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Irregular Webcomic! #2734 Caption: Frombork, Poland, 1543. / / Nicolaus Copernicus: I shall avoid persecution by having my publisher add a disclaimer that my heliocentric model is merely a calculation tool, not reality. / / SFX: ZUUURCH!! [[time machine appears]] / / Isaac Netwon: Nicolaus Copernicus? I'm Isaac Newton and this is Edmond Halley. Come with us to the future to help save the world! / / Nicolaus Copernicus: Aha! Sod that! I shall avoid persecution by departing to a more enlightened time!
Irregular Webcomic! #2735 [[scene: The Atlantic Ocean, 1940]] / / Long Tom: Arrr! What manner o' strange craft be this underwater boat? / / Dirque: It be lookin' like a sandwich I be eatin' once... / / Wendy: I be seein' designs for somethin' bein' like this. By Leonardo da Vinci. / / Long Tom: Aha! I be seein' a design for a man with four arms and four legs by him! He be a lunatic!
Irregular Webcomic! #2736 Prof. Jones: Dr Smith! Colonel Haken! Erwin! They've been... / / Monty: Petrified. By the Gorgons' gaze. / / Monty: Poor Ginny. / / Minnesota Jones: I always thought she gave you a good stony stare.
Irregular Webcomic! #2737 Terry: I've never seen Steve so agitated before. / / Jane Goodall: He's never had to deal with the possibility of time itself unravelling before. / / Terry: Yet you're so calm. / / [[Jane stares at Terry silently]]
Irregular Webcomic! #2738 Caption: And now, a Greek Chorus: / / Greek Chorus: Ιυ αρ θε δανσινγ κυην, ιυνγ ανδ συητ, ωνλι σεφεντην. / / Greek Chorus: Δανσινγ κυην, φηλ θε βητ οφ θε ταμβορην, ω ιεα. / / Greek Chorus: Ιυ καν δανς, ιυ καν ιαιφ. Αφινγ θε ταιμ οφ ιορ λαιφ. Οοοο. / / Greek Chorus: Ση θατ γερλ, υατχ θατ σην, διγιν θε δανσινγ κυην.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2739 Earth Elemental: With this knowledge, I bid thee farewell. / / [[the party walks through the tunnel towards daylight]] / / [[A Balrog blocks their path]] / / Lambert: You could have bid us farewell with the knowledge that there was a Balrog around the corner!
Irregular Webcomic! #2740 Iki Piki: Legacy to Bune Traffic Control. Requesting emergency landing clearance. Our pilot is incapacitated. / / Traffic Control: You'll have to wait a minute, I'm afraid. / / Traffic Control: We're dealing with a surface to orbit transfer flight infested with small squid-like organisms. / / Iki Piki: Cuttles on a shuttle? / / Serron: I've seen that movie!
Irregular Webcomic! #2741 Monty: Turned to stone. This means the Gorgons really are here. / / Prof. Jones: We can really ask them the whereabouts of the Aegis of Athena! / / Minnesota Jones: We need some form of protection from their gaze, lest we end up like our friends here. / / Prof. Jones: Yes. What did that Perseus chap use again? / / Monty: The Aegis of Athena, dad...
Irregular Webcomic! #2742 Young Adam: So we're sitting here with a real Martian flying saucer, but stymied by not being able to open it and get in. / / Young Jamie: Look around. There must be something here we can open it with. / / [[they look]] / / Young Adam: Nope, no explosives at all. All I found was this ring with a weird looking key on it.
Irregular Webcomic! #2743 Caption: Prague, 1605. / / Johannes Kepler: Aha! Tycho's observations lead to four laws of planetary motion! Firstly, the planets move in ellipses, not circles! / / Johannes Kepler: Secondly, they sweep out equal areas in equal times. Thirdly, the square of the period is as the cube of the major radius. And fourthly and most importantly... / / SFX: ZUUURCH!! [[time machine appears]] / / Isaac Newton: Johannes Kepler? / / Johannes Kepler: Yes? Err... sorry, what was I thinking just now?
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2744 Jane Goodall: Time to use the Hotline. / / Terry: A cell phone? That's never going to work here! / / Rick: What, in London? / / Terry: No, in 1940! / / Yeti: [[over phone]] Jane! We've been trying to call. Where are you? / / Jane Goodall: 1940. / / Yeti: [[over phone]] Ah, that explains it.
Irregular Webcomic! #2745 [[Adam and Jamie appear on the Infinite Featureless Plane of Death]] / / [[They look around]] / / [[beat]] / / Adam: You can only die once. Busted!!
Irregular Webcomic! #2746 Ophelia: Will, you have to get a grip on yourself. Time travel is a fantasy! You can't go back and talk to Tolkien about his book. / / Ophelia: And it's his book. If you write a prequel, it's not really your own creative work. You have talent! Write something original! / / Shakespeare: You're right, Ophelia. / / Shakespeare: You've inspired me to write a tale of two households, both alike in dignity, from forth whose loins a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life. / / Mercutio: She said original.
Irregular Webcomic! #2747 Kyros: Stand back. I'll use my newfound powers of earth manipulation to destroy the Balrog. / / SFX: Crack! Crumble! Crunch! [[the tunnel roof caves in, crushing the Balrog]] / / Lambert: You buried the Balrog under a cave-in! Yay! / / Alvissa: You buried our escape tunnel to the surface under a cave-in. Yay...
Irregular Webcomic! #2748 Monty: The Gorgons must be nearby somewhere. Look around! / / Minnesota Jones: But if we see them, we'll be turned to stone. / / Monty: Look around, but without actually looking around. / / Prof. Jones: Ah, so the same way we listen to your plans.
