I assume your implication is that the “walnut shelling” was actually a VR metaphor for further brain extraction? That was neither my first (Nick-style censorship) nor my second (Nick’s now the one in the VR) thought. But it would be wonderfully horrible.
B is a distinct possibility, though I don’t think anything about today’s strip suggests it. Surely the obvious trick would be for her to find Nick alive and well?
One aspect of the VR sim – the one into which Sweetheart was placed – manages to take your self-loathing and use it for all manner of horrors. If this were a trick of that nature, surely she’d find Nick lobotomized.
Could they just upload Nick to “the Cloud” and give Nick options? It might be cool to be the Terminator one day and a remote controlled (censored) the next.
Mr. Green said that Nick would be dismantled “tomorrow”; seeing as his craft is still intact, I assume it’s the same day. His brain-tank is probably fairly easy to remove. Any number of things could happen to him; he could be extirpated, he could be put on ice, or he could go the way of his body…
Oh, I think I see what you mean. I’d assumed that simply entailed being debrained, but I suppose it’s possible that it actually digitalizes your consciousness. Either, it seems rather less dire for Nick than it would for anyone else.
I assume that it means being reduced to a brain-in-a-jar (so Nick was already halfway there), and then permanently connected to the VR walnut camp. That way they can always pick your brain (no pun intended) when they want to call on your skills.
If you are saying that Nick, like any other person, is not the shell that carries his being, I would agree with you. If you are saying that this is an entirely different Osprey and that Nick has been moved, I would agree with that possibility also.
The bright side to this, sort of, is that when Ginny finds where Nick’s brain has been put, she can put it into a new (humanoid) android body to escape with. She’s close enough to mad to improvise one on the fly, and they have to have all sorts of parts in an Anasigma lab.
An excellent point seeing as how they have so many of them just lying around.
OTOH adapting his brain case to one might be a bit unsightly.
Nick may be none the worse for wear though if his life support is built into his jar. It may also render him unconscious while not hooked up to his senses to prevent his going crazy due to sensory deprivation. So long as no one tampers with the jar he’ll be just fine I think.
I suspect Virginia is going to go Mad.
Evidence:
(Warning: So many spoilers for Narbonic)
She has displayed mad-like tenancies in the past(Usually played for laughs). Who else did that? Dave! Before he went mad he was developing the blase reaction to weirdness that mads have. In addition both Virginia and Dave have superhuman, although less than mad, levels of skill and interest in their chosen field. I suspect that Dave could have made any of the devices he repaired adhere to more sane science, he just didn’t see the need to/ believe he could.
Finally, Dave din’t break through after physical trauma, up to and including death. It took a serious mental shock(Revelation the he had the potential to be mad, and that Helen knew about it.), along with being rejected and dumped by the love of his life. Now, Virginia is in a very similar position. She has recently learned the the company she works for is designing weapons and preparing for war, and she just lost her best(And possibly first) true friend.
Now, given this, what might happen next? Well, the prospect of a Mad breaking through in a mad scientists lab was terrifying enough for MAD SCIENTISTS to censure it, ad for good reason: if not for the intervention of two of the greatest mad scientists, along with knowledge from the future and a horde pf super intelligent hamsters the world would be a radioactive smoking crater.
So, what could happen if a mad broke through in Anasigma labs, stocked with the materials and inventions of dozens of mad scientist’s labs, most of witch Virginia has already worked on and knows how they work.
Dun Dun Dunnnnn
How appropriate the filename is for today’s edition…
I see that she opted not to find another outfit.
Nah, this one’s got a back in it.
Most likely scrubs that she found in a supply closet in the surgical area.
Quick, maybe you can find his brain before they discard it!
Well, walnuts are SHAPED like brains…
Not sure if that’s a bowdlerized curse, or a sudden unpleasant flash of revelation.
Leaning towards the latter.
If it is the latter, then, wow… that’s really horrifying. I thought it was a Nick-style curse until I read your comment.
I assume your implication is that the “walnut shelling” was actually a VR metaphor for further brain extraction? That was neither my first (Nick-style censorship) nor my second (Nick’s now the one in the VR) thought. But it would be wonderfully horrible.
Where did Gavotte go?
She’s flying behind Dr. Lee. You can see her in the first panel.
Time for Plan B! ^_^
Or would that be Plan Bee? o_O
I’m thinking either:
a) Nick’s brain was removed and is elsewhere, but still alive.
or
b) She’s still in VR.
I’m tending strongly towards b.
B is a distinct possibility, though I don’t think anything about today’s strip suggests it. Surely the obvious trick would be for her to find Nick alive and well?
