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Insecticide

🕑 Added 2021-07-04 01:11:39 +0000 UTC

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Summer Sudbrink

Faye's Voice: "Dr. Mandibles, beetlenaut. A bug barely alive. Gentlefriends, we can rebuild him, we have the technology..."

Kriss Pang

Look at pintsize being all self aware and everything

Melissa Smits

Straight out of a Hanners Nightmare

SilverbackRon

Yelling Bird

I'M A RESPONSIBLE BUG OWNER! MY CRABS ARE HEALTHEY AND HUGE!

Darnel D Cooper

Awww. I wanted to see Pintsize in pieces with faye grumbling as she yanks a part saying "Nope" then replacing it with another part and Pintsize saying stuff like,... "Do I even need that?" and faye saying "Quiet".

Doc Gumby

Who else wants a 'Free Dr. Mandibles!' T-shirt?

Nicolas Demers

He had negative lifetime, because didn't he die years ago?

ZenDaemon

Gaz

F for Doctor Mandibles

Sarah Buisson

it just appear on this one.

Scotty

Did I miss a comic. Where did the bug come from?

Carin Maja Brooks

5 panels. Let's see if you can beat that ever. I feel there might be a Melon experiment that could do something

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Just reading Leftover Soup for the first time, since this is the first I've heard of it. Amazing that a strip with art that bad could last more than 1000 pages... Still, Jeph... *cough cough*

Maybe it’s only taken me till now to notice, but is pintsizes new body the same model as lemon/melon?

Mark

I was reminded of Pinball, the hedgehog in Mason "Tailsteak" Williams' since-concluded (and at times vaguely QC-ish) strip Leftover Soup, but it lasted 16 strips before it was brutally killed. http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=105 http://www.leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=121

Matthew Harris

Maybe that was his best life

Doctor Mandibles, NOOOOO!

Ace of Hearts

Atashkada

If we're really really nitpicky Pintsize was only planning to name them, so they were not technically named yet, so named characters are still safe. :D

Leak

Then it turns out Pintsize's new body also came with a conscience, and now he'll forever be haunted by what happened to Dr. Mandibles...

Lucas Werkmeister

Moses (cat at Elliot's apartment building) entered and left within two strips, but yeah, this seems like a pretty strong contender for shortest-lived named character.

Absentia

rip Dr. Mandibles. we hardly knew ye.

Absentia

idk. sounds more like a plant name to me.

William Burns

But not, apparently, an evasive species.

Peter Lewerin

Alternative ending: a huge pair of mandibles comes out of a hidden opening in the ceiling and catches the flying bug before withdrawing, the opening snapping shut behind them.

Dr. Mandibles would probably have been an invasive species anyway.

Bagge

Live fast! Die young!

hollowsoul

When you can name something you have power over it. With great names comes great responsibility. Like keeping them alive, that’s a pretty great responsibility.

Thomas Halpin

RIP Dr. Mandibles. Teaching us to strive onward and upward no matter what if you wanna die unfulfilled.

Morgan McCauley

RIP Dr Mandibles, we hardly knew ye.

BobC

FU - The last thought of Dr. Mandibles.

I look forward to seeing his entry in the cast page.

Matt Byron

Long live Dr. Mandibles.

Sarah?

Andrew

Aw, I was hoping it would nest and build a massive chrysalis that we’d wonder about for at least a year before the cutest first of its kind 8-winged butterfly emerged... and then exactly this happened anyway.

Jason Rock

Shoulda named it Arthur.

Ian Wolfe

O_o Damn, Faye, you need to get that light fixed! Bug-zapping is NOT a regular feature of those types of fixtures!

Brian English

For a minute there, I thought Dr. Mandibles was going to go on a quest to find Sara. But then the Doctor found true enlightenment.

JoeTheCynic

Dean Reilly

Certainly not for Doctor Mandibles!

Nathaniel Tagg

Wait… which other characters have exited?

Shawn K. Younkin

Forrest Taylor

Shut da hell up. There's robots.

Kyle Rudy

Forrest Taylor

Got em

Forrest Taylor

It also went from comic number 4600 to 4561, which is weird.

Matt Grayson

Melon: I know! I know! G!!

Uniquitous

I bet he wasn't even a real doctor

Lana Del Prey

I am genuinely charmed by full-bodied Pintsize

Captain Button

Wait, we haven't even shipped DM yet!

Luke Meyers

doctor mandibles no

BioYuGi

Did this get posted out of order? It feels like we missed an entire comic where Faye is looking inside him. "I see a bug. " "Like a software issue?" "No this thing."

Matt Grayson

Same thing happened with a pigeon and a flying roomba.

Miyaa

I don’t believe cicadas are attracted to light. I’m thinking it’s a weird fancy moth. I think the purposes of cicadas is to be just dumb enough to let every other bird and insect feast on them every 17 years, breed like mad, and then let their remains feed the plants like crazy.