A Brief Moment of Culture, Part 5
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April 26, 2009 ~ 3 Comments
I remember being really pleased with these illustrations back when I did them. I still like the purple one a lot. Artie’s expression is pretty much perfect, thank you very much.
“Pressurized napalm” is a pretty good place for a chapter break.
That AI is a pretty tenacious plot motivator, isn’t it? If only Artie had considered asking for 4’33” on repeat.
Yeah, it would have prevented the yogurt calamity, at least. But <a href=”http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10044″> by the time he thinks of it</a> it’s too late. (Spoilers in the URL, natch, to anyone following along for the first time.)
And I just know that link attempt is gonna fail hard.
(TUNE: “The Sounds Of Silence”, Simon and Garfunkel)
I’m a sen-ti-ent A.I.
I’ve come to sing a lullaby …
I’ll select the assonances
Apropos your circumstances,
The hypnotic hum will numb your cranium;
You’ll succumb,
And savor sounds … of science!