BEARDS Story
Shaenon: I’m working on a Narbonic story for the next Couscous Collective anthology, BEARDS (yes, BEARDS). Here’s a sample page. It’s always funny to come back to the Narbonic characters after some time away.
Channing: Dave really is a different character now. I mean, I know it’s made basically explicit by the end of Narbonic but it takes scenes like this from a few years down the road to hammer home the fact that Dave as we knew him actually is no more. It’s still funny as hell, but there’s something bittersweet and a little grim about it. Which is, I expect, exactly what the creator intended.
Archive trawler approves of the reference in the first panel 😛
Spear and magic helmet?
Honestly, Dave seems a lot like when he was “settled in” to the underground lab. Cool, collected, and solving tech problems like it ain’t no thing.
I mean, the solutions are different, but…
The only real difference I see is that he KNOWS what he’s creating now, rather than creating things accidentally.
Beards are the greatest!
Oh God yes! I’ve been needing my Narbonic dosage! Artie got my addiction flowing again, Dave is exactly what I needed… Now throw in Helen and Mel and I’ll lie down in my little comic-crack hole of happiness.
I’m guessing the Thursday Conspiracy is a reference to Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday”?
I wish I could afford the collections. Any of them. 🙁
Pfft – you can’t start earthquakes with a ray! You need a spear and magic helmet!
Spear and magic helmet?
Spear and magic Helllllll-met!
Dude, you weren’t kidding about BEARDS? That’s awesome.