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Shaenon: Yes, someone specifically requested Unity eating a hot dog. No, I don’t ask questions. I did Chicago style because they’re more fun to draw.
Channing: And also delicious. I do enjoy my hot dogs dragged through the garden, and kudos to the man who thought of putting two different preparations of cucumber on a hot dog and then said “nah, not enough cucumber” and went for three.
Today I love the backer who requested the Killotron robot. I was just posting about those guys in the Patreon blog a few weeks back and I was like man, I miss those guys. Ten thousand points to you. In fact, let’s do this Oprah style and give ten thousand points to everyone here. Thank you, person who requested hot dog Unity; and thank you, two people who requested hot smart dudes (one of whom is technically a gerbil).
I like the Sergio one.
Sergio’s a hot little number.
Thanks, Unity, now I’m hungry.
Wasn’t that 3 Tomato slices and 1 Cucumber/Pickle slice (the thing that looks like a Moustache on the other side being the Cuke, unless that’s supposed to be a Moustache in which case never mind)?
When you can’t get brains, I suppose a hot dog with the works is the next best thing. It is a hot dog, right? Could be a brat…
“Stuart Little?” And is that the smiley face with the bullet in the center of the forehead?
Robert, it’s a three-eyed smiley face. Showed up frequently in “Narbonic”. Hey Shaenon, how’s the new archive for Narbonic coming?
Much too used to seeing it the other way. Then again, I’ve often wondered about that thing’s, er, ethnic origins…
It’s right here! http://narbonic.com/
Matter of detail. Also I just noticed it’s Unity as Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor Who…
Narbonic’s back online?
Narbonic’s back online! With the comments and everything!
The three-eyed smiley face goes back to at least 1997 in Warren Ellis’ and Darick Robertson’ Transmetropolitan.
I’m pretty sure I saw it around F/SF cons well before that. Along with other variations. Such as the unsmiley face with “Have A Day” on it.
Looks like the Transmetropolitan 3 eyed smiley was 3 tall but narrow eyes straight across. This one, Shaenon originated for her North of Space strip from high school and the smiley with Mell made the leap into Narbonic predating the symbol in the movie Evolution in 2001.
Oops, seems the server doesn’t like the extra slash for the North of Space link, use http://www.narbonic.com/oldstuff.html instead
Around the early days of Narbonic, the movie “Evolution” used a three-eyed smiley face on its posters, which worried me. Then nobody cared about that movie so it was okay.
I watched the TV Show as a teenager! It was marginally better.
I’m sure the current story line doesn’t have time to show all the alternatives for our characters, but it could be fun fan-fiction to create another Artie.
The alternate Artie and Sergio were there at the beginning of this chapter, along with the alternate Unity Mirror, Mirror