The Animaniacs never appealed to me much…probably ’cause they tried to palm them off as the Warner Brothers, and I already knew (of) the real ones before then. Thought the joke was too dumb to watch.
Well, technically the Brutalist architectural movement is a different beast. It’s much maligned for some truly awful buildings, but there are some really really good in there.
Nybrutalism (New Brutalism) is actually a Swedish term, which named the movement.
Worlds so far, some of which may be the same or overlap: the main world of the story (or the one to which we were introduced in the first strip, in case we switched worlds early on without knowing) (1); the world of the authors (2); Lovetron (3); the extirpation VR (4); Aimee’s VR (5); Nick’s training VR (6); if the authors’ world counts and the VRs count, Leo and HT’s comic counts (7); Sweetheart’s nightmare VR (8); did Whimsy have a VR or enough of a movie shown to count? (9); Rebecca Wilkin’s world (10); possibly alternate worlds Jonah sees (11-X); ditto what Mr. Greene sees, assuming he’s got the same power as Jonah from the Gate (Y-Z).
Whimsy’s VR is the same as Aimee’s VR. Jonah doesn’t see other worlds. He sees only possible futures extending from the present in this world. The Second Gate, on the other hand, allowed access to entire alternate timelines extending from infinity past, which was, in effect, multiple worlds, even though they actually were just copies of the same single world.
Don’t forget the universes Dave Davenport uses for his time machine! Which may or may not overlap with the worlds accessed by the Second Gate. If we’re using “world” as shorthand for “universe” then Lovetron is probably a part of the main universe and it might not be a bad idea to define what we do mean by “world” to avoid confusion in discussion. @_@
By “world” I mean “world”, not “universe”. Which means that the author’s world doesn’t count, because the authors are in our universe, looking at the Narboniverse through the lens of the paper. Nor does Leo’s comic, unless it is set in the Narboniverse. The VRs are only environments, some of which – like Nick’s homunculus VR – were simply simulations of the existing world. If they are simulations of different worlds – like Whimsy World – they can be considered as different worlds. They universes Dave drains to power the time machine are different from their own, so they don’t count. And the Second Gate doesn’t access different universes. It accesses the same world, but in an alternate timeline, which is, in effect, a different world, but in reality, it’s not. And since the Second Gate was destroyed, there’s not much point in continuing to consider it anyway. We’ve seen the Rebecca Wilkin version of their world, so it counts. But even though there are infinite possible alternate timelines, without the Second Gate, we won’t be seeing any of them. As for Lovetron, we’re still not completely certain whether it’s actually a different planet, or simply a remote location on that one.
i was about to comment that they’re getting a bit off track (they should see about rescuing Dr Lee and Nick before going off on any picaresque road trips), but then a giant robot roaming the land is likely to bring Asig to _them_, everyone else being weirdness-blind.
I dunno Marcie; I feel like Bill Bixby was less likely to be taken out by hellfire missiles than an awol walking federal building with a massive hitting arm, fissile material inside or not.
Heh that second stomp made me think Tigerlily had converted a chimney/smokestack thing into a cigar for the robot… and now I think the robot needs a giant cigar
Fourth-panel grumpy face notwithstanding, I can’t help but picture Shaenon giggling madly at the idea of Annex One stomping around the countryside. I’m reminded entirely too much of this Narbonic strip.
There are times when this sort of thing doesn’t bother me, and there are times that it does.
Tigerlily talked about building a giant robot, and then a short time later just had one. I kinda suspected that Annex One had been built around the remains of a giant robot, and that was going to be discovered, and “building” the robot would just be a matter of restarting it and maybe getting rid of some confining superstructure.
But no. Tigerlily talks about it, and then it’s just there. There’s no processes involved. Did she literally just transmogrify the building into a robot by sheer force of will? Were her smaller robots doing some or all of the gruntwork for her? Was there something else that we weren’t shown?
My Disbelief: Sorry, I’m not feeling the whole up-in-the-air thing at the moment. I think I’ll hang out here and gripe.
I wonder if Tigerlily might have been planning and working on this for a long time, since sometime during the period when she first made Annex One her base.
There’s no indication of how much time elapsed or what events occurred between the last panel of Monday’s strip and the first panel of Tuesday’s. Insert whatever you feel necessary.
Well, there is an oblique and vague indication of how much time might have passed. There was a small amount of panic last week, on account of a hurricane bearing down on them. Now it seems to be raining, but not nearly enough for the storm to actually be upon them, so there can’t have been much time that has passed.
But as was suggested above, Tigerlily could have been working toward this for quite some time. She may have had a lot of the infrastructure, but lacked the requisite Mojo (not to mention the nuclear reactors) to make it work.
