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2016-10-31

by shaenon on October 31, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Purple Waves
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  1. Frank Hightower
    October 31, 2016, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Gasp! She got killed off? Is her corpse going to get reanimated? Quick! We need a building full of mad scientists! …oh, right

    • Robert Nowall
      October 31, 2016, 8:14 am | # | Reply

      Shame that Captain Oblivious from the Jersey Barrens adventure isn’t around. We’d enjoy seeing him lightsabered…

    • tornadominds
      October 31, 2016, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

      Reanimation? We just need a zombie to bite her! …how convenient.

  2. Alpha0010
    October 31, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Knowing a couple actual Danes has given me the ability to read The Dane’s dialogue with a Danish accent, and I have to say, it makes it so much better

    • frithrikr
      October 31, 2016, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      My family includes a lot of Norwegians. I keep hearing this guy speak with old Uncle Oscar’s voice.

    • Khno
      October 31, 2016, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      In fact I think anyone can make it better by watching a few Lars von Trier interviews. It wouldn’t wonder me if he plays the Dane in the live action skin horse.

    • thenardyr
      October 31, 2016, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

      Sadly I know no Danes. As a result, he sounds like Bela Lugosi.

    • D. Walker
      November 1, 2016, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      For whatever reason, I keep reading him as sounding like Dr. Henry Killinger from The Venture Bros.

  3. Pygar
    October 31, 2016, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Please, oh please, let Unity wind up with the lightsaber somehow… she’s always wanted one, and Christmas *is* coming…

    • Candace
      October 31, 2016, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Yes! I want to see this now!

    • frithrikr
      October 31, 2016, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      But Unity isn’t there… yet.

    • Pygar
      October 31, 2016, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-797/ is the reference… Unity could arrive for any number of reasons, including “large building in need of rubblizing”…

  4. Alabat Macord
    October 31, 2016, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    This guy has to go.

    • notactuallyaperson
      October 31, 2016, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      I know, right? what a dick.

      • frithrikr
        October 31, 2016, 11:31 am | # | Reply

        How alliterative.

        I now wonder whether “the Dane” is named Rikard or something similar.

  5. WarpZone
    October 31, 2016, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    Ooooh, killing off the harmless fan favorite character when a much more deadly zombie opponent is blatantly flanking him. I can see why The Dane is regarded as so dangerous. He’s apparently a Mary Sue written by Joss friggin’ Whedon.

  6. Adept Arcanist
    October 31, 2016, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    No! Killing a returning cameo? And a cute girl, no less? The Dane has gone TOO FAR! 😛

  7. Rick
    October 31, 2016, 1:39 am | # | Reply

    A sociopath killing a sociologist, who’d of thunk it?

  8. Chrisn
    October 31, 2016, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    What a jerk (in the Mike Myers “da Bulls” voice, of course)

  9. BMunro
    October 31, 2016, 5:53 am | # | Reply

    Maybe she’s actually a really well preserved zombie?

  10. Robert Nowall
    October 31, 2016, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    It’s kinda hard to say who got stabbed.

  11. comicsgal
    October 31, 2016, 7:20 am | # | Reply

    I think she definitely got something, given the classic red asterisked shapey bit behind her. Since he stabbed instead of sliced, I don’t think he did a twofer there.

  12. s854
    October 31, 2016, 8:23 am | # | Reply

    I wonder where Marcie is now. I don’t think think she came prepared for this sort of situation, but I wonder if there may be someone around here who’s willing and able to help her.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 31, 2016, 8:55 am | # | Reply

      I think she’s outside the door, out of sight, propped against the wall.

    • BMunro
      October 31, 2016, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps Innocent Bystander Woman ™ has something in her purse that will help?

  13. Robert Nowall
    October 31, 2016, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    They were eating in the room, late one day,
    When this man burst in, in an evil way.
    His chance companion called a truce,
    But they found out it was no use.
    (Chorus:)
    [It was The Dane] It was that nasty Dane.
    [The Nasty Dane] He’s been quite a pain.
    [It was The Dane] With a sort of disdain.
    [It was The Dane] It was that nasty Dane.

    From her hidey hole in old Annex One,
    Tigerlily Jones looking for some fun.
    Invited groups both dumb and wise.
    Irradiator was the offered prize.
    (Chorus:)

    The groups were all playing through.
    But several did not have a clue.
    The guests included tigers,
    Cryptozoologists, too.

    The scene was wild, uninvited guests,
    Doing better than the best of the rest.
    Looked like for some, it came to naught.
    But one intruder had a different thought.
    (Chorus:)

    The Colma folk took the time for lunch.,
    But Marcie took one hell of a punch
    While Chris’s fall was saved from a loss
    By Manifesta with dental floss.
    (Chorus:)

    We’ve seen shooting darts, and silverfish too.
    But the story line still has some things to do.
    For them the others, there’s still time to go,
    Now that all they need is to go an Afro.
    (Chorus:)

    • Robert Nowall
      October 31, 2016, 8:57 am | # | Reply

      —from “The Monster Mash,” Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers.

      • thenardyr
        October 31, 2016, 9:20 pm | # | Reply

        That works better than the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ theme I initially used.

        • Robert Nowall
          November 1, 2016, 7:52 am | # | Reply

          Nothing odd about singing one song to the tune of another. There’s the old saw about how you can sing Emily Dickinson’s poems to the tune of “Yellow Rose of Texas”…

    • TheTownsend
      October 31, 2016, 9:47 am | # | Reply

      Ooooooooo OO-oo-oo-OOoo-OO-OO-OOOoooooooo…

  14. Mental Mouse
    October 31, 2016, 10:41 am | # | Reply

    The question is eventually going to be what Tigerlily Jones thinks of the Dane murdering all her contestants.

    • frithrikr
      October 31, 2016, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      That could go either way. From: “It’s not cool to kill folks without a fair fight” to “Ooh the way you did that was really sexy.”

      But note, that she’s not really killing folks herself. Knocking them out of the game, yes, but leaving dead bodies laying around, no.

    • BMunro
      October 31, 2016, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

      Well, he’s probably planning to kill her, too, so…

  15. WestRider
    October 31, 2016, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

    Zombetrayal!

    • Efogoto
      October 31, 2016, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

      Zombie trails to you, until we rot again …

  16. graspthenettlehard
    October 31, 2016, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

    Not happy! I liked her!!!

  17. midwestmutt
    October 31, 2016, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

    Alright, to action! Zombies never lose to living people with weapons, right?

  18. bergerjacques
    October 31, 2016, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

    Unprovoked murder by light saber pretty much out-rudes anything Captain Beyond has done so far.

  19. Daibhid C
    October 31, 2016, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    The Dane thinks he’s so great…

    (I wonder if he could be distracted with Scooby Snacks?)

  20. darladonna
    October 31, 2016, 9:03 pm | # | Reply

    That’s such a “The Man” thing to do “the Dane”. You’re gonna fail big time.

  21. Shadowmehr
    October 31, 2016, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

    Y’know, I’d be more concerned with our poor victim if she didn’t have several dozen zombie friends to “help” her with this condition. There is precedence of a sociologist “going native” after studying her subjects for a while.

    Admittedly, this would be one of the more extreme cases, but still . . .

  22. Knuckles
    February 1, 2022, 3:33 pm | # | Reply

    Aaah I see.

    The Dane is the dreaded Man who is keeping everyone down.

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