I can tell how good this webcomic be by the fact that I can come back after a week, having finally caught up previously, happen upon this very strip, and think, “Okay, i can roll with this, it makes … sense?”.
My bad. If I hadn’t been so tired, I would have remembered that Harburg deserves credit for all those wonderful lyrics. I really wish we could edit these comments.
Is anyone else thinking that one of these bikes must have gotten loose, jumped through a dimensional portal, and found its way into a certain other strip featuring a blond six-year-old with an active imagination and a stuffed tiger? ‘Cause that would explain a lot about his troubles with his bike….
Tune: Technically, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell and sung by Stevie Nicks with help from Petty (1981). But actually inspired by the last verse of “Stop Draggin’ My Car Around,” lyrics by Weird Al Yankovic (1983), because that’s the version I grew up on.
Now Tip has brought us here to Alt-St.-Charlie,
But we might have some trouble getting in.
This guy says if we take one step closer,
We’ll get mangled by a bellicose Schwinn.
Geez, even Unity is stymied by this problem,
Says, “Bikes are hard to fight! Now tell me why
Does every single universe we encounter
Seem to have a crazy bike genius guy?”
We’re gonna die
We’re gonna die
We’re gonna die underground!
We’re gonna die underground
(Listen, I think he’s a male! No, really!)
We’re gonna die underground
(Oh man, they don’t even have legs to sweep!)
We’re gonna die underground
(Hey! Hey! I want a sammich when we’re done! Or some brains!)
We’re gonna die underground
(Oh!)
sometimes I forget just how crazy the mad scientist can be, and it’s times like this that reminds me
You’re just saying that because they don’t have legs to sweep, Unity.
Try sticking a stick through their spokes.
Look! A door to door thumbtack salesman! Then WHAM! Tire stick!
You especially have to watch out for the handlebars, lest they get the drop on you.
Gotta watch out for them drop bars.
*blinks*
*blinks some more*
*facepalms*
…You are going on my LIST.
You can tell they’re fully trained- the training wheels have been removed…
Nice catch
I can tell how good this webcomic be by the fact that I can come back after a week, having finally caught up previously, happen upon this very strip, and think, “Okay, i can roll with this, it makes … sense?”.
Dave, also, i c wut i did thar
Holy canoodles! Is this a male?!
I did call it *smug nod*
tune: “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” Herbert Stothart & Harold Arlen, The Wizard of Oz (duh), 1939
Let loose the Schwinns of war
Grinding gears threaten tears
Let loose the vicious Schwinns of war
He trained them to attack
With their wheels, front and back
Let loose the vicious Schwinns of war
St. Charlie’s the place to go
Below, below, below
It’s so
Full of the science mad
But parts can be had
Ding dong, it’s off we go
First we must pass this schmo
Bring chagrin unto the Schwinns of war!
What about E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, lyricist?
My bad. If I hadn’t been so tired, I would have remembered that Harburg deserves credit for all those wonderful lyrics. I really wish we could edit these comments.
Does Crazy Bicycle Guy catch his bicycles or breed his own?
Clearly some breeding was involved – a few of those look like hybrids.
Well at least two of the ones visible are males…
To have trek’d so far only to be finished by the bike of a huffy mongoose like Kirk, such a surrey state of affairs.
Is anyone else thinking that one of these bikes must have gotten loose, jumped through a dimensional portal, and found its way into a certain other strip featuring a blond six-year-old with an active imagination and a stuffed tiger? ‘Cause that would explain a lot about his troubles with his bike….
Also: (probably) first male survivor of the alternate universe!
Tune: Technically, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell and sung by Stevie Nicks with help from Petty (1981). But actually inspired by the last verse of “Stop Draggin’ My Car Around,” lyrics by Weird Al Yankovic (1983), because that’s the version I grew up on.
Now Tip has brought us here to Alt-St.-Charlie,
But we might have some trouble getting in.
This guy says if we take one step closer,
We’ll get mangled by a bellicose Schwinn.
Geez, even Unity is stymied by this problem,
Says, “Bikes are hard to fight! Now tell me why
Does every single universe we encounter
Seem to have a crazy bike genius guy?”
We’re gonna die
We’re gonna die
We’re gonna die underground!
We’re gonna die underground
(Listen, I think he’s a male! No, really!)
We’re gonna die underground
(Oh man, they don’t even have legs to sweep!)
We’re gonna die underground
(Hey! Hey! I want a sammich when we’re done! Or some brains!)
We’re gonna die underground
(Oh!)
“Dangit! Does every universe have its own crazy bicycle genius guy?”
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yes, they do.
Will they bikes Raleigh for victory?
go to your room.
Gotta love this if for no other reason than my last name is Kirk
You know, just when you think a Serious Menace is going to show up, this comic takes a turn into sheer absurdism.
Personally, I like it.
Don’t forget that Unity came “extra prepared for this mission.” So, my theory is that she doesn’t see genitalia as a defining feature.
oops. wrong strip for the above comment. sorry.
There goes that silliness benchmark again.
It’s true – they tire you out.
Oh no! How will our heroes stop these cycles of violence??