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2014-06-28

by shaenon on June 28, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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    • Fleen: Try Our Thick, Creamy Shakes » Minions, I Am Disappointed
      July 1, 2014, 2:08 pm | #
  1. ngmatt8652
    June 28, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I feel like thats the only time she is saying what we are seeing

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      June 28, 2014, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Hooray for punchlines with long buildups!

    • Smurfton
      June 28, 2014, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      Can you not understand her? It’s generally pretty easy, but requires context, e.g., saying “service service” while fixing Moustachio would definitely be saying what she was doing.

  2. Ogden Wernstrom
    June 28, 2014, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    That fourth panel’s framing shot from a human vantage point I am familiar with fooled me pretty well. Some stupid part of my brain tells me it knows where that is and where I’m standing, and if the characters are in a real place then they must be real too; I suppose movies and comics must try to do that, but it hasn’t really worked on me before.

    • Shaenon
      June 28, 2014, 3:38 pm | # | Reply

      Rob Liefeld is my constant: http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_medium/0/40/1880129-hawk_and_dove__2___comic_book_cover.jpeg

    • Gemma
      June 28, 2014, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

      Heck, I was in D.C. today and didn’t see anything wrong with that.

      • The J is Silent
        March 19, 2019, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

        The WWII Memorial is missing. It should be visible at the east end of the reflecting pool.
        Mind you, as a citizen of the District of Columbia, I say that that’s a good thing.
        The WWII Memorial is a visual scar on the National Mall (although it’s technically in Potomac Park West, everyone calls it the Mall) and they ought to tear it out and start over.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 19, 2019, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

          “Scar” is an apt term. WWII – like all wars – was a great wound on the world. Scars are not pretty, but they are a reminder of something even more ghastly. I say leave the memorials – imperfect though they may be – just as they are, particularly for the sake of those whose families were directly and irrevocably affected by the war.

  3. maarvarq
    June 28, 2014, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Is this Shaenon’s subtle way of putting Skin Horse on hiatus until she’s recovered from having the baby?

    • dexitroboper
      June 28, 2014, 3:21 am | # | Reply

      Well the filename story hasn’t finished, so maybe not.

    • outworldcats
      June 28, 2014, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      This was on comics.com the other day;
      “Season 4 Recap
      by shaenon on June 27, 2014 at 12:01 am

      And that’s Season 4! I’m currently nine and a half months pregnant, so I’ll be taking a bit of a maternity break before starting the next season. But that doesn’t mean Monster of the Week will lie fallow! Keep an eye out for what should be a very cool bonus comic.”

      • Andrew
        June 28, 2014, 9:07 am | # | Reply

        9 1/2 months? Oh dear.

        • shaenon
          June 28, 2014, 3:44 pm | # | Reply

          It was a typo, but by now it feels like about 20 months.

          • kicking_k
            June 28, 2014, 6:43 pm | #

            Sympathy and lots of it. My pregnancies seem to run pretty close to nine and a half months (son eleven days late, daughter twelve days late) but it DOES come to an end. And I felt pretty much back to normal almost immediately afterwards and slept much better too. It’s nice to have one’s ribcage to oneself again…

      • Robert Nowall
        June 28, 2014, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

        I was meaning to ask, but couldn’t think of a polite way. Not that that’s stopped me before…

  4. BRGR
    June 28, 2014, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    It’s a conspiracy!

    They (the ones who live) move Project Skin Horse out of the way so they can safely draw the front lines and prepare the war.

  5. skirtmanwarrior
    June 28, 2014, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    But at least Unity and Bubbles finally have time for coffee!

  6. s854
    June 28, 2014, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know where they’re meant to be in the last frame, but I suspect it’s somewhere where the coffee would be horribly expensive, horrible, or both.

    • Barking Monkey
      June 28, 2014, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      They’re immediately in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking down the mall towards the Capitol building. (The Capitol and the WWII memorial are not quite in scale, which might be throwing you off a bit.) There are often food trucks about down there which means they probably have nearby access to cheap but crappy coffee.

  7. Eddurd
    June 28, 2014, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “You Belong To Me”, King, Stewart, & Price)

    See the obelisk along The Mall,
    See the monument so straight and tall,
    See the office where they fired us all,
    We’ll be back someday!

