Buy y’know, the more she does her version of Science!, the more I feel like it’s not actually madness-or not just madness alone. It seems to be one of those “superscience” things where a Mad is borrowing technology from the year 3000 or so, rather than truly inventing new tech with Madness in it.
You fool! Do you intend to doom us all? You have no idea what that thing might do if the outer casing was breached! That could trigger a nuclear meltdown for all you know! Or rip a hole in timespace! Or de-age you into a child! Or leave you stranded in a mirror universe! Or unleash a virtual Professor Moriar—wait… no, those are Star Trek plots. Sorry.
Springs … springs are wrong!
Way too smart! Way too strong!
Some things springs cannot do …
That don’t matter to you!
String … me along!
Get my hopes up, my anguish you’ll prolong!
The things that I do
From wanting you …
They’re bad, but I play along!
Still, springs … springs are wrong!
Springs … springs are wrong!
In your heart, I belong!
Do you know how love feels
When you’re head over heels?
Me … love you long!
What’s this tightness I’m feeling in my thong?
I just wanna scream!
Your tractor beam
Is bouncing me like ping pong!
Still, springs … springs are wrong!
Ed, I have to sing your songs at pace, complete with bridges and solos (and occasional harmonies) , no matter how many verses. And I’m late for work, again! (la la la la-la, la la la la-la, la la la-la-la-la)
Though, I’m kind of partial to the one The Blasters do as you can’t tell whether or not they’re mocking the song. The way they sing sounds almost like a parody of the whole thing. But not in a way that offends traditional country music fans (I work with a lot of railroaders).
The spring teleport (When she escaped after fixing Mustachio) already indicates that springs can warp spacetime.
Thus a tractor beam is not out of the question.
Consider (with reference to the device) pushing the rest of spacetime away from the device, causing a wrap-around pressure to push the targeted object toward the device.
BEST visual I can come up with right now would be analogous to a water worm (moibus tube?) scaled up with the device at one opening, and the target at the other. Push the ‘outside’ of the water worm away from the device – and the contents of the other focal point are drawn thru the water-worm toward the device.
Clearly the authors posit a gun whose spring functions as an extremely powerful electromagnet, and the water in Tip’s body is affected by paramagnetism. I don’t know why Tigerlily should be unaffected, but I’m sure that the comic’s science consultant has a rational answer for that, too.
You know, her technology doesn’t really fit with her 70s fixation. Springs are after all a subset of clockpunk technology, not…cassette-punk? Psychedelic-punk? Transistor-punk?
Somebody should make a list of all the *punks. And then find a new suffix for them, because all the “punk” drained out of it about a year into steampunk.
“Fween?”
I think that’s actually “Vween.” Possibly “Vfween,” but I don’t think so.
I can’t decide whether that first letter looks more like a cross between a v and an f, or a cross between an axolotl and a saxophone.
Saxolotophone?
I’d take it as “vweeen,” with three “e”s…I got more than ten thousand results on Google for it.
Where’s Coily when you need him?
The Spring Sprite! Glad that someone else knows who that is. Man…he and Tigerlily would get along -famously-…
Ah, but you’re forgetting something, Tip. She’s mad
And because Tigerlily is mad, we all love her more and more.
Ha, Tip, you still think you live in a rational universe? That’s so cute…
Also, once more, Tip demonstrates that he needs to work on his listening skills.
As a man once said, you can’t be rational in an irrational world, it’s not rational
Buy y’know, the more she does her version of Science!, the more I feel like it’s not actually madness-or not just madness alone. It seems to be one of those “superscience” things where a Mad is borrowing technology from the year 3000 or so, rather than truly inventing new tech with Madness in it.
If all you have is a standard firearm, and they have an unidentified Sci-Fi weapon, and you don’t want to kill them…
Shoot their gun!
You fool! Do you intend to doom us all? You have no idea what that thing might do if the outer casing was breached! That could trigger a nuclear meltdown for all you know! Or rip a hole in timespace! Or de-age you into a child! Or leave you stranded in a mirror universe! Or unleash a virtual Professor Moriar—wait… no, those are Star Trek plots. Sorry.
Or it could involve bouncing Wonderflonium. And we all know what happens with that…
It’s because it’s believed to be impossible that they continue to fail.
is it just me, or does Tip’s hair seem shorter in this arc?
(TUNE: “Sing A Song”, The Carpenters)
Springs … springs are wrong!
Way too smart! Way too strong!
Some things springs cannot do …
That don’t matter to you!
String … me along!
Get my hopes up, my anguish you’ll prolong!
The things that I do
From wanting you …
They’re bad, but I play along!
Still, springs … springs are wrong!
Springs … springs are wrong!
In your heart, I belong!
Do you know how love feels
When you’re head over heels?
Me … love you long!
What’s this tightness I’m feeling in my thong?
I just wanna scream!
Your tractor beam
Is bouncing me like ping pong!
Still, springs … springs are wrong!
Ed, I have to sing your songs at pace, complete with bridges and solos (and occasional harmonies) , no matter how many verses. And I’m late for work, again! (la la la la-la, la la la la-la, la la la-la-la-la)
Little Sis remind me never to use “Freebird”.
Eh, “Freebird”. Don’t use “Thick As A Brick”.
Which version? There’s at least 50.
Though, I’m kind of partial to the one The Blasters do as you can’t tell whether or not they’re mocking the song. The way they sing sounds almost like a parody of the whole thing. But not in a way that offends traditional country music fans (I work with a lot of railroaders).
He can explain about springs and their secret power after she explains her problem.
Shucks. I was hoping it was a spring-fashion gun.
I see what you did there…
remember those are not simple springs.. they are helical springs! She has a whole field of them.From Springfield.
Sure. She’ll talk, and you’ll listen.
If he were an engineer rather than a psychologist, he’d understand that it was an extension spring, not a compression spring.
The spring teleport (When she escaped after fixing Mustachio) already indicates that springs can warp spacetime.
Thus a tractor beam is not out of the question.
Consider (with reference to the device) pushing the rest of spacetime away from the device, causing a wrap-around pressure to push the targeted object toward the device.
BEST visual I can come up with right now would be analogous to a water worm (moibus tube?) scaled up with the device at one opening, and the target at the other. Push the ‘outside’ of the water worm away from the device – and the contents of the other focal point are drawn thru the water-worm toward the device.
Clearly the authors posit a gun whose spring functions as an extremely powerful electromagnet, and the water in Tip’s body is affected by paramagnetism. I don’t know why Tigerlily should be unaffected, but I’m sure that the comic’s science consultant has a rational answer for that, too.
You lost me at “rational”.
You know, her technology doesn’t really fit with her 70s fixation. Springs are after all a subset of clockpunk technology, not…cassette-punk? Psychedelic-punk? Transistor-punk?
Clockfunk
Ugh! Get up offa that spring!
I believe the term is “Formicapunk.”
http://english.bouletcorp.com/files/2014/07/En-Formicapunk03.jpg
Somebody should make a list of all the *punks. And then find a new suffix for them, because all the “punk” drained out of it about a year into steampunk.
Ah, so it’s a vween gun.