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2021-07-01

by shaenon on July 1, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. David B Huber
    July 1, 2021, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I’m pretty sure I saw this scam on an episode of “The Wild Wild West”…

    • BMunro
      July 1, 2021, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      The Narrative certainly seems to be making a strong case for a con at this point.

      • Bruceski
        July 1, 2021, 4:11 am | # | Reply

        If we’re still in Oz parallels would this be the Wizard’s balloon?

        • BMunro
          July 1, 2021, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

          Well, the Wizard is Mr. Green, which would indicate an A-Sig fraud, but on the other hand the balloon was an actual means of leaving Oz, so I’ll have to give you a firm “I dunno.”

    • skullthetroll
      July 1, 2021, 9:04 am | # | Reply

      Except in this case there’s a real planet behind the (fake?) religion.

      • Frank
        July 1, 2021, 10:32 am | # | Reply

        So far, we don’t know if there is, we only know there is Pavane and that there’s some connection between Pavane and Tigerlily Jones

        • BMunro
          July 1, 2021, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

          Didn’t Tigerlily say at some point she was sane enough to know Lovetron (thank you) didn’t exist but mad enough not to care?

          • David B Huber
            July 1, 2021, 11:18 pm | #

            Indeed. Good memory, BMunro!

          • maarvarq
            July 2, 2021, 2:44 am | #

            Strictly speaking she only said that she knows she’s not from there.

        • Candace
          July 2, 2021, 1:40 am | # | Reply

          Well, Gavotte asserted that she was from the planet Lovetron, and in fact (I think), that all bees were from Lovetron. She had planned to go back there, but then decided that she needed to stay a little longer, so, unless Gavotte was lying, it seems that Lovetron is a real place. (I think this was in VR, but Gavotte was present. I seem to recall some comment about the inherent difficulties in a swarm of bees using a VR rig.)

          • Candace
            July 2, 2021, 2:11 am | #

            Ah, found the ref. (The blond lady in the hat is Gavotte, or at least part of her.) http://skin-horse.com/comic/unity-and/

          • awgiedawgie
            July 2, 2021, 1:28 pm | #

            It was pretty well established that all of the ladies that Virginia encountered on the beach were different parts of Gavotte. Virginia actually seemed to be quite instrumental in getting them all to work together to escape.

    • jdreyfuss
      July 1, 2021, 9:11 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking of the one from The Simpsons, myself.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 1, 2021, 9:22 am | # | Reply

        Nick was doing it at the Robot Battle Contest.

        • Robert Nowall
          July 1, 2021, 9:23 am | # | Reply

          Also Tony’s opening is a lift from “Julius Caeser.”

          • jdreyfuss
            July 2, 2021, 8:36 am | #

            I’m pretty sure anyone who speaks English and went to high school knows that.

        • jdreyfuss
          July 2, 2021, 8:37 am | # | Reply

          I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m talking about the UFO cult.

  2. thejoemoose
    July 1, 2021, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Nice riff on Shakespeare.

  3. Bruce A Munro
    July 1, 2021, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Strictly speaking, it would be a “flying saucer cult”: it’s not an Unknown Flying Object, they _know_ (or so they say) that it’s a Mothership from the planet Groovitron.

    • Frank
      July 1, 2021, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Nono, Groovitron is the transportation device, the planet is Lovetron

      (I’ve been reading this comic way too long)

  4. Kyle
    July 1, 2021, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    All’s well that ends well! Good work, gang, seems like everything’s taken care of.
    Sidenote: I’m enjoying trying to decipher some of the tiny silhouettes in panel 1.

  5. WuseMajor
    July 1, 2021, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    I mean, if the spaceship is real, is it actually a cult?

  6. pdp15
    July 1, 2021, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
    In the yellow haze of the sun
    There were children crying and colors flying
    All around the chosen ones
    All in a dream, all in a dream
    The loading had begun
    Flyin’ mother nature’s silver seed
    To a new home in the sun
    Flyin’ mother nature’s silver seed
    To a new home

    • Andy4Hire
      July 1, 2021, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

      My first thought exactly, pdp15!

