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2016-08-29

by shaenon on August 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Purple Waves
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    August 29, 2016, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Maybe he’ll be willing to share it. ^_^

    And it’s nice to learn that the Engineers are running things at St. Charlie. I wonder to what extent Mad Engineering resembles Mad Science? ^.^

    • DarkStarling
      August 29, 2016, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      A mad scientists develops and tests mad theories about the world. A mad engineer builds mad devices.

      Given the nature of Walton’s Disorder, most affected alternate between doing Mad Science and Mad Engineering at a worrying rate.

      • BMunro
        August 29, 2016, 1:00 am | # | Reply

        Well, you often need to build mad devices to test your mad theories. If you left that up to someone else, they might steal your ideas, and then you’re distracted from your mad theorizing by the need for mad revenge.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 29, 2016, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

      Alternate theory, since St. Charlie is one huge madtech train, the “Engineers” are a ruling council that runs things, as much as possible among a group of mad scientists and their creations. At the very least, they steer the train and run whatever tech creates the tunnels and tracks it runs on.

      • s854
        August 30, 2016, 5:00 am | # | Reply

        He probably means people like the guy here: http://skin-horse.com/comic/the-infamous/

    • Kitirena
      September 10, 2016, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Mad Scientists design Evil Laboratories in the clouds. Mad Engineers build them and construct orbital tethers so that they and their Mad Scientist allies can then take over the world from them. >-_^<

    • wizard4169
      July 18, 2021, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

      Mad engineering is the (occasionally) practical application of mad science.

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 29, 2016, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    This victory is absolutely recumbent upon them.

  3. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 29, 2016, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if this chapter could have been named It’s a mad mad mad mad world. Also, reusing a coinage that was intended as a pun in a way that relies on the original usage — namely “fursonal Jesus” — cannot be interpreted as and was not intended as a pun in its own right, and anyhow only evil could come from bespoiling with puns the near virginal paradise that is this comic’s comments section.

    • Daibhid C
      August 29, 2016, 5:56 am | # | Reply

      It works as a title, but it doesn’t fit the comic’s titling conventions.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        August 29, 2016, 10:59 am | # | Reply

        True.

      • casimir
        August 29, 2016, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

        Kept reading tilting conventions…kind of works too.

  4. codebracker
    August 29, 2016, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    How does one steal a beer in a straightjacket?

    • midwestmutt
      August 29, 2016, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      With style.

      • codebracker
        August 29, 2016, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

        Not with that face you don’t.
        Unless she’s going for the wicked crone of the northeast style.

    • Jess Kay
      August 29, 2016, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      About the same way you steel a beer that’s naked.

    • KO
      November 9, 2016, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      It takes a MAD criminal to steal the guard’s beer while in a straitjacket. This career path is NOT for the meek or the mild!! (*evil laugh*)

  5. Robert Nowall
    August 29, 2016, 7:58 am | # | Reply

    St. Charlie actually *has* a brig?

    • chrisn
      August 29, 2016, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      With experimental laser bars – very cool.

      • Seph
        August 29, 2016, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

        Thatโ€™s the kind of bars that sell boozes, though.

        • Sheik
          August 29, 2016, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

          Hey, whatever keeps ’em out of trouble.

  6. Robert Nowall
    August 29, 2016, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    Go for the glory, St. Charlie crew!
    You can beat Haller and H. T. too!
    Fight Mad Science not on Cures!
    Irradiator will be yours!
    When competition is less than best!
    Good olโ€™ St. Charlie will beat all the rest!
    Onward, onward, fight, fight, fight,
    For science and victory!

    —from the Notre Dame Victory Song (though I remember it best as “Arriba Havana U.”)

    • KO
      November 9, 2016, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

      Kudos. Nice lyrics. ๐Ÿ˜€

  7. Jim Phillips
    August 29, 2016, 10:14 am | # | Reply

    Wow, at some point not only did I get revivified, I got a PhD! ๐Ÿ™‚

  8. Robert Nowall
    August 29, 2016, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

    Does the “G’day” from this dangerous prisoner also mean he’s Australian?

  9. Shadowmehr
    August 29, 2016, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

    Scary thought, what does someone have to do in this crowd to be considered a “dangerous criminal”?

  10. TheTownsend
    August 29, 2016, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

    Aaaand I’m caught up now. Been a fun binge, looking forward to keeping up from here on out.

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