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2012-10-26

by shaenon on October 26, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. John Campbell
    October 26, 2012, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Cracking their skulls open and scooping their brains out to use in no-really-it’s-not-mad-honest perversions of science isn’t any fun if they can’t fight back!

    • Sparks
      October 26, 2012, 9:26 am | # | Reply

      Does a parallel computing array really count as a “brain” in Dr. Lee’s world?

  2. Towering Barbarian
    October 26, 2012, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Always good to know just where our moral priorities lie! ^_^

  3. Andrew
    October 26, 2012, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Oddly enough, I’m listening to The Brain from Young Frankenstein: the Musical while reading this. Pandora is my coincidence station.

  4. Eddurd
    October 26, 2012, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Route 66”, Bobby Troup)

    I’m sorry to wake you, Sergio …
    But this is our chance now, gotta go!
    Fix her quick,
    This cute robot chick!

    She just kinda flopped down on her side,
    But I’m pretty sure she hasn’t died …
    She’s just sick,
    This cute robot chick!

    Though you think I’m a butcher,
    I didn’t touch her!
    Since she’s looking human,
    I’m assuming
    She’s a robot …
    (Though GODOT says she’s not!)
    Kissed with rubber lips and
    Stuffed with microchips and
    Inorganic, kind of a mannequin!

    Yeah! Now let’s hurry to repair!
    And find out what’s with that crazy hair!
    Fix her quick,
    This cute robot chick!

  5. Tetra Valent
    October 26, 2012, 6:08 am | # | Reply

    Panel 4 needs some ominous horror-film music.

  6. tremor3258
    October 26, 2012, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    Let me preface this by saying I like Dr. Lee.

    The deep horror that underlies the madness of this comic’s universe is easily brought to the surface at times like this. Mainly by the phrase “She’s considered a sane scientist.”

    • Rob
      October 26, 2012, 6:20 am | # | Reply

      Just because she isn’t a Mad Scientist doesn’t mean she’s a *sane* scientist.

      • Kirt Dankmyer
        October 26, 2012, 7:20 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, she could be insane but lack the creative “this goes up to 11” spark of Mad Science. Tho this would likely mean she’s less insane than most Mad Scientists.

    • Rex Vivat
      October 27, 2012, 4:43 am | # | Reply

      Mad geniuses are, specifically, people that suffer from Hypercognitive Dementia, also known as Walton’s Disorder. That she doesn’t suffer from it doesn’t necessarily make her sane nor morally good.

  7. Kirt Dankmyer
    October 26, 2012, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    That’s some serious 5 o’clock shadow on dudeface there.

    • Mason
      October 26, 2012, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      It’s more 5 o’clock the next day shadow.

      • Stu Friedberg
        October 26, 2012, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

        I thought it was scorch marks from the unexplodable bomb.

        • SotiCoto
          August 21, 2014, 6:05 am | # | Reply

          He might just have darker skin than his otherwise white skin-tone would suggest…

          There are at least three cases of that happening so far.

          • Waffle Sorter
            March 7, 2015, 9:23 pm | #

            It is a consistent quirk of Shaenon’s style that people’s faces are left unshaded, regardless of skin color, except to indicate specific features such as stubble. I would guess this is to facilitate the drawing and perception of expressions, but I’ve never actually asked.

            All that said, Sergio doesn’t have the kind of edge-shading that Shaenon gives darker-skinned people. As an illustration, compare him in earlier parts of this storyline to Tip or Virginia and to the right half of Unity’s face.

  8. Anh_Minh
    October 26, 2012, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

    Putting a robot brain into a machine body seems unchallenging for her. I suppose she could go for robot brain inside an organic body. Though she’s already made Unity, so I’m not sure it’d be all that interesting for her either.

  9. Shadowmehr
    October 26, 2012, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

    Slice open a human skull and scoop out the brain, no problem!

    Slice open a robot skull and trace its wiring, ew, how squicky.

    You got to wonder about Dr. Lee’s priorities.

    She might not be Mad, but she might be leaning towards just plain crazy.

  10. mrtt
    October 27, 2012, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

    Calling an android a robot is like calling a human an ape. This is horribly racially insensitive of her.

    • Dementron
      December 18, 2016, 4:25 am | # | Reply

      I have no problem with being called an ape.

    • jdreyfuss
      January 22, 2020, 10:22 am | # | Reply

      A human is an ape.

      • jdreyfuss
        January 22, 2020, 10:23 am | # | Reply

        But more importantly, Violet isn’t actually an android. She’s a drone.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 22, 2020, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, a human is an ape. But a human is a very specific species of ape, just as an android is a very specific type of robot. So calling a human an ape could very easily be taken as speciesist.

        And yes, Violet is an android. She is also a drone, which is also a very specific type of robot, although not all drones are androids, and not all androids are drones.

        But more to the point, Virginia isn’t being racist (or even speciesist, which is closer to what mrtt up there was trying to say). She thinks all robots are cute, so she’s not being preferencial to one type of robot over any other.

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