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2014-06-21

by shaenon on June 21, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    June 21, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    That’s telling ’em, Miss Bubbles! ^___^

  2. Moe Lane
    June 21, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    …Damn, that’s surprisingly bittersweet.

  3. Windy Wanderings
    June 21, 2014, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Best post-badassery one-liner ever~!~

  4. Ron Armstrong
    June 21, 2014, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Three cheers for Miss Brita Bubbles!

  5. squirrel
    June 21, 2014, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Quite often in this strip I find myself wondering what someone coming here for the first time could make out of what’s going on just by reading the strip on the front page. @_@

    • BMunro
      June 21, 2014, 4:20 am | # | Reply

      Hmm…somewhat snarky robot lady (the font, when added to “in the middle of a fire” is strongly indicative) puts out a fire with some curious whomp-making device, possibly chemical in nature. It seems straightforward enough.

      Left out is that she’s a sentient water cooler who is late for a date with a nanotech female zombie because of absurd orders given by a swarm of bees. 🙂

    • Eddddd
      June 21, 2014, 11:11 am | # | Reply

      When I started reading this the front page was a cute girl with mismatched hair in a swamp, while someone offscreen offered her a cookie in a swirly don’t. I figured it was the swamp or a spirit talking (and I was right)

      I had assumed the cute girl was the main character, though.

      • ericscoles
        June 22, 2014, 7:18 am | # | Reply

        you mean you no longer think that?

  6. grantwhy
    June 21, 2014, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Where did the water + jug come from?

    Hammerspace?

    • Norman
      June 21, 2014, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Pitcherspace. It’s a couple of spaces over from Hammerspace to protect the pitchers from the hammers.

      • Caelo
        June 21, 2014, 3:38 am | # | Reply

        Ninjaed. Th second I saw that pitcher I was like jug-space no pitcher-space awesome to the comments. Whamp whamp whaaaamp.

        • Simberto
          June 21, 2014, 3:43 am | # | Reply

          Mrs. Bubbles is a water cooler. She wouldn’t be a good water cooler if she didn’t have cool water now, would she?

        • Norman
          June 21, 2014, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

          Actually, I think we discussed it way back when…

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        June 21, 2014, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

        Well, you know what they say, whether the hammer hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the hammer, it’s going to be bad for the pitcher

  7. p
    June 21, 2014, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
    When there’s danger all about
    (Bubbles!)
    Right on
    You see this cat Bubbles is a bad mother
    (Shut your mouth)
    But I’m talkin’ about Bubbles
    (Then we can dig it)
    she’s a complicated water cooler

    • oneuniverse2
      June 21, 2014, 11:01 pm | # | Reply

      Isaac Hayes would be proud 🙂

  8. irdburns
    June 21, 2014, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    Bubbles is lovely, and her powers of decorum are such that her dress survives 400 degree temperatures…or is that her own coolness?

    The only possible complication is UNITY getting disgruntled over the undoing of her handiwork.

    • BMunro
      June 21, 2014, 4:14 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps that’s a military-grade dress to go with the military-grade android.

      • makomk
        June 21, 2014, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        I wonder if Tip would want a military-grade dress, or if it wouldn’t be fashionable enough for him.

        • Moe Lane
          June 21, 2014, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

          It would depend if he needed one for a particular specific situation.

    • Frank Hightower
      June 22, 2014, 9:53 am | # | Reply

      She’s a “cooler”. I’m going with “coolness”

    • WJS
      July 12, 2019, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

      If Tip meant 400℉ (and that was accurate, not a guess) that isn’t hot enough to ignite clothing unless she touched the flames.

  9. fluffy
    June 21, 2014, 3:21 am | # | Reply

    The color work on this one is especially lovely.

  10. bchandler2
    June 21, 2014, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    That feel when you’re caught up on skin horse

    • Windy Wanderings
      June 21, 2014, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

      I’m right there with you.

  11. Eldoran
    June 21, 2014, 7:31 am | # | Reply

    Good question would be the current room temperature – so would a backdraft/flashover occur, if Bubbles left the room now (and let in oxygen again)?

    • Syncline
      June 21, 2014, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      The CO2 in that cylinder was liquified gas which is under considerable pressure. On release it expanded 1600+ times by volume, which easily snuffed the fire, displaced all of the nearby O2 and dropped the temperature of the entire building considerably.
      I would estimate at least one entire floor is now filled with roughly room- temperature CO2 … and that the expanding gas probably blew apart every door and window connected to the room she’s in.

      I can’t really explain the reignited paper, but it was a cool scene so we are giving it a pass.

      • Stickmaker
        June 21, 2014, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

        In a room full of objects there are going to be eddies and dead zones. The papers were obviously in some location protected from the direct flow of gas or they would have been blown all over by the CO2 outrush. Afterwards, there was enough oxygen left in the same place to let some combustion continue.

