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2022-01-01

by shaenon on January 1, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. awgiedawgie
    January 1, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I love it! Even the giant robot building is One With Unity… Annex One With Unity!

  2. Moe Lane
    January 1, 2022, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Your fate will be whispered by mothers in dark places to frighten their young,’ said Hastur, and then felt that the language of Hell wasn’t up to the job. ‘You’re going to get taken to the bloody *cleaners*, pal,’ he added.”

    – Pratchett, T & Gaiman, N

  3. Duane B.
    January 1, 2022, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Papercrete….it’s a thing!!

    • Duane B.
      January 1, 2022, 6:53 am | # | Reply

      U.N.I.T.Y. is a notaries public, she has the power of paper!!!

  4. David B Huber
    January 1, 2022, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Mr. Green called it!

    • Rockphed
      January 1, 2022, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      Did you ever doubt?

  5. Robert Horton
    January 1, 2022, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    Anyone else hearing the Rock Ridge Battle music? Minus “The French Mistake?

  6. Jerry Aethers
    January 1, 2022, 2:06 am | # | Reply

    They’ve all been Unity Pandemic Boosted! The Biomass is a plague of the unvaccinated!

  7. Candace
    January 1, 2022, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    I am simultaneously delighted and horrified by the current turn of events. I can’t wait to where this goes next! I also love the way H.T. has gradually come to look more fearsome and dragonish as the biomass has grown.

    • Pcj70
      January 1, 2022, 5:35 am | # | Reply

      H.T. Looks more than just Dragonish and fearsome, he’s positively Lovecraftian scary (with just a hint of William Wallace Denslow)!

  8. BMunro
    January 1, 2022, 4:20 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, everyone wants to join Team Unity, but they don’t tell you about the inescapable hunger for human flesh [1] (and sammiches. And sammiches made of human flesh. And industrial machinery. And…)

    [1] Mainly because they didn’t think of it as a problem to start with.

  9. D. Walker
    January 1, 2022, 4:35 am | # | Reply

    I like to imagine that in the third panel, they’ve all become inexplicably Germanic and just thrilled to be out in the sunshine.

    /obscure linguistic goofery

    • Trivena
      January 1, 2022, 4:52 am | # | Reply

      I know they normally say “don’t explain the joke”, but I’m always up for hearing more about obscure linguistic goofery.

      • kiralamouse
        January 1, 2022, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

        My guess would be “dag” being the spelling for “day” in Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish, and very similar to Icelandic “dagur” and German “Tag”. Hurrah, it’s day!

        Then maybe add in the fact that in at least Dutch and German (IDK about North Germanic languages) “day” can be used as a common shorthand for “good day” aka a greeting? IDK; I’m more familiar with Dutch, and it’s usually a farewell in Dutch, which I reeeeeaaaally doubt would be intentional on the part of the creators, but it’s fun to imagine the Greater UNITY saying “bye” to the people they’re about to kick out of town.

        I bet they’d have fun making the Dutch “g” sound, which sounds a bit like the “ch” in “loch” as the Scots say it, only more gargly. Actually, come to think of it, Andy Serkis kinda uses the Dutch g sometimes when he’s performing Gollum…

  10. Robert Nowall
    January 1, 2022, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    So long as their next word isn’t “Nabbit!”

    • David B Huber
      January 1, 2022, 5:40 am | # | Reply

      🙂

    • Robert Horton
      January 1, 2022, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

      Or “gonnit”!

      • Candace
        January 2, 2022, 2:51 am | # | Reply

        Robert Horton, as a Texan, I must assert that the exclamation you’re probably thinking of should be written as, “Dadgummit!” Totally different from, “Dagnabbit!” ;-D

  11. David B Huber
    January 1, 2022, 5:39 am | # | Reply

    It occurs to me that Unity has achieved what Agent Smith could only dream of…

    I wonder if Nick’s electokinetic abilities will be shared among all members of Team Annex One?

    • Candace
      January 2, 2022, 2:52 am | # | Reply

      That would be very interesting.

  12. Daibhid+C
    January 1, 2022, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    Has Unity been wearing a shirt with a 1 on it this whole time, just for the moment when she’s Unity #1? That’s awesome.

    • Moe Lane
      January 1, 2022, 9:30 am | # | Reply

      UNITY PRIME.

      “TACTICAL ASSESSMENT: BIOMASS VICTORY – IMPOSSIBLE.”

    • awgiedawgie
      January 1, 2022, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

      Unity changed her shirt sometime after Sweetheart got this idea, but before she barfed on Sweetheart’s head.

  13. Fan of Most Everything
    January 1, 2022, 7:35 am | # | Reply

    Dag Force, assemble! It’s time for the salad course!

    • Candace
      January 2, 2022, 2:53 am | # | Reply

      Worthy!^

  14. cshabsin
    January 1, 2022, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    They’ve combined to form a directed acyclic graph!

    • JoB
      January 2, 2022, 8:49 am | # | Reply

      Let’s discuss this on the next meeting in DAGstuhl, shall we?

  15. Robert Nowall
    January 1, 2022, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    H. T. takes them down by attrition. A thousand-cut death is his mission. Now the gang all shout “Dag!” so the biomass lags. It’s a problem by his definition.

  16. Robert Nowall
    January 1, 2022, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Also…

    Announcements forecast made us blue, that for “Skin-Horse,” the end had come due. But despite all the pain, it’s with us again, one day into ‘ought-twenty-two.

  17. fonshonorum
    January 1, 2022, 9:38 am | # | Reply

    So, this is it. Plants vs. Zombies.

    • erinhalfelven
      January 1, 2022, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

      LOL!!

  18. Shadowmehr
    January 1, 2022, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    The armies are about to clash. Somebody get the metal band ready and on the sound stage, they’re going to be needed for this.

    • Robert Nowall
      January 1, 2022, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      Inside Unity there’s a certain preference for Willie Nelson. One would think this would extend to anyone under the control of her nanites. Cue up “Whiskey River.”

      • awgiedawgie
        January 1, 2022, 11:17 am | # | Reply

        I was thinking “Beer for my Horses”

  19. Oz
    January 1, 2022, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    There should be at least one cry of “Service!” in there…

    • awgiedawgie
      January 1, 2022, 11:18 am | # | Reply

      She just learned a new word!

      • Candace
        January 2, 2022, 2:55 am | # | Reply

        Oh, that’s true!

  20. Ladon
    January 1, 2022, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

    Get out the foam covered PVC pipes. It’s time for dag. Man, being integrated into a zombie hive mind looks so happy.

    • Candace
      January 2, 2022, 2:58 am | # | Reply

      Well, if I had no other choice than to be integrated into a zombie hive mind, I can think of worse outcomes than becoming one with Unity.

  21. rylen
    January 1, 2022, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

    Her notary training once more comes in handy.

  22. Reiver
    May 3, 2022, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    … Bubbles has another word. 😀

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