"Narbonic"

[stoutfellow]

A while back, when I heard that Narbonic had come out from behind a paywall, I took a look at the early archives. I was not particularly impressed; the main line was kind of amusing, but not very, and the Sunday material was... well, I didn't much like it. So I quit.

Someone I can't identify on my FL, though, posted a strongly favorable reaction to the strip, and so I resumed reading, skipping the Sunday material except for the Victorian-age pastiche. (Is it a pastiche if it's done by the original author?)

This was a good decision. The arc "Dr. Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit", in particular, left me in stitches. Garrity pulled so many rabbits out of her hat - and, given the histories and established personalities of the characters, all of them made sense.

Um. Sense. Well, "made sense" if you're willing to accept, for instance, a superintelligent gerbil telling an army of murderous androids about Joe Hill...

Anyway, it's a great strip, and I'm sad to hear that Garrity plans to bring it to an end by the end of the year. Still, if she can tie it off into a neat, loose-end-free bundle (as I understand she plans to), that will be something to see.

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[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Snort. Thanks for the link! I love the line "'Can' and 'Should' are different words, aren't they?" :)