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2022-04-01

by shaenon on April 1, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Landis963
    April 1, 2022, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Any reason why Tip doesn’t tell Pavane to pound sand here?

    • Candace
      April 1, 2022, 1:40 am | # | Reply

      I can’t think of even one.

      • Landis963
        April 1, 2022, 10:56 am | # | Reply

        It did occur to me that “Large and [potentially] angry swarm of bees.” might be a consideration.

    • P
      April 1, 2022, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      The bee allergy

    • Shadowmehr
      April 1, 2022, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      Plus getting rid of H.T. is worth a little irritation.

  2. David B Huber
    April 1, 2022, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Tip is so irked he isn’t even nervous about bee stings!

  3. DWVR
    April 1, 2022, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    What exactly are they going to do with HT on Lovetron? Will they be able to handle him? You know he will persuade someone to let him out of the cage.

    • Frank
      April 1, 2022, 2:01 am | # | Reply

      He’s like the superintelligent AI in a box

    • Robert Nowall
      April 1, 2022, 4:52 am | # | Reply

      Tigerlily said. H. T. will be the centerpiece of her conversation pit.

      • Daibhid C
        April 1, 2022, 5:37 am | # | Reply

        Yes, but that was like three shocking revelations ago, when she was still Tigerlily. I’m not sure Princess Bernice is going to have a conversation pit

        • Robert Nowall
          April 1, 2022, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

          She never said she *wasn’t* going to do it.

  4. Alphaghoul
    April 1, 2022, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Okay, it’s officially suspicious that the bee people are taking all nonhumans that they can with them but not their baseline human associates.

    • Ulzgoroth
      April 1, 2022, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      It’s their openly stated agenda, isn’t it? I’m not sure what the suspicion there would be.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 1, 2022, 8:21 am | # | Reply

      Pavane and Ira are two peas in a pod. Or two bees, whatever. They’re both extreme genetiphobes (is that a word? Spellcheck doesn’t think so.)

      Ira wants to eliminate all of the non-humans from the Earth. Oddly enough, Pavane also wants to take all the non-humans off the Earth.

      It makes one wonder…

      All this time, Gavotte has been trying to get humans and non-humans to live in harmony, while both Ira and Pavane are against that idea. What if this spaceship isn’t going to Lovetron after all, but is just going somewhere to dispose of everyone all at once without a fight.

      • Duth Olec
        April 1, 2022, 9:04 am | # | Reply

        I could definitely see that. He’s worked with bees before.
        Pavane didn’t show up until Ira’s (other?) plans had failed, and she showed up to Sweetheart when she was stuck in Anasigma’s VR program. I think it depends on how pushy she is to the non-humans who choose not to go, especially since there seems to be very few.
        Though even if the spaceship does go to Lovetron, technically Ira was helping facilitate Pavane’s plan all along by pushing nonhumans away… Imagine if Pavane had been manipulating Ira.

        • David B Huber
          April 1, 2022, 11:22 am | # | Reply

          A most intriguing possibility, Duth. Ira has admitted being perplexed by Gavotte. What if Gavotte spawned Pavane not over the “tea vs coffee / Coexistence vs Escape” tensions but as part of a Pushme-Pullyou plot to manipulate Ira into providing motivation for all the NHS to board the ship?

          • Towering Barbarian
            April 2, 2022, 12:04 am | #

            Or perhaps it’s a genuine partnership between Ira and Pavane. That might be amusing too. πŸ™‚

  5. Candaceandace
    April 1, 2022, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    Rude!

    • skullthetroll
      April 1, 2022, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      Nope. They got gassed. πŸ™‚

    • Towering Barbarian
      April 2, 2022, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Agreed. That’s just twisting the knife and placing a sign on Lava he’s nonexistent trousers saying “Karma please come kick me! “.

    • Candace
      April 2, 2022, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      Huh, I don’t know what happened to my name in the above post. Weird.

  6. Urlance Woolsbane
    April 1, 2022, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm
    I wonder…
    HT and Pavane are both nonhuman separatists, and the possums were in HT’s employ before they blew themselves up to join Pavane…
    Could the two be in cahoots?

