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2021-08-14

by Jeffrey C. Wells on August 14, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Moe Lane
    August 14, 2021, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    I like that expression in panel 4.

  2. Alphaghoul
    August 14, 2021, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    So why’s this Joshua guy not affected again? Also any relation with Sweetheart’s creator?

    • BMunro
      August 14, 2021, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      Joshua is normal insane, not mad scientist insane.

      (I’m assuming the formulation they’re using is specifically for Mads, not whatever they’re using to cause the nation-wide reality blindness.)

      • awgiedawgie
        August 16, 2021, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

        It’s actually the same formula. It “cures” Madness, but the side effect – which Ira is also making use of – is causing reality blindness. That’s why Helen didn’t want to use it to keep Dave from going Mad.

    • Owls
      August 14, 2021, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      That’s a good question – but the Cure didn’t affect Tip either, and depending on how far it’s spread, it didn’t affect Dr Lee, nor does it seem to affect Mr Green and the A-Sig goons.

      It’s possible they’re inoculated somehow, but it may very well be that people who are, medically speaking, Sane but Just Really Weird are immune?

      • Jim Janney
        August 14, 2021, 1:28 am | # | Reply

        The Cure may be specific to Mads with megalomania, the ones who need to show those fools at (fill in the blank). Tip, for all his oddities, has never tried to assemble an army to take over the world.

        • emusam
          August 14, 2021, 3:41 am | # | Reply

          He did assemble an army who were supposed to take over America, but he gave them to Sweetheart. http://skin-horse.com/comic/folded-back-is/

          Very much not a megalomaniac.

      • CameoAppearance
        August 14, 2021, 1:38 am | # | Reply

        My guess is that they are indeed using something different to cause widespread reality blindness, between it not affecting Joshua (since the Cure hasn’t historically worked on anyone besides Mads) and Mr. Green expressing a bit of uncertainty about whether the gas would work even on a mad genius, which suggests that it’s a new formulation.

        IIRC, the Cure causes reality blindness as a side effect of neutralising Mad Science Disorder (aka Walton’s Disorder in-universe); if you don’t have that particular strain of madness – which makes you “sane” at least in a colloquial sense, no matter how strange or psychologically unwell you might be in other ways, or how much affinity you might have for advanced yet unethical scientific practices in Dr. Lee’s case – then it doesn’t do much of anything. And it doesn’t look like Anasigma’s managed to change that.

    • Bruceski
      August 14, 2021, 4:47 am | # | Reply

      Joshua’s sane, the psychic dogs just talk to him.

      • Shadowmehr
        August 14, 2021, 10:25 am | # | Reply

        So he’s sane, just the situation that is crazy. So S.O.P., really.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 16, 2021, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

          As I mentioned a few days ago, he’s “sane”, as in “not Mad”. But he’s not necessarily “sane”, as in “not insane”.

          Being Mad tends to make one insane, because there’s so much going on in their head that they can’t think like a normal human being. But being insane doesn’t cause one to go Mad.

  3. Robert Nowall
    August 14, 2021, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    Aim for the stars.

  4. s854
    August 14, 2021, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    I’m thinking that the reason for Sundance’s prediction is that, if you don’t shoot the men with beards far enough away, one of the other dogs may try to catch them and bring them back.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 14, 2021, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      I love this theory, and would like to see it happen.

  5. Daibhid C
    August 14, 2021, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    Tune: Congratulations, Cliff Richard

    Evacuation,
    No hesitation,
    Before the gas infects you all with sanity,
    Evacuation,
    Means celebration,
    Once I know that you are all far away from me.

    Who would believe you’d be more danger if not demented?
    I want you some distance from the stuff that you invented.
    Now there’s even less predicting what you might do,
    And so it’s right to,
    Make sure you depart.

    Evacuation,
    You leave this station,
    If you think it means you’re important, fine by me.
    Psychic alsatians,
    Also dalmatians,
    They are the only ones I trust now, don’t you see?

    • Robert Nowall
      August 14, 2021, 11:45 am | # | Reply

      Haven’t heard that in years…but, then, I’m American.

    • maarvarq
      August 15, 2021, 7:57 am | # | Reply

      Well done!

  6. Robert Nowall
    August 14, 2021, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    Into the escape pod they creep. But Ruby’s not taking the leap. Their chance of survival become substantival, so fire them off to the deep!

  7. jdreyfuss
    August 16, 2021, 10:00 am | # | Reply

    Panel 3: Not affected by the gas does not guarantee there is no inherent level of reality blindness present in a Mad individual.

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