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Irregular Webcomic! #1441 [[scene: Jane Goodall's office, in Africa]] / Terry: {over phone} Jane? Hi, it's Terry. / Jane Goodall: What's Steve done now? / Terry: [[on phone]] He's a guest of the government of Nepal... / Jane Goodall: Nepal?! Do you know who runs Nepal? / [[scene change: Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu]] / Terry: There was a Maoist insurgency that destabilised the royal family and effectively led to some sort of coup d'état, right? / Jane Goodall: {over phone} More like a coup-thulhu... / Terry: You mean...?!!
Irregular Webcomic! #1442 [[scene: The dark tunnels of the secret dwarven kingdom, lit by the pallid light of Kyros' glowing orb]] / Lambert: There was a strange creature... / Mordekai: It must have run off when we arrived. / Lambert: It tried to attack me! It was after my ring! It was going to eat me and then steal it! / Kyros: Strange how one can become so tainted by lust for wealth and power, as embodied in shiny trinkets, and corrupted to such a wretched state... / Mordekai: Yes, but what about this creature he mentioned?
Irregular Webcomic! #1443 Obi-Wan: I have a bad feeling about this... / Qui-Gon: I don't sense anything. / Obi-Wan: It's not about the mission, Master. It's something... elsewhere. Elusive. / Qui-Gon: Hmmm. It's the fan reaction you sense. / Obi-Wan: Master Qui-Gon, can't we just skip ahead to Episode IV?
Irregular Webcomic! #1444 [[scene: Gryffindor common room]] / Ron: With Harry and Katie Bell gone, we need a new player for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. / Will: I'm not a bad seeker. / Ron: Hmmm. Ginny's seeker... / Ginny: I'll play chaser. Will's so athletic, he's obviously the better seeker. / [[scene change: The office, where Shakespeare is sitting at his computer]] / Shakespeare: I bet nobody's ever written a fan-fic like this before! / [[scene change: back to the Gryffindor common room]] / Hermione: Oh Will, do you want me to show you the Astronomy Tower some time?
Irregular Webcomic! #1445 [[Map showing a red dotted line leading from Berlin to northern Italy, showing stops at several locations along the way: Leipzig, Nuremburg, Munich, Innsbruck, Venice, Florence...]] / Monty: Another meal stop, dad?!
 
Irregular Webcomic! #1446 Long Tom: Weigh anchor! / Dirque: [[checking the ship's anchor]] A hundred and sixty hundredweight! / [[beat as they stare at each other]] / Long Tom: Be this a pirate ship or a comedy club?! / Dirque: Yo ho ho, cap'n!
Irregular Webcomic! #1447 Paris: [[walking along a street on Bune]] So Quercus, may I ask how your species reproduces? / Quercus: You know how humans make vague allusions to birds and bees when talking to children about it, to avoid the embarrassing details? / Paris: Yes. / Quercus: We make vague allusions to sperm, ova, and copulation.
Irregular Webcomic! #1448 Me: So, Kevin Bacon, what do you think of this whole "Bacon number" phenomenon? / Kevin Bacon: I think it's a healthy exploration of theoretical mathematical concepts, in particular algebraic graph theory, in a social setting, so I'm all in favour. / Me: And that would include endorsing people who digitally composite your image into webcomics in an attempt to achieve a Bacon number of 1? / Kevin Bacon: Why yes, I approve wholeheartedly. Say, can I have your autograph?
Irregular Webcomic! #1449 Alvissa: Okay, we're back together, but we still need to get out of this orc-infested underground labyrinth. / Dwalin: Thus way. We nid to pass thu Brudge of Khazad-Doom. [[translation: This way. We need to pass the Bridge of Khazad-Doom.]] / Alvissa: Don't you mean Khazad-Dûm? / GM: Nope. Khazad-Doom. / Kyros: Subtle. / Dwalin: We dwarves are nae a soobtle race. ]]translation: We dwarves are not a subtle race.]]
Irregular Webcomic! #1450 Terry: [[into phone]] Jane! Can you come and help?! / Jane Goodall: Terry, by the time I get to Nepal from Africa, Steve is likely to have had his head ripped off, or be turned into a Deep One... / Terry: Or... or be driven insane by the mere sight of the horrific cyclopean blasphemy that is Cthulhu! / Jane Goodall: Well that much would be an improvement.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #1451 [[scene: Gryffindor common room]] / Hermione: Have you finished that Arithmancy essay yet, Will? I can check it for you. / Will: Yes, Hermione, and I can check yours. Here. / Hermione: It's so... stimulating to work with someone so diligent. Harry and Ron never finish their work on time. Always other things on their minds... / [[scene change: The office, where Will is typing at his desk]] / Ophelia: Have you finished that documentation yet, Will? I can check it for you. / Shakespeare: Uh... no, oops...
