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2020-04-27

by shaenon on April 27, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Robert Nowall
    April 27, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    “Let them eat brains!”

    • awgiedawgie
      April 27, 2020, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      “Caaaaaaake!”

      And now I want to make Unity a birthday cake (and no, I don’t know or care if it’s even close to her birthday) shaped like a brain.

      • Shadowmehr
        April 27, 2020, 12:56 pm | # | Reply

        And now I want you to send me one just like it. Or at least let me know where you got the mold.

        • Bernerlb
          April 27, 2020, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

          I have a tiny brain mold. You need to use a fine grained cake to get the wrinkly details. I can’t remember where I got it, but search “brain ice cube mold”. It makes cute brownies.

      • Pygar
        April 27, 2020, 4:20 pm | # | Reply

        The nice thing about Unity is that some part of her must always be experiencing a birthday. The nice thing about Amazon is the selection of baking brain molds… or gelatin ones if you prefer.

  2. pdp15
    April 27, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Marie! It’s been years!

  3. Frank
    April 27, 2020, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    that head rolled all the way across the ocean

  4. Robert Nowall
    April 27, 2020, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    The head is in the box Unity is carrying. Does that make her a head-toter?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 27, 2020, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      Yes… Yes, it does.

  5. strawberrycocoa
    April 27, 2020, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    So is stitching new limbs on willy-nilly specifically a UNITY thing, since her “blood” is her true form?

    • BMunro
      April 27, 2020, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Well, he says “not all” rather than “very few” or “hardly any”, so I suspect it’s not just a Unity thing: Zombies in this world seems to be mostly a mad science product, so I imagine their abilities vary widely.

      • BMunro
        April 27, 2020, 1:41 am | # | Reply

        “Depending on the creator”, I should have added.

      • David B Huber
        April 27, 2020, 6:26 am | # | Reply

        I dunno, BMunro. I sense resentment / envy in panel 3 and suspect Unity & Trinity may well be the only revenants capable of integrating new parts at will. True zombies may be able to reattach the *same* limb (since Esteban wants his back).

      • Sheik
        April 27, 2020, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

        I’d have to agree with you.
        Left to nature, the heat, flies, and such, body parts would normally be something you have to carry around in a bucket, not a box, in a matter of days.

  6. BMunro
    April 27, 2020, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Is that an actual 1790s French noblewoman zombie, or is she just making an analogy?

    • khn0
      April 27, 2020, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      89 was for nobles, 92 was for
      Girondins
      Moderates
      Hebertists
      Dantonists
      Englishmen
      …
      Robespierre (but she doesn’t look like one Robespierre)

      to be frank, from what I know of the period, most of the kills weren’t beheading, for example Marat’s appeal to kill royalists was followed people who didn’t carry guillotines in their pockets.

      • s854
        April 27, 2020, 8:11 am | # | Reply

        The other Robespierre, then? The one who wasn’t shot in the jaw beforehand?

        Plenty of women were executed in revolutionary France, of course, even if women didn’t have the same access to the political institutions which sped so many men’s journeys to the guillotine.

    • BMunro
      April 27, 2020, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      Hm? There was no specific anti-noble attacks on the part of the revolutionary government in ’89: peasant uprisings, yes, but if anyone was going to be guillotined, ’92 and later was where the action was.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 27, 2020, 8:40 am | # | Reply

        Not everybody got it in the neck. They used the firing squad, and also there was that guy in Nantes who thought it was clever to drown people.

        • BMunro
          April 27, 2020, 11:48 am | # | Reply

          I am aware of that! But the “lacking a body” thing indicates that _in this specific case_, they _did_ get it in the neck. My objection was to the notion that nobles were likelier to get killed in 1789 than 1792.

          • khn0
            April 27, 2020, 4:30 pm | #

            89: end of nobility.

