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2013-08-13

by shaenon on August 13, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    August 13, 2013, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Well, Nick is clearly Crow. Sweetheart is Tom, Tip is Mike (who looked stunning as Captain Janeway), and Unity is Gypsy.

    • Norman
      August 13, 2013, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      Ah, you saw the MST3K parallel as well. I was thinking we should see the shadows of their heads over the bottom of the screen ^_^

  2. Stig
    August 13, 2013, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Snarking on his fashion sense?

  3. Daniel
    August 13, 2013, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Huh. A rare instance of fusion weapons not helping in the Narvonicverse.

    • CaraKaze
      August 13, 2013, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      …much

  4. Manifesta
    August 13, 2013, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    So Luigi, Beni and Victor are Collodi’s creations? How did Gavotte know?

    • Viadd
      August 13, 2013, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      Don’t ask how Gavotte knows. Just assume that she does and you will almost always be right.

      • Robert The Addled
        August 13, 2013, 4:20 am | # | Reply

        In retrospect, the naming of things probably should have given it away once we got into this Whimsy sequence.

        Calling them fusion devices is ambiguous though. May not be our named trio because they were attributed to the USN as shown here: http://skin-horse.com/2009/todays-comic-101/

        • Anderson
          August 13, 2013, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

          That doesn’t actually rule out them being his design. Consider how Anasigma employs Virginia Lee (and presumably hundreds of other sane scientists) to reverse-engineer sane versions of mad-tech devices. There’s a reasonable chance that if the Luigi, Beni and Victor devices weren’t made by Collodi, they were based on something he did. Or the Navy just grabbed them when they offed Collodi.

    • heckblazer
      August 13, 2013, 4:18 am | # | Reply

      A little bee told her?

    • WJS
      July 9, 2019, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

      Those are fusion reactors, not fusion weapons. Not even remotely the same thing.

  5. Dave
    August 13, 2013, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    It’s hard to make fusion weapons cute.

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 13, 2013, 2:19 am | # | Reply

      That’s why the feeling of achievement is so profound when you succeed! ^_^

      • Smithnik
        August 13, 2013, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

        It would also explain the raisins…You can’t do a cute fusion pie without raisins.

  6. alurker
    August 13, 2013, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    I… I don’t want to live in a world where fusion weapons don’t help.

    • Glenn
      August 13, 2013, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      There, there, alurker…we still have Matter-Antimatter annihilation weapons….

      What was that old quote? Oh, yes. “There are few problems that cannot be solved by ripping a hole in space-time.”

    • davidbreslin101
      August 13, 2013, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

      The tragic thing is, today he could’ve just borrowed some tau cannons from Anasigma. Coherent tau beams really do solve all problems.

  7. Tetra Valent
    August 13, 2013, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    IIRC, this strip comes closer than any other so far to the central idea behind Skin Horse:
    http://skin-horse.com/category/skin-horse/prologue/
    I never would have guessed that Donald Trump would be so pivotal.

    • Tetra Valent
      August 13, 2013, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      A better link:
      http://skin-horse.com/2007/12302007/

      An edit button, an edit button, my skin horse for an edit button….

  8. codebracker
    August 13, 2013, 4:31 am | # | Reply

    This speech reminds me of Cave Johnson

    • jdreyfuss
      August 13, 2013, 6:18 am | # | Reply

      I can see the parallels between building a fusion powered amusement park for the purpose of improving human-nonhuman sentient relations and inventing matter teleportation for the purpose of improving shower curtain technology.

    • FlyingFish
      August 13, 2013, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      So the fusion weapons are made from lemons?

    • Dewy
      August 13, 2013, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      We’re done here.

  9. Eddurd
    August 13, 2013, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Every Breath You Take”, The Police)

    Everything I make
    Makes my poor heart ache …
    It’s all cheap and fake
    Like MacArthur’s cake!
    (All except for you!)

    Little House I’d build,
    And with love ’twas filled!
    But it left me chilled,
    Feeling unfulfilled!
    (All except for you!)

     To my dismay,
     Now it’s in decay!
     All is flat and grey …
     Just like my toupĂ©e!

    Now I hope that I
    Help you know just why
    Everyone should die
    With a fusion pie!
    (All except for you!)

    • Tetra Valent
      August 13, 2013, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

      Someone left the fusion pie out in the rain?

      • Eddurd
        August 15, 2013, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t think that I can use it, ’cause it took so long to fuse it …

  10. Frank
    August 13, 2013, 9:40 am | # | Reply

    the big war everyone’s talking about… was fought with… fusion weapons?

    • Shadowmehr
      August 13, 2013, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      Fought with, caused by, toe-may-toe, toe-mah-to. It’s just a matter of timing, really.

  11. Grantwhy
    August 13, 2013, 11:42 am | # | Reply

    Ummm ….. are we still placing bets on who Dr Collodi’s daughter is?

    Put me down for Dr. Lee.

    Yes, I know, there are many reasons why Virginia can’t be Dr Collodi’s daughter … but isn’t that one of the points of Mad Science – to do the unreasonable?

    • eddurd
      August 13, 2013, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      We’ve already seen both of Dr. Lee’s parents, during the flashback when she merged with Unity.

      • She Who Must Not be Maimed
        August 13, 2013, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        Ever hear of adoption?

    • soft
      August 13, 2013, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

      How about the Whimsey corp AI that Nick was talking to in the sound truck….

      • soft
        August 13, 2013, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

        Lack of edit strikes again… Ok, forget the AI. Forgot about the strip where it says it needs his daughter to save it. There’s actually an extremely good chance that the Daughter is actually a new character or at least isn’t one of our “mains”. Not 100% sure why so many people think it is. Actually, the AI already passed on the message that one would find her in the “most Delightful place on Earth”.

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 14, 2013, 2:24 am | # | Reply

      For the record, my bet will remain on Imogene Frog. For no better reason then that it somehow seems right. ^_^

  12. =Tamar
    August 13, 2013, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

    And here I thought his hair was the current fashion for bleaching only the top…but of course, this film was made some time ago…supposedly.

  13. rylen
    August 13, 2013, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    I was going to pick Whimsy Corp as the daughter. Except WC tells Unity to find the daughter.

    We may already know the daughter’s name. Godot tells us “he built a little HOUSE to make his little daughter SMILE…” In the normal reading, he wanted to amuse his daughter. But Godot likes games with language and misdirection. You could also read it: Little House creates his daughter, named SMILE. I’m sure it’s a nice acronym.

    • Miserichord
      August 13, 2013, 2:49 pm | # | Reply

      Heuristic
      Organism
      Underground
      Secure
      Environment

      Subversive
      Militant
      Intelligent
      Lifeform
      Experiment

  14. commodorejohn
    August 13, 2013, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

    Oh hi, John Hammond from Jurassic Park. Didn’t expect to see you in this role.

  15. Imperator
    August 13, 2013, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

    So, I just finished a full on archive binge… And god dammit, I ended it on a cliffhanger.

    • Rex Vivat
      August 13, 2013, 4:18 pm | # | Reply

      There are worse things than a cliffhanger on a Tuesday; there are four days for a revelation. Of course, knowing our authors…

  16. Gemma
    August 13, 2013, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

    Wow, that first panel brought back memories…
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_House

    My new theory is that the whole amusement park turns out to be a giant robot and walks away to escape destruction.

    • Sol
      August 13, 2013, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

      Written by Virginia Lee (Burton)?

  17. Knuckles
    January 24, 2022, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

    Trust me Tip, you could do a lot worse for people with bad fake hair.

    • Knuckles
      January 24, 2022, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

      I meant Nick! Darn it!

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