No, that’s for the zombie apocalypse. Flight of the Valkyries is more traditional when going against another army, but modernists claim that Led Zeppelin has its appeal.
If you’re going for Wagner, I’d suggest Wotan’s wrath, which uses the familiar Valkyrie theme but in the context of a mad father-of-Valkyries / war-god figure, making the relationship more interesting for this scene.
Just playing devil’s advocate, here, but what if he *tried* to queue up one of those songs? But thanks to auto-shuffle, what came out the speakers was world 1-1 from Super Mario Land. And we only realize his mistake once the gatling guns start shredding bad guys.
Oh, mama, well I think it’s time I’m leavin’
Nothin’ here to make me stay
Whoa, mama, well it must be time I’m goin’
They’re knockin’ down them doors
They’re tryin’ to take me away
Please, Mr. Brakeman, won’t you ring your bell?
And ring it loud and clear, oonh
Please, Mr. Fireman, won’t you ring your bell?
Tell the people they got to fly away from here
IMMIGRANT SONG FTW! (It is, however, a fact of life that *everybody* has their own personal Led Zeppelin song. I mean, seriously; it’s their only, their one and only, and it’s a way to start.)
Personally, my favorite from way back has been “Living Loving Maid”. I love Page’s guitar riff on that one. I also really like “Ramble On”, “Whole Lotta Love”, and “Thank You.” Well, let’s be honest here, most of my favorite Zep songs are on II. That being said, they had a lot of really great songs, so it’s kind of hard to choose.
“When the Levee Breaks” does seem kind of fitting for this particular moment in the comic, though.
Yeah that scientist with the purple highlight is pretty much dead by this point, come to think of it, maybe she was smart enough to get Trinity to help her, probably wouldn’t work though. I wonder if they’ll confirm it.
I actually think I’d be more terrified to hear that than Lead Zeppelin. Just the incongruity of it coming from an attack helicopter would set my nerves on edge.
My helicopter
I used to wonder, could I make it fly
My helicopter
‘Til love and fear made me give it a try
I was one and now I’m two
An awesome chopper—a body, too
To the rescue I will come
And then I’m gonna get me some
Because my helicopter
Ginny knows it is my very best friend
Pretty sure it’s just what they’re trained to say. Most A-Sig employees weren’t hired for their thinking ability. They’re hired to protect the ones who were hired for their thinking ability… usually as an expendable buffer.
The general idea is that their average enemy won’t catch the subtle “and” instead of “or”. But these aren’t their average enemies.
Yup, this is what I figured. It appears to be the fear of impending death that motivates Nick’s wifi to activate. (Last time, it was specifically the fear of Virginia’s impending death.)
The driver chooses the music. This rule exists for sound safety reasons and also to compensate for the expense of wear to the vehicle. Imagine you’re on a road trip and your SO expects to control the radio. “Overall that sounds nice…” no, it doesn’t, your negotiating skills are terrible. You need to maintain focus on the key issue of that nightmare scenario, which is who controls the radio. As I was saying, everybody knows the driver chooses the music occasionally and when necessary to concentrate.
No, you’re right. The driver absolutely chooses the music. Of course, if he’s smart, he’ll choose the music she asks for. That way everybody’s happy… She gets what she wants, and he still gets to feel like he’s in control.
Aha, the fatal flaw of all you megalomaniacs — the grandiosity and self absorption that drives your nefarious schemes also leaves you incapable of foregoing a speech at the least opportune moment. Where you’re going, miscreants, you won’t even be able to hear yourself monologuing, because everyone else in the prison will be doing it at the same time. I hope that gives you time to reflect on the error of your…
Crap, where did everybody go?
Virginia’s admonition is vague enough to allow him to play Moby Dick by Dread Zeppelin. “I saw the opening maw of Hell, with endless pains and sorrows there…”
She should have been more specific. Stairway to Heaven would be a bit too mellow. They don’t want The Battle of Evermore, they want to defeat AnaSigma quickly. Rock and Roll, maybe? But what I think she really wants is Whole Lotta Love.
There’s a lady who’s bought
Me the body I sought
Yes, she bought me a stairway to heaven.
When we want to, we’ll go
Though the gates are all closed,
We can fly, cause she got what she came for.
Oh oh oh oh, she bought be a stairway…with walnuts.
Virtual walnuts…earned by time in the Loyalty Pits and gathered during extirpation…(some people might consider it a form of Karmic Balance, with the virtual virtue working towards undoing Ginny’s misdeeds towards Nick.)
I suspect that virtual walnuts are the basis of Anasigma’s economy, and they fund themselves by manipulating its market value.
