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2022-04-02

by shaenon on April 2, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Moe Lane
    April 2, 2022, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    I would like to point out that, as per federal law in that universe, HT is legally an *American* criminal; your own legal system is irrelevant to this discussion.

    • Derin
      April 2, 2022, 2:59 am | # | Reply

      I daresay that once he’s aboard the spaceship, the Lovetronian legal system is going to be the only one he needs to worry about. What legal system America thinks is relevant only matters when America’s got control of the prisoner.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 2, 2022, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      Come to think of it, what laws did H. T. break? I don’t think there’s anything specifically about taking over the swamp and assimilating his way from Carbondale to Kansas…is assimilating a sentient being murder?…but no doubt there’s something on the books that can be used, like walking on the grass…

      • Wayne Zombie
        April 2, 2022, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

        H.T., as the biomass, ate a city. There might be some other charges involved.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 2, 2022, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

          Is eating a city a federal or state crime? (New York City ate Brooklyn and Queens and the Bronx and Staten Island—never been punished for it, either.)

          • Robert Horton
            April 2, 2022, 6:16 pm | #

            Isn’t Brooklyn and Queens and the Bronx and Staten Island considered punishment? Never heard a delighted N’Yawker talking about them?

          • Robert Nowall
            April 2, 2022, 8:08 pm | #

            You have got to get out of Manhattan more.

      • Candace
        April 3, 2022, 1:17 am | # | Reply

        Destruction of property.

  2. DWVR
    April 2, 2022, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    We have spaaaaace tacos/ Bet you weren’t ready for that/ We have spaaaace locos/ For sure they’ll get you real fat yeah yeah yeah…”

    • Candace
      April 2, 2022, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Nice!

  3. Frank Hightower
    April 2, 2022, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    I learned a new word today

    • Dewy
      April 2, 2022, 3:50 am | # | Reply

      The only uncommon word I see is mores. Not rare but, uncommon. Def not sapients (though spell checker doesn’t seem to like it pluralized). That’s been used a lot in this comic.

      • woodensarsen
        April 2, 2022, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

        Like s’mores?

  4. Sweet Uncle Leslie
    April 2, 2022, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    I smell rattus rattus. HT,being freed and empowered by Pavanne….she doesn’t like
    ‘normals’ either. They have united goals….

    • Shadowmehr
      April 2, 2022, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      First, the rattus rattus are acting as IT techs aboard the spaceship, so no surprise there. Second, you have a point about something being odd, but H.T.’s endgame has always been a bit more predatory. Pavane may find her/themselves regretting any alliance.

  5. sheer_falacy
    April 2, 2022, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    While the last 2 panels feature a UFO floating behind Pavane, if you just adjust your perspective she is instead wearing a sweet hat.

    • Frank Hightower
      April 2, 2022, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      well, Lovetron is the planet of funk

    • Towering Barbarian
      April 2, 2022, 2:18 am | # | Reply

      Well, that’ll get her respect among the Jaegermonsters if nothing else. 🙂

    • Jerry Aethers
      April 2, 2022, 2:22 am | # | Reply

      I sincerely saw it as a hat, until I realized it was the UFO, thinking how do the bees wear a hat like that.

      • JoB
        April 2, 2022, 3:10 am | # | Reply

        If you have antigrav for your UFO, why not make hats with it as well?

        • Candace
          April 3, 2022, 1:19 am | # | Reply

          This seems like a reasonable usage of anti-gran tech.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 2, 2022, 7:17 am | # | Reply

      Good thing Niue isn’t around at the moment.

    • khn0
      April 2, 2022, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

      yeah it’s been so perfect a look for patronizing Sweetheart

  6. Ladon
    April 2, 2022, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    Hey, so uh, what are YOUR mores? You never said. You never said what… ANY of your values were. You just kept saying you were a peaceful utopia.

    • Dewy
      April 2, 2022, 4:15 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. I am so getting such a antag vibe off this harpybee. I’m getting a female Grí­ma Wormtongue vibe off her. I’m waiting for the moment when the smug gets wiped off her swarm.

    • D. Walker
      April 2, 2022, 5:56 am | # | Reply

      PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MORES BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

      • sneakernh
        April 2, 2022, 8:32 am | # | Reply

        As my friend Walt said in Introduction to Behavioral Science, “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s a more”.

      • Jim Janney
        April 2, 2022, 11:51 am | # | Reply

        My spacecraft is full of eels.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 2, 2022, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

          I will not buy this spaceship, it is scratched.

          • D. Walker
            April 2, 2022, 9:30 pm | #

            Do you WAHNT to come back to my ship? Bouncy! Bouncy!

    • Tiff Hudson
      April 2, 2022, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

      Pavane has “Space Mores”–sometimes abbreviated as “smores”.

  7. Jarakin
    April 2, 2022, 1:10 am | # | Reply

    I’ve had space food. That’s not a good selling point.

    • Candace
      April 2, 2022, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Yes, I wouldn’t rely on tacos of unknown origin. Unity should definitely request a sample first.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 2, 2022, 7:18 am | # | Reply

        Insert The Taco Joke here.

    • Daibhid C
      April 2, 2022, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve not had space tacos, but I’ve had space ice cream and I liked it. I wouldn’t want to replace regular ice cream with it, but then I can’t pack regular ice cream in my lunchbox.

    • Robert
      April 2, 2022, 6:20 pm | # | Reply

      Remember Space Food Sticks? Drastically overpriced, tarry, gritty rods tasting of peanut butter?

