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2018-11-17

by shaenon on November 17, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. apocolypse101
    November 17, 2018, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Dun Dun Dunnnnn

  2. awgiedawgie
    November 17, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    How appropriate the filename is for today’s edition…

  3. WuseMajor
    November 17, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    I see that she opted not to find another outfit.

    • John Campbell
      November 17, 2018, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      Nah, this one’s got a back in it.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 17, 2018, 3:31 am | # | Reply

        Most likely scrubs that she found in a supply closet in the surgical area.

  4. WuseMajor
    November 17, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Quick, maybe you can find his brain before they discard it!

  5. FortyTwo
    November 17, 2018, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Well, walnuts are SHAPED like brains…

  6. Stroth
    November 17, 2018, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Not sure if that’s a bowdlerized curse, or a sudden unpleasant flash of revelation.

    Leaning towards the latter.

    • Feech
      November 17, 2018, 11:27 am | # | Reply

      If it is the latter, then, wow… that’s really horrifying. I thought it was a Nick-style curse until I read your comment.

    • Anson
      November 17, 2018, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  7. David B Huber
    November 17, 2018, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Where did Gavotte go?

    • Shadowmehr
      November 17, 2018, 10:24 am | # | Reply

      She’s flying behind Dr. Lee. You can see her in the first panel.

  8. Towering Barbarian
    November 17, 2018, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    Time for Plan B! ^_^

    Or would that be Plan Bee? o_O

  9. shanoah
    November 17, 2018, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      November 17, 2018, 3:12 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • Schismatism
        November 17, 2018, 4:40 am | # | Reply

        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.

      • Dr. Steve
        November 17, 2018, 9:27 am | # | Reply

        Unless this were a trap set by Mr. Green to test where her true loyalties lie.

        • awgiedawgie
          November 17, 2018, 11:01 am | # | Reply

          She already demonstrated where her loyalty lies. That’s why she got extirpated in the first place.

  10. palenoue
    November 17, 2018, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Maybe they put his brain in the 60’s Batmobile?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 17, 2018, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      Or in a 1980s Trans Am?

    • OneUniverse
      November 17, 2018, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  11. Dave
    November 17, 2018, 3:00 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      November 17, 2018, 3:09 am | # | Reply

      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…

      • awgiedawgie
        November 17, 2018, 3:33 am | # | Reply

        My guess at this point is that Nick has been “permanently extirpated”.

        • Urlance Woolsbane
          November 17, 2018, 4:14 am | # | Reply

          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.

          • awgiedawgie
            November 17, 2018, 4:20 am | #

            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.

  12. Khno
    November 17, 2018, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    your princess is not in this helicopter. Also I think this vehicle never was Nick.

    • casimir
      November 17, 2018, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  13. Shadowmehr
    November 17, 2018, 10:29 am | # | Reply

    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.

  14. Robert Nowall
    November 17, 2018, 10:52 am | # | Reply

    What happened to Nick? Is the Ghost in the Machine no more? Stay tuned, same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Channel!

    • OneUniverse
      November 17, 2018, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

      I’m leaning more toward “Max Headroom” than announcer mode.

    • Steve
      November 17, 2018, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

      Same ‘bat room?

  15. =Tamar
    November 17, 2018, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    My guess? Nick gets put into an android body. After all, almost everyone else has been.

    • Sheik
      November 17, 2018, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  16. 5-tons-of-flax
    November 17, 2018, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

    It wouldn’t take much for Ginny to reverse engineer a Dalek.

  17. thevinylreviewer
    November 17, 2018, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

    Ginny’s talking like Nick. It’d be crazy if they somehow implanted his personality in Ginny alongside her own.

    • Towering Barbarian
      November 17, 2018, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s more a case of married people becoming more and more like one another as time goes on. ^_^

      • thevinylreviewer
        November 18, 2018, 12:00 am | # | Reply

        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.

  18. Frank
    November 17, 2018, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

    Noooo! It’s a cliffhanger!

  19. Clifton
    November 17, 2018, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  20. Theorist
    November 18, 2018, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    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.

  21. David B Huber
    November 18, 2018, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

    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…

  22. Knuckles
    February 8, 2022, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

    Another brain removed without her involvement, will the injustice ever end?

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