Comments on: Zombie Woof: September 10-15, 2001

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:58 +0000

Ed: Oh, is that what that rectangle was? Hmm, Dave smokes fancy cigarettes, that isn’t any mass-market pack.

By: Aaron Shades (prof_tinker)

Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:57 +0000

Somehow, I feel that Mell was the 8first* person he started bothering with this. us geeks. . . we don't let go of good jokes easily. even if they're bad jokes.

On that note: Trogdor.

By: Liza Furr (liza)

Liza Furr (liza) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:56 +0000

I think Dave’s casual greeting “Hey, Mell. Brains.” may be my favorite line in the strip.

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:55 +0000

David: Didn't you catch the last panel of yesterday's strip? Dave was taking a cigarette out of his pack, just as he was saying "Aw, come on Helen. Brains ..."

Somehow I thought when Dave said to Mell, "Brains", Mell would strike a pose and say, "Damn right, and dynamite body too!"

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:54 +0000

Leon: The Zombie archetype dates back to the days of "animal spirits" and beyond. And if our own motion is driven by the spirits within us, might not some evil spirit animate an unblest corpse? (Indeed, at Mary Shelley's time, scientists had recently shown that "galvanic currents" could indeed induce motion, even in dissected limbs....)

Oh, and Dave's cigarette has been missing all week. It only reappeared today, after Helen denies him the "traditional" means for restoring his decayed intellect.

(As I puff on my own morning cigs... ;-> Remember that Algernon riff, back when Artie was new? )

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:53 +0000

Saturday's Comic: Something that has ruined the zombie archetype for me forever was the realisation that a rotting corpse would probably have decaying muscles, tendons, ligaments, and motor neurons. Thus, for all but the freshest zombies, locomotion would not just be painfully slow but nearly impossible. ...I think.

It occurs to me that this is the second undead form taken by Dave, after Ghost. One can only assume that Mummy Dave will appear shortly, complete with glasses worn over a fully bandaged face. (But of course, Narbonic has too many places to go to stick with one trend for that long!)

...You know what's unintentionally hilarious about all this? Dave is a zombie that smokes.

By: Aaron Shades (prof_tinker)

Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:52 +0000

This makes me think of later, when Dave is sent into space when he pleads with Helen to humor him like he always does for her.

This is definitely the start of that. 'Aw, common helen, Brains.'

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:51 +0000

Ha, ha, h–BRAINNNNS…

By: Rachel S. (masamage)

Rachel S. (masamage) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:50 +0000

Adding to the sound-off: Dave’s behavior here is basically the funniest thing ever. I too have fond memories of falling irrevocably in love with Narbonic, and this contributed.

By: Damien Neil (damien)

Damien Neil (damien) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:49 +0000

This is one of my favorite Narbonics, and the one that most perfectly captures the strip for me. “I was hoping undeath would make him more sprightly” indeed.