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2014-11-11

by shaenon on November 11, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Martin Hooper
    November 11, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    I thought Tiger lily was from the 70s the way she speaks…

    • Alexander
      November 11, 2014, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      Given Imogene thinks she’s from the 50s, I don’t think she’s hip on precise “future” stereotypes.

      • Adept Arcanist
        June 27, 2020, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

        In Imogene’s defense, I’m pretty sure she really *is* from the 50s. Time travel accident. (Based on the Narbonic commentary, at least.)

        • Jeffrey C. Wells
          June 28, 2020, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

          Her canonical origin story in Stan Taylor’s Narbonic play-by-post RPG is that, yes, she really was born in the late 1940s, and was catapulted forward in time due to a terrible accident with something called a “Time Soufflé.” Her mother Iphigenia was a Mid-Century Modern-themed mad genius straight out of a Coronet instructional film gone wrong. Tigerlily is a generational contemporary to most of the rest of the cast, but is psychologically caught up in the golden age of Blaxploitation cinema and draws power from it.

    • Amstrad
      November 11, 2014, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      http://youtu.be/xECUrlnXCqk

    • Robert Nowall
      November 11, 2014, 5:30 am | # | Reply

      If you were from the 1950s (or maybe just stuck there like Imogene), could you anticipate the 1970s from it?

      • abb3w
        November 11, 2014, 8:04 am | # | Reply

        And even if you could anticipate, would you believe it would all happen before the 1990s?

        • John Campbell
          November 11, 2014, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

          I dunno, the latter half of the 20th century looked a lot cooler when it was the 1950s’ future than it does as the 20teens’ past. There’s a whole lot of stuff that was “twenty years away” in the ’50s (which would have put it in the ’70s) that’s still “twenty years away” in 2014.

          I blame the Department of Jetpack Suppression.

          They can’t stop me from keeping my recipes on my kitchen computer, though!

      • NoTime
        January 3, 2021, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

        I lived thru the 50’s. Very complex question.
        If you mean the 70’s as the age of sex, drugs, rock n roll and the birth of the pc. Then I’d have to say no. The 50’s did see dial telephones, ntsc color tv, hydrogen bombs, sputnik, transistor radios, stereo sound, Chuck Berry, Elvis and lots of technological speculation. When I saw my first color tv in 53 I only knew 2 people that had a tv.

        I find it amusing that with the apparent demise of the Department of Jetpack Suppression along with SH that a year from the op date you can buy a jetpack assuming you have a spare 250k or so.

  2. Robert Nowall
    November 11, 2014, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    Depends on what is meant by “take care.”

  3. BMunro
    November 11, 2014, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    I imagine the decades she never lived through tend to blend together after a while…

  4. John Campbell
    November 11, 2014, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    I hope this isn’t the last we see of Imogene. She and Tigerlily make a hilarious team.

    • Jon
      December 24, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Here, here.

  5. ngmatt8652
    November 11, 2014, 4:52 am | # | Reply

    I want to know why it said local 310 on his shirt

    • Michael
      November 11, 2014, 7:15 am | # | Reply

      He’s a member of the Henchman’s Union (a Narbonic thing). (E.g. http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=49435&name=narbonic_plus)

  6. Robert Nowall
    November 11, 2014, 5:29 am | # | Reply

    Hadn’t noticed before, but Titus has some horrific scars / stitchwork on his face. Something from his past history in “Narbonic?”

    • jimhenry1973
      November 11, 2014, 5:48 am | # | Reply

      He already had the scar in his first appearance in Narbonic, and the origin of the scar wasn’t explained. Shaenon said something about it in the commentary on one of those strips, that she wondered where he got the scar.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 11, 2014, 6:35 am | # | Reply

        Never did more than look at “Narbonic.” Now I’m just going to have to. On my way to order the books.

        • ZReporter
          November 11, 2014, 8:48 am | # | Reply

          Well to help clarify the “Scar” issues. He has worked for many mad scientist and he was labeled indestructible by a few of the mad scientist. (Female brand to be precise)

          Honestly I would like to see what he does than a couple of the others.

          • Rex Vivat
            November 11, 2014, 9:47 am | #

            Everyone from the Misanthrope family is considered notoriously hard to kill. The fact that he’s still alive 11 years later seems to confirm that.

          • Rex Vivat
            November 11, 2014, 9:52 am | #

            Wait, why did I say 11? 2014 – 2005 = 9. I need to get some sleep.

          • GammarayCanon
            November 11, 2014, 6:05 pm | #

            It’s probably 11 by now. Mad science does not obey your puny passage of time. Case in point: Imogene herself.

          • GammarayCanon
            November 11, 2014, 6:06 pm | #

            Just when I post that comment I notice that Anson has said exactly the same thing.

    • Anson
      November 11, 2014, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

      @Rex Vivat Considering the wonky things that happen to time and henchmen when a mad scientist’s around, Titus very well could have survived for 11 years in only 9.

    • John Campbell
      November 11, 2014, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

      He had the scar on his forehead in Narbonic. The one down his face is of more recent origin.

  7. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    November 11, 2014, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    Backtracking a bit, there’s an entire ward for Mads who think they’re from the past, whether they are or not (although technically speaking, everyone is from the past). Is there a ward for Mads who think they’re from the future?

