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2015-01-14

by shaenon on January 14, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Ron Armstrong
    January 14, 2015, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Coming soon to the SyFy Channel ~ “Tiger Lily Jones,The Robo Whisper”

  2. Adama
    January 14, 2015, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Uh oh, I sense a rampage in her near future…

    • GammarayCanon
      January 14, 2015, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      I feel bad for whatever gets in her way. Either they’re going to become extremely damp, or worse…

    • kicking_k
      January 15, 2015, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      Yeah! Bubbles couldn’t do a worse job than Sweetheart is doing!
      (Mind you, if I tried a rampage it would go exactly like Sweetheart’s, including the church hall bit.)

  3. BMunro
    January 14, 2015, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T
    Find out what it means to me

  4. Daniel
    January 14, 2015, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    And Tiger Lily Jones’ status as my favorite character from anything ever is thus cemented even more firmly.

    • sbaker
      January 14, 2015, 11:27 am | # | Reply

      Word.

  5. Frank Hightower
    January 14, 2015, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    OMFG Hell has frozen over!

  6. BRGR
    January 14, 2015, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    What just happened?

    • Moe Lane
      January 14, 2015, 1:55 am | # | Reply

      …Funk.

      • irdburns
        January 14, 2015, 7:44 am | # | Reply

        An apt summary.

  7. Manifesta
    January 14, 2015, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    All power to the Bubbles Liberation Movement!

  8. Robert Nowall
    January 14, 2015, 2:23 am | # | Reply

    Turning into a real chattercooler, isn’t she? Never heard her say more than five words before…

    • oneuniverse2
      January 14, 2015, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      A 20% gain in vocabulary!

  9. Ben McGraw (@bengrue)
    January 14, 2015, 3:12 am | # | Reply

    I didn’t know who the darker black girl was for a second.

    (…Have we seen Unity from just that side before? Have we seen her from a single side before?)

    • Max
      January 14, 2015, 4:11 am | # | Reply

      Neither did I, until I read your comment and the penny dropped. Briefly forgetting SH is actually “dismantled” right now, I actually started wondering whether there might be a Department of Disembowelling I’m just failing to remember…

    • Blayzeing
      January 14, 2015, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      Right in the first few updates there was a shot of her from that side:
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/vintage-1930s/

      And I’m pretty sure it’s happened after that again as well. It could be that it’s since the comic has come into colour that you find the difference more striking.

    • Gemma
      January 14, 2015, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

      I actually find Unity less recognizable when the blond half is facing towards us, even if it’s still a 3/4 view- I’m so used to the dark side with the curly hair that seeing mostly pale skin and spiky hair throws me off.

    • davidbreslin101
      January 15, 2015, 8:42 am | # | Reply

      Belated reply- In “Railway Children” while Unity is matching wits with GODOT she appears several times in both right profile and left profile, sometimes in the same strip. The effect is startling,and possibly a bit symbolic.

  10. Ian thompson
    January 14, 2015, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    did Tigerlily hack bubbles? or is it the power of love?

    • irdburns
      January 14, 2015, 7:43 am | # | Reply

      Hacked BY the power of love.
      Or the Princess of Lovetron summoned the Silver Crystal of Funk and did some reality alteration, but its possible I’ve been reading too many of Shadowjacks sailor moon summaries…

  11. Delta Echo
    January 14, 2015, 5:14 am | # | Reply

    -dramatichamster.mp3

  12. Eddurd
    January 14, 2015, 7:35 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Too Darn Hot”, Cole Porter)

    The ‘bot said “Not!”
    The ‘bot said “Not!”

     Now Bubbles claims …
     Service isn’t her joy!
     And Sweetheart aims …
     To do more than destroy!

      Now Bubbles claims service isn’t her joy!
      And Sweetheart aims to do more than destroy!
      The drone’s the toy both will want to employ,
      But the ‘bot said “Not!”

