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2021-08-07
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2021-08-07

by shaenon on August 7, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. David B Huber
    August 7, 2021, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Panel 4 is another gem! Masterful expressions, body language and composition.

    • David B Huber
      August 7, 2021, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      I also love how Captain Kinlin’s translucent balloon in panel 1 emphasizes he’s merely a banal shadow of his former self..

      • Sean K
        August 7, 2021, 9:08 am | # | Reply

        And I bet that coffee isn’t even evil. Or maybe it’s chamomile tea – very soothing.

    • Patrick Walsh
      August 9, 2021, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      Madbloods! [Kermit flail]

  2. Alphaghoul
    August 7, 2021, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Well the sane part is debatable since while “cured” they reject what’s actually real around them.

  3. BMun
    August 7, 2021, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    So, she’s not really a Mad Scientist herself, just an extremely intelligent construct like Artie? (The career of wozzername, the insane gerbil, still seems to suggest there might be such a thing as Mad constructs.)

    • fivefivefive
      August 7, 2021, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      She’s a battle android.

      • BMunro
        August 7, 2021, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, I am aware she’s mechanical. I was sort of noting that in spite of having invented multiple new flavors of buffalo wings, she isn’t a proper “mad”, as clearly demonstrated by her failure to join in the chorus. Thing is, I’m just a bit unhappy we have yet (looking a awgiedawgie’s comment below) to run across a proper Mad who isn’t human. I blame the subtle influence of The Man.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 7, 2021, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

      Dana wasn’t Mad. She was super-intelligent and insane. There’s a difference – subtle though it may be.

  4. Towering Barbarian
    August 7, 2021, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Now St. Charlie will show them. St Charlie will show them all! 🙂

    • Shadowmehr
      August 7, 2021, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      And due to the widespread reality blindness, no one will notice.

  5. Peter of the Norse
    August 7, 2021, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    Just for the record: We’re not supposed to tell the difference between the bespectacled, goatee’d, white men, right?

    • =Tamar
      August 7, 2021, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Let’s see…white, bearded, glasses. Bald (and faded out), short hair, longish hair, hat. As long as he doesn’t lose the hat and nobody gets a haircut…

      • Canadian Mad Scientist
        August 7, 2021, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

        Even then I think they would be distinguishable. Shaenon has, after all, done stories in Narbonic with physically identical characters. Generally with a cue like clothing, but they were distinguishable based on speech patterns and body language.

    • Patrick Walsh
      August 9, 2021, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Those are the Professor Madblood clones. [Kermit flail!]

      • Prodigal
        August 15, 2021, 1:42 am | # | Reply

        No, although the IRL version of the Mad Tech Support Guy did consider cosplaying as Madblood more than once.

  6. animeraider
    August 7, 2021, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Have you spent the last 10 years working up to this line? Well played, well played.

  7. Peter Emuss
    August 7, 2021, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    The forms must be obeyed!

  8. Blofeld's Cat
    August 7, 2021, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    Bwahahaha!
    Sorry, I just felt the need to join in …

  9. Kyle
    August 7, 2021, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    It’s nice to know that some things stay the same, even in the midst of massive social and political upheavel.

  10. Mauricio Lemos
    August 7, 2021, 5:06 am | # | Reply

    Excellent. Every mad scientist battlecry. They are now ready to fight at the top of their powers.

    • ranthalling
      August 8, 2021, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      They will MAKE THEM PAY!

      I really love this, BTW. Perfect responses.

  11. Sean K
    August 7, 2021, 9:13 am | # | Reply

    How ’bout them Knicks?
    Mondays – am I right?
    Man, that Dr. Kirk – you’ll never guess what he said this time…
    [etc.]

  12. Eva
    August 7, 2021, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    Can’t think of a situation more likely to result in a bunch of mad scientist finding a “cure” for the “cure’. 😀

    • Sheik
      August 7, 2021, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      Along with an ample dose of spillover for the benefit of the normally sane population.

      • The Flower Cosmic
        August 7, 2021, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

        We could all use a little madness, sometimes!

  13. Danny in Canada
    August 7, 2021, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

    If you have your browser set to ‘large’, such that the entirety of the strip doesn’t necessarily appear on the screen at once and so you have to scroll… the edge of the browser initially cuts off the bottom half of Ruby’s face. Result: I perceived the bridge of her nose as her nose, and her nose as her mouth… and thus her facial expression as a very smug smirk.

    Which completely changed the meaning of that panel, lemme tell you.

  14. The Flower Cosmic
    August 7, 2021, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

    So THAT’s what that line was presaging. Fantastic 😀

  15. Colonelsam
    August 7, 2021, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

    That is one powerful running gag amplifier.

    • Ken
      August 7, 2021, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

      Somebody better turn it off soon, before the whole comic is overrun with tropes!

      • awgiedawgie
        August 7, 2021, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

        Too late. Or hadn’t you noticed?

  16. Robert Nowall
    August 7, 2021, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

    The Institute cured them at last. Their fears have now come to pass. They’ll destroy the insane, make them all so mundane. And the three stop to curse and to blast.

  17. theysabet
    August 7, 2021, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

    Are moustaches and goatees required for Mad Science? Asking for a friend.

    • BMunro
      August 7, 2021, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

      It’s popular, [1] but not required even for men. (The Mad in charge of the furnace room was clean-shaven. Although perhaps the boss eyewear compensated for that.)

      [1] The old-fashioned “Einstein fright wig” hairdo, with or without facial hair, still has its fans.

      • Towering Barbarian
        August 8, 2021, 12:02 am | # | Reply

        Baldness, such at that possessed by Silver Age Lex Luthor is fashionable in some circles as well. 🙂

  18. Candace
    August 8, 2021, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    I love Ruby’s expression in the last panel: “My work here is done.”

    • David B Huber
      August 8, 2021, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

      I interpret it as sadness over all that is about to be lost.

  19. Forum Explorer
    July 12, 2022, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    I can’t believe I missed this one on my first read through. This is brilliant.

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