She isn’t a drone because rat colonies don’t have drones. Artie must have confused them for bees. Who could be gallant enough to save Alfa from her insane abductor?
This will end very well for Alfa. Otherwise I cannot promise to accept the legitimacy of the result.
This storyline has a lot of closeups of gerbil Artie and I love it. Normally he’s so tiny (as a gerbil), but now we can really see his silly expressions!
I believe Ming the Merciless chose his minions for this quality. Too dumb to rebel, too dumb to complain, and too dumb to be mentally controlled by opposing tyrants. Mr. Green probably has similar considerations for personell.
I dunno! The Flash Gordon novels always stuck Ming with a servile snarker who would keep Ming’s widgets in shape while cheerfully telling Ming why it was he sucked. And Ming would have to just take it because the guy was the only one who knew how to invent or repair anything. So it does seem as though Ming made exceptions to that rule. @_@
That’s really the only way to have peons that stay loyal to an evil organization. They have to be too stupid to figure out what’s really going on.
If they’re smart and not evil enough, then eventually their conscience will make them leave (see Phoebe, Sergio and Virginia, for example, although Phoebe was unsuccessful in leaving).
If they’re smart and evil enough to not want to leave, then eventually they’ll try to take over. I don’t think we’ve seen one of those yet here.
Or else they simply don’t see the organization as evil. That isn’t necessarily due to stupidity; it may be just a different perspective. (Many, many non-stupid Germans stayed loyal to the (very evil) Nazi regime out of patriotism, for instance.) To assume that everyone that you disagree with is either evil or stupid is a distressingly common form of arrogance.
If someone who works for evil claims to not know it’s evil, they are either stupid or willfully ignorant. Many of the Germans who remained loyal simply out of patriotism were the latter – willfully ignorant. They refused to admit – or accept – that the Nazis were evil. They chose to ignore overwhelming evidence, simply because it contradicted what they wanted to believe.
Person A disagreeing with Person B doesn’t make Person B evil or stupid. It may in fact be Person A who is evil or stupid (or willfully ignorant).
Alfa seems to be one of those people who have boundaries w/r/t physical sex but the minute it’s virtual sex instead, she’d rather boink than breathe.
And as such she’s not even realizing when getting “sucked into the weird” has her entertaining seduction notions that although they could be entertaining, are just plain bad tactics.
If it weren’t easier to just physically disable the drone (drop it in a tank of water or something) you could pretty much disable her personally by drawing her into some extended authoring of yaoi fanfics.
Oh, hey, I’ve got it: Artie can let Alfa’s seduction fantasy facilitate disabling the drone! It involves a can of whipped cream.
Whipped cream is too opaque to see your way out of, too light to float on, too thick to throw someone a line through, to slippery to climb out of, and (for biological victims anyway) too thick to breathe. And as a bonus it features heavily in lots of seduction fantasies. In many ways whipped cream is the ideal medium for assassinations. Certainly enough of those qualities are relevant to disabling a drone, and given the scale, whipped cream is likely available in sufficient quantity for full immersion.
Sorry, Alfa. This isn’t going your way at all.
Unless that’s Echo Bravo who spoke.
Oh, things haven’t been going his way since Artie morphed back into a gerbil.
She isn’t a drone because rat colonies don’t have drones. Artie must have confused them for bees. Who could be gallant enough to save Alfa from her insane abductor?
This will end very well for Alfa. Otherwise I cannot promise to accept the legitimacy of the result.
By the way, I love angry Artie. He’s just so wonderfully expressive.
Artie as a whole is wonderfully expressive.
This storyline has a lot of closeups of gerbil Artie and I love it. Normally he’s so tiny (as a gerbil), but now we can really see his silly expressions!
Shame Sergio can’t shrink down to gerbil size.
How had would that be, really? They’ve already got a drone.
…yet.
I wouldn’t put it past Shaenon and Jeffery to make a Sniffles reference.
Well, Dr Narbon did make a TF gun
I don’t know if someone said it already but this needs to be said, the anasigma agents loyalty comes from their sheer stupidity.
That’s often the case with mooks.
I believe Ming the Merciless chose his minions for this quality. Too dumb to rebel, too dumb to complain, and too dumb to be mentally controlled by opposing tyrants. Mr. Green probably has similar considerations for personell.
I dunno! The Flash Gordon novels always stuck Ming with a servile snarker who would keep Ming’s widgets in shape while cheerfully telling Ming why it was he sucked. And Ming would have to just take it because the guy was the only one who knew how to invent or repair anything. So it does seem as though Ming made exceptions to that rule. @_@
That’s really the only way to have peons that stay loyal to an evil organization. They have to be too stupid to figure out what’s really going on.
If they’re smart and not evil enough, then eventually their conscience will make them leave (see Phoebe, Sergio and Virginia, for example, although Phoebe was unsuccessful in leaving).
If they’re smart and evil enough to not want to leave, then eventually they’ll try to take over. I don’t think we’ve seen one of those yet here.
Or else they simply don’t see the organization as evil. That isn’t necessarily due to stupidity; it may be just a different perspective. (Many, many non-stupid Germans stayed loyal to the (very evil) Nazi regime out of patriotism, for instance.) To assume that everyone that you disagree with is either evil or stupid is a distressingly common form of arrogance.
If someone who works for evil claims to not know it’s evil, they are either stupid or willfully ignorant. Many of the Germans who remained loyal simply out of patriotism were the latter – willfully ignorant. They refused to admit – or accept – that the Nazis were evil. They chose to ignore overwhelming evidence, simply because it contradicted what they wanted to believe.
Person A disagreeing with Person B doesn’t make Person B evil or stupid. It may in fact be Person A who is evil or stupid (or willfully ignorant).
Except you just said it was evil. Extrapolating that to any and all disagreements in disingenuous.
In panel 4, I don’t know if Alfa is being particularly astute or merely working from a very short list… 😉
I think she’s just being hopeful.
Alfa seems to be one of those people who have boundaries w/r/t physical sex but the minute it’s virtual sex instead, she’d rather boink than breathe.
And as such she’s not even realizing when getting “sucked into the weird” has her entertaining seduction notions that although they could be entertaining, are just plain bad tactics.
If it weren’t easier to just physically disable the drone (drop it in a tank of water or something) you could pretty much disable her personally by drawing her into some extended authoring of yaoi fanfics.
Oh, hey, I’ve got it: Artie can let Alfa’s seduction fantasy facilitate disabling the drone! It involves a can of whipped cream.
Whipped cream is too opaque to see your way out of, too light to float on, too thick to throw someone a line through, to slippery to climb out of, and (for biological victims anyway) too thick to breathe. And as a bonus it features heavily in lots of seduction fantasies. In many ways whipped cream is the ideal medium for assassinations. Certainly enough of those qualities are relevant to disabling a drone, and given the scale, whipped cream is likely available in sufficient quantity for full immersion.
It’s what she wants to do. The fact that it is also what Artie wants to do in another context is a coincidence.
BTW, I expect this drone’s shutdown phrase to be “Bubonic Plague” (I find it too crude to be Dr. Lee’s work).
If Dr Lee had made it, she’d have made it capable of /spreading/ bubonic plague. Not because they’d asked her to, just as a fun technical challenge.
That seems more like a feature Beta would add, but Virginia would be more likely to have the drone fire lasers out of various orifices.
Continuing to appear to better nature, even after proving the other side doesn’t have one
…wait, I think I just described myself