    Seems a new job we don’t need to find,
    Seems that shortly we’ll be reassigned,
    Soon we’ll be back to the daily grind …
    We’ll be back someday!

     Just a little break, we’re not done,
     While our Shaenon hatches one …
     What fun!

    Take a break for some maternity,
    Then more comics we’ll be sure to see!
    Sweetheart, Tip, Gavotte, and Unity …
    They’ll be back someday!

    • Tetra Valent
      June 28, 2014, 10:54 am | # | Reply

      It’s all well and good for Shaenon to take a break, but we still need your daily filk somewhere!

  8. Shadowmehr
    June 28, 2014, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    Good luck, Ms. Garrity (or is it Mrs.?) Please count me among those wishing you joy with the new junior mad scientist in your life.

    Our Heroes may be down, but they are decidedly not out. Anasigma may have found a way to dissolve Skin Horse, but now they have to deal with all of them scattered through other parts of government. The bureaucracy may never recover. (U.N.I.T.Y. in any other sort of office is enough to give me shivers.)

    • fluffy
      June 28, 2014, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

      She’s married but didn’t take her husband’s last name (Farago), so presumably “Ms” is the correct honorific to use.

      • Shay Guy
        June 28, 2014, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

        Not necessarily. My mom uses her maiden name with “Mrs.”

  9. Megan Brett
    June 28, 2014, 10:40 am | # | Reply

    Waiit. Skin Horse is in DC? That is both awesome and Creepifying.

    • jdreyfuss
      June 28, 2014, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

      I think they said Annex One is in Fairfax County.

      • Gemma
        June 28, 2014, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

        Wait, really? I must have missed that, which is unfortunate, because I live there!

        • Megan Brett
          June 29, 2014, 6:32 pm | # | Reply

          Likewise!

    • Wurm42
      June 28, 2014, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      “Awesome and Creepifying.” Indeed. And now the (former?) employees of Black Ops Social Services are at loose ends in the Nation’s Capitol. No good will come of this. . .

  10. Tonyris
    June 28, 2014, 11:17 am | # | Reply

    Aren’t most federal agencies and suchlikes based in D.C.? (Actually asking)

    • DonRCamp
      June 28, 2014, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      Well, the ones that aren’t in Virginia . . .

      • Andy4Hire
        June 28, 2014, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

        And even those are more or less in the D.C. orbit.

      • David DeLaney
        October 7, 2014, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

        … must … resist … awful pun … involving Tip and Artie …

        –Dave, SHADOW GOV’T HAS BEE

  11. Guesticus
    June 28, 2014, 11:32 am | # | Reply

    Just figured they went to DC for a vacation, glad to see they brought Brita with them

  12. Robert Nowall
    June 28, 2014, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    Shouldn’t Bubbles return the drone before being reassigned?

    • Efogoto
      June 28, 2014, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

      She’s not driving the drone in the way Nick did, she was installed in the drone by Doc Lee.

      Maybe Nick can drive the water cooler now. On second thought, who would drink it if the water were dispensed with an accompanying sound of expectoration? Well, UNITY, but anyone else?

  13. Bruce Munro
    June 28, 2014, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

    Time skip! Fortunately this isn’t an anime, or we’d have to suffer through a bunch of bad filler. 🙂

    • Elly Berlin
      June 28, 2014, 3:58 pm | # | Reply

      What exactly makes you think we’re not MOMENTS away from bad filler? I feel filler coming on any moment now….

  14. Blayzeing
    June 29, 2014, 5:07 am | # | Reply

    As I read this my alarm came in and the radio started playing Agnus Dei Op 11 from the beginning. Honestly one of the surealist moments I’ve had while reading a comic.

  15. Sandy
    June 29, 2014, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmmm. A botched operation leading to the Control of Project Skin Horse to step down?

    My Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy senses are tingling.

  16. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    June 30, 2014, 3:56 am | # | Reply

    “Fixers” eh? Now there’s a vague yet menacing agency if ever I heard one.

  17. Mental Mouse
    July 1, 2014, 8:51 am | # | Reply

    Best of Luck Shaenon!

  18. Waffle Sorter
    March 31, 2015, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    …I realize it’s completely unfounded, but I feel like Tip’s wearing mourning in this strip. Which is unlikely, given the top and sash/belt/thing he’s got on, but that’s what I’m partly convinced I’m seeing.

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