1012: "Wrong Superhero"

[Jared the Great]

Title Text: "Hi! Someone call for me? I'm a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!"

I hope etymology man becomes a regular.

[sardia]

Lol, this one cracked me up.

[rhomboidal]

Etymology-Man returns! Who says superhero sequels are never as good as the original?

[Venetian Road]

I wonder how they contacted Etymology Man anyway. Is there some hero hotline I don't know about?

[drainbramaged]

YES! YES! A thousand times YES!

This is the best one I've seen in a while. Props.

And by props, I'm referring to the original usage of the term, as an abbreviation of "proper respects."

[myrcutio]

A reference to Etymology-man, Entomology-man and Etiology-man in the same comic? It's Ivy-League Justice...League!

[mschmidt62]

Oh, thank you for that, myrcutio, I was trying to figure out the third -ology.

[Angrist]

Is it sad that I just want to yell "Front Sight!" at the guy shooting?

[Djehutynakht]

Ah, so he returns. And after only a 1-comic intermission too. Gee, either he's popular or Randall is in a phase...

Hope we see more of him.

In addition, I want to see the lab scenario which led to this.

[kleingordon]

I wonder if a large motivation for #1010 was to set this one up. In that case, I have more respect for it now

[Fire Brns]

It's like obvious man in non-sequitor; the humor is that he does nothing despite the title of superhero.

Also

Anyone elso notice the demon mantis spawn?

[Mynameisonic]

Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.

[selene]

Aha!
Etymology-Man's superpower is the ability to determine which other superhero you should call in to any given situation.

[nate1994a]

portal reference i think

[Storm]

Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one thinking with Portals. I like this new pseudohero!

[Harry Voyager]

The irony is that I manged to look up the study of bugs the last time I was trying to find the study of languages.

[NotAllThere]

This comic is of great worth, commented Timology Man.

[sehkzychic]

I'm more curious how, in a lab that manages to make bug enormous (ignoring surface area : volume ratio problems with a tracheal breathing system and the cubic increase of mass), they manage not to know that they are, themselves, entomologists not etymologists.

[Ragashingo]

I'm more curious how, in a lab that manages to make bug enormous (ignoring surface area : volume ratio problems with a tracheal breathing system and the cubic increase of mass), they manage not to know that they are, themselves, entomologists not etymologists.

Perhaps both Etymology-Man and Entomology-Man have bad hearing and are always accidentally showing up where they don't belong.

[SW15243]

I wonder how they contacted Etymology Man anyway. Is there some hero hotline I don't know about?

There's a spotlight with the word 'octopi' on it. Forces him to come running.

[cjmcjmcjmcjm]

I wonder how they contacted Etymology Man anyway. Is there some hero hotline I don't know about?

There's a spotlight with the word 'octopi' on it. Forces him to come running.

At least it's not "timpanis" (that was painful to type)

[troyp]

A reference to Etymology-man, Entomology-man and Etiology-man in the same comic? It's Ivy-League Justice...League!

Etiology? Is that what he meant? That's a pretty obscure meaning of etiology. Etiology-man should be looking for the causes of diseases, but instead he's turned his powers towards evil.

I was wracking my brain trying to think of that 3rd ology. I had a word at the back of my mind, but I couldn't get to it. I think I might've actually been eschatology...which is kinda the opposite of the study of creation.

[FCN]

If they don't turn the tide of this battle soon they're going to need Enterology Man.

[sehkzychic]

I'm more curious how, in a lab that manages to make bug enormous (ignoring surface area : volume ratio problems with a tracheal breathing system and the cubic increase of mass), they manage not to know that they are, themselves, entomologists not etymologists.

Perhaps both Etymology-Man and Entomology-Man have bad hearing and are always accidentally showing up where they don't belong.

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit with a deaf audiologist and a blind optician....

[Unprodigy]

To be fair, they seem kind of rushed and that section of the Hero Pages is kinda crowded with the likes of Epistemology Man, Endocrinology Woman, Epidemiology Lass, Doctor Eulogy, Escapology Dude, Professor Exobiology, Eschatology Man, Saint Ecclesiology*, Ms. Ecology, and more.



