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2015-09-05

by shaenon on September 5, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. maarvarq
    September 5, 2015, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    “So you wanna play, huh?”

    • oneuniverse2
      September 5, 2015, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      The rougher the better 3:)

  2. Manifesta
    September 5, 2015, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Hey, my cameo! And I’m a badass! Woohoo!!!
    Except that no one’s ass is badder than Unity’s, so I do not see this ending well.

    But seriously, Jeff and Shaenon, your timing is awesome. I’m recovering from surgery, and this really made my day.
    And I’d

    • Frank
      September 5, 2015, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      You know, I stared at that first panel for a solid minute before reading the comic
      “I know that face. Where do I know that face?”

      • Robert Nowall
        September 5, 2015, 6:27 am | # | Reply

        Only if she stared at its reflection….

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        September 5, 2015, 7:07 am | # | Reply

        Me too.

      • Clifton
        September 6, 2015, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

        Same here!

    • Ian thompson
      September 5, 2015, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      now know how would I go about lending his role as evil unity’s boy toy?

      • Ian thompson
        September 5, 2015, 8:45 am | # | Reply

        Landing A not lending His, stupid dictation.

    • Feech
      September 5, 2015, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

      Get well soon Kay!

      • Manifesta
        September 5, 2015, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

        You’re very kind. I’m not actually ill—I donated a kidney to my fiancé.

        • Feech
          September 5, 2015, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

          That’s still serious (for both of you)! I hope all goes well for your fiance then!

        • Jeffrey C. Wells
          September 5, 2015, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

          Best wishes for a speedy recovery for both of you!

        • Robert Nowall
          September 6, 2015, 6:49 am | # | Reply

          Gee, whoah. Most people just get rings…

        • matteo
          September 7, 2015, 11:28 am | # | Reply

          Very good idea, not keeping all your spare parts in one bod…

          I mean, good on you! My best for speedy recovery on both your parts, urm, yeah.

  3. Clifton
    September 5, 2015, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    I guess we’ve confirmed this is the universe with Evil Unity, or at any rate Somewhat More Evil Unity.

    • Candace
      September 5, 2015, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      I like to think of the Unity we all know and love as amoral.

      • darkstarling
        September 5, 2015, 1:12 am | # | Reply

        I like to think of her as ‘learning’, she’s gone through alot of character development and these days she’s more ‘cheerfully violent’ then ‘cute sociopath on a leash’

      • Robert Nowall
        September 5, 2015, 6:29 am | # | Reply

        I like her. She’s funny, she hasn’t rampaged on me and mine…now, if she eats her brains and gets smart, she gets a little, well, tactless, but eventually the brains wear off and she goes back…

    • BMunro
      September 5, 2015, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      Or, as darkstarling suggests, Screwed Up Big-Time Unity.

    • Andy4Hire
      September 5, 2015, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      Would it be accurate to think of our Unity as Chaotic Good and the alternate-universe Unity as Chaotic Evil, perhaps?

      I haven’t played D&D, so my grasp of the alignments is shaky at best, but that’s how my brain has decided to characterize the two Unities.

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        September 5, 2015, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

        I think both of them are actually Chaotic Neutral, but Main Universe Unity is nice, while Mirror Unity is a jerk. For reference, Dr. Bram (like most mad scientists) is Nice Chaotic Evil.

        • darkstarling
          September 5, 2015, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

          I think that’s where they STARTED, but UNITY has developed to the point where she’s Chaotic Good but still getting the hang of it.

        • Candace
          September 6, 2015, 12:51 am | # | Reply

          I’m not sure I would characterize main universe Unity as “nice”, but she is likeable, and I believe she sincerely means well. However, she is usually neither nice nor likeable when she’s had enough brains to noticeably increase her intelligence.

          We have little experience yet of alt-Unity, but she certainly didn’t seem very likeable during the brief time we saw her. OTOH, she appeared to have made a decision that she had to eat that dude’s brains so she could stay smart “for the greater good” because she didn’t trust the dumb version of herself to get it right, so I’m not convinced it’s accurate to characterize alt-Unity as evil.

          • darkstarling
            September 8, 2015, 8:56 am | #

            Whereas I count ‘I killed you for the greater good’ as evil, just well intentionedly so. Like the Operative from Serenity.

            Our Unity, meanwhile, is nice to the people she cares about and as you say is generally well meaning. Her main issue is a sometimes disturbing lack of empathy towards people she doesn’t know, but she’s mostly past that.

          • WJS
            July 26, 2019, 11:22 pm | #

            Unity has developed to the point that when she talked about eating Sergio when she found him in Annex One, I was honestly a little shocked.

