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2013-08-08

by shaenon on August 8, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 8, 2013, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    It’s the Prophet of Whimsy, the inventor and sole master of psychoeconomics, the man with the infallible business plan that reaches centuries into the future! From the distant past, the great one who sees the present with greater clarity than any man living has released this film reel to guide us through our moment of crisis!

    • Bartimaeus
      August 8, 2013, 4:37 am | # | Reply

      If you’re being stubborn like a Mule about it—

      • Robert The Addled
        August 8, 2013, 5:40 am | # | Reply

        I should reread that robots-empire-foundation sequence – it’s been at least 10-15 years.

    • hopsa
      August 8, 2013, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      I love those books. Incredibly smart and visionary behind a delightful cover of zeerust. I especially like the way technology things are handwaved not with ‘quantum’ but with ‘atomic’

    • Tetra Valent
      August 8, 2013, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      “Hello, this is Hari Whimsy. At this point, there is a 95% probability that the Vogon Constructor Fleet is overhead….”

      Well, it IS Thursday.

  2. Kyle
    August 8, 2013, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I’m finding myself consumed with the desire to ride this universe’s version of the Carousel of Progress.

    • Freddie Freelance
      August 8, 2013, 11:40 am | # | Reply

      “It’s a Great, Big, Radioactive Tomorrow!”

  3. Frith Ra
    August 8, 2013, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    it’s been destroyed by all of the radiation, hasn’t it?

    • soft
      August 8, 2013, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      That was already discussed some a couple of strips ago. No, it most likely hasn’t.

  4. dexitroboper
    August 8, 2013, 4:14 am | # | Reply

    It’s another Whimsy Adventure!

  5. Eddurd
    August 8, 2013, 6:14 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Fire And Rain”, James Taylor)

    The boy-girl-robot-princess, went and opened the lock …
    He found the film that he was sent to get!
    I’m standing here staring in electronic shock …
    I need a minute and a cigarette!

     I just fried my little brain!
     I’ve been waiting here for the Little House to end …
     Found some crazy fans who are willing to defend ,
     But I never thought that I’d see him again …

  6. ChaoreX
    August 8, 2013, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

    Copyright infringement time, draw Pokémon teams for the skinhorse team, Requirements:
    Tip; all male but feminine pokemon
    U.N.I.T.Y.; Ghosts
    Sweetheart; Dogs
    Moustachio; Machine/construct pokemon
    Gavotte; insects, but No vespiqueen
    Zerhakker; Flying type and/ or hovering machines

    Also, for a wallpaper, draw the Skinhorse team ‘As’ Pokémon, after all, there are six members

    • hopsa
      August 8, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, the only time something like that would get you in trouble with a black ops combat lawyer team is if you mention space maaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    • jdreyfuss
      August 8, 2013, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      That’s not copyright infringement. If anything, it’s trademark infringement, but in either case it only requires an acknowledgement of the rights holder (and for trademark a clear disclaimer of association with the rights holder).

  7. jdreyfuss
    August 8, 2013, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    Between the way her cheeks move and the black-and-white art, Mary (or is it Gussie? I can’t remember) looks really stressed out in panel three. Between that and the dialogue, she sounds like a pilgrim about to meet her messiah or something.

    • soft
      August 8, 2013, 9:47 pm | # | Reply

      I think it is Mary. She’s the only one that was wearing glasses.

      • JET73L
        March 5, 2015, 5:29 am | # | Reply

        I think it is Mary. She’s the only one who was core-vent smoking in visible canon, is wearing a black dress, and is speaking audibly to characters with no wi-fi.

    • Grantwhy
      August 8, 2013, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she is going (expecting) to see a message from her (literal) maker.

      Her beloved maker, so yeah ‘or something’.

      ps: I on the other hand, am getting a “Iron Man/Tony Stark watching film of his father” (mundane recording with secret message in plain sight) feel from this.

  8. Stig
    August 8, 2013, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

    Nick and Unity are so cute in panel 3!!!

    • Stig
      August 8, 2013, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

      I mean panel 4.

  9. mittfh
    August 8, 2013, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

    Everyone’s putting all their hope into this film reel…

    …which I’m half convinced will just be a ten minute advertising spiel for WhimsyCorp rather than having anything resembling useful information.

    And/or to get the real message, you’d need to play it backwards, upside down, back-to-front and at half speed.

  10. rylen
    August 8, 2013, 9:20 pm | # | Reply

    I’m hoping this isn’t a kind of film destroyed by radiation.

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