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2021-08-23

by shaenon on August 23, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. alphaghoul
    August 23, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Shoulda seen that noodle incident coming, but the real question is the existence of children on saint charlie.

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 23, 2021, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      When a boy mad scientist and a girl mad scientist love each other a real lot then the next thing that happens is….. 🙂

      • Terra
        August 23, 2021, 12:29 am | # | Reply

        see the ending of Narbonic

      • CCC
        August 23, 2021, 2:41 am | # | Reply

        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…

    • Frank
      August 23, 2021, 2:43 am | # | Reply

      well, the chapter is called “Railway Children“

  2. Robert Nowall
    August 23, 2021, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Ooh, it did not. Just made the crazy inhabitants sane.

    • BMunro
      August 23, 2021, 5:39 am | # | Reply

      And reality-blind, which some will argue is another form of crazy.

      • Prodigal
        August 23, 2021, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

        You might say that their madness will never return.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 23, 2021, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 24, 2021, 5:17 am | # | Reply

        Iragrad?

  3. Curtis Hoffmann
    August 23, 2021, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    “Those kids modded the batteries after gave we them full access to the tool rooms, and told them ‘no mods’. Totally *not* our fault.”

  4. David B Huber
    August 23, 2021, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • Shadowmehr
      August 23, 2021, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      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.

      • Candace
        August 24, 2021, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        The solution probably involved bicycles somehow.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 24, 2021, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

          Invisible, flying bicycles.

  5. Moe Lane
    August 23, 2021, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Annex-1 has Old Ironsides, now?

    Oh, Anasigma, you sorry bastards are [expletive deleted].

    • Seph
      August 23, 2021, 5:20 am | # | Reply

      Half of Old Ironsides, I believe.

      • Ulzgoroth
        August 23, 2021, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

        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.

  6. Warren Terra
    August 23, 2021, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    Can you blame them? They’re just so cute!

    Also the kids.

  7. Semper Solus
    August 23, 2021, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    The logic was simple:
    Children are the future. The future needs death rays.

    • David B Huber
      August 23, 2021, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

      You jest, but I find many irritating examples of non sequiturs IRL.

  8. jdreyfuss
    August 23, 2021, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    So wait, were they giving death rays to kids or giving death rays in trade for kids?

    • awgiedawgie
      August 23, 2021, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      Yes.

  9. Robert Nowall
    August 23, 2021, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    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.

  10. John
    August 23, 2021, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  11. Robert Nowall
    August 23, 2021, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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