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2022-04-30

by shaenon on April 30, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. The+Almighty+404
    April 30, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Ah yes. Here’s our Tigerlily Jones.

  2. Lurker in the Thread
    April 30, 2022, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh ho ho ho… S***s about to go down!

  3. Frank Hightower
    April 30, 2022, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    i’m reminded of that line in Johnny English, it goes something like “the queen has great power in her hands… she just chooses not to use it… but imagine if someone would”

    • Frank Hightower
      April 30, 2022, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      okay found it if anyone’s interested:

      “The queen has more power in her tiny white gloves than any other head of state in the entire world. She can declare war or make peace, and most intriguingly, she can seize any piece of land which takes her fancy. Of course, the queen never uses the enormous power afforded to her. But imagine someone who would use that power. Imagine, say, me.”

  4. thejoemoose
    April 30, 2022, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Oh deary deary me

  5. Moe Lane
    April 30, 2022, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Oh, thank goodness. Either the conditioning broke, or she’s been running a caper all along.

    • Shadowmehr
      April 30, 2022, 8:01 am | # | Reply

      My guess is the latter. When dealing with a mad, always assume the more complex answer.

  6. Sweet Honey with the Rockin' Old Leslie
    April 30, 2022, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Hope flips her skirts and re-enters the list.

  7. Bevan Bennett
    April 30, 2022, 12:50 am | # | Reply

    For those casually following at home, Tigerlilly always uses “Funky” in it’s positive sense as something refreshingly disruptive or syncopated on the nines, rather that the more modern (obviously due to psyops) interpretation as offputting or stanky.

    • gfrogs
      April 30, 2022, 7:41 am | # | Reply

      tbh I only really hear funky used either to describe cheese or similar fermented flavored things or in a musical sense, even now in these modern times

    • Daibhid C
      April 30, 2022, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      According to Etymology Online, one of my favourite websites, “funky” meaning “‘old, musty’ in reference to cheeses, then ‘repulsive'” dates from 1784, before “it began to develop an approving sense in jazz slang c. 1900, probably on the notion of ‘earthy, strong, deeply felt’.” It originally derives from a French word, fungiere meaning smoke.

      Meanwhile, “funk” meaning “depression” (as in “Tip was in a deep funk after Tigerlily left”) is entirely unrelated, being descended from a coimpletely different French word,funicle meaning “mad”. Although I think Tigerlily’s about to remind us that there is a connection between feeling the funk and being mad.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 30, 2022, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

        The etymology on Wikipedia derives it from Latin “fumigare,” to smoke. (As in “fumigate.”) Then it goes to Old French “fungiere,” and its first appearance in English is in 1620. There’s another possible derivation from Central African “lu-funki,” and Kikongo “lu-fuki,” both referring to body odor, and musicians who’ve worked up a good sweat while performing were considered “funky” as a compliment.

        “Funky” as we know it came out of jazz music, as early as 1907, as early as Buddy Bolden’s “Funky Butt.” (Bolden is considered the Father of Jazz, but, sadly, he never recorded.)

        The modern use is said to have come up with James Brown in the 1960s, up through a variety of acts, culminating in Parliament-Funkadelic. How Tigerlily Jones picked it up, or if there’s any prior connection to Lovetron, I can’t say.

  8. dragonbagon
    April 30, 2022, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    Oh, thank goodness. Also, gonna put a guess down for a new chapter title on Monday.

  9. Aname
    April 30, 2022, 3:04 am | # | Reply

    Aww, that’s cute. Tigerlilly misses Tip … and chaos. Funky Tip and Clockwork Chaos FTW.

    • Aname
      April 30, 2022, 3:18 am | # | Reply

      Doh,
      Faithless fat fingers frequently futz phonetics.
      li-L-y not li-LL-y.

  10. Robert Nowall
    April 30, 2022, 3:59 am | # | Reply

    Do bees have teeth?

    • awgiedawgie
      April 30, 2022, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      Not like humans or other mammals, but yes, bees do indeed have teeth.

      • Owlmirror
        April 30, 2022, 11:40 am | # | Reply

        ???
        Bees have mandibles. And a proboscis.

        • Robert Nowall
          April 30, 2022, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

          Probably should’a said “Pavane stings.”

        • Smithnik
          April 30, 2022, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

          You mean your bees don’t have teeth? How odd…

        • awgiedawgie
          April 30, 2022, 4:43 pm | # | Reply

          You have a mandible as well. It’s the largest bone in the human skull – your lower jawbone. It holds the lower teeth.

