The only people who complain about how that bit ended are those who are unhappy because they don’t get to go do heaven despite not qualifying thereto. Heaven, hell, and Mell are all happier with her on Earth.
T Campbell is a professor of Nutrition who advocates people engage in a plant based diet… I suppose the plant seems to be engaging in a people based diet…. That may or may not have anything to do with it.
It is really hard to google something like this, especially when the person being homaged wrote multiple strips, and you don’t even know what the context was. We may just have to wait for the Director’s Commentary version.
Yeah, when I googled T Campbell, I found a photographer. I assumed that probably wasn’t it, unless Shaenon was riffing on some art shot she’d seen somewhere.
Presumably a little nod to The Lady and the Tiger (Wayback Machine because while the strip’s still up and the next page is here, this title page is absent.)
I guess it is a shout out to a part of Guilded Age http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-1-cover/
It deals with madness a bit, and that’s all I can say without spoiling.
Definitely worth a read.
And for reference, I firmly believe that the first panel in that comic – when Virginia was just a year old – is the point at which she crossed over into Madness. The pressure to choose her dol was too much, and pushed her over the edge. Her parents, of course, had no idea, and they raised her as if she were a perfectly normal (albeit extremely intelligent) child.
This guest strip: http://narbonic.com/comic/just-think/ which demonstrated exactly what happens when someone with Walton’s Disorder is placed in complete sensory deprivation.
The short version is: Pray to any god that might listen that you are not connected to their mind, because things are about to get very bad for you if you are.
It’s kind of funny that these days folks don’t know who T Campbell is. I’m pretty sure T Campbell is how I was introduced to Narbonic. That is, he wrote a webcomic titled “Fans” (https://www.faans.com) that crossed over with another series I was reading at the time (I honestly can’t remember which). He then started a few subscription-based comic sites to try to help creators get a better stream of revenue than being entirely ad-based. I can’t remember the names those sites either, but I *do* remember it was when Narbonic was affiliated with one of them that I discovered it. At the time, it seemed like T Campbell was working with just about every webcomic creator I knew about that wasn’t on Keenspot (another early webcomics collective).
Alternately, there are literal, physical possibilities.
All complex plants have vascular systems, necessary for transporting fluids and nutrients throughout the body. All living things beyond a certain size need some kind of circulatory system to perform this function, or they cannot survive.
And the bigger said creatures are, the bigger their circulatory systems need to be – it’s a product of the square cube law. A plant biomass of this size, even if composed of many discrete individual plant organisms, would still need utterly massive “blood vessels” of phloem (or potentially other structures) to provide a constant flow of nutrients to the plants on the interior of the mass, in order to keep them alive.
So it’s quite possibly that she’s simply inside a gigantic phloem tube, floating in a slurry of water, sugars, amino acids, and minerals (which we call sap).
Yes, but tigerlily was an incredibly powerful mad scientist, before the institute conditioned her. Not that she has been assimilated, I bet that conitioning will wear off.
This doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but this description kind of reminds me of what it was like to see Speed Racer in IMAX, except with pink instead of green.
In the green room, just like kuzdu, all directions.
A mad genius, clockwork monarch, Tigerlily.
Meditates on certain chances, all before her.
Evil smiles on her face shows her contentment.
She’ll stay in this place, where the sun might not shine,
Stay in this place, while the merged-with split from themselves.
She claimed no strings could deter her with temptation.
Platform footwear, Tiger weasel, hello mind blows.
Swallowed into H. T.’s mealtime aberration.
As she clocked out, felt her power just beginning.
She’ll stay till she’s through, till her brains attack,
High with her, while the merged-with split from themselves.
On the outside, Artie’s laughing, laughing out loud.
Subjugation by her platoons misbegotten.
Hungry tigers hide in jumbles in her bright eyes.
Acquiescing, hello mind blows, Tigerlily.
She’ll stay till she’s through, in this lonely bough,
High with her, while the merged-with split from themselves…
—from “White Room,” written by Jack Bruce, lyrics by Pete Brown, sung by Cream.
“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, ‘H. T., H. T., why persecutest thou me?’
“And he said, ‘Who art thou, Lord?’
And the Lord said, ‘I am Tigerlily whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.’
And he trembling and astonished said, ‘Tigerlily, what wilt thou have me to do?’
