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As for this comic…
I guess the final act of this story arc is starting. I’m a little nervous as to whether I can pull this off. I need to convey a bunch of plot beats and action stuff, all in the confines of four panels, with a joke (of varying quality) landing every fourth panel throughout. It’s not impossible. But it IS hard. Let’s hope I can keep it interesting.
Left over school supplies would be my guess on the paper.
Clearly, it’s been moldering in his garage for decades and he’s thrilled to finally find a use for it.
I’d wondered if you could still get any of that old computer printer paper…
I did look it up and you can still order the stuff!
My parents still have a box of continuous feed dot matrix printer paper somewhere in the house. It’s from 1986. We never had a dot matrix printer.
I can still hear the sound of a computer center line-printer, the ones that resembled a piece of equipment from a sheet-metal factory.
When I was in high school, my first printer was an old typeset printer I inherited from my nerdy uncle. It was the loudest single piece of machinery I’ve ever heard inside a house. It was low-key as loud as a cap gun going off … about two times a second. The dot matrix was like a quiet, luxurious purring kitten by comparison.
We’re still using it. It’s paper. You can write on it. You don’t ever waste things. Just store them until someone uses them.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that immediately latched onto the continuous-feed dot-matrix printer paper.
I myself still have some that I picked up out of a “free office supplies” box probably 20 years ago, and eventually decided that it was better to keep the last bit as tech memorabilia than to tear the ratchet strips off and use it as slightly-fuzzy-edged regular paper.
I graduated high school when it was still common. I just still think it’s normal. I never got to see the transition at high school and there was none in college.
Yeah…they have eyes all around town. So this heist has just begun to get complicated.
Complexity ahoy!
I believe in you EG. And I’m looking forward to it.
I’m glad SOMEBODY does, cuz I sure as heck don’t!
Plus one!
If eyes are on you, you’re now the diversion.
Now, find an excuse to kick in a door to “Rock N’ Roll Part 2”.
And so it shall prove.
the cabal may have eyes on them, but i doubt they´re prepared for the sheer idiocy+chaos that lot is capable of……which is actually a pretty decent strategy to use against a purely logical enemy
Nothing beats order like a two heaping scoops of chaos.
Well, e scoops. Having a rational number of scoops might be playing into order’s hands.
Then again, it is an important number in calculus and continuous growth. So, maybe what we need is to subtract one irrational number from another to get a third that has no concievable use and is close to two?
Am I overthinking this? Yes.
Am I playing into the hand of Big Order? Also yet.
This is why Daphne’s leading the raid and I’m not.
I’m assuming Miranda is the 0.37.
You assume correctly.
Still missing a couple of co-conspirators, though.
Hmm. You noticed.
More than a couple. There’s one popcorn loving varmint off the grid since the strategy meeting.
Okay, and where is Sigmund? Taking advantage of the distraction?
Well, maybe they’ll recruit Daphne after this?
Throw me a bone here, galvanic one!
Sigmund does seem oddly absent during this whole thing. Easily overlooked.
Does his back hurt again?
Maybe Sigmund is keeping to the shadows working as a double agent to bring the downfall of the Cabal.
ok this is all a complex diversion. She hasn’t told anyone her real plan
The real plan is an enigma wrapped inside a riddle.
I figured. As much as in her own way she loves them she is also aware that they are all idiots.
Nice Windows 7 reference. I cannot to see what wonderful features are provided with Windows 32.
Beat me to the Windows reference. I guess I’m on Windows 7, too.
Might be a reference to dear old Windows 3.1X. These cabalists seem about that age when that was the new OS.
The REAL homies like me were on Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
A previous comic had Windows 3.1 and 95. Had to keep the train going.
The A-team van, with, I rather suspect, the Pink Panther theme music playing . . . or perhaps Yakety Sax.
Peter Gunn theme?
Peter Gunn? There’s a name I haven’t heard in a LONG time.
I am a timeless relic. Like a pop culture version of the pyramids.
Oh, thaaaaaat tune. It’s a good’n.
Everyone knows it. They just don’t know where it comes from.
We believe in you, Electric! You can pull it off!
This lot, however, is a different kettle of fish. Mammals. Something.
I wonder how they pull it off. 🙂
Mammals are fish. Of a sort.
O.K., that’s either very deep or you need to sit through high school biology again.
Check out the book by Neil Shubin, “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”.
As multiple online science educators have noted, if you consider both trout and great white sharks ‘fish’, then from an evolutionary standpoint, you should also consider us fish, because trout are much more closely related to us than they are to sharks. Unless you take a ‘form over genetics’ stance, where ‘fish’ is a shape, not an evolutionary group. But in that case, whales and dolphins are also fish.
“Unless you take a ‘form over genetics’ stance, where ‘fish’ is a shape, not an evolutionary group. But in that case, whales and dolphins are also fish.”
But they don’t have gills. They have lungs. The tail also works differently. The form isn’t the same.
Shark gills and teleost gills are also different. We gonna split hairs? Fish shape is a streamlined tube with fins. People prior to a few hundred years ago unanimously considered dolphins and whales fish. Were they wrong? Well, yeah. I guess they were. But I don’t completely blame them.
“Shark gills and teleost gills are also different. We gonna split hairs?”
In biology? Yes! The question is, how finely?
And that is more a question relating to what taxonomy is for and I’m a German major, I’m not qualified to answer that. I have a firm handle and what was taught 30 to 40 years ago and a smattering of what’s been developed since. I’m outa’ date, dude.
“Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”.
Which would be the deep option.
4.32 Numbskulls…
EeeeYup!
The power of AI, accurately reporting the obvious.
So wait, does 4.37 numbskulls mean that there’s 4 full-sized numbskulls one 0.37-sized numbskull, or is Puck 1 numbskull, Colin is 3.37 numbskulls, and the other three aren’t numbskulls at all?
The is the Cabal. To them, everyone’s a numbskull. Which is why they will never see their downfall coming.
This, but their way: Not their downfall. They haven’t seen it coming yet.
Remember Pyanfar’s law. When faced with a superior intelect, do something irrational and it it think itself to death.
Miranda is the .37 numbskull addition.
You know, I’m just curious. What are the rules on drone use in Hamilton, ONT?
Does the Canadian equivalent of the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration have ruled on done use and operator registration?
Does Canada have rules concerning drones? Probably. Canada likes rules. Let’s assume the Cabal has the right ordnance exceptions and registrations. Or let’s assume the rules don’t exist in this world because they interfere with plot.
Or the Cabal just goes with the old axiom of, “Screw the rules, we have money!”
The latest vote incentive is amazing.
I am glad you like. I liked it too. Worked hard on that one.
It shows.
Alienware laptop? Do you have one Gecko?
Nope. I don’t have one. But the kind of kids who hack stuff often do, from my experience.
They used to be very good, but the company got sold and now they are just okay.
Strangely, that’s not disappointing.
I’ve been given to understand they’re really good. Which is why I got an H.P.
Obscure Character Month is big success! Congrats EG!
Well, glad people enjoyed. I have fun drawing different character sometimes.
The FOOLS! Like all upper management they haven’t updated thier operating system. It should be simplicity itself for her to drop some malware in there….