    • Mental Mouse
      November 11, 2014, 8:50 am | # | Reply

      Note that Imogene actually is from the past. We’ve only seen one Mad from the future, and she was pretty tame (presumably not “awakened” yet). Other Mads from the future might be… an issue.

      • Kirala
        November 11, 2014, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

        Wait, have we seen a Mad from the future in Skin Horse? (Very familiar with Narboniverse generally, which is why I’d argue we have two time-traveling Mads in Narbonic – frankly the one studying violent tendencies in early childhood via time travel also strikes me as mad, especially given the implied subject of that study – but I didn’t know if you were referring to “we” in the Skin-Horse-only ‘verse, and I can be oblivious.)

        • waytoomanyUIDs
          November 11, 2014, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

          No, in Narbonic. If you haven’t read it I won’t spoil it for you, but time travel plays a rather important role in the storyline.

          • Kirala
            November 11, 2014, 6:30 pm | #

            … did you not read any of my parenthesis? I’ve read Narbonic – and Lil Mell, for that matter – but my grasp of SH is worse because I’m actually following in realtime, which makes the details fuzzy. So I was trying to see if I’d missed anything.

        • John Campbell
          November 11, 2014, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

          Mr. Studying Violent Tendencies In Early Childhood is explicitly established several times to be a sane genius, though by “sane” I just mean he’s not a capital-letters Mad Genius or Mad Scientist or Spark or madboy or sufferer of hypercognitive dementia or Walton’s Disorder or SRMD or whatever else you might want to call it. I’m not going to argue that he’s necessarily entirely rational in other ways.

          He’s certainly saner than Dr. Lee, anyway, and she’s established to be on the sane side of that border where doing things like turning the pesto into a murder engine and taking out an Italian bistro or killing your girlfriend and jamming your mind into her mainframe start to seem like reasonable things to do.

          And as to the original question, “Temporally Confounded” would seem to cover both (all?) directions.

  8. Eddurd
    November 11, 2014, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    I had to look this up in Urban Dictionary … “Finna” = “fixin’ to”, another way of saying “going to”.

    (TUNE: “Carolina In The Morning”, Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn)

    Tigerlily finna
    Find her contact who is in a
    Gummint bur-eau!
    Firing up her steampunk beast,
    She’ll take off shouting “Wagons east!”
    For sure, oh!

     Imogene and Titus,
     Standing on their lawn,
     Watching Jones take flight as
     She is Or-e-gone!

    Not in months, in just a day,
    She’s travel ‘cross the USA!
    It’s scary!
    Joys of wagon trains she’s missin’!
    Fun like typhus, cold, and dysen-
    -Tery!

     She’s a funky sistah, and she knows where it’s at!
     From the 1990’s, yeah, or something like that …
    So Tigerlily finna
    Look for Tip, who’s working in a
    Gummint da-a-a-airy!

    • Candace
      November 12, 2014, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      Heh, very nice! BTW, another variant of “finna” is “fidda”.

  9. xiombrag
    November 11, 2014, 10:17 am | # | Reply

    I posted a lot of relevant Titus links yesterday, but that post is still “awaiting moderation.” I guess putting three links in the same comment triggers the spam filter?

    Anyhoo, for those who didn’t read Narbonic, Titus runs the Henchman’s Local #310:

    http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10203&name=narbonic

  10. xiombrag
    November 11, 2014, 10:18 am | # | Reply

    Okay, let’s see if it will let me post two links in a comment. These are more relevant to the comments made yesterday, but…

    For those who haven’t read Narbonic, scroll down for Titus’s mojo.

    http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10221&name=narbonic

    And scroll down to see Imogene in full enthusiastic mode.

    http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10209&name=narbonic

    (Yes, I’m linking to a full week of strips on purpose. Context is always nice.)

  11. xiombrag
    November 11, 2014, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    More relevant to the comments made yesterday, but, for those who haven’t read Narbonic, scroll down for Titus’s mojo.

    http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10221&name=narbonic

  12. xiombrag
    November 11, 2014, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    Also, scroll down to see Imogene in full enthusiastic mode.

    http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10209&name=narbonic

    (Yes, I’m linking to a full week of strips on purpose. Context is always nice.)

  13. Shadowmehr
    November 11, 2014, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    What worries me is that Tigerlily’s 70’s funk seems to be mixing with Prudence’s 1800’s vibe. Hopefully this is temporary, otherwise she’ll be even more timelost than she started out as.

    Actually, that might partially explain Imogene’s confusion.

  14. mickeyf
    November 11, 2014, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

    An I just noticed that you can reply to a reply to a reply, but that’s apparently as far down the tree as you can go. I suspect the Misanthrope family is notoriously hard to kill because they are in some way related to the Igors.

  15. Frank
    November 11, 2014, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

    you know, she may mean Tigerlilly is from the 1890s!

  16. Alphaghoul
    November 11, 2014, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    What decade was Debbi supposed to be from?

    • Candace
      November 12, 2014, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      The 80s. (1980s, that is.)

  17. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    On the other hand, it would be a great plot twist if Tigerlilly really was displaced into the 90s just like Imogen was.

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