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It’s All Oblique To Me

by Mission Control on June 28, 2012 at 12:26 am
Chapter: Comics
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  1. bluemoonpaul
    June 28, 2012, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    Instructions! Always so helpful – LOL!
    *beep*beep*beep*beep***

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 9:30 am | # | Reply

      Only if you can read them!

  2. Wouter
    June 28, 2012, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    Who ever reads the manual anyway? This is great!

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      I know I don’t. Which might explain some things. Thanks, Wouter!

  3. Odo
    June 28, 2012, 4:51 am | # | Reply

    This reminds me of my reaction to every single IKEA instruction set I have ever read. It is only after I look at the pieces available and perform an analysis of the pieces vs. the final product that I can interpret the instructions.

    Of course, the fact that it’s upside down doesn’t help. 🙂

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 9:32 am | # | Reply

      I’m always amazed that there are never any extra pieces left over in those IKEA kits.

      Now I want Swedish meatballs.

  4. Minifig3D
    June 28, 2012, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    Careful not to push that button. It appears to make her go from working to broken…

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 9:34 am | # | Reply

      Only if Marf’s read left to right.

  5. eric Hews
    June 28, 2012, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    The GREEN button… the GREEN one… It’s Right THERE! GAH!

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 9:50 am | # | Reply

      😀

  6. Tom
    June 28, 2012, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    And you thought the pictogram instead of words would be helpful. The best laid plans of mice and men… 😉

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 10:25 am | # | Reply

      By “you” I assume you mean everyone at the Strang Institute. I had nothing to do with it.

    • Frank
      July 23, 2012, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, I had nothing to do with it!

  7. thecheckeredman
    June 28, 2012, 11:47 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Ellie will go all crazy like the Iron Giant when that Jetton gets pressed?

    NAH!

    Jim, this strip is hilarious! Muffin is so perfectly crotchety! I’m geeked for the Ellie book and the inevitable Ellie animated film!*

    *Seriously Hollywood, why the hell haven’t you scooped this one up yet! What gives fools!?!

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 10:26 am | # | Reply

      Thanks, Denver! You’re awesome!

  8. Justin
    June 28, 2012, 2:12 pm | # | Reply

    Dumb place to put a mission ending button. She could have stumbled onto that. Also I thought it was a holoprojector

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 10:27 am | # | Reply

      I guess it’s a lot of things: holoprojector, power indicator, reset button…who knows what else?

  9. Stewart
    June 28, 2012, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

    RTFM, Muffin. RTFM.

    • Stewart
      June 28, 2012, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

      (By the way, I think it’s really funny that half the comments seem to [jokingly?] neglect the fact that the manual is upside-down, and that the little blocks clearly indicate steps 1-4… 😉 )

      • LdaQuirm
        June 28, 2012, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

        Upside down? It’s clearly a ROT-180 cypher! Those tricky humans…

        • Mission Control
          June 29, 2012, 10:29 am | # | Reply

          Of course! Always making things more complicated than they need to be.

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      No doubt!

  10. LdaQuirm
    June 29, 2012, 12:00 am | # | Reply

    I hope pressing that button does’t make Ellie forget all about her friends, like poor WALL-E…

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      She’s got built in redundancies, so that shouldn’t happen. We’re quite embarrassed by the current situation though.

  11. Madmax
    June 29, 2012, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    I enjoyed this one very much.

    • Mission Control
      June 29, 2012, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      Thanks, Madmax!

  12. Axonite
    June 30, 2012, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    It’s not upside down… Obviously it’s a countdown of the steps that got her into this condition.

    While she was upside down. 🙂

    • Mission Control
      July 3, 2012, 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Well, of course!

  13. Cheryl
    July 2, 2012, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    Poor Ellie :

    • Mission Control
      July 3, 2012, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      And her fate’s in Muffin’s . . . er . . .hands. Nothing to worry about!

  14. Frank
    July 2, 2012, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    Muffin, it’s clear as day! It says “whatever you do, don’t hold Ellie upside down while pressing the power button twice”!

    • Mission Control
      July 3, 2012, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      I think that’s the 4th interpretation. Apparently, not “clear as day”.

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