01/17/2014
Posted on 2014-01-17 by Aaron

21 thoughts on “01/17/2014”

  1. Xel Unknown

    …HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE SCARIEST PAGE I HAVE EVER SEEN…

    Dude is now a lamp, a talking lamp… Who can talk… And is happy with his state in life, made happy about his state in life…oh god…

    1. artificer-urza

      Well, it does have aspirations to be a hat rack.

      1. Xel Unknown

        The aspirations only make it worse… NOT BETTER!

        1. leor613

          And finally, as I predicted months ago, the floor lamp that wanted to be a hat rack appears. Of course I never gave out the spoiler that this was the former mayor of Omaha!

        2. Matthew

          Right, so we’re supposed to thank you for only telling us about ONE of our Christmas presents? No spoilers! None!

  2. NOTDilbert

    I, for one, welcome our new derby-wearing overlord….

  3. Seireadan Nailo

    We are throwing him a party tomorrow

    1. Quin

      With extra arsenic in his meals! (If he dies we win. If the taster dies well he won’t be stuffed into an umbrella)

  4. Mr. Bawkbagawk

    Aaron was channeling the spirit of Douglas Adams on this one.

  5. Nightmask

    Makes me think of Florence from Freefall when the Mayor gave her a direct order to not be panicked and be happy instead, as she intellectually knew that someone being able to just order her mental state around like that should panic her but couldn’t due to the order.

  6. kerinbot

    he does seem to have achieved ‘enlightenment’ (ducks!) LOL.

    I really really love this comic. And, having just recently visited friends and family in Topeka, Tecumseh, and Overland Park, KS, plus Lincoln, NE, i know what HORRIBLE freezing weather you’ve been suffering through – no wonder your poor comic denizens have been going through hard times lately! I hope at least being a webcomic author means working from home=NOT GOING OUT IN THE SNOW! LOL. Does your wife still teach and have to go out, though? Best wishes for a Happy New Year and warm, warm thoughts for the season! 🙂

    1. Prairie Son

      Kansas ain’t had nothing. We had snow, freezing rain and tropical storm level wind velocities and more, and right on the anniversary of the Children’s Blizzard (wiki it).

  7. Rock

    Sooner or later, someone is going to have to take Victor down HARD.

  8. Unmaker

    I agree with Rock – Victor needs a harsh lesson in not violating civil rights.

    But I do think there are a number of elected officials who could use serious incentive not to be f***ing idiots.

    1. Somebody

      Don’t you mean RUTABAGA idiots, or do you admit we are going to need to reinject you?

  9. =Tamar

    Badly phrased by Victor. Just giving out higher grades isn’t the point. What he is actually asking for is for the students to actually learn some biology, math, and physics. That will take some time, and the first step is to get some decent textbooks and teach the scientific method. As inspiration to get the kids interested (after years of being turned off and taught things that aren’t actually true), they might use Victor himself, as evidence of things that can be done if you learn enough.

  10. Centurion13

    A pity the process of expanding his consciousness and ability to will things into existance has only succeded in corrupting him still further. And he’s supposedly just a kid.

    Of course, most of these kids appear to be interested in things no kid would touch with a barge pole, but that’s just one of the things covered by suspension of disbelief, I guess.

    I honestly believe the lamp has got it better than Victor.

    1. Tgape

      You haven’t met a lot of high functioning autistic children, have you? Or, for that matter, children who read comic books?

      This reminds me of a lot of playground conversations from when I was little, at least starting with the *second* school, because the kids at the first school just more or less targeted me for abuse like the teachers wanted, because the teachers didn’t like kids who already knew what they had to teach.

      I mean, *maybe* they talked about the same sorts of things when I wasn’t around, but I wasn’t around to hear it. It’s also possible they just talked about various gossip, farming, and the gallon jugs that the one woman who lived in the back alley had, which I didn’t for the life of me understand until years later. I *did* overhear some of that kind of talk from them. They sounded pretty confident about her gallon jugs, but once I was old enough to understand about them, it was immediately obvious they’d been as clueless as me.

  11. G0vnah

    For some reason I hear the former mayor in the voice of Wheatley (from Portal 2). Anyone else?

  12. Rock

    I wonder whether Victor is really in full control of himself right now, or whether he’s suffering a reduced version of the ‘euphoria’ that overtakes him in full power-mode, and makes him do things he doesn’t want when he’s in what passes for his right mind.

  13. Chris PV

    This is the scariest thing yet in this comic. And a reference to the Twilight Zone on top of that. I’m surprised Victor didn’t threaten to send Mayor Lamp to the cornfield.

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