I had another thought : When Virginia changed from gown to scrubs, there was probably a locker room, emptied by Gavotte. And one or more surgeons probably kept their wallets in the lockers, either with easily breakable/pickable locks, or with no lock at all (who’s going to steal from an extirpation surgeon?).
Dr. Lee could have picked up one or more wads of cash from there.
Oh, and the biowaste might have contained some staining substances that require industrial detergents to shift. Her hands could be as clean as she could get them with lesser soaps.
I think it’d be entirely in character if Virginia never actually snapped, she just drifted over the line so quietly and gradually that neither she nor anyone around her realized until one day someone points out that she created a 50 foot killer zombie cyborg out of stale donuts, printer toner and a toaster oven and now it’s trimming the hedges outside and her coworkers just shrug and say “Yeah it was rater rude of her to use ALL the donuts.”
(Alternately, this might have happened years ago around the time she created Unity.)
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I believe she has been quite Mad for a long time. My theory is that it happened when she was a child – possibly even as far back as the trauma when she was only a year old and “scrubbed her dol” because she couldn’t choose just one thing that she would become. Her parents, thinking she was merely gifted, would have raised her in such a way as to deal with her… eccentricities.
And I’ve made no secret of the fact I don’t buy it. If Ginny has full-blown Walton’s Disorder, then pretty much everything, we’ve been told about Walton’s Disorder is wrong.
Heck, even if she just has latent Walton’s Disorder, that doesn’t exactly jibe with how it worked for Dave. Dave could break the laws of physics, as long as he didn’t know that was what he was doing. Ginny is useful to A-Sig precisely because she can replicate the creations of Mad Science without breaking the laws of physics. OTOH, I accept that with the limited sample size it’s possible latent Walton’s works differently for different people.
And while I know the Evil Conspiracy is basically incompetent whenever it’s funny for them to be so, I don’t believe the guys studying mad science would have employed a mad scientist for their non-mad science work and not noticed. (Although I suppose that could all be part of the plan…)
You’re operating on the premise that Mad Genius in the Narboniverse works exactly like Walton’s Disorder in our world. That’s just as much a fallacy as people assuming that Mad Geniuses in the Narboniverse are the same as the Sparks in Girl Genius. There are plenty of similarities – enough that you can draw some parallels – but you don’t have enough to say they’re identical.
Indeed, Walton’s Disorder is a Narboniverse thing, its medical name for Mad Genius. Nobody could possibly be operating on the premise that Walton’s Disorder in the Narboniverse is like Walton’s Disorder in “our world”, because it doesn’t exist in our world.
Yes, Walton’s Disorder is a Narboniverse thing. But… Since Walton’s Disorder has not been clearly defined in the Narboniverse, it has been grouped together in our world with a number of other names for Mad Genius from a bunch of other comics. And since it has not been clearly defined, you cannot assume anything that has not been expressly stated about it.
If I’m missing something somewhere, and it has been clearly defined somewhere in the Narboniverse, by all means, tell me where so I can brush up on my studies.
I suppose Rule of Funny makes it hard to say, but to me making a life support system for a naked brain out of a McDonald’s coffee carafe is just as reality-breaking as a teleporter made out of clothes hangers.
Of course that’s what matters
Eh, I bet Nick would understand. ^_^
Agreed.
It’s not like he wouldn’t do the same.
I’m kind of surprised she didn’t wash the sludge off her hands before she got her meal.
(And how, exactly, did she pay for said meal?)
It’s McDonalds. It’s not like she’s going to get sick -from the sludge.-
I had another thought : When Virginia changed from gown to scrubs, there was probably a locker room, emptied by Gavotte. And one or more surgeons probably kept their wallets in the lockers, either with easily breakable/pickable locks, or with no lock at all (who’s going to steal from an extirpation surgeon?).
Dr. Lee could have picked up one or more wads of cash from there.
Oh, and the biowaste might have contained some staining substances that require industrial detergents to shift. Her hands could be as clean as she could get them with lesser soaps.
Or, could be colorist error.
True, especially as her hands seem clean in the first two frames,.
Are you suggesting this is a stain on Pancha’s reputation?