    • Candace
      April 1, 2022, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      I could buy that.

    • Towering Barbarian
      April 2, 2022, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Not impossible. But this goes back to something I observed a longtime ago; Nobody is better at killing Socialists then other Socialists particularly when a shot at real power is in the air. The fact that H.T. is a Terran nonhuman supremacist and Pavane is a Lovetron supremacist might be all the reason they need to hate each other’s guts.

  7. Jay
    April 1, 2022, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    HT is in a cage and that doesn’t exactly say “leaving willingly”.

    Sure, even his own hive mind rejected him, but I don’t think there’d be a *worse* punishment for him than a one-way trip to a utopia that needs no revolutions.

    • davidbreslin101
      April 1, 2022, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure he can think of some pretext to star in his very own adaptation of “Paradise Lost”….

    • Snow_Cat
      April 1, 2022, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      There’s always the possibility that they anticipate HT’s knowledge could be useful in planning another wave of ‘immigration’ about the time the current war becomes the ‘old war’ again.

  8. Robert Nowall
    April 1, 2022, 4:51 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps Wilkin can do what Wilkin does best. Seduce Pavane and get her to agree to let him go with them. That or get her to admit what she’s up to.

  9. s854
    April 1, 2022, 6:01 am | # | Reply

    Pavane asks Tip to push the cage into the tractor beam. I know he’s super-strong whenever the plot demands it, but he’d find it a lot easier to do if there wasn’t a tiger sitting in it.

    As for the tiger, he isn’t in a good position whatever he does. He’s a non-native species. If he tries to flee, he’s likely to be shot with a tranquiliser dart and locked up in a cage (albeit a larger one than this implement of torture) if he’s seen by people who don’t know he can talk. The same is true if they do know, and know who he is.

    If he tries to board the saucer, he becomes someone else’s problem.

    • Bernerlb
      April 1, 2022, 4:08 pm | # | Reply

      You put a sapient into a cage designed to hold a non sapient and they will get out, hands or no hands.

  10. gwen
    April 1, 2022, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    All this while Marcie and Chris are still passed out back at the hotel.

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      April 1, 2022, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, still waiting for the other shoe to drop on that one

  11. eesqu
    April 1, 2022, 8:34 am | # | Reply

    HT tries to seduce Tip to get himself out of the cage.

    Tip mojos with HT.

    The ship nobody was expecting goes canon.

    I’m probably wrong but just IMAGINE if I’m right.

  12. kiralamouse
    April 1, 2022, 9:30 am | # | Reply

    So, what, Tip is too human for Pavane, but not human enough for Anasigma tech?

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/break-room-has/

    Unfair!

    • David B Huber
      April 1, 2022, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      Great callback, kiralamouse – thanks!

    • Robert Nowall
      April 1, 2022, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      Tip Wilkin: Man Without a Species.

      • Candace
        April 2, 2022, 2:03 am | # | Reply

        That sounds about right.

  13. Robert Nowall
    April 1, 2022, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

    There’s a tiger that has to be shipped . But Wilkin is still being gypped. He’s lost his true love, but he’s asked for a shove. Is Tip finding things too untipped?

  14. 25
    April 1, 2022, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

    Hey guys! SPOILER – It’s April Fools Day. That adds another layer to the outstanding reasoning everyone has done,..

  15. Tiff Hudson
    April 1, 2022, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    What’s suspicious is that the tractor beam doesn’t appear to be steerable, which is not at all practical. Asking Tip to push the tiger into the beam is the same as telling him to stand next to the tiger, which allows them to be beamed (or exterminated) simultaneously. And if the beam is really a transporter, maybe we’ll get a narcissistic tiger with therapy puppets.

  16. Andy4Hire
    April 1, 2022, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

    In my head, Tip uses the expression “get on board” in the fourth panel because he’s subconsciously channeling the Great Space Coaster theme.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 2, 2022, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      I can’t find the disco or funk song I remember using the phrase, but I found a lot of lyrics for a spiritual song that I don’t remember offhand.

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