The next thing that happens is (usually) that they start collaborating on their projects. And then, before you know it, they’re at the stage of needing human testing. So they kidnap the inhabitants of the nearest orphanage into St. Charlie…
Even if the name doesn’t change (as with St. Petersburg/Leningrad/Petrograd, Russia), A-Sig has effectively destroyed the St. Charlie that we once knew. Now, it’s little more than an overcrowded subway train.
Either that, or faced with an escape pod going up at high velocity and coming back down a few tons heavier than before, they had to get very creative very quickly to keep themselves from being squished by gravity.
It seemed to be in one piece when it departed from its previous location. Only some of it is on-panel, but I don’t see evidence that the rest isn’t attached.
That day Ira had a task.
(Baby we blew it.)
He filled St. Charlie’s air with gas.
(Baby we blew it.)
They went out on the town
Showing they would bring St. Charlie down.
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare!
The pod was sailing through the pipe
(Baby we blew it.)
Their pod through the Charles, Constitution they swiped.
(Baby we blew it.)
When they rose upward, they said their goodbye.
Don’t you know, people, ships can fly?
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare.
Sweetheat, you must play it straight
Don’t look for the silver dogbone.
If their St. Charlie’s subjugate,
Your group is all alone.
Good girl, Sweetheart, what do you say?
(Baby we blew it.)
Rippin’ ridin’ down Kansas way.
(Baby we blew it.)
Two comic goons out to level you
They’re on their way and you know what they’ll do.
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare…
—from “Death Cab for Cutie,” written by Vivian Stanshell and Neil Innes, sung by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
I just want to say that I love Sweetheart’s expressions in panels 1 and 4 so much. (And, to some extent, 2, although you can’t really make out much at that distance.) They convey so much about her emotional state, all via sapient dog face.
The anchor is dropped on the roof. Sweetheart shouts out “Yaah!” but not “Woof!” From over this aerie they seek sanctuary—but these guys aren’t idiot-proof.
Shoulda seen that noodle incident coming, but the real question is the existence of children on saint charlie.
When a boy mad scientist and a girl mad scientist love each other a real lot then the next thing that happens is….. 🙂
see the ending of Narbonic
The next thing that happens is (usually) that they start collaborating on their projects. And then, before you know it, they’re at the stage of needing human testing. So they kidnap the inhabitants of the nearest orphanage into St. Charlie…
well, the chapter is called “Railway Children“
Ooh, it did not. Just made the crazy inhabitants sane.
And reality-blind, which some will argue is another form of crazy.
You might say that their madness will never return.
Even if the name doesn’t change (as with St. Petersburg/Leningrad/Petrograd, Russia), A-Sig has effectively destroyed the St. Charlie that we once knew. Now, it’s little more than an overcrowded subway train.
Iragrad?
“Those kids modded the batteries after gave we them full access to the tool rooms, and told them ‘no mods’. Totally *not* our fault.”
I admire this artwork so much! Especially panel 2.
Does the evidently controlled flight of the U.S.S. Constitution imply the escape pod docked with a previously prepared vessel?
Either that, or faced with an escape pod going up at high velocity and coming back down a few tons heavier than before, they had to get very creative very quickly to keep themselves from being squished by gravity.
The solution probably involved bicycles somehow.
Invisible, flying bicycles.
Annex-1 has Old Ironsides, now?
Oh, Anasigma, you sorry bastards are [expletive deleted].
Half of Old Ironsides, I believe.
It seemed to be in one piece when it departed from its previous location. Only some of it is on-panel, but I don’t see evidence that the rest isn’t attached.
Can you blame them? They’re just so cute!
Also the kids.
The logic was simple:
Children are the future. The future needs death rays.
You jest, but I find many irritating examples of non sequiturs IRL.
So wait, were they giving death rays to kids or giving death rays in trade for kids?
Yes.
That day Ira had a task.
(Baby we blew it.)
He filled St. Charlie’s air with gas.
(Baby we blew it.)
They went out on the town
Showing they would bring St. Charlie down.
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare!
The pod was sailing through the pipe
(Baby we blew it.)
Their pod through the Charles, Constitution they swiped.
(Baby we blew it.)
When they rose upward, they said their goodbye.
Don’t you know, people, ships can fly?
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare.
Sweetheat, you must play it straight
Don’t look for the silver dogbone.
If their St. Charlie’s subjugate,
Your group is all alone.
Good girl, Sweetheart, what do you say?
(Baby we blew it.)
Rippin’ ridin’ down Kansas way.
(Baby we blew it.)
Two comic goons out to level you
They’re on their way and you know what they’ll do.
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Death Rays for Kid’s Night!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare!
Someone’s gonna take you for a scare…
—from “Death Cab for Cutie,” written by Vivian Stanshell and Neil Innes, sung by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
I just want to say that I love Sweetheart’s expressions in panels 1 and 4 so much. (And, to some extent, 2, although you can’t really make out much at that distance.) They convey so much about her emotional state, all via sapient dog face.
The anchor is dropped on the roof. Sweetheart shouts out “Yaah!” but not “Woof!” From over this aerie they seek sanctuary—but these guys aren’t idiot-proof.