        Trust me, I’m an engineer. :-^)

        • Sheik
          June 21, 2014, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

          The short answer is Murphy’s Law.

          • =Tamar
            June 21, 2014, 7:09 pm | #

            Or Maxwell’s Demons.

  12. Eddurd
    June 21, 2014, 7:38 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Hot Stuff”, Donna Summer)

    Gotta save the files, she’s moving quicker,
    CO2, she’s setting it off!
    Still a single tiny flame will flicker,
    She will flick it off with a scoff!

    She’s giving us some SERVICE!
    Countdown commencing!
    We’re getting SERVICE!
    Bomb she’ll deploy!
    She’s giving SERVICE!
    Water dispensing!
    Baddest ‘bot we’ve known,
    ‘Cause service is her only joy!

  13. skirtmanwarrior
    June 21, 2014, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    Of course, now that she’s poured water on the files, watch them dissolve away…

  14. Frank Hightower
    June 21, 2014, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    The papers were in 400° heat… and suffered water damage

    • oneuniverse2
      June 21, 2014, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

      Someones been reading Fahrenheit 451?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        June 21, 2014, 11:21 pm | # | Reply

        Well if it was only 400° Fahrenheit, they shouldn’t have caught fire.

        Or 400° Celsius, for that matter.

        • Miserichord
          June 21, 2014, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

          451 F (424 to 475, depending on the type of paper) is the temperature at which paper will auto ignite in a normal atmosphere, in other words, it will burst into flame without an outside ignition source.
          A flamethrower provides an outside ignition source, that will ignite paper at any temperature normally available on this planet.
          At 400C, paper will auto ignite in air, as it will at any temperature above 250 C.

    • Frank Hightower
      June 22, 2014, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      actually… I was just quoting the previous comic

      “I’m sorry, Bubbles, but from here you’re on your own. It’s over 400° in there…”

  15. Guesticus
    June 21, 2014, 8:58 am | # | Reply

    At least Ms Bubbles used a pitcher, instead of lifting her dress

  16. butting
    June 21, 2014, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    *joy*.

    BTW, one of the basement dwellers appears to have escaped: http://www.pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/happy-snake-baby-1.jpg

    • Guesticus
      June 22, 2014, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      Dang! Thought the snake had teeth at first!

  17. VillageWizard
    June 21, 2014, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    What’s the explanation for that “fsssss” sound effect? There’s such a sound if you put out a fire with water (then it’s the sound of boiling water), but this was a CO2 bomb, not a water bomb. Where does that sound come from then?

    • Syncline
      June 21, 2014, 11:06 am | # | Reply

      Clearly the “CO2 bomb” was more of a “Liquified CO2 Delivery system”, since it didn’t explode and destroy Brita and the room. It’s a giant fire extinguisher. No matter how good your dump valve system is on such a device, all of the gas is not going to leave the cylinder instantly; there will be the initial concussion of the dump valve opening, and then the remaining gas depressurizing the cylinder will his out.
      A good example of the is ‘punkin chunkin’ cannons, like this one-
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtKyCrfmInA
      At about 2:15 you can hear a high pressure cylinder discharge with a “whump” followed by the extended “hisssss” of depressurization.
      So yeah, SH got the science right.

    • jdreyfuss
      June 21, 2014, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

      I refer you to the editor’s note here for a full explanation of any unrealistic sound effects.

  18. Dr. Steve
    June 21, 2014, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    The sound effects are very effective!

  19. Robert Nowall
    June 21, 2014, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    Well that was easier than it looked.

  20. Shadowmehr
    June 21, 2014, 10:58 am | # | Reply

    Well, it’s not as Terminator-esque as I expected, but that is plenty badass. Bubbles may end up as being the most competent member of Skin Horse.

    Sweetheart may never forgiver her for that.

  21. mickeyf
    June 21, 2014, 11:21 am | # | Reply

    And doesn’t she look positively demure in panel 3?

  22. Dante
    June 21, 2014, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    I really hope the water doesn’t smudge the ink, especially if those are the papers they’ve been fighting for.

    Of course, if those are the sheets and they were on fire then they probably already have problems

  23. commodorejohn
    June 21, 2014, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    Steadfast tin soldier? You just got shown up, ya wuss.

  24. Animeraider
    June 21, 2014, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

    She really IS the most hardcore water cooler I’ve ever met.

  25. Dave
    June 21, 2014, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

    Woo! There’s so much Badassery in that room right now, it’s gonna spontaneously combust all over again!

  26. David DeLaney
    October 6, 2014, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

    best silhouetted fire-undoing explosion EVAR

    –Dave, flicks switch on iPhone to show lighter.jpg

  27. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    Are we sure this drone doesn’t just have innate badassery powers included as firmware?

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