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2014-07-04

by shaenon on July 4, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Grillo Parlante
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    July 4, 2014, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Hmm! In that case maybe he should have not bothered to bring the topic up. Or is this a hint that Predestination may also be a part of the Narbonicverse? o_O

    OTOH, perhaps he foresaw that the student loans would be more trouble then they’re worth and did this as a way of opting out? O_o

    • roberttheaddled
      July 4, 2014, 10:14 am | # | Reply

      Limited Predestination. Apologies for Narbonic Spoilers (at least there is little context for them).

      Dave still got dumped by Majel (I think that was her name) at the dive place where she decided to run off with Dave (later of the Council of Five – leaders of the Dave Conspiracy).

      HOWEVER – He never started smoking, memories of which was retconned for everyone except him.

      Additionally – Artie didn’t die because Dave filled the pool, and thus Helen was never bottled brains at the expanded Arctic Base formerly operated by Madblood.

      • GammarayCanon
        July 4, 2014, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

        Not to mention the “Little Nemo”-style strips.

        • roberttheaddled
          July 4, 2014, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

          I could never decide if they were truly canon or not.

          I really do wish that the ‘Culture’ Sunday interludes stories had been published with the collections or on their own though. That was referenced on several occasions in the main strip so I’m pretty sure it’s canon. As was the “Helen makes Dave a sandwich”.

          • Rex Vivat
            July 4, 2014, 6:17 pm | #

            Read the ending again. They were canon.

  2. matt w
    July 4, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Giant Eagle! Woooo! Did we know that they were from Pittsburgh before this?

    • colomon
      July 4, 2014, 7:06 am | # | Reply

      Giant Eagle doesn’t even narrow it done to Pennsylvania — have shopped at one repeatedly visiting my wife’s grandfather in Ohio.

    • jdreyfuss
      July 4, 2014, 7:38 am | # | Reply

      Colomon is right, but in “Choose” it was established that they were within much easier driving distance of Carbondale than Fairfax, in a suburb do a major city, and not in Philadelphia, so the most likely places for them to live near were Pittsburgh, which is four hours away, Buffalo, which is four hours away, or New York, which is two hours away.

      • Tetra Valent
        July 4, 2014, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

        Ah, but which Carbondale? Nick, coming from Virginia, was between two and three hours away which suggests Colorado or Kansas. (California was under 5 hours. That doesn’t seem realistic for an Osprey, but Nick is an A-Sig upgrade.)

        Mummy’s freelance coding gig was in New York [City?], so they weren’t in commuting distance. Of course, with her arsenal and evident personality, the Vivaldis may have found it necessary to move from state to state at least once a year, so they could be most anywhere by now.

        They would have to have convinced Jonah’s parent to move as well, but yesterday’s strip establishes that that would not be difficult.

        Continuity? Who needs continuity?

        • Rex Vivat
          July 4, 2014, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

          I have no idea about US geography, but if it helps, this says Jonah’s house is in the east coast.

        • John Campbell
          July 6, 2014, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

          Nick wasn’t coming from Virginia. (He wishes!) He was coming from Florida, where he was in the field with the team for negotiations with the Zombie Queen of the Florida Keys.

          • Tetra Valent
            July 22, 2014, 4:02 pm | #

            Nick and Unity were back from Florida before the Once and Future arc. In Choose, Nera traced him to Virginia.

  3. Bennett
    July 4, 2014, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    non nova sed nove — 21 balloons! Ah, the memories.

  4. Efogoto
    July 4, 2014, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    “Those who remember the future are condemned to repeat it.”

    • KNO3
      July 4, 2014, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      Those who see the future are seen by the future.

      • roberttheaddled
        July 4, 2014, 9:42 am | # | Reply

        UNLESS its a Duncan Idaho blended clone Ghola a’la the books completed by Brian Herbert via his father’s notes. After all – ‘can’t be seen by the seers’ was established by Sonja Atraedies (spelling) and the Duncan Idaho variant who assassinated Leto II at her bequest.

  5. Dave Van Domelen
    July 4, 2014, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    No, he’s not going to work at a grocery store. He’s going to work for an actual giant eagle. The giant eagle believes his tale of time travel, you see.

    • Shadowmehr
      July 4, 2014, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      You say that flippantly; but remember where you are. With this crew, that is an actual possibility.

      • Frank Hightower
        July 4, 2014, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

        Well, he is a “Dave”

    • GammarayCanon
      July 4, 2014, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Why not work at a grocery store owned by a giant eagle?

