(TUNE: “Rawhide”, Ned Washington & Dimitri Tiomkin)
Booking, booking, booking …
While the guards aren’t looking,
Schemes we now are cooking …
Mad Sci!
Crazy Miss Fairweather
Put this ride together!
Gadgets and armaments galore!
Warders cannot box in
A brace of steampunk oxen!
They’re gonna take us right through the door!
Climbin’ in, bustin’ out,
Bustin’ out, climbin’ in,
Climbin’ in, bustin’ out,
Mad Sci!
Run ’em down! Blow ’em up!
Blow ’em up! Run ’em down!
Run ’em down! Blow ’em up …
Mad SCIIIIIIIIIIII !!!
Everything else corrodes, but it doesn’t necessarily self destruct by doing so. On most copper alloys, the corrosion doesn’t flake off, therefore the corrosion remains only skin deep. Aluminum is even better in this respect.
Iron tends to be completely destroyed by corrosion because Iron(III) oxide is very brittle and detaches from the metal underneath, therefore new metal is always exposed.
Still more than a “patina”. And Copper corrosion varies by site. I’ve seen the hard patina out in the weather – the thick corrosion layer in fresh water, and the bubbled deformed and eaten away by salt water.
Only non-reactive I’m aware of short of modern materials is gold. Tap off any encrustation and its (pun intended) good as gold.
She’s developed what I, as someone who reads “Dumbing of Age”, think of as “Joyce-eye.” Joyce is a liberalism-shocked fundamentalist Christian, so it’s fairly appropriate.
I love the way she snaps out of it as soon as she encounters some nice, normal horrors of science. That’s much safer than all those body parts.
Also, this strip gives interesting new meaning to the song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.”
Called it. Imogene’s brain is now in neutral, and will not be thinking for itself for at least a week. She’s gone from madgirl to little girl, brain-wise anyway.
When she snaps out of it, that’s when the leather jackets and cigarettes come out.
I think she went mad twice
Yeah, I think it’s going to take some recovery time before she can return to her _normal_ level of crazy…
Funkitude, indeed!
(TUNE: “Rawhide”, Ned Washington & Dimitri Tiomkin)
Booking, booking, booking …
While the guards aren’t looking,
Schemes we now are cooking …
Mad Sci!
Crazy Miss Fairweather
Put this ride together!
Gadgets and armaments galore!
Warders cannot box in
A brace of steampunk oxen!
They’re gonna take us right through the door!
Climbin’ in, bustin’ out,
Bustin’ out, climbin’ in,
Climbin’ in, bustin’ out,
Mad Sci!
Run ’em down! Blow ’em up!
Blow ’em up! Run ’em down!
Run ’em down! Blow ’em up …
Mad SCIIIIIIIIIIII !!!
That tune hit all the points I saw. Wtg Eddurd!
Is it wrong that I hear this one being performed by the Blues Brothers’ Show Band and Revue?
Wrong yet so very right
Either way, you’re not alone.
When, not IF, they make the movie (series), this must be the theme song behind their breakout.
Let’s see those bandits take our oxen now.
True, but you probably would lose them all if you tried to cross the river.
“You lost all your oxen to oxidation”
Wouldn’t they be brass? That can last thousands of years in the ocean with only a patina of rust.
That’s gold. EVERYTHING else corrodes.
Tell that to the Antikythera Mechanism. Most of the damage was due to encrustation, not corrosion.
Everything else corrodes, but it doesn’t necessarily self destruct by doing so. On most copper alloys, the corrosion doesn’t flake off, therefore the corrosion remains only skin deep. Aluminum is even better in this respect.
Iron tends to be completely destroyed by corrosion because Iron(III) oxide is very brittle and detaches from the metal underneath, therefore new metal is always exposed.
Still more than a “patina”. And Copper corrosion varies by site. I’ve seen the hard patina out in the weather – the thick corrosion layer in fresh water, and the bubbled deformed and eaten away by salt water.
Only non-reactive I’m aware of short of modern materials is gold. Tap off any encrustation and its (pun intended) good as gold.
Mooooo!
That pretty much says it all.
Whenever you’re on a road trip and see a cow, you HAVE to moo.
Wait, they’re still in prison?
Apparently TLJ’s Mojo only did a bit of redecorating rather than translocating. 🙁
OTOH, a Combat Conestoga! ^_^
I think this is the confiscated items storeroom, yes
Who says that era can’t be funky?
Looks like Prudence was going to use the “3600 pounds of ammo and nothing else” strategy to get to Oregon.
There are other ways to do it?
……huh…..
So Shaenon is going to draw the next few strips in 8-bit?
One can hope.
It’s the clockwork oxen that really sells it for me.
Yes. The clockwork oxen are awesome!
/taps mic
Cloxen.
Those wagon wheels are going to give a rough ride!
Huh. Didn’t know sex could get wild enough to change your eye color.
It can!
Rex, look at yesterday’s strip: Imogene’s hair changed length for a panel from wild sex.
She’s developed what I, as someone who reads “Dumbing of Age”, think of as “Joyce-eye.” Joyce is a liberalism-shocked fundamentalist Christian, so it’s fairly appropriate.
You magnificent nutcase, I took your BULLLLS!
I love the way she snaps out of it as soon as she encounters some nice, normal horrors of science. That’s much safer than all those body parts.
Also, this strip gives interesting new meaning to the song “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.”
Is Prudence Fairweather supposed to be the wife of John Chamberlain, the crushed-metal sculptor? Or am I missing yet another facet of pop culture?
She’s the ‘westward expansion’ retro mad featured when the prison was introduced. I think 2 appearances. Can’t check now I’m on my phone
Found it : http://skin-horse.com/comic/when-you-poke/
Thank you, Robert!
Called it. Imogene’s brain is now in neutral, and will not be thinking for itself for at least a week. She’s gone from madgirl to little girl, brain-wise anyway.
When she snaps out of it, that’s when the leather jackets and cigarettes come out.
So I guess she broke Imogene.
No, that’s normal for Imogene. She has some very childlike qualities.