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2015-07-27

by shaenon on July 27, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. John Campbell
    July 27, 2015, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, every time I see Sergio, I hope that this is the time that the situation deteriorates to the point that he decides that calling Mell in to help couldn’t possibly make it worse.

    (He’d be wrong, of course.)

    • WuseMajor
      July 27, 2015, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      For the record, I still think that Nera is Mell’s and Caliban’s Daughter.

      • Manifesta
        July 27, 2015, 2:39 am | # | Reply

        That would be cool, but I don’t think Skin Horse is set long enough after Narbonic for them to have a daughter that old. Of course, the time machine is a wild card.

        • WuseMajor
          July 27, 2015, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

          Maybe, but I feel like they wouldn’t purposefully hide her face unless we would recognize her. And she certainly /acts/ like Mel.

          Well, or Dr. Narbon, but that’s an even scarier option.

          • WJS
            July 26, 2019, 7:42 pm | #

            Why not? Mr. Green’s face was hidden up until recently, and we had never met him before.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 26, 2019, 10:40 pm | #

            A. Nera exhibits no similarities to either Mell or Caliban, so I don’t see it as a possibility.

            B. We know that Nera’s last name is Vivaldi.

      • irdburns
        July 27, 2015, 8:06 am | # | Reply

        Time machine AND half demon kid.

  2. International Pope Diva
    July 27, 2015, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    This is Annex One. Let’s just assume “all of them.”

  3. Frank
    July 27, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Aww, see Sergio? He likes you!

  4. BMunro
    July 27, 2015, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Rubber fire – does he mean burning rubber, or some physics-defying fire _composed_ of rubber?

    • WuseMajor
      July 27, 2015, 1:21 am | # | Reply

      Nick is referring to the fire in the rubber tire room during the No Good Very Bad Day storyline.

      • BMunro
        July 27, 2015, 1:28 am | # | Reply

        Ah, I recall that now. Pity, I was hoping for a “department of impossible physics” with rubber fire, square triangles, and pourable rocks.

        • evilmidnightlurker
          July 27, 2015, 2:38 am | # | Reply

          Second season of Red Dwarf: “Rubber nuclear weapons had to be deployed to disperse the crowd.”

        • Stickmaker
          July 27, 2015, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

          BMunro:

          That last is called “lava.”

          • BMunro
            July 27, 2015, 10:33 pm | #

            You also probably think portable holes are what you get with a piece of Swiss cheese, mundane.

        • GammarayCanon
          July 27, 2015, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

          It’s relatively easy, at least with basic mad science, to make a triangle with only right angles, though. Just make one out of wires and set up a few portals for the wires to go through.

          • Jay
            July 27, 2015, 9:44 pm | #

            Personally I prefer the “triangles on the surface of a sphere” trick. Why warp space in a portal, when you could warp the entire room?

            Unfortunately, for those of us viewing from unmodified 3D space, both of these look like bending the wires – you’ve got to stick your head next to a vertex to see they’re straight.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      July 28, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Probably both. It’s been that kind of day.

  5. WuseMajor
    July 27, 2015, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Someone should have warned him about the Positronic Love Tower. Also, Nick should try to set Sergio up with Artie for the amusement value.

    • Seph
      July 27, 2015, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t Sergio recognize Artie (in his human form at least) from when he was his primary-school teacher? That could cause some weird associations.

      • chrisn
        July 27, 2015, 11:38 am | # | Reply

        Probably much weirder for Artie.

  6. Robert Nowall
    July 27, 2015, 5:51 am | # | Reply

    *All* their insane fugitives? Who *else* are they storing there besides Ms. Jones?

    • Freddie Freelance
      July 27, 2015, 1:53 pm | # | Reply

      Tigerlilly is the only one who’s a fugitive.

      • Ghost
        July 28, 2015, 1:05 am | # | Reply

        Well, there is also Hitty.

        • WJS
          July 26, 2019, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

          I doubt she’s a fugitive, I’m sure Mr. Green meant for her to end up exactly where she is.

  7. Robert Nowall
    July 27, 2015, 6:28 am | # | Reply

    From “Marie Laveau,” Bobby Bare.

    Down in the research office where the cubicles grow,
    There was a good-hearted dude name of Sergio.
    He was once recruited by someone in a drone.
    Now the guys in Anasigma just won’t leave him alone.
    They just went GREEEEEEE!
    He’s a man done gone.

    He’s been planning his escape for a million years,
    Looking into other happentracks for one that was clear.
    But he had to be careful, not to give it away,
    Or they could make it unpleasant for him today.
    They could go GREEEEEEE!
    He’ll be a man done gone.

    And then one day, he was glad to see,
    Into the office came Virginia Lee.
    Another evil genius that we all know.
    She agreed to help poor old Sergio.

    So she got a little help from a guy called Nick
    Who was a cyber helicopter and a filthy-minded prick.
    Nick flew out of Anasigma, taking Sergio above,
    And took him to the Tower of Positronic Love.
    Where he said GREEEEEEE!
    Another man done gone.

  8. TheLivingNick
    July 27, 2015, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

    We’ve seen where he worked. Annex One might be weirder by a slight margin, but nowhere near as dangerous.

    I don’t think they even HAVE shoe care regulations, let alone movies about them.

  9. Sean
    July 27, 2015, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

    Um, I’m confused. I read Narbonic, but I don’t remember Sergio in it. How does he relate to Narbonic again?

    • John Campbell
      July 27, 2015, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

      He had a brief cameo as the genius who wanted to check his email in the climactic arc of Narbonic, IIRC, but mostly he’s from Li’l Mell (see link in sidebar), where he co-starred as Mell’s best friend in first grade.

  10. Shadowmehr
    July 27, 2015, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

    Nick forgot to mention that the maintenance crews haven’t been at the structure since Skin Horse left the first time, so along with booby traps and all the rest, the Love Tower might be crumbling around them. I’m surprised that Nick could land safely on the roof.

    Unless Tigerlily has been amusing herself by “upgrading” the building while hiding out. In which case Sergio has even more (and weirder) to worry about.

  11. doubleW
    July 29, 2015, 8:29 am | # | Reply

    “I’m also more ‘sensible and down-to-earth’ than ‘sassy’, hopefully that doesn’t affect anything.”

    “Sooo….snack then?”

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