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2020-12-09

by shaenon on December 9, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Alphaghoul
    December 9, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Why would they do the fair thing first, they need to save lives.

    • Frank
      December 9, 2020, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      UNITY can be very persuasive

      • Candace
        December 9, 2020, 12:21 am | # | Reply

        And easily distracted.

    • Shaenon
      December 9, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      I mean have you BEEN to the Dickens Fair?

      • Historian
        December 9, 2020, 2:49 am | # | Reply

        I’ve WORKED the Dickens Fair…
        I understand the temptation, but they are supposed to be heroes and sacrifices need to be made….

        • Vincent
          December 9, 2020, 5:51 am | # | Reply

          They’re no longer on government payroll, they’re rogues who make their own rules.

          … Some concessions have to be made for staff demands.

          • aylatrigger
            December 11, 2020, 1:46 am | #

            And concessions have to be made for concessions!

        • The Chief
          December 9, 2020, 7:14 am | # | Reply

          They ARE sacrificing. That’s why the body count is as good as it is!

    • efogoto
      December 9, 2020, 3:51 am | # | Reply

      On the best of years, Dickens Fair only runs five weekends. If you don’t go first, you might not get a second chance.

  2. Charles
    December 9, 2020, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Man, I’m really glad that *someone* got to go to the Dickens Fair this year.

    • Historian
      December 9, 2020, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      🙁

      Too soon man…

      • efogoto
        December 9, 2020, 5:15 am | # | Reply

        Hey, it’s after Thanksgiving – not too soon at all. The fair should be on now.

    • Robert Nowall
      December 9, 2020, 5:51 am | # | Reply

      Must be the reason for Unity’s and Sweetheart’s stylish outfits.

  3. BMunro
    December 9, 2020, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 9, 2020, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      Maybe they did, and that’s why they’re so late.

  4. palenoue
    December 9, 2020, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    There’s always time for a little Dickens Fair.

  5. sweetuncle
    December 9, 2020, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    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.

  6. Jay
    December 9, 2020, 2:01 am | # | Reply

    That grass doesn’t look like it’s encountered any missiles, small or otherwise. What (or when) did Anasigma blow up?

    • Jay
      December 9, 2020, 2:03 am | # | Reply

      Oop, apparently I’d missed a strip.

  7. David B Huber
    December 9, 2020, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    I hope Anasigma’s missle didn’t leave a subterranean cavern about to collapse under the weight of Annex 1…

  8. Robert Nowall
    December 9, 2020, 5:49 am | # | Reply

    Try the orange peel beer, Unity.

  9. Daibhid C
    December 9, 2020, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • Nix
      December 9, 2020, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      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.)

    • Rimwolf
      December 9, 2020, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      So, goose instead of turkey drumsticks?

      I live in New England and had never heard of it. (Apparently the closest one is in Pennsylvania.)

  10. Esteis
    December 9, 2020, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    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.

  11. Blofeld's Cat
    December 9, 2020, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    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.”

  12. Sleepy John
    December 9, 2020, 8:43 am | # | Reply

    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.

  13. kiralamouse
    December 9, 2020, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • waynezombie
      December 9, 2020, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

      Or a bonus Kickstarter story when this chapter gets printed!

      • David B Huber
        December 9, 2020, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

        Seconded!

  14. Pygar
    December 9, 2020, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    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!

  15. Shadowmehr
    December 9, 2020, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • David B Huber
      December 9, 2020, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

      An excellent suggestion, Shadowmehr!

  16. Andy4Hire
    December 9, 2020, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  17. Speef
    December 9, 2020, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 10, 2020, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      It was more a question of whether the other team was still there at all to be kicked.

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