          Bees’ mandibles have sharp, jagged edges, somewhat like a saw blade. So, yes, they also have teeth.

    • Owlmirror
      May 1, 2022, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      After reading some bee-related literature, it looks like honeybees can and do bite (regardless of whether they have teeth).

      https://www.honeybeesuite.com/the-marvel-of-bee-mandibles/

      Some bees do have serrations in the chitin of the mandible which are called teeth, but I am not sure how common it is (the characteristic varies between species).

      Wikipedia has the claim that worker honeybees do not have teeth, but queen bees do. The article linked above seems to imply that when discussing the point that the queen bee’s brood cell has thicker wax than that of workers, that the queen has to saw through using her mandibles, but does not state so explicitly.

  11. M
    April 30, 2022, 5:28 am | # | Reply

    This might be a good time to remind ourselves of this strip: https://skin-horse.com/comic/sweetheart-all/

  12. Midwestmutt
    April 30, 2022, 7:56 am | # | Reply

    Oh thank god.

  13. F. Frankie Frankenstein (@DaFrankiestein)
    April 30, 2022, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    Gasps!!!! THE FUNK LIIIIIIIIIVES!!!!

  14. JoB
    April 30, 2022, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    I suddenly find myself pondering how you’d build a spring powered shuttle to make your getaway from a ship in space (and return to the planet (maybe-not-so-close-)below …

    • waynezombie
      April 30, 2022, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

      I would imagine there’s all sorts of things she can build from onboard. And all sorts of things that Pavane and the ship would rather not she disassemble as she builds from.

    • David B Huber
      April 30, 2022, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

      Tigerlily has long had not only spring-based tesseracts but her own antigravity saucer tech.

    • awgiedawgie
      April 30, 2022, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      If she can build a teleporter from coat hangers, and a clone-o-mat from a Coke machine, the only question I have about her abilities is “what can’t she build?”

      • David B Huber
        April 30, 2022, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

        Indeed. Dr. Jones is the only person I know of who could intimidate Dr. Lee. Not even Artie was able to do that.

        I haven’t read Narbonic yet. But I wonder how Tigerlily would get along with Helen?

        • awgiedawgie
          April 30, 2022, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

          They’d probably get along better than Helen and her mother, but that’s not saying much. Helen’s thing is genetics, and Tigerlily’s is spring power, so there’s not much overlap (i.e. competition). Although Helen might be a little upset about the whole clone-in-a-coke-machine thing.

  15. theysabet
    April 30, 2022, 11:23 am | # | Reply

    Is anybody here picturing Tigerlily with a spaceship under her control? Is anybody heree both intrigued and terrified (mostly intrigued, though)? **raises hand**

    • Duane B.
      April 30, 2022, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      *raises both hands* Don’t know if I’m surrendering or not….Don’t care.

    • Marisa Mockery
      April 30, 2022, 11:15 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t know if she’d want it unless it’s powered by springs.

  16. Robert Nowall
    April 30, 2022, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

    The passengers think of return. With Tigerlily, they share their concern. Not okay, but it’s funky, and the trip’s kind of junky, so with that, can they end this sojourn?

  17. BMunro
    April 30, 2022, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

    A spanner is about to be tossed into Pavane’s plans. Heck, the whole tool box.

  18. greyhobbit13
    April 30, 2022, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

    Joy!

  19. Pat
    April 30, 2022, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    Oh thank funk, she’s okay.

  20. Robert
    April 30, 2022, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

    Did I just hear the Popeye fanfare?

  21. Tiff Hudson
    April 30, 2022, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

    Looking at Tigerlily’s face in that last panel, I’m hearing Tolkien poetry: “One brow to rule them all!”

  22. Marisa Mockery
    April 30, 2022, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

    Yessssss oh can’t wait for Monday

  23. Owlmirror
    May 1, 2022, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

    Two thoughts on what Ms. Jones is wearing:

    1) I am reminded of an old song by Fairport Convention, “Red and Gold” (Are Royal Colours). A hint that whatever role Pavane has on the saucer, Ms. Jones is meant to be the Queen?

    https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fairportconvention/redandgold.html

    2) A possible mix of Oz references: Red is the color of the Quadlings, and therefore of Glinda the Good. Yellow is the color of the Winkies, and therefore of the Wicked Witch of the West.

    Ms. Jones is wicked good?

  24. Nomi
    May 2, 2022, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

    She looks so different without her glasses.

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