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Irregular Webcomic! #2854 Edmond Halley: So we have our geologist. Who next, Mr Newton? / / Isaac Newton: A mathematician. / / Edmond Halley: But there are so many! Which to choose with all of history at our disposal? / / Isaac Newton: One with a strong grasp of the metaphysical, and profound insights into the deeper nature of reality. / / Edmond Halley: You refer to one who takes opium? / / Isaac Newton: Of course.
Irregular Webcomic! #2855 [[scene: a secure cargo hold area on board a zeppelin]] / / Prof. Jones: This is terrible! / / Monty: Yes, dad. / / Prof. Jones: The Nazis overrunning Europe, and next the world! / / Monty: I know, dad. / / Prof. Jones: With us captured by them and stuck on a zeppelin bound for Berlin! / / Monty: Yes, dad. / / Prof. Jones: In 1940! / / Monty: I know, dad. / / Prof. Jones: How will Sallah ever find and rescue us?!
Irregular Webcomic! #2856 [[scene: The engine room of the Legacy.]] / / Paris: Hey Spanners, Serron and Iki Piki have been gone an awfully long time. Too long for a simple delivery. / / Spanners: Yes. I hope they haven't gotten into trouble or been arrested or something. / / [[beat]] / / Spanners: You're supposed to say, "Me too." / / Paris: I'm thinking about it.
Irregular Webcomic! #2857 Water Elemental: Think of your goal. Think of the water between you and it. It's all water under the bridge. / / Water Elemental: So to say. It's just an expression. / / Water Elemental: If you get my drift. In a manner of speaking. / / Water Elemental: Metaphorically. If you know what I mean. / / All: We get it!!!
Irregular Webcomic! #2858 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: YOUR NON-DEATH HAS CAUSED SPACE AND TIME TO FOLD IN ON THEMSELVES, CREATING A HISTORICAL NEXUS IN THE 1940S. / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: THE WHOLE WORLD HAS CHANGED AROUND YOU. / / Me: I haven't noticed anything unusual. / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: TURN ON THE TV. TRY FLIPPING CHANNELS. / / Me: Oh my! There are Nazis... everywhere! / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: YOU REALLY HADN'T NOTICED THAT YET? / / Me: I normally only watch the History Channel.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2859 Caption: ==Mythbusters== Antimatter / / Jamie: Continuing our testing of myths related to quantum mechanics and modern physics, today we're exploring antimatter. / / Jamie: According to theory, one gram of antimatter can cause an explosion as large as 43 thousand tons of TNT. / / Adam: Right. So to test it properly, first we need to establish the baseline!
Irregular Webcomic! #2860 [[scene: inside the U-boat]] / / Long Tom: [[looking through periscope]] That be Plymouth! / / Long Tom: I be seein' the whole British fleet at anchor. What a sight that be bein'. / / Long Tom: It be makin' one be feelin' somewhat introspective. / / Dirque: Be he givin' us any commands? / / Wendy: Nay. He just be naval-gazin'.
Irregular Webcomic! #2861 Prof. Jones: Of all the challenges we've ever faced, this by far is the toughest. / / Minnesota Jones: I agree. / / Prof. Jones: I hate to say it, but I can't see us pulling it off in time. / / Monty: We can't give up, dad! / / Prof. Jones: I have no intention of giving up! But if only we had a dictionary! / / Monty: Dictionary? / / Prof. Jones: We're doing the Times crossword puzzle to kill the time until we land in Berlin.
Irregular Webcomic! #2862 [[scene: Oxford]] / / Lewis Carroll: Wow, guv, I see talking playing cards, and a dodo, and a cat that's half alive, and a white rabbit with a pocket watch... / / SFX: JURRRZ! [[time machine appears]] / / Isaac Newton: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll? We need your rigorous mathematical insights to save the universe. / / Lewis Carroll: Oooh, guv, it's Isaac Newton! This is some exceedingly good opium.
Irregular Webcomic! #2863 Terry: So we're in Berlin in 1940. How are we going to see Hitler? / / Steve: Get arrested for being spies! / / Terry: That's a ridiculous idea! Besides, none of us know anything about being a spy in World War II! / / Jane Goodall: Ahem. / / Terry: What? No way! You were, what, 6 years old in 1940! / / Jane Goodall: I was Jane Freakin' Goodall.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2864 Iki Piki: Okay, I've removed our past selves' organs. Help me dump the bodies outside. / / Serron: Just a sec. I'm writing a note to tell them to bet heavily on the Rubilith Reds in the Cup Final. / / Iki Piki: But we want them to bet on the losing team, the Titans. / / Serron: Exactly! They'll be suspicious and bet on the Titans instead! Would you trust someone who removed your vital organs? / / Iki Piki: Apparently I would. / / Serron: Besides yourself!
