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2014-03-31

by shaenon on March 31, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    March 31, 2014, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    That’s… a weirdly specific thing to say a lot

    • Jay Eff
      March 31, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      She had a lot of zooplankton hordes

    • DerektheBard
      March 31, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      This is HELEN we’re talking about. I’d be surprised if she DIDN’T shout something like that at random intervals.

      • jdreyfuss
        March 31, 2014, 2:16 am | # | Reply

        Right after trying to set her pants on fire while giggling maniacally.

        • jdreyfuss
          March 31, 2014, 2:18 am | # | Reply

          I don’t know why my avatar didn’t come up there.

          • Kitirena
            May 13, 2016, 6:05 am | #

            Maybe he was on leave, nyao? >-_^<

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          March 31, 2014, 2:20 am | # | Reply

          …. I’ve really got to start reading that

          • Vlaman
            March 31, 2014, 11:41 am | #

            yes, yes you do.

        • Darkstarr
          May 13, 2016, 6:07 am | # | Reply

          You mean I’m not the only one to do that?

          Oh, wait, misread that as “Setting other people’s pants on fire.” Never mind.

          And I did shout “Cower before my mutant insect horde, you puny human fools!” once, but it was online during a game of StarCraft so it doesn’t count.

    • Norman
      March 31, 2014, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      It’s easy to make new zooplankton hordes. Just keep lots of nutrient solution mix available, and hold back some samples from each horde to start the next one going

      • Blayzeing
        March 31, 2014, 3:17 am | # | Reply

        Yes, but that would be a sane, logical thing to do.

        • Ian thompson
          March 31, 2014, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

          it depends on the zooplankton,keeping a control group is vital. She’s still a scientist.

      • JET73L
        March 14, 2015, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        COWER BEFORE MY LIVING SOURDOUGH three to eight weeks from now!

  2. BMunro
    March 31, 2014, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    I thought she was more into giant killer rodents.

    • Rex Vivat
      March 31, 2014, 1:17 am | # | Reply

      Dang, beat me to it.

    • codebracker
      March 31, 2014, 4:14 am | # | Reply

      RELEASE THE URGERBILS!

    • Malicron
      April 5, 2016, 7:25 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she did attack the U.N. with some sort of plant, as I recall.

  3. alphaghoul
    March 31, 2014, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    I think it’s obvious by now that the director guy isn’t gonna come back and say ” thanks for nothing a**holes”, pity, I was looking forward to that.

    • Towering Barbarian
      March 31, 2014, 2:47 am | # | Reply

      I was looking forward to his heroic escape as well. It would have been interesting if he really did turn out to be as tough and unkillable as Olaf. ^_^

  4. ngmatt8652
    March 31, 2014, 1:50 am | # | Reply

    nothing went wrong, and with these guys thats not a good thing. the univers will come back to bite them mark my words.

  5. Tetra Valent
    March 31, 2014, 3:03 am | # | Reply

    Dr. Lee’s changes of expression, from proud satisfaction to “Oh no, what have I done NOW??” are quite ominous.

    • Dorcus
      March 31, 2014, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      Pretty sure it is just the natural response to letting Unity grab your phone and start typing replies under your username.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 31, 2014, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

      Agreed. Anyone else wondering if Anasigma is running some sort of Xanatos Gambit with the swamp? Gathering together the “monsters” under one banner so when they restart the war . . . , isn’t there an old saying about “all heads with one neck”?

  6. Eddurd
    March 31, 2014, 6:34 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Complicated”, Avril Lavigne)

    Once more, talking to the press!
    This time, wasn’t such a mess!
    “New hope for relations
    With undead,”
    They all said!

    HeyRube posted this online:
    “It now seems Prop Thirty-Nine
    Will pass without trouble,
    Happily,
    You will see!”

    Artie opposed!
    Plans then were hosed!
    Swamp forced his hand!
    Changing his stand!
    To his chagrin,
    Morals get in
    The way …

    Mom said,
    “Stupid morals, always making situations complicated!”
    No wrong or right, so
    How I got a conscience from the twisted way I was created,
    I still don’t quite know!
    Helen said
    That her head
    Got too hot
    When she thought
    About good,
    When she should be evil …
    “Cower now before my horde of plankton or be decimated!”
    She would say!

