Is it still too late for Mirror Unity to track down The Force Awakens crew, eat their brains, and make the movie herself before the Brain Smarts wear off?
Plus, it’s a mirror universe. There’s no more guarantee that fictional works played out the same way they did in our universe any more than there is that real events did. The prequels in that universe might’ve been awesome, meaning the fans of that universe would’ve never lost faith in George Lucas’s double, the sequels never would’ve been stuck with the responsibility of making a disgraced series great again, Star Wars would’ve never been sold to Dis—er… WhimseyCorp, J.J. Abrams never would’ve been hired to write them, and The Force Awakens (or whatever its called in that universe) ends up as a completely different movie. It could’ve even come out much sooner, capitalizing on the tremendous success of that universe’s awesome prequels, or not at all, because without the prequels ruining Star Wars, there’d be no need for the sequels to fix it.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost
For want of a horse, the rider was lost
For want of a rider, the message was lost
For want of a message, the battle was lost
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost
All for want of a horseshoe nail
Darn it! New Shaenon stuff, and I’m going to have to wait a week before reading them, because that’s how far behind the UK is. (First episode next Monday.)
St. Charlie has the Brain-O-Mat over on the East Coast (I think, they never really explained how the train moved through space-time), and the Biomass has been taking over the West Coast. There’s still a lot of distance between those two points, and Unity’s intelligence and individuality might be digested (?) along the way. As U.N.I.T.Y. has pointed out, she’s already suffering from a lack of fresh grey matter.
Not to be a nitpick … buuuuuut … they’ve been in the alternate universe LONG before any of the trailers of the new Star Wars was released, let alone the movie. 🙂
One would imagine Skin Horse runs on the concept of Eternal Now, unless specifically dated. Thus for every day that passes in real life and not in the comic, the date when they entered the alternate universe keeps moving forward.
Welp, guess I know what my NEXT archive binge is going to be, once I finish my current reread of Skin Horse. Thanks for the link, it reminds me how much I enjoyed that story the first time around.
Okay, so the wording in this strip finally makes me truly think they’re not actually in an alternate universe. They’re in an Anasigma virtual reality simulation built to show them their “potentials” and gauge their reactions.
Everything fits together too neatly. All the mirror duplicates follow a precise formula of demonstrating what the originals would be like without inhibitions/pushed too far/gone mad. It’s like the entire world is designed to make them doubt themselves, which was the exact agenda in play when Sweetheart was trapped in an A-Sig simulation previously.
And it also explains why Sergio’s initial recon suggested the “portal” on “this side” was intact, and then it mysteriously wasn’t when they all arrived.
Hmm… that doesn’t seem to fit with Sergio? (Who’s just… mostly dead. And like dead do to overeagerness, but Sergio already knew that — there was no revelation. Unless his fit is Artie? Which… I dunno.)
And even less so for Tip. Tip and Tip are getting along fine. (Unless that’s still to come?)
Alternate Tip murdered thousands of people in a blood rage. The fact that this doesn’t bother Original Tip very much is really more a huge mark against him being a decent person than anything else – and might even be evidence that A-Sig could use him to suit their needs. He’d be a prime candidate for turning into a full blown mad villain, and then unleashed as appropriate.
Why should it bother him? Not only is Boob-Tip more different from him than the others’ doubles are, that wasn’t a choice she made like the others’ doubles did.
Is it still too late for Mirror Unity to track down The Force Awakens crew, eat their brains, and make the movie herself before the Brain Smarts wear off?
Because of different expirence it won’t be the same
Plus, it’s a mirror universe. There’s no more guarantee that fictional works played out the same way they did in our universe any more than there is that real events did. The prequels in that universe might’ve been awesome, meaning the fans of that universe would’ve never lost faith in George Lucas’s double, the sequels never would’ve been stuck with the responsibility of making a disgraced series great again, Star Wars would’ve never been sold to Dis—er… WhimseyCorp, J.J. Abrams never would’ve been hired to write them, and The Force Awakens (or whatever its called in that universe) ends up as a completely different movie. It could’ve even come out much sooner, capitalizing on the tremendous success of that universe’s awesome prequels, or not at all, because without the prequels ruining Star Wars, there’d be no need for the sequels to fix it.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost
For want of a horse, the rider was lost
For want of a rider, the message was lost
For want of a message, the battle was lost
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost
All for want of a horseshoe nail
Major League points for our Unity!