Time to activate that mojo of yours, Dr. Lee.
Onward, girl. You’ve made some serious choices, and you want to be different.
Yeah, I believe in ‘life-support’ from those coffee carafes.
Indeed. I use a coffee carafe for life-support on a regular basis.
“That’s not a carafe, it’s a pitcher!” —Dr. Robert Hartley.
Pronounced Dur Bob Hartley. (Youtube link)
her right hand isn’t sludgy in panel 2. And yeah, I’d think she’d have used the washroom here to clean up by now.
No, no, her hands weren’t sludgy any more, AND THEN SHE ATE THE MCDONALD’S.
From this we can deduce that THE MCRIB IS BACK
Same great taste, but now with 200% more industrial bio-waste!
…Alas, it is not. At least around here.
Excellent observation!
Okay, no doubt about it. Virginia is definitely capital-em Mad.
It certainly would be hard to tell at this point if she crossed over. i think we need to wait for a proper “destroy all the fools” rant to be sure.
Or a MWAH-HA-HA-HA!
She already proved she can’t do those.
I thought she did it beautifully. I think she’s just self-conscious and she thought she sounded funny.
She’s definitely drifting into the gray area if she wasn’t there already.
I think it’d be entirely in character if Virginia never actually snapped, she just drifted over the line so quietly and gradually that neither she nor anyone around her realized until one day someone points out that she created a 50 foot killer zombie cyborg out of stale donuts, printer toner and a toaster oven and now it’s trimming the hedges outside and her coworkers just shrug and say “Yeah it was rater rude of her to use ALL the donuts.”
(Alternately, this might have happened years ago around the time she created Unity.)
(…and my comment was supposed to be a reply to Bruce A Munro, sorry.)
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I believe she has been quite Mad for a long time. My theory is that it happened when she was a child – possibly even as far back as the trauma when she was only a year old and “scrubbed her dol” because she couldn’t choose just one thing that she would become. Her parents, thinking she was merely gifted, would have raised her in such a way as to deal with her… eccentricities.
And I’ve made no secret of the fact I don’t buy it. If Ginny has full-blown Walton’s Disorder, then pretty much everything, we’ve been told about Walton’s Disorder is wrong.
Heck, even if she just has latent Walton’s Disorder, that doesn’t exactly jibe with how it worked for Dave. Dave could break the laws of physics, as long as he didn’t know that was what he was doing. Ginny is useful to A-Sig precisely because she can replicate the creations of Mad Science without breaking the laws of physics. OTOH, I accept that with the limited sample size it’s possible latent Walton’s works differently for different people.
And while I know the Evil Conspiracy is basically incompetent whenever it’s funny for them to be so, I don’t believe the guys studying mad science would have employed a mad scientist for their non-mad science work and not noticed. (Although I suppose that could all be part of the plan…)
You’re operating on the premise that Mad Genius in the Narboniverse works exactly like Walton’s Disorder in our world. That’s just as much a fallacy as people assuming that Mad Geniuses in the Narboniverse are the same as the Sparks in Girl Genius. There are plenty of similarities – enough that you can draw some parallels – but you don’t have enough to say they’re identical.
I thought Walton’s Disorder is a Narboniverse thing.
Indeed, Walton’s Disorder is a Narboniverse thing, its medical name for Mad Genius. Nobody could possibly be operating on the premise that Walton’s Disorder in the Narboniverse is like Walton’s Disorder in “our world”, because it doesn’t exist in our world.
Perhaps I should clarify…
Yes, Walton’s Disorder is a Narboniverse thing. But… Since Walton’s Disorder has not been clearly defined in the Narboniverse, it has been grouped together in our world with a number of other names for Mad Genius from a bunch of other comics. And since it has not been clearly defined, you cannot assume anything that has not been expressly stated about it.
If I’m missing something somewhere, and it has been clearly defined somewhere in the Narboniverse, by all means, tell me where so I can brush up on my studies.
I suppose Rule of Funny makes it hard to say, but to me making a life support system for a naked brain out of a McDonald’s coffee carafe is just as reality-breaking as a teleporter made out of clothes hangers.
Nice of her to get Nick something anyway. Even if he can’t est it. Or percieve it.