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2013-08-14

by shaenon on August 14, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. John Goard
    August 14, 2013, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I long to blame the old war on Victorian Helen, transplanted Dr. Pin, and Victorian Dave….

    A man can dream…

    • nemryn
      August 14, 2013, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      What’s stopping you?

    • Moe Lane
      August 14, 2013, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      I believe that she’s there, first panel, middle right side.

      • John Goard
        August 14, 2013, 12:40 am | # | Reply

        I thought that portrait looked a bit more like Mama Narbon. Note the opaque lenses. And the look that demands pink wine over a hundred years before it was invented.

        • Gemma
          August 14, 2013, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

          I dunno, the hair looks more like Beta (is Victorian Helen still called Beta?), but I can’t really tell. I hope it’s one of them, though.

    • soft
      August 14, 2013, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      I certainly wouldn’t put it past them…. :p

    • MyaApplesauce
      July 29, 2019, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

      *SPOILERS* It’s later revealed that the war was caused by Victorian Madblood.

      • MyaApplesauce
        July 29, 2019, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

        So you were somewhat right!

      • awgiedawgie
        July 29, 2019, 2:43 pm | # | Reply

        It’s later revealed that a Madblood was involved in the Old War. But it wasn’t the Madblood from the Victorian story from Narbonic, and he certainly wasn’t the only Mad Scientist involved.

  2. Dave Van Domelen
    August 14, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Children of the Atom-Blaster.

  3. alurker
    August 14, 2013, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Ray guns! Yays!

  4. Norman
    August 14, 2013, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    “The children were destroyed”. Moustachio is evidence that this turns out not to be the case.

    • Vincent
      August 14, 2013, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      I suspect he meant it in a general sense, not in an absolute sense. That is, some survived, most didn’t.

    • Yotz
      August 14, 2013, 8:22 am | # | Reply

      Let us contemplate: Moustachio lost his legs, hands, any other appendages with sole – or dual, in his case – exeptions of moustaches, and all his memories prior classified date to boot. In other words, he is hollow paralyzed effigy of his former self.
      Seems pretty much corresponding with all that “destroyed” thing.

      • Manifesta
        August 14, 2013, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

        None of which stopped him from almost blowing up Annex One. And that was even before he got little arms (scree scree).

  5. DerektheBard
    August 14, 2013, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    “WHAT HELL HATH MAD SCIENCE WROUGHT?!?”-Dr. Dinosaur, Atomic Robo (…said while being chased by his latest creation, Futursaurus Rex, a dinosaur evolved/mutated in the Large Hadron Collider…an evolution that apparently involved growing rocket launchers and the ability to cough up Mausers into its tiny hands……..yeah, Atomic Robo is the story of The New War as created by a talking hyperintelligent velociraptor)

    • Sparks
      August 14, 2013, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      “BEHOLD! AN ORDINARY MOTORIST!” is still one of the best lines ever. (The close second is anything else Dr. Dinosaur has ever said.)

    • Anonymous
      August 14, 2013, 10:47 am | # | Reply

      Futursaurus Rex? I thought I had all the Atomic Robo issues. Which issue is this from? I need my Dr. Dinosaur fix…

      • Paul A.
        August 19, 2013, 6:39 am | # | Reply

        It’s from one of the annual Free Comic Book Day issues.

      • MyaApplesauce
        July 29, 2019, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        You can find online as well.

        • MyaApplesauce
          July 29, 2019, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

          You can find IT online as well.

  6. Towering Barbarian
    August 14, 2013, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    Well, shoot! If he made some keen ray guns then what more could reasonably be expected of him? ^_~

  7. Eddurd
    August 14, 2013, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, Cyndi Lauper)

    We see there, on the silver screen,
    The story of the Old War, human versus machine!
    He made some weapons, now I’m wanting one!
    Aw, I just wanna ray gun,
    I just wanna ray gun!

    A New War … comes eventually,
    Collodi says he’s sorry he won’t be there to see!
    He’s gonna miss his chance to join in the fun,
    But still, he made a ray gun!
    A-a-and I just wanna ray —

     That’s all I really wa-a-a-ant!
     Just o-o-o-one!
     Set to kill and not to stun!
     Aw, I just wanna ray gu-un!
     Ye-a-a-ah, I just wanna ray gun!

