The waiting is over
Marco can finally see his kids again xD
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Just like Marco to carry around a false beard in case he finds himself waiting longer than expected.
Ahh, yes. you can either be called in before you get a chance to read any of the magazines (like our fearless heroes), or you DON’T get called in & wind up reading EVERY magazine!
I can relate.
Oooo! Nice monocle on Dr. Reiniger!
Dr. Reiniger: “Ve haf vays of making you talk!”
Kai: “Do you have ways of making Kaya shut up?”
Comment of the week! 🙂
oh my GOD thats freaking hilarious! ^^
I get Dr. Wiley vibes from him either he will catch them just as they leave or get interrupted and make house call nyahaha can’t wait to see as guesses run as wild as Kaya’s personality ^^
Robin, I want to apologize, on what I hope is behalf of everyone involved, for the chaotic discussion that occurred on the last page. What should have been nothing but a couple snarky comments turned into a lengthy, fruitless, and unnecessary debate, aggravated by the mechanics of your comment system and our complete failure to compensate therefor, leading to several victims of misfire and unnecessary escalation. I’m fairly certain everyone involved said at least one thing that (a) they didn’t mean, (b) came out wrong, or (c) looked like it was addressing someone it wasn’t. Even if the conversation itself was unavoidable, we should have taken it somewhere other than the comments section of [what I presume was] an intended humorous page of your comic. I’m sorry for being part of that, and I’m sure everyone else who was part of that is sorry as well.
Likewise, I didn’t expect the thread to blow up when I made my comment(s). I inadvertently fanned those flames
Also, this seems like a good page for a couple of questions I had about your cameo patreon tier.
-Do you require a visual reference if someone intends to provide you with a cameo character, or will a description of the character’s species/characteristics be sufficient?
-Are cameo characters allowed to be ‘mythical’ hybrids, or are they limited to mundane animal species?
Just how much reading material is there?
I’m guessing he wasn’t expecting the twins to be so incredibly well behaved, or that their checkups would take more than ten minutes.
On an unrelated note, what if Cleo is an Arabian Sand Boa? A video on them from one of the YouTube channels I follow just dropped, check it out here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICzb-ibu-Vo
Head of mythical research eh? Okay that does explain some of his irritation at the end of the last comic where Kai & Kaya were sent home before he had a chance to examine them. Now will he catch them in time or will we see him in the parking lot chasing after their car as they pull away?
Ah classic joke for the end, nice!
And here a bit later I get to thinking about the doc just missing the twins, standing there in the parking lot, and I can imagine him saying something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKJolS9Atg
Given his loud outburst to Dr. Franklin, I’m expecting something more like this: https://youtu.be/VerRNxoU2nw
“Head of Mythical Research” is funny in itself. 🙂 WE know what it means, but a stranger to the comic could read it as Dr. Reiniger being head of a department whose research itself IS mythical! LOL
Reminds me of the Department of Post Mortem Communications.
Let’s hope it’s nothing like that 😛
The last panel kind of reminds me to the ‘The longest day’ arc from the webcomic ‘The Whiteboard’. Well, your day isn’t that long yet, but it’s also not over yet.
(For reference, in that arc, the crew discovers that their shop is totally overgrown after a single day of absence in comic universe, but which did take about two and a half years to be posted in our universe).
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems that the doctor’s top got shorter from panel 1 to panel 2, from coat to shirt length.
re: “Doctor’s top got shorter…” I think that’s just the viewing angle.
Come down. It’s only been a day. It’s not like you had to wait 10 months for them to finish their appointments.
I’m glad to see that someone made this joke. It’s kind of obligatory, methinks.
AH-HA! We see what the German doctor looks like!! I must say, I like the design choice. Also, I love the fur dye choice!
Panel 3: There should be a comma at the end of “opportunity”.
I think it’s right the way Robin has it. With a comma after “opportunity”, it makes it sound like the heads are rolling thanks to them, rather than that the opportunity was missed thanks to them. The way it’s already written is more natural and makes the meaning clearer.
I love “You look like a candy corn.” If you’re a brutally honest doctor, hybrids probably give you a lot of good zinging opportunities, especially when they’re making teenage fashion choices.
I own that character and we had to severely tone him down to fit the setting. But one thing for sure is Kai knows how annoyed I get when my character is called a candy corn because of a mistake an artist made in a model commission
The double layer of in-joke just made the Doctor’s comment absolutely brilliant!
The monocle doesn’t help, mate,
it really doesn’t help build trust.
If you want to look evil, bud,
pretentiousness is a real must.
They’re almost out the door, guy
and the hospital’s still standing.
Everyone is just safer, pal
if you don’t call from the landing.
Let it go for now, my good man
(and please, PLEASE, don’t sing)
if you mess with Dragons, good sir,
you may find their fire will sting…
…Be careful as you run to catch up,
for broiled rump roast is good with ketchup! 😉
Maybe I have missed something but are the twins Italians, or have Italian ancestors? Because of their family name, the restaurant, and now the “mama mia”
Marco is, at least, Italian (or raised by Italians), given he swears in angry Italian noises here: https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/restaurant/
Marco’s parents still live in Italy. He was born in Italy as well, and moved to the US. There he married Sabrina, who’s American. The twins do have Italian roots and they are fluent in Italian as well :p They visit their grandparents in Italy every year.
