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2016-12-16

by shaenon on December 16, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Purple Waves
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  1. Jothki
    December 16, 2016, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    I don’t get why everyone always acts like domino chains aren’t ridiculously easy to disrupt. Even if you don’t want to risk a massive scattering accidentally triggering something, you have plenty of other options like putting a card between two dominoes, pulling a few of them out, or even running the chain backwards.

    • Candace
      December 16, 2016, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      You’re making an assumption that someone notices that the domino chain is going in time to disrupt it before the device goes off.

      • DanD
        December 16, 2016, 1:42 am | # | Reply

        Also that it isn’t actually the first domino that triggers, and the rest are just for show.

        • Barking Monkey
          December 16, 2016, 6:13 am | # | Reply

          Also, who REALLY has the force of will to interrupt a cool domino chain, regardless of consequences? Let’s be honest.

    • TheLivingNick
      December 16, 2016, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      This is a MAD domino chain. It might not obey normal domino rules. Or maybe it does. Or maybe ocelot nipple kazoo.

      • Smithnik
        December 16, 2016, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

        You can’t say that in public!
        Besides, a mad domino chain would trigger on #37, because anything in science can be measured as a 37 on a sufficiently arbitrary scale.

        • TheLivingNick
          December 19, 2016, 10:19 am | # | Reply

          “Any sufficiently arbitrary scale is indistinguishable from magic.” –Arthur C. Clarke

  2. Jerry Aethers
    December 16, 2016, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    …and the real sinister part about the domino chain is that it can act like a dead-man switch if there are enough fools about to accidentally set it off…

    • Forzin
      December 16, 2016, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

      Oh god. This is the Dane’s Mad master plan! He planned everything so that he’d get locked in the freezer where it would be safe, knowing that through pure power of narrative structure, after setting up the domino chain as a trigger, there was no way somebody wouldn’t accidentally set it off.

  3. BRGR
    December 16, 2016, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    I like how the number on the first domino is arranged.

    • D. Walker
      December 16, 2016, 4:40 am | # | Reply

      It’s like it’s a sad little domino and upset that it got knocked over.

    • drachefly
      December 16, 2016, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      It took me a moment to realize it wasn’t a row of tiny obsidian golems falling in dismay.

      Just a moment.

      Because that would have been severely out of context.

      But still, that’s not what a 2 looks like on any normal domino set.

      • colomon
        December 16, 2016, 7:53 am | # | Reply

        “It took me a moment to realize it wasn’t a row of tiny obsidian golems falling in dismay.”

        You’ve just worked out the dark secret on dominos….

      • bergerjacques
        December 16, 2016, 9:38 am | # | Reply

        Perhaps they are Emoticonimos.

  4. Dr. Steve
    December 16, 2016, 8:07 am | # | Reply

    Before this, I was unaware that there was a domino font. Now, I’m wondering what other word/sounds are in the domino lexicon…

    • BRGR
      December 17, 2016, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      In the unicode table, starting with codepoint U+1F030, are all the domino tile characters.

  5. Robert Nowall
    December 16, 2016, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    Roll me over, Romeo.

  6. jwghaller
    December 16, 2016, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    The last two panels are basically a Def Leppard song waiting to happen.

    • bergerjacques
      December 16, 2016, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      80s Hair Metal to the rescue.

      • M. Alan Thomas II
        December 16, 2016, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

        He does have the hair for it.

  7. Dewy
    December 16, 2016, 11:05 am | # | Reply

    I do believe we are about to see how the dragon gets sent back in time. I wonder if Chris joins her for the ride…

    • Bruce Munro
      December 16, 2016, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

      Isn’t the doomsday device more of a heat ray?

  8. void
    December 16, 2016, 7:02 pm | # | Reply

    I just noticed. Is that last speech bubble coming from the dragon?

    • Aevylmar
      December 16, 2016, 7:29 pm | # | Reply

      I can’t tell.

      • Chaddaï Fouché
        December 17, 2016, 5:53 am | # | Reply

        Now that I’m looking for it I’m pretty sure the dragon is speaking (look at her mouth) but that wasn’t how I parsed it on my first read through … I think this bubble should be reshaped a bit maybe ??

  9. Shadowmehr
    December 16, 2016, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

    Chris, 20 out of 10 for style, but minus several million for poor timing.

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