Comments on: Dr. Narbon: April 9-14, 2001

By: Sean Riedinger (ariamaki)

Sean Riedinger (ariamaki) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:12 +0000

My personal assumption is that the knee-high magnetic poetry was the work of Artie, using his resourceful nature to... Do it while standing on Daves shoe? Stick to the bottom of the door using his tail and some cling film?

Regardless, that is my story and I am sticking to it.

By: Nahuel Méndez Diodati (chirigami)

Nahuel Méndez Diodati (chirigami) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:11 +0000

There’s an additional comma after “Superintelligent” in that last strip. Not that anyone cares anyway…

By: Rachel S. (masamage)

Rachel S. (masamage) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:10 +0000

That reminds me of “Inhale Einstein, Exhale Hitler.”

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:09 +0000

out of those three, Dave is the one...

Remember that it's Mel who ultimately gave that order, and the gerbils learned early to keep on her good side.

Also, you can't blame Dana for the Madblood robots! Or the Moment of Culture, for that matter...

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:08 +0000

Saturday's Comic: Ah yes, American political humour - a variety of comedy that transcends time and culture and speaks directly to the human spirit. Just like Microsoft jokes.

"Heh. Heh. Heh.": 9.3. I'll assume Artie's momentary resemblance to Chad is unintentional, shall I?

It should be mentioned that perhaps all of the chaos and misery that is the fault of Artie is also, invariably, the fault of Dana. His virtuous actions are twisted into vicious consequences by Dana and her kin. His story is inextricably intertwined with hers. This presumably says something about the necessity of either of those characters to the central Narbonic plot - as does the fact that, out of those three, Dave is the one whom Dr. N is ordered to remove from the sequence.

Saturday's Song: Now here's something that maps surprisingly well to an existing Narbonic story arc.

By: Chris Brunner (cjbrunner)

Chris Brunner (cjbrunner) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:07 +0000

Wasn’t someone tracking 4th wall breakage, too?

By: Andrew Perron (ununnilium)

Andrew Perron (ununnilium) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:06 +0000

Oh, I love Brainiac’s Daughter. Ridiculously fun pseudo-Beatles.

By: Ty Hunt (wyrmul)

Ty Hunt (wyrmul) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:05 +0000

The shirt seems to say Aphrodite Kangaroo in concert. At least that is what I can make out. I have just motored through to the end of the comic over the last two days and I realized something about the art style. When in profile the characters look very similar to the early doonesbury characters. Specificly the "college years" in the seventies. The first Doonesbury collection is what got me into comics that had a plot and made you think. The evil grin of Dr Narbon, Daves wavy mind blown grin, hark back to Joanie teaching, and Phred buying "pajamas".

Good times, you have encouraged me to go and dig out those collections. You stand in the company of ginats in my opinion.

By: Eric Fretheim (ericthefred)

Eric Fretheim (ericthefred) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:04 +0000

I can’t believe I misspelled “Shaenon”. My humblest apologies!

By: Basil Jelly (basil_jelly)

Basil Jelly (basil_jelly) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:51:03 +0000

"Fred no one will take this comic seriously if you keep climbing the boarders" - Dan O'Neil