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2013-11-30

by shaenon on November 30, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. mrmonkeyhead2013
    November 30, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I love the Addams Family one…see if they have The Shadow!

    • Wayne Zombie
      November 30, 2013, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

      A friend of mine is selling a Paragon pinball game from the ’80s in Phoenix, fully functional and nicely restored.

  2. Jay Eff
    November 30, 2013, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Tip is literally whoring himself for tickets.

    Also, there’s a poodle skirt in this comic. Yay!

    • Ian Thompson
      November 30, 2013, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s more of a she passed out from fun times So I slipped in thing. No innuendo intended.

  3. Zobot257
    November 30, 2013, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Look at that smile in panel one. Artie is AMUSED by this.

    Tip doesn’t stand a chance

    • maarvarq
      November 30, 2013, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      It could be more of a “Well played!” We are however past time for Ginny to kick both their arses somehow.

      • iburns
        November 30, 2013, 7:42 am | # | Reply

        Seconded. Or for them to be killed by a v22 osprey.

    • davidbreslin101
      November 30, 2013, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      I suspect Artie did the lecture-hall mojo-jump more to bait Tip than to get Virginia alone…. so it’s no fun if Tip gives up.

    • Michael
      November 30, 2013, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      Nah, it’s bravado – he’s playing the “you peon” card.

    • wykstrad
      December 2, 2013, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      Hand tugging at the tie = nervous, at least in common visual shorthand. The wide eyes also suggest this.

  4. Tuiteyfruity
    November 30, 2013, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    So, they ended up at Lucky JuJu? (that is the only pinball museum in the Bay Area I know of. and I pretty much spend all my time on the Addams Family one. It’s really fun)

  5. mnementh
    November 30, 2013, 2:54 am | # | Reply

    Do they have a Black Knight? What about a Mata Hari or Heavy Metal? Heck, I’d even settle for a few balls with a Flash Gordon…

    *Sigh*

    mnem
    *Suddenly feeling older than my years*

  6. Michael Farren
    November 30, 2013, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    Is Lucky JuJu the one in Alameda? Anyhow, does this mean that Jeffrey finally came out to the Bay Area? And we didn’t have a meetup? What’s up with hypothetically that?

  7. Belgarion
    November 30, 2013, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    Looks like tip is letting Virginia take the lead and move them places she wants to go as opposed to Artie forcibly jumping her places he thinks she wants to go.

  8. Vigoda
    November 30, 2013, 5:46 am | # | Reply

    A sold out Mycology lecture. Fantastic. Should have had the speaker holding up a pair of brass balls.

  9. Aevylmar
    November 30, 2013, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    So, something I’m curious about – when did The Mojo turn from Tip and Artie being very attractive, to teleportation combined with Retconjuration? Because it seems to me as though a wackiness line has been crossed.

    • codebracker
      November 30, 2013, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      When they cranked it up to 9, Tip always sonehow appeared in bed with someone if he pushed his mojo, the problem here is that both of them can mojo up to 11 so they keep teleporting to places they like, the last teleport seems to have been influenced by Virginia, so Artie won’t be able to predict the destination.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      November 30, 2013, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

      It’s like Nick’s obscenity filter. They’re lampshading the conventions of a PG-rated comic strip in a clever way.

  10. Ian Thompson
    November 30, 2013, 6:28 am | # | Reply

    Does anyone else think the weird part is that this mycology lecture Sold out a theater! They are in a private booth, which is something found only at major theaters.

    • =Tamar
      November 30, 2013, 7:23 am | # | Reply

      Or very old theaters. Poodle skirt and saddle shoes!

    • =Tamar
      November 30, 2013, 7:25 am | # | Reply

      I’m not surprised that a lecture on ‘shrooms is sold out in California…

  11. eddurd
    November 30, 2013, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: Theme to “The Addams Family”, Vic Mizzy)

    (ch-ch-ch-chunk, ding ding!
    ch-ch-ch-chunk, ding ding!
    ch-ch-ch-chunk, ch-ch-ch-chunk,
    ch-ch-ch-chunk, ding ding!)

    The boys, they are competin’,
    Each time, the deal they’ll sweeten!
    Now Lee and Wilkin meet in
    The pinball game arcade!

    With Tip and Artie revvin’
    Their Mojo to eleven,
    They’re now in geeky heaven!
    The pinball game arcade!

    (ch-ch-ch-chunk, ding) Tame …
    (ch-ch-ch-chunk, ding) Lame …
    (ch-ch-ch-chunk, ch-ch-ch-chunk,
    ch-ch-ch-chunk, ding)
    Free game!

    So now they’re teleportin’,
    While poodle skirts they’re sportin’!
    Let’s watch as they cavort in
    The pin-ball game ar-cade!
    (ding ding!)

    • Tetra Valent
      November 30, 2013, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Now all we need is someone in a “Lurch for the Brain-O-Mat” shirt.

