Actually, a lot of dogs seem to have some acrophobia. I used to have a dog who absolutely would not walk up see-through stairs. (You know the kind that are just horizontal slabs or boards, with no vertical piece on the front of the step.)
“they have unexpected weapons and they know the location of the base where Mr Green was last seen, so they should attack,” says me and Sun Tsu. Liberate prisoners, harvest intell, step on goons. Mr. Wells might plot something more subtle.
They are going to stride dramatically into the sunset as the credits roll… powered by the hope that they can make the world a better place, their destination is the horizon!
We’ve seen the Gate Guard and the Great and Powerful Oz, but no sign of Oscar Zoroaster yet. And something Oz once said may link him to one of the cast in an interesting way I won’t spoil…
At this point, Annex One appears to just be wandering around with no particular purpose. Nick & Dr. Lee have been rescued . . . so now what?
Well, they’ve got a big, mostly empty building which they can take to different places. Maybe they could take the building to places where non-human sapients are, and give those sapients a place to stay? The ultimate offer of support: a home, or even a neighborhood.
But surely there are more sapients than space in the building? And some sapients need enormous amounts of space, or special environments? Well, maybe someone could describe the space-folding used by St. Charlie to Tigerlily. She wouldn’t need to study Jenkinsonian quadratics, any more than she needed to study biology to make the clone-o-mat. She would just release the mojo and make it happen, by all the powers of funk!
And suddenly there could be entire floors with enough space for everyone. The zombie communities of Colma and Bad Island could get new homes with brain-o-mats. The Cypress — multiple tonnes of soil, plants, Jersey Devils, and whatever else — could get someplace to settle down in peace, maybe with an atrium with lots of light, maybe in a space with lots of grow lights. If the space-fold could be combined with a wormhole portal, maybe one floor could be made water-tight, and filled with enough of the ocean to float the Habakkuk, and give Rhodey a place to frolic. Another could be similarly treated to make a space for freshwater cryptids. Does the Transgenic League need a space for all of their members? Done! How about the Machine Union? There’s room for everyone, from stapler-size to refrigerator-size and up. A snowy cold forest for Captain Bram’s dogs? Done!
Given enough space-time-folding, the building could cut loose from the Earth itself, and enters a parallel space. The “floors” — really entire environments now — might shift around so that they become a shell surrounding an artificial sun that brightens and dims on a 24-hour basis. The music and aesthetic of the place is, of course, funk, everywhere and everywhen, but that’s no big price to pay for independence. Oh! Is the place sliding down a spiraling looping non-Euclidian funky geodesic into the past? Well, everyone can cope with that.
And Tigerlily declares that this world, home to all non-human sapients, living together in peace and love, shall henceforth be known as “Lovetron”. So mote it be!
The end is the beginning is the end is the beginning is . . .
Certain tactical considerations first – before your theoretical tesseract can be created, it will remain a walking building that doesn’t seem to be moving too fast, or to put it another way, a large moving target for Anasigma and any other government or agency who wanted to take potshots at them. Therefore, it would be a good idea to take care of the New War situation first before relocating to your own demiplane. Otherwise, kudos, this sounds great. Three thumbs up. Don’t ask where the third thumb came from.
Isn’t shipping what you do before they get together? Their ship is already well under way, so how can you have a “shipping aneurysm” now? Or is it that you have just now realized that their ship has sailed?
Actually, Nick ought to punch him out. That would seem to be correctly macho.
But we’re in another ‘Woman for President’ moment.(STFU. I’ve been supporting women for office since before YOU were born.)
Look, if you *really* want to torment Ira, bring him to the wedding. Trussed up like Hannibal Lecter, so that he may not unduly disrupt the proceedings. Something for everyone there, I think.
But Nick wouldn’t punch him out. Nick is a pacifist, remember? And he doesn’t care about being macho.
And why is this a “woman for President” moment? No one here wants to be President. Certainly not Tigerlily, because that would make her “The Man”. Tigerlily might want to be Supreme Dictator, but none of them – not even Sweetheart with her love for generating paperwork – wants the headache of the presidency. Sure, Alt-Sweetheart was “President” in the mirror world, but that was really more of a dictatorship, and you could tell she wasn’t happy.
I think you’re forgetting that pacifism is not necessarily nonviolence.
