too.

        My own writing experience has taught me that it’s well worth throwing little details like that out there. If you don’t find a use for them later, well, it was an amusing throwaway. A nod and tip of the hat to the Narbonic fandom, in this case. If you do find a use for them, it makes you look like a brilliant plotting genius when it all comes together in the end, when really you might be as surprised by how neatly some things fit in as your readers. And the more stuff you throw out there, the more likely that you’ll be able to use some of it…

        And, yeah, I’ve been saying all along – or at least since Artie confirmed that this is in fact the Narboniverse – that we could use some Zeta up in here. What’s a shadow government conspiracy without intrepid shadow journalists who got too close to the truth?

  9. Blayzeing
    July 1, 2014, 9:12 am | # | Reply

    I used to have recurring nightmares about a pink fluffy sock that would kill my friends and family. You have no idea how much that third panel messed with me.

  10. Ser Pentrose
    July 1, 2014, 10:58 am | # | Reply

    I find myself wondering if the Celery Stalkers are, in fact, sapient celery. Unless shown otherwise in the comic I shall assume they are.

    Also: I almost SQUEEED at the mention of Foot.

  11. Alexis
    July 1, 2014, 11:11 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, I’m all excited about the mention of Hodags. Even if it is just to confirm that they’re fictional 🙂

    • Daniel Ross
      July 1, 2014, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

      That they’re *still* fictional. 🙂

      Mind you, in the Narboniverse, continued fictionality is this sort of thing that SHOULD be confirmed every once in a while. They’re doing the inglorious but necessary groundwork of shadow-journalism.

  12. sbaker
    July 1, 2014, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    I’m so glad to see I wasn’t the only one whose first reaction to this strip was “Foot!”

  13. mickeyf
    July 1, 2014, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

    For a blink, I thought that last panel was Shaenon and Jeff brainstorming.

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