2014-08-27
This week’s entire story–scripting and art and everything!–by Artaban! As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror.
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
This week’s entire story–scripting and art and everything!–by Artaban! As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror.
Next panel: crash! ka-tinkle! “…oops.”
That was my thought
So, if that deadly disease affects diplopodae as well as the other basement brethren, we may now know what happened to the millipedes. 🙁
They could put it online instead of a print file…
You’re assuming the rest of the basement dwellers have computers and internet access (which, IIRC, we already know is not true).
You mean they haven’t upgraded?
I am of the impression that this is happening in the Distant Past ™, what with the “now-nonexistent” thing and all.
They can get someone upstairs to scan it in. A simple task.
(TUNE: “Please Please Me”, The Beatles)
The millipedes are demonstrating,
So basement dwellers won’t be hating …
And on those worms,
That mite confirms
They’ll come to terms
Or get these germs!
Diseased fleas, oh no!
He is no more!
He wants to claim their territory …
Instead, he meets a death that’s gory!
”Destroy!” he said,
That mite so red
Upon my head …
So now he’s dead!
Diseased fleas, oh no!
Now he’s just gore!
The mite has little forethought. Even if the disease can jump phyla and kill off the rat, the fish, and the cobras; or even jump kingdoms and kill off the mushrooms; there’s still the robots, the sapient flood, and the crystal entity, which are arguably the three most powerful factions.
I think the Robots OS would the main factor on whether they would be susceptible to a virus or not…
Oh, it’s a *mite*! I’d been wondering if it might be the title character of this section? (“Grillo Parlante” means “Talking Cricket”, like from Pinocchio.)
Grillo Parlante is the name of Jonah and Nera’s blog.
Handle these capsules with care. Dr. Noah’s bacillus is highly contagious. This germ, when distributed in the atmosphere will make all women beautiful and destroy all men over 4’6. Warning, you have just dropped Dr. Noah’s bacillus.
So they’ve shortened the height requirement! I thought Woody Allen in “Casino Royale” was taller than that
Ah, finally, someone in fiction show the correct response to a warmonger with bioweapons.
Apparently, to secure peace is to prepare for Armageddon.
I’m very much enjoying your work Artaban 😀
There’s always that one guy who ruins the whole thing . . .
Hopefully the millipede under the disease flea didn’t get a migraine from that particular “peace negotiation”