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2020-04-20

by shaenon on April 20, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    April 20, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    So the zombies are becoming disarmed? O_o

    • awgiedawgie
      April 20, 2020, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      That’s very al-arm-ing!

      • Robert Nowall
        April 20, 2020, 8:16 am | # | Reply

        Kinda ch-arm-ing, though.

  2. Alphaghoul
    April 20, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    So every zombie was individually created by a mad scientist?

    • Moe Lane
      April 20, 2020, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      “It logically follows, Sweetheart. See how each individual zombie gnaws differently on the waffle, once I and the syrup have lured them into attacking it in the same way as a tasty brain? Mass-produced zombies would tear at the waffle in much the same fashion: but these bite marks are, as they say, all over the map. Clearly each one was conceived and created as an individual work of monstrosity.”

      “Astounding!”

      “Alimentary, my dear Sweetheart. Alimentary.”

      • David B Huber
        April 20, 2020, 12:29 am | # | Reply

        *Applause*

        • Manifesta
          April 20, 2020, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

          You win the internet. Where shall I send the prize?

    • Robert Eric Loughrey
      April 21, 2020, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      Indeed you are the Alpha Ghoul.

  3. Moe Lane
    April 20, 2020, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    …We simply must see the appropriate garb, now.

    • Pygar
      April 20, 2020, 8:55 am | # | Reply

      This is Unity… I’m picturing a bubble pipe, two patch hats with their bills in opposite directions, and a towel around her neck, Superman style…

  4. Robert Nowall
    April 20, 2020, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Check Unity’s latest arm.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 20, 2020, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Normally, that would be a valid theory. But Unity has the same arms she woke up with in the last panel on the 14th (although on the 15th and 16th, they looked decidedly different).

      • Robert Nowall
        April 20, 2020, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        I had in mind seeing if it was wearing a watch.

        • awgiedawgie
          April 20, 2020, 1:30 am | # | Reply

          Well, there wasn’t a watch on it on the 15th, which is the last time (actually the only time since she woke up) we saw her whole left arm.

  5. Owlmirror
    April 20, 2020, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Given that Unity’s known mental stimulant is fresh brains, shouldn’t that be a three-hemisphere problem?

    And an injection of a seven-per-cent solution of spinal fluid. I suppose syrup could be substituted in a pinch.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 20, 2020, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      She has said in the past that she can be smart on scrambled eggs, so why not waffles?

      • jdreyfuss
        April 20, 2020, 8:30 am | # | Reply

        The proteins are different, but eggs and brains are pretty similar in terms of structure and composition. In theory her body chemistry could convert the albumin and yolk proteins into myelin and axial structures.

        I’m going with even baseline Unity has enough knowledge of pop culture to make the reference without it actually meaning anything story-wise.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 20, 2020, 10:34 am | # | Reply

          If any of us knew how Unity’s biochemistry worked, we’d be making zombies, not reading about them.

  6. jdreyfuss
    April 20, 2020, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    When she gets bored she gets lost in a six percent solution of maple.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 20, 2020, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      Of all the things to be addicted to, this one I could get behind.

      • Candace
        April 21, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

        Indeed. After all, pancakes, waffles, and French toast are all just a delivery mechanism for maple syrup.

        • DanteFirefly
          April 21, 2020, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

          Elementary my dear Sweetheart.

  7. Rockphed
    April 20, 2020, 10:33 am | # | Reply

    Please tell me this is a Nate the Great send-up.

  8. markhh
    April 20, 2020, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    I love Sweetheart just wide-eyed looking back and forth between the two.

    • jdreyfuss
      April 20, 2020, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      She always has that expression. This is more like the crowd at a tennis match following the volley.

  9. Shadowmehr
    April 20, 2020, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

    Of they don’t find the watch, and arm that goes with it, under the bed in the next few strips, I’d have to wonder what the connection was between missing parts and the nightmares. Is whatever is behind this assimilating a body?

    • jdreyfuss
      April 20, 2020, 2:58 pm | # | Reply

      I was thinking another zombie ate it reflexively during a night terror.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 20, 2020, 3:59 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe the Unity Ant stole it.

      • jdreyfuss
        April 20, 2020, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

        I hadn’t even considered that. Good thinking.

      • BMunro
        April 20, 2020, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

        Quite plausible, although it’s more of a Unity Starfish, IMHO. (No head and more of a radial symmetry than a bilateral one, as much as it has any. Also, Starfish Alien trope. Also, can lose and regain limbs, although not quite in the way regular starfish do).

      • Candace
        April 21, 2020, 12:35 am | # | Reply

        Could be. Maybe it’s driven to collect ever more limbs, until it becomes disturbingly Shoggoth-like.

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 20, 2020, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

    Just a dead ol’ boy.
    Never needin’ that arm.
    But they cut out a swatch—
    He really misses that watch
    Since the night it was gone.

    Studyin’ those crimes,
    ‘Vestigatin’ those thrills.
    Someday the waffles might get ‘em,
    But the ghosts never will.

    Makin’ it through,
    Though they’ve been disavowed.
    That’s just a little bit more
    Than good taste has allowed.

    They’re the Skin-Horse cops.
    It’s just another lost limb.
    But they don’t understand
    Where the nightmares began
    And keep a-comin’ for him.

    —from “Theme from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard,'” Waylon Jennings.

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