Insecticide

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

Summer Sudbrink

Look at pintsize being all self aware and everything

Kriss Pang

Straight out of a Hanners Nightmare

Melissa Smits

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SilverbackRon

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

Yelling Bird

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".

Darnel D Cooper

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

Doc Gumby

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

Nicolas Demers

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ZenDaemon

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F for Doctor Mandibles

Gaz

it just appear on this one.

Sarah Buisson

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

Scotty

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

Carin Maja Brooks

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*

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

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

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

Mark

Maybe that was his best life

Matthew Harris

Doctor Mandibles, NOOOOO!

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Ace of Hearts

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

Atashkada

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...

Leak

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.

Lucas Werkmeister

rip Dr. Mandibles. we hardly knew ye.

Absentia

idk. sounds more like a plant name to me.

Absentia

But not, apparently, an evasive species.

William Burns

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.

Peter Lewerin

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

Live fast! Die young!

Bagge

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.

hollowsoul

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

Thomas Halpin

RIP Dr Mandibles, we hardly knew ye.

Morgan McCauley

FU - The last thought of Dr. Mandibles.

BobC

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

Long live Dr. Mandibles.

Matt Byron

Sarah?

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.

Andrew

Shoulda named it Arthur.

Jason Rock

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

Ian Wolfe

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.

Brian English

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JoeTheCynic

Certainly not for Doctor Mandibles!

Dean Reilly

Wait… which other characters have exited?

Nathaniel Tagg

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Shawn K. Younkin

Shut da hell up. There's robots.

Forrest Taylor

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Kyle Rudy

Got em

Forrest Taylor

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Forrest Taylor

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

Melon: I know! I know! G!!

Matt Grayson

I bet he wasn't even a real doctor

Uniquitous

I am genuinely charmed by full-bodied Pintsize

Lana Del Prey

Wait, we haven't even shipped DM yet!

Captain Button

doctor mandibles no

Luke Meyers

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."

BioYuGi

Same thing happened with a pigeon and a flying roomba.

Matt Grayson

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.

Miyaa

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That's uh...that's some powerful fluorescent lightbulbs.

Ben French

Mess with the ballast, get the Hertz…

Chris Weigert

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Christy Brown

Should they be concerned that their fluorescent light electrocutes things?

Summer Sudbrink

All things considered that was probably the best outcome

Michael

It's a cicada, isn't it? They can make it to Mass, can't they?

Douglas E. Smith

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Kyle Major

The script read: "Exit Dr. Mandibles (Stage ZAP!)"

Chris Gallaty

Plus a hazardous waste disposal fee.

Michael Boettger

Also that light's going on your bill.

Spoogle McGee

RIP

Hope

At least it wasn’t crabs

A. J. Alfieri-Crispin

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dirtknight

R.I.P. P.S. can I get a Doctor Mandibles shirt?

Panic Blitz

this makes me sad

runrin

Farewell Doctor Mandibles, we hardly knew ye…

Chris Weigert