    (We … just wanna … wanna ray
    Gun … we wanna … wanna ray …)

    We want gamma, we want gamma!
    We want gamma, we want gamma!
    We want gamma, we want gamma … [repeat, fade out]

    • little sis
      August 14, 2013, 7:28 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I’ll be singing that one all day.

    • Manifesta
      August 14, 2013, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

      Can’t you just see this as a duet for Mell and Unity?

      • reynard61
        August 14, 2013, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

        Cannot *UN*see!!!

    • JET73L
      March 5, 2015, 10:48 pm | # | Reply

      I mentally heard that EXACTLY in Cyndi Lauper’s voice.

  8. Evil Midnight Lurker
    August 14, 2013, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Yup. Same old war, come round again.

  9. abb3w
    August 14, 2013, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    Said found evidence being the aforementioned Moustachio memory cylinder?

  10. Mental Mouse
    August 14, 2013, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    @Evil Midnight Lurker: Actually, that sounded to me like it’s Collodi himself that is/was trying to start up a new War, under the banner of the old.

    • soft
      August 14, 2013, 8:38 am | # | Reply

      Not how I understand it. Looks to me like he expects it again and believes in being prepared.

      • jdreyfuss
        August 14, 2013, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

        I’m sort of with Mouse on this one. I don’t think he’s trying to start the new war, but I think he subconsciously wants it to happen and that’s consciously manifesting itself as a desire for preparedness in a way likely to cause it.

        • soft
          August 14, 2013, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

          Well, I guess there’s nothing to say that his preparations couldn’t have started a slow (or fast) ball moving… but I don’t think he’s actively trying to precipitate one.

      • Saberbeam
        August 14, 2013, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

        To secure peace is to make a bunch of ray guns.

  11. bigbearseviltwin
    August 14, 2013, 9:26 am | # | Reply

    “and we made a keen gun, for the people who are still alive”

    • codebracker
      August 14, 2013, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun, for the people who are still alive.

  12. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 14, 2013, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    Nobody wants to have this discussion less than I, but we all know that certain things have to be done promptly at the onset of the revolution. I had hoped we could keep our team intact, minus Tip of course, but given Nick’s background and worrisome affinities for his human creator and humanoid avatar, we must consider his loyalty questionable, and we must do what is necessary to protect ourselves from the danger he represents.

    • Smithnik
      August 14, 2013, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      His background? Eliminate him because he’s a gamer?
      I’ll have nothing to do with such a narrow-minded revolution…

      • Rex Vivat
        August 14, 2013, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

        I’m pretty sure he’s referring to how Nick was born human.

    • jdreyfuss
      August 14, 2013, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Slow down there, Robespierre. You need to win the revolution before you can start getting paranoid about counterrevolutionaries.

    • soft
      August 14, 2013, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

      And something tells me the entire team would want there to be no war, anyway….

  13. palenoue
    August 14, 2013, 2:15 pm | # | Reply

    These keen ray guns, they will be your next kickstater project, yes?

  14. Manifesta
    August 14, 2013, 4:29 pm | # | Reply

    Dr. Collodi’s description of the Old War sounds an awful lot like the Butlerian Jihad.

    • Sheik
      August 14, 2013, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

      Same song, 100th verse.

      • Robert The Addled
        August 14, 2013, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

        I was sorta disappointed when the books from Herbert’s notes came out – too much character development – not enough sociopolitics of the anti-machine movement, or how the machines took over in the first place. Rest of the prequel novels were okay – just that aspect of the Butlerian Jihad was lacking.

  15. Shadowmehr
    August 14, 2013, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

    One, do you suppose that the nuclear source for the Little House actually leads to one of those guns? Doc Collodi didn’t say how (*big*) they were, now did he?

    Two, if [one] is true, then they definitely should get U.N.I.T.Y. out of there. Having her around normal ordinance is scary enough.

    Three, depending on the connection between Nick and his drone, and the storage capacity in Nick’s hardware, and the bandwidth between him and Annex One, it might be a good idea for them to stop the movie and have him/her/it start scanning everything in that archive and sending back home. Anasigma is going to be coming after those records hard and they need the data someplace safe(ish) for later review.

  16. Jon
    August 14, 2013, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

    Ah. I figured that’s what the “Old War” might be — between creators and created. Ancient stuff, that. Titans and Olympians. Parents versus children. And, of course — Frankenstein and monster.

  17. Knuckles
    January 24, 2022, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    And so it is as it always has been.

    We grow to fear our children for what they will become.

    And we either learn to embrace the fear, or to quash it.

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