Boner ([info]harold_penis) wrote,
@ 2005-12-03 21:19:00
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Sunday Comics - KLEMPNER 214


This story comes sometime after "Goodnight to Baby / J vs. rats" in the general Flux-Socialist Family Comics storyline. It's more than a little abstract, and I am going to annotate it.





1. <F>, also known by her official title of Klempner 214, and whom you may remember from such compromising positions as this one, arrives to work an assigned plumbing job.

  • Klempner - plumber






  • 2. Here we see a convenient pictographic listing of the contents of F's toolkit, and a transcription of the contents of her letter of instructions.

  • für Knöcheln - for bones

  • ANWEISUNG - in Körperwäschenhaus 19 undichtige Stelle. Vorsicht von der Flußigkeit; es ist schwarz mit Elastizät. Arbeiter davon gebesschädige soll sich verbrennen nähe Luftfilter.<214>
    Approximately: "WARNING: in bathhouse 19, undesirable situation. Caution regarding the leak. It is black and elastic. Worker who is besmirched with it should immolate her/himself immediately in a well-ventilated area."






  • 3. An informative panel concerning fluid chemistry. F opens the shutters.

  • Körperseife - body juice

  • Karbolsäure - carbolic soap

  • Blutstück - piece of blood (in this case, apparently a white blood cell)

  • Unbekänntes Molekül - unknown molecule






  • 4. RATS! And they're stripping the circuitry!!




    5. F is unusually perturbed by the appearance of the 3-foot-tall, hairless rat. A Diagramm describes her thought process.

  • Diagramm - diagram

  • Ratte - rat

  • Spermium - spermatozoan

  • Objekt - object

  • <J> - F's ex-boyfriend, last seen here.

  • vermißt - missing

  • Die Natur gewinnt der Wissenschaft - I totally can't remember. Looks a bit like "Nature prevails over science."

  • Gerade! - eeeexactly.






  • 6. F makes a leap for the half-stripped control panel in the middle of the room and begins to repair it with lightning speed, while the rats flee into their rather large tunnels.

  • Raus - out

  • einfach - quickly, all at once

  • alle - everyone

  • geht - go

  • reparieren schnell - repair quickly






  • 7. F pulls a lever on the temporarily repaired control panel, and spiked oak-and-iron whatsits (let's say "bulkheads") seal off the crawlspace, trapping the rats.




    8. Yes, even the big one. ESPECIALLY the big one.

  • Hauskontroll - Do you see? DO YOU??!?!?

  • schlecht - bad

  • jetzt - now



  • NEXT WEEK: Strategy, counter-strategy. A poignant sense of abandonment.



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    [info]nefas
    2005-12-04 08:51 am UTC (link)
    oh my god YOU LIVE!
    great work, btw. ♥

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    [info]harold_penis
    2005-12-05 03:07 am UTC (link)
    Nice to be back on your radar, pretty lady.

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    [info]gaffeizil
    2005-12-04 12:47 pm UTC (link)
    Oh YES, thank goodness you didn't die. I knew I'd see more of your work sometime eventually. I love hairless rats.

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    [info]twas_now
    2005-12-04 02:06 pm UTC (link)
    Welcome back to all these pretty things

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    [info]spacemummy
    2005-12-04 08:06 pm UTC (link)
    This has always been my favorite, the most brilliantly inked and cut frames. A very tangible world, hedonic and impersonal. Kind of freaking scary. (But not as scary as the tweaker who gave me a ride home the other night.) Hope this means more new stuff is on its way.

    bulkheads = portcullis?

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    [info]harold_penis
    2005-12-04 09:37 pm UTC (link)
    Technically, "borkullis".

    I want to serialize "How I Became the Spacemummy" after this. What thinks you?

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    [info]spacemummy
    2005-12-05 12:43 am UTC (link)
    I was going to suggest it. Are you working on anything else?

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    [info]harold_penis
    2005-12-05 02:08 am UTC (link)
    Working on anything? Not as such. I still have to do the last 2 or 3 pages of Oh You Fucking Rabbits.

    Glad you concur it's time to post your origin extravaganza. THE PEOPLE WANT SPACEMUMMY.

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    [info]rockundrolla
    2005-12-04 09:27 pm UTC (link)
    youre alive!!!

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    [info]gustavholst
    2005-12-04 10:46 pm UTC (link)
    SCHLECT HAROLD! being gone so long. but hoorah for being back. i lovew your sexes in boxesw

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    [info]queenelectric
    2005-12-04 11:07 pm UTC (link)
    What's up lady?

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    [info]harold_penis
    2005-12-05 02:19 am UTC (link)
    I'm a union software developer now. You can do that, apparently. CEP. Ha ha, and all my other porgammer friends are jelis b/c they all work 97 hour weeks with no overtime pay and will never get any benefits ever. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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    [info]queenelectric
    2005-12-05 04:48 am UTC (link)
    You win at nerd! YES!

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    [info]cutencreepy
    2005-12-04 11:22 pm UTC (link)
    Whoo Hoo!

    Now do more Space Mummy, and Rick's Dad comix, and amusing tales from your somewhat misspent youth, and and and...

    Yay!

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    [info]harold_penis
    2005-12-05 02:20 am UTC (link)
    I think more Spacemummy next. I still have 13 secret pages socked away.

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    [info]cutencreepy
    2005-12-05 01:02 pm UTC (link)
    What!?! Holding out on us?

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    YAY!
    [info]maddyelizabeth
    2005-12-05 01:05 am UTC (link)
    Ich werde erfreut, um Ihre Arbeit wieder zu sehen, mein geliebtes Mädchenkind.

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    Re: YAY!
    [info]harold_penis
    2005-12-05 02:21 am UTC (link)
    Thanks, mom.

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    [info]alioth
    2005-12-05 03:52 am UTC (link)
    You live!

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    [info]fishy_go_swim
    2005-12-05 04:56 am UTC (link)
    WOMAN. YOU LIVE!

    And I Loves you.

    Happy Holidays and such.

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