Irregular Webcomic! #2865 Jamie: We don't actually have any antimatter, Adam. So causing a comparative explosion is pointless. / / Adam: But we can still do it, right? / / Jamie: It's extremely dangerous. / / Adam: But we can still do it, right? / / Jamie: It provides us with no scientific data whatsoever. / / Adam: But we can still do it, right? / / Jamie: An explosion that big could adversely affect the fabric of space-time itself! / / Adam: But we can still do it, right?
Irregular Webcomic! #2866 Kyros: Okay, power over water. This will be tough for a fire mage. Let me concentrate. / / Kyros: Foul reeking waters of the swamp that impede our progress and cause naught but frustration in our quest, listen to my might! / / Kyros: Begone, inispid stinking waters! I command thee! / / Lambert: The water elemental vanished! / / Kyros: It worked!
Irregular Webcomic! #2867 Edmond Halley: Astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, mathematics. What next, Mr Newton? / / Isaac Newton: We need a representative of the life sciences. Someone who has contributed immeasurably to our understanding of the processes of life itself. / / Isaac Newton: One who understands the close inter-relationship of all living things. A man who stands astride our appreciation of biology like a giant! / / Steve: Crikey!
Irregular Webcomic! #2868 Long Tom: Be settin' course for London! Wi' an under-water boat we be able to be sneakin' through the Traitor's Gate and into the Tower o' London! / / Long Tom: The Crown Jewels be bein' ours! / / Wendy: Ye be wantin' to be breakin' in to the most feared prison in all Christendom? / / Long Tom: Aye! / / Wendy: I guess it be savin' the Admiralty some time.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2869 Young Jamie: We need to hide from the Mars Rover. / / Young Adam: Look! A base! A human colony on Mars! They'll help us! / / Young Jamie: Hmmm. It's 1947. Who had advanced enough science to get to Mars in 1947? / / [[they enter the base; we see a swastika on the side of it]]
Irregular Webcomic! #2870 Me: The Nazis won World War II??!! / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: YES. YOU MUST PREVENT IT. / / Me: But how? / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: A NOBLE SACRIFICE. / / Me: You mean my goodness and special qualities and talents put me in the unique position of being able to save the world? / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: THE UNIVERSE! / / Me: Wow. I feel like M. Night Shyamalan.
Irregular Webcomic! #2871 Haken: We have arrived in Berlin. March! / / Prof. Jones: You fiend! Tromping around all over the place and ruining everything! / / Haken: I am a Nazi. What do you expect? / / Prof. Jones: Deliquescence! / / Haken: What? / / Prof. Jones: That's the answer to the last clue in this crossword puzzle! Ha, I finished it! In your face, Nazi!
Irregular Webcomic! #2872 Paris: This is taking far too long. Let's go find Serron and Iki Piki. We can't leave Bune without them. / / Quercus: I thought you didn't care if they got into trouble. / / Paris: My ingrained sense of decency has won out. / / Quercus: Ah. / / Paris: I can't in good conscience inflict their permanent presence on this innocent planet.
Irregular Webcomic! #2873 Terry: You were a spy in World War II? / / Jane Goodall: By 1945 I was 11 years old and living in Berlin. / / Jane Goodall: I broke into Nazi military headquarters and passed on secrets to the British. Codes, invasion plans, Nazi science. / / Jane Goodall: They were way ahead of us militarily and technologically. How do you think we managed to win the war at all? / / Terry: I assumed our research scientists and military strategists overtook them. / / Jane Goodall: All me, kiddo.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2874 Jamie: An important property of antimatter is that an antiparticle and its counterpart particle meeting will annihilate one another. / / Jamie: This produces two gamma ray photons of equivalent energy, according to Einstein's mass-energy relation, E=mc2. / / Jamie: It's possible in unusual circumstances for other numbers of photons to be produced, but two is by far the most common. / / Jamie: Richard Feynman invented a neat way of showing particle interactions, now called Feynman diagrams. / / Jamie: Here's one showing the annihilation of an electron and its antimatter counterpart, a positron. / / Jamie: Here's another one showing another common phenomenon: the scattering of light off an electron. / / Jamie: Feynman noticed that if you turn that diagram through 90°, interchanging the roles of time and space, it's the same reaction... / / Jamie: ... except one photon is reversed and the positron is replaced by an electron travelling backwards in time. / / Jamie: But a photon is its own antiparticle, and the positron is an anti-electron. So antimatter is equivalent to normal matter going backwards through time! / / Adam: At least, that's the myth! How are we going to test this one, Jamie? / / Jamie: We build a powerful gamma ray generator and stick something in it. / / Adam: Me! / / Jamie: Are you sure? / / Adam: I'll either travel through time or become the Incredible Hulk! I can't lose!