Irregular Webcomic! #1452 [caption]: ==Mythbusters== Kevin Bacon / Jamie: [[holding a printout of strip #1448, showing me chatting with Kevin Bacon]] Today we investigate the myth that Kevin Bacon really appeared on Irregular Webcomic! / Adam: That's so obviously faked. Busted! / Jamie: You know what this means if it's true, though? / Jamie: We both get Bacon numbers of 2! / Adam: Myth confirmed!
Irregular Webcomic! #1453 [[scene: Dr Ginny Smith is driving the Joneses somewhere through Italy]] / Minnesota Jones: It wasn't easy going, excavating Troy. The dry soil turned to dust as we dug, almost choking us. / Minnesota Jones: Schliemann himself suffered most. Each time he dug he went through this exaggerated coughing routine to clear his throat. / Minnesota Jones: We called it the "Heinrich Manoeuvre".
Irregular Webcomic! #1454 Iki Piki: Let's get some food. Here's a restaurant. / Maître d': The ghost will have to wait outside. / Spanners: What? Why? / Maître d': We don't serve spirits here.
Irregular Webcomic! #1455 Dwalin: Behoold! The Hall o' Dworin! Carven oot o' solid rock! [[translation: Behold! The Hall of Dworin! Carved out of solid rock!]] / [[Camera pulls back...]] / [[... slowly revealing that the party is in a huge...]] / [[... nay, vast cavern, dwarfing the adventurers who are no more than a tiny speck on the floor amongst hundreds of enormous stone columns that support an immense vaulted ceiling hundreds of feet above.]] / [[Mind-numbing large shot showing just how unbelieveably, mind-bogglingly big the cavern is.]] / Mordekai: But... I can't see the other side... / Mordekai: This chamber must be miles across! You dwarves are crazy! Why would you go to the trouble of creating an enormous excavation like this? / Dwalin: We dwarves value thu wide oopen spaces, ye ken. [[translation: We dwarves value the wide open spaces, you know.]] / Mordekai: You live underground! / Dwalin: I dinnae say we wurren't crazy! [[translation: I didn't say we weren't crazy!]]
 
Irregular Webcomic! #1456 [[scene: Port Royal]] / Townsman: Governor! Your daughter returned in the company of some pirates! But she's leaving again! / Governor: I remember the first time she left Port Royal. Sailed away to the south-east on a whim. / Townsman: Jamaica? / [[beat]] / Governor: Port Royal is in Jamaica, you ninny. / Townsman: Sorry, I thought you were fishing for a straight line.
Irregular Webcomic! #1457 [[scene: a vast cyclopean cavern where Steve has apparently been led by airport security...]] / Cthulhu: Steve... / Steve: G'day, Cthulhu. / Cthulhu: Countless aeons have I waited for revenge... / Steve: Crikey! It's only been a few months! / [[silent beat]] / Cthulhu: It feels like countless aeons...
Irregular Webcomic! #1458 [caption]: xkcd - A webcomic of intrigue, irony, integration, and idiolect. / Stick Figure 1: Hey, I have an idea! I'm going to make a webcomic where I use stick figures to make geeky physics and mathematics jokes! / Stick Figure 2: Isn't there already a comic a bit like that? / Stick Figure 1: Yeah, but stick figures are way easier than photos of Lego minifigs.
Irregular Webcomic! #1459 Ophelia: We have a deadline next week! You've been typing flat out; you must have something to show for it! / Shakespeare: Um... / Ophelia: [[looking at Will's monitor]] Harry Potter fan-fic!! Will! You have to stop worrying about Malfoy and concentrate on work. You'll just get into trouble. / Shakespeare: Oooh, nice! I can use that as a line for Hermione! / Shakespeare: [[looking at Ophelia as she simply stares at him]] What?
Irregular Webcomic! #1460 [[scene: Hitler's Brain's chamber in Nazi HQ in Berlin]] / Hitler's Brain: How could you let them escape?! / Haken: [[accusingly, pointing at Erwin]] Erwin did not stop Fraulein Doktor Smith, mein Führer! / Erwin: When we were in Poland, I put a tracking device in her shoe. / Hitler's Brain: Then... you know where they are going? / Erwin: Ja, I tapped into die device. / Hitler's Brain: Good work, Erwin! / Haken: [[caustically]] And what do these tapped slippers say? / Erwin: There's no place like Rome.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #1461 [[scene: the enormous and dimly lit Hall of Dworin, deep beneath the Orcrift Mountains]] / Dwalin: Thus way, to thu Brudge of Khazad-Doom. [[translation: This way, to the Bridge of Khazad-Doom.]] / Lambert: I wish you'd stop saying that. It makes it sound like we're about to be ambushed by thousands of orcs or something. / Mordekai: Oh come on; what are the odds of that? / GM: [[grinning over an army of painted orc miniatures]] Eight-hundred painted, six-hundred to go...
