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2021-03-01

by shaenon on March 1, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. casimir
    March 1, 2021, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Studio Ghibli, eat your heart out!

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    March 1, 2021, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    I wanna make the buttercat suffer catastrophic power failure.

    • John Campbell
      March 1, 2021, 2:57 am | # | Reply

      So you can mount its butt on your wall?

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        March 1, 2021, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

        “Are you having fun as we plunge to our deaths? How does it make you feel to imagine your mother identifying your mangled corpse? WHO’S GIGGLING NOW? AH HAH HAH HAH HEE HEE HEE Oh crap.”

        I hope Aimee remembered to check the Baron’s precrime status before she smushed her floaty hand window.

        • David B Huber
          March 1, 2021, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

          Not to worry, Wernstrom. Should a buttercat lose its giggle drive, it will autogyro safely to the ground. The worst anyone would suffer is dizziness. 😉

      • BuccaneerRex
        March 1, 2021, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

        That would be some kind of cat-ass trophy.

        • Forrest M Davis
          March 1, 2021, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

          For that one, you owe 17 pieces-of-eight into the puns of evil jar.

        • John Campbell
          March 2, 2021, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

          I was wondering if anyone caught the stealth pun.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 1, 2021, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      How depressing.

  3. dvandom
    March 1, 2021, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I suspect they will all regret very much entering Baron’s private world.

    • David B Huber
      March 1, 2021, 7:11 am | # | Reply

      The best I’m hoping for is it will be the original Whimsey World with alt-Nick and the backup Barons doing “bro things”.

  4. Glotos
    March 1, 2021, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    And the giggles are coming from the readers?

    • Shadowmehr
      March 1, 2021, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

      They are reserving those for a possible turbo boost later. Who knows what they may have to outrun out of the Baron’s demense?

  5. Frank
    March 1, 2021, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    so long as the gigglecat doesn’t leave a rainbow trail as it goes
    nya nya nya nyanyanyanya nya nya

    • StClair
      March 1, 2021, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      I think that’s required.

  6. Robert Nowall
    March 1, 2021, 6:01 am | # | Reply

    I thought Lovelace didn’t like Whimsey movies.

    • David B Huber
      March 1, 2021, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      Suspicious, isn’t it?

  7. Theris
    March 1, 2021, 6:05 am | # | Reply

    The gigglecat must be pretty awesome if he can make Lovelace forget that they are a bunch of programs in a virtual world that could simply teleport on the place since the admin is with them; especially since she’s the one who likes to remind flesh people that they’re not bound by the limitation of the physical world.

    • David B Huber
      March 1, 2021, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      While the mythic awesomeness of “a giggle-powered buttercat” leaves my jaw hanging in awe (and reassures me that Aimee remains in control) I still wonder whether Lovelace is on good terms with Aimee now or in thrall to her somehow.

      I am curious whether Baron will appear as his magnificent unicorn persona in his private sandbox world.

  8. Midwestmutt
    March 1, 2021, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    How long did you have to keep buttercats a secret?

  9. Acoustic Rob
    March 1, 2021, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    Remind me why Nick isn’t an airplane in the VR world?

    • Robert Nowall
      March 1, 2021, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      Something about the mind control software making his avatar a pale and friendless virgin. (Of course that was all before he finally got it on with Dr. Lee.)

      • awgiedawgie
        March 1, 2021, 10:11 am | # | Reply

        According to this strip, the VR makes you appear how you would like to see yourself.

        Nick didn’t see himself as a friendless virgin, but he did see himself as human, so that he could get it on with Dr. Lee.

        • Acoustic Rob
          March 2, 2021, 8:18 am | # | Reply

          Ah, thanks!

    • shaenon
      March 1, 2021, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

      Honestly, I worry that he should appear as a helicopter, but I need breaks from drawing helicopters.

      • Candace
        March 2, 2021, 12:58 am | # | Reply

        Maybe he appears as human because Aimee does, and he instinctively feels he can relate to her better in a human form. It makes it fell more like he’s hanging out with his sis. I feel that, in spite of his sometimes crusty exterior, Nick actually has a lot of empathy for other people.

      • Acoustic Rob
        March 2, 2021, 8:19 am | # | Reply

        Also a good answer!

    • Speef
      March 2, 2021, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

      Because you *have* to get there via giggle-powered buttercat, and full scale airplanes don’t fit on standard sized giggle-powered buttercats.

      That’s just cold logic.

  10. phredd
    March 1, 2021, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    I suspect “Giggle Powered Buttercat” might have been a Robin idea.

    • David B Huber
      March 1, 2021, 10:58 am | # | Reply

      Yay Robin!

    • mickeyjf
      March 1, 2021, 11:09 am | # | Reply

      Yes? No? Inquiring minds want to know.

    • Rimwolf
      March 1, 2021, 11:39 am | # | Reply

      13+ years of Skin Horse makes it quite easy to believe that Jeff and/or Shaenon came up with this..

  11. Esteis
    March 1, 2021, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Buttercat drive! Aimee can’t travel there herself — buttercat…

    • David B Huber
      March 1, 2021, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      I see what you did there 😉

  12. Robert Nowall
    March 1, 2021, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

    You can see anything he’s got, in Baron M.’s Private Node.
    You can see anything he’s got, in Baron M.’s Private Node.
    On a giggle-powered butter cat,
    You can fly right over just to have a chat,
    And you can see anything he’s got, in Baron M.’s Private Node.

    —from “Alice’s Restaurant,” written and performed by Arlo Guthrie; I am not doing the monologue.

    • Doug Relyea
      March 1, 2021, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      Wot? No Whimsey World (VR) mass a cree ?

      • Candace
        March 2, 2021, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        In four-part harmony.

        • 25
          March 2, 2021, 9:43 am | # | Reply

          Baron and the shrink together would be unbelievable. But I fear finding out what would be with Baron on the bench…

    • Speef
      March 2, 2021, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

      But when we got to Baron M’s private node, there was a third possibility that we hadn’t counted upon, and we was immediately arrested. Handcuffed! Nick said, “Baron, I don’t think I can diagnose your problem with these handcuffs on.” He said, “Shut up kid, and rub this coconut oil on. So that’s what we did…

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