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2021-11-12

by shaenon on November 12, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. dvandom
    November 12, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Humans really CAN accept anything as normal after a while.

    • M.A.
      November 13, 2021, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, and that will be our doom…

  2. Venator Animarum
    November 12, 2021, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    If an Ambushel of veggie tigers doesn’t count as very bad, I don’t know what does

    • Trivena
      November 12, 2021, 6:03 am | # | Reply

      That is an excellent collective noun.

    • skullthetroll
      November 12, 2021, 9:21 am | # | Reply

      This should be canon.

    • Reverend Fiesta
      November 12, 2021, 10:37 am | # | Reply

      Ambushel is genius.

  3. Candace
    November 12, 2021, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I love A.A.’s expression of excited nostalgia in the last panel. Priceless!

    • awgiedawgie
      November 12, 2021, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

      I love her eternal optimism.

  4. D. Walker
    November 12, 2021, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    “You kept the employee needle pit sharpened!”

    Which is to say, they didn’t toss anyone in the needle pit, and thus didn’t dull the needles. Sharp things stay sharp until something blunts them.

    • BMunro
      November 12, 2021, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      My inconsiderate brain notes they also stay clean until someone drenches them in body fluids. I’d hate to be the person who gets needle pit cleaning duty.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 12, 2021, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

        No one gets cleaning duty. They don’t get cleaned. They are only required to be kept sharp.

        • BMunro
          November 12, 2021, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

          One would think the smell would cause some complaint. After all, given how fastidious A-Sig is about shoes, I doubt a “pool of putrefying organic goo” at the bottom of the needle pit is regulation.

          • awgiedawgie
            November 12, 2021, 9:09 pm | #

            Oh, I’m sure there’s some kind of chemical or other that flows through there periodically and carries most of it away to the bio-waste reservoir, and then sterilizes the needle pit. That’s far more efficient than having an actual person clean it.

    • Jay
      November 12, 2021, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, they *could* have rusted… though they should really use medical-grade stainless steel in those needles!

      ( They’re far enough from the coast that corrosion from sea spray wouldn’t be an issue, IIRC )

      • Seph
        November 12, 2021, 3:57 am | # | Reply

        Using surgical steel would suggest that they care about the wellbeing of the people they throw in there.

        • Woof
          November 12, 2021, 9:37 am | # | Reply

          C’mon, now! They wouldn’t want to risk an OSHA violation!

          • awgiedawgie
            November 12, 2021, 9:39 pm | #

            As far as OSHA is concerned, they don’t exist.

  5. BMunro
    November 12, 2021, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    It seems a bit of a coincidence that the landing place for the bee-ship is so close to this particular base. Either someone is playing five-dimensional chess, or this A-Sig base is now mobile. (Bigfoot tech?)

  6. ebonysable
    November 12, 2021, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    Oh good, Valiant is still safely (?!) with them. Presumably when we couldn’t see him yesterday he was clinging to A.A.’s back.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 12, 2021, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      Held onto his hat, too.

      • mickeyjf
        November 12, 2021, 11:08 am | # | Reply

        Well, any plan in which you lose your hat…

        • awgiedawgie
          November 12, 2021, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

          …iz a bad plan?

          • vincentmuyo
            November 12, 2021, 4:45 pm | #

            Oh good, a *smart* Jäger.

    • soft
      November 12, 2021, 8:28 am | # | Reply

      Actually, you can see him in yesterday’s strip. However, he’s been colored the same green as the grass background.

  7. Robert Nowall
    November 12, 2021, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    “Really bad”—well, it’s getting harder to tell.

  8. Frank
    November 12, 2021, 11:09 am | # | Reply

    would Alpha Alpha’s last name, by any chance, be Addams?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 12, 2021, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, they just grew up together.

  9. Semper Solus
    November 12, 2021, 11:48 am | # | Reply

    So is an “employee needle pit” a needle pit you throw employees into, or a needle pit that has been gainfully employed.

    Also, thank you for creating a world where it is necessary to ask that question.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 12, 2021, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      Someone could write a book of “Questions You Never Thought You’d Need To Ask”

  10. Dewy
    November 12, 2021, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    Wait. How do you sharpen a pit?
    – Private Pedant

    • awgiedawgie
      November 12, 2021, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      If you have to ask, you don’t want to know.

    • vincentmuyo
      November 12, 2021, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      I imagine you go through a lot of toothbrushes.

  11. Robert Nowall
    November 12, 2021, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    Taking refuge in this old facility. They’re safe from their vulnerability. Pit needles are sharpened, so A. A. can harp on their punishment susceptibility.

  12. Shadowmehr
    November 12, 2021, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    Well, maybe Anasigma kept all of those death traps around for just this kind of eventuality, vis-a-vis being hunted by sapient vegetable predators, and not because management was a bunch of loonies who enjoyed the suffering of the employees. . .

    You’d think I could type this with a straight face, wouldn’t you?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 12, 2021, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, yes, I would think you could type that with a straight face. You’ve certainly been around here long enough that that sort of sentence should feel perfectly normal.

  13. Canadian Mad Scientist
    November 12, 2021, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

    That is a really neat concerned sasquatch.

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