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2014-02-17

by shaenon on February 17, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Beachfox
    February 17, 2014, 2:04 am | # | Reply

    Artie’s trying not to fall behind on his “Number of Strips Acting as Chief Expositionary Device” stats. Just give him this one, Tip.

  2. Dave
    February 17, 2014, 6:36 am | # | Reply

    Sweet shot in the 3rd panel! …also in panels 1, 2, and 4!

    • Z
      February 25, 2016, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

      Is that some sort of fetus?

  3. Eddurd
    February 17, 2014, 6:37 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”, Bob Dylan)

    You recall that fire destroyed the Cypress?
    That was planned! But there’s more …
    Anasigma had a plan, that’s my guess!
    They were harvesting spores!
    Now their own Cypress they have … grown and bred!
    They want to foment fear of … the undead!
    “You just saved 15 seconds,” Tip said …
    It still counts! I guessed right!

    Cypress suffered total demolition,
    But its child … is alive!
    I’m an endless fount of exposition!
    (I’m quoting El Goonish Shive)
    While I’m expounding to these … girls and guys,
    Tip just gives a sigh and … rolls his eyes!
    What we found comes as no big surprise …
    It still counts! I guessed right!

    • Classic Steve
      February 17, 2014, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you for citing EGS!

    • Antonio
      April 8, 2015, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

      Except that the quote is, “I am an endless barrel of exposition!” But whatever works for the meter.

  4. jdreyfuss
    February 17, 2014, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    Was it “Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part II” where Lisa went through a long expo-dump to tell the audience what they likely already knew and then Marge told her everyone else in-show had already figured it out too?

    • Dave
      February 17, 2014, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

      I think that was Treehouse of Horror (I forget what number), when Spike’s hair was making Homer try to kill Bart.

  5. Rex Vivat
    February 17, 2014, 7:57 am | # | Reply

    Sorry Artie, we already beat you to the punch here in the comments.

    • irdburns
      February 17, 2014, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, we had four days. That we still would have done that in less than an hour is beside the point :p

  6. AndersW
    February 17, 2014, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

    The comic http://skin-horse.com/comic/had-sent-him/ is in the wrong place in the archive. It should be a few comics earlier.

  7. Saberbeam
    February 17, 2014, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

    So is Lee covering her nose to fend of the stench, or is she pondering what strange and exotic bacteria she could culture out of the sludge?

    Any bets on which of the Cypress minds (mother or daughter) will be running this biome, or maybe it’s mindless and controlled via some other means? Or perhaps it’s an entirely new mind? So many possibilities.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 17, 2014, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

      As to Dr. Lee, my money is on both. Just because you can see the possibilities, doesn’t mean you like the material they come from.

      My guess is this is a third mind, grown from a culture taken from Venus. They discovered the Cypress burnt to the ground, and Ginny found a swamp weeping in Anasigma’s basement. They’d want the surviving groupmind under their thumb, but need something on-site to control the Glurch. Controlled via blackmail and whatever mad science they can come up with, but for the moment, a separate entity. An expendable asset . . .

      • irdburns
        February 17, 2014, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

        I’d say that it’s a cyborg swamp, all wetwired and assimilated, except that LEE is the resident behavior-altering neuroscientist. Then again, this is hardly a traditional brain.

  8. Barking Monkey
    February 17, 2014, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm, if TV/videogames have taught me anything, it’s that the walkway in panel 1 should have giant pistons or swinging pendulum-axes that require precise timing to navigate, a la ‘Galaxy Quest’.

    • irdburns
      February 18, 2014, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      But this show NEVER has badly written episodes…

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