Comments for Narbonic: Director's Cut

Comment on The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon &Co., Chapter Thirteen. by dataphile

dataphile — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:47:59 +0000

“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”?

Comment on Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit: December 2-7, 2002 by dataphile

dataphile — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:28:01 +0000

Lupin trolling Helen’s spy satellite is one of the most Spy Vs Spy moments in the entire strip.

Comment on Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair: October 4-9, 2004 by Jane

Jane — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:20:52 +0000

The villain in “Robota” (a collaboration with Star Wars visual artist Doug Chiang) was literally the main character’s ex whom he dumped for getting older and infertile, and his “reward” at the end is immortality and a new, younger girlfriend. You can really smell the Mormon on that.

Comment on Demons: June 14-19, 2004 by Jane

Jane — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:08:12 +0000

In reply to Seph. I suppose because it's nonsensical in the same way Narbonic is- everything is perfectly (il)logical right up until John's concious decapitated head is bobbing around in acid. Still way better than Firefly and its weird Madonna-whore complexy view on sex workers, blatant racist undertones, and uncritically reheated Western cliches.

Comment on Dave in Slumberland by 25

25 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:41:44 +0000

In reply to 25. on how to place this in print.

Comment on Dave in Slumberland by 25

25 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:40:32 +0000

Centerfold…

Comment on Summer Gerbil Photo Contest: The Winnah! by Jack Daniels

Jack Daniels — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:19:56 +0000

Beautifully written. I absolutely love puns, and similar word play.

Comment on The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon &Co., Chapter Twenty-Six. by Tylor

Tylor — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:41:14 +0000

In reply to Alex Balmagia. Yup. what the other guy said. It was Faans, which ended it's first run on that ending. Shame the old Websnark posts are gone, he had some fun things to say about that ending, up to and including a great article called "Batman in the Operating Room"

Comment on Demons: April 26 – May 1, 2004 by Anton Sherwood

Anton Sherwood — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 05:01:18 +0000

The only reason I did not read «Narbonic» the first time around was the difficulty of reading it. Are the strips bigger now, or is it that LCD is inherently crisper than CRT?

Comment on Dave Davenport Has Come Unstuck in Time: December 22-28, 2003 by Tylor

Tylor — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:23:05 +0000

It’s one of those odd things about getting older. When something you read the first time jumps twenty years into the future and you can’t help but agree that yes, that’s pretty far away. And then you come back and reread and realize… that far off future is now the past.

On the plus side, the comments about things having gone poorly in the future have aged like the finest wine. So uh props for that?