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2014-11-28

by shaenon on November 28, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Ron Armstrong
    November 28, 2014, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    YES!!!
    Extra bonus,Brita is there as well!
    Thank you Shaenon & Jeff!!!
    =>D

  2. Frank Hightower
    November 28, 2014, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Hey, it’s 3 pumpkin lattes… and bubbles for Bubbles

    • Robert Nowall
      November 28, 2014, 11:53 am | # | Reply

      Can the drone handle caffeine?

  3. Dave
    November 28, 2014, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Sweet! Gettin’ the band back together!

    …come on, somebody had to say it. 😛

  4. Ron Armstrong
    November 28, 2014, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    Medical lobotomies? Sounds like a job for Skin Horse to me!
    =>D

  5. Peter J
    November 28, 2014, 3:59 am | # | Reply

    What would “the cure” do to Sweathart? A reality blind buracrat is a hard sell! 😉

    • daibhidc
      November 28, 2014, 5:45 am | # | Reply

      Worse yet, a talking dog who doesn’t believe dogs can talk…

      • Zyzzyva
        November 28, 2014, 11:04 am | # | Reply

        Sudden thought: what would happen if they dosed the Whimsy employee-turned-skunk lady from the guest artist week with the Cure?

        • Rex Vivat
          November 28, 2014, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

          Well, that’s exactly what she wants.

          • Zyzzyva
            November 28, 2014, 3:23 pm | #

            Exactly! Kinda clears out the moral ambiguity around curing Debbie etc.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      November 28, 2014, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      It’s only a cure for Walden’s Disease. It can make Mads stop being Mad, but it can’t un-create their creations.

    • Gyrre
      December 2, 2014, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

      Have you taken a look at politics in the USA for the last 15 years? I’m pretty sure most of the bureaucrats in Congress are reality blind.

      Hell, one of the only ones I can think of that isn’t reality blind is Tim Huelskamp and he’s been branded as a rogue nutter.

  6. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    November 28, 2014, 4:05 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart does realize that she wouldn’t exist if not for Mads, right?

    Oh… wait… The Good Cap’n lives in Canada, not the US, so the Cure wouldn’t really be an iss—wait a minute… Canada!?!?!? Land of universal heathcare? But that means…. free Cure for everybody, dramatic sting!

  7. Robert Nowall
    November 28, 2014, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    Doesn’t Sweetheart have TiVo?

    • Frank Hightower
      November 28, 2014, 8:44 am | # | Reply

      I’ll bet it was a government employee benefit

  8. Shadowmehr
    November 28, 2014, 9:05 am | # | Reply

    Right message, wrong audience. At least the rest might get the implications of all of this.

  9. Blue Wonder
    November 28, 2014, 11:50 am | # | Reply

    I take it Bubbles is officially part of the team now?

    • mickeyf
      November 28, 2014, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

      Absolutely!! Hoooray!

  10. Wdot
    November 28, 2014, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

    Could this “cure” lead to Sweetheart having only “normal” canine intelligence? How would she feel about that? The same way Tigerlilly feels about not being a mad genius?

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      November 28, 2014, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      No, because Sweetheart isn’t a Mad

      • Rex Vivat
        November 28, 2014, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

        You forget, the Cure doesn’t just “cure madness”. It gives you reality blindness.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          November 28, 2014, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

          I’m pretty sure that’s a consequence of curing the Madness.

          • irdburns
            November 28, 2014, 9:06 pm | #

            Yeah. The whole premise is that reality is irrational and many (most?) Can’t deal with it. Of those who can, some are ‘mad’ and able to manipulate it.

          • Rex Vivat
            November 28, 2014, 9:18 pm | #

            It’s not a consequence, it’s the same thing. The Cure works by blocking the ability of the subject to see things as they are. The way Helen puts it, there’s no other component to it, nothing that would target only people with Waltons disorder. A normal person on the cure would become like Bill, so a sapient dog on the cure would become like… I don’t know, Lassie? In any case, it wouldn’t just do nothing.

  11. edddddthemadgenius
    November 28, 2014, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

    In fairness to sweetheart, tigerlily said the cure would make her “normal”, not that it would make her reality-blind. Sweetheart might think it would just cure the madness itself

  12. Saberbeam
    November 28, 2014, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    Now Sweetheart, you should at least try your felony aiding and abetting before you decide you don’t like it. For all you know, it might go well with the pumpkin spice.

  13. auntiebarb
    November 28, 2014, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart may want The Cure for their CLIENTS, not necessarily for the Team. None of the team are technically ‘Mads.’ And if they all became Reality Blind, they’d never get their old Skin Horse Jobs back, so there wouldn’t be a Skin Horse comic and then what would WE all do without a reason to check the computer in the morning?
    (Plus, it wouldn’t work with Unity’s necrotic goo.)

  14. BMunro
    November 28, 2014, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

    Really now, Sweetheart. Do you want a supply of homosexuality-antidote, too?

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