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2018-04-30

by shaenon on April 30, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. Landis963
    April 30, 2018, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Priorities, Sweetheart. Humanitarian effort first, relationship waffling later.

  2. Robert Nowall
    April 30, 2018, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Does the Melissa Etheridge shrine include that Applebee’s commercial with her song?

  3. Alphaghoul
    April 30, 2018, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Looks like I get to be the first to piont out that his spot switches eyes in the third panel.

    • Sheik
      April 30, 2018, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

      Chalk it up to active camouflage.

    • theysabet
      May 1, 2018, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      To you I reply in the spirit of Marty Feldman: “What hump?”

  4. Pygar
    April 30, 2018, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    How on Earth did she draw Sweetheart to look younger?
    Genius at work, I guess…

    • D. Walker
      April 30, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      It’s pretty simple. In many mammals, juveniles have big heads in proportion to the body, and big eyes proportional to the rest of the head.

      In Sweetheart’s case, smaller ears, a smaller jaw, eyes a little closer together, a smaller body with stubbier proportions, et cetera.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      April 30, 2018, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      It’s easy. Heavy makeup, CGI, and a secret twin sent into space at relativistic speeds.

      • awgiedawgie
        April 30, 2018, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

        If you could manage the secret twin part of that (or a clone, whatever), you wouldn’t have to bother with the makeup or CGI.

        • demigod163
          May 11, 2018, 1:19 am | # | Reply

          Somewhere, Helen B. Narbon just had an inexplicable urge to do an evil laugh.

      • Shadowmehr
        April 30, 2018, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, wouldn’t the relativistic speeds cause the twin to turn into a shorter and wider version of Sweetheart, not just younger? It’s been awhile since I brushed up on my Einsteinian physics (an unpardonable offense, I know).

        • awgiedawgie
          April 30, 2018, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

          Assuming you were traveling inside a vessel that could handle such speeds, I don’t think your shape would change significantly. And if you weren’t inside such a vessel, your sudden and unpleasant demise would kinda make anything else irrelevant.

          You just have to watch how far you travel, or you might return 1,500 years later instead of 15.

        • Bruce A Munro
          April 30, 2018, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

          Shorter, wider, and more massive, but only from the viewpoint of the non-accelerated frame. Once clone-sweetheart decelerates to zero relative velocity, she’ll return to normal from the POV of the terrestrial observer.

    • OneUniverse
      April 30, 2018, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

      Mammals often look younger when they fall in love, so Sweetheart getting very happy makes her appearance better.

      • Pygar
        April 30, 2018, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        I prefer my “Shaenon’s a genius!” theory, but thanks…

      • awgiedawgie
        April 30, 2018, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

        I have a hunch that the question was in reference to the flashback in panel four, not Sweetheart’s overall appearance. Smaller ears, smaller paws, fluffier forelocks. She also made Buddy’s forelocks different.

    • theysabet
      May 1, 2018, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Y’all are all making it way too complicated; it’s simple. Seriously, what famous dog loved by millions *didn’t* have a personal stunt double?

  5. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    April 30, 2018, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Roll tide?

  6. awgiedawgie
    April 30, 2018, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    I never noticed until now, but Tip’s hair has steadily been getting filthier looking. When they arrived on the Habakkuk, his hair was almost the same shade of blond as Unity’s.

    • Bruce A Munro
      April 30, 2018, 2:10 am | # | Reply

      Either that or he’s been a dyed blond from the start and he hasn’t been keeping it up since his depression kicked in.

  7. greenknight32
    April 30, 2018, 5:36 am | # | Reply

    Apparently Sweetheart was the last to know.

  8. Jim Phillips
    April 30, 2018, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    Wait, I like Melissa Ethridge and I’m not a lesbian! Oh, wait, sorry, wrong Melissa – it’s the Manchester one that I like. Hmm…”Man-Chester”….

    • Guesticus
      May 1, 2018, 11:54 am | # | Reply

      About that…

  9. Frank
    April 30, 2018, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    And sweetheart will probably explain that away as “I just thought I was into humans!”

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 30, 2018, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Come to my shelter,
    Sprawl inside, date still, with sight of my room.
    Come to my shelter.
    We will roam soon.

    We will file and number,
    I will treat you as a pet.
    I will worship at my shrine.
    You won’t work up a sweat.
    You can’t know how far I’d go
    To please this risque take.
    You can’t know how underactive.

    Or whether I can fake,
    Just to teach you,
    Just to teach you,
    Oh, to teach you.

    Come to my shelter,
    Sprawl inside, date still, with sight of my room.
    Come to my shelter.
    We will roam soon.

    —Melissa Etheridge.

    • Clifton
      April 30, 2018, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      [slow clapping]

      • Robert Nowall
        April 30, 2018, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

        Keep it slow, ’cause I don’t think that much of this effort this week.

        • Clifton
          May 1, 2018, 2:37 am | # | Reply

          No, that was a really really good one.

          I got kind of stuck on that song at one point, and this fits it perfectly.

          • Robert Nowall
            May 1, 2018, 9:44 am | #

            Well, this was the only Melissa Etheridge song I even knew *remotely.* Not my generation. So my rendition is bound to be off some.

    • theysabet
      May 1, 2018, 1:09 am | # | Reply

      **waves a Zippo slowly through the air in time to the music**

      • awgiedawgie
        May 1, 2018, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

        There’s an app for that 🙂

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