  4. Voyager
    September 5, 2015, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    I see Unity has made an impression on their universe…

    • darkstarling
      September 5, 2015, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      Like I said below, I’m betting that she’s spending some of her time hunting people for brains to stay smart. For the greater good, of course.

      Also, she might be partly or wholly responsible for this mess by pissing off the cyprus/getting her nano goop merged with it.

  5. Ron Armstrong
    September 5, 2015, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    So when Unity meets Alt-Unity will this be kinda like the Star Trek: TOS episode: “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”?

    • darkstarling
      September 5, 2015, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      Color scheme wise at least. Confrontation-wise it’s more complicated, since the main difference between the two of them is that Sherlock Unity (Sherity if you will, say it aloud…) has learned some compassion and that her dumb side has value.
      Darth Sherity on the other hand is ruthless and dismisses her less intelligent side. I’m betting she’s killing survivors for their brains, and justifying it as letting her save a small community at optimum efficiency. The whole ‘perfect world’ trap.
      So really, when the two confront each other it’s like Uranus and Neptune vs Sailor Moon, or maybe Gandalf vs Saruman.

    • Robert Nowall
      September 5, 2015, 6:30 am | # | Reply

      I figured the “other” Unity was built out of the parts that were left over when Dr. Lee built “our” Unity. Or vice versa.

  6. Sora Hjort (@SoraHjort)
    September 5, 2015, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    …… Unity is the cause of everyone going mad in this universe! it makes sense now. Using her goop and what not… The question then is…. how’d she administer it to the female population?

    • Candace
      September 6, 2015, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      There was that bit several strips back about “The Biomass released, etc…” That statement has yet to be explained.

  7. Robert Nowall
    September 5, 2015, 6:39 am | # | Reply

    Y’know…it’s been our assumption that we’re in the happentrack that we saw at the beginning of this sequence. The one with their Unity poisoning the Colma swamp rather than implementing the solution our Unity came up with.

    But do we know that, really? It could be some *other* other universe…

    • Dewy
      September 5, 2015, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

      Because…Chekhov’s Universe?

    • darkstarling
      September 5, 2015, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

      It COULD be, but then there’s no reason to show Darth Unity in the beginning.

  8. Danny in Canada
    September 5, 2015, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    Unity’s Nasty, I Tell You.

  9. Shadowmehr
    September 5, 2015, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    I’m surprised she went down that easily, really.

    Now for exposition while Sweetheart is blocking the counter strike.

    • darkstarling
      September 5, 2015, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      Being down != Being hurt 🙂

    • oneuniverse2
      September 5, 2015, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe they’re “Thor Powered”(tm) brass-knuckles, or the surprise just did it by itself.

      • darkstarling
        September 5, 2015, 7:24 pm | # | Reply

        You hit me! Picard never hit me.

        • matteo
          September 7, 2015, 11:40 am | # | Reply

          *I* am not Picard. 🙂 Love that scene.

    • BMunro
      September 5, 2015, 10:24 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she wasn’t expecting it: presumably she wasn’t bracing herself, and she doesn’t weigh anymore than your average young woman sewn together out of corpses.

  10. Dr. Steve
    September 5, 2015, 10:37 am | # | Reply

    Fiddler on the Roof – Anatevka

    Who do we have? No one much.
    Only Manifesta!

    Manifesta Manifesta
    In this place, punch a face, Manifesta
    Where else could revenge be so sweet

    Manifesta Manifesta
    Badass punch, brass knuckles, Manifesta
    Where I know that this UNITY
    Who seems to be a stranger in this strange old place
    Will punch me soon right back in my face
    Poor Manifesta

    Although I am Manifesta
    Badass punch, knuckle lunch, Manifesta
    Looking glass badass, dystopian place of mine

  11. Manifesta
    September 5, 2015, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    THAT IS SO FABULOUS!
    And now I must sing it to everyone I know. Of course, I was in my high school’s production of Fiddler (Bielke, the youngest daughter, the one with four lines), so I’ve been singing this for forty years.

  12. Saberbeam
    September 5, 2015, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

    It wouldn’t be to surprised if in tomorrows comic Unity gets up, snaps her jaw back into place and says “Sweetheart, I found a new friend! Let’s help her name her brass knuckles!”

    • Pygar
      September 5, 2015, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

      How about “Sweet Reason” or “Reasoned Discussion”!?

      • Saberbeam
        September 5, 2015, 10:58 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, or perhaps “Gentle Spring Breeze”

  13. WJS
    July 27, 2019, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Huh. I thought she was from California. How’d she get all the way over to Pennsylvania? Fleeing the aftermath of the Colma affair before society broke down completely?

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