2014-08-09
Art for today brought to you one last time by Dazhbug! Thanks again, Dazhbug, and welcome to the wonderful world[1] of sequential art! As before, y’all may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror. Stay tuned next week for our next guest artist!
[1] world may not actually be wonderful
Thanks, Dazhbug! The art was very nice.
You are most welcome, and thank YOU for the kind words! In perfect seriousness, a few happy remarks are always appreciated by artists of every stripe, and a hats off to the fans for making my run a pleasant one (mostly, anyway, but there will always be the odd internet troll or three).
While I’m at it, thanks to Mike Lynch and Justin Hall as well.
These have been an especially adorable yet disturbing two weeks.
Awww, thanks Shaenon! Higher praise cannot be expected in service to Project Skin Horse.
And expect more fan-art in the future!
If this is Canon – speech patterns have me REALLY curious about Nera’s mother’s identity. Speaks like a villain who know the secret side of the Government. Formal speech – very little informality – makes me default into thinking British or (faint) German accented English of the ‘Posh’ variety (reserved for nobles, highly educated, spies, or villains).
I’m concerned about the rapping whale. Are they just abandoning the rapping whale, too?
Well, they’re just a couple of average teenagers, and Nera’s mother is far too busy with her own projects to help out. What are they supposed to do?
Alright, this wraps it up for me, barring some sketches and such that either Jeff will get for Sundays or I’ll put up on my deviantart. Thanks so, so much for having me! Words cannot express how much fan squeeing there was when Jeff asked me if I could help out this month, so double-extra thanks to both him and Shaenon for the opportunity. I hope you and the wee one are well, ma’am!
Thanks also for all the feedback and comments over the two weeks; despite some trolls, you all have been great folk, and I hope to see you all around!
It was at this point that I finally realized that the fans had taken over the Narboniverse franchise completely, granted I’m a little slow to catch on, but hey, good job Dazhbug and Jeff.
Nera’s mom’s awareness of secret government departments is as worrying as her use of endearments
Man, I’m sorry to say it, but I can’t read this comic at all, the text is tiny and blurry….. 🙁
Follow Jeffrey’s link to the GoComics mirror and click on that cartoon for a larger version.
The clues mount up: Nera’s mum has brown hair about shoulder length, and calls people “pumpkin.” Come on, we can solve this!
Nice body language on Jonah and Nera here.
I’m still not convinced she’s one of the Helens Narbon, but her personality does seem similar. Perhaps she’s another mad scientist who’s particularly lucid, like the Helens or Madblood.
Well, Nera’s mom does have a point about the hotel. Giant brains with mouse neurons do not make for good customer service. Then again, the hotel may have hired Daisychain to make sure the residents all fill out those comment cards positively and give only good Yelp reviews. He/she/they might have just taken advantage of Jonah’s and Nera’s ability to see him/her/them and well, as the trope says, hilarity did ensue.
That’s the answer. Walk away, check out, and when somebody else gets ensnared, pretend you don’t know anything.
They could at least suggest fumigation.
Thanks to Dazhbug for the last couple of weeks’ art. If it’s not quite up to Shaenon’s professional level, it’s far better than a lot of other webcomics, and quite charming in its own way.
On Nera’s mom: I suspect we won’t see her face until Shaenon returns to doing the art. And she may not be someone we’ve seen before per se, but if not, she’ll bear a strong resemblance to someone we’ve seen in Narbonic or Skin Horse (or Li’l Mell or Smithson?) — a sister or clone or something of someone we’ve met. Possibly re-reading the mad science conference storyline in Narbonic will turn up some candidates.
The type of mad science we have hints of her doing doesn’t suggest a Narbon, nor do most of her mannerisms and speech patterns. How much do we know about Madblood’s family other than his mother? Could he have a sister or cousin (or Y-chromosome-changed-to-X clone) who’s also into mad computer science?
>> (or Y-chromosome-changed-to-X clone)
aaaand now I’m hearing Isaac Asimov’s lecherous filk on the subject. Aaaaagh!
–Dave