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2749 Paris: I'm back. I can land this ship. / / Serron: Ooooh. Is this where Paris bravely overcomes her crippling fear caused by past experience and takes control at the moment of maximum danger to all... / / Serron: ... and then lands the ship safely in a crowning moment of pure awesome, thus vindicating herself and turning tragedy into triumph? / / Iki Piki: No, this is where we restrain her and let the autopilot do its thing so we don't die.
Irregular Webcomic! #2750 Caption: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1585. / / SFX: ZUUURCH! [[time machine disappears]] / / [[scene change: inside the time machine]] / / Isaac Newton: William Shakespeare?! He's not even a scientist! Think, Mr Halley!! / / Edmond Halley: My apologies, Mr Newton. I got carried away grabbing famous historical personages. Shall we return him to 1585? / / Isaac Newton: Too late. We're curving through the 1990s already. Just push him out the door.
Irregular Webcomic! #2751 [[scene: Young Adam and Young Jamie are inside a Martian flying saucer somewhere in Area 51]] / / Young Jamie: So how do we fly this thing? / / Young Adam: It doesn't look much more complicated than a helicopter. / / Young Jamie: You can fly a helicopter? / / Young Adam: No, but how hard can it be? / / SFX: button press [[Adam presses a button on the dashboard]]
Irregular Webcomic! #2752 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: To cause a paradox by action, or by inaction: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the puzzles and nonsense of outrageous absurdity, / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: Or to take arms against a sea of impossibilities, and by reasoning resolve them? To contradict: to quibble; no more; / / Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: And by a quibble to say we end the inconsistency and the thousand unnatural errors that bones are heir to, 'tis a resolution devoutly to be wish'd. / / Death of Choking On A Giant Frog: Well at least if you did something about it, I wouldn't have to listen to this.
Irregular Webcomic! #2753 Jane Goodall: [[into phone]] So, any ideas? [[A yeti appears behind her]] / / Yeti: Just stay right there, Jane. We'll send someone around to help in a jiffy. / / Jane Goodall: How soon? / / Yeti: It's time travel, wot. How does 10 seconds ago sound?
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2754 Kyros: So yeah. Looks like... / / Lambert: Don't say it. / / Kyros. Ahem. Hobbit puns. / / [[beat]] / / Lambert: Fine, go ahead. / / Kyros: Oh yeah. I killed a Balrog again. Again.
Irregular Webcomic! #2755 Young Adam: We're airborne! Where to? / / Young Jamie: Mars, obviously. / / [[they fly into space]] / / Young Adam: I wonder how long it takes to get there. I'm hungry. / / Young Jamie: There are some little packets of peanuts back here.
Irregular Webcomic! #2756 Paris: [[tied up]] I can land this ship safely! Let me free! / / Serron: Yeah. So can the autopilot. Since we have one, why not use it? / / Iki Piki: We're on final approach. / / [[music]] / / Iki Piki: What's that music? / / Paris: See! I don't play the Blue Danube while landing!
Irregular Webcomic! #2757 Prof. Jones: So if Gorgons turn creatures to stone, what do they eat? / / Minnesota Jones: Fruit and vegetables? / / Prof. Jones: Vegetarians? They can't be too bad then. / / Minnesota Jones: The Führer's Brain gets nutrients only from a vegetable broth. / / Prof. Jones: Oh. / / Monty: I wonder how we can survive encountering the Gorgons. Perseus needed the protection of Zeus, Hades, Hermes, and Athena to do it. / / Monty: I've never seen a more blatant example of god-win.
Irregular Webcomic! #2758 [[scene: in the air above Mars]] / / Young Adam: Mars! / / Young Jamie: Land near the giant face. / / Young Adam: Look! Martians! / / Young Adam: Greetings! We come from Earth! / / Martian 2: Earth? Hey, we met a guy from Earth once. Red hat, delivers pizzas... maybe you know him?
 
Irregular Webcomic! #2759 Edmond Halley: Let's see. Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler... Who made the next great breakthrough in astronomy? / / Isaac Newton: Ahem. / / Edmond Halley: Sorry, Mr Newton, I shouldn't be so restrictive. The next great breakthrough in physics? / / Isaac Newton: Ahem. / / Edmond Halley: Right, right... Who made the next great breakthrough in all of natural philosophy? / / Isaac Newton: A-hem. / / Edmond Halley: Are you hinting at someone, Mr Newton? / / Isaac Newton: Not hard enough, obviously.
Irregular Webcomic! #2760 Jane Goodall: We must be at a crucial juncture in history. The Nazis will win the war unless we stop them, my dear yeti. / / Yeti: I say. What leads you to that conclusion? / / Jane Goodall: We're in the middle of World War II. What other possible alternate history could we even remotely be facing here? / / Yeti: Excellent deduction! / / Jane Goodall: Elementary.
Irregular Webcomic! #2761 Jamie: I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with "I". / / Adam: Infiniteness. / / Jamie: Yes. / / Adam: I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with "F". / / [[The Head Paradox appears behind Jamie]] / / Jamie: Featurelessness? / / Adam: Frog! / / Jamie: Well now you're just cheating.
Irregular Webcomic! #2762 Prof. Jones: What are we going to do about Dr Smith and the Nazis? / / Minnesota Jones: Well if we can talk to the Gorgons, maybe they can tell us how to turn them back from stone. / / Prof. Jones: That seems unlikely. / / Minnesota Jones: And yet our only hope... Look! / / Prof. Jones: Oh dear. [[Monty has been turned to stone in front of them.]]
Irregular Webcomic! #2763 Long Tom: All hands! Be boardin' yon enemy vessel! / / Nazi Captain: Alles hände! Board die enemy vessel! / / [[The crews swap ships.]] / / Wendy: Now what, cap'n? / / Long Tom: Just be givin' me a second here to be absorbin' this turn o' events...
 

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