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2020-09-11

by shaenon on September 11, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    September 11, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Is that a family portrait of Helen, Dave, Mell, and Artie on the wall?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      September 11, 2020, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      It sure looks like one.

      • Pygar
        September 11, 2020, 1:54 am | # | Reply

        I know what I want a Sunday art of!

        • D. Walker
          September 11, 2020, 2:04 am | # | Reply

          …an ewok eating a blue popsicle?

          • Pygar
            September 11, 2020, 3:06 am | #

            A Wampa eating a blue Ewok… AND the above family portrait…

            Ewoks were proto-Jarjars, there to prepare us for the ordeal to come…

          • Candace
            September 11, 2020, 10:43 am | #

            Well, but the Ewoks are competent.

          • notStanley
            September 11, 2020, 1:00 pm | #

            an argument for Ewoks being hyper-competent

            https://www.torforgeblog.com/2019/04/08/ewoks-are-sci-fis-most-dangerous-warriors/

          • Pygar
            September 11, 2020, 1:53 pm | #

            Are we forgetting the one who knocked himself out by spinning his sling *horizontally*?

          • D. Walker
            September 11, 2020, 3:18 pm | #

            “Are we forgetting the one who knocked himself out by spinning his sling *horizontally*?”

            It’s a classic trope to have a team of crack commandos or whatever, and then the one “odd man out” who is a goofball and a screwup, but who they keep around anyway.

  2. D. Walker
    September 11, 2020, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Okay, this is bugging me. Where the HECK did they get the cat carrier?

    • Towering Barbarian
      September 11, 2020, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      *In Don Adams like voice*

      Would you believe that it was kept folded in a spytech pencil?

      • D. Walker
        September 11, 2020, 2:02 am | # | Reply

        A spytech pencil, you say? I don’t know if such a thing is in the comic, but…

        *checks archives*

        Ohh, yes! I remember now. Missed it by -that- much!

      • Shadowmehr
        September 11, 2020, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        In this universe? Yes, yes I would.

    • OneUniverse
      September 11, 2020, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      Presume that the A-Sig team arrived in a vehicle, perhaps a van, equipped to wrangle bi-morphic creatures, and the ability to level counties, if the situation calls for it.

    • jennibrock
      September 11, 2020, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      Seeing as how Echo Bravo is unfamiliar enough with it to know how handles work, perhaps the cat carrier was already in the house..

      • awgiedawgie
        September 11, 2020, 11:06 am | # | Reply

        I get the impression that Echo Bravo finds a lot of simple things challenging.

      • sottorosa
        September 11, 2020, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

        Y’know, that would also explain how fancy the carrier is. A colored top!! That is a fashion carrier, for sure.

      • D. Walker
        September 11, 2020, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        …in Artie’s house? They just established it makes little sense for him to have a cat.

        • Clifton
          September 11, 2020, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

          Since when has Artie been constrained by that? He’s far too intelligent and logical to have common sense.

          Either that, or he’d already projected futures in which he’d be needing Cinnamon’s help and would need a carrier to transport them.

          The carrier actually looks a lot like our cat carrier, which is nearly that shade of turquoise blue.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 11, 2020, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

          It makes little sense to them (or rather, to Alfa). But since Cinnamon was at the shelter at the same time as Sweetheart, it isn’t much of a stretch to think that Artie – in human form – adopted her at some point. He would have needed a carrier to take her home in.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    September 11, 2020, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    For a moment it looked as though Echo Bravo had made both a friend and a convert.

    • Candace
      September 11, 2020, 11:20 am | # | Reply

      Well, if Echo Bravo has a can opener and some canned cat food, he may yet make a friend.

  4. BMunro
    September 11, 2020, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    “I get to be the brains of the team!”

    Admittedly, that’s not a very high bar.

    • casimir
      September 11, 2020, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, but don’t burst her bubble.
      Let Agent Alfa have her moment in the sun.

  5. Ugwump
    September 11, 2020, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    Talk about hyper-competent! He got a cat in a carrier with out getting any scratches.

    • Caelo
      September 11, 2020, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      It helps that cat knows what a gun would do to them.

      • s854
        September 11, 2020, 10:28 am | # | Reply

        It also helps that he only tried it after Cinnamon blew her cover.

  6. Robert Nowall
    September 11, 2020, 7:35 am | # | Reply

    “You’re just a monster in disguise,
    Who wandered down from above.
    You’re just a frightening surprise,
    Who came to Earth for me to love.

    “And I’ll be sure you’re mine forever,
    And you can never return above.
    I’ll have a monster in disguise,
    Forever in my arms to love!”

    —slightly-altered “Angel in Disguise,” Mann / Weiss / Gannon, sung by Sylvester J. Pussycat.

  7. jdreyfuss
    September 11, 2020, 8:43 am | # | Reply

    The most tried and true method of outsmarting a clever opponent: subtly insult their ego.

  8. Leslie Piper
    September 11, 2020, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    Love this sequence. The ‘snap’ that the strip does so well. Thanks.

  9. Shadowmehr
    September 11, 2020, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    Well, so much for Cinnamon the Wonder Cat. Despite would be hanging his head in disbelief if he could see it.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 11, 2020, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry, “Gaspode”” would be hanging his head. Stupid autocorrect .

  10. Sheik
    September 11, 2020, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

    I think Cinnamon doesn’t really care much about the cat carrier, the lock would be kitten’s play to defeat, and I have cats that actually sleep in an open one we have because of the nice comfy liner.

  11. Jadriam
    September 11, 2020, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

    Finally caught up with the comic! I understand why several nonhuman sapients in ths comic so far are animals. But why are they all so adorable? Is that part of their defense strategy? I think Cinnamon could recite Robert Frost poems at me and I’d still be trying to give her tuna and pats.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 11, 2020, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

      Why are they all so adorable? Well, think about it… would you really want to meet a sapient yogurt culture in a dark alley?

  12. Steveh16
    September 11, 2020, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

    The family photo appears to be the same one that appears in Narbonic 12-23-2006.

    http://narbonic.com/comic/december-18-23-2006/

    The bottom comic first and last panel. Talk about reusing material go Shannon

    • awgiedawgie
      September 11, 2020, 10:58 pm | # | Reply

      Damn, Steve. That’s hella recall skills! I am impressed.

      • Steveh16
        September 11, 2020, 11:05 pm | # | Reply

        Ohh no I was rereading Narbonic and happened upon it. Unfortunately I did forget how to spell Shaenon’s name correctly for which I apologize.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 11, 2020, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

          It’s noble of you to be so modest, but I’m still impressed.

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