You know, “Nut Coin”…
…Also, I’m not 100% sure they really removed the Osprey’s snack bar. Wouldn’t be the first time employees told an audit/inspection team from headquarters that they had done more work than was actually completed. Trying to bribe the team with all that cake (and goinking) looks suspicious to me. Maybe they just removed the napkins, coffee filters and fossilized mustard packages…
I always thought the Nazareth song with the “Now you’re messing with a son of a bitch” chorus was a kick-ass battle song. Titled “Hair of the dog”, I think?
BRB, putting Immigrant song on the speakers.,
Nah, when the Levee Breaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv5J2tJat3M That’s a reaction video, by the way, and anyone who hasn’t seen this yet is in for a treat.
Nonsense. The proper music for a fight like this is Drowning Pool- “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor”
No, that’s for the zombie apocalypse. Flight of the Valkyries is more traditional when going against another army, but modernists claim that Led Zeppelin has its appeal.
If you’re going for Wagner, I’d suggest Wotan’s wrath, which uses the familiar Valkyrie theme but in the context of a mad father-of-Valkyries / war-god figure, making the relationship more interesting for this scene.
Just playing devil’s advocate, here, but what if he *tried* to queue up one of those songs? But thanks to auto-shuffle, what came out the speakers was world 1-1 from Super Mario Land. And we only realize his mistake once the gatling guns start shredding bad guys.
Oh, mama, well I think it’s time I’m leavin’
Nothin’ here to make me stay
Whoa, mama, well it must be time I’m goin’
They’re knockin’ down them doors
They’re tryin’ to take me away
Please, Mr. Brakeman, won’t you ring your bell?
And ring it loud and clear, oonh
Please, Mr. Fireman, won’t you ring your bell?
Tell the people they got to fly away from here
I got your Led Zeppelin fix right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzdYqBf8Mc
IMMIGRANT SONG FTW! (It is, however, a fact of life that *everybody* has their own personal Led Zeppelin song. I mean, seriously; it’s their only, their one and only, and it’s a way to start.)
… yes, and most people’s is Immigrant Song.
Personally, my favorite from way back has been “Living Loving Maid”. I love Page’s guitar riff on that one. I also really like “Ramble On”, “Whole Lotta Love”, and “Thank You.” Well, let’s be honest here, most of my favorite Zep songs are on II. That being said, they had a lot of really great songs, so it’s kind of hard to choose.
“When the Levee Breaks” does seem kind of fitting for this particular moment in the comic, though.
Possibly more fitting for Nick would be “The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair”.
Yeah, I know Virginia’s hair has recently been chopped, but it’s still kind of long-ish.
“Immigrant Song” is pretty much exactly right for that situation. And it’s not even my favorite Led Zeppelin song either. “The Ocean” is.
clearly they are the bargain brand version if this is all it takes to trigger their wierdness o meter
I think that isn’t their weirdness meter triggering.
I think that’s their armament meter jumping from “tactical advantage” to “totally outgunned.”
Yeah that scientist with the purple highlight is pretty much dead by this point, come to think of it, maybe she was smart enough to get Trinity to help her, probably wouldn’t work though. I wonder if they’ll confirm it.
Mind you, I’m hoping against hope that she somehow survives if only because she was cute. ^_~
Not a chance. Too much blood spray in the panel where Unity landed on her head.
I think that was a dramatic effect, not blood at all. There’s no bleeding in the next panel.
I’m thinking Unity’s head has grafted herself onto Violet Lee’s shoulder, Two-Headed Transplant style.
Why would she keep Alt!Lee’s head for anything other than snacks?
With his luck it will turn out to be the My Little Ponies theme song.
I actually think I’d be more terrified to hear that than Lead Zeppelin. Just the incongruity of it coming from an attack helicopter would set my nerves on edge.
Improved destruction through the magic of friendship!
Nightmare Moon did nothing wrong!
There are, in the pony fandom, things far more awe-inspiring than the original theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0sW8KrZF5s : – )
But I love the smell of napalm in the morning…
When you want everyone to understand that the shit just got real, it is hard to beat The Ride of the Valkyries.
The Invader Zim theme might work well here, too. Get the blood pumping and the quasi-mad scientist cackling.
Forget about the main theme, I’m gonna sing the doom song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2HokZaeg5k
You’re welcome.
Could be the Whimsy World theme song. It’s probably still on a hard drive in there somewhere.
