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Albert Einstein: Two Fisted Patent Clerk

A flashback to the days of yore. Circa 1905 Albert Einstein works at a patent office.

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Before we get to "In Clown City," Chapter 3 in the "Heroes of Science" saga I felt it appropriate to stall for a week. Actually, I wanted to buffer between the storylines, so I introduced this backup feature, “The Adventures of Albert Einstein: Two-Fisted Patent Clerk.” In the future I will use these stories to ensure that new chapters will begin on a Monday.

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For some reason the Swiss Patent Office has little gingerbread men on the windowsill. Also, I'm not really sure where the giant guy motif came from, but I like it.

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Sure you do, Shredder.
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This is a rather obscure joke. In one of the recent GI Joe comics they featured a similar scene that was supposed to show how awesome snake eyes is, unfortunately with no sense of causality and no linear progression it just ended up a god-damned mess that can't be easily read. This is the same.
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Man, there's a hell of a lot of plants in this patent office for some reason.