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2022-04-12

by shaenon on April 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. thejoemoose
    April 12, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    So what, no metal or anything?

    • David B Huber
      April 12, 2022, 1:19 am | # | Reply

      “Ain’t it the truth?!” 😉

  2. Moe Lane
    April 12, 2022, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    …You know, Tip: we’ve never seen you at full power.

    • codebracker
      April 12, 2022, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

      I thought Tip in a suit was him at full power

  3. Frank Hightower
    April 12, 2022, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Then I have great news for you: I stopped the machine causing that!

  4. David B Huber
    April 12, 2022, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    I guess having Leo greet Tip with a joyous tackle wouldn’t have fit the gravity of the situation?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 12, 2022, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      Oh, it’d fit with gravity, alright. Oh, wait… wrong kind of gravity.

      • woodensarsen
        April 12, 2022, 11:52 pm | # | Reply

        Oh no gravity is increasing on me!

  5. Pharmakeus Ubik
    April 12, 2022, 4:26 am | # | Reply

    That’s some great symmetry between this and their first meeting. So long and thanks for the lion chow.

  6. steven sarbutts
    April 12, 2022, 4:36 am | # | Reply

    The Lion has found his courage and the Tin Man has got his Hitty Heart, any thoughts on the Scarecrow and his brains?

    • Shadowmehr
      April 12, 2022, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe Dr. Lee will donate a Brain-o-matic to the flying saucer for U.N.I.T.Y. and the other zombies.

    • Daibhid C
      April 12, 2022, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

      The strip’s main Tin Man counterpart has always been Nick (Moustachio fills in sometimes, but mostly he’s Tik-Tok), but the same pretty much applies there.

    • skullthetroll
      April 12, 2022, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

      Remember that in Oz none of the gifts actually do anything. They only believed that they did.

    • Colonelsam
      April 12, 2022, 8:59 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve always toyed with the idea that Unity is the Scarecrow, given that she is sewn together and, of course, is always looking for Brainz given that she is a zombie and all. With Sweetheart finally committing to be with her, and Sweetheart being the brains of this outfit, seems like the scarecrow finally got her brains?

      • Candace
        April 13, 2022, 1:00 am | # | Reply

        Same here. I hadn’t made the connection of Sweetheart being Unity’s brain, though, but it makes sense, now that you mention it.

      • Daibhid C
        April 13, 2022, 10:20 am | # | Reply

        Unity is sometimes the Scarecrow (most notably in the foreshadowing for the Big Reveal of Mr Green, which also casts Tip as Dorothy and Sweetheart as the Cowardly Lion), but is more specifically the Patchwork Girl.

  7. Wizard
    April 12, 2022, 4:37 am | # | Reply

    And Tip ticks an item off his bucket list.

    • David B Huber
      April 12, 2022, 9:34 am | # | Reply

      “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride”?

  8. Robert Nowall
    April 12, 2022, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    Leo could take it up again under a pen name. Do it all by mail.

    • Sheik
      April 12, 2022, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      Mail?
      What kind of cheap operation is Lovetron that they don’t have the Internet?

      • awgiedawgie
        April 12, 2022, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

        The internet was a sick joke perpetrated upon the Earth by aliens to keep the human race stupid. And it has succeeded. The aliens know better than to unleash the internet on their own planets.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 12, 2022, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

          We don’t know what sort of mail service (e- or snail) is available between Earth and Lovetron.

        • David B Huber
          April 12, 2022, 2:14 pm | # | Reply

          Alas, awgiedawgie, too close to the truth! I remember the early days of the Internet when information longed to be free, Usenet was supplanting BBS, malware was nonexistent, baggyware was plentiful and the future was bright with the promise of XHTML 2.0 and the dawning of a world mind.

          Before Novell bought WordPerfect and any other technology that threatened Micro$oft and Google decided “Don’t be evil” wasn’t profitable enough, leading the industry to optimize browsers for cookie tracking and DRM.

          Hopefully the Skin Horse universe turned out better, with the Sasquatches in charge.

          • awgiedawgie
            April 12, 2022, 3:41 pm | #

            Quite right. But I was thinking more along the lines of how grammatical atrocities like texting, tweeting, and chat rooms have produced an entire generation of people who can’t spell, can’t write, and couldn’t care less.

            I said 25 years ago that the internet had produced an entire generation of idiots, and it’s only gotten worse since then. (In fact, I just received a “GFY” from one such idiot over on youtube, because I made the mistake of telling him that if he’s going to complain, he should spell it correctly. He’d rather make excuses for why he thinks being incorrect is okay than admit he was actually wrong.)

            And then there’s Wikipedia…

          • Robert Nowall
            April 12, 2022, 5:14 pm | #

            Well, I once thought you had to be somewhat literate to function online, but…well, how many people here can touch-type?

          • David B Huber
            April 12, 2022, 5:40 pm | #

            Robert, I must confess that it’s GBoard (Glide and handwriting recognition) I’m struggling with! 😉

          • Robert Nowall
            April 12, 2022, 5:46 pm | #

            Had a mildly bad experience recently, searching through the just-released 1950 census records. Took me a while to find my father on them, thanks to a cross-out on the line and the handwriting recognition software misspelling his last name, which is also mine.

            I learned to touch type right after getting my first typewriter—well, I got it in March and it wasn’t till June that I could work through a “touch typing in ten easy lessons” book. (Actually I did only six lesson, after which I typed constantly.) Most useful skill I’ve ever acquired.

          • David B Huber
            April 13, 2022, 5:37 pm | #

            awgiedawgie, you gave me a great idea for the next “Killer App”!

            Now that Elon Musk owns 9% of Twitter, we pitch a plug-in to implement Twain’s “Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling”! 😉

  9. Stephen Bolhafner
    April 12, 2022, 7:19 am | # | Reply

    Wait – is this the last scene????

    We started with these characters …

    • Robert Nowall
      April 12, 2022, 8:39 am | # | Reply

      Well, I hope Leo got another therapist.

    • Candace
      April 13, 2022, 1:02 am | # | Reply

      Well, only if the authors plan to leave us hanging about what happened to Chris and Marcie.

  10. CBob
    April 12, 2022, 9:53 am | # | Reply

    Oh bother. Can this really be the end?
    Yes, I know it is. We’ve been told it is, but somehow, The Cowardly Lion getting his courage *really* finally makes it thru the Active Denial field that is my thick skull

    • bergerjacques
      April 12, 2022, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Not that I’m privy to any reliable information – and tomorrow may prove me wrong – but from having read Narbonic, Willoweep Manor, and a few other items Shaenon has written, she has a knack for definite, and rather satisfying, endings.

      Its that Jeffrey Wells guy I’m unsure of. There has been a curious dearth of bicycle art and animals in hats in the strip recently.

    • waynezombie
      April 12, 2022, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      I hope not! I’ve got two videos to make, one whose midi I can’t fine! The first song is ready to roll, as soon as I contact my video guy. Maybe we can shoot it this weekend, but I don’t know his editing timeframe or other commitments.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 12, 2022, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      Just let it come, so I can write one last song parody. Or maybe two.

  11. Robert Nowall
    April 12, 2022, 11:05 am | # | Reply

    Another goodbye, now from Leo. He gave up since others won’t see-o. He lost his career which is what he held dear. But Tip Wilkin, with that dress, he feels free-o.

  12. s854
    April 12, 2022, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

    We’ve solved the mystery of whether or not Leo can see colour, anyway. First mentioned in https://skin-horse.com/comic/cut-flattered/

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