The jazz musician, the televangelist or the fictional World of Warcraft player? None of them seem to have much to do with space-folding.
Googling, I found a mathematician at the University of London called Oliver Jenkinson, whose speciality appears to be advanced topology (it’s hard to tell, since I don’t even understand the titles of his papers…)
So, from what I’ve gathered so far after compiling all that I’ve read in this and Narbonic… There’s just not enough overlap to be entirely set in the same Universe. Though given the Madness inherent here and there, that’s not entirely surprising even as it is a bit saddening. Great work so far on all your endeavors though!
What makes you say that? In this storyline alone we’ve got Ruby from Narbonic and Sergio from Li’l Mell. Previously, we’ve had Artie, the Robot Union, and the massive hint that Unity is what happend to the sample of Mell’s DNA that Helen sold to the U.S. military.
I’m sure there are discrepencies, but are they great enough to overrule that?
Wait, this Ruby is Narbonic’s Ruby?! …. yeah, duh. She looks just enough different than the Narbonic version that I no longer recognize her as one of the bridesmaids from my wedding. 🙂
Ha, guess having taken the time to go back and read the Director’s Cut of Narbonic after reading the full archives of this one left me with a few memory lapses on both! Still going through Narbonic Redux, currently on the Doppelganger Gambit right now…
Assuming Jonah and Nera started in the true “Narboniverse”. For all we know, they could’ve ended there or never went there at all, traveling only through parallel dimensions.
This is a misconception of what is meant by the multiverse. They’re all the “true” Narbonibrane, insofar as a “true” Narbonibrane is defined as a brane in which the events of Narbonic happened. The current brane is just a branch of the Narbonibrane in which Nera and Jonah survive.
I think we might be able to conclude this. also lil’ mel shouldn’t be part of the narbonavirse, unless artie went back in time. Which may be the case but it’s questionable. Still I’m all for Sergio reuniting with his long lost kindergarten sub.
Now the guy named Sergio’s talking to Virginia!
And he says, “St. Charlie, there’s so much space within ya!
Euclidian space-time is tied up in a knot … (I don’t know how to feel, ’cause the beast-men are hot!)
My eyes I don’t believe, and my mind I’m gonna lose!”
But you know what helps? Drinkin’ lots ‘n’ lotsa booze!
You can fold space with Jenkinsonian quadratics!
It can hold space, more than in Dr. Who’s attics!
Virginia’s wound up, she’s feeling so tense! (“It’s getting to me still, ’cause it doesn’t make sense!”)
She’s gotta solve a puzzle, without any clues …
But you know what helps? Drinkin’ lots ‘n’ lotsa booze!
If your brain is bent, and you’re tired of all this thinking …
Then it’s time to stop talking and start some heavy drinking!
You have a few shots, then you have a few more … (You know what’s coming next, ’cause of Rule Thirty-Four!)
They’re lonely, and puzzled, and they’re stuck on this cruise …
But you know what helps? Drinkin’ lots ‘n’ lotsa booze!
Yanno, that’s a suspiciously U.N.I.T.Y.-type thing for Ginny to say. Perhaps there have been more after-effect from their merger than we’ve been shown before.
Loki: Indeed, we’ve already seen that there are major after-effects — both characters were absolutes before, and now each has been moderated by a tinge of the other.
Let’s see. We have Artie pining about his love of latin men a comic before Sergio briefly shows up in http://narbonic.com/comic/october-23-28-2006/ . We have the two of them sitting together at dinner in the very last panel of Narbonic. We know from Lil’ Mell that Sergio ends up with a husband. And now Sergio is talking about how hot the beastmen are.
Considering they are both supergeniuses who are sane and try, but struggle, to do good, and both feel terribly alone because they feel no one understands them… I think Shaenon has been hinting at that for a very long time.
It’s a tough call, but I think I’m going to have to go with going back in time to teach your lover’s first-grade class being less creepy than hooking up with someone you first met while teaching their first-grade class in the past.
(But indications are that Artie didn’t know Sergio when he was teaching their class.)
