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2022-05-16

by shaenon on May 16, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. dvandom
    May 16, 2022, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    All the better to jump with.

    • David B Huber
      May 16, 2022, 10:15 am | # | Reply

      +1

    • maarvarq
      May 16, 2022, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      +2

    • Robert Nowall
      May 16, 2022, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

      Might as well jump. Go ahead and jump.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 16, 2022, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

        I got my back against the record machine…

        • Quentin Long
          May 16, 2022, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

          It ain’t the worst that you’ve seen…

  2. Tiff Hudson
    May 16, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    There *has* to be a filk of the Tigger song with a jump drive full of springs.

    • Doghouse
      May 16, 2022, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      ARRGH! Came here intending to post the first few lines. Kudos.

    • David B Huber
      May 16, 2022, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      The wonderful thing about jump drives
      Converted to run off of springs
      Is aliens cannot explain them
      Because they are Mad Science things!
      They’re bouncy, jumpy, tesseract-y
      Instantaneous fun!
      But the most wonderful thing about spring drives is
      There is only one!
      Now at last there’s one!
      (“You’re welcome.”)

      – with apologies to the Sherman brothers 😉

      • Tiff Hudson
        May 16, 2022, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

        Lovely!

      • Doghouse
        May 16, 2022, 6:15 pm | # | Reply

        Much better than what I had in mind. 😎

  3. ivylog
    May 16, 2022, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    The colors are so good.

    • Shaenon
      May 16, 2022, 3:05 am | # | Reply

      It’s all Pancha!

      • Nick Alcock
        May 16, 2022, 7:36 am | # | Reply

        Maybe, but the triumphant grin and fabulous body language are all you (well, all your drawing, I should say, I don’t know if you routinely go around doing this sort of thing in real life).

        (What? It is *possible*. This is SoCal, probably nobody would even notice the occasional Garrity Funk Empire.)

      • bergerjacques
        May 16, 2022, 9:53 am | # | Reply

        Perfect attention to Pancha for the bees and also doing whatever it is she does to make Tigerlily’s cosmic laser kaleidoscope outfit, even on the glitter gloves, so beautiful.

        • David B Huber
          May 16, 2022, 10:20 am | # | Reply

          Ditto.

          This entire strip is glorious!

  4. Towering Barbarian
    May 16, 2022, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Pavane should be grateful that her ship wasn’t remade into a Prairie Schooner so as to fool the Space Indians. 🙂

    • Shadowmehr
      May 16, 2022, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      One, I now want to see that, and two, the settler-themed mad tech was from a completely different mad scientist, sadly now cured.

      • Smithnik
        May 16, 2022, 7:03 pm | # | Reply

        Cured? To the same degree Tigerlily was cured? It occurred to me that with Mads, it would be awfully hard to tell if they were just changing the direction of their madness…

      • awgiedawgie
        May 16, 2022, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t remember Prudence Fairweather ever being cured.

  5. The Chief
    May 16, 2022, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    “My hovercraft’s full of eels.”

    Who wins?

    • D. Walker
      May 16, 2022, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      It depends – the Hungarian got arrested, we’ll see if Pavane fares better or worse.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 16, 2022, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      “That’ll be six-and-six, please.”

    • waynezombie
      May 16, 2022, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      Since we’re talking springs, “Would you like to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy!” would be a good rejoinder.

      Though I’m also a fan of “Ah! I would like to return this Tobacconist! It is scratched.”

      • Duane B.
        May 16, 2022, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

        My tobacconist is pining for the fjord.

        • Robert Nowall
          May 16, 2022, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

          “A moose once bit my sister.”

  6. Frank Hightower
    May 16, 2022, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    “Aha! I see the problem, why this watch is full of wheels!”
    –Disney’s Mad Hatter

    • Robert Nowall
      May 16, 2022, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

      “I’m just sittin’ here watchin’ the wheels go ’round and ’round…I really love to watch them roll…”

      • Candace
        May 17, 2022, 12:51 am | # | Reply

        That’s a song I don’t see quoted everyday. Nice!

  7. JoB
    May 16, 2022, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    I wonder whether Tip had to be left behind Because Plot, so as to not give Pavane an allergic hostage …

    … so, who brought the spring-loaded flypaper?

  8. Codebracker
    May 16, 2022, 3:53 am | # | Reply

    I mean she made a working teleporter out of coathangers, so it should work fine

  9. Daibhid C
    May 16, 2022, 5:09 am | # | Reply

    Pavane is stil calling Tigerlilly “Princess”. Interesting. I’ve given up speculating on how much of the whole “princess of Lovetron” thing is true, and now I’m just waiting patiently for someone to tell us. Probably not long now!

    • VickiC
      May 16, 2022, 5:31 am | # | Reply

      It’s also interesting that now she is “Princess Tigerlily”. Wasn’t it “Princess Berenice” before?

      • awgiedawgie
        May 16, 2022, 8:20 am | # | Reply

        Tigerlily called herself Princess Berenice – and only once that I can recall. Pavane never did.

  10. Bookworm
    May 16, 2022, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    They’d better hope they don’t run into Coily the Spring Sprite.

  11. Robert Nowall
    May 16, 2022, 6:52 am | # | Reply

    Looks like KT joined the mutiny.

  12. Ember
    May 16, 2022, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    “The jump drive is full of springs. You know, in retrospect it was pretty obvious it was you, I have no idea how I didn’t catch that before.”

  13. Robert Nowall
    May 16, 2022, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    Bee, dude, she’ll make it rad.
    Take a bad drive and make it better.
    Dismember and take it apart,
    And she will start to make it better.

    Bee, dude, see this upgrade.
    You’ve been played to an unregretter.
    The minute the mutiny has begun,
    Then they’ll have fun and make it better.

    And when in time they feel the pain, Bee, dude, explain
    You carried the mission on your shoulders.
    For this you know she think’s she cool to play the fool,
    Then breaking the UFO chokeholder.

    Bee, dude, it’s Chinatown!
    You’ve been played to an unregretter.
    Dismembered and taken apart,
    They’ve made a start to make it better.

    They’ll take it back and they’re all in, Bee, dude, begin,
    No waiting for someone to reform with.
    And don’t you know that within you, Bee, dude, you’re through,
    Improvement is here and it’s not colder.

    Bee, dude, she’ll make it rad.
    Take a bad drive and make it better.
    Remember, it’s powered with springs,
    You’ll see what she brings to make it better.
    Better, better, better, better, better, better, oh!

    Na, na na nanana, nanana, Bee, dude…

    —from “Hey, Jude,” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (but almost all Paul), sung by The Beatles.

    • maarvarq
      May 16, 2022, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      Excellent!

    • TheWreck
      May 16, 2022, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

      (standing ovation)

    • Candace
      May 17, 2022, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      Nice!

  14. skullthetroll
    May 16, 2022, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    I can practically hear the relationship to Gavotte in Pavane’s last line there. 🙂

  15. Robert Nowall
    May 16, 2022, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

    The action shifts back to the saucer. Pavane, Tigerlily has crossed her. The drive’s full of springs, which could wreck everything. How will this all end? It’s a tosser.

  16. Eva
    May 17, 2022, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

    On a second look I realized how much her rainbow sequins are shifting colors between panels. She’s practically shimmering. O.O

  17. Wordblind
    May 17, 2022, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

    It hurts my soul that the line “Believe it” wasn’t followed two panels later with “Bee, leave it.”

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