Sounds like a story arc in the making.
I’d like to see a “visit to the grandparents” arch!
And yet, I still kind of imagine Marco as having a mild Brooklyn accent.
Marco grows a beard almost as fast as I do.
Looks like Marco became Rip Van Winkle while he waited. And I agree with our lovable twins, I’ve had me fair share of wearing patient gowns, and it feels good to change back to normal clothes.
“It seems like it’s been months since I last saw you!”
MD: “Mr. Romero, for you, it was months. We had a black hole open up in the MRI.”
Kai: “Wow, just like Interstellar!”
Wait a minute, is that the same hybrid teen that we saw briefly in pannel four of “finally a dragon”???
(For those who forgot, https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/finallyadragon/)
He’s wearing goggles, I think that is indeed the same fox.
Originally he’s a machine
In the TD cannon he’s a ferret with a tick that didnt go right
He does have the same owner! (Sherouken) 🙂
Yup same one
Dang, even getting here on time there’s already a wall of text! At least it’s not as bad as last week. I’m certainly glad the comments are more civilized. (Not trying time stir anything up or point any fingers here! Just glad it’s settled.) I certainly do hope, Robin, that you’re planning on explaining those goggles at some point, because I have no idea whether it’s a normal vision test or some crazy hybrid eye shape measuring system. xD I also love the panel at the end there. I agree with the “Rip Van Winkle” comments. It certainly does mirror the original illustrations accompanying the story well. It was something that put a smile on my face during this crazy time, and that’s a great service for you to provide to the world Robin. Thank you on the behalf of every reader of this amazing comic. Stay strong, everyone. Keep healthy. And Robin? As always, stay awesome!
The goggles are unique to the character. Gist is he has problems with a few things in his body. The goggles help him be able to tolerate light
Ah, thank you for the explanation!
Geez. This guy is one lab accident away from becoming a supervillain. ;P
I don’t care if it’s a stereotype, I just love the monocle and German accent. And the over the top mad scientist attitude.
And who gave Marco that fake beard?
I thought eet vas a Transylvanian oxxent. Alzo, I ghave a vife from dRussia, und she says zat “zey” alvays tok like daht.
Alzo, he likely baught eet on Ahmazon.
Isn’t the Transylvanian accent based on Romanian?
I’m not really an expert in determining accents from text… I assumed German because that trope is stronger, and the ‘z’s,a and the monocle. And I feel that lab coat seems similar to ones worn by other fictional German mad scientists.
But Transylvanian and Russian mad scientists also work well.
Don’t really care. I just love the mad scientist trope.
He still needs either a top hat or pocket watch on a chain to finish the look.
Aww poor Sherouken, don’t poke fun of his Dye! >:( But Reniger is right about looking like candy corn XD
I will burn everything to the ground with holy promeathium
Classic real world time flow joke.? He was last seen in July 2019.
As a guy whose beard grows annoyingly fast, I think that’s just comedic exaggeration of hours instead of days. There have been nights when I’ve looked in the mirror before bed and said “Seriously? Didn’t I just shave yesterday?”
I wish my beard grew that fast
Heh. That seems so long ago I had to go back and check… Wow! Time flies when you’re having fun. And I really liked this arc! 🙂
Looking at the comic again this morning: You know what Marco needs now? Some shades, a fedora, and an instrument. Then he can go touring with ZZ Top!
Can confirm. Waiting in the waiting room feels like that so much. >.>
And the twist…it actually was that long. Someone mis-tuned the MRI and opened a transient black hole, so where the twins’ examination only took under an hour to them, outside of the time dragging, a few years passed.
This doctor is going to make an appearance in Gamer Dragons, isn’t he? If the twins do a TF2 comic…
If you are close enough to black hole to experience visible difference in speed of time, you are either falling into it or in orbit. EVERYONE would notice the gravitation – starting with fact that “down” would be the MRI, not center of Earth. Also, tidal forces would kill you if the black hole would be that small – it’s actually safer around gigantic black hole, because the DIFFERENCE in gravity is smaller.
There’s a joke in there somewhere about an Italian chef being spaghetified, but im too exhausted to think of one right now
So the simpler explanation is that the examination room is a Tardis?
Is the wolf a mythical, or was mistaken for one?
No. The Doctor, as well as specialising in certain rare hybrids, is an expert in hybrids. He also deals with common ones.
Hmm.. Now there’s a thought… I think if I was a hybrid in their world it would be interesting to be a -were-wolf! One who could actually change. 🙂
Sometimes I think I should change my OC from fox to wolf. The only time I ever remember dreaming I’d turned into an animal, I was a wolf. 🙂
This character is a very special case
Had to rework him multiple times to fit the TD setting. Normally he something you would see in 40k
We were never really able to find something that fit the character in TD without changing it to a point of being something else. The gist would be he is a ferret hybrid with a unordinary. Those goggles aren’t for testing his eye sight
status update: I still hate it
last panel- Dads,amiright?