I misunderstood that for a minute. I dunno, I don’t recall her being quite _that_ cavalier with her body parts – has she ever taken off her arm to club people with it?
Well, that was a job that _called_ for a self-propelled hand. For punching holes in ones eardrums, pencils probably work better: they’re stiffer and pointier than just-detached digits, for one thing. The right tool for the right job. 🙂
(TUNE: “You Can’t Hide Your Lyin’ Eyes”, The Eagles)
Skin Horse team is in a situation,
Deafened by a cacophonic din!
Preparing for the final confrontation,
Now they gotta find GODOT, go do him in!
Unity defiantly shouts “Screw it!”
Sweetheart’s nose is getting out of joint!
She says “It’s much too loud in there, don’t do it!”
But with pencils, zombie girl might have a point!
She’ll just crunch … her hearin’ ears!
And the noise, it disappears!
’Gainst her foe, she perseveres …
It appears she spears, and clears her hearin’ ears!
Yes, of course she did. After all, what could possibly go wrong, on a dimensionally transcendental train filled with mad scientists and currently overfed zombies?
“Zombie mime troupe causes disaster…film at eleven.”
Wouldn’t she still risk bone conduction if she stuck the pencils in that far? I thought the point of noise protection was to insulate, not simply muffle.
I think she may have just destroyed the ear and inner ear itself, not muffled the noise.
Do we have evidence that unity actually needs physical ears to hear things, though?
I always thought she looked more like a Frankenstein’s Monster than a zombie. Now, with those pencils sticking out like neck-bolts, even more so. Now she can stick her arms straight out and do some SERIOUS lurching.
Was GODOT really impressed/surprised/shocked at what Unity just did, or did the artist just decided to leave the background in panel 4 as just a background.
or, to put it another way, did the Lorem Ipsum shouting just stop?
ps: looks like GODOT had already stopped the Lorem Ipsum – today’s strip seems to be from a novel of some kind?
Anybody else wonder where she’s going to get new ears?
Then again, at least two people are dead already, she may be able to find spare parts easily. At least hopefully she’ll go after the dead people first . . .
If GODOT insists on operating like a blunt instrument then I cannot lead its fan club. Can anyone recommend a hunk of metal that specializes in synthesizing custom near-minimal streams of data calculated to disable individual listeners or reader? Because I could betray my species and myself to such a thing SO HARD.
The killing joke is a fiction, but there must be a text of 100 words or less that would drive me mad or at least crush what is left of my will. If somebody told me they found out what it was, oh, man, it would be tough to resist the temptation to read it just to discover the punchline.
But if GODOT alters the information in your brain, does it need an external stimulus to transform into speech, or could it just overwrite the silence? Then again those pencils go awfully far in there…
OW. Someone’s going to need some new eardrums. That looks like it reached brain. Heck, the pencils might be touching in the middle.
Getting the eardrums out of the way will only go so far. Loud enough sound can rupture lungs, though odds are good Unity doesn’t actually need to breathe.
Remember, kids, don’t try this at home!
Unless, of course, you’re made out of nanotech glop inhabiting stitched-together pieces of corpses.
i’m surprised she didn’t just use her fingers.
I misunderstood that for a minute. I dunno, I don’t recall her being quite _that_ cavalier with her body parts – has she ever taken off her arm to club people with it?
she sent a hand out as a messenger once, i think? in the alaska story….
Well, that was a job that _called_ for a self-propelled hand. For punching holes in ones eardrums, pencils probably work better: they’re stiffer and pointier than just-detached digits, for one thing. The right tool for the right job. 🙂
(TUNE: “You Can’t Hide Your Lyin’ Eyes”, The Eagles)
Skin Horse team is in a situation,
Deafened by a cacophonic din!
Preparing for the final confrontation,
Now they gotta find GODOT, go do him in!
Unity defiantly shouts “Screw it!”
Sweetheart’s nose is getting out of joint!
She says “It’s much too loud in there, don’t do it!”
But with pencils, zombie girl might have a point!
She’ll just crunch … her hearin’ ears!
And the noise, it disappears!
’Gainst her foe, she perseveres …
It appears she spears, and clears her hearin’ ears!
Seriously, how the heck do you manage to do this every day? It’s super impressive, in a weird kind of way.
It’s my mutant superpower.
“Screw this noise” indeed.
Also, did Unity just destroy the only way of communication she had that couldn’t be tampered by GODOT? (Unless you count pantomime)
Yes, of course she did. After all, what could possibly go wrong, on a dimensionally transcendental train filled with mad scientists and currently overfed zombies?
“Zombie mime troupe causes disaster…film at eleven.”
Wouldn’t she still risk bone conduction if she stuck the pencils in that far? I thought the point of noise protection was to insulate, not simply muffle.
I think she may have just destroyed the ear and inner ear itself, not muffled the noise.
Do we have evidence that unity actually needs physical ears to hear things, though?
Related: how can she tell that Sweetheart is talking to her?
At any given moment, it’s a reasonable assumption that Sweetheart is telling Unity how awesome she is.
Ouch.
I always thought she looked more like a Frankenstein’s Monster than a zombie. Now, with those pencils sticking out like neck-bolts, even more so. Now she can stick her arms straight out and do some SERIOUS lurching.
Wow, a perfectly-apt use of “screw this noise.”
Hmmm …..
Was GODOT really impressed/surprised/shocked at what Unity just did, or did the artist just decided to leave the background in panel 4 as just a background.
or, to put it another way, did the Lorem Ipsum shouting just stop?
ps: looks like GODOT had already stopped the Lorem Ipsum – today’s strip seems to be from a novel of some kind?
I wonder? http://skin-horse.com/2008/silhouette/
hmmm ….. nope.
Maybe from one of the later books? http://skin-horse.com/2011/todays-comic-615-2/
Anybody else wonder where she’s going to get new ears?
Then again, at least two people are dead already, she may be able to find spare parts easily. At least hopefully she’ll go after the dead people first . . .
Also, mad scientists everywhere
Also, she may have spare eardrums
Oh god ow.
Does Unity always carry around pencils for this sole purpose?
I imagine Sweatheart has her carry them for her, as she has no pockets.
If GODOT insists on operating like a blunt instrument then I cannot lead its fan club. Can anyone recommend a hunk of metal that specializes in synthesizing custom near-minimal streams of data calculated to disable individual listeners or reader? Because I could betray my species and myself to such a thing SO HARD.
The killing joke is a fiction, but there must be a text of 100 words or less that would drive me mad or at least crush what is left of my will. If somebody told me they found out what it was, oh, man, it would be tough to resist the temptation to read it just to discover the punchline.
But if GODOT alters the information in your brain, does it need an external stimulus to transform into speech, or could it just overwrite the silence? Then again those pencils go awfully far in there…
As far as we know, he can only induce pareidolia visually, and only text. The sound he’s making by hijacking loudspeakers.
As a professional dog lipreader, Sweetheart is clearly saying “‘Ey, Unity, you are awesome Q-Tips!”
OW. Someone’s going to need some new eardrums. That looks like it reached brain. Heck, the pencils might be touching in the middle.
Getting the eardrums out of the way will only go so far. Loud enough sound can rupture lungs, though odds are good Unity doesn’t actually need to breathe.