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2016-02-02

by shaenon on February 2, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Jay Eff
    February 2, 2016, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • Lord Foul
      February 3, 2016, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      Because of different expirence it won’t be the same

      • BrokenEye, The True False Prophet
        February 7, 2016, 5:00 am | # | Reply

        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 Disβ€”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

  2. Ron
    February 2, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Major League points for our Unity!
    Nothing but net!

    • Candace
      February 2, 2016, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      That’s right! Sell it, Unity! πŸ™‚

  3. jr.wences
    February 2, 2016, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Oh, hit her where it hurts, U1.

  4. Rachel
    February 2, 2016, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Darth Unity?

    • oneuniverse2
      February 2, 2016, 5:19 am | # | Reply

      Obi-wan Unity?

      • BRGR
        February 2, 2016, 11:25 am | # | Reply

        0B1 is more like a droid’s name.

        • Sheik
          February 2, 2016, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

          A nanite collective this name fits!

          • Delta Echo
            February 2, 2016, 7:50 pm | #

            But what about Obi-Juan?

  5. Frank
    February 2, 2016, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    Ok so, she’ll eventually run out of brains… but wait, didn’t Dr Lee do a machine to solve that problem?

    • Ngmatt
      February 2, 2016, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      That may not have happened in this universe

      • Daibhid C
        February 2, 2016, 9:00 am | # | Reply

        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.

        • D. Walker
          February 2, 2016, 11:57 am | # | Reply

          Machines break down, and repairmen get eatten or killed in the Apocalypse.

    • Landis963
      February 2, 2016, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

      More importantly, she’ll run out of people. And when she runs out of people, she runs out of brains.

  6. Freezer
    February 2, 2016, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    IT’s more like an overclocked lightsaber w/flaming exhaust ports, but the point stands.

    • Huttj509
      February 2, 2016, 5:08 am | # | Reply

      That does not make it sound less awesome than a triple lightsaber.

    • vincentmuyo
      February 2, 2016, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      That’s our Unity, hitting her where it hurts.

  7. Shaenon
    February 2, 2016, 4:10 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, I’ve revived Monster of the Week for the new X-Files episodes: http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/

    • oneuniverse2
      February 2, 2016, 5:24 am | # | Reply

      Well, now I’m going to have to watch the new episode in its entirety, aren’t I?

    • Daibhid C
      February 2, 2016, 8:59 am | # | Reply

      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.)

    • vincentmuyo
      February 2, 2016, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      Yay!

      Take that, stupid biomass apocalypse! πŸ˜€

    • DarkStarling
      February 2, 2016, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

      Yay! It’s back! I’ve missed it.

  8. Robert Nowall
    February 2, 2016, 7:36 am | # | Reply

    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?

    • Shadowmehr
      February 2, 2016, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  9. Thane
    February 2, 2016, 8:18 am | # | Reply

    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. πŸ™‚

    • Rex Vivat
      February 2, 2016, 11:31 am | # | Reply

      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.

      • davidbreslin101
        February 2, 2016, 2:10 pm | # | Reply

        Tailsteak wrote a rather nice author’s note about this recently: http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=811

        • Forrest M Davis
          March 5, 2020, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

          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.

  10. Dr. Steve
    February 2, 2016, 8:20 am | # | Reply

    “unfair”- adjective – “I didn’t get what I wanted.” c.f. Biomass Unity, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation militia.

  11. Treesong
    February 2, 2016, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    Our Unity is being unusually perceptive–must be from getting half a brain from Biomass Unity.

  12. D. Walker
    February 2, 2016, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

    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.

    • (@
      February 3, 2016, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      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?)

      • D. Walker
        February 5, 2016, 7:17 pm | # | Reply

        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.

        • WJS
          July 28, 2019, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

          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.

  13. Jothki
    February 15, 2016, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    I just noticed that this is a callback to Once and Future.
    http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-797/

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