            So after that (sorry I said 92, but I checked and first death though guillotine was Langevin in 93), the count of nobles executed -not all guillotined- is not that easy to count (in Paris where most executions happened, around 500 people on 3000 executions in 6 years, on 50000/140000 nobles before 89). They were not executed as noble, but as monarchists, counterrevolutionaries, or whatev… like Robespierre himself (the “noble” one, not the other 😉 )

  7. Blofeld's Cat
    April 27, 2020, 3:22 am | # | Reply

    French Revolution? That reminds me, I’ve got some knitting to catch up with.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 27, 2020, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

      “We are so poor, we do not even have a language! Just this stupid accent!”

  8. sweetuncleLESLIE
    April 27, 2020, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    A few years ago hot heads like yr correspondent were calling for guillotines.
    Around ‘let’s all be nice’ OCCUPY. Should have gone immediately to guillotines, units with wheels, park them at the ground floor of various Wall and ‘K; street firms,
    and lure the higher-level employees downstairs for a PARTY. Ah, well. Likely there
    will YET be PARTIES.

    • Guesticus
      April 27, 2020, 11:05 am | # | Reply

      No, the ‘tines should have been for the ‘Occupy’ twits

      • Pygar
        April 27, 2020, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

        Hear, hear!

  9. jdreyfuss
    April 27, 2020, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Based on Sweetheart’s expression in the first panel, I think we missed some . . . interesting conversation prior to the beginning of this strip.

    • David B Huber
      April 27, 2020, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      I’m curious whether they got those boxes from Dr. Lee? After all, their self-imposed mission is to guard Dr. Lee’s new lab…

      • Shadowmehr
        April 27, 2020, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        In the first panel, there is some sort of equipment sticking out of the box, so probably.

        • jdreyfuss
          April 27, 2020, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

          Still wondering why she would need an anemometer for anyone other than Nick.

          • Robert Nowall
            April 27, 2020, 4:11 pm | #

            Taking an ane-mom-eter to Mom?

          • Robert Nowall
            April 27, 2020, 4:32 pm | #

            Er…a “mom eater?”

          • awgiedawgie
            April 27, 2020, 5:03 pm | #

            Bear in mind… just because it looks like an anemometer doesn’t mean that’s what she’s actually using it for.

          • Robert Nowall
            April 28, 2020, 1:15 pm | #

            Colonel Flagg: …and, uh, round up a box of scorpions. About a dozen.

            Radar: You mean, uh, scorpions scorpions?

            Colonel Flagg: Big ones.

            Hawkeye: What the hell are you gonna do with a box of scorpions?

            Colonel Flagg: It’s personal. Gift for a friend.

    • Candace
      April 28, 2020, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart looks like she may be seeing something ahead that is either surprising or distressing (or both.) Based on her expression a couple of days ago, I think she may have already noticed whatever it is, but hadn’t quite figured out what she was seeing yet. Whatever it is, it appears to have her full attention now. (Ears raked forward, eyes forward, and it looks like she may be leaning forward a bit based on neck angle.)

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 27, 2020, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

    Marie, Marie, Marie!

    Marie, the dawn is breaking
    Marie, the mob is waiting.
    Your head (your head) must fall (must fall) you cannot stall.
    The guillotine harsh verdict rendered.
    Your neck (ooh, your neck) so very severed.
    The mob will cry, “Well, just behead her!”
    You’ll see, (Marie), Marie, (Marie).

    Marie, the revolution
    Calls for your execution.
    And heads (and heads) will fall (will fall), we’ll chop then all.
    The blade of steel is gleaming,
    The end (oh, the end) of your regime-ing.
    If you can keep from screaming,
    You’ll see, (Marie), Marie, (Marie), Marie (Marie)!

    —from “Marie,” Irving Berlin. The name “Marie” from pdp15 above.

    • David B Huber
      April 27, 2020, 5:20 pm | # | Reply

      Thunderous applause!

  11. hugh_donnetono
    April 27, 2020, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

    “This is a GRAVE situation” says the zombie 😀

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