It is not known if there were any non-human mad scientists at the symposium, although there were definitely non-humans.
Furthermore, Artie’s dialogue indicates that the Mad Symposium also hosted a meeting of the Mutants United for a Transgenic Tomorrow (later to be renamed the Transgenic Anti-Defamation League, which makes appearances in Skin Horse).
Of course, we have a number of occasions in which non-human sentients, be they Mad, genius, or merely objectivist, find or create a human-like proxy for interaction with the outside world. Dana’s lobotomized hippie, the hamster’s trench-coat-and-paper-plate disguise, and Artie’s human form are all prime examples.
And lastly, the line between human and non-human tends to… blur where Mad genius is involved.
Dana was definitely insane, but I don’t know if she counted as a Mad Genius. That’s quite a specific thing, there’s more to it than being both mad and a genius.
If Dave got turned into a Mad Science possum, I doubt the bifurcated genitalia would throw much of a wrench into his love life, considering his lady’s imagination and experimental tastes…
You can read it now, but the events of the strip are now so obscure even the annotators at Fantagraphics can’t keep up with it. (I always thought anybody with intellectual pretensions would know what “ETAOIN SHRDLU” was, but they didn’t.)
Okay, okay. “ETAOIN SHRDLU” is the order in which letters appear in the English written language, “E” being the most used individual letter. (Very useful to know when working out the daily Cryptoquip.) The guys annotating “Pogo” for Fantagraphics had no idea.
I suppose when the cobras are looking for dates…
Please oh please, let one of those turtles be training to be ninjas.
With Tony’s nickname being Splinter?
I wouldn’t put it past H.T. to be training his own attack squad for future plans.
They might want to wait until the turtles get a bit bigger before sending them into the field, th0ough.
Seriously, am I really the only one getting a Young Davenport vibe from Tony?
Kinda, but can a genetically modified Possum even go Mad?
Dana the gerbil went mad. No reason a possum couldn’t.
Huh, did not recall that. I didn’t see any non-human Mads at the Mad get together in Narbonic: speciesm in the Mad community?
You don’t recall how the serum drove Dana insane, just before it killed her?
Bugger. The system removed the image.
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It is not known if there were any non-human mad scientists at the symposium, although there were definitely non-humans.
Furthermore, Artie’s dialogue indicates that the Mad Symposium also hosted a meeting of the Mutants United for a Transgenic Tomorrow (later to be renamed the Transgenic Anti-Defamation League, which makes appearances in Skin Horse).
Of course, we have a number of occasions in which non-human sentients, be they Mad, genius, or merely objectivist, find or create a human-like proxy for interaction with the outside world. Dana’s lobotomized hippie, the hamster’s trench-coat-and-paper-plate disguise, and Artie’s human form are all prime examples.
And lastly, the line between human and non-human tends to… blur where Mad genius is involved.
Dana was definitely insane, but I don’t know if she counted as a Mad Genius. That’s quite a specific thing, there’s more to it than being both mad and a genius.
But Dana only went mad with chemical help, and it wasn’t stable. This could be something new.
Something created by mad science that’s not unstable… Yes, that certainly would be something new.
He kinda has that same “why am I still working here?” look that Dave always had, but that’s really about all.
^^^^^^
Ummmmmmm, NO!
It’s partly the glasses of course…
But they’re not fogged up!
If Dave got turned into a Mad Science possum, I doubt the bifurcated genitalia would throw much of a wrench into his love life, considering his lady’s imagination and experimental tastes…
Bifurcated genitalia?
…hmmm, kinky.
Can you say that again, only this time with a Borscht Belt accent, then give a quick cackle followed by a wheezy cough? ‘Cos THAT’s comedy.
Ugh, somehow that replied to the wrong post, it was supposed to be one post up…
OK, what just happened? Are the Communist Sirian Mind-Dogs messing with my head again?
How young? New-to-the-lab young or Davy-in-1st-grade young?
This is what you get when you let the tortoises play in the orgone accumulator.
Tammany Tiger, Pogo Possum, Curchy la Femme. It’s like Walt Kelly gone horribly wrong.
X°D
Tip would make a good Ma’m’selle Hepzibah, but he’s got no interest in Possums. (Unlike gerbils).
Well, in truth he has no interest in gerbils either… when they look like gerbils.
Is Sweetheart Pup Dog or Beauregard?
You can read it now, but the events of the strip are now so obscure even the annotators at Fantagraphics can’t keep up with it. (I always thought anybody with intellectual pretensions would know what “ETAOIN SHRDLU” was, but they didn’t.)
A short story by Frederick Brown?
(Do I win something? 🙂 )
Yes, but try again.
Fredric. People always misspell his name for some reason.
And SHRDLU was one of the first artificial reasoning systems.
Closer. But not quite.
Okay, okay. “ETAOIN SHRDLU” is the order in which letters appear in the English written language, “E” being the most used individual letter. (Very useful to know when working out the daily Cryptoquip.) The guys annotating “Pogo” for Fantagraphics had no idea.
Hot type or bookworm?
Wait till you get a Howland Owl and Albert the alligator, Also need a grump Pork’u’pine .
Didn’t we already get an Albert the Alligator during the guest-week story?
I get his plan now.
He wants to get transgenic vote, and produce a massive amount of malleable voters.
Well, I think
If they can’t win over the voters, they’ll make new voters.
Those are some adorable turtles.
Don’t step on them. They might explode.