    • mnementh
      December 3, 2013, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      Edd –

      I know I’m late getting around to it and you may never, ever see this reply; but I just had to state for posteriority’s sake… this filk was absolutely inspired!

      *Clap-Clap* Bravo!

      mnem
      *Sigh* I miss living in a time when the adventures of Morticia & Gomez were considered unusual, instead of just archaic…

      • Eddurd
        July 27, 2023, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

        Well, you may never see this reply to your reply, but thank you.
        (The occasional archive binge is good for you.)

  12. Shadowmehr
    November 30, 2013, 10:20 am | # | Reply

    This is going to end up with Tip and Artie in a mojo battle somewhere near the center of the galaxy, and Ginny, back in her original clothes, just giving up and walking to Emperor Norton through the cemetery.

    And after it’s all over, the two males have collapsed into a Nova of Lust; and Ginny is complaining about them both with a glass of wine inside Nick’s, er, . . . no way I’m finishing this without innuendo, so I’ll just say inside Nick.

    • ChaoreX
      November 30, 2013, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Still inuendo, and the cockpit is actually less inuendic than what you left off with

      • Dorcus
        November 30, 2013, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

        “Fuselage” is appropriately clinical.

  13. Ian Thompson
    November 30, 2013, 11:18 am | # | Reply

    Wait a second, tip’s mojo was already dangerously high. Could Virginia have absorbed some and taken him to the pinball Museum? He does seem confused and it is very geeky, so this might be her idea of a good date.

    • roberttheaddled
      November 30, 2013, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps the mojo allows for date etiquette? Channels your companion’s desires?

  14. Tetra Valent
    November 30, 2013, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

    For true geekiness, they should have the first pinball computer:
    http://digi-compii.com/
    I had one of the originals, in not-so-finely-made plastic.

  15. palenoue
    November 30, 2013, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

    If you like pinball and have an iPad, get this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade/id455826958?mt=8

    They have a lot of classics and keep adding more, going through a lot of effort to be as authentic as possible. Watch the video on how they make their tables by copying every little detail of the real tables: http://www.pinballarcade.com/Videos/

  16. Saberbeam
    November 30, 2013, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

    I’m thinking this is a possibility. Under more normal circumstances, Virginia would probably enjoy the dance that Tip took her to, and even more so the mycology lecture (if I recall correctly, biology is her specialty). I think her exasperation has less to do with the activities themselves, and more to do with being the prize in a mojo contest between two rather oblivious Don Juans.

  17. Saberbeam
    November 30, 2013, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    *sigh*

    This was in response to robertheaddled’s comment above.

  18. Caelo
    November 30, 2013, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

    Up till now mojo:
    Cure’s hangovers(tip),
    Teleports suties away from competive suitors(tip then artie),
    produces intresting activities(tip then artie),
    allows for make overs of all participents(artie then tip),
    plosably sells out micology lectures(artie),
    allow entry to sold out venues(tip),
    and materilizes gifts(artie then tip).

    • ChaoreX
      November 30, 2013, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t forget the almost instant off-screen sex (Tip, then Tiger lily, then Artie (implied))

  19. Shay Guy
    November 30, 2013, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

    This mojo-gone-wild is reminding me an awful lot of the penguin hat in Mawaru Penguindrum. Or Scott’s hat in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Or what kept happening to Donna in “Forest of the Dead.”

    I think there was a little of this in Utena, too.

  20. Dewy
    December 2, 2013, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

    “Straight to the vault!”

  21. Shane Wegner
    December 3, 2013, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

    “The MaMUSHkaaaaas!”

  22. McCaffrey
    December 18, 2013, 9:35 pm | # | Reply

    At first glance, the two skirts seemed to line up to form a very long poodle.

  23. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    February 7, 2014, 5:19 am | # | Reply

    I’m getting very confused by the mechanics behind this “mojo” thing

  24. James Bailey
    February 23, 2014, 9:03 am | # | Reply

    Heh. There’s an Addams Family pinball game at a laundromat a few minutes away from me in good condition. Good times while waiting for my clothes to get done.

  25. GammarayCanon
    December 2, 2014, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

    Huh. Apparently, Virginia and Imogene have similar tastes in skirts.

  26. The Magus
    May 14, 2015, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

    This is what happens when mojos collide. I just hope we don’t get a catastrophic overload…

  27. Daibhid C
    August 30, 2016, 9:21 am | # | Reply

    Going back through the archives, and this occurred to me. I’m surprised it didn’t occur to me at the time:

    Tune: Pinball Wizard

    Ever since Tip was a young boy,
    In a pair of heels,
    He could charm anybody,
    But never had the feels.
    Now he’s got competition,
    He’s feeling kind of low,
    That former-gerbil guy,
    Sure has some strong mojo!

    He’s a mojo wizard,
    He’ll sweep Lee from the room.
    A mojo wizard,
    At a lecture on mushrooms.

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