She wasn’t able to build giant robots until she got her mojo recharge just now though. It doesn’t seem like she can have been working on a giant robot before that.
Lots of hats! Hats for every occasion and holiday!
Now it’s A-1 vs A-Sig
Didn’t you get the Mandela memo? Dashes are out, it’s now A1. and ASig, bet that’s all changed too, check the archives
Please, please tell me that Anasigma weaponized and robocized their own office building for the ultimate climax of this comic. Pretty please?
It took me a second to realize that when Tigerlily said “cats”, she didn’t mean just the four-legged fuzzy kind.
H. T. was looking for a little assistance.
And that’s why ♪ everybody wants to be a cat ♪
But she could if she *wants* to, right? ……….just not H.T., please.
Surprised that Kitirena didn’t chime in on this one.
Wasn’t Hitty promised a hitting arm? Is that it?
“I hate you.” Yosemite Sam to Bugs Bunny.
Also Daffy Duck to Bugs Bunny. Quite a lot of people to Bugs Bunny actually.
Satan himself tried to get Bugs to join his cause in one episode.
On the other hand, Satan threw Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner out of hell for freezing it over. Does that make them better or worse than Bugs?
Yes.
The Animaniacs never appealed to me much…probably ’cause they tried to palm them off as the Warner Brothers, and I already knew (of) the real ones before then. Thought the joke was too dumb to watch.
If hats are to be involved, we then must remember the First Rule of the Jägers:
Any plan in which you lose your hat is a bad plan.
Indeed, that rule applies to every universe… even in real life.
“Take your hat off…” – Carrie, “Smokey and the Bandit”
“You can leave your hat on.”
–Joe Cocker, via the “9.5 Weeks” soundtrack
Written by Randy Newman, who does a mean version of it himself.
“Why do they always pick on my hat?”
Transforming society through massive blocks of spring-reinforced concrete, three compact fusion piles and a surprising portion of Funk!
A magnificent depiction of Annex One! It is still recognizably a building while inspiring shock and awe!
I hope it has good insulation, else the ride will be rather drafty.
“Brutalist Architecture” comes from the French word for raw, as in bare concrete:. Learning something new every day.
Also used for champagne, crémant or cider to notify they’re a bit less sweet. You’re welcome.
At long last I have a name for the architecture of the West Wall coastal defenses built by the Nazis in France during WWII. It was all raw concrete.
Well, technically the Brutalist architectural movement is a different beast. It’s much maligned for some truly awful buildings, but there are some really really good in there.
Nybrutalism (New Brutalism) is actually a Swedish term, which named the movement.
Just say no to little hats.
Even to fezzes? Fezzes are cool.
Well,never fezzes, other small hats,bur never fezzes!
How about BIG hate?
Hats of course. Stupid Spell Chick.
Spell Chick is a batch… er, butch… oh, you know.
Spell check,like karma is a female dog.
Wouldn’t it be dogma that’s a female dog?
Except for Sweetheart’s ma, I mean, who was a wire monkey.
Which is why lots of people call it Auto-Incorrect.
THE HAAAATTTSSS. OBSERVE.
I miss Hannelore.
She’ll be back, when we least expect it. Possibly also astride a war machine of some kind.
Worlds so far, some of which may be the same or overlap: the main world of the story (or the one to which we were introduced in the first strip, in case we switched worlds early on without knowing) (1); the world of the authors (2); Lovetron (3); the extirpation VR (4); Aimee’s VR (5); Nick’s training VR (6); if the authors’ world counts and the VRs count, Leo and HT’s comic counts (7); Sweetheart’s nightmare VR (8); did Whimsy have a VR or enough of a movie shown to count? (9); Rebecca Wilkin’s world (10); possibly alternate worlds Jonah sees (11-X); ditto what Mr. Greene sees, assuming he’s got the same power as Jonah from the Gate (Y-Z).
Did I miss any?
Whimsy’s VR is the same as Aimee’s VR. Jonah doesn’t see other worlds. He sees only possible futures extending from the present in this world. The Second Gate, on the other hand, allowed access to entire alternate timelines extending from infinity past, which was, in effect, multiple worlds, even though they actually were just copies of the same single world.
we already established they can travel to parallel universes, why stop?
