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2012-11-05
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2012-11-05

by shaenon on November 5, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Some Smartass
    November 5, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    I think she’s plenty of fun when she’s clever!

  2. Andrew
    November 5, 2012, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    I’m never going to Arby’s ever again. Either that, or I should really read the ingredients list when I get the egg salad sandwich from Plaid Pantry.

    • JohnWWells
      November 5, 2012, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      You were going to Arby’s BEFORE? I thought the brain matter thing was equally obvious to everyone, but…

  3. Eddurd
    November 5, 2012, 3:28 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “We Can Work It Out”, The Beatles)

    This is quite a city!
    It can go most anywhere along the railway line!
    Ev’rything’s so pretty!
    Which I why I want to kill them all and make it mine!
    We can make it work! We can make it work!

    Unity, I’ll spare you!
    We can travel endlessly aboard this Train of Trains!
    Come along, I dare you!
    It could just be you and me and endless feasts of brains!
    We can make it work! We can make it work!

      Unity says, “No!
      That didn’t wo-o-o-o-ork
      When Arby’s tried it on me!
      With you, I won’t go
      ’Cause you’re a je-e-e-e-erk!
      So I’ll decline, disdainfully!”

    Once again, I’m never
    Having any luck at finding henchmen such as these!
    You’re no fun when clever!
    But I ask you one last time to reconsider, please!
    We can make it work! We can make it work!

  4. Dave Van Domelen
    November 5, 2012, 8:36 am | # | Reply

    I used to work at Arby’s when I was in high school. The uncooked roasts do have a vague resemblance go brain tissue, yes.

  5. drbrain
    November 5, 2012, 11:43 am | # | Reply

    why does this strip always seem to want to hand unity everything on a plate, where the other characters go through so much struggle? it’s …. odd?

    • Tetra Valent
      November 5, 2012, 11:56 am | # | Reply

      ‘Cause even Jeff and Shaenon are scared of her?

    • Daibhid C
      November 5, 2012, 2:04 pm | # | Reply

      As in Narbonic, a lot of the main characters’ struggles are self-inflicted. What makes them entertainining is the way they complicate their own lives subconciously, making things more difficult than they need to be.

      Unity, like the character she was cloned from, stands in contrast to that. It’s not that she gets handed things on a plate and the others don’t; it’s that she’s the only character who doesn’t spend hours wondering if the thing that’s on the plate is really the thing they wanted, and if it might be booby-trapped.

      (Come to think of it, Tip started out being this uncomplicated, but then had his crisis of confidence with Tigerlily Jones.)

    • JohnWWells
      November 5, 2012, 7:52 pm | # | Reply

      It’s very similar to what Narbonic did with Mell. In fairness, Unity has had to at the very least learn a little about herself, get barfed up by a goat, and endure Tip. She also seems less invincible (more vincible?) than Mell, so all in all, she’s got more character dynamism.

      In any case, I don’t think GODOT really intends to hand her anything on a silver platter. It just wants to stall her until the brains wear off.

  6. Smithnik
    November 5, 2012, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    Doesn’t it bother anyone else that Arby’s was able to offer an endless supply of brains? Or that they were willing to, in order to partner with a zombie killing machine?
    It certainly would have given new meaning to “The Burger Wars.”

  7. Shadowmehr
    November 5, 2012, 4:17 pm | # | Reply

    “Join my side and we shall rule forever”? Seriously?

    You’d think G.O.D.O.T. would come up with a less cliched tactic. This is as old as pulps. U.N.I.T.Y. should probably reject it on aesthetic reasons alone, nevermind worrying about backstabbing.

    • Rex Vivat
      November 6, 2012, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      That would be a cliche if UNITY had come to destroy GODOT or would similarly start up as G’s enemy; in this case, she was actually pretty sympathetic “Destruction is good! I like destruction!”

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