It occurs to me that this may be false information planted by Asig to make sure Tigerlily makes a break for it: Helen is a villain, but why would she want to put a weapon that can take her powers away in the hands of an organization which is in direct competition for the world-domination thingy?
Oh ye of little faith. There may do away with Walton’s Disorder, but there are loads of ways in which one can be mad, and many of them are not mutually exclusive with genius. Woo! Woo!
Lurking in the Institute, way down on Level C,
Just found out some heinous crud they want to do to me!
Might be shutting down my brain!
Turn my thoughts to pure mundane!
Cure me!
Cure my brain!
Turn my synapses to cellophane!
Cure me!
Sanity
Is just pure manure, they’re sure they’re curing me!
Might have something to do with the fact that computers don’t have mainframes anymore. Not since the seventies. Which, of course, has never stopped fictional characters from hacking them.
You kidding? There are a lot of modern mainframes, and a lot of places that still use them. It’s just that back then it was more or less the only way to get a powerful computer, which isn’t true anymore; but even nowadays they have their benefits and are still in use.
The 60’s madgirl is actually a mad chemist. She managed to pick the lock on the medicine storeroom and mix up something to, er, “expand her consciousness” as a herald of the Age Of Aquarius. When the staff discovered she could actually levitate and the walls were looking like something out of a Beatles cartoon in a 20 foot radius around her, they used ropes and grapnels to quietly drag her into an isolation cell where they can observe her while waiting for whatever-it-was to pass through her system (20 days so far and counting). The first part of Tigerlily’s plan is get some coat hangers to put together a device to reunite her astral body with her physical body so the rest of them can use her psychic abilities in conjunction with their own devices to effect their escape.
They will, of course, hide her sitar first. They may be mad, but they’re not that crazy.
Helen is on Level C???
something tells me that mell is working for Asig and stole the cure for them, but what your saying is a possibility
It’s been strongly implied that Unity’s brain is Mell’s brain, so if anything, Mell “was” working for Asig.
Remember that Virginia was working on reverse engineering the cure, and Sergio advised her to stop.
IIRC correctly, Helen was selling tissue and DNA samples from the staff to finance her work, and Mell worked as an assassin for hire for a while
If so, then it’s still being Beta tested.
Here is one ‘internet won’ certificate. Bravo.
Let us hope it isn’t Momma Narbon
Yeah, I predict we’ll be seeing Helen and her team make an appearance soon.
And as the villains it seems.
Huh… and here I thought they were always villains
No honor among mad scientists?
It occurs to me that this may be false information planted by Asig to make sure Tigerlily makes a break for it: Helen is a villain, but why would she want to put a weapon that can take her powers away in the hands of an organization which is in direct competition for the world-domination thingy?
(Heck, maybe 80s chick is a plant. [1])
[1] No, not the gun-slinging lily variety.
Just because they have it doesn’t mean she gave it to them
Asig is Testing it. That means they’ve got a partial version reverse engineered and are trying to bring it online.
Seconded.
I suppose with a transdimensional window, it wouldn’t be hard for them to steal the current formula.
Megalomania is such a WONDERFUL illness.
And Mad Science too.
Could have been worse. They might’ve vaccinated for mad genius. Then no one would have any fun…
Oh ye of little faith. There may do away with Walton’s Disorder, but there are loads of ways in which one can be mad, and many of them are not mutually exclusive with genius. Woo! Woo!
How exactly would you vaccinate against a genetic disorder?
Gene-modifying viruses?
What I mean is, that would be a cure, not a vaccine.
With MAD SCIENCE! Which makes the whole thing extra awkward.
(TUNE: “Call Me”, Blondie)
Lurking in the Institute, way down on Level C,
Just found out some heinous crud they want to do to me!
Might be shutting down my brain!
Turn my thoughts to pure mundane!
Cure me!
Cure my brain!
Turn my synapses to cellophane!
Cure me!
Sanity
Is just pure manure, they’re sure they’re curing me!
“C64”? Is that the legendary Commodore 64?
Make you wonder what their (in quotes) “Mainframe” is…
Given that “cloud server” is just a cooler name for “remote mainframe,” I’m guess that their “mainframe” is a mainframe.
Security by obsolescence
You mean like this?
Exactly! Most of the likely hackers wouldn’t know which end to shove in what slot.
She’s an early 80’s scientist, so yeah. OOOHH, Is it possible she could recruit ELIZA to assassinate SIRI?
Tell me more about … SIRI
Given that “hacked” and “mainframe” are in quotes, I have to wonder if she’s being euphemistic. Say for “voices” “in her head” or something.
They’re in quotes because in the 1980s that was what we did with words associated with the “internet”, since we all knew it wasn’t a real thing.
Might have something to do with the fact that computers don’t have mainframes anymore. Not since the seventies. Which, of course, has never stopped fictional characters from hacking them.
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You kidding? There are a lot of modern mainframes, and a lot of places that still use them. It’s just that back then it was more or less the only way to get a powerful computer, which isn’t true anymore; but even nowadays they have their benefits and are still in use.
I’m w/ Rex. MANY industrial facilities still have ‘mainframe’ style software even if its no longer run on/as a single giant computer.
Right down to the white/green/amber writing on a black background in the GUI when you open it on a desktop windows machine.
Off panel, UNITY looks down at her “Lurch for the Cure!” T-shirt and is briefly troubled.
So, the 50s/early 60s, the funky 70s and new wave 80s have been heard from. Where is the Age of Aquarius hippie to complete our set?
The 60’s madgirl is actually a mad chemist. She managed to pick the lock on the medicine storeroom and mix up something to, er, “expand her consciousness” as a herald of the Age Of Aquarius. When the staff discovered she could actually levitate and the walls were looking like something out of a Beatles cartoon in a 20 foot radius around her, they used ropes and grapnels to quietly drag her into an isolation cell where they can observe her while waiting for whatever-it-was to pass through her system (20 days so far and counting). The first part of Tigerlily’s plan is get some coat hangers to put together a device to reunite her astral body with her physical body so the rest of them can use her psychic abilities in conjunction with their own devices to effect their escape.
They will, of course, hide her sitar first. They may be mad, but they’re not that crazy.
Is there an equivalent of the “Bechdel test” for comics? I think this week ranks right up there.
Mell must use the same type of hair product, so maybe she’s trying to shrink the market
You just use the same Bechdel Test.
Do Tigerlily strips pass it, though? She’s always talking about The Man.
I’d say that The Man is more of a concept. She also had no problem calling Sweetheart ‘The Man’ when she met her, so there’s that.