  13. Foradain
    January 14, 2015, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    Freedom: The power to say no.

  14. Dr. Steve
    January 14, 2015, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    Sorry Huey, just had to…

    The power lovetron, is a bubbly thing
    make-a “the man” weep, make a zombie sing
    change with funk, so she’ll tell him to shove
    That’s alien power, that’s the power of love

    • oneuniverse2
      January 14, 2015, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

      But isn’t it Hip to Be Square?

  15. daibhidc
    January 14, 2015, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: Age of Aquarius, Fifth Dimension)

    When the dog is at the potluck meal,
    And Lovetron aligns with Mars,
    Then Jones will guide the cooler.
    With mojo from the stars.

    This is the dawning of the age of Aquarian!
    The age of Aquarian!
    Aqua-a-arian!

    Bubbles is now understanding,
    There’s more to life than providing.
    Something to make the Man nervous,
    Her joy is no longer service.
    Tigerlily’s revelation,
    Gives the bot true liberation.

    Aquaria-a-a-a-a-a-an!
    Aquarian!

    • miyaa
      January 14, 2015, 9:51 am | # | Reply

      Very well done.

  16. Mental Mouse
    January 14, 2015, 8:31 am | # | Reply

    Oh my… Tigerlily has set Bubbles loose!

    • oneuniverse2
      January 14, 2015, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think Bubbles will rampage worse than Sweetheart.

  17. Mental Mouse
    January 14, 2015, 8:35 am | # | Reply

    Also: Love the “Aquarian” reference! (For the Latin-impaired: “Aquarius” means “water-bearer”. The original word has a male-gendered ending, but “Aquarian” dodges that by shifting to an English Suffix.)

    • Robert Nowall
      January 14, 2015, 8:58 am | # | Reply

      Best I can come up with is that “Aquarian” means “born under the sign of Aquarius.” Which proves nothing.

      (I’d believe Bubbles is an Aquarius. Quirky and unconventional…unusual sense of humor…free-spirited…charming and well-behaved…friendly and well-liked. I’m cribbing this from the Wikipedia entry.)

    • sbaker
      January 14, 2015, 11:28 am | # | Reply

      Not to mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

  18. Treesong
    January 14, 2015, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Many people seem to think service is not her joy now. But the most we can say for now is that service is not her only joy.

    • irdburns
      January 14, 2015, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Well she’s also used ‘Only Joy’ before when context makes it clear she was talking about Unity. I think that the ‘only’ of that phrase isn’t nearly as specific as you might think.

    • chrisn
      January 14, 2015, 6:02 pm | # | Reply

      Hang on, think a minute. Maybe her version of “service” will change to “servicing?” I’m imagining she may get to be pretty popular. Unity might enjoy being serviced now and then.

  19. Treesong
    January 14, 2015, 10:22 am | # | Reply

    Some people claim that service is no longer her joy, but all we can say for now is that service is not her only joy.

    • kicking_k
      January 15, 2015, 7:40 am | # | Reply

      And can we even be sure she’s not just trying to please Tigerlily? Note the Tigerlily-esque font of “Not”, and, erm, the service that Tigerlily just requested was that Bubbles stick it to the man. So she did. Which presumably provides her some joy!

  20. D. Walker
    January 14, 2015, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, how does this make sense? Not that long ago Bubbles was head of a major company! She herself was “The Man”!

    • Frank Hightower
      January 14, 2015, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

      but it was not her joy

  21. Shadowmehr
    January 14, 2015, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

    Tigerlily, I salute you. Your madtech skills know no bounds.

    And then I’m running very fast in the opposite direction. Bubbles is going to blow any second now, and I do not want to be in the path of that tsunami.

  22. Beacuzz
    January 15, 2015, 4:08 am | # | Reply

    Bubbles pulled a Groot

  23. Nyerguds
    January 18, 2015, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

    Well. The only thing she did was confirm she may have MORE joys than service alone xD

  24. lxndr
    October 12, 2016, 3:45 am | # | Reply

    This… is heartbreaking. And my first time reading it.

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