      When I took up playing guitar in ninth grade, I started with the half-dozen songs to which my dad had copied out the chords and lyrics by hand in the seventies. “After the Goldrush” was the first one I learned, mainly because it was slow enough that I could almost keep up. The other five, which were all by Cat Stevens, followed soon thereafter. All in all, not a bad way to start out.

      • Andy4Hire
        July 1, 2021, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

        … Though I will add that it took a while for me to realize what “After the Goldrush” was actually about. For a while, just learning to play it was enough. I wasn’t the most clued-in teenager, and my dad was in no hurry to explain it himself.

  7. Theris
    July 1, 2021, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    All things considered, an UFO cult is rather tame compared to everything else he’s done. His bucket list probably has stuff like “Have sex with a sentient coffee waterfall”.

    • waynezombie
      July 1, 2021, 11:05 am | # | Reply

      High octane or decaf?

      • awgiedawgie
        July 1, 2021, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        Decaf isn’t coffee. It’s just bitter brown water.

        • W.
          July 1, 2021, 7:45 pm | # | Reply

          Yas! awgiedawgie!

    • David B Huber
      July 1, 2021, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, if you laced Dr. Lee’s coffee with Unity’s nanite barf…

      Never mind. Tip is still carrying latent lycanthropy held in check by Unity’s “blood” serum.

  8. Robert Nowall
    July 1, 2021, 6:26 am | # | Reply

    Loading or Uploading?

    • awgiedawgie
      July 1, 2021, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

      Yes?

  9. David B Huber
    July 1, 2021, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    Gotta admit, Tony is a good speechifier!

  10. SVGeezer
    July 1, 2021, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    Only thing to say to this is ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK ACK!

    And I mean every word of it.

    • Shadowmehr
      July 1, 2021, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      I understand what you are saying (but your accent is terrible), and let us but hope that Pavane isn’t quite as hostile as the Martians were in that movie.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 1, 2021, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      I wouldn’t put it in quite so many words, but yes.

  11. Robert Nowall
    July 1, 2021, 9:30 am | # | Reply

    The audience listens so keen. Revenants, beastfolk, machines! The possums are proof so they’re up on the roof, to announce their new uploading scene

    • David B Huber
      July 1, 2021, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      Bravo!

  12. Kingfisher
    July 1, 2021, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    I definitely want to have something interesting in the near future to say to preface with “revenants, beastfolk, machines, lend me your sensory equipment”.

    I don’t quite have the imagination to pull off a UFO cult, though.

    • Frank
      July 1, 2021, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      You could easily write a riff of the original “Friends romans countrymen” for any politician you dislike

  13. Pygar
    July 1, 2021, 10:26 am | # | Reply

    I promise not to release any doves!

  14. Frank
    July 1, 2021, 10:26 am | # | Reply

    Arguably, 2021 is the best time to start a UFO cult

    • John Campbell
      July 1, 2021, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

      The best time to start a UFO cult was b’ak’tun 13.0.0.0.0. The second-best time is now.

  15. Pygar
    July 1, 2021, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    SVGeezer, the doves comment was for you!

  16. Robert Nowall
    July 1, 2021, 10:38 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, Tony’s opening statement leaves a lot of the regular cast, being human beings, out of luck here. But he mentions revenants, and, well, I understand something can be arranged.

    • David B Huber
      July 1, 2021, 10:52 am | # | Reply

      Snacks! 😉

    • mickeyjf
      July 1, 2021, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      This concerns me also. Tip and Ginny in particular.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 1, 2021, 11:47 am | # | Reply

        Chris and Marcie…Jonah Yu and Nera…Sergio…Tigerlily Jones…Konstantin…a lotta them left in the lurch.

        Would Nick’s copter body fit on the Mothership?

