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2019-04-18

by shaenon on April 18, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. awgiedawgie
    April 18, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Well, that’s……. anticlimactic.

    • ShenHibiki
      April 18, 2019, 9:11 am | # | Reply

      Judging a bit too quickly, remember the size of the vampire-gotchi… size is not how danger is measured!

      • awgiedawgie
        April 18, 2019, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

        I stand by my statement. Based on the size of the box, one would expect a much larger thing to be inside it. So regardless of the actual level of danger that guy poses, his size alone is still anticlimactic.

    • OneUniverse
      April 19, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

      Is the box itself Monstro?

      • awgiedawgie
        April 19, 2019, 11:28 am | # | Reply

        I considered that, but then I would have expected the crate to slam shut immediately.

  2. Alphaghoul
    April 18, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Hoots?

    • Rick
      April 18, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Little Scottish windup robot

    • s854
      April 19, 2019, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      Hoots mon, at that.

      • s854
        April 19, 2019, 3:23 am | # | Reply

        (Again, I wish there was a preview thing so I could tell what the web site would delete.) It should have a link to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hoots%20mon

        • awgiedawgie
          April 19, 2019, 11:41 am | # | Reply

          Depends on how you attach the link in your comments. If you’re using html, and you’re on a mobile device, check to see if your device is replacing your regular quotation marks with ‘smart’ quotes. It’s hard to notice unless you’re really looking for it. If so, the link inside the quotes will be ignored. I had that problem with my iPad, so I had to figure out how to make it use regular quotes instead.

  3. dornbeast
    April 18, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Of course. The clues were all there. The question mark on the side of the box.

    It’s going to be a Super Mario Bros. battle.

  4. casimir
    April 18, 2019, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Panel 3 is just a lovely composition.

  5. palenoue
    April 18, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    I want that little guy to be an actual wind-up toy for a stretch goal on the next book kickstarter.

  6. thedoctor55
    April 18, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    A Scottish wind up toy? Well….that is kinda Monty Python-ish. If they chase each other around the stadium,I’m be hearing the Benny Hill theme in the background.

    • arqyx
      April 18, 2019, 6:10 am | # | Reply

      “Yakkity Sax”

      • Pygar
        April 18, 2019, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

        Could be worse… “Yakkity Bagpipes”…

        • Robert Loughrey
          April 18, 2019, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

          OMG their lungs would get sucked inside out….

          • palenoue
            April 18, 2019, 2:37 pm | #

            Great, now I’m going to be thinking about yakkity bagpipes for the rest of the week.

          • Pygar
            April 18, 2019, 2:58 pm | #

            heh, heh, heh!

          • Forrest M Davis
            April 22, 2020, 7:43 pm | #

            I would seriously pay money to hear a competent piper play that! Probably end up paying my small bit of remaining sanity too, but it would be so worth it…

    • Jen
      April 18, 2019, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      This one comes with its very own 1958 soundtrack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeu72y0f4Kc

  7. Robert Nowall
    April 18, 2019, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    If Monstro’s a windup, is he one of Ms. Tigerlily Jones’s windups?

    • Frank
      April 18, 2019, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      Probably from the time she couldn’t make big bots

      • waynezombie
        April 18, 2019, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

        (A) I can’t see her giving one of her bots a Scottish accent, and (B) the soundtrack would definitely not be Yakety Sax. We might hear it as Yakety Sax, but it would have to have a funk vibe.

        • awgiedawgie
          April 18, 2019, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

          She’s had any number of her robots who left her to be square, so who can say whether one left her to be Scottish?

  8. Aevylmar
    April 18, 2019, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    It’s a… video game contest.

    Against a robot who is, of course, superhumanly gifted at video games.

    That’s what I’m betting on, at least.

  9. Frank
    April 18, 2019, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    if Monstro wins, how are they uploading his clockwork mechanisms to a digital world?

    • Robert Loughrey
      April 18, 2019, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Do not look directly into the mad science.

    • Sparks
      April 20, 2019, 4:45 pm | # | Reply

      With a wire up the nose, obviously.

      Consciousness transfer always requires a wire up the nose, it’s very important. We learned this from Narbonic.

  10. Altarboy
    April 18, 2019, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    Is he a little Scottish wind up fish? Monstro MacGuffin?

  11. Leslie
    April 18, 2019, 4:38 am | # | Reply

    ‘Scotsman on the make’….everybody beware. The accent tells you that
    he’s dangerous. Lock your wallets.

  12. Robert Nowall
    April 18, 2019, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    “Well, a Scotsman clad in kilt left a bar one evening fair…”

    • Robert Loughrey
      April 18, 2019, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      and one could tell by the way he walked he’d had more than his share…

      • LogicMouse
        April 18, 2019, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

        He fumbled ’round until he could no longer keep his feet…

    • awgiedawgie
      April 18, 2019, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

      A drunken Scotsman… so, basically just a regular Scotsman.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 19, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

        “Och, lad, I don’t know where ya been, but I see ya won first prize.”

  13. Sleepy John
    April 18, 2019, 9:12 am | # | Reply

    A wind-up key, a CRT TV, and rabbit ears. Yeah, this is cutting-edge stuff , all right.

  14. Dr. Steve
    April 18, 2019, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    HAH! I so anti-called it!

  15. Robert Nowall
    April 18, 2019, 10:41 am | # | Reply

    Say, where are Monstro’s curling iron and space heater?

    • Barbara K
      April 18, 2019, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      Och, Mon! Curling’s a Scottish sport. (Maybe ye need a wee space heater to smooth the ice?)

  16. Chrisn
    April 18, 2019, 11:55 am | # | Reply

    Hope it’s not going to be tennis. Scots are notorious about competing in Wimbledon . . .

  17. Daibhid C
    April 18, 2019, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

    Comedy Scottish accent fae the win, ye ken!

    (Hmm … is it going to turn out there are actually hundreds of these things? Swarming over Nick, trying to headbutt him and shouting random battlecries?)

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      April 18, 2019, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

      The Wee Free Bots?

      • Regret
        April 18, 2019, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

        Agh, ye stole me reply! The Kelda ent here so it’s too late to hide yer ship!

      • Shadowmehr
        April 18, 2019, 10:09 pm | # | Reply

        My thoughts exactly. Dr. Lee is going to have to do emergency repairs on Nick’s kneecaps before this is done.

  18. The Occupant
    April 18, 2019, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

    The teeny tiny CRT TV is probably the part.

  19. Bruce A Munro
    April 18, 2019, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

    Perhaps this is the actual Loch Ness Monster.

  20. Bruce A Munro
    April 18, 2019, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

    Now, is this, as some have suggested, a “killer rabbit?” Or have the authors been just trolling us with a, shall we say, red herring?

  21. Sparks
    April 18, 2019, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

    I have discovered that I am somehow incapable of reading that last line in anything but Scrooge McDuck’s voice. Not just ANY Scottish voice, but specifically that one.

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