      • Aname
        April 3, 2022, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

        And yet, I still wolfed them down whenever I got a hold of some, Tang too. Piss poor taste I have.

  8. Wizard
    April 2, 2022, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, getting rid of HT is bad, how? Personally, I can’t think of a better idea than sending HT to another planet.
    At least UNITY has her priorities straight. Tacos!

    • Candace
      April 2, 2022, 1:53 am | # | Reply

      You may have a point there. If Pavane takes H.T. to Lovetron, and he warps their society, that’s on Pavane, isn’t it?

    • D. Walker
      April 2, 2022, 6:09 am | # | Reply

      How is it bad?

      Well, for one thing, they’re removing a wanted criminal from the American government’s custody by force – which is itself a crime. Not exactly a declaration of war, but absolutely a legitimate legal and diplomatic grievance which can have ramifications in the future.

      For another thing, we still don’t know anything at all about Lovetron or their intentions, and there’s no way to hold them accountable. If they decide to let H.T. go free, humanity can do nothing and he gets to go free without having paid for his crimes. And let’s not forget the possibility that Pavane secretly wants to wipe out humanity – she might very well decide that H.T. would be a useful instrument toward that end, outfit him with alien tech, then send him back to earth to sow chaos.

      There are LOTS of ways this could be bad if Pavane is untrustworthy – and even if she is trustworthy, it’s still flaunting all our laws to abduct H.T. without the proper legal authority. They could have requested extradition if they actually wanted to try H.T. for some kind of crime – although even that claim is directly in question, because we don’t have the first clue what their legal system or values even are!

      Basically, we can’t trust anything Pavane says, because she has given us zero reason to trust her – just a lot of unverifiable claims.

      • James R. Baerg
        April 2, 2022, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

        Actually it’s flaunting her flouting of our laws.

      • Robert
        April 2, 2022, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

        Extradite a… tiger? Now I’ve heard everything…

  9. Robert Nowall
    April 2, 2022, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    I’ve heard space is pretty cold. You’ll need a space heater.

    • Jim Janney
      April 2, 2022, 11:33 am | # | Reply

      You can probably buy one from the space merchants.

    • James R. Baerg
      April 2, 2022, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

      That’s called a star.

  10. mickeyjf
    April 2, 2022, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    They’ve brain-wiped the Tigerlilly we all love – they must be up to no good.

  11. kungfusioed Leslie
    April 2, 2022, 10:35 am | # | Reply

    ‘Something’ warped Tigerlilly. Just another warped one, going with the power and money….TigerLilly, how could YOU?

  12. David B Huber
    April 2, 2022, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    Prediction: Tip is going to rescue Tigerlily.

    He’s obviously upset with Pavane’s high-handedness and will find a way onto the ship. Even if he has to abduct Tigerlily from the saucer (!) because he knows she can get to Lovetron on her own if she really wants to.

    After all, Tigerlily expressed distrust of Pavane.

    I have to wonder whether Gavotte and Pavane have a shared hidden agenda of replenishing the servant class on Lovetron…

    • Clifton
      April 2, 2022, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

      Thanks for that reminder! Something sinister is definitely afoot – or rather, awing and a swarm.

  13. Robert Nowall
    April 2, 2022, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

    H. T. goes on board, but he’s criminal. Sweetheart’s say over it is too minimal. He’s a non-human beast, so his passage is greased, and on Lovetron a welcome to him and all.

  14. Tiff Hudson
    April 2, 2022, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

    With all these people leaving and breaking off relationships with humans, someone’s bound to get space ghosted.

  15. Sweet Leslie the Hammer
    April 2, 2022, 9:51 pm | # | Reply

    Yeah, Tip has been too ‘laissez faire’ over Tigerlilly’s flipflop. There’s dirty work at the main hive, and he’s gotta BUST her out. (Re-assemble that phrase any way that
    pleases) and further on THAT line, please, let us see her rolling in honey….

  16. Bevan Bennett
    April 3, 2022, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    I see a lot of conspiracy theories, but keep in mind that so far this is a classic Oz-book ending. Princesses are revealed or appointed, and the company is split to return to or stay in their chosen world.
    Interesting that Pavanne is playing the traditional role of Glinda in these last chapter proceedings. That makes Gavotte, I think, one of the other witches.
    Ira/soldier with the green whiskers turned man behind the curtain has already left everyone else behind in his baloon/escape helicopter.
    The Hungry Tiger and the Cowardly Lion end up as good friends in the books, but I like how Unity took over part of the Hungry Tiger’s role by being the main character that continuously threatens to eat everything.
    Tip is just confused and upset that his namesake’s traditional ending has been co-opted by Tigerlily (and to a lesser extent by Nick’s Adventures in Whimseyland).
    But nothing is a direct match, many roles have been mix-and-matched about, and I’m sure we will have surprises even for Oz scholars. But I am 100% certain that the ending will have both princesses and departures.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 3, 2022, 7:14 am | # | Reply

      Well, Leo and H. T. were doing a webcomic together, but it was part of H. T.’s nefarious schemes and Leo turned to other writings. Also Leo said he’d been avoiding H. T. since he dated H. T.’s sister, who we all agreed was a cougar. (There’s another character we’ve heard about and never met!)

  17. Unfinished Business PIPER
    April 5, 2022, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

    New connection here….OK, HT, official tiger villain has engulfed huge numbers of ex-humans (now they are plants)PLANTS, which adore BEES nuzzling and fumbling….I think I see something obvious but I was blinded to it BEFORE…..boot those semi-humans OFF THE PLANET ASAP. SCAT!! Begone, etc.

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