Am I the only person who thinks Dr. U is being sarcastic here?
Seriously, SPinnerette set him up for this: Long, empassionate speech on how he was a good human being but how he suddenly turned to crime. Hell, he probably gets this all the time; perfect strangers asking him Why. Maybe he was betrayed by a peer who stole his work and claimed it as his own (Not uncommon, mind you. Several Nobel prizes have contravsial because they’ve been given to guys who may have plagiarized there peers or otherwise flat out stole another’s work, never mind the Nobel Prize Comitttee’s heavy European bias, but that’s another rant entirely.) And he gives her six simple words. He also looks annoyed in the last panel.
Really, he could have said anything for why he’s a supervillian, Like…
“My father didn’t love me.”
“I was rejected from art school.”
“I’m a capricorn.”
Really, if this continues…I may end up loving Dr. Universe. I love genre savvy, snarky villains way too much.
There’s a webcomic called Homestuck with 12 trolls in it, each one representing a different zodiac sign. The troll representing Capricorn is laid back and relaxed, but goes violently insane and kills many people halfway through the storyline. Thus, starting out “good” and turning “evil”.
Finally, someone with arrow-straight priorities! Science before anything else is how to go! I didn’t become a brilliant supervillain by worrying about other stuff, like ETHICS or MORAL FIBER.
Dr. Universe doesn’t have to be sarcastic. Ayn Rand promoted selfishness and grasp for power as good things. Modesty, and helping others as a collective were evil to her. She really didn’t think much of altruism. That is why she like the psychopath, “no organs for feeling the emotions of others,” was her “superman” only instead of being just a gross killer. He would be a business magnate and her mythical version of the creative an moneyed classes. Her characters were in fact anti-Nietzschean since her reading of him was the same as Nazis and anti-Nazis and they were all wrong. Nietzsche is a more subtle and inventive writer. It was easy in the 1930′s for a few pro-Nazis to rewrite him to mean the opposite of what he was talking about. He despised people like Rand and Nazi-like thinking. Selfish nobles who would stab each other in the back unless they needed to get to gether to fight the masses.
This comic has been awesome so far (I would’ve read it all by now if it hadn’t been for my exceedingly bad internet connection in the place I’m currently in). It’s been exciting and frequently amusing. However, this was the first time I literally laughed out loud.
I can relate to Dr. Universe. I had to read an Ayn Rand novel in high school English and it sure filled ME with an overwhelming urge to burn the world that allowed it to exist. Funny comic.
Am I the only person who thinks Dr. U is being sarcastic here?
Seriously, SPinnerette set him up for this: Long, empassionate speech on how he was a good human being but how he suddenly turned to crime. Hell, he probably gets this all the time; perfect strangers asking him Why. Maybe he was betrayed by a peer who stole his work and claimed it as his own (Not uncommon, mind you. Several Nobel prizes have contravsial because they’ve been given to guys who may have plagiarized there peers or otherwise flat out stole another’s work, never mind the Nobel Prize Comitttee’s heavy European bias, but that’s another rant entirely.) And he gives her six simple words. He also looks annoyed in the last panel.
Really, he could have said anything for why he’s a supervillian, Like…
“My father didn’t love me.”
“I was rejected from art school.”
“I’m a capricorn.”
Really, if this continues…I may end up loving Dr. Universe. I love genre savvy, snarky villains way too much.
<3 a Homestuck, Gamzee ref.
Yes months old reply~
On another note though I agree with your sentiments. Of all the things to say~ and then there is that. It's simply delightful!
Really, what do peps have against capricorns? >:S
There’s a webcomic called Homestuck with 12 trolls in it, each one representing a different zodiac sign. The troll representing Capricorn is laid back and relaxed, but goes violently insane and kills many people halfway through the storyline. Thus, starting out “good” and turning “evil”.
Greta’s little skull on her hat is emotive. That’s an awesome little detail.
Is it just me, or was the “Yes Doctor, I’m sorry Doctor!” a reference to Little Shop of Horrors?
I feel this one webpage will put to rest all Objectivist claim(s) of any person, EVER, having accomplished anything ‘on their own’.
Finally, someone with arrow-straight priorities! Science before anything else is how to go! I didn’t become a brilliant supervillain by worrying about other stuff, like ETHICS or MORAL FIBER.
I don’t suppose that he could just as easily have been influenced by Ellsworth Toohey or James Taggart as by Howard Roarke or John Galt.
Ayn Rand? Did NOT see that coming!
Dr. Universe doesn’t have to be sarcastic. Ayn Rand promoted selfishness and grasp for power as good things. Modesty, and helping others as a collective were evil to her. She really didn’t think much of altruism. That is why she like the psychopath, “no organs for feeling the emotions of others,” was her “superman” only instead of being just a gross killer. He would be a business magnate and her mythical version of the creative an moneyed classes. Her characters were in fact anti-Nietzschean since her reading of him was the same as Nazis and anti-Nazis and they were all wrong. Nietzsche is a more subtle and inventive writer. It was easy in the 1930′s for a few pro-Nazis to rewrite him to mean the opposite of what he was talking about. He despised people like Rand and Nazi-like thinking. Selfish nobles who would stab each other in the back unless they needed to get to gether to fight the masses.
This comic has been awesome so far (I would’ve read it all by now if it hadn’t been for my exceedingly bad internet connection in the place I’m currently in). It’s been exciting and frequently amusing. However, this was the first time I literally laughed out loud.
I can relate to Dr. Universe. I had to read an Ayn Rand novel in high school English and it sure filled ME with an overwhelming urge to burn the world that allowed it to exist. Funny comic.
Woah! MM and her fierce embrace almost blow up my Yuri-Googles!!!
I love them. Please, make it canon!!! T_T
Ayn Rand is such a bitch.