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2019-12-23

by Jeffrey C. Wells on December 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. thedoctor55
    December 23, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I can see dr, Lee rocking a Wonder Woman outfit.

    • maarvarq
      December 23, 2019, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      I’ll bet, when Nick gets a chance to parse that comment, that he’d like to see Dr Lee rocking a Wonder Woman outfit!

  2. Moe Lane
    December 23, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I want to see* an invisible jet in the next Wonder Woman movie.

    And I want it to be an A-10 Warthog.

    *You know what I mean.

    • woozy
      December 23, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I just want to see a Wonder Warthog movie.

      …. just one… there doesn’t need to be a next one…..

      • Dave from Indy
        December 23, 2019, 12:27 am | # | Reply

        The Hog of Steel…

        • BMunro
          December 23, 2019, 3:07 am | # | Reply

          A hero for our times…

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          December 25, 2019, 12:39 am | # | Reply

          The Hog of Transparisteel (sorry, wrong franchise)

    • maarvarq
      August 20, 2021, 8:28 am | # | Reply

      Be careful what you wish for, because there was, and it was bad!

  3. Robert Nowall
    December 23, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Doesn’t Nick have any other crap inside his helicopter?

    • woozy
      December 23, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but that all became invisible. Everything became invisible except the people in the plane and most of their clothing.

      • awgiedawgie
        December 23, 2019, 3:08 am | # | Reply

        Frankly, I’m surprised (and just a little disappointed) that their clothing didn’t become invisible as well.

        • Robert Nowall
          December 23, 2019, 7:48 am | # | Reply

          Probably didn’t spill any paint on them.

  4. John Campbell
    December 23, 2019, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Called it.

    • David B Huber
      December 23, 2019, 2:06 am | # | Reply

      Kudos!

      • John Campbell
        December 23, 2019, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

        I admit I was hoping for more Virginia in a star-spangled bathing suit.

  5. Robert Nowall
    December 23, 2019, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    They sat within a copter clear,
    Invisible paint controlled.
    The activator proved its worth
    To show their actions bold.
    “The wait was worth a billion when
    The Mile-High Club was our fling.”
    But now we’ll see from far away.
    When Nick and Ginny cling.

    —from “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” Edmund Sears.

  6. Jon
    December 23, 2019, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    There was an Invader Zim episode about this once…

    • St. Clair
      December 23, 2019, 4:43 am | # | Reply

      (I was totally gonna post about that.)

      “It’s got chicken legs!”
      “Yesss, chicken legs.”

  7. Jon
    December 23, 2019, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Also, I am officially caught back up.

    Crapbaskets.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 23, 2019, 3:15 am | # | Reply

      It’s kind of like jumping off a cliff with a rope tied around your ankle. It’s great until you get to the end, and then you’re just dangling there, as they let the rope out an inch each day.

      You can climb back up and jump again as many times as you want (personally, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read through the archives, but it’s over 100), but there’s always that sudden stop when you reach the end.

      • Jon
        December 27, 2019, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

        You’re not wrong.

  8. David B Huber
    December 23, 2019, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    I don’t understand why Nick would have to *do* anything to “keep it going”?

    • BMunro
      December 23, 2019, 3:10 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps the paint only becomes active if exposed to some sort of Mad Science radiation? It would answer the questions about the non-invisible nature of the flask holding it a few pages back.

      • awgiedawgie
        December 23, 2019, 3:18 am | # | Reply

        Once again, I don’t understand the confusion about the flask. The flask was outside the paint, so the paint wouldn’t make it invisible.

        • BMunro
          December 23, 2019, 3:31 am | # | Reply

          What happens when you paint a mobius strip?

          • awgiedawgie
            December 23, 2019, 4:44 am | #

            Not sure how that’s relevant to the flask, but you’d start painting at any point on the strip, and stop when you reached the point where you started.

          • John Campbell
            December 23, 2019, 11:50 pm | #

            I keep my invisibility paint in a Klein bottle.