Don’t forget the universes Dave Davenport uses for his time machine! Which may or may not overlap with the worlds accessed by the Second Gate. If we’re using “world” as shorthand for “universe” then Lovetron is probably a part of the main universe and it might not be a bad idea to define what we do mean by “world” to avoid confusion in discussion. @_@
By “world” I mean “world”, not “universe”. Which means that the author’s world doesn’t count, because the authors are in our universe, looking at the Narboniverse through the lens of the paper. Nor does Leo’s comic, unless it is set in the Narboniverse. The VRs are only environments, some of which – like Nick’s homunculus VR – were simply simulations of the existing world. If they are simulations of different worlds – like Whimsy World – they can be considered as different worlds. They universes Dave drains to power the time machine are different from their own, so they don’t count. And the Second Gate doesn’t access different universes. It accesses the same world, but in an alternate timeline, which is, in effect, a different world, but in reality, it’s not. And since the Second Gate was destroyed, there’s not much point in continuing to consider it anyway. We’ve seen the Rebecca Wilkin version of their world, so it counts. But even though there are infinite possible alternate timelines, without the Second Gate, we won’t be seeing any of them. As for Lovetron, we’re still not completely certain whether it’s actually a different planet, or simply a remote location on that one.
Brutalist architecture? Jeff, you are more evil than I suspected!
Still don’t know if they incorporated the basement into the robot.(I wanna know if there will be cyborg fish commandos in the Final Battle).
i was about to comment that they’re getting a bit off track (they should see about rescuing Dr Lee and Nick before going off on any picaresque road trips), but then a giant robot roaming the land is likely to bring Asig to _them_, everyone else being weirdness-blind.
I dunno Marcie; I feel like Bill Bixby was less likely to be taken out by hellfire missiles than an awol walking federal building with a massive hitting arm, fissile material inside or not.
Depends on how ticked off General Ross was that episode.
The last panel was by no means the first fourth-wall breaking appearance by The Creators in this strip, but it may be the best …
Hurrah for lap auditors.
I’m sorry, is this the same Shaenon who twelve years ago assigned *herself* this project? http://narbonic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/061007.jpg
Heh that second stomp made me think Tigerlily had converted a chimney/smokestack thing into a cigar for the robot… and now I think the robot needs a giant cigar
Brutalist architecture? Is it even possible to make that groovy/funky?
If anything, it demands it.
Fourth-panel grumpy face notwithstanding, I can’t help but picture Shaenon giggling madly at the idea of Annex One stomping around the countryside. I’m reminded entirely too much of this Narbonic strip.
Trying to remember where there are exterior shots of Annex One, I mean, before it went for a walk. Found a couple, but not a whole overview.
There are times when this sort of thing doesn’t bother me, and there are times that it does.
Tigerlily talked about building a giant robot, and then a short time later just had one. I kinda suspected that Annex One had been built around the remains of a giant robot, and that was going to be discovered, and “building” the robot would just be a matter of restarting it and maybe getting rid of some confining superstructure.
But no. Tigerlily talks about it, and then it’s just there. There’s no processes involved. Did she literally just transmogrify the building into a robot by sheer force of will? Were her smaller robots doing some or all of the gruntwork for her? Was there something else that we weren’t shown?
My Disbelief: Sorry, I’m not feeling the whole up-in-the-air thing at the moment. I think I’ll hang out here and gripe.
As Helen was fond of pointing out, Mad science is not limited by the “possible”. If you don’t understand, it just suggests that you’re too sane.
NO ONE SAY “IMPOSSIBLE!”
No such thing as impossible, merely how improbable it is.
Shadowmehr: You’re not saying that it is not possible for something to be impossible, I hope?
I wonder if Tigerlily might have been planning and working on this for a long time, since sometime during the period when she first made Annex One her base.
And look at the top! The centipedes have reconstructed their scale city of the entirety of Rome, in office supplies! (Now, with superglue.)
Er… silverfish. The centipedes have instead created a scale reproduction of St. Jacobs.
There’s no indication of how much time elapsed or what events occurred between the last panel of Monday’s strip and the first panel of Tuesday’s. Insert whatever you feel necessary.
Well, there is an oblique and vague indication of how much time might have passed. There was a small amount of panic last week, on account of a hurricane bearing down on them. Now it seems to be raining, but not nearly enough for the storm to actually be upon them, so there can’t have been much time that has passed.
But as was suggested above, Tigerlily could have been working toward this for quite some time. She may have had a lot of the infrastructure, but lacked the requisite Mojo (not to mention the nuclear reactors) to make it work.
She wasn’t able to build giant robots until she got her mojo recharge just now though. It doesn’t seem like she can have been working on a giant robot before that.
Et tu, reply function?
That was meant to be a reply to Owlmirror. This is meant to be a reply to my immediately previous comment.
Walking the Earth from Caine from Kung Fu would also be a valid Tigerlily reference.
I love how much Robin appears in these fourth wall breaks.
Yessssss….The little hatssssssssss!