I think we’re still on the “souped up microwave” stage. She’s not quite ready to crack, but oh, she’s standing on the edge, and sanity is like gravity. I don’t quite think this is the ‘push’ yet.
I think it’s past that. The Brain Factory lacked an interdimensional portal, but it did produce an endless fountain of brains. (“Boston commons mysteriously buried under synthetic brains, story on page 7B.”) I’d say that was well up into the nearly-broken range already.
Now, though… she really sounds Mad, almost ready to denounce The Fools At The Institute.
She clearly is mad, but she has the same sort of madness as is induced by the Bursar’s dried frog pills (I surely don’t need to give any more references than that in this crowd): she’s so delusional that she believes that she’s sane.
It’s been said the line between genius and madness is thinner than most think. Dr. Lee’s great gift is to jump that line like a jump rope pretty much at will.
That said, I think she’s about to trip over that line at last with this scheme.
I’m gonna try to tell my professors that. Classes will be so much cooler if they say “and if hypothesis is normally distributed… we can form a superhero team!”
There have been many, many bizarre little articles in New Scientist magazine where I’ve half expected to read: “‘This opens up exciting new avenues for the field of Subterranean Armies of Destruction,’ commented Dr McBloodhunter, who was not involved in this research.”
Well based on Nick’s rather low opinion of his current team, anything would probably be a step up to him. Not much of a step necessarily, but still… I imagine that we’d all quite enjoy it though.
Don’t want competition, Shelby? (This is a spoiler. If you think you know what it spoils, you’re probably wrong. If you think you don’t know what it spoils, you’re still probably wrong. If you think Shelby was in narbonic, you’re definitely wrong.)
im geting the same feeling I got in my gut that I had just before lovelace showed dave the alice in wonderland quote.
I think we’re still on the “souped up microwave” stage. She’s not quite ready to crack, but oh, she’s standing on the edge, and sanity is like gravity. I don’t quite think this is the ‘push’ yet.
I think it’s past that. The Brain Factory lacked an interdimensional portal, but it did produce an endless fountain of brains. (“Boston commons mysteriously buried under synthetic brains, story on page 7B.”) I’d say that was well up into the nearly-broken range already.
Now, though… she really sounds Mad, almost ready to denounce The Fools At The Institute.
Naaah, it’s just incredibly good at camouflaging itself as something innocuous – like, say, a swarm of bees…
Or a field of goldenrod!
Or an olive green background!
It’s not in disguise at all. It left the woods several seconds ago.
On an unrelated note, Killbot 2 and the snakes aren’t in the woods either.
Ginny’s version of “sane” is awfully close to, for example, Tigerlily’s “mad”.
She clearly is mad, but she has the same sort of madness as is induced by the Bursar’s dried frog pills (I surely don’t need to give any more references than that in this crowd): she’s so delusional that she believes that she’s sane.
But she’s so cute when she starts talking about DNA and retroviral infusion…
She said she was going to think like a scientist. She never said anything about a sane scientist.
It’s been said the line between genius and madness is thinner than most think. Dr. Lee’s great gift is to jump that line like a jump rope pretty much at will.
That said, I think she’s about to trip over that line at last with this scheme.
Sure, with the ability to completely avoid scanners, we might be able to stop a few wars, but what is that in the face of superpowers?
Stop wars? Being able to fool radars sounds more like something that would be used in one.
Should’a been more specific about what kind of scientist to think like.
[By the way [again], you weren’t on GoComics this morning, least not in time for my e-mail comics.]
Upload to Gocomics was a tad late this morning due to an upload problem. Fixed now, but apparently too late for digests.
I should add: Sorry!
Honestly, whenever people say “Oh, Ginny’s gone into fullblown Walton’s Disorder now!” I wonder how many sane scientists they know.
So far, Ginny sounds pretty typical to me. Especially the part about forming a superhero team.
I’m gonna try to tell my professors that. Classes will be so much cooler if they say “and if hypothesis is normally distributed… we can form a superhero team!”
Once again, Virginia’s train of thought jumps the tracks, though forming a superhero team is almost always the best option.
There have been many, many bizarre little articles in New Scientist magazine where I’ve half expected to read: “‘This opens up exciting new avenues for the field of Subterranean Armies of Destruction,’ commented Dr McBloodhunter, who was not involved in this research.”
Is this a superhero team Nick would want to join, or has he had enough of that sort of thing?
Well based on Nick’s rather low opinion of his current team, anything would probably be a step up to him. Not much of a step necessarily, but still… I imagine that we’d all quite enjoy it though.
Dr. Lee may not be a mad genius, but she is definitely both a genius and mad.
That’s “think like a MAD scientist” – It’s the only way to Science! 🙂
Does Shelby’s appearance here with the killbots take him off the suspect list?
Or did he arrive on the scene suspiciously quickly?
And we can understand why Mr. Green is so fond of Ginny, along with her hotness of course.
This is totally part of Ginny’s hotness.
Is the superhero team still recruiting? ^.^
*looks very eager and hopeful*
She is both mad and in denial and if you disagree with this assessment YOU are in denial.
Sigh…God damn it Ginny.
Don’t want competition, Shelby? (This is a spoiler. If you think you know what it spoils, you’re probably wrong. If you think you don’t know what it spoils, you’re still probably wrong. If you think Shelby was in narbonic, you’re definitely wrong.)
What I think is that you shouldn’t leave spoilers in old pages. Seriously, not cool.
I love the foreshadowing here. XD
You know, people that are on the first read-through of the comic read these, so please don’t do this?
Normally, I would complain about spoilers, but she’s not really spoiling anything.
1. A spoiler has to spoil something that actually happens down the line, and so far, it hasn’t, at least not yet.
2. And more importantly, it’s so ambiguous that you can’t really call it a spoiler anyway.
And yes, I realize that #1 could be considered a spoiler in itself, but it also is ambiguous enough that it doesn’t really give anything away.
Dr. Lee, please be reasonable!
How do you plan to rule the machines when they cannot even sense your presence? They cannot take commands from those they cannot perceive!