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2020-10-23

by shaenon on October 23, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 23, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I don’t give much chance of their making it with any of the rats or each other, at this rate.

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 23, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Based on the last panel of yesterday’s cartoon I would day their odds are pretty good. Whether they avoid marriage to her is a different story. ^_^

    • David B Huber
      October 23, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Good call yesterday, Robert!

  2. casimir
    October 23, 2020, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    …is the plural doofuses or doofi?

    • Frank
      October 23, 2020, 12:08 am | # | Reply

      ♪ Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated! ♪

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      October 23, 2020, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      True scholars know that it’s actually “Doofodes”

    • David B Huber
      October 23, 2020, 1:00 am | # | Reply

      Isn’t “Doofi!” the latest installment in Gordon R. Dickson’s Childe Cycle? 😉

  3. Joshua Kronengold
    October 23, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    So, she’s in a hospital bed because she was messed up by Artie’s exploding house?

    • awgiedawgie
      October 23, 2020, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      That was mentioned in a strip a few weeks ago. Granted, Echo Bravo didn’t explicitly say it was from the explosion, but it was kind of obvious.

  4. awgiedawgie
    October 23, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    I’m waiting for the inevitable brain-crash.

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 23, 2020, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      The drone’s or theirs? o_O

    • D. Walker
      October 23, 2020, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Dumpshock only occurs when you’re unsafely disconnected from full VR, and they appear to be operating in simple AR, which is standard for drone operators who aren’t dedicated full-time Riggers, such as these two drekheads.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 23, 2020, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Brain-crash also requires a working brain, and I don’t really see a working one between the two of them.

  5. Towering Barbarian
    October 23, 2020, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    3rd panel has a legitimate point but based on D&D I’d say it depends on how good their necromancer is. If you let your melee guys get on close, fail to target their necromancer and don’t pelt the from afar with missile weapons and spell casters then you’re doing it wrong. ^_~

    • D. Walker
      October 23, 2020, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      The trouble with necromancy is that corpses are flammable, and Fireball is a 3rd level spell that hits like a 7th level one.

      • BMunro
        October 23, 2020, 10:53 am | # | Reply

        Depends on the freshness of the zombie – a freshly dead human, being mostly water, really isn’t flammable. (At least in what we laughingly call “reality.” D&D corpses may have different physics.)

        • D. Walker
          October 23, 2020, 6:08 pm | # | Reply

          People are -reasonably- flammable even when they’re alive.

          Also, even with a super fresh corpse, you don’t need to literally set it aflame – even a relatively light “cooking” causes flesh to start breaking down and falling apart, which will ruin a zombie’s day and beyond.

          • BMunro
            October 23, 2020, 9:03 pm | #

            Just how many people _have_ you cooked?

  6. Rimwolf
    October 23, 2020, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    This has the feel of a Monster of the Week strip — no complaints here. Maybe these characters are really Foxtrot Mike and Delta Sierra?

  7. David B Huber
    October 23, 2020, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    I want to know how A.A. and E.B. tracked Artie, Cinnamon and Sergio down into the steam tunnels?

    Could the cat carrier have been coated with radioactive tracer?

    Did the Rats of NIEM file routine arrival reports?

    • Robert Nowall
      October 23, 2020, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps someone ratted them out.

      • jdreyfuss
        October 23, 2020, 9:08 am | # | Reply

        BOO

      • tyersome
        October 24, 2020, 12:14 am | # | Reply

        Could be, but I think they were tailed …

  8. Altarboy
    October 23, 2020, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Doofi if it has a Latin root, doofes if Greek. Arbitrarily I would prefer dooves.

    • Manifesta
      October 23, 2020, 3:52 am | # | Reply

      Dooves FTW!

      • David B Huber
        October 23, 2020, 7:42 am | # | Reply

        Seconded!

    • davidbreslin101
      October 23, 2020, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      If Germanic, “dovren”.

    • casimir
      October 23, 2020, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      Dooooves!

  9. Alphaghoul
    October 23, 2020, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    So it looks like the zombies turning others through infection is a thing in this universe, which contradicts them being made individually by mad scientists. But wouldn’t they still be loyal to anasigma? And what does respect have to do with anything?

    • awgiedawgie
      October 23, 2020, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Zombies turning others into zombies by infection does not rule out zombies having been created by a Mad scientist. There’s nothing that says they can only be produced by one method.

    • BMunro
      October 23, 2020, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      Even if not overwhelmed by a desire for brains, the brighter ones probably realize they can no longer count on A-Sig being loyal to _them_.

  10. Carl Fishman
    October 23, 2020, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    And once again I find myself rooting for the bad guys. Partly because I never liked Artie, and partly because I admire EB’s loyalty and work ethic and AA is so cute.

  11. Robert Nowall
    October 23, 2020, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

    If you were Echo Bravo, would you have any self-respect?

    • Rimwolf
      October 23, 2020, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

      Well, he aced the surprise footwear inspection (2012-06-22).

  12. Knuckles
    February 15, 2022, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

    Oh wow, I just realized that this brain tech is basically the same as the stuff they used with Nick.

    Poor Virginia – is there no end to the reverse engineered mad tech they will use for war in Anisigma?

    …probably not, but at least we found out that Alfa Alfa and Echo Bravo are drift compatible.

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