Irregular Webcomic! #1462 Spanners: [[leaving the restaurant on Bune]] Mmm... nice cockroach burger. Hey, where's Paris? / Quercus: I saw her through the window while we were eating. She left with a man. / Serron: She's a ghost! What's she going to do with a man? / Iki Piki: And the more important question: Will he respectre in the morning?
Irregular Webcomic! #1463 [caption]: [[in Japanese]] megainfinitefeaturelessplane / [caption]: [[bigger, in English]] megainfinitefeaturelessplane / [caption]: Eh. I couldn't even be bothered waking up today. Here's some character art I've been working on. / [[scene: single large frame of art, showing a mysterious new Death, who is wearing a bizarre sort of ceremonial headdress]] / [caption]: [[small print]] (Like I care what Piro thinks. I control Death, man!)
Irregular Webcomic! #1464 Stud: The girl has nothing to do with this. Let her go. / Dr No: Hmmm... yes. Take her away! / Dr No: But put her in a cell! [[two thugs grab Honey and start to drag her away]] / Honey: Hey, stop! You're hurting me! [[Stud leaps to her defence, grabbing a bottle of champagne from the table to use as a weapon]] / Dr No: [[halting Stud before he smashes one of the thugs over the head]] That's a Dom Perignon '55, Mr Stud. It would be a shame to waste it. / Stud: Really? [[uncorks bottle]] Well I guess I'll just have to empty the bottle first! [[tips the bottle to his mouth]]
Irregular Webcomic! #1465 [[scene: the phone conversation between Jane Goodall in her office in Africa, and Terry in the airport in Kathmandu]] / Jane Goodall: Terry, your best bet is to contact the yeti. / Terry: But... they're a myth! / Jane Goodall: Are you questioning the word of the world's foremost primate researcher? / Terry: Er... no... but... / Jane Goodall: I'll e-mail the GPS coordinates. Tell them I sent you. "Dame Jane Goodall." / Terry: "Dame Jane Goodall..." / Jane Goodall: And don't you forget it.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #1466 [[scene: Gryffindor common room]] / Ron: [[sitting next to Will]] I wish we knew what Malfoy was planning. He must be up to something. / Hermione: Ron! You have to stop worrying about Malfoy and concentrate on homework. You'll just get into trouble. / Hermione: Did you even hear what I said? Are you listening to me?! / [[scene change: The office]] / Ophelia: [[to Shakespeare, who is busy typing at his desk]] Did you even hear what I said? Are you listening to me?!
Irregular Webcomic! #1467 scene: The dim Hall of Dworin in the ancient subterranean Dwarven kingdom of Dwergenberg, now overrun by orcs} / 1 Alvissa: So what was this hall actually used for, Dwalin? / Dwalin: Weddin's, parties, anythin'! Ye cuid fit the entire poopulation o' Dwergenberg in here! [[translation: Weddings, parties, anything! You could fit the entire population of Dwergenberg in here!]] / Alvissa: Why are these columns so thick, and numerous? Surely you don't need that much support for a roof of solid rock? / Dwalin: Ye've ne'er seen a hoondred thoosand dwarves on a dance floor, ha' ye? [[translation: You've never seen a hundred thousand dwarves on a dance floor, have you?]]
Irregular Webcomic! #1468 [[scene: A zeppelin landing field. Colonel Haken and Erwin are walking across it to the Graf Zeppelin.]] / Haken: So, you put a radio tracking device in Fraulein Doktor Smith's shoe? / Erwin: Ja. / Haken: [[stopping in awe]] But, this is fantastische! Radio equipment is needing lead und acid for die batteries, und die valves und die coils... It is huge! / Haken: How can you get a radio transmitter small enough to fit into a shoe und not be noticed? / Erwin: [[walking off towards the zeppelin, leaving Haken behind]] Nazi science is good for things other than sneering, Herr Kolonel.
Irregular Webcomic! #1469 [[scene: Another part of Bune, where Paris is talking with a man.]] / Paris: So you're a genetic engineer? / fforbes-Davïs: Yes. I'm part of a team designing variant human genotypes for high gravity worlds. We make them shorter to better deal with the mechanical stresses. / Paris: Interesting. What's this work called? / fforbes-Davïs: The human G-gnome project.
Irregular Webcomic! #1470 [[scene: The pirate ship Allosaurus, at sea.]] / Long Tom: Arrr, it be good to be havin' the wind at our backs again! / Parrot: Awwwrk! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of nine! Pieces of eight! / Long Tom: What be the problem with that scurvy creature?! / Wendy: A parroty error, cap'n.
 

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