This is quite a city!
It can go most anywhere along the railway line!
Ev’rything’s so pretty!
Which I why I want to kill them all and make it mine!
We can make it work! We can make it work!
Unity, I’ll spare you!
We can travel endlessly aboard this Train of Trains!
Come along, I dare you!
It could just be you and me and endless feasts of brains!
We can make it work! We can make it work!
Unity says, “No!
That didn’t wo-o-o-o-ork
When Arby’s tried it on me!
With you, I won’t go
’Cause you’re a je-e-e-e-erk!
So I’ll decline, disdainfully!”
Once again, I’m never
Having any luck at finding henchmen such as these!
You’re no fun when clever!
But I ask you one last time to reconsider, please!
We can make it work! We can make it work!
As in Narbonic, a lot of the main characters’ struggles are self-inflicted. What makes them entertainining is the way they complicate their own lives subconciously, making things more difficult than they need to be.
Unity, like the character she was cloned from, stands in contrast to that. It’s not that she gets handed things on a plate and the others don’t; it’s that she’s the only character who doesn’t spend hours wondering if the thing that’s on the plate is really the thing they wanted, and if it might be booby-trapped.
(Come to think of it, Tip started out being this uncomplicated, but then had his crisis of confidence with Tigerlily Jones.)
It’s very similar to what Narbonic did with Mell. In fairness, Unity has had to at the very least learn a little about herself, get barfed up by a goat, and endure Tip. She also seems less invincible (more vincible?) than Mell, so all in all, she’s got more character dynamism.
In any case, I don’t think GODOT really intends to hand her anything on a silver platter. It just wants to stall her until the brains wear off.
Doesn’t it bother anyone else that Arby’s was able to offer an endless supply of brains? Or that they were willing to, in order to partner with a zombie killing machine?
It certainly would have given new meaning to “The Burger Wars.”
“Join my side and we shall rule forever”? Seriously?
You’d think G.O.D.O.T. would come up with a less cliched tactic. This is as old as pulps. U.N.I.T.Y. should probably reject it on aesthetic reasons alone, nevermind worrying about backstabbing.
That would be a cliche if UNITY had come to destroy GODOT or would similarly start up as G’s enemy; in this case, she was actually pretty sympathetic “Destruction is good! I like destruction!”
I think she’s plenty of fun when she’s clever!
I’m never going to Arby’s ever again. Either that, or I should really read the ingredients list when I get the egg salad sandwich from Plaid Pantry.
You were going to Arby’s BEFORE? I thought the brain matter thing was equally obvious to everyone, but…
(TUNE: “We Can Work It Out”, The Beatles)
This is quite a city!
It can go most anywhere along the railway line!
Ev’rything’s so pretty!
Which I why I want to kill them all and make it mine!
We can make it work! We can make it work!
Unity, I’ll spare you!
We can travel endlessly aboard this Train of Trains!
Come along, I dare you!
It could just be you and me and endless feasts of brains!
We can make it work! We can make it work!
Unity says, “No!
That didn’t wo-o-o-o-ork
When Arby’s tried it on me!
With you, I won’t go
’Cause you’re a je-e-e-e-erk!
So I’ll decline, disdainfully!”
Once again, I’m never
Having any luck at finding henchmen such as these!
You’re no fun when clever!
But I ask you one last time to reconsider, please!
We can make it work! We can make it work!
I used to work at Arby’s when I was in high school. The uncooked roasts do have a vague resemblance go brain tissue, yes.
why does this strip always seem to want to hand unity everything on a plate, where the other characters go through so much struggle? it’s …. odd?
‘Cause even Jeff and Shaenon are scared of her?
As in Narbonic, a lot of the main characters’ struggles are self-inflicted. What makes them entertainining is the way they complicate their own lives subconciously, making things more difficult than they need to be.
Unity, like the character she was cloned from, stands in contrast to that. It’s not that she gets handed things on a plate and the others don’t; it’s that she’s the only character who doesn’t spend hours wondering if the thing that’s on the plate is really the thing they wanted, and if it might be booby-trapped.
(Come to think of it, Tip started out being this uncomplicated, but then had his crisis of confidence with Tigerlily Jones.)
It’s very similar to what Narbonic did with Mell. In fairness, Unity has had to at the very least learn a little about herself, get barfed up by a goat, and endure Tip. She also seems less invincible (more vincible?) than Mell, so all in all, she’s got more character dynamism.
In any case, I don’t think GODOT really intends to hand her anything on a silver platter. It just wants to stall her until the brains wear off.
Doesn’t it bother anyone else that Arby’s was able to offer an endless supply of brains? Or that they were willing to, in order to partner with a zombie killing machine?
It certainly would have given new meaning to “The Burger Wars.”
“Join my side and we shall rule forever”? Seriously?
You’d think G.O.D.O.T. would come up with a less cliched tactic. This is as old as pulps. U.N.I.T.Y. should probably reject it on aesthetic reasons alone, nevermind worrying about backstabbing.
That would be a cliche if UNITY had come to destroy GODOT or would similarly start up as G’s enemy; in this case, she was actually pretty sympathetic “Destruction is good! I like destruction!”