The badassery continues – mere mortals would be screaming in pain with Unity’s teeth in their arm, but Kay just enquires calmly … or it could just be Rule of Funny (look it up on TVTropes, you know you want to 🙂
“look it up on TVTropes, you know you want to”… Only if you have about three days to spare getting sidetracked with link after link in a never-ending Wiki Walk. If you’re a heavy tabbed browsing user, it could be a week or more. One day, you’ll glance up at a tab bar so crowded that the tabs don’t show names or even icons, and you won’t even know where you’ve been most of the time. That’s when the shame and Tears of Remorse begin, and you may even cry, “My God, what have I done?”
The Firefox extension “Tree Style Tab” makes this phenomenon both better and worse. Better, because it’s easier to keep track of what spun off what, and also to close whole branches at once when one gets around to it. Worse because the auto-folding of subtrees besides the active one can make it all the easier to open a truly ridiculous number of tabs.
Something tells me that Unity isn’t really trying that hard. My dog does the same, he’ll gnaw at you but he’s not really trying to bite. We’ve seen how readily Unity can rip limbs off when she wants to.
Yeah, that’s… pretty reasonable, all things considered. I mean, Unity wasn’t even DOING anything, and then somebody HIT her with a hard metal punching-glove. Somebody Unity doesn’t even KNOW. *And* Unity’s been pretty dam’ chill about the fact that she’s, you know, a ZOMBIE and everything.
Unity is having her buttons pushed here, is all I’m saying.
In my experience with mirror universes, people’s mirror counterparts tend to have basically the same personality, only evil instead of good (or vice versa). So mirror-mirror-Unity would still be violent, just good… which is accurate.
From “Ask Me Why,” The Beatles. Well, mostly Lennon.
I know you, and I don’t think you can comprehend.
But it’s true that you really brought about the End.
I defend that my-yi-yi-yi
Brass knuckles-uckles-uckles will do…
Now you’re here, my blinding rage still makes me hit.
You may sneer, you’ll get that I don’t give a shit
Why I hit. It’s not because I’m mad,
But this patchwork girl is really very bad.
I can’t deceive, you’ve got to agree,
I can’t believe I’d run into Unity
Ask me why, I’ll say you’re evil,
And I’m here now thinking to kill…kill…kill…
This could actually be a good thing. It proves that our U.N.I.T.Y. is rash and impulsive, and therefore incapable of the necessary planning needed to deliberately unleash an apocalypse. We’ll keep her brain-fueled alternate persona under wraps for the moment until more data has been gathered.
The badassery continues – mere mortals would be screaming in pain with Unity’s teeth in their arm, but Kay just enquires calmly … or it could just be Rule of Funny (look it up on TVTropes, you know you want to 🙂
“look it up on TVTropes, you know you want to”… Only if you have about three days to spare getting sidetracked with link after link in a never-ending Wiki Walk. If you’re a heavy tabbed browsing user, it could be a week or more. One day, you’ll glance up at a tab bar so crowded that the tabs don’t show names or even icons, and you won’t even know where you’ve been most of the time. That’s when the shame and Tears of Remorse begin, and you may even cry, “My God, what have I done?”
Friends don’t let friends use TVTropes.
People actually use tabs?
Well, sort of. I’ve only got sixteen open on THIS Firefox window, after all.
–Dave, among which are two Mark Reads, James Nicoll’s LJ, and three Ana Mardoll
The Firefox extension “Tree Style Tab” makes this phenomenon both better and worse. Better, because it’s easier to keep track of what spun off what, and also to close whole branches at once when one gets around to it. Worse because the auto-folding of subtrees besides the active one can make it all the easier to open a truly ridiculous number of tabs.
Something tells me that Unity isn’t really trying that hard. My dog does the same, he’ll gnaw at you but he’s not really trying to bite. We’ve seen how readily Unity can rip limbs off when she wants to.
Brass knuckles always taste better with an arm attached…
I assume Kay knows this because she reads the strip?
I can’t find fault in Unity’s logic.
Yeah, that’s… pretty reasonable, all things considered. I mean, Unity wasn’t even DOING anything, and then somebody HIT her with a hard metal punching-glove. Somebody Unity doesn’t even KNOW. *And* Unity’s been pretty dam’ chill about the fact that she’s, you know, a ZOMBIE and everything.
Unity is having her buttons pushed here, is all I’m saying.
I can: Kay’s right hand doesn’t have brass knuckles on it. Check panel one. 😛
(Alternatively, this is an art error, in which case forward this message to Shaenon, Jeff. and Pancha.)
Now there’s a scary sentence
So… Unity was the cause of the end? Called it!
Um, wasn’t that established in the very first week of this story?
Not that I recall, then again my memory is not the best.
Well, Emperor Norton was muttering darkly about what Unity was about to do in the first week:
http://skin-horse.com/comic/as-of-3/
but it wasn’t till Sergio showed up that he explicitly said that civilization had fallen because of Skin-Hore’s handling of Colma:
http://skin-horse.com/comic/donuts-for/
http://skin-horse.com/comic/as-of-3/
and http://skin-horse.com/comic/donuts-for/
It was shown that alt-Unity-Sherlock was about to use an alt-potion on the alt-swamp. I believe that’s what woozy was refering to.
That. And later Sergio saying that skin horse’s handling of Colma destroyed civilization in this reality.
“For all we know she could be peaceful and nonviolent”.
Shouldn’t they check to see if Spock had a beard in the dimension she came from before they assume there’s a possibility of that? o_O
Sometimes bearded Spock is evil, but sometimes he’s just Very Manly or a space lumberjack.
Yes, it’s the evil goatees you have to wach out for! 🙂
Sometimes he’s romancing Bigfoot.
In my experience with mirror universes, people’s mirror counterparts tend to have basically the same personality, only evil instead of good (or vice versa). So mirror-mirror-Unity would still be violent, just good… which is accurate.
This may be a little late to the game, but is this “Kay” the equivalent of this universe’s Dr. Engelbright?
I think she’s this universe’s version of kay.
From “Ask Me Why,” The Beatles. Well, mostly Lennon.
I know you, and I don’t think you can comprehend.
But it’s true that you really brought about the End.
I defend that my-yi-yi-yi
Brass knuckles-uckles-uckles will do…
Now you’re here, my blinding rage still makes me hit.
You may sneer, you’ll get that I don’t give a shit
Why I hit. It’s not because I’m mad,
But this patchwork girl is really very bad.
I can’t deceive, you’ve got to agree,
I can’t believe I’d run into Unity
Ask me why, I’ll say you’re evil,
And I’m here now thinking to kill…kill…kill…
This could actually be a good thing. It proves that our U.N.I.T.Y. is rash and impulsive, and therefore incapable of the necessary planning needed to deliberately unleash an apocalypse. We’ll keep her brain-fueled alternate persona under wraps for the moment until more data has been gathered.
Of course, that was her plan all along