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2020-10-22

by shaenon on October 22, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 22, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Sounds like Echo Bravo and Alfa Alfa. But it could be someone else.

    • casimir
      October 22, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      …my first thought also. Bet it is.

      • casimir
        October 22, 2020, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

        …doofus ex machina.

        • Andy4Hire
          October 23, 2020, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

          This is a brilliant phrase and I will have to remember it for later use in a variety of contexts.

    • jdreyfuss
      October 22, 2020, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      Romeo Charlie, perhaps?

      • Sheik
        October 22, 2020, 10:34 am | # | Reply

        Or it may be a separate team, Whisky, Tango, and Foxtrot.

        • s854
          October 22, 2020, 11:19 am | # | Reply

          It’s certainly a less experienced operator than Violet Bee had, anyway. I wonder if this one will tell people when it’s about to explode.

    • Pygar
      October 22, 2020, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

      Given the professionalism, apparent budget, and that it’s not a hollowed-out *real* rat… Jonah and Nera?

  2. Brushtail
    October 22, 2020, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    It’s probably to much to hope that this rat is being piloted form inside by some dashing silverfish that we haven’t seen in far to long.

    • jdreyfuss
      October 22, 2020, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      No, they’d have Italian accents.

  3. Frank
    October 22, 2020, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    *splash*
    “oh no, i’m not waterpr*brzap*!”

    • Shadowmehr
      October 22, 2020, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

      That would be a major and utterly foreseeable design flaw. Which means it would be an A-Sig project, yes.

  4. BMunro
    October 22, 2020, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    Do uplifted rats suffer from their own form of reality blindness?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      October 22, 2020, 6:45 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think so? Coffee Rat can tell Robo Rat is bad news, but likes them anyway.

      • davidbreslin101
        October 22, 2020, 8:53 am | # | Reply

        Is that a singular “them” or a plural “them”? Oh, right, the answer’s “yes”. Again.

        • Foradain
          October 22, 2020, 9:38 am | # | Reply

          Is that a royal “we” or a plural “we” in panel 2? Careful how you answer, Gross Monster Rat…

  5. OneUniverse
    October 22, 2020, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Can we get Nick and Ginny piloting these clanks?

  6. Nix
    October 22, 2020, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    At least the disguise is a little more convincing than a paper plate.

    A *little*.

    • Bernerlb
      October 22, 2020, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

      Hamsters are back!?

      • Andy4Hire
        October 22, 2020, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

        That was my first thought, too. But Echo Bravo & Alfa Alfa or Jonah & Nera are both plausible suggestions as well.

        I suspect Nick would be a little too self-possessed to break the disguise in excitement, the way the voices in panel one do. Ginny, sure, but not Nick.

      • ShenHibiki
        October 22, 2020, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

        So I’m not the only one thinking of them! XD

  7. Pixin
    October 22, 2020, 5:47 am | # | Reply

    I like the Nick/Ginny idea. Isn’t Alfa Alfa supposed to be hospitalized?

    • Robert Nowall
      October 22, 2020, 8:21 am | # | Reply

      Said she was in the ER…didn’t say *why* she was in the ER…

  8. Barking Monkey
    October 22, 2020, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    I’m surprised Anasigma’s animal-robot game is this weak. They do much better with human drones & clones. Time to kidnap a better class of mad robot scientists. Perhaps they were focused on getting the scent right and weren’t too concerned about the appearance? Which might not be that bad a strategy, come to think of it.

    • serpentrose
      October 22, 2020, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      To fool rats it’s probably more important to get the smell right than the appearance. Many, perhaps most, animals do not rely on sight as much as we humans do.
      Also this is funnier.

      • Sheik
        October 22, 2020, 10:54 am | # | Reply

        Primates in general are sight oriented and adapted to wide open spaces.
        Rats, on the other hand, are creatures of confined spaces with poor lighting conditions. Not only are they more dependent on scent, but I suspect the robot is already compromised and the rats aren’t letting on.
        That’s because they also have a keen sense of hearing for the same reason.

  9. wykstrad
    October 22, 2020, 4:22 pm | # | Reply

    A conspicuous outward appearance, evincing a mild contempt for everything around one, insults casually interspersed throughout the conversation…is this a robotic impostor, or just a rat pick-up artist?

  10. Robert Nowall
    October 22, 2020, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

    I’m thinking whoever is running this mechanical rat is using the double-helmet tag-team drone operator Smart Unity built so Sweetheart and Tip could double-date Niue. Probably salvaged from Nick after Ira whisked him away. I’m reading this strip too much.

    • thenardyr
      October 23, 2020, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      It is impossible to read this strip too much. All hail Shaneon and Jeff!

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