A swaggeringly big tip of the Cipher Mysteries fedora to über-medievalist Lisa Fagin Davis (@lisafdavis) for posting this image to her Twitter feed, taken from “Black Widow & The Avengers” No.18, “in which Diablo steals the Voynich, not realizing it’s online“:

Black-Widow-And-The-Avengers-Voynich

D’oh! (Sorry, wrong comic universe).

In our less-than-completely-superhero-saturated universe, however, Voynich-related interactions tend to be somewhat closer to those portrayed in A Voice For Pierre (Ep.5). *sigh* Enjoy!

5 thoughts on “Avengers / Voynich facepalm mash-up…?

  1. Both are excellent!

  2. D.N. O'Donovan on September 1, 2016 at 7:39 am said:

    Nick,
    There’s a nice historical progression. The ‘Voice for Pierre’ is totally 2012-13, while the Avengers strip is evidently au fait with the situation in 2015.

    Perhaps the wiki-history approach to Voynich studies should be ditched in favour of a comic-book history?

    Here’s my snap for Mary d’Imperio’s description of the board of an august institution who refused Friedman money. She called them “academics”.
    🙂

    http://www.phrases.org.uk/images/merman.jpg

  3. Diane: I suspect that if you listened in to the Beinecke’s daily phone traffic, you might well be somewhat disappointed. :-/

  4. D.N. O'Donovan on September 1, 2016 at 9:52 am said:

    *scream*.. run away.
    The world of Beinecke public information telephone answering may well need a superhero or three.

  5. The Pierre example is totally innocent compared to the stuff that is coming the Beinecke’s way by Email (no idea about the NSA). Regularly I may witness some ‘fine’ examples which I shall not repeat here.

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