0746: "Birth"

[Nihiltres]

Title-text: All those GTA marathons during the pregnancy were a bad idea.

First thought: Wait, how'd he get a gun in there?

[DarthMarth]

It's Outlaw Pete! (Springsteen reference)

[Comic JK]

I think she was eating too much iron to prevent birth defects.

Also lead and saltpeter. Really, it was an interesting diet.

[Doodle77]

First thought: Wait, how'd he get a gun in there?

Clearly this was all planned by her in order to extort the doctor for millions.

[Josephine]

The doctor's mask in panel 3 is missing its elastic strings.

[Nihiltres]

I think she was eating too much iron to prevent birth defects.

Also lead and saltpeter. Really, it was an interesting diet.

The lead, that would be a problem. But saltpetre is just potassium nitrate, so that's not a huge problem if you have the ability to make the rest of the gun.

[FCN]

First thought: he'll be sentenced to life.

Second thought: he better finish the robbery before they cut the cord so he'll be tried as a fetus.

Third thought: is she an accessory?

I'll stop thinking now.

[CorruptUser]

You see? Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman were right about GTAIII.

And by extension, GTAIV, and all the wemoddedtheoriginalbutchargethesameprice games.

[Eternal Density]

This is wrong on so many levels.

[CorruptUser]

So, the doctor wants Megan to cause 6 more weeks of winter?

[Nihiltres]

Alright, my mind has gone off on a tangent.

Brilliant criminal mastermind from the future "[insert evil mastermind name here]" is about to be finally busted after years of glamourous criminal escapades and needs a way out. He discovers a scientist who's building a strange machine: it jumps your mind to a parallel universe, and you're reborn with all your fiendish intelligence from your past life. Stealing the machine, he discovers that a small amount of mass can be taken along for the ride. The aging scientist had intended to bring along a hard-drive with his research, for another lifetime of intense study into spacetime's quirks, but the criminal can only think of one thing to bring, his gun [let's call her "Vera" ]. Born into a new universe with nothing but a gun, he decides to start off in style. Youngest criminal in all history!

[coredumperror]

Does anyone else get a Family Guy vibe from this? It distinctly reminds me of Stewie, before the writers turned him gay.

[crawfishpersonguy]

well this was a shitty little comic, wasn't it

[madock345]

isnt it obvious? its the black hat guys son!

also, first page!

[madock345]

well this was a shitty little comic, wasn't it

asshole

[aleflamedyud]

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[squareroot]

I really love how Randall is experimenting with the art! Since I only read this comic for the nostalgic stick figures anyway, I love the simplicity.</sarcasm>

I thought this was funny. It was sort of like life in that it didn't have a punch line. It game an unpleasant, pleasant feeling that cannot be orthographized in any way other than this. I hope this is part of a series.

[sourmìlk]

Is this megan's first kid? I know we've seen her before.

[Omegaton]

For some reason, I noticed the fact that the string for the face mask disappears in panel 3.

[mowdownjoe]

It's Outlaw Pete! (Springsteen reference)

And you just burnt my cheese. Well done. Now, I need to get that song out of my head.

[guyy]

Well that's...that's...

I can't decide if that's a great pun, a horrible pun, a completely unintentional pun...or all of the above.

[cjmcjmcjmcjm]

This one made me lqtm out of a WTF

[Arancaytar]

"The birth of Clyde Barrow."

[floreal]

am i the only one thinking of the southpark episode with towlie on this one? xD

[atimholt]

This reminds me of a story I read once called "Billy the Fetus." I think the author thought up the title and couldn't resist, because without it the whole exercise is completely surreal. With it, it's just weird, but you at least know where he's coming from.

[tastelikecoke]

Follow that baby! Your only guide is the extensive umbilical cord he left! Now you got to follow an SUV stolen by the baby, and an ensuing cutscene, you appear hiding on a car shield, but you can't kill the baby or the game will restart! You got to follow him while other marauders also try to shoot you. Now at the end you can abort the baby, or keep him alive.

[wain77]

This thread wasn't even at the top of the list when I came to look for it - IT'S TODAY'S COMIC!

What's going on there? Obviously no love for it?

[Stormblazer]

The first thing I thought of when I read that was Dead Leaves, which has an *actual* scene remarkably similar to the one depicted in the comic.

[BraveDevil]

Eh... Not a great comic, really. I feel like I'm missing a pun or something of the sort. Is there a pun here ('stick up'?) that I'm not getting or is it just 'lol that baby has a gun so randumb XD'?

Perhaps a better joke would've been the baby coming out and demanding better wages and healthcare.

[neoliminal]

I suspect Megan was never pregnant...that baby mommy-jacked her.

[mszegedy]

It would be interesting to know how Randall even thought of this comic. I mean, who goes around associating birth and stick ups? Is there a hidden pun? I think this was about Randall's thought process:

Haha, yesterday's pun was pretty good. Maybe I should do another one. But about what? [beat] I know! That 'push' thing with babies is so overdone. I should satirize it. The doctor should ask the woman to pull instead of push. Hah! But what would make a doctor say that? If it was killing the woman? Nah, too offensive. What about if something particularly dangerous was coming out of the womb? Teehee, that would be weird. What are doctors frightened of? Well, everybody has to be able to relate to this, so it has to be either completely stereotypical or completely universal. Well, the only stereotypical thing I can think of is a handwriting lesson, and that can't come out of a womb. Now, what is everyone universally afraid of? …guns. But, it would make no sense to give birth to a gun, so… what if the baby was holding a gun? Haha! That's funny! I'll totally do that!

[Giant Speck]

"Can you pull?"

[chrisk]

This is probably reaching, but before I read the Alt-text I thought it was a 'Transformers' movie reference - Megan Fox's baby daddy is Megatron.

Too out there?

[kentt]

This is not funny. No there is not more to it.

[nealh]

Am I the only one who initially thought the birth was all a ruse and that she had somehow smuggled a gun (that she could also hold with her vagina) into the hospital just to mug the doctor?

I didn't notice that the speech line originated from her lower regions.

Needless to say I was baffled.

I think I was unconsciously applying Occam's Razor and this seemed like the simplest explanation!

[extrablue]

Haha everyone noticed the missing elastic band, I got to say I didn't even see that until it was mentioned here.
But anyone else get confused by the clickc sound? I had to read it twice to realize it was supposed to be the gun being cocked and not firing on an empty chamber... please tell me someone else saw that?

[rigwarl]

The alt text is referencing:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/ ... 8261.shtml

I play too many video games.

[BraveDevil]

Am I the only one who initially thought the birth was all a ruse and that she had somehow smuggled a gun (that she could also hold with her vagina) into the hospital just to mug the doctor?

I didn't notice that the speech line originated from her lower regions.

Needless to say I was baffled.

I think I was unconsciously applying Occam's Razor and this seemed like the simplest explanation!

That is hilarious in a wonderfully Dadaist way, and is my official interpretation of this comic.

[xnick]

I didn't get it. Who's Megan?

[Giant Speck]

I didn't get it. Who's Megan?

A recurring female character on XKCD.