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2021-10-25

by shaenon on October 25, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. thejoemoose
    October 25, 2021, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Dangit, now you got her riled up.

    Still…Helicopter Man has a nice ring to it. Secret identities and all.

  2. David B Huber
    October 25, 2021, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    This is delightful!

    Hacker Queen, Future Boy, Helicopter Man and Dr. Science!

    • Bruceski
      October 25, 2021, 7:58 am | # | Reply

      Dr Science is already taken, though he only has a Master’s Degree. In Science.

      • Duane B.
        October 25, 2021, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        Professor Science then, or rename the other guy Master Science.

        • Duane B.
          October 25, 2021, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

          Can’t call the other guy “The Master”
          That sort of thing just isn’t done.

          • Taellosse
            October 26, 2021, 7:07 pm | #

            Except in serialized British science fiction television?

          • Wizard
            November 2, 2021, 2:28 pm | #

            Or BtVS.

      • Daniel P Baye
        October 26, 2021, 4:33 am | # | Reply

        Between the mention of The Cockroach That Are Cincinnati yesterday and this Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater reference today, I feel an urge to dig out my cassettes of the Dr. Demento show from the 80s…

        • James Shepherd
          October 26, 2021, 10:58 am | # | Reply

          That’s a very good urge on which to surrender.

          • Wizard
            November 2, 2021, 2:27 pm | #

            Do not resist the demention.

  3. Proxiehunter
    October 25, 2021, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Helicopter Man, Helicopter Man, does whatever a Helicopter can . . .

    • greenknight32
      October 25, 2021, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      Good idea, but it doesn’t scan – need to change it to – ‘Copter Man, ‘Copter Man, does whatever a ‘Copter can.

      • skullthetroll
        October 25, 2021, 9:07 am | # | Reply

        Flies, around, Any height, Brings Skin Horse, right on site.

      • 5-tons-of-flax
        October 25, 2021, 11:44 am | # | Reply

        ‘Sad his song doesn’t even scan.’

        • Pygar
          October 25, 2021, 4:23 pm | # | Reply

          “Chopper Man”! Remember his Oz antecedent!

  4. Towering Barbarian
    October 25, 2021, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    It does look like we have the start of a good superteam here. Now all we need to do is get some decent powers for Radiation Man and we should be goof to go! 🙂

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 25, 2021, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Uh, that should be good to go instead of goof to go although I suppose the latter might be an occasional option. >_>

      • Efogoto
        October 25, 2021, 2:27 am | # | Reply

        “Occasional” with this crowd? More like “constant”!

      • Duane B.
        October 25, 2021, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

        goof to go is more realistic.

  5. Leslie piper
    October 25, 2021, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    And so the doughty group of heroic seekers-for-Science, Fact, and the American
    sway reaffirm their total togetherness. Free bickering is a known sign of committment
    jostling for influence in any serious prepping for struggle. U No U Want it.

  6. BMunro
    October 25, 2021, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    What does that make Tip? Makeout Man?

    • Rob Nobody
      October 25, 2021, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Mister Mojo?

      • awgiedawgie
        October 25, 2021, 9:48 am | # | Reply

        Mister Mojo Makeover Makeout Man. Or “M5” for short.

    • Dewy
      October 25, 2021, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      Any of these will work as long as you put “The Fabulous” in front of them.

  7. Peter Lewerin
    October 25, 2021, 1:49 am | # | Reply

    Ginnick! <3

  8. Robert Nowall
    October 25, 2021, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    Thought his superhero name was The Chopper.

  9. wazzawazzawoo
    October 25, 2021, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Surely he’s Man-Helicopter

    he’s a helicopter dressed as a man, not a man dressed as a helicopter

    • D. Walker
      October 25, 2021, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

      He’s quite factually a human who has neural implants which allow him to control a helicopter as a second body. That’s all he has ever been, even when he was a brain in a jar which was itself plugged into the helicopter.

      That’s just his fundamental nature. Destroy the helicopter and Nick still exists. But destroy his human brain and he utterly ceases to be.

      If he was an AI, with a synthetic consciousness housed within a critical “brain” computer system onboard the helicopter, then things would be as you describe – destroy the human body and he still persists, but destroy his “black box” and he dies.

      • Rockphed
        October 25, 2021, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

        I was going to complain that Nick has (at least once) said that he is a helicopter, and thus man-chopper would be the correct way to put it, but I see that he called himself “helicopter man”. Perhaps his stable physical relationship with Virginia has changed how he sees himself.

  10. Steverino
    October 25, 2021, 8:01 am | # | Reply

    EB did NOT expect this.

  11. Fan of Most Everything
    October 25, 2021, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    “Helicopter Man” sounds like Ginny’s on the verge of a Dr. Wily moment. As long as she doesn’t put a skull mask on Annex One, we should be fine.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 25, 2021, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Darn it, I was just going to go there. Would that mean Mega Man works for A-Sig?

      And a skull mask on the Annex-1 robot would be cool.

  12. CBob
    October 25, 2021, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, Nick’s filter is on again & I auto(un)corrected it by force of habit. Without even noticing on the 1st read.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 25, 2021, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

      He tends to self-filter around Virginia – something about being a monkey-farting gentleman. She removed the actual filter after she rescued his brain.

  13. Robert Nowall
    October 25, 2021, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

    You wanna be a superhero,
    You’ve gotta have a wonderful name.
    You can’t just save the world tomorrow,
    It’s no ticket to a fortune or fame.
    The fact that you have superpowers,
    Will not help you make out with the dames.
    You wanna be a superhero,
    You’ve gotta have a wonderful name.

    —from “You Gotta Be a Football Hero,” Al Sherman / Buddy Fields / Al Lewis

  14. Dewy
    October 25, 2021, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    I know Nera enjoys her Kooky earrings but her current pick makes her look like she could be a Biomass double agent.

  15. davidbreslin101
    October 25, 2021, 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    Echo Bravo being “imprisoned” like this reminds me of a recent X-Men story. A miniaturised anti-mutant spy is observing Kitty Pryde’s team, and is disconcerted to see these “hideous enemies of humanity” peacefully sitting around on a yacht drinking cocktails and watching cartoons.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 26, 2021, 7:01 am | # | Reply

      “Miniaturised anti-mutant spy” is kind of an oxymoron. Being miniaturized is itself a form of mutation.

      • Rob Nobody
        October 26, 2021, 10:47 am | # | Reply

        In the Marvel universe, “mutant” refers specifically to people with genetic mutations, and very specifically to people who have the X-Gene. Even someone who has had their DNA altered, like Spider-Man, is not considered a “mutant,” though people who don’t know Spider-Man’s backstory often mistakenly assume he is one. Miniaturization, meanwhile, is a temporary and reversible process that can be done to any baseline human using technology, as with Ant-Man.

  16. NaCl
    October 25, 2021, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

    Better than Lawnmower Man, I guess.

  17. Rimwolf
    October 25, 2021, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

    Ginny probably knows that the etymology of ‘helicopter’ is ‘screw-wing’.

  18. Robert Nowall
    October 25, 2021, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

    There’s noises in their shindig, yup. It bothers the Whirligig up. They’re discussing a name, but they come out so lame, so he tells them to shut the fig up.

  19. Curly-haired guy
    October 30, 2021, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

    “Future Boy Jonah” has an INCREDIBLY nice ring to it….

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