Comments on: Battle for the Lost Diamond Mines of Brazil: April 11-16, 2005

By: Shane Wegner (shanewegner)

Shane Wegner (shanewegner) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:33 +0000

He needs a shirt made out of a synthetic material laced with antidote/biological nulling agent that counteracts the poison your mother prefers to coat the spikes in her obuilettes with.

Oh wait, you already gave him one of those. Way to plan ahead, Beta!

By: Joel Brackenbury (mockferret)

Joel Brackenbury (mockferret) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:32 +0000

"Don't gnaw anything!" Is another of my all-time favourite Narbonic lines.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:31 +0000

Saturday:

"I'm evil": 7. It's something that doesn't really come naturally to Helen, but she's very diligent. (She should also be reminded that she's trying to prevent the death of a very evil person who has done both her and her henchman a good deal of misfortune. ~~Unless she kills Mom first.~~)

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:30 +0000

Awwwww.

By: Sam Daniel (samhdaniel)

Sam Daniel (samhdaniel) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:29 +0000

Cinderella, the clock is ticking towards midnight....

By: Jon W. (kd7sov)

Jon W. (kd7sov) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:28 +0000

Complicated? Surely you jest.

You just have to think fourth-dimensionally. Okay, occasonally fifth.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:27 +0000

(TUNE: The U.S. Air Force Song (aka "Wild Blue Yonder"), Capt. R. M. Crawford)

Off you go, into the te-le-por-ter!
To Brazil, Mother to save!
Though you know, first it was out of order,
Turning me ... into a Dave!

All warmed up! Go on and climb aboard her!
Artie asks, "Can I decline?"
We say "Heavens, no!" So off you go!
Off to my Mom's Brazilian lost mine!

By: Matthew Mather (madtinkerer)

Matthew Mather (madtinkerer) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:26 +0000

" This strip got complicated over the years."

I would have just assumed Dave invented it, if Helen didn't. Her degree may be in biology, but it doesn't take a PH.D in biology to adapt a common household gadget designed to control things electronically to something designed to be controlled electronically.

But over-thinking is usually better than under-thinking when it comes to continuity. It could be worse: the writer of Death Note forgot about one of the Death Notes about 2/3 of the way through the manga. (To be fair, at that point in the story the Notes were being swapped around between characters a lot and everyone was playing mind games with everyone else. But at one point everyone just forgets about one of the Notes that should still have been in posession of someone at that time.)

By: Sam Ashley (evilmidnightlurker)

Sam Ashley (evilmidnightlurker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:25 +0000

My wife finally read my paperback Narbonics (the first three) a few days ago. Last night she finished speeding through the full archive.

You've got another fan. :)

By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert)

Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:58:24 +0000

Oh, and Dave? If you have to tell people you have "frankly raging heterosexuality," you don't.