More Calendar Sketches
Shaenon: More sketches I did for backers of the Skin Horse calendar (incidentally available from the Couscous Store). Unity was a popular request this time around, which is fine with me.
Channing: If I were a talking toaster, I’d be pretty mad at Ira too. Great suggestions, folks.
Do my eyes deceive me? Is that Unity and Mel together? I have been hoping for a walk-on by The Old Gang, who have as much to lose as anyone if HT wins…
OH no! Unity and Mel have not only met, but they appear to be friends! We’re all DOOMED!
No doubt you’re right. There’s no way that scenario ends well.
It looks like they’re armwrestling to me. Prepare to abandon building.
I interpreted it as the middle of a complicated handshake, but ICBW.
I decided they were probably engaged in what I remember being called “indian wrestling”, in which you put the outside of your (e.g. right) foot against your opponent’s, and engage the hand on the same side, and try to get them to move the foot that is against yours before you have to move your own. Might have other names…
One would expect them to be friends, what with Unity’s brain having been cloned from Mel’s DNA.
(And for anyone who hadn’t already figured it out, that explains Unity’s predilection for Willie Nelson.)
Friends or rivals (or both). Like, “Wow, you’re cool, but making more of me also threatens my plans for world domination, so you have to die now.” (Mel speaking of Unity, obviously; Unity’s most obvious path to world domination would be to make *everyone* her.)
I always figured that if Unity and Mell ever met, they’d either try to kill each other or immediately become BFFs. And I was never sure which would cause more collateral damage.
Do they, though? ISTR that in the mirror universe where Unity was the all-consuming biomass, their reaction was “Eh, whatever, we have an island.”
We never do learn much about what’s going on outside the States. All the action is in the USA (well, maybe a little in Canada). From stray comments we pick up a few things. Moustachio and Gavotte are from the UK. Unity was once in Rome (something said about crashing through the Sistine Chapel and double excommunication), Remy might be originally from Haiti…and, of course, Sweetheart is (gasp!) Canadian.
A girl who has brains on her mind. A gown that’s a one-of-a-kind. Some snuggling and wrestling and a toaster aggressing. And a tiger-cup coffee refined.
Isn’t it about time for that to be Madame Vice President Melody Wildflower Kelly?
“Wildflower?” I knew her middle name began with a “W” but, that?
It’s revealed in the first (I think) strip of “Li’l Mell”.
is that Tip’s Maid of Honor dress?! (YES!)
Don’t be silly. That is Tip’s Best Man dress. Gavotte is the Maid of Honor.