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2014-01-16

by shaenon on January 16, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. John Campbell
    January 16, 2014, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Insanity is the only rational response to an insane world.

  2. Jay
    January 16, 2014, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Did… did they mojo Tip out of the hot tub?

    • Petra
      January 16, 2014, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      I think Tip just left to sulk.

      • rocjawcypher
        January 16, 2014, 1:21 am | # | Reply

        Therefore, yes.

  3. Andrew
    January 16, 2014, 2:23 am | # | Reply

    So this is what a Mensa Menagé a Trois would sound like. Creepy.

  4. Cat Typist
    January 16, 2014, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    I think you mean hot. I mean…it certainly is warm in here, and I can tell that we have rather different fetishes, I mean tastes in certain areas…

  5. Moor
    January 16, 2014, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    … Wait, Anasigma’s Corporate?! Now they’re even more evil…

    • roberttheaddled
      January 16, 2014, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      EVERYTHING is affected by Corporate Interests. Who do you think builds those Whirlygig or U.N.I.T.Y prototypes anyway?

      • codebracker
        January 17, 2014, 7:28 am | # | Reply

        You mean someone built them?
        I thought this kind of stuff just happens around mad scientists, like hammers.

  6. Eddurd
    January 16, 2014, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    BTW, for those who missed the note yesterday, WebComicsNation is back up! You can once again browse the Narbonid archives (and my own meager efforts) at your leisure.

    Now, on with the show …

    (TUNE: “A Whole New World”, Menken & Rice)

    I’ve been spending my life
    In the seeking of knowledge …
    At each medical college
    In the lab, I sit and hide …
    Brains go under the knife,
    Neural structure exploring …
    All the while, I’m ignoring
    All the world that waits outside …

     The outside world!
     The world of TV, films, and more!
     Out there, where E.T. phones,
     And James Earl Jones
     Will say, “I am your father!”

     The outside world!
     The world I’m longing to explore!
     Watching Dolph Lundgren flex
     His gorgeous pecs
     Just gets me hot and bothered
     I’ll admit …

      The outside world …
      I cherish it …
      It makes me thrilled,
      A world that’s filled
      With awesome s**t!

  7. Eddurd
    January 16, 2014, 6:44 am | # | Reply

    I meant NARBONIC archives, stupid fungers don’t work rigth.

    • irdburns
      January 16, 2014, 8:25 am | # | Reply

      I like Narbonid. Sounds more epic and Greek.

      • Wayne Zombie
        January 16, 2014, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        I think the ultimate epic would be The Narboniad.

      • Tetra Valent
        January 16, 2014, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

        Artie is one now, being a member of the taxonomic family Narbonidae.

  8. jdreyfuss
    January 16, 2014, 6:50 am | # | Reply

    Has she lost her ability to distinguish between reality and fiction or is it just that in a world of mad science you don’t need special effects?

    I assume in such a world, a 6’4″ monster of a man with a Ph.D. in biochemistry from one of the best universities in the world who chooses to be a B-movie actor because it pays better would naturally be a mad scientist, of course.

  9. Jacob Haller
    January 16, 2014, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    Dr. Lee is making some solid points here. I recommend joining a knitting group.

  10. okiegoddess
    January 16, 2014, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    Is it sad that I knew exactly which movie she’s referring to with her Sharks eat Samuel L. Jackson reference? Or is it just good movie watching? Or too much as the case may be?

    • SotiCoto
      August 22, 2014, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      Terrible film watching, more like. Deep Blue Sea is an atrocity that I regret ever subjecting my senses to.

  11. bergerjacques
    January 16, 2014, 8:53 am | # | Reply

    The Narbonid should be the title of the Narbonics super compendium publication.

    • Malicron
      April 5, 2016, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      It sounds more like something Helen would create, to me.

  12. Chris M.
    January 16, 2014, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    I had some trouble parsing this one. It’s not immediately clear that Artie in the last panel is talking to himself, answering his original question, rather than responding to Virginia’s comments. (I first tried to interpret “I’ve seen that work” as “I saw that movie”…)

  13. Dr. Steve
    January 16, 2014, 10:16 am | # | Reply

    Across the river of madness
    The grass appeared to be green

    While Ginny ‘pon the saner side
    Questions where her life has been

    So to the river of madness
    She went to dip in her toe

    Pulled in by tentacled creatures
    She’s swept away by the flow

    Learn from the lesson of Ginny
    Who nowhere is to be seen

    A little bit of madness
    Is really, really keen!

    • oneuniverse2
      January 16, 2014, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

      Bravo!

  14. mnementh
    January 16, 2014, 11:39 am | # | Reply

    ahhh…Igotnuthin’.

    mnem
    Still here,though. That’s somethin’.

  15. The Jabberwonky
    January 16, 2014, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    One does not see a Dolph Lundgrin movie, One EXPERIENCES a Dolph Lundgrin movie.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 7, 2014, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

      Seeing is one kind of experiencing

  16. Eddurd
    January 16, 2014, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    Make that the “Narboniad”, and I’ll buy it.

  17. commodorejohn
    January 16, 2014, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

    I never would have considered as a possibility the existence of such a thing as a geek pastoral, yet here we are. Wow.

  18. Beachfox
    January 16, 2014, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

    Poor Artie’s really bought into his childhood paradigm, isn’t he? Doesn’t even realize she might just be talking about the eye-opening experience of watching bad SciFi movies with a cyborg helicopter, just goes straight for the insanity interpretation.

    It says a lot that “Watching bad SciFi movies with the cyborg helicopter” is the sane conversation path here…

  19. Dave Harmon
    January 16, 2014, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

    Oh my — are we merely seeing beneath the surface of Ginny’s cool front… or is she working up to a break?

  20. Shadowmehr
    January 16, 2014, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

    Ginny is (drunkenly) trying to illustrate the difference between Knowledge and Experience.

    Knowledge is knowing a lot about a little. The scientist can give you the chemical formula for beer, explain how different ingredients can alter the taste at need, and explain how to build a still, but she may have never gone to a bar.

    Experience is knowing a little about a lot. The taster has sampled most microbreweries, attends Oktoberfest every year, and drunk his way through five continents, but can’t make his own ale.

    The best of us combine both, but most often you have to exchange one for the other.

    (To derail rampant speculation, no I do not speak from personal history. I’ve only drunk my way through two continents.)

  21. Karretch
    August 14, 2017, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    Three and a half years later and no one caught the Beast Wars reference?

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