One aspect of the VR sim – the one into which Sweetheart was placed – manages to take your self-loathing and use it for all manner of horrors. If this were a trick of that nature, surely she’d find Nick lobotomized.
This at least implies that there’s hope.
Unless this were a trap set by Mr. Green to test where her true loyalties lie.
She already demonstrated where her loyalty lies. That’s why she got extirpated in the first place.
Maybe they put his brain in the 60’s Batmobile?
Or in a 1980s Trans Am?
Could they just upload Nick to “the Cloud” and give Nick options? It might be cool to be the Terminator one day and a remote controlled (censored) the next.
Depending on how time passes in the VR, she could have been there for days by now.
But… what would they do with Nick’s brain? Discard it… or extirpate it?
Mr. Green said that Nick would be dismantled “tomorrow”; seeing as his craft is still intact, I assume it’s the same day. His brain-tank is probably fairly easy to remove. Any number of things could happen to him; he could be extirpated, he could be put on ice, or he could go the way of his body…
My guess at this point is that Nick has been “permanently extirpated”.
Oh, I think I see what you mean. I’d assumed that simply entailed being debrained, but I suppose it’s possible that it actually digitalizes your consciousness. Either, it seems rather less dire for Nick than it would for anyone else.
I assume that it means being reduced to a brain-in-a-jar (so Nick was already halfway there), and then permanently connected to the VR walnut camp. That way they can always pick your brain (no pun intended) when they want to call on your skills.
your princess is not in this helicopter. Also I think this vehicle never was Nick.
If you are saying that Nick, like any other person, is not the shell that carries his being, I would agree with you. If you are saying that this is an entirely different Osprey and that Nick has been moved, I would agree with that possibility also.
The bright side to this, sort of, is that when Ginny finds where Nick’s brain has been put, she can put it into a new (humanoid) android body to escape with. She’s close enough to mad to improvise one on the fly, and they have to have all sorts of parts in an Anasigma lab.
What happened to Nick? Is the Ghost in the Machine no more? Stay tuned, same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel!
I’m leaning more toward “Max Headroom” than announcer mode.
Same ‘bat room?
My guess? Nick gets put into an android body. After all, almost everyone else has been.
An excellent point seeing as how they have so many of them just lying around.
OTOH adapting his brain case to one might be a bit unsightly.
Nick may be none the worse for wear though if his life support is built into his jar. It may also render him unconscious while not hooked up to his senses to prevent his going crazy due to sensory deprivation. So long as no one tampers with the jar he’ll be just fine I think.
It wouldn’t take much for Ginny to reverse engineer a Dalek.
Ginny’s talking like Nick. It’d be crazy if they somehow implanted his personality in Ginny alongside her own.
I think it’s more a case of married people becoming more and more like one another as time goes on. ^_^
I think that’s probably the case as well; in fact, I think we’ve seen her swear like Nick before. I was just throwing that out on the off chance.
Noooo! It’s a cliffhanger!
I was inferring that “walnuts” is the absolute worst word she can think of, after her time in the walnut-picking camp of extirpation.
That last sounds like a pretty good string of swearwords itself.
I suspect Virginia is going to go Mad.
Evidence:
(Warning: So many spoilers for Narbonic)
She has displayed mad-like tenancies in the past(Usually played for laughs). Who else did that? Dave! Before he went mad he was developing the blase reaction to weirdness that mads have. In addition both Virginia and Dave have superhuman, although less than mad, levels of skill and interest in their chosen field. I suspect that Dave could have made any of the devices he repaired adhere to more sane science, he just didn’t see the need to/ believe he could.
Finally, Dave din’t break through after physical trauma, up to and including death. It took a serious mental shock(Revelation the he had the potential to be mad, and that Helen knew about it.), along with being rejected and dumped by the love of his life. Now, Virginia is in a very similar position. She has recently learned the the company she works for is designing weapons and preparing for war, and she just lost her best(And possibly first) true friend.
Now, given this, what might happen next? Well, the prospect of a Mad breaking through in a mad scientists lab was terrifying enough for MAD SCIENTISTS to censure it, ad for good reason: if not for the intervention of two of the greatest mad scientists, along with knowledge from the future and a horde pf super intelligent hamsters the world would be a radioactive smoking crater.
So, what could happen if a mad broke through in Anasigma labs, stocked with the materials and inventions of dozens of mad scientist’s labs, most of witch Virginia has already worked on and knows how they work.
We must assume Nick is presently in Walnut World. He too would have no problem recognizing a VR environment, and has the skills to crash it.
Dr. Lee needs to find his brain case and abscound with it…
Another brain removed without her involvement, will the injustice ever end?