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Somehow, Madblood's pose in the first panel got really weirdly exaggerated. As readers commented at the time, he looks like Groucho Marx. I don't know what's up with that.

Also, I should have picked a more legible font for the computer. I went through several "computer" fonts over the course of Narbonic, usually because I upgraded Photoshop and lost all my old fonts.

This is one of those strips where "mad scientist" is code for "cartoonist." I did quite a few like that.

13 comments:
A Cosper (queenofzan) says:

Yeah, that "hazard" is nigh-unrecognizable.  The rest of it is pretty good, though.

 And "mad scientist" definitely equals "cartoonist" in my head.  For more than one reason. 

Rachel S. (masamage) says: Yayyy, he is doing the Groucho walk. That's adorable.
The Auld Grump (theauldgrump) says:

Heh, I thought that the Groucho pose was deliberate.

The Auld Grump 

James Rice (jhrice) says:

Question.  At this point,did you know the rest of the story involving Dave and Lovelace?  I know in these strips the AI is referred to as "Computer", but I sort of "hear" Lovelace, or at least a feminine personality, in the computer's voice.

 

 

Leon Arnott (l) says: Friday:

I'm beginning to see the advantage of adding a minor character who does not have any physical form to depict. Though, Madblood should have arrested the growth of his AI's personality before it developed a Snark Subroutine and a Contempt Condition, which are classic warning signs of the onset of artificial depression.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:

(TUNE: "Hooray For Captain Spaulding", Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby)

Hurrah for Lupin Madblood,
Our planet's future master!
Whose date ends in disaster!
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

He's pausing his proposal
To subjugate our race now;
He's hoping to suck face now!
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

With great anticipation,
He dreams of osculation
Or even copulation!
Hah hah!

Hurrah for Lupin Madblood!
He's fast, but Helen's faster!
In Helen's hands, his geeky glands
Expose his fatal flaw!
Hurrah ... hurrah ... hurrah!

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) says:

Heh - "mad scientist" == "cartoonist"

I once set up MSWord's typo fixer (the one that automatically replaces "teh" with "the" when you mistype it) so that, when I typed "idiot", Word automatically replaced it with the equivalent noun "manager").

Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: Of course he looks like Groucho. He came to say he must be going, after all.
Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) says:

Question.  At this point,did you know the rest of the story involving Dave and Lovelace? 

I'll probably go into this later, but yeah.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says: Heh. Heh. Heh.
Catherine Bascle (mage_cat) says: The Groucho walk never bothered me, but every time I look at the last panel, it takes me a moment to tell that it's the moon landscape in the background.  For some reason because of where its line goes to Madblood's neck it looks like a scarf caught in some Dramatic Wind or something.  But then, my eyes like doing wierd things to me.
Paul Gadzikowski (pgadzikowski) says: What's wrong with looking like Groucho Marx?!
Jon W. (kd7sov) says: @Catherine: Presumably Madblood placed that window specifically so that he could pose in front of it and look like he had a dramatically-billowing cape.
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