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2018-12-04

by shaenon on December 4, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. dexitroboper
    December 4, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    I think it’s just the aftershave.

    • David B Huber
      December 4, 2018, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      Hai Karate! Gotta admit, it answers a whole lot of nagging questions…

  2. Moe Lane
    December 4, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    • thedoctor55
      December 4, 2018, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      …..and the winner of today’s comments is…..Moe Lane!

    • bergerjacques
      December 4, 2018, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      No better way of putting it. I have never been so glad to see a man in a dress.

  3. dvandom
    December 4, 2018, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Funk power makeup!

    • FanOfMostEverything
      December 4, 2018, 8:45 am | # | Reply

      Saiii-looor Tiiiip!

  4. apocolypse101
    December 4, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    He’s back baby!

  5. awgiedawgie
    December 4, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Oh, lighten up, Chris, or Tip will give you another makeover.

    • David B Huber
      December 4, 2018, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      Good idea! The Return of Captain Beyond would prepare everyone for the Funkadelic Tornado about to appear!

    • D. Walker
      December 4, 2018, 7:17 am | # | Reply

      I’m with Chris on this one. Tip is insufferable. It’s not funny or cute or endearing that he’s basically a self-obsessed egotist. It’s disgusting.

      Here his female friends are genuinely happy for him, and he can’t possibly conceive of their actions as being anything other than some sort of sexual advance forced out of them by his “Adonis-like irresistability”. It’s not just insane arrogance, it’s also astoundingly shallow and borderline psychopathic behavior.

      • Robert Loughrey
        December 4, 2018, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        In our world sure, but the two hugging him are a nanoinfected corpse and a woman who can make things get superpowers by exposing them to radiation. He can literally teleport as long as its to a date or romantic location. He’s got some rational cause to think the way he does.

        • D. Walker
          December 4, 2018, 8:22 am | # | Reply

          None of which excuses Tip’s lack of human empathy and emotional intelligence.

          I don’t like Unity either, since she’s a terrifying weapon of mass destruction, but she at least has the excuse of being a swarm of nanobots created by a near-mad scientist specifically TO BE a terrifying weapon of mass destruction. Her inclination toward violence is the product of her creation as a tool of violence.

          But Tip? He’s just some crossdresser who was in the army and then became a psychologist (or so he claims, anyway – we’ve never seen proof he’s got a degree). He doesn’t have any inherent reason to treat other people like garbage – he just does it because he randomly doesn’t give a damn about anyone other than himself.

          Unity is monstrous because she was built to be a monster. But Tip? He’s monstrous just because he can be. He has no excuse.

          • Dr. Steve
            December 4, 2018, 8:40 am | #

            well… he IS a psychologist.

          • awgiedawgie
            December 4, 2018, 9:09 am | #

            You despise Tip and Unity – two of the three major characters who have been around since day one – and yet here you are. If you truly dislike them so much, why didn’t you just quit reading the comic ages ago? It’s not like anyone’s forcing you to do it. And if don’t hate them quite that much, then at the very least, tolerate them in silence, so the rest of us can enjoy the story.

          • DonRCamp
            December 4, 2018, 4:54 pm | #

            Really, you don’t have to like all the characters to like the story. My wife and I gobble up Game of Thrones, but Joffrey Lannister, Circe Lannister, and Ramsay Bolton are about the most despicable characters ever written. Noting that doesn’t diminish my enjoyment of the series a whit.

          • Aevylmar
            December 4, 2018, 3:54 pm | #

            Putting in my two cents, I actually like reading people providing criticism in the comment thread. Maybe this isn’t the place for it, but I do like having reviews – including negative ones – attached to things, where I can read them or not as I please.

          • Daibhid C
            December 4, 2018, 4:45 pm | #

            You’re .. not entirely wrong. If it comes to that Sweetheart’s pretty screwed up and petty as well. That’s … kind of what the strip’s about?

            Also, Frasier Crane is an insufferably pompous ass, Basil Fawlty is not a fit person to run a hotel, the Blackadder family is just a long line of sociopaths, and don’t even get me started on the Gellers and their Friends. That’s comedy, folks.

          • Nick Alcock
            December 4, 2018, 5:23 pm | #

            Fundamentally, I have to agree — but isn’t both this strip *and* Narbonic in part about the humour value of dissonance between characters who are fundamentally awful people you’d hate spending any time around *but yet* who are amusing to read about?

            It takes considerable skill to produce people who commit mass murder and laugh about it but who are also endearingly cute and feel like the best boss ever, even though they fairly routinely e.g. kill or massively abuse their staff (Helen), people whose only response to anything is to kill it with fire or, if you’re really unlucky, hit it with the law (Mell), or people who are basically a parody of every dreadful boss ever (Sweetheart)… but who are *nonetheless somehow likeable people*.

