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2013-02-14

by shaenon on February 14, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Ebony Sable
    February 14, 2013, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Remember, kids, don’t try this at home!

    • John Campbell
      February 14, 2013, 1:17 am | # | Reply

      Unless, of course, you’re made out of nanotech glop inhabiting stitched-together pieces of corpses.

  2. drbrain
    February 14, 2013, 1:24 am | # | Reply

    i’m surprised she didn’t just use her fingers.

    • BMunro
      February 14, 2013, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • drbrain
        February 14, 2013, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

        she sent a hand out as a messenger once, i think? in the alaska story….

        • BMunro
          February 14, 2013, 10:26 pm | # | Reply

          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. 🙂

  3. Eddurd
    February 14, 2013, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    (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!

    • Riven
      February 14, 2013, 5:09 pm | # | Reply

      Seriously, how the heck do you manage to do this every day? It’s super impressive, in a weird kind of way.

      • Eddurd
        February 14, 2013, 7:30 pm | # | Reply

        It’s my mutant superpower.

  4. Rex Vivat
    February 14, 2013, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    “Screw this noise” indeed.

    • Rex Vivat
      February 14, 2013, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      Also, did Unity just destroy the only way of communication she had that couldn’t be tampered by GODOT? (Unless you count pantomime)

      • Smithnik
        February 14, 2013, 9:50 am | # | Reply

        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.”

  5. jdreyfuss
    February 14, 2013, 4:34 am | # | Reply

    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.

    • eddddd the mad genius
      February 14, 2013, 5:18 am | # | Reply

      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?

      • Rex Vivat
        February 14, 2013, 11:17 am | # | Reply

        Related: how can she tell that Sweetheart is talking to her?

        • JET73L
          July 31, 2018, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

          At any given moment, it’s a reasonable assumption that Sweetheart is telling Unity how awesome she is.

  6. nemryn
    February 14, 2013, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Ouch.

  7. Dewy
    February 14, 2013, 6:40 am | # | Reply

    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.

  8. wykstrad
    February 14, 2013, 9:50 am | # | Reply

    Wow, a perfectly-apt use of “screw this noise.”

  9. Grantwhy
    February 14, 2013, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    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/

  10. Shadowmehr
    February 14, 2013, 5:23 pm | # | Reply

    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 . . .

    • Rex Vivat
      February 14, 2013, 7:05 pm | # | Reply

      Also, mad scientists everywhere

    • Rex Vivat
      February 14, 2013, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      Also, she may have spare eardrums

  11. Evil Midnight Lurker
    February 14, 2013, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

    Oh god ow.

  12. Frank
    February 14, 2013, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

    Does Unity always carry around pencils for this sole purpose?

    • Dewy
      February 15, 2013, 7:47 am | # | Reply

      I imagine Sweatheart has her carry them for her, as she has no pockets.

  13. Ogden Wernstrom
    February 14, 2013, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  14. John Sears
    February 14, 2013, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

    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…

    • Rex Vivat
      February 15, 2013, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      As far as we know, he can only induce pareidolia visually, and only text. The sound he’s making by hijacking loudspeakers.

  15. JET73L
    February 26, 2015, 8:53 am | # | Reply

    As a professional dog lipreader, Sweetheart is clearly saying “‘Ey, Unity, you are awesome Q-Tips!”

  16. Dementron
    December 18, 2016, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

    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.

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