Comments on: Smart Gerbils: February 12-17, 2001 https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Fri, 12 Jul 2024 05:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Mental Mouse https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-16512 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:30:51 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-16512 In reply to Darkstarr.

Correction: Almost all the main characters. I’d forgotten Ed for a moment.

]]> By: Mental Mouse https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-16511 Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:28:27 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-16511 In reply to Darkstarr.

You need to read Ursula Vernon’s webcomic “Digger”. (Everybody needs to read it! Bwahahaha!) No lesbians, but all the main characters are female (without them making a point of it)… and it will give you far better reasons to fear anthropomorphic hyenas.

]]> By: Darkstarr https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-16113 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:38:31 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-16113 In reply to Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity).

You know, it’s discussions like this that have given me a mortal fear of lesbian hyena anthropomorphics…

]]> By: BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-980 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:27 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-980 I just thought, on the subject of science- and mad-science-related music (and previous mention of JoCo), would “Betty and Me” count, even though the “improved” baby is improved via eugenics and not the gene-splicing the narrator/singer suspects?

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-979 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:26 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-979 Much-belated Big Freakin’ ™ Gun count: 4 (Wednesday’s comic)  To this day, Mell’s line is one of my favorites in the entire archive.

]]> By: John Wells (johnwwells) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-978 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:25 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-978 I think it’s a tiny triangular gerbil head.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-977 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:24 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-977 Oh, drat, how could I have forgotten … and of course, Patrick Stewart for ANTONIO SMITH, FORENSIC LINGUIST! 

As for the sign, I think Leon was referring to the heart/triangle on the sign that reads “Narbonic Labs” (directly above the ‘o’ in “Narbonic”).  Looks like a heart to me, but that may just be a bias caused by my Lucky Charms addiction.  

]]> By: Andy Holloway (garran) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-976 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:23 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-976 Except for human Artie, who would of course be voiced by Ted Koppel.

]]> By: David Harmon (mental_mouse) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-975 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:22 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-975 Leon:  (Also, it is unclear whether or not the sign in today’s episode sees the gerbil head logo in strip 00002 replaced with the recognisable pink heart. Maybe it is an inverted triangle logo that forms the missing link between them?)

 Well, the prior lair got trashed, and Helen might have wanted the Labs to be a little less recognizable!  Thus, a new logo sans gerbil.  The elevator behind Artie is marked with a down arrow.

]]> By: Dave III (dave_iii) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-12-17-2001/#comment-974 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:44:21 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3186#comment-974 I always imagined Artie being a somewhat more even toned voice… maybe Phil LaMarr being not quite so over the top as  Samurai Jack. Michael Dorn is perfect if you want to imply an imposing physical presence, but Artie has an intimidating intellectual presence.

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