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2017-10-07

by shaenon on October 7, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. D. Walker
    October 7, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    You were expecting the taste of a liar, but even Speedwagon is afraid! Awaken, my masters! How many Duwangs have you eaten in your life? Za Warudo! WRYYY!!!

    • Dranorter
      October 7, 2017, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

      Woah.

  2. Otakubouzu
    October 7, 2017, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    For a meddling teenagers they are almost spot on.

  3. Stig
    October 7, 2017, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    I may have figured out one of the notes on the Oct. 4th Org Chart. In Panel Four, the left screen — could that be Transporter T[echnology]?

    • Efogoto
      October 7, 2017, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      Until Shaenon says it isn’t, yes it could be. And it fits in-universe.

  4. Bartimaeus
    October 7, 2017, 4:33 am | # | Reply

    “Whimsyboun Cosplay”?

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      October 7, 2017, 5:28 am | # | Reply

      “Whimsytown”, I think.

      • wazzawazzawoo
        February 7, 2020, 4:28 am | # | Reply

        or “whimsybounding” a la “disneybounding” (you can’t cosplay at Disney parks, they have professionals, so people wear more subtle colour cues to their favourite characters)

  5. M. Alan Thomas II
    October 7, 2017, 5:29 am | # | Reply

    Remind me which storyline Dr. Ao is from?

    • ebonysable
      October 7, 2017, 5:51 am | # | Reply

      The one where Sweetheart ended up in a simulation while posing as a mad scientist. Sorry, I don’t remember the name.

      • Schism
        October 7, 2017, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        Mixed-Up Files. The part where Dr. Ao reveals himself as Mr. Green, the head of Anasigma, starts at 2015-05-13.

        • Author X
          October 8, 2017, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

          Thank you!

  6. Mental Mouse
    October 7, 2017, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Of course, the face known as “Violet Bee” isn’t Dr. Green anymore, and there’s a perfectly good reason why she only exists online….

    • David Breslin
      October 7, 2017, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, please please PLEASE let them encounter the current occupant of Violet Bee’s body!

      • Robert Nowall
        October 8, 2017, 9:19 am | # | Reply

        I have a feeling she won’t tell them more than six words.

  7. Robert Nowall
    October 7, 2017, 8:48 am | # | Reply

    It takes one to know one.

  8. Shadowmehr
    October 7, 2017, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    This just occurred to me. Big Bad’s aliases are all color coded, but still relate to the central Oz theme: Mr. Green (Emerald City), Dr. Ao (Munchkin Country), Goldbug (Winkie Country), and Violet Bee (Gillikin Country). Which means that there is going to be one more alias in the future related to red, or the Quadling Country. Once this final identity is revealed, then we can finally see the man behind the curtain.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 7, 2017, 11:02 am | # | Reply

      The Oz references here are legion.

    •  
      October 7, 2017, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

      Oh mAAAAAANNNNN.

      (… Unless we’ve already seen Red somewhere…)

  9. Knabepicer
    October 7, 2017, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE

    • Mister Steel
      July 31, 2020, 8:39 pm | # | Reply

      NO! THAT’S A BASEBALL!

  10. Frank Hightower
    October 7, 2017, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

    So the Japanese, like the Greeks, use to not distinguish between blue and green?

    • Daibhid C
      October 7, 2017, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Also the Celts (“glas” is blue in Welsh, green or grey in Gaelic and green, blue or grey in Cornish).

      Colour words are actually pretty random — English didn’t have a word for “the colour of oranges” until the 1510s (this is why we talk of red hair and red deer), and then we spent the next few centuries nailing down every possible shade a fruit or semiprecious gem might be (avocado, lime, amythest, turquoise). I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn other languages never bothered.

      • Guesticus
        October 7, 2017, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

        Other languages have fifty shades of snow

    • Michael
      October 7, 2017, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

      There is a high rate of blue-green colour blindness in Japan. Traffic lights in anime sometimes come in surprising colours.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language

    • andrewfarago
      October 7, 2017, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

      Yup. The Japanese word for green, “midori,” was invented fairly recently.

    • Chris
      October 16, 2017, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

      There’s no “used to” about it. There’s “ao”, which is blue, except when it’s indigo, or green, or black, or pale. Then there’s “midori”, which is green, except when it’s blue.

  11. Landis963
    October 8, 2017, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    What do you want to bet that Dr. Ao’s given first name was something to do with insects? Gold[i]bug[/i], Violet [i]Bee[/i]…

    • OneUniverse
      October 9, 2017, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      It’s Doctor Popillia japonica Ao and the yet to be met Red Ant? Interesting theory.

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