            This sort of balancing act is fundamental to a lot of “semirealistic” comic strip comedy, particularly in the mad science zone, where you’re never quite sure whether a given thing is satire, social commentary, just intentionally ridiculous, or presented straight. For me, this balancing act works. It sounds like it doesn’t for you.

          • mickeyjf
            December 4, 2018, 6:34 pm | #

            Ooooh..Jealousy is painful, isn’t it?

  6. fcdesjardins
    December 4, 2018, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    This makes me happy and relieves a tension I’ve been feeling for quite a while in this series.

    • Doghouse
      December 4, 2018, 5:31 am | # | Reply

      True! It very much fits in plot-arc terms, I guess – but after the first few weeks, the continuing no-mojo Tip always felt a bit wrong.

  7. thejoemoose
    December 4, 2018, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Can we all agree to the fact that Tip absolutely ROCKS in that outfit? I mean, wow!

    • David B Huber
      December 4, 2018, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Agreed! And if the understated elegance of panel two is any indication of the understatement in panel one…

    • haluesen10
      December 4, 2018, 2:20 am | # | Reply

      He looks amazing in it! Very elegant and fashionable. It’s good to see a sign that he is back to being him again.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      December 4, 2018, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

      I was hoping for something less elegant and more vulnerable. But the big problem is that he missed his mark. His foot sticks out past the edge of panel two. Completely unprofessional.

  8. Otakubouzu
    December 4, 2018, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    When did last time we see Tip in dresses?
    I mean, I just get too used with Tip wearing hobo outfits that seeing him get fabulous again kinda take me off-guard.

    • emusam
      December 4, 2018, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      2017-09-07, right before the court scene.

      • RealUnimportant
        December 4, 2018, 9:36 am | # | Reply

        It’s been over a *year*?!

  9. M. Alan Thomas II
    December 4, 2018, 2:59 am | # | Reply

    Dunno exactly why, but I’m getting kinda Ozma vibes off of Tip this strip.

    • Will
      December 4, 2018, 9:36 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. me too. Flower and necklace mostly. Good place for it too.

      https://vovatia.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/the-rare-beauty-of-ozma/

  10. The Lord of Salt
    December 4, 2018, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    What, offscreen? Shaenon, you monster!

    • Marisa Mockery
      December 5, 2018, 2:15 am | # | Reply

      Well if she ever starts a Slipshine….

  11. Daphne (formerly d'Glenn)
    December 4, 2018, 5:01 am | # | Reply

    Aye, this!

  12. Daphne (formerly d'Glenn)
    December 4, 2018, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    Argh. Meant to be a reply to fcdesjardins.

  13. Kate Cunningham
    December 4, 2018, 9:02 am | # | Reply

    Oh, yeah, he’s back.

  14. Frank
    December 4, 2018, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    “There you goes, thinking you’re all that. But you are not as charming as you think you are, sir.”
    “Yes, I am.”
    “Them big old Dumbo ears.”
    “Look at you with them chicken legs…B-bawk!”

  15. ruggs
    December 4, 2018, 9:25 am | # | Reply

    This makes me wonder (more) when we’ll see the Abbess, if at all. Between Captain Beyond, Tip, and then Unity’s induction into the Notaries Public, the power of Funk may compel it.

    Mind, I’d also like to see more of Sweetheart’s superpowers in action. They’re pawsome!

    Theory: Tip’s lack of understanding has something to do with his being tied to The Man, while being an agent of Funk.

  16. casimir
    December 4, 2018, 10:23 am | # | Reply

    UNITY in panel three: “Tip, you look so good I could just eat you!”

    • Shadowmehr
      December 4, 2018, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

      Tip subconscious in panel three: “Oh, I hope she’s speaking metaphorically.”

  17. Robert Nowall
    December 4, 2018, 10:52 am | # | Reply

    He’s lucky the Emperor Norton gave his royal audience dress back.

  18. theysabet
    December 4, 2018, 3:42 pm | # | Reply

    Yay! Tip in drag is MUCH better than Tip-the-drag.

  19. Leslie Piper
    December 4, 2018, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

    Capt. Wilkins, presenting for duty, in local mufti, for going undercover as only he can.

  20. Jane Dough
    December 4, 2018, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

    My heart leapt to see Tip back to, err, normal. I hope we get a few flashbacks of hot, funky lovin’ in the nearish future!

    My real question is, how do you clean zombie drippings out of that dress so quicly and well, and can their technique take out chablis and taco sauce stains on a wedding dress that belonged to uhh, a friend’s mom, who may or may not be me?

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