    • Andrew
      March 31, 2014, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

      Damn it, Ed. Now I have that playing in my sick little head. And sick, I mean, somehow working outside all weekend has left me with a cold. I’m so medicated, I can’t feel feelings.

    • alurker
      March 31, 2014, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

      The scary thing is, this song was just playing in the shop I visited today.
      Now it is cemented in my head thanksomuch.

  7. Yotz
    March 31, 2014, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    She wears kevlar down there, afair, so it would be troublesome to achieve. Not that such minutiae ever stopped her…

    • rasufelle
      March 31, 2014, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

      I coulda swore it was Asbestos.

  8. Yotz
    March 31, 2014, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    Oh for… It was a response to jdreyfuss’s comment, you know. Somethin’ weird here, I recon…

  9. Frank
    March 31, 2014, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    Even when absent, Helen B. Narbon doesn’t disapoint!

  10. Smithnik
    March 31, 2014, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    Somehow, “Release the Uberplankton” doesn’t have the same ring to it. Maybe it’s just me…

    • Caelo
      March 31, 2014, 8:04 pm | # | Reply

      thats because plankton are plant like proteso where as zooplankton are animal like protesoa.

  11. Moor
    March 31, 2014, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    On the one hand, I was kinda hoping that we could have a really intense political debate, but on the other hand, YES PROP 39 OH YEAH!

  12. Shane Wegner
    March 31, 2014, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    Oooh, I saw this one being created at an Indian version of Chipotle, now it is colored and distributed by photons and electrons across millions of miles of interconnected circuitry. Then I got in an aluminum tube and flew across the ocean at a non-trivial percentage of the speed of sound. Mad science is weird! “NORMAL science?!”

  13. Windy Wanderings
    June 4, 2014, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder, might the zooplankton thing be a reference to how there were always sea-monkey tanks in Helen’s lab~?~

  14. WJS
    July 11, 2019, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

    It’s hard to predict how this will go considering we don’t actually know what Prop. 39 is. It’s only been described in the vaguest of fashions as “something to do with the undead”.

    • Rex Vivat
      July 11, 2019, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

      Well… you don’t, the rest of us are up to date.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 11, 2019, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      “Equal protection under the law”

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/unity-had/

  15. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    July 12, 2019, 5:00 am | # | Reply

    … which the 14th Amendment already guarantees to all persons residing in the United States. Not all citizens, not all humans, not traditionally “alive” beings, but all persons. They don’t need a new law. They just need a good Supreme Court quality plaintiff that they can use to argue that not giving the undead equal protection under the law is, and always has been unconstitutional.

    Ah to be in 2014 again, when I didn’t have to worry about knowing shit like that.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      July 12, 2019, 5:01 am | # | Reply

      Sorry, this was supposed to be a reply to awgiedawgie’s “Equal protection under the law” comment.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 12, 2019, 7:30 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps in a universe where the undead and the inhuman are an actual concern, it has become necessary to further define exactly what constitutes “any person within its jurisdiction”.

      And of course, there’s the part that says “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;” which would seem to imply that one must actually be alive.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        July 12, 2019, 7:56 am | # | Reply

        That’s what the Supreme Court does, though. If any part of the Constitution is ambiguous, they determine what it means and how it applies to the case at hand and to similar situations moving forward, including whether being alive in the traditional sense of the word is required (after all, those who don’t own any property still receive equal protection, even though that’s also something the State can’t deprive them of), and what exactly qualifies as “life” from a legal standpoint anyhow (or, for that matter, whether an artificially created being qualifies as “born”, but that’s a matter for a different case).

        • awgiedawgie
          July 12, 2019, 10:56 am | # | Reply

          However, if you pass legislation that explicitly defines same, then there is no need for the Supreme Court to deliberate it.

    • Jon
      December 24, 2019, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      Ah to be in 2014 again, when I didn’t have to worry about knowing shit like that.

      As the kids say, big mood.

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