Comments on: Professor Madblood and the Everlasting Ices of the North: May 8-13, 2006

By: Hipe

Hipe — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 08:02:05 +0000

I dunno… why would he want smoking permitted? Dave never smoked. Maybe he has friends who smoke or something…

By: John Campbell (jcampbel)

John Campbell (jcampbel) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:30:05 +0000

Madblood trying to look down his nose at a guy several inches taller than him kind of cracks me up.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:30:04 +0000

Saturday:

Dave telling Madblood "No, never" is a very subtle and poetic shedding of his final vestige of Narbonics Labs. I'm quite impressed.

By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert)

Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:30:03 +0000

tune: "Shuffle off to Buffalo," Al Dubin and Harry Warren, 42nd Street, 1933

I'll go home and pack my panties

You go home and get your scanties

And we're outta there (Oooooh ooh ooh)
Of we're gonna go now
Building you and Arctic lair

With an AI, name of Lovelace
We will build an evil pow'rbase
In the cold North air (Oooooh ooh ooh)
Of we're gonna go now
Building you and Arctic lair

Someday I will surprise my ex, when
My face pops up out of the blue
Say so cool, "Oh, hi there, Helen,
We rule the world. What's new by you?"

Though I've never smoked an instant
I've the right to light an Winston
Flannel shirts I'll wear (Oooooh ooh ooh)
Of we're gonna go now
Building you and Arctic lair

By: Tetra Valent (4_valent)

Tetra Valent (4_valent) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:30:02 +0000

@Leon: That suction thing is a neat trick for someone with a full beard.

Dave is talking into his mug to create a dramatic echo effect to his voice. Also to hide his smirk. "Sure, I can handle it. I can blow it up just like I did your moon base. And yes, I'm familiar with your work. I've BEEN your work."

Rogue kitchen appliances are indeed a common theme here and in Skin Horse. Shaenon, how often are you attacked by yours?

By: David Johnson (authorx)

David Johnson (authorx) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:30:01 +0000

Maybe there's a tiny straw in that mug?

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:30:00 +0000

Friday:

Dave's just trying that thing where you hold the mug onto your face with just suction. Yes, while having a conversation.

Now that I think about it, paid death leave is a pretty swell deal. What if death sticks? Is it paid as a lump sum on return to life, or doled out just often enough to keep the hench's apartment refrigerator on?

By: Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert)

Kay Gilbert (kaygilbert) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:29:59 +0000

tune: "Look for the Union Label," Paula Green and Malcolm Dodds, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union theme, 1975 (I'm a proud former Teamster.)

National Henchman's Union
Your go-to source for the evil and smart
Give us paid death leave
Shop stewards will grieve
If we don't receive
Replacement limbs
And other parts

We work hard
To make you look good
Because without us you clearly would not
So show respect for the Henchman's Union
Because we know how to sabotage your evil plots

By: Rex Vivat (sirgarberto)

Rex Vivat (sirgarberto) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:29:58 +0000

I do like Madblood as a character. Too bad he did nothing else that required an anthem like on Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit, it felt like he made everything obsessively to the last detail, and that mixed with his personality very well.

Ok, now I need to hear the sung version of the anthem again. Where was that mp3?

By: William Tracy (afishionado)

William Tracy (afishionado) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 22:29:57 +0000

"Henching work." Love it.