page 1419 – It’s Not Like She’s Wrong…
Okay, so THIS is the page that was originally supposed to go up last Friday… more or less. I actually did end up mashing in some elements intended for future pages to dry and speed up the pacing a bit. Looking at it now, though, part of me wishes I’d gone for broke on a more dramatic image of Layla pulling Tabitha backwards. It’s weird, I like having a rough draft to get the basic concept of a comic down on paper, so that later iterations can build on that and make things funnier. But if I change things TOO much then it loops back around to basically being a first draft again, and afterwards I realize what the “finished” version really should have been. (That is, even more than artists eventually do with LITERALLY EVERYTHING THEY EVER MAKE.)
They are in space, but they aren’t by themselves as they have direct supervision. Layla supervises Trigger (because NOBODY is counting Ichabod as supervision) & Mariska supervises Marshall. Layla’s complaints are valid, just like Tabitha’s complaints about doing the same to Alphonse & Bridget would be.
I’m more amazed that Trigger & Marshall are expected to be able to complete the spaceship with Tabitha not directing them. Mad Science is MAD SCIENCE, and doesn’t follow logic. She would probably need to train Trigger for half to a full a decade for him to understand it, and he may only be able to replicate it instead of understand it after all that time.
I mean, Layla definitely agrees with all of that…
Tabitha is probably one of those people who assumes that most of the stuff that is obvious to them is probably obvious to everyone. After all, HER science is perfectly normal ordinary average everyday Real Science. Mad Science is that stuff that those OTHER Bad Terrible people do that she likes to rant about.
No, Tabitha knows she does Mad Science. She rants about the other Mad Scientists giving Mad Science a Bad Name, because they hurt people.
Wait a sec, going back to her first introduction for evidence.
Page 132, she calls her Mad Science “Weird Science”. Page 168, her complaint is entirely about Mad Scientists giving “Real Scientists” a bad name. Page 211: “They call it Mad Science for a REASON”. And I’ll stop at page 224, where Tabitha outright states that another Mad Scientist would deny the existence of something out of spite, purely because Mad Scientists are territorial.
@ Voting Incentive: Any bag is a great example. Clubbing someone with one of those filled with something heavy is a really simple way to turn it into a weapon!
Tabitha: “OK, fine, I’ll stay with the food ship and the boys can go play with Stilez, Destroyer of Worlds, Galactic Grim Reaper, Bane of Human Civilization, Death Incarnate to keep her occupied. Remember, she likes belly rubs and being scratched behind the ears.”
If only Tabitha was sneaky enough for that kind of reverse psychology instead of just blurting out whatever’s on her mind at the moment…
If you take out the part in the middle about destroyer of worlds, etc. I could totally see her suggesting that as a legitimate alternate plan, not recognizing that others might not see Stilez as an adorable dress-up doll.
The thing is, that requires Tabitha to be willing to allow her children do something dangerous without her supervision. With her supervision it’s fine, she knows how to fix them up. However, she will also bite off the head of anyone who even suggests that they do anything remotely dangerous without her supervision, even if it’s something they can easily do.
Letting Bridget beat up a Lion with Tabitha watching, perfectly fine. Asking Bridget to beat up a Lion while Tabitha runs off to the opposite side of the Zoo with Alphonse & you must be crazier than the average Mad Scientist.
No, of course Tabitha and the zombie kids are an inseparable unit, her suggestion that I was implying would be that Trigger and Marshall go keep the adorable harmless kitten busy while Tabitha/Alphonse/Bridget work on the ship.