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2012-12-13

by shaenon on December 13, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Robert The Addled
    December 13, 2012, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Somehow I expected more Science instead of Mad.

    Now – if this was a portal to somewhere else and this is tapping of a volcano somewhere, THAT is an entirely different kettle of brains.

    • Max
      December 13, 2012, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      Somehow trying to imagine lava-fueled piping going through a portal with a mobile end on a train and a fixed end inside a volcano – while all this remaining apparently stiffly immobile at the point of junction makes my poor brain melt. Rather appropriately.

      • Voyager
        December 13, 2012, 6:26 am | # | Reply

        The trick is you put it in buckets, and you put the buckets in a box that is it two places at once, with one of the places being the inside of the train. You then construct a robot arm to retrieve the buckets from the box and dump them into your magma system.

        • Robert The Addled
          December 13, 2012, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

          A pair of tuned LGB – w/ one in the volcano, the other on the train, and perhaps another pair to drain away the excess. Points for those who get the reference.

        • Mr. Eldritch
          December 13, 2012, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

          I am about 90% sure I’ve done this in Minecraft.

          • JET73L
            February 21, 2015, 12:15 am | #

            Aside from the train part, because it wasn’t possible to make Ender Chest carts, I’m about 100% sure I’ve done that in Minecraft.

  2. Andrew
    December 13, 2012, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    I’m foreseeing a lemmings like demise for our Zombie horde. If Zombies were lemmings.

  3. cwar
    December 13, 2012, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    it’s…. beautiful…

  4. Eddurd
    December 13, 2012, 2:43 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover”, Paul Simon)

    Now Ruby warns us as we reach the engine room,
    But it’s gonna be some typical Mad Science, we assume …
    Then we look in … it’s like the center of Mount Doom!
    There must be … fifty feet of lovely lava!

    It’s like the games we used to play, not long before,
    When we would say, “OK, you die if you just barely touch the floor!”
    And now it’s happened! … It’s just a shame there isn’t more!
    There must be … fifty feet of lovely lava!

      We’re feeling the heat, Pete!
      It’s more than just warm, Norm!
      It’s igneous rock, Jock!
      Mad Scientists rule!

      It’s glow-y and red, Fred!
      So just listen, what Ed said!
      A spot that’s so hot, Dot,
      Is totally cool!

    • Norman
      December 13, 2012, 6:05 am | # | Reply

      I made it into a Narbonic filksong! 10 Q, Eddurd^_^

      • Norman
        December 13, 2012, 11:22 am | # | Reply

        Skin-Horse filksong*. An easy mistake to make first thing in the morning.

      • Daibhid C
        December 13, 2012, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

        Despite never having mentioned my Scottishness here, I’m choosing to believe that “Jock” is a reference to me…

        • Manifesta
          December 13, 2012, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

          Well, it’s not like we thought you were Greek, but I thought Daibhid was the Irish spelling.

    • Andrew
      December 13, 2012, 9:40 am | # | Reply

      [applause, hollering and whistling, buying-of-beers]

  5. War
    December 13, 2012, 3:01 am | # | Reply

    Where are the couches? That is the only way to combat a floor made of lava!

  6. KT Leone
    December 13, 2012, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    Not to add any work for an overtaxed web-cartoonist, but that last panel would look really, really, cool in color and blown up to whatever size my computer wallpaper is (I expect you to know, because I’m eating waffles and typing and don’t have a hand free to work my mouse to check). If it ever comes to fruition, let me know. I live for the day when Skin-Horse is at least in my sunday paper and in color, might as well practice now.

    • KT Leone
      December 13, 2012, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      correction, it was the second panel. Oops, short term memory and waffles, bad combo.

      • Norman
        December 13, 2012, 6:01 am | # | Reply

        This turns out not to be the case. Waffles are great with a bit of short-term memory and maple syrup. Just ask U.N.I.T.Y. ^_^

  7. Norman
    December 13, 2012, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    Now, is Ruby’s dialogue in the first panel edited by Shaenon for webcomics purposes, edited by U.N.I.T.Y.’s brain (i.e., we’re reading what she hears), or unedited?

    I get a chuckle out of the thought that Ruby stopped to warn them and dumbed down the warning so our heroes would understand ^_^

    • Jacob Haller
      December 13, 2012, 6:22 am | # | Reply

      That’s what I thought at first too, but if you follow the stem of the voice balloon you’ll see that that line of dialogue belongs to Sweetheart.

      • Dewy
        December 13, 2012, 9:19 am | # | Reply

        Me too. That stim would work a lot better if it was not curved toward Ruby. It’s kind of confusing the first read though.

      • Norman
        December 13, 2012, 11:26 am | # | Reply

        I see. I sit corrected. Again, FTITM ^_^

  8. Jacob Haller
    December 13, 2012, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Person wearing a lab coat over a bunny suit and holding a glowing staff: That is one _hell_ of a fashion statement.

    • Manifesta
      December 13, 2012, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

      Bunny suit? that would be cool, but I don’t see it.

      • Jacob Haller
        December 14, 2012, 6:08 am | # | Reply

        “Bunny suit” is a slang word for those decontamination suits of the sort seen in Intel Pentium II ads from the 90s.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 13, 2012, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

      Somehow I see him using the phrase “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” at some point in the near future.

      It’s the staff, that plus the fire just completes the image.

  9. Rex Vivat
    December 13, 2012, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    UNITY is having the time of her life in here.

  10. Treesong
    December 13, 2012, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    Re UNITY’s last line: someone told her that the floor was lava and she didn’t believe it until now?

    • Eddurd
      December 13, 2012, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

      It’s a game many kids have played … pretend the floor is lava, and try to cross the room without touching it. (Involves using chairs, tables, shelves, usually results in breakages and angry parents.)

      • doctorhook
        December 13, 2012, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

        Wait, did UNITY have a childhood? Is she still having a childhood? The mind bagels.

        • Rex Vivat
          December 13, 2012, 9:13 pm | # | Reply

          Think about it. How old is she?

        • mnementh
          December 16, 2012, 4:56 am | # | Reply

          Mmmmm…. mind bagels. With butter and cream cheese and wit jam. Can I have some cogitate bacon to go with that?

          mnem
          Are you sure that’s not “50 Ways to Love Your Liver”?

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