Does anyone else get a “Fatal Error” message when clicking on one of the tabs at the top of the screen? I tried clicking on different tabs but kept being directed to a blank page with a “Fatal Error” message.
No Brian you’re the only one getting, “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_page_template_slug() in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-includes/template.php on line 228”
I’ve seen that bear and the duck before…. but where?
I know they are supposed to be in color and probably computer generated but probably not from ‘tin toy’. I *know* I’ve seen them before but where?
This is just getting better and better. **glee** Five bucks says they meet an Ur-gerbil at some point.
Jenkins? Leroy Jenkins?
The jazz musician, the televangelist or the fictional World of Warcraft player? None of them seem to have much to do with space-folding.
Googling, I found a mathematician at the University of London called Oliver Jenkinson, whose speciality appears to be advanced topology (it’s hard to tell, since I don’t even understand the titles of his papers…)
There was an televangelist named Leroy Jenkins? That’s funny.
Not was, *is*.
http://www.leroyjenkins.com/
(Warning: This is a “PRAISE JEE-ZUS!!!”-heavy Prosperity-Gospel-with-all-the-trimmings website. Have plenty of Brain Bleach available at all times.)
The WoW player is called Leeroy, with two “e”s.
Thats the answer, get him drunk and make him forget all about the furries, I mean beat men
sigh, its late and I’m tired, should read “I meen beast men”
I wonder if it’s because they’re BEASTmen, or if it’s because they’re beastMEN.
Or is it both? Well, look’s like Tip can have fun at least. Even more horizons to broaden!
We already knew Sergio was gay since L’il Mell, so I guess it’s because they’re BEASTmen.
We already knew Sergio is gay? I missed that somehow – can you post a link? Thanks!
This has probably already been answered, but:
http://girlamatic.com/mell/2009/01/10/page-55/
He’s not. He’s bi. He says as much in Lil’ Mell. (In the future he does have a husband, but that doesn’t mean one stops being bi.)
So, from what I’ve gathered so far after compiling all that I’ve read in this and Narbonic… There’s just not enough overlap to be entirely set in the same Universe. Though given the Madness inherent here and there, that’s not entirely surprising even as it is a bit saddening. Great work so far on all your endeavors though!
What makes you say that? In this storyline alone we’ve got Ruby from Narbonic and Sergio from Li’l Mell. Previously, we’ve had Artie, the Robot Union, and the massive hint that Unity is what happend to the sample of Mell’s DNA that Helen sold to the U.S. military.
I’m sure there are discrepencies, but are they great enough to overrule that?
Wait, this Ruby is Narbonic’s Ruby?! …. yeah, duh. She looks just enough different than the Narbonic version that I no longer recognize her as one of the bridesmaids from my wedding. 🙂
Ha, guess having taken the time to go back and read the Director’s Cut of Narbonic after reading the full archives of this one left me with a few memory lapses on both! Still going through Narbonic Redux, currently on the Doppelganger Gambit right now…
Well, I’d say that technically we’re not in ‘the Narboniverse’ anymore, given all the hooplah that Jonah and Nera went through.
Assuming Jonah and Nera started in the true “Narboniverse”. For all we know, they could’ve ended there or never went there at all, traveling only through parallel dimensions.
Well, even then, either we weren’t in Narboniverse Prime before ‘Choose’, or we aren’t now.
So just consider that we’re still in the Narbonibrane.
This is a misconception of what is meant by the multiverse. They’re all the “true” Narbonibrane, insofar as a “true” Narbonibrane is defined as a brane in which the events of Narbonic happened. The current brane is just a branch of the Narbonibrane in which Nera and Jonah survive.
We’ve even had Madblood’s runaway refrigerator.
So, I bet I’m the only one who never wanted a Narbonic Skin-horse cross-over, aren’t I?
I think we might be able to conclude this. also lil’ mel shouldn’t be part of the narbonavirse, unless artie went back in time. Which may be the case but it’s questionable. Still I’m all for Sergio reuniting with his long lost kindergarten sub.
