Comments on: The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon &Co., Chapter Thirteen. https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/ By Shaenon K. Garrity Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:47:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: dataphile https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-17176 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:47:59 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-17176 “The Martian spaceship is based on a Victorian sci-fi illustration, but now I can’t remember where I found it.”

I thought it looked familiar… I want to say it was art for Jules Verne’s “Robur the Conqueror”?

]]> By: Darkstarr https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-16197 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 06:20:41 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-16197 In reply to John Wells (johnwwells).

Well, “mad as a hatter” is, which is why Alice in Wonderland had a Mad Hatter. “Mad as a glass herring” is also highly inaccurate–all of the glass herrings I’ve ever known were quite happy and not mad at all. Not even a little miffed!

]]> By: John Wells (johnwwells) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-6895 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:23:02 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-6895 See, I thought “mad as a glass herring” was a real period expression. So you suckered me in, at least.

]]> By: Bart Janssens (blackcatmoebius) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-6894 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:23:01 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-6894 Consider youself acknowledged and validated, in that I just registered to say so.  That whole exchange (panels 4 and 5) is one of my favorite moments in all of Narbonic – and a large part of the reason I’d love to see the Victorian storyline in print. 

]]> By: Chris Brunner (cjbrunner) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-6893 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:23:00 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-6893 For your most excellent phrase, you are hereby acknowledged and validated, Sarge.

]]> By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-6892 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:22:59 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-6892 (TUNE: “The Lonely Goatherd” from “The Sound of Music” by Rodgers & Hammerstein)

Mad as a herring made of glass, they’re
Soldiers of the rebel army, come for war!
Fetching and blonde and full of brass, they’re
Soldiers of the rebel Martian corps!

]]> By: Leon Arnott (l) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-6891 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:22:58 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-6891 Oh, those hatless scientists, my word. I’d still like to know what miracle is keeping everybody’s spectacles from suffering the same fate, though.

]]> By: A Cosper (queenofzan) https://narbonic.com/comic/the-astonishing-excursions-of-helen-narbon-co-chapter-thirteen/#comment-6890 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:22:57 +0000 http://narbonic.com/?p=3388#comment-6890 There’s a correct way to use a French curve? Huh.

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