Towering Barbarian: You can never rule out an alligator in the Anasigma base. Peirson may even be turn back on all the deathtraps before it finds him, so the survivors have to pick their way through the traps (and alligator) to get to whatever supplies they left there.
Very like that, but I think that’s a patch of bare skull and an empty eyesocket. It had exposed ribs visible in an earlier panel, and I don’t mean emaciated, I mean the actual rib bones. Cypress zombies apparently last a bit longer than traditional zombies.
It may be a bear intelligently directed by the cypress entity, in which case it’s unimportant whether it is hungry or not – it’s functionally more a drone weapon than a wild animal.
Besides ravening hunger, there’re a few interesting points about THIS bear.Size is one. Unusual facial marking is another. And its absolute focused one-goal only- aim and purpose.
Bear in mind that it may only be a highly-developed VEHICLE to pull the place-holders away from ‘blocking the audience’s view’. Or not.
Mads seem to get very focused – on the wrong things, unfortunately.
“Note to self – avoid standing with your back to bushes large enough to hide a killer bear. Especially if someone just got dragged off by a killer bear.”
Point of vague logic—well, it kept me awake a little while when I turned in—that if the zombie bear and the fake team members are on the same side, then why would the zombie bear eat a fake team member? Ergo, if that’s the right word, the now eaten sweater guy and Mr. Ask must have been not fake.
Or zombie bear and fake team members aren’t on the same side. The fact neither appear to be on Tip’s side might well be one of those amusing miscommunications that make Skin Horse missions so much fun. (For us. Not for them.)
Thinking this further, if the bear is taking out fake team members, there are three options.
1. The fake team members are the threat, the bear is protecting the team, but for some reason can’t actually explain why their on the same side.
2. The bear is the threat, the fake team members are being silenced before they can explain why.
3. The fake team members are the threat, and the real team is already working with the bear. And has been since the timeskip.
4. The bear is helping the fake team members (double)fake their deaths for some reason; plant zombies might not be particularly bothered by being chomped on by a bear.
Well, this strip is reminiscent of when Leo had Tip in a similar headlock. Somehow I don’t think they’ll get this zombie bear to spit Mr. Ask out before he bites down to the soft creamy center.
You’d have to work out if thinking counts first. For instance, no-one speaks in the first strip of the comic (http://skin-horse.com/comic/tip-wore-white/), but it’s all about Tip anyway.
Lt. Eris needs some coffee!
Um, given what we’ve seen so far, maaaaybe not.
Looks like Mr. Deathtrap might be the only NPC survivor. ^_^
Towering Barbarian: You can never rule out an alligator in the Anasigma base. Peirson may even be turn back on all the deathtraps before it finds him, so the survivors have to pick their way through the traps (and alligator) to get to whatever supplies they left there.
There was also that bit of plant life we saw seeping in around one of the doors.
Not to mention that death traps have an unfortunate tendency to turn against their creator.
Y’know, that bear looks pretty patchy! Rather like a Velveteen Bear that was loved so much by the offspring of Mads that it became Real…
Very like that, but I think that’s a patch of bare skull and an empty eyesocket. It had exposed ribs visible in an earlier panel, and I don’t mean emaciated, I mean the actual rib bones. Cypress zombies apparently last a bit longer than traditional zombies.
You can still kill him, Lieutenant. Aim a little lower and maybe you can kill both.
Yeah, but the bear is already dead, so he’ll be a little bit harder to kill.
We’re learning who the redshirts are in this away team.
The people with knitted sweaters!
Does the Cypress just hate people wearing wool? Or alternatively, does she *love* the taste of wool?
Reminds me of Samuel L Jackson’s death in that shark movie!
… is panel three a reference to the Samuel L. Jackson scene in “Deep Blue Sea”?
Feels more like a reference to the geologist’s death in Annihilation, to me. Honestly this whole ARC feels like a reference to Annihilation, to me.
How does that work when the arc has been plotted years before the movie came out?
Well, possibly the book, yes.
thats one hungry bear, chomping two adults in short time.
It may be a bear intelligently directed by the cypress entity, in which case it’s unimportant whether it is hungry or not – it’s functionally more a drone weapon than a wild animal.
Besides ravening hunger, there’re a few interesting points about THIS bear.Size is one. Unusual facial marking is another. And its absolute focused one-goal only- aim and purpose.
Bear in mind that it may only be a highly-developed VEHICLE to pull the place-holders away from ‘blocking the audience’s view’. Or not.
Mads seem to get very focused – on the wrong things, unfortunately.
“Note to self – avoid standing with your back to bushes large enough to hide a killer bear. Especially if someone just got dragged off by a killer bear.”
Would you prefer to turn your back to your “allies” who are definitely Mad, usually unstable, and possibly evil veggiepod clones?
Well, if you’re closely _surrounded_ by bushes, you should be getting away from that area to begin with.
Especially if the bushes themselves may be very likely to try to kill you as well.
Point of vague logic—well, it kept me awake a little while when I turned in—that if the zombie bear and the fake team members are on the same side, then why would the zombie bear eat a fake team member? Ergo, if that’s the right word, the now eaten sweater guy and Mr. Ask must have been not fake.
Agreed.
Or zombie bear and fake team members aren’t on the same side. The fact neither appear to be on Tip’s side might well be one of those amusing miscommunications that make Skin Horse missions so much fun. (For us. Not for them.)
Thinking this further, if the bear is taking out fake team members, there are three options.
1. The fake team members are the threat, the bear is protecting the team, but for some reason can’t actually explain why their on the same side.
2. The bear is the threat, the fake team members are being silenced before they can explain why.
3. The fake team members are the threat, and the real team is already working with the bear. And has been since the timeskip.
At least three options, I should have said. Those are just the ones I thought of.
4. The bear is helping the fake team members (double)fake their deaths for some reason; plant zombies might not be particularly bothered by being chomped on by a bear.
Gotta say, for a zombie bear animated by a plant based hive mind….
He’s pretty darned cute!
A grizzly end …
In the eastern parts of N. America like Pennsylvania, the bears all Black Bears.
/pedant mode off
“bears ARE all Black Bears”
edit functions are nice to have
Agreed, we need an edit option. As far as the bear goes it could be as much of a transplant as a zombie cypress swamp.
“CHAWMP” sounds to me like a Boston accent — so is this a Boston bruin?
A rim shot for Rimwolf!
Is there a tally of Tip appearing in a day’s strip and _not_ speaking?!
Well, this strip is reminiscent of when Leo had Tip in a similar headlock. Somehow I don’t think they’ll get this zombie bear to spit Mr. Ask out before he bites down to the soft creamy center.
You’d have to work out if thinking counts first. For instance, no-one speaks in the first strip of the comic (http://skin-horse.com/comic/tip-wore-white/), but it’s all about Tip anyway.
If you asked Tip, he’d probably say the entire 12-year run of the comic has been all about him.