Artie going back in time to be in Lil’ Mell was mentioned in one of the last Narbonic strips by Dave and Helen’s kid from the future.
(TUNE: “Summertime Blues”, Eddie Cochran)
Now the guy named Sergio’s talking to Virginia!
And he says, “St. Charlie, there’s so much space within ya!
Euclidian space-time is tied up in a knot …
(I don’t know how to feel, ’cause the beast-men are hot!)
My eyes I don’t believe, and my mind I’m gonna lose!”
But you know what helps? Drinkin’ lots ‘n’ lotsa booze!
You can fold space with Jenkinsonian quadratics!
It can hold space, more than in Dr. Who’s attics!
Virginia’s wound up, she’s feeling so tense!
(“It’s getting to me still, ’cause it doesn’t make sense!”)
She’s gotta solve a puzzle, without any clues …
But you know what helps? Drinkin’ lots ‘n’ lotsa booze!
If your brain is bent, and you’re tired of all this thinking …
Then it’s time to stop talking and start some heavy drinking!
You have a few shots, then you have a few more …
(You know what’s coming next, ’cause of Rule Thirty-Four!)
They’re lonely, and puzzled, and they’re stuck on this cruise …
But you know what helps? Drinkin’ lots ‘n’ lotsa booze!
Yanno, that’s a suspiciously U.N.I.T.Y.-type thing for Ginny to say. Perhaps there have been more after-effect from their merger than we’ve been shown before.
Loki: Indeed, we’ve already seen that there are major after-effects — both characters were absolutes before, and now each has been moderated by a tinge of the other.
The real question now is, what happens if Dr. Lee tries to order blueberry waffles? Does the tiny bit of post-merger UNITY react? 😉
Oo, you *are* evil. There may be a career for you in mad science or paragovernment think-tankery yet.
annndd based on Sergio’s last line there, I predict he and Artie will be hooking up at some point…
Ew. Artie’s, like, his first grade teacher. *Ew*.
Yeah, but so’s Sergio, Mason.
well, time-traveling artie, i do believe. who knows if this has even happened yet for artie?
Let’s see. We have Artie pining about his love of latin men a comic before Sergio briefly shows up in http://narbonic.com/comic/october-23-28-2006/ . We have the two of them sitting together at dinner in the very last panel of Narbonic. We know from Lil’ Mell that Sergio ends up with a husband. And now Sergio is talking about how hot the beastmen are.
Considering they are both supergeniuses who are sane and try, but struggle, to do good, and both feel terribly alone because they feel no one understands them… I think Shaenon has been hinting at that for a very long time.
Oh man, I hope the time traveling doesn’t happen *after* a hook-up. Creeepy.
It’s a tough call, but I think I’m going to have to go with going back in time to teach your lover’s first-grade class being less creepy than hooking up with someone you first met while teaching their first-grade class in the past.
(But indications are that Artie didn’t know Sergio when he was teaching their class.)
Isn’t that a major portion of the plot of a popular novel adapted into a movie a few years back? (Title omitted because that represents a spoiler…)
The last panel doesn’t bode well for the future in this comic, especially given the amount of mad science Lee is likely to see.
“Hi, my name is Virginia, and I’m an alcoholic.”
Does anyone else get a “Fatal Error” message when clicking on one of the tabs at the top of the screen? I tried clicking on different tabs but kept being directed to a blank page with a “Fatal Error” message.
No Brian you’re the only one getting, “Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_page_template_slug() in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-includes/template.php on line 228”
Wheee…The Template slugs are loose again!
Thank you cbob! This makes me sad. Every once in a while I like to look up the character profiles to keep myself updated on everything.
Guys? Totally off-topic, but… you gotta see this. It’s Unity in cat form! http://terriblycute.com/2-tone/
That is ADORABLE.
Now Artie and Sergio just have to meet….
Cut a hole in the wall
The duck looks like an old Merry Melodies or Haro
Mon-Izing side character. I see it getting out of a box, with a little pull string…
Harmon-Izing