Transcripts 2001-10

Transcripts from October 2001 strips.
==October 1==
Panel 1Norman is carrying a skateboard under his arm and wearing a green bucket on his head so it covers his entire face, with only his neck and incisors protruding from the bottom. The bucket has a smiley face drawn on it, and the handle is draped across Norman's front.Norman (thinking): Damn fascist! Since when has "no skate-boarding indoors" been a house rule? I swear he makes them all up!Panel 2Norman takes the bucket off his head and glares upward over his shoulder.Norman (thinking): It's like that "don't blow up the fridge" rule... Dammit, why is the back of my neck burning again?Panel 3Tessa, wearing a contemporary leather jacket, looks through binoculars at Norman. She appears to be on a rooftop with a chimney and raised skylight window in the background.
==October 5==
Panels 1-2Left of the wall of text, Tessa lowers the binoculars, looking annoyed. Right, Cook is wearing a white dress shirt and blue tie, smirking before a large building with "COOK" on the front.Caption (Tessa's thoughts): God how long has it been now? Two years? Three? Not that it really matters any more, all the time since we appeared in this time has been like a weird dream or something. Stuck in the past with no why of getting back! Well that's what the doctor said anyway. I can't say I trust the little creep as he's more then happy to stay here. Too happy! It's not the money he's made with his knowledge of our future that bugs me (I've made a few quid myself that way) but... I don't know. He has another agenda I swear it! I know that the Wildfire will never fly again for a fact! That bird was never meant to fly in an atmosphere so you'd never get it back off the ground after you land that thing! However the story that the time machine was only a prototype and meant to be used once doesn't really wash with me. It's the fact he had to back that story up with another about the fusion reactors being shot that made me suspicious. Is it THAT hard to make a new one here? I don't know why I care about it though. I've got nothing to go back for, so I might as well stay here and help the others make the world a better place and all that hippie, tree-hugger shit. But then I don't be here when the riots start so if I can't get out of here I have to stop them from happening!Panel 3Tin-Head is standing and looking smug in what looks like a storage room with a number of boxes (servers?) on a shelf.Caption (Tessa's thoughts): The others seem pretty happy here too. The Doc has Tin-Head working in that ivory tower of his as a data-miner and a system cracker. Looking though other people's private stuff is what he was built for so he's as happy as a pig in shit! I hardly ever see him now, but at least while he's looking for all the troublemakers he feels useful. He was going nuts on that station with nothing to do. Saw him the other day, said the Doc had him looking for something called "Echelon". Whatever that is he was really pleased about it.Panel 4Norman with the skateboard and bucket on his head, as in the prior comic.Caption (Tessa's thoughts): I thought that putting a cap in Gate's skull would put an end to it all, but after watching this clown for the past year I know different. Gates couldn't command a troop of toast solders, let alone over throw the UK government, then lead the conquest of America and the Middle East! Gates is a borderline retard! A mindless thug at best! He's also very impressionable so I've got to watch to see who's holding this puppets strings!Panel 5Tessa looks backward and grins at a disguised figure putting a hand on her shoulder.Caption (Tessa's thoughts): I would have gone crazy, freezing my arse off watching this idiot if it wasn't for one "man's" job to keep me sane!
==October 8==
Panel 1Tessa looks down at the camera, a concerned expression on her face. Sticks puts an arm around her. He is wearing a green track suit, and his eyes appear to be "normal," rather than the crosshair pupils he normally had.Sticks: I thought I would find you here! The Doc said you don't have to watch Gates any more remember?Tessa: It's not Gates I'm watching, it's the couple he lives with...Panel 2Sticks puts an arm on his hip and grins at Tessa. The panel has two insets: a close-up of Tessa facing right and staring intently at something, and a smaller inset of Anne and Richard looking slyly at each other.Tessa: I know this sounds daft but I SWEAR I've seen them somewhere before... before we came to this time I mean. I know that's impossible but I can't sake the feeling I know them already!Sticks: Well they'll still be there tomorrow and it's getting cold!Sticks: Let's go home.
==October 12==
The Church of Poisoned Minds
Panel 1Al is lying in an MRI machine. Only his body from the chest down is protruding from the machine.Caption: Okay, so I went to this posh hospital in the centre of nowhere yesterday to have an MRI scan of inside my ear to see where the noises in my head are coming from.Panel 2Al has a blue bucket on his head, and someone is hitting it with a hammer. Behind him is a Cylon making a discordant chirp.Caption: I can't say that being scanned by an MRI machine was a fun experience. Even with earplugs, the noise was akin to wearing a bucket on your head while someone smacks it with a hammer and a robot voice from a cheep 70's TV show hums a few bars of something... loudly!Panel 3Interior view of Al, frowning, in the MRI machine.Caption: However the noise wasn't that much of a problem. Nether was getting up at 7am (that's the middle of the night for me) and the taxi I went home in getting a flat tire. Having to lie perfectly still for about twenty minutes, WAS!Al (thinking): For the love of God! Someone scratch my nose!
==October 15==
Single PanelRichard is laughing in the background as an incredibly angry, red-eyed Kingston is attacking Norman with a large knife. Norman is up against the wall and freaking out, narrowly holding Kingston at bay as the knife's point is barely an inch from his face.Richard: "You know what would be funny", you said, "lets spike Kingston's gear with PCP! That would be good for a laugh!" you said...Richard: You're right, it's fucking HILARIOUS!Norman: Richard you utter bastard, I'm sorry about happened to the video recorder! I'll pay for a new one! JUST GET THE FUCKING KNIFE OFF HIM!!!
==October 19==
Panel 1Norman is holding a bottle up and smiling at Anne, who gives him a skeptical look. A white door to another room is in the background.Norman: Hay Anne, can I borrow your talcum power?Anne: Huh? Sure. Just don't use too much okay.Norman: I don't. Thanks!Panel 2Anne scowls as she thinks of an image of "PENNY DROPPING" (with said notation for the same).Off-panel (Norman): Oh yeah, how do you spell "infidel"? Is it an 'e' or an 'i' in the middle?Panel 3Anne turns to shout in Norman's direction. A vanity with a red bottle on it is in the background. A picture of Helix is on the wall.Anne: Norman! Give that back! I'm not letting you use my stuff to make fake Anthrax powder for hoax letters!Off-panel (Norman): Aw! You're no fun!
==October 26==
Panel 1Kingston is asleep on the couch (with appropriate "Z" sound effect for emphasis), leaning back on the armrest with a smoking joint in his hand as the television plays. A tear is visible on the opposite end of the couch.Broadcast: In the first relaxation of British drug laws in 30 years, cannabis will no longer be an arrestable offence! It's regrouping from class B to class C means that, while still illegal, you can't be arrested for possession of the drug. A leading member of the legalisation movement had this to say...Panel 2Unspecified canine? character in a green jacket with Saint George's Cross on the sleeve speaks into a reporter's microphone, with a sleepy expression. A large tree and some silhouetted buildings are in the background.Legalisation Movement member: This is like, a major breakthrough or something... Um, anyone fancy an Indian? I could murder a curry!
==October 29==
Panel 1Close-up of a digital timer reading "00:00:01" over a 120-degree corner of an unknown thing.
Panel 2Close-up of Gates's scarred right eye, slammed shut.Caption: Regeneration competed!Panel 3Gates's eye opens, revealing a red slitted pupil on an angry black eye.Caption: Have a nice day!
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