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2022-02-12

by shaenon on February 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    February 12, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Unity understands her Mom pretty well. ๐Ÿ™‚

  2. David B Huber
    February 12, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    It’s delightful seeing Unity “sharing a moment” with her creator!

    They’ve come a long way.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 12, 2022, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      How much sharing can they do over their neural net? ‘Cause if Nick and Virginia did the nasty, with everybody around listening in…(shudders)

      • David B Huber
        February 12, 2022, 4:36 pm | # | Reply

        Not just listening. Feeling (see Sweetheart’s expression in panel 4). But it hasn’t come to that – yet. ๐Ÿ˜‰

        Besides, Nick and Dr. Lee are savvy enough to sever the connection from Unity’s neural net at need.

        • Robert Nowall
          February 12, 2022, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

          These VR connections can get a little unpleasant.

  3. Alex Boyd
    February 12, 2022, 1:53 am | # | Reply

    You know, I’m wondering whether those Drones are *just* Drones. Or if they’re AIs too. There could be a lot more Skin Horse Clients showing up once Nick has talked them down.

    • DWVR
      February 12, 2022, 3:13 am | # | Reply

      Or maybe they all form a sentient neural net? Or better yet, they become a sentient neural net because of Nick?

      • warrenrose4254
        February 12, 2022, 4:09 am | # | Reply

        I wanna see all the drones Voltron into a single largeish robot body.

        • warrenrose4254
          February 12, 2022, 4:10 am | # | Reply

          That said, should be a nice resolution regardless. Yay for good planning ๐Ÿ˜€

        • Wayne Zombie
          February 12, 2022, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

          I wanna see all the drones form a sphere around Ira’s escape helicopter, which is decidedly a non-military model. One gun, even a big one, against dozens of drones does not a good equation make.

          • Candace
            February 13, 2022, 12:30 am | #

            Or the drones could collectively rescue Tip.

        • Duane B.
          February 12, 2022, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

          Would Anex One and “Drone Voltron” make out?

          • Candace
            February 13, 2022, 12:31 am | #

            No, because the drones are decidedly non-funky.

  4. Robert Nowall
    February 12, 2022, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    In the background, looks like The Pig is aiming a weapon. Wasn’t he eaten by the Biomass?

    • soft
      February 12, 2022, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      Was there only ever one pig? Weโ€™ve in no way seen everyone. Plus, if the biomass โ€œbarfedโ€ up HT, itโ€™s possible they felt bad about the others here they ate and released them as well.

  5. Shadowmehr
    February 12, 2022, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    If someone is being smug in your favor, is it still insufferable?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 12, 2022, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

      Quite likely.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 12, 2022, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    The drones are all stopped for a tick. They’re floating around—was it Nick? But if that pulled the plug, why is Lee feeling smug? Or was it their making out? Ick!

  7. Dewy
    February 12, 2022, 10:21 am | # | Reply

    No way this is the extent of Ira’s plans. Waiting for that other shoe now.

    • Towering Barbarian
      February 12, 2022, 10:42 am | # | Reply

      Good point. That reminds me. There was a general who was worried about being busted down to capuchin. I wonder if she avoided that fate and just which side she would end up on? @_@

      • Forrest M Davis
        February 12, 2022, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

        Would being busted to Capuchin actually involve a reduction in rank, or be more of a gain in body hair (and cuteness)?

        • Towering Barbarian
          February 12, 2022, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

          As it turned out the latter was precisely what she was worried about. I guess it’s not impossible that she would still keep her rank after that. ๐Ÿ™‚

          • awgiedawgie
            February 12, 2022, 9:35 pm | #

            A curious contemplation. But at that point in the Narboniverse timeline, I don’t know that a non-human would have been allowed to hold any military rank at all. That was before the legislation that granted non-humans equal rights.

    • Candace
      February 13, 2022, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      I think Mr. Green may be out of shoes to drop. He looked rather flapped when Sweetheart produced an accurate org chart. Shortly thereafter, he attempted to escape, which suggests that he recognized that he’d lost. All the stuff with Tip was just a delaying tactic until Englebright could get there to extract him.

      • Dewy
        February 14, 2022, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

        Exactly. A good villain always has a doomsday plan that they fall back on when all is lost that needs to be stopped at the last second by our heroes. The law of Narrative Causality demands it!!

  8. Canadian Mad Scientist
    February 12, 2022, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

    Unity looks really cool in the last panel!

    • Robert Horton
      February 12, 2022, 5:47 pm | # | Reply

      Like anime, but done with Shaenon’s skill! I’ve been told that anime is a Japanese word meaning “I don’t draw so well”, but I can’t say- they took Astro Boy off local TV ca. 1970; my last exposure… Wonder if it’s floating around the Net?

      • Rimwolf
        February 12, 2022, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

        There is some very good, even great, anime around these days. My gateway was “Spirited Away”, a magnificent movie written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who has also created many other classics of the genre (and draws very well.)

    • Candace
      February 13, 2022, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      She does – I think that’s because Unity looks best when she’s happy, and she’s really, really happy in the last panel. (And not overthinking things, like Sweetheart.)

      • awgiedawgie
        February 13, 2022, 7:09 am | # | Reply

        That’s just Sweetheart’s default expression whenever someone else has a reason to be smug. Or, more to the point, when whatever worked out wasn’t Sweetheart’s idea.

  9. Paul Lee Burks
    February 12, 2022, 3:55 pm | # | Reply

    Huh, I’d have thought Dr.Lee smugness was just sort of a constant background element of the neural net.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 12, 2022, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

      Smugness in general, perhaps, since the fact that the neural net worked at all gave her cause to be smug. But now she is insufferably smug. That’s a whole new level.

  10. Robert Nowall
    February 12, 2022, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

    I do hope that wing puncture we saw yesterday wasn’t too painful and can heal up all right.

    • Candace
      February 13, 2022, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      Indeed. It would be a shame if our beloved dragons were injured to the point that they were no longer able to fly. OTOH, there are multiple Mads around who can help them.

  11. awgiedawgie
    February 12, 2022, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    Next month’s wallpaper idea… Unity from that final panel, framed on a “Rosie the Riveter” style recruitment poster for Skin Horse.

    • Robert Nowall
      February 12, 2022, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

      On the “Extras” page, you’ll find a “Zombie Rights Now” former wallpaper of Unity as Rosie the Riveter.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 12, 2022, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, I know. But her expression here is just so awesome!

    • Candace
      February 13, 2022, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Looks more like it should be a V-day image.

      • Candace
        February 13, 2022, 1:07 am | # | Reply

        Or celebrating a touchdown at a football game.

  12. Frank
    February 12, 2022, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

    Can someone remind me why Unity no longer wants to kill Dr. Lee?

    • Robert Horton
      February 12, 2022, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

      Dr. Lee got Unity ichor inside her… after being Dr. Lee a while she took pity on her.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 13, 2022, 12:25 am | # | Reply

        For reference: http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-872/

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