Comments on: Dave Davenport Has Come Unstuck in Time: September 1-6, 2003 https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: ylaraniala https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-16493 Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:31:03 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-16493 I think Caliban looks consistent as monster and demon. At least as consistent as the other characters.

]]> By: Linda Shaver-Gleason (forty-two) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8661 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:28 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8661 Oh, the Calibanity!

]]> By: Edwin Quantrall (reynard) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8660 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:27 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8660 Shaenon: “This reveal would probably be better if I’d drawn Caliban consistently from appearance to appearance. I swear he looks different every time I draw him. Oh well.”

He’s a Demon, right? Maybe he can change specific aspects of his appearance (hair color, eye color. etc) at will; but, as Crystal states, his general appearance and, of course, personality (“Essential Caliban-ness”. I like that! Great term, Crystal!) remain the same. 

]]> By: Daniel Barkalow (iabervon) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8659 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:26 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8659 He looks to me much like he had subsequently, except that more of him is cut off by the edges of the panels. Oh, and he doesn’t look quite like that in steady-state monster form; this is the sudden-reveal image. On the other hand, as far as we (or Dave) knows, all monsters-under-the-bed might look like that.

]]> By: John Campbell (jcampbel) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8658 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:25 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8658 I suspect, from next week’s context, that there’s an off-screen, “Wait, how do you know my name?” between now and Monday.

]]> By: So It Begins (soitbegins) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8657 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:24 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8657 Wouldn’t that make him a 3-eyed black-and-white monster?

]]> By: David Harmon (mental_mouse) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8656 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:23 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8656 See also the FRP “Monsters and other Childish things”:  http://www.arcdream.com/monsters/

Notice that Caliban does not ask how Dave knows his name… this and the other dialog make it clear that even before being possessed by his future self, this kid must have been a handful!

 

]]> By: Crystal Jacobs (plane) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8655 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:22 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8655 He may look slightly different, but he retains his essential Caliban-ness.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8654 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:21 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8654 (TUNE: “California Dreamin’ “, The Mamas And The Papas)

“Cower, mortal, now!”  So the monster said
In an eerie voice … that inspired dread!
I remember him … from when I was dead …
Caliban’s a demon … underneath my bed!

Not a scary guy … now his chance has fled …
He should terrify … but he whines instead!
He needs to improve … or they’ll have his head …
Caliban’s a demon … underneath my bed!

]]> By: Adam Underfoot (unnatural20) https://narbonic.com/comic/september-1-6-2003/#comment-8653 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:52:20 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3453#comment-8653 The set of strips foreshadowing these events are in the section “Get a Life: August 6-11, 2001.”

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