Nothing but net!
That’s right! Sell it, Unity! 🙂
Oh, hit her where it hurts, U1.
Darth Unity?
Obi-wan Unity?
0B1 is more like a droid’s name.
A nanite collective this name fits!
But what about Obi-Juan?
Ok so, she’ll eventually run out of brains… but wait, didn’t Dr Lee do a machine to solve that problem?
That may not have happened in this universe
Something like that must have happened, or they wouldn’t have been in Colma in the first place, and this whole mess wouldn’t have started.
Machines break down, and repairmen get eatten or killed in the Apocalypse.
More importantly, she’ll run out of people. And when she runs out of people, she runs out of brains.
IT’s more like an overclocked lightsaber w/flaming exhaust ports, but the point stands.
That does not make it sound less awesome than a triple lightsaber.
That’s our Unity, hitting her where it hurts.
Meanwhile, I’ve revived Monster of the Week for the new X-Files episodes: http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/
Well, now I’m going to have to watch the new episode in its entirety, aren’t I?
Darn it! New Shaenon stuff, and I’m going to have to wait a week before reading them, because that’s how far behind the UK is. (First episode next Monday.)
Yay!
Take that, stupid biomass apocalypse! 😀
Yay! It’s back! I’ve missed it.
So then I take it the Brain Machine that Our Gang of Skin Horse brought to Our Colma isn’t available in this happentrack anymore?
St. Charlie has the Brain-O-Mat over on the East Coast (I think, they never really explained how the train moved through space-time), and the Biomass has been taking over the West Coast. There’s still a lot of distance between those two points, and Unity’s intelligence and individuality might be digested (?) along the way. As U.N.I.T.Y. has pointed out, she’s already suffering from a lack of fresh grey matter.
Not to be a nitpick … buuuuuut … they’ve been in the alternate universe LONG before any of the trailers of the new Star Wars was released, let alone the movie. 🙂
One would imagine Skin Horse runs on the concept of Eternal Now, unless specifically dated. Thus for every day that passes in real life and not in the comic, the date when they entered the alternate universe keeps moving forward.
Tailsteak wrote a rather nice author’s note about this recently: http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=811
Welp, guess I know what my NEXT archive binge is going to be, once I finish my current reread of Skin Horse. Thanks for the link, it reminds me how much I enjoyed that story the first time around.
“unfair”- adjective – “I didn’t get what I wanted.” c.f. Biomass Unity, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation militia.
Our Unity is being unusually perceptive–must be from getting half a brain from Biomass Unity.
Okay, so the wording in this strip finally makes me truly think they’re not actually in an alternate universe. They’re in an Anasigma virtual reality simulation built to show them their “potentials” and gauge their reactions.
Everything fits together too neatly. All the mirror duplicates follow a precise formula of demonstrating what the originals would be like without inhibitions/pushed too far/gone mad. It’s like the entire world is designed to make them doubt themselves, which was the exact agenda in play when Sweetheart was trapped in an A-Sig simulation previously.
And it also explains why Sergio’s initial recon suggested the “portal” on “this side” was intact, and then it mysteriously wasn’t when they all arrived.
Hmm… that doesn’t seem to fit with Sergio? (Who’s just… mostly dead. And like dead do to overeagerness, but Sergio already knew that — there was no revelation. Unless his fit is Artie? Which… I dunno.)
And even less so for Tip. Tip and Tip are getting along fine. (Unless that’s still to come?)
Alternate Tip murdered thousands of people in a blood rage. The fact that this doesn’t bother Original Tip very much is really more a huge mark against him being a decent person than anything else – and might even be evidence that A-Sig could use him to suit their needs. He’d be a prime candidate for turning into a full blown mad villain, and then unleashed as appropriate.
Why should it bother him? Not only is Boob-Tip more different from him than the others’ doubles are, that wasn’t a choice she made like the others’ doubles did.
I just noticed that this is a callback to Once and Future.
http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-797/