There’s that finely tuned sense of priorities we’ve come to expect of Skin Horse. It’s a wonder they didn’t stick around for the Best Humorous Lower Class Victorian Stereotype Contest.
Count on them to get into a little Dickens. Nevertheless, I applaud the arrival of the clear forces of sweetness, reason, and …….unerring judgement, eventually.
Presumably sans the vast amount of horse manure, workhouses, and starving to death parts?
(Obviously being from the land of Dickens I’ve never heard of this thing before, but I’ve never even heard of the UK equivalent mentioned on Wikipedia, which is not surprising because it’s held in a single town I’ve never been to as what looks like more or less a publicity stunt. It looks like the attempt to export the US equivalent to the UK seems to have been a flop: if everyone else in Britain reacts to it the way I did on first learning about it, as something likely to be skin-crawlingly awful, I can understand why.)
I do love the pun cut¹ between the yesterday’s closing panel and today’s opening panel.
¹Not actually a pun, but playing on Sergey and Annex One’s shoes. What’s a transition like that called — associative cut? one of the many flavours of irony? My brain is distractible today, I dare not venture into TV Tropes myself. You can tell my brain is distractible by the fact that I’m writing this comment on the cut, and now I’m commenting on the comment. Time to cut the comment.
Cinnamon: “So how was the fair?”
Unity: “Well, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.”
Cinnamon: “So pretty well like most Christmas fairs then.”
Dickens Fair had to be cancelled this year due to COVID, which was a heartbreaker for about a thousand performers, not to mention the patrons. It’s still available online at https://dickensfair.com/dickens-fair-at-home. And, of course, the vendors are happy to provide you with stylish Christmas bows, hats, and whatnot, which is doubtless where UNITY and Sweetheart got those snappy items.
I deeply hope at some point we at least get a quick flashback panel showing Moustachio’s reaction to the Dickens Fair. Whether he went and had to suppress rampage instincts, whether he approved or disparaged from a distance everyone else restrained him to… I just feel like Moustachio would have Feelings about a mock-Victorian Fair and I want to know what they are.
Townsends on YT is doing a reading of all five parts of A Christmas Carol; I suspect there are those here who would enjoy it. Tomorrow at 4 EST is part 4- live, of course!
I wonder if the rats are going to move into Annex One, just to keep the clockwork oiled and everyone apprised of computer updates. Rogue agencies need tech support, their sewer is about to collapse due to middle damage and the weight of a building on it, it would be a good match.
Why would they do the fair thing first, they need to save lives.
UNITY can be very persuasive
And easily distracted.
I mean have you BEEN to the Dickens Fair?
I’ve WORKED the Dickens Fair…
I understand the temptation, but they are supposed to be heroes and sacrifices need to be made….
They’re no longer on government payroll, they’re rogues who make their own rules.
… Some concessions have to be made for staff demands.
And concessions have to be made for concessions!
They ARE sacrificing. That’s why the body count is as good as it is!
On the best of years, Dickens Fair only runs five weekends. If you don’t go first, you might not get a second chance.
Man, I’m really glad that *someone* got to go to the Dickens Fair this year.
🙁
Too soon man…
Hey, it’s after Thanksgiving – not too soon at all. The fair should be on now.
Must be the reason for Unity’s and Sweetheart’s stylish outfits.
There’s that finely tuned sense of priorities we’ve come to expect of Skin Horse. It’s a wonder they didn’t stick around for the Best Humorous Lower Class Victorian Stereotype Contest.
Maybe they did, and that’s why they’re so late.
There’s always time for a little Dickens Fair.
Count on them to get into a little Dickens. Nevertheless, I applaud the arrival of the clear forces of sweetness, reason, and …….unerring judgement, eventually.
Man, I have missed the CREW.
That grass doesn’t look like it’s encountered any missiles, small or otherwise. What (or when) did Anasigma blow up?
Oop, apparently I’d missed a strip.
I hope Anasigma’s missle didn’t leave a subterranean cavern about to collapse under the weight of Annex 1…
Try the orange peel beer, Unity.
Thinks: I don’t know what the Dickens Fair is, but I’m not going to look it up so I can assume it’s like a Renaissance Fair, but Dickensian.
(Looks it up anyway.)
Oh, that’s actually what it is. Cool.
Presumably sans the vast amount of horse manure, workhouses, and starving to death parts?
(Obviously being from the land of Dickens I’ve never heard of this thing before, but I’ve never even heard of the UK equivalent mentioned on Wikipedia, which is not surprising because it’s held in a single town I’ve never been to as what looks like more or less a publicity stunt. It looks like the attempt to export the US equivalent to the UK seems to have been a flop: if everyone else in Britain reacts to it the way I did on first learning about it, as something likely to be skin-crawlingly awful, I can understand why.)
So, goose instead of turkey drumsticks?
I live in New England and had never heard of it. (Apparently the closest one is in Pennsylvania.)
I do love the pun cut¹ between the yesterday’s closing panel and today’s opening panel.
¹Not actually a pun, but playing on Sergey and Annex One’s shoes. What’s a transition like that called — associative cut? one of the many flavours of irony? My brain is distractible today, I dare not venture into TV Tropes myself. You can tell my brain is distractible by the fact that I’m writing this comment on the cut, and now I’m commenting on the comment. Time to cut the comment.
Cinnamon: “So how was the fair?”
Unity: “Well, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.”
Cinnamon: “So pretty well like most Christmas fairs then.”
Dickens Fair had to be cancelled this year due to COVID, which was a heartbreaker for about a thousand performers, not to mention the patrons. It’s still available online at https://dickensfair.com/dickens-fair-at-home. And, of course, the vendors are happy to provide you with stylish Christmas bows, hats, and whatnot, which is doubtless where UNITY and Sweetheart got those snappy items.
I deeply hope at some point we at least get a quick flashback panel showing Moustachio’s reaction to the Dickens Fair. Whether he went and had to suppress rampage instincts, whether he approved or disparaged from a distance everyone else restrained him to… I just feel like Moustachio would have Feelings about a mock-Victorian Fair and I want to know what they are.
Or a bonus Kickstarter story when this chapter gets printed!
Seconded!
Townsends on YT is doing a reading of all five parts of A Christmas Carol; I suspect there are those here who would enjoy it. Tomorrow at 4 EST is part 4- live, of course!
I wonder if the rats are going to move into Annex One, just to keep the clockwork oiled and everyone apprised of computer updates. Rogue agencies need tech support, their sewer is about to collapse due to middle damage and the weight of a building on it, it would be a good match.
An excellent suggestion, Shadowmehr!
I used to live in Troy, NY, home of the Victorian Stroll, but this is the first I’ve heard of the Dickens Fair.
Regardless, I’m loving the outfits.
Unity thinks the other team may have unkickable parts? This seems out of character, almost as if she had said that the other side wasn’t edible.
It was more a question of whether the other team was still there at all to be kicked.