In this comic? If they’ve got a name and more than two lines of dialogue, they’re pretty much guaranteed to show up again. And when they do, they’ll be way more important than they were the first time around.
Unless they’re dead, of course. But even then, there’s still a chance.
There’s sort of a thing where allies are important but they don’t actually lead the movement, because they don’t have experience of the problems faced by actual members of the group and can in fact be blind to their own lack of personal insight.
This particular example is like… umm… if MLK were a white woman, sort of. Sure, the tiger is ALSO a member of an oppressed social class, and there are probably all sorts of intersectional commonalities between the two groups’ treatment, but what exactly makes a living creature qualified to dominate the discussion on systemic discrimination against the dead?
He’s H.T. from the convention arc in Cleveland. The others with him are presumably the other deportees from The Cave he recruited at the end of the arc.
And if I hadn’t just bought and read the four books, I wouldn’t have known who the tiger was. (Actually the books did clear up a lot—I’d been thinking Nick was much older than he seems to be.)
(I think sometimes fans forget the Oz-based-ness underlay to the strip, but it’s always a happytime for me when another element of that shows up. Like the receptionist and Tik-Tok … and now I’m wondering who H.M. Wogglebug, T.E. is.)
Wha-whaaaat?
I really should have seen this coming. But I didn’t. Bluh!
Actually, that tiger IS dead!
He died of happiness.
Well, he sure made rubes of us.
And here I thought we had seen the last of him.
He was pretty much guaranteed to show up again after being thrown into Chekov’s Cave. I just didn’t expect it to be here.
In this comic? If they’ve got a name and more than two lines of dialogue, they’re pretty much guaranteed to show up again. And when they do, they’ll be way more important than they were the first time around.
Unless they’re dead, of course. But even then, there’s still a chance.
I love it when a myth arc comes together
That had better blow up so big with this bombshell drops on the Dead Rights community…
(Also, why didn’t Artie out him?)
Why would this be a bombshell? Non-zombies are in favour of Dead Rights. That’s a good thing for the movement, isn’t it?
On another note, is that a Hare-Link sticker on Artie’s computer?
There’s sort of a thing where allies are important but they don’t actually lead the movement, because they don’t have experience of the problems faced by actual members of the group and can in fact be blind to their own lack of personal insight.
This particular example is like… umm… if MLK were a white woman, sort of. Sure, the tiger is ALSO a member of an oppressed social class, and there are probably all sorts of intersectional commonalities between the two groups’ treatment, but what exactly makes a living creature qualified to dominate the discussion on systemic discrimination against the dead?
I do believe the appropriate phrasing for this is a familiar ‘Dun dun DUN!’
Really, though, what would you expect from a tiger but to use everyone else as cat’s paws?
The Skin Horse TV looks like a Wii U gamepad to me. Did they all get shrunk down and are watching in Gavotte’s home theater setup or something?
(Based on “The Tiger”, by William Blake)
Tiger! Tiger! Streaming live,
As you secretly connive!
What infernal, twisted plot
Is up the sleeve you haven’t got?
In your cavern prison cell,
Where lawless creatures dwell,
What dread plots do you conceal?
What the heck’s the fuzzy deal?
What nefarious design
Shapes the words you post online?
Arguing for undead rights,
Who can dodge your deadly bytes?
When they threw you in that cave,
So you could not misbehave,
Did they know your grand design?
How’d you get a T1 line?
Tiger! Tiger! Streaming live,
As you secretly connive!
What dark scheme, so well-defined,
Do Jeff and Shaenon have in mind?
What infernal, twisted plot/Is up the sleeve you haven’t got?
Superb.
I agree. Half the fun of this strip are these filks. Are they included in the printed books? Because they should be.
Who’s Robin, and why is she drawing a picture of either a Hamster or a particularly chubby version of Artie?
freddiefreelance: one of his students, and it’s an ant in a fur coat
Wait where is Rubes from?
I remember seeing him, but I forgot where.
He’s H.T. from the convention arc in Cleveland. The others with him are presumably the other deportees from The Cave he recruited at the end of the arc.
And if I hadn’t just bought and read the four books, I wouldn’t have known who the tiger was. (Actually the books did clear up a lot—I’d been thinking Nick was much older than he seems to be.)
Love the strip! BTW, Where do I post fan art?
Send it to me and/or Jeff, and we usually end up posting it on a Sunday. Or you can post on the message board.
So, what do the “mundanes” see and hear when they view television coverage of a referendum on zombie rights? Referendum of the Dead by George Romero?
They just flip right by that channel…
Like this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8A254PJjWc&w=420&h=315%5D
Tiger, tiger, blogging bright,
Posting far into the night,
What fearful hand or eye
Would dare mar thy fearful commentary?
William Blake, “The Tiger”
I was feeling bad for not providing the source material
Heh. He’s smiling like the cat who ate the canary.
Wait, I thought Artie was Rube?
Oh good, I wasn’t the only one.
Yesss, the brief return of the Hungry Tiger!
(I think sometimes fans forget the Oz-based-ness underlay to the strip, but it’s always a happytime for me when another element of that shows up. Like the receptionist and Tik-Tok … and now I’m wondering who H.M. Wogglebug, T.E. is.)
–Dave
oh DUH it’s ARTIE
–Dave, ne-ver miiiiind!
HT may stand for Hungry Tiger, but, Hunter Thompson wrote a column called Hey Rube.
Didn’t Tip refer to H.T. being a white tiger with black stripes (very daring)?