Nick carried through on his threat to kick Tip — the man who did the most to save his life and body, back when he was in danger of extraction and death by soulless militaristic bureaucrats — in the marbles, simply for saying “Makeover!” to him.
If he came face-to-face with Mr. Green, the man who ordered him to be killed and Virginia brain-extracted and imprisoned in a hell VR, what might Nick do, short of killing? Maybe marbles-kicking is all that his imagination will come up with. Or maybe he’ll put a little more effort into it. Or maybe he will take the high road, now. But I don’t think punching can be ruled out.
You do have a point. But I still maintain that it wouldn’t have anything to do with being macho. It would be about exacting justice, and in this case, revenge.
No, because then no one is holding them, keeping them from falling. Which then leads to either a sudden traumatic deceleration at the foot of the building or a moment in which they can both be Lois as long as someone is Clark.
Assuming they were moving at the time. I would expect they were stationary for Nick’s brain surgery, so they may not have started moving again. After all, their immediate objectives were rescuing Nick and Virginia, and getting away from the storm. Now they can regroup and go after Ira.
This is so sweet, I’m getting cavities!
This might push some into diabetic shock. And Sweetheart is afraid of heights? Maybe she has some human genes, too.
Actually, a lot of dogs seem to have some acrophobia. I used to have a dog who absolutely would not walk up see-through stairs. (You know the kind that are just horizontal slabs or boards, with no vertical piece on the front of the step.)
You need the right music for this
Actually…what *are* they going to do?
“they have unexpected weapons and they know the location of the base where Mr Green was last seen, so they should attack,” says me and Sun Tsu. Liberate prisoners, harvest intell, step on goons. Mr. Wells might plot something more subtle.
They are going to stride dramatically into the sunset as the credits roll… powered by the hope that they can make the world a better place, their destination is the horizon!
I believe that’s STOMP off into the sunset.
Pinocchio is now a real boy. The tin woodman has found his heart. So, what other loose ends need to be dealt with?
The New War has not yet reached resolution.
We’ve seen the Gate Guard and the Great and Powerful Oz, but no sign of Oscar Zoroaster yet. And something Oz once said may link him to one of the cast in an interesting way I won’t spoil…
Speak for yourself, adult Nala is HAWT.
I think she’s referring to the beginning of Lion King where Rafiki is holding baby Simba out over the edge of Pride Rock.
Well, there was an infamous toy where if you held it wrong its action feature made it look like Rafiki was banging baby Simba.
I have several questions, none of which I want to know the answers to
…Such is the beginning of wisdom.
I note that the logo no longer says “10 Years”. You could have changed it to “10+ Years”, if you were concerned about it being inaccurate.
I’m just saying.
We Do Not Discuss The Time Loop.
So, another whack notion.
At this point, Annex One appears to just be wandering around with no particular purpose. Nick & Dr. Lee have been rescued . . . so now what?
Well, they’ve got a big, mostly empty building which they can take to different places. Maybe they could take the building to places where non-human sapients are, and give those sapients a place to stay? The ultimate offer of support: a home, or even a neighborhood.
But surely there are more sapients than space in the building? And some sapients need enormous amounts of space, or special environments? Well, maybe someone could describe the space-folding used by St. Charlie to Tigerlily. She wouldn’t need to study Jenkinsonian quadratics, any more than she needed to study biology to make the clone-o-mat. She would just release the mojo and make it happen, by all the powers of funk!
And suddenly there could be entire floors with enough space for everyone. The zombie communities of Colma and Bad Island could get new homes with brain-o-mats. The Cypress — multiple tonnes of soil, plants, Jersey Devils, and whatever else — could get someplace to settle down in peace, maybe with an atrium with lots of light, maybe in a space with lots of grow lights. If the space-fold could be combined with a wormhole portal, maybe one floor could be made water-tight, and filled with enough of the ocean to float the Habakkuk, and give Rhodey a place to frolic. Another could be similarly treated to make a space for freshwater cryptids. Does the Transgenic League need a space for all of their members? Done! How about the Machine Union? There’s room for everyone, from stapler-size to refrigerator-size and up. A snowy cold forest for Captain Bram’s dogs? Done!
Given enough space-time-folding, the building could cut loose from the Earth itself, and enters a parallel space. The “floors” — really entire environments now — might shift around so that they become a shell surrounding an artificial sun that brightens and dims on a 24-hour basis. The music and aesthetic of the place is, of course, funk, everywhere and everywhen, but that’s no big price to pay for independence. Oh! Is the place sliding down a spiraling looping non-Euclidian funky geodesic into the past? Well, everyone can cope with that.
