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2017-11-18

by shaenon on November 18, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    November 18, 2017, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Shelby, there are *reasons* Brainiac 5 was considered a valuable member of the Legion. The mutant power of common sense is a good one. ^_^

  2. Urlance Woolsbane
    November 18, 2017, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Oh no! Not the MONKEY-FLOUTING theme-song!

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      November 18, 2017, 2:36 am | # | Reply

      AG-I, AG-I
      Jonah Yu says they’re gonna die…

    • Eddurd
      November 18, 2017, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      Here’s my take on it …

      • Robert Nowall
        November 18, 2017, 9:20 am | # | Reply

        Sometimes I wish I had my own recording studio, so I could put out some of my parodies on YouTube, too. Karaoke versions just don’t cut it.

      • Barking Monkey
        November 18, 2017, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

        I actually presumed Nera’s question in panel 4 was directly inspired by this. It’s more fun now if you try to imagine Goose Girl singing it.

  3. Jerry Aethers
    November 18, 2017, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    I give Nera bonus points for the third panel. That’s pure genius.

    • tornadominds
      November 18, 2017, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      +1

    • Mental Mouse
      November 18, 2017, 7:13 am | # | Reply

      Hey, it’s a reasonable point, and even Shelby didn’t really have an answer for that.

    • Candace
      November 19, 2017, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Except that, the indication seems to be that the reason Jonah won’t join AG-I is because they won’t hire Nera. Maybe Jonah didn’t tell Nera why he chose not to join, and Panoptica either didn’t “get it”, or chose not to disclose the content of the conversation to Shelby.

  4. casimir
    November 18, 2017, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Can someone tell me what AG-I stands for?
    Then I would know whether it’s AG-EYE or AG-ROMAN NUMERAL ONE.

    • chibirenamon
      November 18, 2017, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      A Sunday comic a month ago ( http://skin-horse.com/comic/2017-10-22/ ) established that it it stands for Project Silvereye (quoting Shaenon: “It’s a terrible piece of periodic table/YA novel wordplay.”).

      • awgiedawgie
        November 19, 2017, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

        And yet, despite that revelation (and the fact that Panoptica’s uniform has always had only the letters “AG” — the chemical symbol for silver — emblazoned on a silver-coloured, eye-shaped background), some long-time readers still write it in their comments as “AG-1” instead of “AG-I“.

    • Khno
      November 18, 2017, 3:47 am | # | Reply

      Thanks for asking I was wondering too…
      I was beginning to think it could be a wordplay on german Ich-AGs (yeah, unemployed-unfriendly concept from hartz laws, “ich” beeing the german for “I” in “I am”…)…

  5. palenoue
    November 18, 2017, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    A most foreboding future for AG-I team, their movies will all be directed by Zack Snyder and Joel Schumacher.

    • reynard61
      November 18, 2017, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Or, worse, *co*-directed by them…

      • gyrre
        November 18, 2017, 10:04 am | # | Reply

        Good gravy!

        The only way it could be worse than that is to throw in Uwe Bowl (can’t be bothered to spell that right).

  6. TuiteyFruity
    November 18, 2017, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    I mean… it doesn’t bode well for the team should they successfully convince Jonah to join

    Them successfully recruiting him might be their downfall, rather than it being inevitable

    • Robert Nowall
      November 18, 2017, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      He could undermine it from within.

  7. Robert Nowall
    November 18, 2017, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    AG-I just isn’t the team Jonah Yu wants to join with.

  8. Shadowmehr
    November 18, 2017, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    You can just hear the gears grinding in Shelby’s head in panel 4, can’t you? Unexpected wisdom has a way of causing cognitive dissonance.

    • Suzanne Barnes
      November 18, 2017, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

      Well, practicality and clearheadedness aren’t exactly common, are they? Nera’s got the rare ability to actually *see* things from multiple viewpoints; it makes precog seem almost wimpy.

      …..man, they have GOT to have kids. And then their kids need to meet Dave and Helen’s daughter; ooh.

  9. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    November 18, 2017, 9:50 pm | # | Reply

    Why does Panoptica need a mask if she’s basically just flying a desk? Who’s going to recognize her?

    • Seph
      November 19, 2017, 5:19 am | # | Reply

      She’s a superhero. Superheroes wear masks. You might as well suggest she wear her underwear inside her suit.

      • s854
        November 19, 2017, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

        To save anyone from checking, her costume is basically a unitard, boots, gloves, a mask and hair dye. If you could see her underwear, it would have been visible in http://skin-horse.com/comic/wont-be/

    • awgiedawgie
      November 19, 2017, 7:19 pm | # | Reply

      Just because we hardly get to see her when she’s not “flying a desk” doesn’t mean that that’s her only duty as a member of AG-I. This is only the second storyline that has been focused on AG-I more than SH (really only the first, since “Can’t Catch Me” was more about SH’s trip to the safehouse than it was Nick’s and Red Knight’s AG-I evaluation), so we really haven’t seen that much of her. She is, after all, telepathic — and as she pointed out on Thursday, AG-I’s only psychic — so there are undoubtedly missions where her skills are uniquely valuable.

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