      • awgiedawgie
        July 1, 2021, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

        Tip would qualify as “beastfolk”, and Virginia is the Significant Other of a machine, so she should be fine. But the rest of them?

        • Robert Nowall
          July 1, 2021, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

          When Nick’s ancestors were allowed to return to Zion, they were also made to put aside their foreign wives acquired during the Babylonian Captivity. Dr. Lee could be in the same situation here.

          • BMunro
            July 1, 2021, 8:40 pm | #

            Whoever’s behind this, I doubt they’re either Jehovah or Cyrus the Great.

  17. Jim Janney
    July 1, 2021, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

    Suddenly I really want to watch Uforia again.

  18. bear
    July 1, 2021, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

    From the Arizona Desert to the Salisbury Plain,
    Lights on the horizon, patterns on the brain.
    Anxious eyes turned upward clutching souvenirs
    Carrying our highest hopes and our darkest fears.

    They swear there was an accident back in ’47.
    Little man with a great big head splattered down from heaven
    Government Conspiracies, cover-ups and lies
    Hidden in the desert under endless skies.

    Well it’s a cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold post post modern world
    No time for heroes, no place for good guys, no room for Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

    They’re not here. They’re not coming. Not in a million years.
    Turn your weary eyes back homeward, stop your trembling, dry your tears
    You may see the heavens flashing, you may hear the cosmos humming
    But I promise you my brother, they’re not here. They’re not coming.

    Would they pile into their saucer, find Orlando’s rat and hug it?
    Go screaming through the Universe, Just to get McNuggets?
    Well I don’t think so I don’t think so, It’s much too dangerous, it’s much too strange.
    Here in a world that won’t give Oprah no Home on the Range.

    Well it’s a cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold post post modern world
    No authenticity, no sign of soul, the radio won’t play George and Merle.

    They’re not here. They’re not coming. Not in a million years.
    ‘Till we put away our hatred, till we lay aside our fears.
    You may see the heavens flashing, you may hear the cosmos humming
    But I promise you my sister, they’re not here. They’re not coming.

    To this garden we were given and always took for granted
    Well, it’s like my Daddy told me, you just bloom where you’re planted.
    Now you know you’ll be delivered from this world of pain and strife
    That’s a sorry substitution for a spiritual life.

    Well it’s a cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold post post modern world
    No place for sentiment, no room for romance, bring back the Duke of Earl.

    They’re not here. They’re not coming. Not in a million years.
    Turn your hopes back homeward, hold your children, dry their tears
    You may see the heavens flashing, you may hear the cosmos humming
    But I promise you my brother, they’re not here. They’re not coming

    They’re not here. They’re not coming. Not in a million years.
    ‘Till we put away our hatred and lay aside our fears.
    You may see the heavens flashing, you may hear the cosmos humming
    But I promise you my sister, they’re not here. They’re not coming.

    • David B Huber
      July 1, 2021, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

      Even more grim would be to ask a time traveler from the future “Is there intelligent life on other planets?” and get the response “Not anymore. We won!”

  19. Grob Jobson
    July 1, 2021, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder how likely it is that these prophets are Anasigma plants, and the original Tony and Mercutio did, in fact, die in their experiment.

    This is a ploy to convince all the gathered that they survived the disintegration (which Skin Horse can confirm they bore witness to) to make all of the non-humans willingly disintegrate themselves for the promise of going onto the ‘Mothership’ that isn’t actually there.

    • David B Huber
      July 1, 2021, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

      Ira is one of the few Anasigma bosses I view as intelligent enough to have classified Nick as an electrokinetic.

      I could also see a perimeter of hardened Killbots closing in, chorusing “Destroy!” as Pavane tries desperately to load the few who can escape onto the Mothership…

  20. The Flower Cosmic
    July 2, 2021, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    This sets off all sort of alarm bells…on the other hand, if they ARE legit, then hey, having a lifeboat of sorts is not a bad idea.

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