          • David B Huber
            December 24, 2019, 12:24 am | #

            You intrigue me, BMunro. Painting a Mobius strip with adaptive camouflage! Let’s see…

            Start with a normal strip of leather. Paint both sides and it becomes cloaked since the view from the opposite side is presented. Make a circle from it and put it around a candle: the strip is “invisible” so all you see is the candle.

            Now give the strip a half-twist, creating a 2-dimensional object. And the difference between mere cloaking and true invisibility becomes apparent: there is none. See-around and see-through are equivalent.

            But this implies Nick must have had his interior coated as well as his exterior hull, to enable the transparent effect inside.

      • soft
        December 23, 2019, 8:45 am | # | Reply

        Considering the “Fire up the activator” said in the first panel, yes, the paint requires something to activate it and make whatever it is on invisible. Thus the visible flask.

        • Robert Nowall
          December 23, 2019, 10:49 am | # | Reply

          And running the activator is giving Nick a headache, too.

        • David B Huber
          December 23, 2019, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

          Often, seeming anomalies offer insight into technical details. Assuming this “invisibility paint” works by interleaving pickups with emitters so the view is projected 180°, then normally the englobed volume would be hidden. Unless the image is manipulated, superimposing desired images into the projection ala’ augmented reality. So Nick is manipulating the cloak to allow Ginny and himself to be seen! (I think he wants her to don that powered armor again for protection)

    • Shadowmehr
      December 23, 2019, 10:55 am | # | Reply

      I believe Nick was talking about the discussion, not the paint. I’m which case, I can sympathize with him.

      • David B Huber
        December 23, 2019, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

        Upon reflection, I believe you’re right.

  9. Frank
    December 23, 2019, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    Well, Sweetheart, obviously you need to coat the people in paint too for it to work

  10. Daibhid C
    December 23, 2019, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

    Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum, Doctor Leeee,
    Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum, Doctor Leeee,

    All the world is waiting for you,
    And the science you possess,
    Scooping out folk’s brains,
    Sticking them in planes,
    Creating nano-zombie goo!

    (Yes, I know, but “planes” rhymed)

    • Robert Nowall
      December 23, 2019, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      “Stuck in a helicopter / Then in his meat so he bopped her…”

  11. D. Walker
    December 23, 2019, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

    I get that this isn’t the most serious of comics, but BOY HOWDY is that some dumb cartoon logic.

    Either the paint makes everything behind / underneath it invisible, or it doesn’t make ANYTHING except the actual object the paint is touching invisible.

    Did they coat every inch of every part of the helicopter? Open every panel, paint it on both sides, paint the screws that hold it in place, paint the wires and actuators and components inside? Did they paint THE INTERNALS OF THE ENGINES?

    No, of course not. That’d be crazy. So that means the paint works by making things BEHIND or UNDERNEATH it invisible. So that means the passengers should be just as invisible as the unpainted chairs, wires, etc.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 23, 2019, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

      You’re forgetting the all-important “because funny” clause of cartoon logic. It overrides pretty much anything else in most cases.

    • Jay
      December 23, 2019, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

      Dr Walske did it this way out of spite, because he has no time for your feeble “logic”!

      It’s adaptive camoflage, so it’s mimicking the background, plus or minus whatever’s programmed into it – though I dunno how the paint on the outside of the plane even knows what the inside of the plane looks like? Plus figuring out which bits of the inside are actually passengers seems a lot of image processing for little nanobots!

      • Jon
        December 27, 2019, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

        Not if you get passive nanobots inside of the copter to tag any living material inside, then generate “camera” bots to observe them. Whole thing should probably have a heat signature like whoa, but that’s the price you pay to mess with normies’ heads. A price that Dr. Walske is no doubt happy to pay. 😀

    • David B Huber
      December 23, 2019, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

      Correct. Ergo Nick is injecting “augmented reality” images of himself and Ginny from his onboard cameras into the data stream. Impossible? No. Just Mad…

      • Jon
        December 27, 2019, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

        If Nick’s systems are part of the circuit, couldn’t he just adjust his interior sensors to “hide” Virginia and himself?

    • John Campbell
      December 23, 2019, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

      You, sir, fail to grasp the basic principles of Mad Science.

  12. Jon
    December 26, 2019, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    Love how pumped Dr. Lee is about this.

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