I prefer Gummi Bears.
http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_155.php
Here ya go, palenoue
My helicopter
I used to wonder, could I make it fly
My helicopter
‘Til love and fear made me give it a try
I was one and now I’m two
An awesome chopper—a body, too
To the rescue I will come
And then I’m gonna get me some
Because my helicopter
Ginny knows it is my very best friend
“Don’t come quietly, we’ll try to keep you alive so you can die in some elaborately contrived manner later.”
Heh. Yeah, I was wondering what the incentive was here. ^_~!
Pretty sure it’s just what they’re trained to say. Most A-Sig employees weren’t hired for their thinking ability. They’re hired to protect the ones who were hired for their thinking ability… usually as an expendable buffer.
The general idea is that their average enemy won’t catch the subtle “and” instead of “or”. But these aren’t their average enemies.
It involves walnuts.
Yup, this is what I figured. It appears to be the fear of impending death that motivates Nick’s wifi to activate. (Last time, it was specifically the fear of Virginia’s impending death.)
Playing ‘Tiny Tim’
Welp! That got his rooters churning!
Come on, Virginia, everyone knows you have to put on Ride of the Valkyries when you have helicopters incoming.
You’re right, but Nick should do whatever pleases her. I love the expression of thrilled delight on Virginia’s face in the last panel!
The driver chooses the music. This rule exists for sound safety reasons and also to compensate for the expense of wear to the vehicle. Imagine you’re on a road trip and your SO expects to control the radio. “Overall that sounds nice…” no, it doesn’t, your negotiating skills are terrible. You need to maintain focus on the key issue of that nightmare scenario, which is who controls the radio. As I was saying, everybody knows the driver chooses the music occasionally and when necessary to concentrate.
No, you’re right. The driver absolutely chooses the music. Of course, if he’s smart, he’ll choose the music she asks for. That way everybody’s happy… She gets what she wants, and he still gets to feel like he’s in control.
Or The End by the Doors.
The proper response here is of course to shoot Nick.
But all I can say is “Yes!” 🙂
Aha, the fatal flaw of all you megalomaniacs — the grandiosity and self absorption that drives your nefarious schemes also leaves you incapable of foregoing a speech at the least opportune moment. Where you’re going, miscreants, you won’t even be able to hear yourself monologuing, because everyone else in the prison will be doing it at the same time. I hope that gives you time to reflect on the error of your…
Crap, where did everybody go?
I’m a bit stodgily traditional, I prefer Flight of the Valkyries for my epic aircraft swoops.
That oughta go over like a lead zeppelin.
Nick is an Osprey, not a Zeppelin, and I think he should just be himself. 😛
The Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Panel 3 should be made into a poster. <3
I like the way the drawing of the speech bubble(s) suggests that his consciousness is suddenly in two places at once.
Very perceptive! I didn’t notice that until you pointed it out…
He’s in. And he’s flying the helicopter, too.
I would think, black sabbath´s “paranoid”, is more fitting
Virginia’s admonition is vague enough to allow him to play Moby Dick by Dread Zeppelin. “I saw the opening maw of Hell, with endless pains and sorrows there…”
She should have been more specific. Stairway to Heaven would be a bit too mellow. They don’t want The Battle of Evermore, they want to defeat AnaSigma quickly. Rock and Roll, maybe? But what I think she really wants is Whole Lotta Love.
There’s a lady who’s bought
Me the body I sought
Yes, she bought me a stairway to heaven.
When we want to, we’ll go
Though the gates are all closed,
We can fly, cause she got what she came for.
Oh oh oh oh, she bought be a stairway…with walnuts.
Is it a stairway with walnuts, or did she buy it with walnuts?
Possibly both. Depends whether they dismantled the snack bar.
They took out the snack bar. Don’t know what they did with it.
I should clarify: Did she pay for it using walnuts? And were they real or virtual?
Virtual walnuts…earned by time in the Loyalty Pits and gathered during extirpation…(some people might consider it a form of Karmic Balance, with the virtual virtue working towards undoing Ginny’s misdeeds towards Nick.)
I suspect that virtual walnuts are the basis of Anasigma’s economy, and they fund themselves by manipulating its market value.
You know, “Nut Coin”…
Well, y’know… nuts for the nuts.
…Also, I’m not 100% sure they really removed the Osprey’s snack bar. Wouldn’t be the first time employees told an audit/inspection team from headquarters that they had done more work than was actually completed. Trying to bribe the team with all that cake (and goinking) looks suspicious to me. Maybe they just removed the napkins, coffee filters and fossilized mustard packages…
Something like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b0OYxdtyM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqae3P7Dg
I always thought the Nazareth song with the “Now you’re messing with a son of a bitch” chorus was a kick-ass battle song. Titled “Hair of the dog”, I think?