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2018-01-20

by shaenon on January 20, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Moe Lane
    January 20, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Jonah is commendably polite, considering that she was pointing a gun vaguely at his head.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 20, 2018, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Well, he is used to dealing with Nera’s mother. If he doesn’t behave as a perfect gentleman — particularly around Nera — he could end up disappearing.

      • s854
        January 20, 2018, 3:09 am | # | Reply

        Kate’s pretty polite, too. “Cripes”?

        • Seph
          January 20, 2018, 7:29 am | # | Reply

          Possibly a side-effect of superheroism?

        • Seph
          January 20, 2018, 7:29 am | # | Reply

          I mean, she did refuse to shut off Nick’s swear filter back when he was with AG-I.

          • awgiedawgie
            January 20, 2018, 9:19 am | #

            It was out of self defense that she refused to shut off Nick’s swear filter.

            http://skin-horse.com/comic/office-you/

    • jdreyfuss
      January 31, 2020, 10:09 am | # | Reply

      Having a gun pointed at you does tend to increase the respect with which you address the wielder.

  2. Jon
    January 20, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, there’s the downside to the Jack Bauer technique, Panny…

    • BRGR
      January 20, 2018, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      Namely, that it doesn’t work at all.

  3. awgiedawgie
    January 20, 2018, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Congratulations, Pan. By holding him at gunpoint, you yourself provided Jonah the means by which to deceive you.

    • Towering Barbarian
      January 20, 2018, 2:57 am | # | Reply

      ..As predicted by him when he devised his master plan. ^_~

  4. joycemelton
    January 20, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    The sequence suggests that Jonah saw ahead that Pan had a gun and deliberately provoked her into pulling it so she would think she had the upper hand all the while keeping the gun in or out of his mind as needed. His mental control is phenomenal.

    • John Campbell
      January 20, 2018, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      I’m reminded of Helen in Narbonic: Any sufficiently convoluted master plan is indistinguishable from insanity.

      • Bruce A Munro
        January 20, 2018, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

        And any sufficiently subtle plan is indistinguishable from dumb luck. 🙂

  5. Ogden Wernstrom
    January 20, 2018, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Hang tight. This is just the moment when it looks like everything has turned against our hero. We’ll beat ’em on appeal. We’ll beat ’em in the sequel. We’ll hire a public relations firm.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 20, 2018, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      “Our hero”? Just whose side are you on?

  6. Ogden Wernstrom
    January 20, 2018, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Maybe Pan did read Jonah’s mind and is just lying that she didn’t know what was coming. It is a simple matter of plausible deniability to avoid tipping off the real enemy.

    It can be lonely being a superhero, hoarding a lifetime’s worth of secrets with no one to tell. The most painful secret of all is that there is someone, who reciprocates her affections on such a deep level that he cannot even admit it to himself. Yes, she loves him — she has seen through too many others’ self-deceptions and has lost the ability to lie to herself. But to share her terrible and thrilling truths would put him in danger and destroy the future he thinks he wants. Such a risk is beyond consideration! Better that the man she loves should despise her! Man? Practically a boy! Yet from all he has seen of what is and is not, with wisdom and depth beyond the ken of ordinary humans — ordinary humans such as the one he thinks to be his soul mate.

    • BRGR
      January 20, 2018, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      Intriguing.

    • Marisa Mockery
      January 21, 2018, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      Give Jonah ten years and he’ll fit that description.

      Yikes. Are we seeing this backwards? We got a precog with a ridiculously intelligent and violent tech god. Are we sure Mel isn’t their kid, gone back in time? It could happen!

  7. RealUnimportant
    January 20, 2018, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Now I’ve finally had a good long look at the Narbonic archives… Does Dapper Tip remind anyone else of Male Helen in their Sunday best suit, or is that just me?

    • Forzin
      January 20, 2018, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      I mean, now that you mention it…

    • awgiedawgie
      January 20, 2018, 9:24 am | # | Reply

      I’m not seeing it, myself. The hair is all wrong, and male Helen was a lot taller.

      • RBuckalew
        January 20, 2018, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

        “He” had a goatee as well, if I recall.

        • Anson
          January 20, 2018, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

          Broader too, as I recall. More obviously muscular.

  8. Shikome Kido Mi
    January 20, 2018, 8:53 am | # | Reply

    Ah, pulling a gun on an unarmed person, taking them hostage and then ranting about “who has the power” is a series of actions associated with a type of superhuman, Panoptica. That type is not super_hero_.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      January 20, 2018, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      Managing these rumors of an on-panel gun assault poses a challenge, maybe even a concern. What can we do to help? I am running out of ideas after receiving this response to our inquiries:

      Dear sir:

      Sauron, Saruman and Wormtongue PLC must regretfully decline your
      custom. Following Miss Panopticon’s open rebellion, the Valar cursed her
      to never again manifest a public image pleasing to the eye.

      There is still hope of forcing the sea monster into binding arbitration if Pan can trick him or her into signing the AG-I terms of service.

  9. John Smith
    January 20, 2018, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    A more reasonable explanation (though less fun) is that he saw that this plan, for some reason, lead to success, without full knowledge of the details.

    • BRGR
      January 20, 2018, 9:26 am | # | Reply

      It is sufficient that this course of action does not lead to imminent death.

  10. Dr. Steve
    January 20, 2018, 10:02 am | # | Reply

    In panel three his eyes are crossed. clearly struggling to NOT think about the sea monster. Indeed… to NOT think about not thinking about the sea monster.

  11. Robert Nowall
    January 20, 2018, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    And she would have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for that darned sea monster!

    • awgiedawgie
      January 20, 2018, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

      And those meddling kids!

  12. Shadowmehr
    January 20, 2018, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    In my mind, the sea monster is smirking right now. Justifiably so. He might not even _like_ the taste of humans, but might just make an exception in this case.

  13. davidbreslin101
    January 20, 2018, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

    Now, THIS is how you play The Game to win. (Do not try at home.)

  14. Pygar
    January 20, 2018, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

    I think we are all overlooking the fact that she is in the tentacles of something with tentacles… the possibilities are endless!

    • Towering Barbarian
      January 20, 2018, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      I think at this time that Pan might justifiably argue that she is a fantasy spy genre webcomic character rather than an anime character and that all those possibilities would therefore be out-of-genre. ^_^

      • awgiedawgie
        January 20, 2018, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

        On the one hand, you have a point.

        On the other hand, it’s a fantasy spy comic with a lot of sapient non-humans. So the line of demarcation between genres gets pretty blurry.

        • Marisa Mockery
          January 21, 2018, 3:03 am | # | Reply

          If I find a lemon about this scene on adultfanfiction.net later I know who to blame XD

  15. Knuckles
    February 4, 2022, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, the greatest weakness of a telepath.

    Not actually having any useful thoughts.

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