Comments on: D, D’: February 20-25, 2006 https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: David Griffin https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-16098 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:44:33 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-16098 In reply to Edwin Quantrall (reynard).

Just as an odd comment that’s years too late, but I’ve only just reread Narbonic with the commentary. Having not heard of the manga reference, I’d always assumed the name of the storyline was just using the prime symbol from mathematical notation, where x’ means typically is something similar to but different to x. So D original Dave, and D’ his clone.

Of course, I’d guess that the name A A’ for the manga actually does come from the mathematical notation, given that it seems it is about a clone.

]]> By: Edwin Quantrall (reynard) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14246 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:33 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14246 “That’s a pen behind Dave’s ear in the last panel. I know it looks like he’s been tagged and released into the wild.”

Knowing Helen, what makes you think that that’s not the case?

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14245 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:32 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14245 (TUNE: “I’m The Urban Spaceman”, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)

I’m the brand-new lab technician, that is me …
Brand-new employee!
I’m the brand-new lab technician, fixing the power,
Less than half an hour!

Yeah, Helen nearly killed me when we had our interview,
But in this weak economy, there’s worse that I could do!
I’m the brand-new lab technician, working here,
Fixing all your gear!

I’m just a plain computer nerd,
Your basic high-tech geek!
Yeah, didn’t Helen pass the word?
I started here last week!

I’m the brand-new lab technician, Davenport, D. …
“Dave”, my friends call me!
I’m the brand-new lab technician, Mell’s struck dumb …
Where did I come from?

Last week, there was a tragic scene between my boss and me …
But now I have returned again, without my memory!
I’m the brand-new lab technician, Helen has said
Soon I will be dead!

]]> By: David Harmon (mental_mouse) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14244 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:31 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14244 You’d think Mell would be a little quicker on the uptake about this….

]]> By: Sam Ashley (evilmidnightlurker) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14243 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:30 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14243 Dum dum DUMMMM!

]]> By: Jacob Haller (jwgh) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14242 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:29 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14242 I remember when I reached this point in the series I thought “Wait, is that why she had Dave change his hairstyle lo these many years ago?”

]]> By: Leon Arnott (l) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14241 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:28 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14241 Friday:

This is a very good way of starting this story line. The moody darkness really adds a lot to the unreality of this episode.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14240 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:27 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14240 So Artie’s a switch-hitter?  Never would’ve guessed …

(TUNE: “Squeeze Box”, The Who)

Gotta find the fuse box,
It’s dark in here!
And the gang’s moving on,
It seems the end is near!

   And it doesn’t seem right!
   I got no one to fight!
   Gotta find the fuse box,
   Gotta get some freakin’ light!

You and Dave, the guys
Cleaning up our mess!
Can you hear me agonize?
Can you feel my stress!

   And it doesn’t seem right!
   Are you sensing my plight?
   Gotta find the fuse box,
   Gotta get some freakin’ light!

It goes on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off …

]]> By: Joe Glow (joe_glow) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14239 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:26 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14239 Aw, you worry too much!  It’s not as if any of your fans publicly dissect every strip in order to literally keep numbered lists of anything that might in even the most vague and unimportant sense be consered a flaw.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/february-20-25-2006/#comment-14238 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:25:25 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3709#comment-14238 (TUNE: “Holding Out For A Hero”, Bonnie Tyler)

Look at Mell and Artie chat, down in Narbonic lair …
But the joke is falling flat, ’cause Davenport ain’t there!
Making nasty comments, about Computer Sci,
Doesn’t work without our fat and pale computer guy!

We need a nerd boy!
We’re sadly lacking a nerd, to be the butt of our jokes!
He should look like a fool,
‘Cause he isn’t as cool
As the gorgeous and muscular folks!
Where is our nerd boy?
A nerd surviving on Slim Jims ‘n’ Cheetos ‘n’ Cokes!
He’s the one that we choose
For our verbal abuse,
But I cannot recall if he smokes?
He never smokes …

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