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2012-10-08
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2012-10-08

by shaenon on October 8, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Andrew
    October 8, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Figure A blown into Slot B. Insert Wrenchie into Socket C and unloosen.

  2. Anderson
    October 8, 2012, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Yup. When the “Press to detonate” button now reads, “Press to RECEIVE DELICIOUS TREATS.”…..ya know you might not have thought things through quite as well as you shoulda.

  3. Prodigal
    October 8, 2012, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    Great, now I’m probably going to have to troubleshoot that too…

  4. Robert The Addled
    October 8, 2012, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    I’ve been seeing lots of “do not press this button” references lately in comics/tv/books that I’ve been consuming. I even found a wall-lightswitch that is designed as a “big red button” on Thinkgeek.com.

    I just need to come up w/ the perfect place to install such a button in the house where my wife won’t object.

    I’m pretty sure Mendoza must be intact – I think Shaenon went thru too much foreshadowing for him to be a throwaway character This arc makes his third appearance after all. Thats similar to reason I expect we will be seeing Jonah/Nera again, too much time was spent on that arc – so i’m figuring we will see either them or the “Project Second Gate” machine again.

    • Daniel Barkalow
      October 8, 2012, 9:25 am | # | Reply

      There’s a large gap between “intact” and “throwaway character” in this comic. Mendoza may just be temporarily blown up.

      • Robert The Addled
        October 8, 2012, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        I define intact as in not permanantly dead/disintegrated/etc. After all – we have the full spectrum from A.I.’s to revenants filling the cast…..

  5. davidbreslin101
    October 8, 2012, 10:07 am | # | Reply

    That is one elegant “kaboom.” If a gentleman simply must explode, he does so tastefully and discreetly.

    • mnementh
      October 8, 2012, 11:44 am | # | Reply

      Can you say “boom” boys and girls?

      mnem
      “I think we need bigger bombs.”

  6. wright1
    October 8, 2012, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    “And what makes you think we’d-”

    UM, MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY?

    • eddddd the mad genius
      October 8, 2012, 11:25 am | # | Reply

      Fact.
      in other news, um… i forgot who is Mendoza again?
      i hate names all characters should just be described as “the robot one” “the irradiators” ect.

      • Amy
        October 8, 2012, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        Sergio Mendoza is the guy who built the alternate-universe machine that Jonah got stuck in in the last storyarc. He’s the other Anasigma employee who came to look for Godot in this arc, along with Dr. Lee and Violet — the one who got drunk with Dr. Lee a few weeks ago. (He’s also old friends with Mell from Narbonic, but that hasn’t come up in this comic yet, except for a brief line where he mentioned knowing a very good lawyer.)

        • Eddddd the mad genius
          October 8, 2012, 11:20 pm | # | Reply

          OH- its sergio! didnt know his last name thanks

          • Because Because
            April 5, 2015, 10:25 am | #

            Why does your name change from edddd… to Edddd… ? Do you have more than one?

      • Grantwhy
        October 8, 2012, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        Mendoza is Team Anasigma’s Jessie counterpart (from Team Rocket)

        Team Rocket Team Anasigma

        Meowth Violet
        Jessie Sergio
        James Virginia

        🙂

  7. Shadowmehr
    October 8, 2012, 3:51 pm | # | Reply

    So G.O.D.O.T.’s plan is to help us destroy ourselves.

    With this crew, you’d think it would want more of a challenge.

  8. cbob
    October 8, 2012, 5:34 pm | # | Reply

    The old but very effective:
    Press to Test
    Release to Denotate

  9. cbob
    October 8, 2012, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    Or as others spell it:
    Detonate
    Without the somewhat topical dyslexia.

  10. Manifesta
    October 8, 2012, 6:03 pm | # | Reply

    tune: “Sh-boom,” The Chords, 1954

    KABOOM! KABOOM!
    Ya da da da da da ya da da da da
    KABOOM! KABOOM!
    Ya da da da da da ya da da da da

    I’ll destroy you all
    I have a simple plan
    You’re heading for a fall
    I’ll lend a helping hand
    St. Charlie’ overthrown
    You’ll do it on your own
    KABOOM!

    Goodbye, good riddance, too
    I’m so superior to you

    I can make you see
    Whatever words I choose
    It’s too easy for me
    You mooks are born to lose
    Yes, life will be a dream
    When your sorry team is dead

    Goodbye, good riddance, too
    The world is better without you

    KABOOM! KABOOM!
    Ya da da da da da ya da da da da
    KABOOM! KABOOM!
    Ya da da da da da ya da da da da

  11. Towering Barbarian
    October 8, 2012, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

    So in other words it’s not that Godot’s motivated by malice or up to anything heinous, it is merely that he has found a way to get job satisfaction out of doing as he was designed to do on behalf of a community of mad scientists and their minions. ^_^

  12. PDP15
    October 8, 2012, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    See Fig. A carries with it hints of See Fig. 1 which tends to have a *slightly* different connotation.

  13. Delta Echo
    September 7, 2014, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    “DEPRESS BUTTON FOR SELF-TEST”

    ~click~

    “RELEASE TO DETONATE”

    Uh-oh.

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