      • jdreyfuss
        July 4, 2014, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

        Union problems. The UFCW won’t negotiate with birds of prey.

  6. Windy Wanderings
    July 4, 2014, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    I read the Choose storyline like two months ago and now the characters are suddenly [from my perspective] the same age as me instead of cute little kids. That’s pretty wierd.

  7. Wesley
    July 4, 2014, 2:53 am | # | Reply

    He still has wrenchie!

    • Rex Vivat
      July 4, 2014, 3:13 am | # | Reply

      Of course. He even eats breakfast with it.

    • Shadowmehr
      July 4, 2014, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      Given his experiences, I’m surprised that he hasn’t upgraded to a wrench multi-tool to provide options for any possibility. Or impossibility, as the case may be.

  8. Robert Nowall
    July 4, 2014, 3:41 am | # | Reply

    Maybe he’s too broke to pay his way through college.

    • Jay
      July 4, 2014, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      “I went time-travelling and forgot the damned lottery numbers”, maybe?

  9. Eddurd
    July 4, 2014, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Fly Like An Eagle”, Steve Miller Band)

    Mind keeps on trippin’ (trippin’ trippin’ …)
    All through the time stream …
    Freezer is drippin’ (drippin’ drippin’ …),
    Moppin’ up ice cream!

     CHORUS:
      I work nearby, Giant Eagle!
      Mopping floors!
      Ay, Giant Eagle!
      There’s a clean-up, Aisle Four!
      I’ll work at my Giant Eagle
      ’Til I’m sore …
      Nera’s heading to college!

    Got rejected!
    They didn’t believe in me!
    ‘Twas expected!
    They couldn’t belive I see
    Time projected,
    Perceived non-linearly!
    I get glimpses of knowledge!
     (repeat CHORUS)

  10. TGIF
    July 4, 2014, 11:54 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if he is still dying and “resetting” (and having to escape over and over), or if he’s just referring to his past ability to do so?

    • irdburns
      July 4, 2014, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

      I think he either can’t do it anymore, or he gets levels through some technobabble like ‘local nodes of quantum temporal entwinement’

      • Jay
        July 4, 2014, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

        The fact he got flashes of his whole life together with Nera implies that, nope, even if/when he dies of old age he’s going all the way back to the lab for another loop.

        (It’s somehow *less* horrifying if I consider that each Jonah dies and it’s only the experience that gets transferred to the next. He’s not trapped in the loop forever, it’s only going to feel like it… er… maybe it’s still horrifying…)

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          July 4, 2014, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

          I really finds another save point soon

          • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
            July 4, 2014, 11:41 pm | #

            Sorry, that was supposed to be “I really hope he finds another save point soon”

            Note To Self: Re-read and then post

        • Rex Vivat
          July 5, 2014, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

          Horrifying? Seriously? The idea of dying and ceasing to exist to me is way more horrifying than going back to my youth retaining all my experiences. In fact, I totally wish I could do that, I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about getting “trapped” being alive.
          The only bad part about the whole deal is having to escape from Anasigma, IMO.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        July 4, 2014, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

        I believe he transdated the hydrogoggic wemulator on the panametric fam, causing the hagzon postducer on the vorpal crodite to go into a overse state of romni-torphal flusp

        • Nyerguds
          July 5, 2014, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

          Oh no! You mean he forgot to reverse the polarity?

    • Windy Wanderings
      July 4, 2014, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

      I think his abilities changed after he got out of Anasigma for some reason. Maybe because he’s no longer working towards the same goal [getting out alive] as he was when he got zapped, or maybe because he finally got to the best possible outcome of that set of alternate timelines [due to making the best possible choices], or maybe t’s just a distance from the zappy-portal-thing thing or something. Whatever the cause, it would appear that Jonah now get’s flashes of the outcomes of his decisions instead of getting do-overs. Or maybe that was just a one-time thing indicative of the time powers “leaving his system”. But, even if his powers have stayed exactly the same, the way Sergio explained it, Jonah should only reset if his death is caused by his choices, and then he would go back to the point at which he could change the outcome by choosing differently. So, if Jonah dies of natural causes, it should stick.

      • Windy Wanderings
        July 4, 2014, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t point out sad Fridge Horror to me unless you want me to fix it with careful analysis and the power of logic~!~

      • WJS
        July 12, 2019, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

        How exactly do you think the universe is going to distinguish between a death “caused by his choices” and one that isn’t?

  11. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 11:52 am | # | Reply

    Oh I’ve definitely seen weirder students on college campuses.

    Maybe he just had trouble getting a scholarship.

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