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2020-04-07

by Jeffrey C. Wells on April 7, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 7, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Wow. She kept her hands off Nick long enough to set up all that.

    • Thenardyr
      April 7, 2020, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      Well, science was her first love.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 7, 2020, 7:32 am | # | Reply

        I sure hope Nick can live with that. Science will always come first with her.

        • Theitzal
          April 7, 2020, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

          Considering he’s one of her experiments, he might be counting on ut

  2. Moe Lane
    April 7, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    NEEDS MOAR COCONUT

    • Gyrre
      April 7, 2020, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

      Upside, no Gilligan to break it.

  3. Alphaghoul
    April 7, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Well, this mother daughter bonding is off to a good start.

    • David B Huber
      April 7, 2020, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      Dr. Lee looks so delighted in the second panel!

      And let’s face it. Unity on on brains probably could help with “the science stuff”…

    • Seph
      April 7, 2020, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

      Does that make Nick Unity’s stepfather? That’s kind of weird.

      • D. Walker
        April 7, 2020, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

        It does not, because Nick and Virigina aren’t married. He’s her mom’s boyfriend.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 7, 2020, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

      Since Unity realized how much it sucks to be Dr. Lee (realized by infecting Dr. Lee with the goo that makes Unity Unity and merging with Dr. Lee), their relationship has steadily improved.

      • Alphaghoul
        April 8, 2020, 12:09 am | # | Reply

        Yeah but that was only because she finds science stuff boring and not because her life sucks.

  4. Eddurd
    April 7, 2020, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I would totally shop at Science Hut.

    • BMunro
      April 7, 2020, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      Ditto. Sounds like a nifty place.

      • waynezombie
        April 7, 2020, 10:43 am | # | Reply

        And the might just have masks and gloves! Albeit evil masks and gloves….

        • Robert Nowall
          April 7, 2020, 11:52 am | # | Reply

          They used to have science stores. I once bought four chemistry beakers at one…still use the three I have left for drinking glasses.

          • Seph
            April 7, 2020, 12:39 pm | #

            Hopefully after thoroughly cleaning them.

          • Robert Nowall
            April 7, 2020, 3:22 pm | #

            Pretty much. I might’ve bought more, but I was on vacation at the time, it wasn’t a local store, and the next time I went up there it was gone.

            Maybe just as well. You buy a lot of chemistry gear over the counter and everybody thinks you’re setting up a meth lab.

  5. BMunro
    April 7, 2020, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Maybe it’s just science that’s too advanced for you, Dr. Lee.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 7, 2020, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, how’s that saying go? “Magic is just science that we don’t understand yet.” Only in this case, Remy does understand it.

      • Jay
        April 7, 2020, 2:18 am | # | Reply

        Remy can make it *go* but he still doesn’t understand it… bit like my parents and computers, I guess.

        Remember when he channelled the Cypress’ ex-husband and still didn’t know if he was faking it afterward?

        • awgiedawgie
          April 7, 2020, 3:24 am | # | Reply

          How do you figure that? It looks to me like he not only knew he did it, but also intended to do it.

          http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-561/

          Go forward a few strips, and you see it was Sweetheart who wasn’t convinced that Remy was actually possessed by Alphonse’s ghost.

      • Max
        April 7, 2020, 7:08 am | # | Reply

        You know what we call magic _anybody at all_ understands? “Science”. Being able to wield it successfully has absolutely nothing to do with knowing how and why it works.

        • BMunro
          April 7, 2020, 11:18 am | # | Reply

          “Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.”

          https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gaslamp_fantasy_gg.png

          • Sheik
            April 7, 2020, 1:24 pm | #

            Which makes me curious as to why Dr. Lee seems to take offense.
            She is a Master Analyzer, and I would think she would see Voodoo as a challenge/opportunity to expand her horizons.

      • Daibhid C
        April 7, 2020, 8:48 am | # | Reply

        “Magic is just science we don’t understand yet” is kind of based on the assumption there is no actual magic.

        Like, the researchers at Unseen University’s High Energy Magic Building certainly understand magic. And it turns out it’s magic. (Although sometimes it’s magic that superficially looks like science.)

        • BMunro
          April 7, 2020, 11:20 am | # | Reply

          Magic in Diskworld is tangled up with Narrativium, which being related to the insides of people’s heads is necessarily non-scientific.

      • mickeyjf
        April 7, 2020, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

        Seems to be going around this week:

        https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2020/04/05

  6. WuseMajor
    April 7, 2020, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    Honestly, I thought her silliness benchmark had moved enough that this sort of thing wouldn’t phase her anymore.

    • Doug Relyea
      April 7, 2020, 2:53 am | # | Reply

      Still re-calibrating mine after the Unity Ant. Curious though, when it lumbered off was it clear-cutting or using selective harvest?

      • awgiedawgie
        April 7, 2020, 3:14 am | # | Reply

        I suspect it was more of a random lumbering, what with not being able to see anything. I suppose it would be similar to clearing a logging trail, but it was undoubtedly not anything resembling a straight line.

  7. MyaApplesauce
    April 7, 2020, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    Science Hut is a good name for a band.

    • jdreyfuss
      April 7, 2020, 9:49 am | # | Reply

      More like a venue. Tonight only at My Science Hut, Any Amount of Voodoo! With special opening act Lumbering Unity Ant!

  8. drf5n
    April 7, 2020, 10:59 am | # | Reply

    I want a science hut!

  9. Shadowmehr
    April 7, 2020, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    One question: why did she say up a science hut? Annex One probably has room for her equipment and will be moving on after this arc, is Dr. Lee planning on staying with the zombies? Their and her interest in disembodied brains intersect, but from different directions, so to speak.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 7, 2020, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      Because Annex One isn’t here. They flew Nick out to the Habakkuk and then flew the zombies from there down to Florida.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 7, 2020, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

      Who among us isn’t interested in disembodied brains?

      • Rimwolf
        April 7, 2020, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

        Honestly, the flavor is kinda meh.

        • jdreyfuss
          April 7, 2020, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

          Eating brain is kind of like eating bland scrambled eggs or thick oatmeal. It needs to be seasoned properly, or just used as binder or filler.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 7, 2020, 8:06 pm | #

            I wouldn’t know, and I have no desire to find out.

          • Gyrre
            April 7, 2020, 9:58 pm | #

            I’m with awgiedawgie on this one.

          • jdreyfuss
            April 8, 2020, 8:23 am | #

            Once you get past the idea that you’re eating brain, it’s just another organ meat. Mostly it’s useful as a binder in sausage, like black or white pudding.

  10. Gyrre
    April 7, 2020, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

    What’s that quote about magic just being an undiscovered/poorly understood field of science if it has rules and repeatable results?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 8, 2020, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      That would be what we were discussing further up the page.

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