And the Lord said unto him, ‘Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.'”
According to funk-kaku.
“You look upon it and see the Green. I look upon it and see a salad buffet!”. 🙂
We’re not gonna see a yellow submarine go by in this sea of green, are we?
ha! not surprised in the least
VERY EXCITED
Same here! I can’t wait to see where this goes next!
You ain’t digging the groove, Tiger-Man. I’m not all stuck up in your business; you’re all stuck up in mine.
I am having SUCH a flashback to Mel Kelly’s assumption into Heaven.
Let’s hope this ends better than that did.
Awww, I think that ended just fine. I bought the original of the cartoon where she explains to Caliban that she did it to stay with him.
“Wherever we go, we go together.”
http://narbonic.com/comic/january-2-7-2006/
The only people who complain about how that bit ended are those who are unhappy because they don’t get to go do heaven despite not qualifying thereto. Heaven, hell, and Mell are all happier with her on Earth.
I’m not acquainted with T Campbell’s work, so I must ask: What is this comic homaging?
The last panel, a basic cheesy anime response (I’m not too fond of that, you can tell). The rest, no idea.
T Campbell is a professor of Nutrition who advocates people engage in a plant based diet… I suppose the plant seems to be engaging in a people based diet…. That may or may not have anything to do with it.
That’s a good point, though I assume the T Campbell in question is this webcomic writer:
https://www.tcampbell.net/
Yeah, that’s what I assumed.
It is really hard to google something like this, especially when the person being homaged wrote multiple strips, and you don’t even know what the context was. We may just have to wait for the Director’s Commentary version.
Yeah, when I googled T Campbell, I found a photographer. I assumed that probably wasn’t it, unless Shaenon was riffing on some art shot she’d seen somewhere.
My answer seem to have been lost, or I hit cancel instead of post, idk, but it’s from Guilded Age, IIRC. I won’t tell where bc that’s spoilery.
Much obliged!
Presumably a little nod to The Lady and the Tiger (Wayback Machine because while the strip’s still up and the next page is here, this title page is absent.)
I guess it is a shout out to a part of Guilded Age
http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-1-cover/
It deals with madness a bit, and that’s all I can say without spoiling.
Definitely worth a read.
There was once something similar with Dr. Lee.: http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-845/
And for reference, I firmly believe that the first panel in that comic – when Virginia was just a year old – is the point at which she crossed over into Madness. The pressure to choose her dol was too much, and pushed her over the edge. Her parents, of course, had no idea, and they raised her as if she were a perfectly normal (albeit extremely intelligent) child.
There’s also this, also with Dr. Lee: http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-last/
Y’know, awgiedawgie, that makes so much sense I’m coming around to your POV. 🙂
This guest strip: http://narbonic.com/comic/just-think/ which demonstrated exactly what happens when someone with Walton’s Disorder is placed in complete sensory deprivation.
The short version is: Pray to any god that might listen that you are not connected to their mind, because things are about to get very bad for you if you are.
It’s kind of funny that these days folks don’t know who T Campbell is. I’m pretty sure T Campbell is how I was introduced to Narbonic. That is, he wrote a webcomic titled “Fans” (https://www.faans.com) that crossed over with another series I was reading at the time (I honestly can’t remember which). He then started a few subscription-based comic sites to try to help creators get a better stream of revenue than being entirely ad-based. I can’t remember the names those sites either, but I *do* remember it was when Narbonic was affiliated with one of them that I discovered it. At the time, it seemed like T Campbell was working with just about every webcomic creator I knew about that wasn’t on Keenspot (another early webcomics collective).
Her mind is brass and clockwork and opens to the FUNK.
What if Miss Jones has already merged with the mother swamp,
H.T is out numbered.
How is she just floating in a green void?
I think it’s supposed to be a psychological metaphor. She’s inside the biomass, and this is what she is visualizing.
Alternately, there are literal, physical possibilities.
All complex plants have vascular systems, necessary for transporting fluids and nutrients throughout the body. All living things beyond a certain size need some kind of circulatory system to perform this function, or they cannot survive.
And the bigger said creatures are, the bigger their circulatory systems need to be – it’s a product of the square cube law. A plant biomass of this size, even if composed of many discrete individual plant organisms, would still need utterly massive “blood vessels” of phloem (or potentially other structures) to provide a constant flow of nutrients to the plants on the interior of the mass, in order to keep them alive.
