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2015-06-15

by shaenon on June 15, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. bellringer187868
    June 15, 2015, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    I thought that was Tip for a second…

    • Kingfisher
      June 15, 2015, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

      It WAS Tip for a second: http://skin-horse.com/comic/itll-be-five/

      • strawberrycocoa
        June 15, 2015, 4:05 pm | # | Reply

        Imfel extremely silly for not noticing Unity’s two face alves were mirror-imaged until I followed your linkback. :*

  2. kicking_k
    June 15, 2015, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

    Artie has goggles! Like Speedy!
    I see Unity doesn’t bother with a hazmat suit…

  3. Dave
    June 15, 2015, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

    Oooh, parallel universes!
    I’m not sure if I’m more worried about why Tip and Sweetheart aren’t part of The Team, or why Artie and Sergio are.

    • Dave
      June 15, 2015, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

      Oh wait, Artie was a part of *that* Team.

  4. Sewer Santa (ghost of)
    June 15, 2015, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

    At least in the other universe I had a name.

  5. Michael
    June 15, 2015, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

    I’m really fascinated by how different Unity looks with her halves swapped, after all these years of seeing her the way she normally is. That is so surprising.

    • D. Walker
      June 15, 2015, 6:10 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps more fascinating is that I (and apparently others) didn’t notice the change at all until someone else mentioned it. Brains are weird.

      I do have a question though – did you grow up playing video games, and did those video games employ sprite-flipping? Because I totally did, and from a very early age got used to visually reading such flips as second nature.

      • Moe Lane
        June 15, 2015, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

        What I’m finding interesting here is that I ‘see’ regular-Unity as being black, while I ‘see’ mirror-Unity as being white. I mean, obviously the character is a literal patchwork; but apparently my brain picks whatever the right side of the face looks like and uses it for pattern recognition. I dunno whether that’s a neurological thing, or a just-me-being-weird thing.

        • matteo
          June 16, 2015, 9:58 am | # | Reply

          I’ve seen studies that show that we (at least dogs and humans) tend to bias attention to the right sides of faces… partially die to the fact that the right sides are (on average) more expressive. [One study involved evaluating emotional information obtained using face images where the left side was mirrored over the right to create a left/mirrored left view, and vice-versa; another evaluated where a dog looked first when shown images of human faces. The dogs looked at the right side of human faces first, but not the right sides of other animals’ faces…]

          • Moe Lane
            June 16, 2015, 10:52 am | #

            …Huh. Well, that’s probably my ‘interesting thing learned for today,’ then. Thanks. 🙂

        • kicking_k
          June 16, 2015, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

          I also have the same issues with perceiving Unity as black or white depending on her mirroring, but I think it’s because the left-to-right reading direction of the strip makes it natural for the characters to be seen predominantly from the right when there’s a sense of movement forwards being conveyed. So in many panels, you can see more of the right side of the face for many characters. It’s just particularly noticeable with Unity’s unusually assymetrical looks!

  6. Robert Nowall
    June 15, 2015, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    Did we lose some of this morning’s comments again? ‘Cause I already posted my song parody of the week…oh, what the hell, I’ll do it again.

    From “It’s the Same Old Song,” the Four Tops. Holland-Dozier-Holland.

    It’s good (it’s good) as a comic strip.
    But like a comic strip chore,
    It’s gone and done it before.
    Unity (Unity) took the swamp to the mat.
    All that’s left is a vicious hat.
    It used to be sweet victory (sweet victory).
    But does Artie have a small goatee?

    Now it’s the same old scene,
    But with a different view if you know what I mean.
    It’s the same, same old scene.
    But with a different view (if you know what I mean),
    And it puzzles me to see it.

    Ah, oh, ah, isn’t it just cool and neat (good memories)
    To see a classic strip and think “repeat?”
    But the imagery confuses me,
    Reminding me how it all used to be.
    Faces right-to-left, identity theft,
    Is it Sergio or is it just some Joe?
    New art (rearranging)
    New start (something’s changing)

    (Now it’s the same old scene) Can’t wait to find out!
    (With a different view if you know what I mean.)
    Oh, I hope we find out!
    It’s the same old scene,
    But with a different view if you know what I mean.

    I had memories of a scene with Tip,
    But he’s nowhere near in this reworked strip.
    Monday’s come,
    It’s a brand new day.
    I can let this stay, move on to other things.
    It makes me think what’s coming (It makes me think what’s coming.)
    And rethink what’s coming (And rethink what’s coming.)

    Now it’s the same old scene,
    But with a different view if you know what I mean.
    Now it’s the same old scene,
    But with a different view if you know what I mean.
    I, oh, I, can’t wait till Tuesday!
    It’s the same old scene,
    (But with a different view if you know what I mean.)
    Ooh, it hurts to wait till Tuesday!
    It’s the same old scene,
    But with a different view if you know what I mean…

  7. Robert Nowall
    June 15, 2015, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

    Also seems to have switched around a few Gravstar icons. Have we all stumbled into an alternate universe?

    • Greenygal
      June 15, 2015, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      When the strip was originally posted, it was listed as another part of “Mixed-Up Files”; it’s now the beginning of “Looking Glass Land”. (I noticed because it seemed so odd that this *wasn’t* a new story.) I’m guessing there was a mistake somewhere, and they had to reload the strip.

  8. Shadowmehr
    June 15, 2015, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

    Well, this is something different . . .

    The question is, are we seeing something That Might Have Been, or something That Might Yet Be? Sentient swamps can regenerate their components as seeds bloom and animals breed, and the team is being shaken up a bit with Sweetheart (nominally) in charge.

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