Comic #2463: 2012-02-13

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Panel 1:

• Character 1: "I took fly DNA and spliced it into my own in order to gain their powers."

Panel 2:

• Character 2: "THEN SOMETHING WENT HORRIBLY WRONG!"

Panel 3:

• Character 1: "No!"

Panel 4:

• Character 2: "After several days, I noticed something strange."

Panel 5:

• Character 1: "My body had not mutated at all!"
• Character 2: "Nooooo… Wait."

Panel 6:

• Character 1: "Then I realized—"
• Character 2: "No?"

Panel 7:

• Character 1: "So… the fly DNA just became part of the junk DNA in my genome. The human proteome is poorly understood, so I don’t have a good way to accomplish the post-splice activation phase."

Panel 8:

• Character 2: "So how come you run around the house buzzing and spitting on food?"

Panel 9:

• Character 1: "Oh…"

Panel 10:

• Character 1: "Oh, I did that before we started dating."

Panel 11:

• Character 2: "You’ve never dated any other nerds, have you?"

Panel 12:

• Character 1: "I can’t believe I slept with you."
• Sound effects: "BZZZ.BZZZ."