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2015-11-20

by shaenon on November 20, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. John Campbell
    November 20, 2015, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    ME!

  2. Ron Armstrong
    November 20, 2015, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    ME!

  3. Daphne
    November 20, 2015, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Me….. err, wait. Alt!Me look out!

  4. DocRask
    November 20, 2015, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    ME!

  5. Moe Lane
    November 20, 2015, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    ME!

    • oneuniverse2
      November 20, 2015, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      Cartoon violence rarely goes out of style.

  6. Miyaa
    November 20, 2015, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Unity really is a pawn in the game of life.

    • BMunro
      November 20, 2015, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      True, but she’s a pawn who can punch out the other sides’ queen.

      • Casey
        November 20, 2015, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        I take it you’ve never seen Blazing Saddles.

        • BMunro
          November 20, 2015, 1:08 am | # | Reply

          Mongo sells himself short.

      • davidbreslin101
        November 20, 2015, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

        Back when I used to try to play chess, my queen quite often got punched out by a pawn.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 20, 2015, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t think the Milton Bradley game had pawns, just playing pieces…

      • Neal Sofge
        November 20, 2015, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

        They’re known as “movers” in the industry to eliminate this sort of confusion. I imagine the part list says something like “4 car movers” and “16 people pegs, 8 each of blue and pink.”

    • The Jabberwonky
      November 20, 2015, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      And none of those were multi-colored…

  7. BMunro
    November 20, 2015, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Thought: who built the mutation engines? Seem like Mad work: are they stolen? Built by forced Mad labor? Are there uplifted animal Mads? Was it given to them as a gift by a Mad who just wants to see the world Beorn? (OK, I apologize for that). Or by a Mad who enjoyed the challenge of making it and doesn’t care what they do with it?

    That leads to a more meta question about Mads, addressed to the authors of this fine comic: we know there are Evil Mads, who want to take over the world or at least Show all those Fools. There are Good Mads, which are kinda icky in a bad children’s cartoon sort of way. Are there morally neutral or just amoral Mads? Say ones which are in it for the Science (“it’s a pity about everyone in that village melting because I failed to carry the one, but the progress of SCIENCE sometimes demands sacrifices”), or ones more like artists or craftsmen (they don’t care if their doomsday device will be used for good or evil purposes, or used at all – only that it’s THE BEST DOOMSDAY DEVICE EVER, darn it).

    • Delta Echo
      November 20, 2015, 1:16 am | # | Reply

      “it’s a pity about everyone in that village melting because I failed to carry the one, but the progress of SCIENCE sometimes demands sacrifices” sounds to me like something a Spark would say, too.

      • vincentmuyo
        November 20, 2015, 6:07 am | # | Reply

        Sparks are pretty much steampunk era mad scientists, so that’s not surprising.

    • ngmatt
      November 20, 2015, 7:30 am | # | Reply

      arty

    • Dr. Steve
      November 20, 2015, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Mad? Of course they are mad. I’m mad, you’re mad…. Oops, sorry. YES – good point. Well, given the inversification quotient of the present universe in relation to the (so called) normal universe, we might expect that the ‘sane’ geniuses of that universe are the mad ones of this?

      • Robert Nowall
        November 20, 2015, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

        Perhaps a subscription to Mad Magazine…

      • BMunro
        November 20, 2015, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

        Is Dr. Lee a Mad in this universe? (Thought: Asig has described her talent to reverse engineer mad science as “unique”: perhaps in almost all universes Lee is either Mad or normal and unable to make sense of Mad tech, rather than the odd “in between” position she holds in the home timeline).

    • B
      November 20, 2015, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      The Narbonic comics say there are good mad scientists and Narbonic does seem to be canon for skin horse.

      • BMunro
        November 20, 2015, 6:42 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, I am aware of that. I was wondering if there are also Mads who are uninterested in either hurting or helping people.

      • Rick
        November 20, 2015, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

        I thought the good mads were at St. Charlie

    • theysabet
      November 20, 2015, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

      Everybody who thinks Helen Narbon (the original, not Beta, though of course she’s a possibility too) built them raise their little hands….. **holds up a hand**

  8. James Rice
    November 20, 2015, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    A little off topic but I thought some of you might be interested. According to the schedule, Speedy’s plane just landed in Antarctica.

    • Kirala
      November 20, 2015, 9:09 am | # | Reply

      That is awesome, and thanks for the update. Query: if Speedy had the opportunity to go to Mars, but it was a one-way trip, would you send him?

      • James Rice
        November 20, 2015, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

        Absolutely.

        I’ve had the opportunities to send him on a Delta 4, or a Falcon 9, but so far those are just one way trips a short ways off the earth. But a trip farther than that I would jump at. The Moon, Mars, or anywhere beyond low Earth orbit would be worth the one way trip.

  9. mnemex
    November 20, 2015, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    Wow. Did anyone else notice how much like our Tip tip looks in panel 4?

  10. Frank
    November 20, 2015, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    “I’m not a tiger, I’m a transgenic–” *punch!*

  11. CyberSkull
    November 20, 2015, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    They are indeed the same Tip.

  12. Robert Nowall
    November 20, 2015, 7:05 am | # | Reply

    Which tiger?

  13. Dr. Steve
    November 20, 2015, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    At least the tiger seems honest so we don’t need to be concerned about the lie of the tiger.

    • Daphne
      November 20, 2015, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

      Eye see what you did there.

    • Stickmaker
      November 20, 2015, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      Great. Now I’ve got that song running through my head.

      • Frank
        November 20, 2015, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

        It’s the ♪ lie of the tiger
        it’s the thrill to beguile
        rising up ♪ to the challenge of deception ♪

        …oh who am I kidding? I’ll never match Eddurd or the others

  14. kicking_k
    November 20, 2015, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

    Can I just say how much I like XX-Tip?

    • Bathymetheus
      November 20, 2015, 8:15 pm | # | Reply

      Uh-oh. The mojo is working.

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