Comments on: Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit: March 10-15, 2003 https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: linkhyrule5 https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-16911 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:49:04 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-16911 The great thing about Monday’s comic is, it came out a solid four years before Team Fortress 2 and the normalization of flamethrowers being used to expose an otherwise perfect disguise.

]]> By: Corey Klemow (cklemow_g) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7341 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:28 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7341 Every comic strip should have musical numbers. Even “Gil Thorp.” Especially “Gil Thorp.”

You are aware, of course, that Gil Thorp DOES have a musical number?  “Tarzana Nights,” originally by Gil Thorp‘s very own Gail Martin, “The Rock & Roll Carole King” (and never actually heard in the strip) was “covered” by the New Real People and can be heard here:

http://newrealpeople.com/

Context:
http://joshreads.com/?p=1153

]]> By: John Wells (johnwwells) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7340 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:27 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7340 If any poetic form can express the feeling of being trapped in a tiny cage, running on a tiny wheel, it’s the sestina. Very well-chosen keywords there.

]]> By: Michael Martin (mcmartin) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7339 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:26 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7339 Well, there were a bunch of things you had to do first in order to do a seppuku ritual properly; get the brushes, find a second, get a towel to catch the mess…

]]> By: John Campbell (jcampbel) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7338 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:25 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7338 Is anyone ever really prepared for disembowelment?

]]> By: Q. Pheevr (q-pheevr) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7337 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:24 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7337 Well, I don’t think “I have found my intruder, and you are he!” would really sound any less stilted. And a less stilted alternative like “You’re the intruder!” would lack a certain Madsanguinary flair.

 

]]> By: James Redekop (jhgredekop) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7336 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:23 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7336 Don’t forget that the Pogo line itself is a reference to Commodore Perry’s 1813 dispatch, “We have met the enemy, and he is ours.”

 

]]> By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7335 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:22 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7335 It’s sort of Pogo-y, but it doesn’t really connect to the Pogo reference in a meaningful way.

]]> By: So It Begins (soitbegins) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7334 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:21 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7334 *snicker*

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/march-10-15-2003/#comment-7333 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:30:20 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3403#comment-7333 (TUNE: “Singing In The Rain”, Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown)

We’re singing on the Moon!
We’re singing, on the Moon,
An anthem to honor
A psychotic loon!

I sang along with
This crazed robot smith;
But my pitch was off by
A full flattened fifth!

I got in the zone,
And sang on my own …
Now Madbllod says “Seize him!”
My cover I’ve blown!

I’ll likely die soon!
Let’s finish this tune!
Death bringing
From singing on the Moon!

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