More Unsinkable Thumbnails
Shaenon: More old thumbnails for strips that wound up in this storyline. Originally an AG-I agent was going to try to recruit Jonah in his senior year of high school by posing as a military recruiter. Somehow the idea of AG-I recruiting Jonah survived and was reworked into a subplot in “Unsinkable.”
People in the comments have accused us of blatantly setting up a Jonah-and-Nera spinoff. I would love to be successful enough someday that I can hire artists to draw Narboniverse comics for which I would receive a generous portion of the profits, but my favorite Skin Horse spinoff premise is Remy solving mysteries in New Orleans with his undead pals. (Favorite Narbonic spinoff: Caliban the ex-demon and Seth the demon-hunter inexplicably sharing an apartment.)
Channing: Personally, I think a Zeta / Foot / Jonah / Nera spinoff would be fairly rad.
“Remy and the Dead” has a “Baywatch Nights” vibe to it, but that “Really Odd Couple” has possibilities… “Shaenon’s Vault of Forbidden Secrets” would involve throwing your old stuff on a scanner, perchance to sell… perhaps a side project. But the J/N one has possibilities… “The Why Files”, so to speak. Or maybe “Mel’s Headed for the Top!” with Jonah and Nera as Holmes to her Moriarty?
As someone who hacked NASA in high school, I feel you on this, Nera.
The government is so fussy about things like that.
Look at it this way, at least neither of them were recruited for sports teams…
I still vote for my idea of the continuing adventures of Dave and Helen, with Mell as their resident lawyer/enforcer, and the occasional appearance of Artie, along with Mell’s “sister” UNITY and her faithful companion/roommate/girlfriend Sweetheart.
Somebody actually wrote a really cool fanfic like that over at https://archiveofourown.org/works/2810981/chapters/6307352 that also features Helen’s mom, Helen & Dave’s daughter, Caliban, and Nick.
“Favorite Narbonic spinoff: Caliban the ex-demon and Seth the demon-hunter inexplicably sharing an apartment.” I can’t even hear that idea now without hearing this theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af1h4ibpKJA which is of course one of the great TV themes.
“Caliban the ex-demon and Seth the demon-hunter inexplicably sharing an apartment”
Which reminds me of one of my favorite webcomics. “Jesus & Mo” in which Jesus & Mo are inexplicably sharing an apartment & often go to a pub where there is an atheist barmaid.
http://www.jesusandmo.net/
BTW Mo = Mohammed
There’s also Saint Young Men (Seinto Oniisan), which is the same deal but with Jesus and Buddha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Young_Men
The dutch government atleast gives you a teeshirt.
Okay honestly I would read the heck out of that Remy spinoff.