*Not an actual saint.

[Felix Tamen]

[quote="myrcutio"]A reference to Etymology-man, Entomology-man and Etiology-man in the same comic? It's Ivy-League Justice...League![/quote]

You go down fighting while Etiology-Man patiently discourses on the cause of the massive Mantis menace. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aetiology#English

You have died.

I don't know what –ology Randal had in mind (I'm no Bible scholar), but etiology wasn't it. Anybody know?

[karanj]

I don't know what –ology Randal had in mind (I'm no Bible scholar), but etiology wasn't it. Anybody know?

Ecclesiology? Eschatology?

[da Doctah]

If they don't turn the tide of this battle soon they're going to need Enterology Man.

Finally! A hero with guts!

[m_dow]

I don't know what –ology Randal had in mind (I'm no Bible scholar), but etiology wasn't it. Anybody know?

Ecclesiology? Eschatology?

Actually, I think Etiology-man is right. Etiology, according to Wikipedia, is the study of origins. That can include the study of origin myths, which would make God's creation of Adam in Genesis well within the scope of etiology.

Wow, I'm glad somebody figured that out. I had no clue where to start.

[pbnjstowell]

Come on, you guys. It's Adamology Man he's referring to. (Sounds closer to etym- and entom- than eti- does.)

...Says the linguist who loves etymology, and worked for an entomologist for a couple years after college.

[Cronos51101]

This is why I firmly believe that every scientific laboratory should have no less than a .357 in one of those "In case of emergency, break the glass" cases. I'm pretty sure that guy has nothing more than a 9mm. We can clearly see it lacks the necessary stopping power to take down your average killer mantis. Lab managers, take this to heart. Demand more adequate safety equipment in the work place. It just makes sense.

[Scars Unseen]

Ah, so he returns. And after only a 1-comic intermission too. Gee, either he's popular or Randall is in a phase...

Hope we see more of him.

In addition, I want to see the lab scenario which led to this.

They were probably grown to deal with the cuttlefish menace.

[webdude]

If that insect is, in fact, an alien species, would the scientists trying to study it be ETologists?

Also, no one has mentioned the Genesis ref in the alt-text AND/b] a [b]praying mantis as a main character. Is Randall on a religious kick?

[jalohones]

Ecclesiology?

The study of Goon Show characters?

[Unprodigy]

If that insect is, in fact, an alien species, would the scientists trying to study it be ETologists?

That would be a job for Professor Exobiology!

[creaothceann]

They should've called Anthology-man.

[VectorZero]

I'm more curious how, in a lab that manages to make bug enormous (ignoring surface area : volume ratio problems with a tracheal breathing system and the cubic increase of mass), they manage not to know that they are, themselves, entomologists not etymologists.

Perhaps both Etymology-Man and Entomology-Man have bad hearing and are always accidentally showing up where they don't belong.

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit with a deaf audiologist and a blind optician....

This sounds [heh] like a job for Esthesiology Man!

[aldonius]

This is why I firmly believe that every scientific laboratory should have no less than a .357 in one of those "In case of emergency, break the glass" cases. I'm pretty sure that guy has nothing more than a 9mm. We can clearly see it lacks the necessary stopping power to take down your average killer mantis. Lab managers, take this to heart. Demand more adequate safety equipment in the work place. It just makes sense.

What should they keep on hand for those fork-spoon hybrids?

[troyp]

I wonder how they contacted Etymology Man anyway. Is there some hero hotline I don't know about?

There's a spotlight with the word 'octopi' on it. Forces him to come running.

Does he come running to see if someone's making a dubious criticism of the plural form "octopi"?

This is why I firmly believe that every scientific laboratory should have no less than a .357 in one of those "In case of emergency, break the glass" cases. I'm pretty sure that guy has nothing more than a 9mm. We can clearly see it lacks the necessary stopping power to take down your average killer mantis. Lab managers, take this to heart. Demand more adequate safety equipment in the work place. It just makes sense.

What should they keep on hand for those fork-spoon hybrids?

A spork's not a menace, it's a convenient eating utensil. The word "spork" is another matter...

[aldonius]

Hybrid cutlery is most definitely a menace.