And Tigerlily declares that this world, home to all non-human sapients, living together in peace and love, shall henceforth be known as “Lovetron”. So mote it be!
The end is the beginning is the end is the beginning is . . .
That may be your most whack notion yet. Which means it’s probably the most likely.
Certain tactical considerations first – before your theoretical tesseract can be created, it will remain a walking building that doesn’t seem to be moving too fast, or to put it another way, a large moving target for Anasigma and any other government or agency who wanted to take potshots at them. Therefore, it would be a good idea to take care of the New War situation first before relocating to your own demiplane. Otherwise, kudos, this sounds great. Three thumbs up. Don’t ask where the third thumb came from.
Zaphod had three thumbs, so it’s not… okay, it is that unusual, but not unheard of.
I was thinking that Remy+Brian might be unanimous in approval.
Unity: Wants to do a thing with Sweetheart specifically because it’s romantic
Me: Has shipping aneurysm
(Shush, I know it has other, literary meanings. The ZombieDog ship is unsinkable!)
Isn’t shipping what you do before they get together? Their ship is already well under way, so how can you have a “shipping aneurysm” now? Or is it that you have just now realized that their ship has sailed?
Yes, I want MORE. Owlmirror>….good stuff. Could we ask Unity to whack Ira, repeatedly?
Actually, Nick ought to punch him out. That would seem to be correctly macho.
But we’re in another ‘Woman for President’ moment.(STFU. I’ve been supporting women for office since before YOU were born.)
Look, if you *really* want to torment Ira, bring him to the wedding. Trussed up like Hannibal Lecter, so that he may not unduly disrupt the proceedings. Something for everyone there, I think.
Or have Gorgoth the Dominator( http://skin-horse.com/comic/2014-07-07/ ) fixed(partly) so he could rule over Ira with an iron fist! Mwahahaha!
But Nick wouldn’t punch him out. Nick is a pacifist, remember? And he doesn’t care about being macho.
And why is this a “woman for President” moment? No one here wants to be President. Certainly not Tigerlily, because that would make her “The Man”. Tigerlily might want to be Supreme Dictator, but none of them – not even Sweetheart with her love for generating paperwork – wants the headache of the presidency. Sure, Alt-Sweetheart was “President” in the mirror world, but that was really more of a dictatorship, and you could tell she wasn’t happy.
I think you’re forgetting that pacifism is not necessarily nonviolence.
Nick carried through on his threat to kick Tip — the man who did the most to save his life and body, back when he was in danger of extraction and death by soulless militaristic bureaucrats — in the
marbles, simply for saying “Makeover!” to him.If he came face-to-face with Mr. Green, the man who ordered him to be killed and Virginia brain-extracted and imprisoned in a hell VR, what might Nick do, short of killing? Maybe
marbles-kicking is all that his imagination will come up with. Or maybe he’ll put a little more effort into it. Or maybe he will take the high road, now. But I don’t think punching can be ruled out.You do have a point. But I still maintain that it wouldn’t have anything to do with being macho. It would be about exacting justice, and in this case, revenge.
Can’t they both be Kate?
No, because then no one is holding them, keeping them from falling. Which then leads to either a sudden traumatic deceleration at the foot of the building or a moment in which they can both be Lois as long as someone is Clark.
Unless it’s one of the times Lois has superpowers. https://www.deviantart.com/pabloalcaldefdez/art/LOIS-LANE-GOT-SUPER-POWERS-306908700
Buildings probably moving fast enough for there to be a good breeze: Tip should have been more windswept in the previous comic.
Assuming they were moving at the time. I would expect they were stationary for Nick’s brain surgery, so they may not have started moving again. After all, their immediate objectives were rescuing Nick and Virginia, and getting away from the storm. Now they can regroup and go after Ira.
Could Foot save the building from collapsing if an explosion/acid/laser/what have you destroyed part of Lovetron’s base to become Voltro-, er Footron?
Panel four is pretty much the same expression my dog always gets when we pick him up.
This is where I first started reading Skin Horse!
Never found an appropriate place to say this…but, ’round here, isn’t Leo the online cartoonist lion, and Kate the (probably former) head of Anasigma?