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2020-10-30

by shaenon on October 30, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 30, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    It’s like saying “The Emperor has no clothes!” But, then, neither does Artie.

  2. Doug Relyea
    October 30, 2020, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    Dang it! Of course the rats are reality blind! They’re in the sewer, where whatever Anasigma has been dispensing ends up after it passes thru the Humans above.

    • kiralamouse
      October 30, 2020, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      o_0 Hadn’t thought about that. But what are the parameters? Artie The Intelligent Gerbil still registers for them, as does the fact that they themselves are intelligent rats. So are they blind to anything that doesn’t register as “normal” to them, and Artie reads as a rat to them?

      • Shadowmehr
        October 30, 2020, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

        Argue already knew of them, so he’s probably had dealings with them before, and as such, will read as ‘normal’ to them. The reality blindness wouldn’t affect memories, just current perceptions. Which makes Artie’s next task of revealing the truth about Valiant’s date all the more problematic.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      October 30, 2020, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

      This guess gets marks for plausibility, whether the incumbent authors go that way or not.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        October 30, 2020, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

        Ask anybody, you won’t find a more loyal supporter of this comic’s current administration than me. Not in this comment section, not anywhere. It’s going to be tough going, because they have a lot of detractors, people who are very disappointed in their performance and say very critical things — I won’t repeat them, but very critical. But nobody believes in Shaenon and Jeff more than me. I like loyalty. And if somebody like this David Huber here starts creating fanon — and it would have been nice if he asked my permission first, just a courtesy thing, but that’s up to him I guess — if he starts creating fanon that contradicts precedent established by others including yours truly, and we’re not there yet but I’m paying attention, that’s all I’m going to say about that, I’m paying attention — then I trust that Shaenon and Jeff will return my loyalty, because otherwise, we might have a problem.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 30, 2020, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

          I do believe you’re insane. Not that any of the rest of us is far from it, but you have gone right over the edge. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, mind you. I’m just making a point.

        • David B Huber
          October 30, 2020, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

          My Dear Mr. Wernstrom,

          I do apologise if I have inadvertently offended. I find your characters of Steve and Kyle (and even Eddie) resonate with me and intended only to offer support and encouragement of your efforts to bring them to life.

          I look forward to hearing more about their adventures from you. And who knows? If Joanie Loves Chachi deserved a spin-off…

          Best Regards,

          Dave Huber

  3. David B Huber
    October 30, 2020, 3:43 am | # | Reply

    Had our intrepid AR adventurers read the entire manual rather than skimming, they might have found page 119 in Section 8 Paragraph 4 regarding “Avoiding Capture: It is imperative that Anasigma technology not fall into the wrong hands. Should discovery occur and capture be inevitable, engage the drone’s self-destruct mode by clicking your heels together three times while saying the code phrase ‘There’s no place like home’. This will overload your supercapacitor in an explosive discharge, destroying the drone while emitting an EMP disrupting all non-hardened electronics within a maximum radius of 400 meters. CAUTION! Electrostatic area effect will be lethal to any life forms within a 30 meter radius.”

    Guns. How quaint.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 30, 2020, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      Given their intelligence, they may have indeed read that, but didn’t understand a word of it.

      • jdreyfuss
        October 30, 2020, 8:26 am | # | Reply

        Or they misunderstood and thought they needed a pair of ruby slippers. Which is silly, because everyone knows they need silver ones.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 30, 2020, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

          That’s how teachers could tell if kids actually read the book or just watched the movie.

          • jdreyfuss
            November 2, 2020, 9:56 am | #

            My 11th grade English Lit teacher did that with whether you talked about the characters in A Clockwork Orange wearing baseball pants with jockstraps or black leggings with codpieces.

  4. Robert Nowall
    October 30, 2020, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

    Just how ungodly is the pack of intelligent rat creatures. True, you don’t see a lot of churchgoing among the characters in the strip, though Artie is a Unitarian minister, and Unity once said something about going through the roof at the Vatican and something else about double excommunication…

    • David B Huber
      October 31, 2020, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      When Skin Horse attends church, it usually ends with collateral damage.

  5. davidbreslin101
    October 30, 2020, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

    “Stupid, stupid rat-creatures!”

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