Irregular Webcomic! #2875 Isaac Newton: Er... Charles Darwin? / / Steve: Nah, mate. I'm Steve! / / Isaac Newton: This isn't London in 1838? / / Steve: Nah. It's Australia in 1987. / / Isaac Newton: I fear something has gone terribly wrong with our time conveyance. / / Edmond Halley: You are telling me, Mr Newton. / / Steve: Hey! You're Edmond Halley! Crikey! Your comet was a real dud!
Irregular Webcomic! #2876 Kyros: The Golden Citadel, then. This will be tricky. / / Kyros: Making the waters reveal the way is a combination of Alteration, Evocation, and Divination. / / Mordekai: Different branches of magic? Do you do them all? / / Kyros: No. I wouldn't be caught dead doing Necromancy.
Irregular Webcomic! #2877 [[scene: A shady back alley on Bune]] / / Iki Piki: Right. Our past selves are in the garbage skip, missing vital organs, just like when we were here before. History has been preserved. / / Cat: Meow! / / Serron: A cat! Can we keep it as a pet on the ship? / / Iki Piki: We already have one dumb furry animal on our crew... / / Serron: Hey! / / Serron: I'll have you know cats are pretty smart!
Irregular Webcomic! #2878 [[scene: London]] / / Long Tom: The Tower o' London! Be invadin'! / / Beefeater: A U-boat! Nazis are attacking The Tower! / / Long Tom: Arrrr! / / Beefeater: Oh, wait, it's okay. It's only pirates. / / Long Tom: Only pirates! I be findin' it hard to believe these "Nazis" be havin' a worse reputation than us!
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2879 Hitler's Brain: When we win die war, we will export our superior Nazi culture to die entire world! / / Hitler's Brain: Everyone will eat die traditional German foods named for their places of origin! / / Hitler's Brain: Ja, die whole world will soon be eating die Hamburgers und die Frankfurters! / / Monty: You fiend!!
Irregular Webcomic! #2880 Jamie: Here's our gamma ray chamber. All we have to do is irradiate the cat and see if it travels backwards through time into the past. / / Adam: Where did you get the cat? / / Jamie: I picked it up at the university. / / Adam: Nice. It's probably the smartest thing to come out of that university... / / Jamie: Since we dropped out. Yeah.
Irregular Webcomic! #2881 Shakespeare: Let's go look around outside. / / Mercutio: But we have work to do! / / [[beat]] / / Ophelia: Really? / / Mercutio: Yeah, okay, I was editing Wikipedia. / / Ophelia: Really? / / Mercutio: All right! I was editing TV Tropes!
Irregular Webcomic! #2882 Isaac Newton: Excuse us. We require the services of an esteemed biologist. We are on a mission of the utmost urgency. / / Steve: A biologist?! Crikey! What is it?! / / Isaac Newton: Someone who studies animals, but that's not important right now. Good bye. / / Steve: Studyin' animals, eh? That sounds like fun! / / Steve: Hey Terry! I know what I'm gonna do for a living! / / SFX: ZUUURCH! [[time machine disappears]]
Irregular Webcomic! #2883 [[scene: Berlin]] / / Jane Goodall: I know a secret way into Hitler's headquarters. This way. / / Terry: Into the dragon's lair... / / Steve: Crikey! A dragon?! I'll wrestle 'im! / / Terry: That was the plan, you know. Metaphorically speaking. / / Steve: What? How come no one told me? / / Jane Goodall: You came up with it. / / Steve: Crikey! I'm smarter than I thought!
 

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