Comments on: Mailbag!

By: Eve L (eve)

Eve L (eve) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:31 +0000

I want to buy print versions of Narbonic, but I want the commentary to be in there! Reading Shaenon's comments is half the fun.

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:30 +0000

Nate: I wasn't, but as it happens one of my Vassar friends is working on cybernetic implants. He's been putting wireless control devices in monkey brains, apparently. There is no way this will not end with vindictive cyborg monkey overlords.

By: Nate Waisbrot (mniot)

Nate Waisbrot (mniot) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:29 +0000

Helen speaks my name. O, be still my heart!

I think I spent an entire week snickering at Dave’s date suggestion. Geeks are so cruel to our own kind.

I wrote to Shaenon because I was secretly curious if she was thinking of Vassar’s Greg Priest-Dorman when she wrote the strip. (Seen with his functioning cybernetic implants here http://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top )

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:28 +0000

@Leon: Make that three. “1977 The Comic” is currently running a contest to pick the main character’s real name.

http://www.1977thecomic.com/news/whats-buds-name/

Aging rockers, former stoners, and anyone who’s ever said, “Was I really that dumb when I was young?” will like “1977”. Sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll, just not in that order.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:48:27 +0000

Nothing much to say today, except that I've just realised that this is merely one of two webcomics which have famously asked their fans to name the main character(s).