Comic 538 - How To Wake Your Dragon
25th Jun 2020, 12:00 AM in Dragon Slayers
How To Wake Your Dragon
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Microraptor 25th Jun 2020, 12:00 AM edit delete
Microraptor
Really, Lena? Using one of your minions as a stepladder is so cliché!

After bringing up Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs in the comments back here, I had the idea that Lena should also dress the part...
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lirvilas 25th Jun 2020, 12:01 AM edit delete reply
lirvilas
aw hell

WHAT good could possibly come of activating a living WMD?!
Microraptor 25th Jun 2020, 1:24 AM edit delete reply
Microraptor
Keeping that analogy, one could say that Lena is actually interested more in obtaining the plutonium rather than the weapon as a whole...
Jay042 25th Jun 2020, 12:25 AM edit delete reply
Jay042
With management like that, I'm starting to think it isn't really the fault of the ToyCo engineers that their designs end up as hideous death machines.
Microraptor 25th Jun 2020, 1:14 AM edit delete reply
Microraptor
Well, all can be traced back to the policies of the previous CEO, if not even further...

(Even though the hiring of Lena specifically was Tiny's work. But once a company philosophy has taken hold...)
Stilldown 25th Jun 2020, 4:35 AM edit delete reply
Stilldown
Just grease the rails of Lang's machinery.
Microraptor 25th Jun 2020, 5:15 AM edit delete reply
Microraptor
As in, Fritz Lang? You are referring to this, right?
Stilldown 25th Jun 2020, 7:34 PM edit delete reply
Stilldown
No. I mean Fritz Lang, yes, but not Metropolis, as I still was with the "Nibelungen." The machinery of the remarkable Fafnir run on rails.
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Microraptor 26th Jun 2020, 1:33 AM edit delete reply
Microraptor
Ah, okay!
I thought that especially panel 2 may have vaguely reminded you of the Moloch in Metropolis, but Fafnir is a far more obvious association of course!
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