So it’s quite possibly that she’s simply inside a gigantic phloem tube, floating in a slurry of water, sugars, amino acids, and minerals (which we call sap).
Reminds me of an early Sluggy Freelance in which Torg and Riff get assimilated by the Borg and end up turning the entire collective into party bros. https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=2#1997-10-04
That was a fun story, wasn’t it?
From so far back Sluggy was still cool!
That ended to quickly, didn’t it?
But didn’t the collective manage to assimilate some (admittedly low level) Mads in the “Southern Reach” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Reach_Trilogy ) homage section?
Sugar, there ain’t NOTHING low level about Tigerlilly Jones!
You know, we’ve never actually seen her let go and let the madness place take over. Fun!
She’s not insane, she is otherly sane.
Ok,ok,ok…insane
Yes, but tigerlily was an incredibly powerful mad scientist, before the institute conditioned her. Not that she has been assimilated, I bet that conitioning will wear off.
The Institute tried to condition her. They failed. Whatever little effect that conditioning may have ever had on her wore off years ago.
I thought the conditioning that prevented her from building bigger machines required a mojo reboot with Tip to remove?
Oh, yeah… I forgot about the “no more giant robots” thing.
There’s that Mad smirk I’ve been waiting for!!
It is -glorious-!
Anyone reminded to FMA’s Kimblee here? When he giving a middle finger to the Pride and saves Edward? Hoo boy, this gonna be good.
Yesssssss!
Are you trying to make me reread Fans to gt the reference? Because I*will* reread Fans to get the reference.
It’s a reference to this fancomic written by T Campbell: http://narbonic.com/comic/just-think/
For some strange reason I felt compelled to go look up the Narbonic comic for 2006-12-14…I am very psyched about what’s going to happen next here!!!
(http://narbonic.com/comic/december-12-17-2005/, spoilers)
KUDZU. Invasive, grows constantly. And yet. And yet…
(hum’s the opening number from the musical Kudzu. RIP, Mr. Marlette)
This is one third of “Heh, heh, heh.” And we all know how that ended…
They say it’s not easy being green.
This doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but this description kind of reminds me of what it was like to see Speed Racer in IMAX, except with pink instead of green.
I love this so much.
Tone on tone paisley. The Biomass is already under her influence and it doesn’t even know it yet.
I wonder if she will become a new funky cypress?
In the green room, just like kuzdu, all directions.
A mad genius, clockwork monarch, Tigerlily.
Meditates on certain chances, all before her.
Evil smiles on her face shows her contentment.
She’ll stay in this place, where the sun might not shine,
Stay in this place, while the merged-with split from themselves.
She claimed no strings could deter her with temptation.
Platform footwear, Tiger weasel, hello mind blows.
Swallowed into H. T.’s mealtime aberration.
As she clocked out, felt her power just beginning.
She’ll stay till she’s through, till her brains attack,
High with her, while the merged-with split from themselves.
On the outside, Artie’s laughing, laughing out loud.
Subjugation by her platoons misbegotten.
Hungry tigers hide in jumbles in her bright eyes.
Acquiescing, hello mind blows, Tigerlily.
She’ll stay till she’s through, in this lonely bough,
High with her, while the merged-with split from themselves…
—from “White Room,” written by Jack Bruce, lyrics by Pete Brown, sung by Cream.
Nice!
Does anyone else hear ominous thunder in the background, or is that just me?
More like thumping disco bass.
The funk gazes also….
In all directions, the same. It must be a terrible strain. Surrounded by green, as ingested cuisine. It helps to be very insane.
Bravo!
Well, so long HT. You were… a thoroughly unpleasant individual happy to abuse the needs of the exploited for personal power.
…also I just now realized. Tiger-lilly. For Crying Out Loud, you beautiful geniuses.
*blink* Son of a-
“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, ‘H. T., H. T., why persecutest thou me?’
“And he said, ‘Who art thou, Lord?’
And the Lord said, ‘I am Tigerlily whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.’
And he trembling and astonished said, ‘Tigerlily, what wilt thou have me to do?’
And the Lord said unto him, ‘Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.'”
Let the games begin!
This has got to be the most ominous single “Heh.” I’ve ever seen. Dr Narbon needs to take notes.