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2013-11-04

by shaenon on November 4, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Moor
    November 4, 2013, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Virginia should really be used to the talk-to-a-hot-man teleportation technique. It happened the first time she met Tip, too.

  2. Treesong
    November 4, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Which is why she recognized it in panel 2.

  3. =Tamar
    November 4, 2013, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Artie is misusing his access to the time machine?

    • mnementh
      November 4, 2013, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

      Nahhh… he doesn’t need it; just a cheap Somebody Else’s Problem Field generator. They’re the bomb for mass distraction, as well as profitable for pickpockets. Just ask anybody who’s experienced the natural SEP field generated by Times Square…

      mnem
      SEP field generators are actually part of the standard toolkit with any standards-compliant time-travel device, and for reasons which should be obvious.

      • Saberbeam
        November 4, 2013, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

        I hope the use of SEP fields does not eliminate the possibility of disguising your time machine as a London police box.

        • iburns
          November 4, 2013, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

          Never heard of a perception filter?

    • Malicron
      April 5, 2016, 4:10 pm | # | Reply

      No, just the teleportation network.

  4. iburns
    November 4, 2013, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Come on Virginia, make your will save vs charm person!

  5. BMunro
    November 4, 2013, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh dear. Tip’s makeout powers are actually capable of warping spacetime, and without his conscious control, either.

    • Candace
      November 4, 2013, 2:20 am | # | Reply

      It’s not Tip, it’s Artie. Apparently Artie’s superpowers trump Tip’s. (And, let’s face it, Mad Science is helpless against Sex Magic. 😉 )

      • BMunro
        November 4, 2013, 3:05 am | # | Reply

        I’m confused. Since when did _Artie_ have magical powers?

        • Danny in Montreal
          November 4, 2013, 8:00 am | # | Reply

          since he gained human-level intelligence, speech, and the ability to shapeshift into a human?

      • Rob, Arbiter of Reality
        November 4, 2013, 3:12 am | # | Reply

        Forget sex magic, this is more along the lines of Pinkie Pie!

        • Quin
          November 4, 2013, 9:26 am | # | Reply

          Reality alteration fixer manipulation event. Just like how some normal people can not see the (normal) extremely weird stuff like a singing dog. Tip’s ability/event is so strong that it could actually involve an eldritch being which was so strange/weird for them that they can not remember/see what had just happened.

          • Matt Mather
            November 4, 2013, 11:31 am | #

            I beleive it’s more along the lines of subtle mind manipulation. Not mind control, but warping the focus of attention. In between panels 3 and 4, Artie must have said something along the lines of “Well, let’s get going” and Tip and Virginia’s reply was “sure, why not”. Their brains, distracted by Artie’s power, just didn’t acknowledge that moving along with Artie contradicted what they were doing until they got to the bar.
            This is also my general interpretation of how Tip’s power works. If his target wants him deep down, their brain loses focus until they get what they want. In this case, Virginia is being dragged along by Tip’s power which is being trumped by Artie. If Artie isn’t careful, he may end up in a threesome.
            Or maybe he wouldn’t mind if Tip’s involved?

        • drachefly
          November 13, 2013, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

          Or both! I’m sure there’s an R34 fanfic in there somewhere.

    • mickeyf
      November 4, 2013, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

      This actually happened to me once. The next thing I knew, I was 70 miles away, and in bed. To this day, decades later, I have no memory of the intervening time it must have taken to get from a to b.

      • iburns
        November 4, 2013, 10:48 pm | # | Reply

        Blame alien abduction?

      • soft
        November 5, 2013, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

        Called too much booze -> blackout :p

  6. Jay Eff
    November 4, 2013, 1:59 am | # | Reply

    What Tip & Dr. Lee don’t realize is that Artie simply carried them to that bar.

    Carrying two people is but a trifle to the Strongest Man in the World, after all.

    • John Campbell
      November 4, 2013, 12:50 pm | # | Reply

      He’s the strongest gerbil in the world, anyway.

      • John Campbell
        November 4, 2013, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, come to think of it, that’s probably not true. I just remembered the ur-gerbils. And I’m not sure if that 50-foot gerbil of doom from that one Sunday was canon or not.

  7. dexitroboper (@dexitroboper)
    November 4, 2013, 5:36 am | # | Reply

    Sorry to not get the joke, but what are “the Cabs” in this context?

    • TheSexyMenhir
      November 4, 2013, 5:41 am | # | Reply

      Booze, in all likelyhood.

    • Barking Monkey
      November 4, 2013, 5:54 am | # | Reply

      Cabs = Cabernet. Artie has spirited them off to the wine bar.

    • Dr. Steve
      November 4, 2013, 8:18 am | # | Reply

      it also suggests that they have been there for a while… one would start with the lighter wines and move to the bolder ones (especially cabs). Mighty generous pours, as well – may add mild inebriation to the equation.

  8. eddurd
    November 4, 2013, 6:17 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Cabaret”, Fred Ebb & John Kander)

    Met up with Artie, we started to talk,
    Now I’m ten blocks away …
    I’ll have a Cabernet or two,
    I’ll have a Cabernet!

    Look now, I’ll stand here, I won’t even walk …
    “Good Lord, you’re right,” you say!
    Let’s have a Cabernet or two,
    Let’s have a Cabernet!

     Just have a drink!
     Don’t try to think!
     Don’t make your head hurt asking why did
     Artie pull the same trick I did!

    Artie has caught us, as if he’s a hawk
    And we’re his helpless prey!
    Let’s have a Cabernet or two!
    I’ll gladly be entrapped with you!
    So let’s have a Cab-er-net!

  9. davidbreslin101
    November 4, 2013, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    I like the visual implication that Artie’s Hot Man Field transmuted the green grass and hills from panel 1 into the wine bottles and picture in panel 2.

  10. Dave Harmon
    November 4, 2013, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    OK, now that’s how you lampshade a Gilligan cut!

  11. iburns
    November 4, 2013, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

    The lesser north american gerbil man claims another victim with it’s hypnotic teleportation powers.

  12. Corey K.
    November 4, 2013, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    Oooh, I know what’s going on. They’re about to learn they’re in a comic strip. Their imagination is no longer filling in the space between panels, so they’re becoming aware of the time jump. The title of this storyline, “My Brother Sam Is Dead,” is a reference to the self-referential and short-lived “Sam’s Strip.”

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QNRGZoc1q48/ULMkeEDZXoI/AAAAAAAAfHs/A9EQ57KubPg/s1600/Sam.jpg

    (No? Oh, okay.)

  13. commodorejohn
    November 4, 2013, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

    That is a mighty fine depiction of your typical central-California winery, if the ones I’ve been taken to are representative.

  14. Shadowmehr
    November 4, 2013, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

    Well, if Ginny was going to get taken through a reality warp, at least those responsible were kind enough to have large amounts of alcohol available afterwards. Some things are just a necessity from a psychological standpoint, if not a physics one.

  15. Dr. Steve
    November 5, 2013, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    A mutant gerbil, a transvestite and a neuroscientist warp into a bar…

  16. darkshallfall
    August 6, 2019, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

    Gosh darnit, there are holes in the 4th wall again. Lemme get my repair kit….

  17. Knuckles
    January 25, 2022, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    Man, if Gilligan had access to these kinds of cuts, being on the island with him wouldn’t be so bad.

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