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2018-03-14

by shaenon on March 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. efogoto
    March 14, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    So she’s having an off-of-body experience?

    • Shadowmehr
      March 14, 2018, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

      More like she lost her mind, or at least temporarily misplaced it. Despite (or in proof of) previous evidence, her head wasn’t screwed on that tightly. So half of her re-enacts scenes from Sleepy Hollow, while the other half is stuck whistling “I ain’t got no body”. I think that’s enough damage, goodnight everybody!

  2. Bruce A Munro
    March 14, 2018, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Given that Unity is essentially a meat suit filled with nanogoo, it’s actually possible that the body is currently the smarter part of her, by virtue of holding more goo.

  3. D. Walker
    March 14, 2018, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    So… how exactly is UNITY talking right now?

    She might just barely still have vocal cords in that stump of a neck left over, but she does NOT have lungs with which to breathe and vibrate said vocal cords.

    There’s a whole lot that you can explain away with nanobots, but sadly this ain’t one of those things.

    • darkstarling
      March 14, 2018, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      SCIENCE! That’s how!

      And seriously, if you think most fiction uses nanotech as anything other than Pixie Dust…

      • awgiedawgie
        March 14, 2018, 2:35 am | # | Reply

        One: Unity doesn’t need air. http://skin-horse.com/comic/for-good/

        Two: Cartoon physics.

        • D. Walker
          March 14, 2018, 4:34 am | # | Reply

          She doesn’t need to breathe, yes, but speech requires air passing over vocal cords.

          Or theoretically you could vibrate them in some other manner, maybe bow them like violin strings, I dunno. But they need to be made to resonate with force.

          And yes, cartoon physics. That’s my entire complaint. We get a little of that normally, but this is cranking it to 11, and it’s just a bit much.

          • Khno
            March 14, 2018, 5:16 am | #

            she could be talking by inspiring air in lieu of expiring. It would give a small speech impediment, but is still doable. Or we could imagine that she is inspiring air from the throat and expiring it by the mouth in one movement.

          • arqyx
            March 14, 2018, 6:56 am | #

            Gotta take your suspension of disbelief to transcendental levitation level. Oo-mm.

          • Dewy
            March 14, 2018, 7:32 am | #

            This is a series that has shown sex appeal being used to teleport people, werewolves, a boy that has died a billion times so can see all possible futures, multiple zombie apocalypses, and a Cadillac have sex with a water cooler but, you are going to drawl the line at a severed head talking?

            You, sir/ma’am, have very specialized pet peeves. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I’ve got my own and can’t throw stones.

          • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
            March 14, 2018, 8:46 am | #

            Unity long ago absorbed the brain in her current head for nutrient, and stores compressed air in the skull cavity so she can use her skin as a flotation bladder in case of a water landing. This air is being slowly drained for making speech and is good for a bout 90 seconds of conversation or 25 seconds of fiendish monologue. Thus, in addition to cartoon physics, we employ the awesome power of Retro Ad Hoc Plotting, which honest cartoonists and writers never ever use but I do.

          • awgiedawgie
            March 14, 2018, 12:50 pm | #

            Oh, yeah… and three: Unity is at least partly a product of Mad Science. And as Helen Narbon was fond of saying, Mad Science is not limited by the “possible”.

    • Hannibal's Lectern
      March 14, 2018, 7:58 am | # | Reply

      This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a disembodied talking head in this strip:
      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-733/

      • awgiedawgie
        March 14, 2018, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

        And we can’t forget this one: http://skin-horse.com/comic/seeing-the/

        • Pygar
          March 14, 2018, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

          Come on, Unity, sing! “Some things in life are sad…”

  4. palenoue
    March 14, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    New simile for inevitable disaster: Like a headless Unity in a sporting goods store.

  5. Dave
    March 14, 2018, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    I’m curious how, if using a drone is so stressful and taxing, Mr Green managed it for months on end.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      March 14, 2018, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      That’s a good point, but in fairness we cannot assume that Mr. Green is an unaugmented human. Awgiedawgie has argued fairly convincingly that he is in fact Pavane, Gavotte’s mysterious daughter.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 14, 2018, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing that’s a part of why Violet had to “sleep” so much. Also, Violet did “pass out” in front of Virginia that one time. And considering Mr. Green’s technological skills (he was, after all, the one who removed Nick’s “spektkls”, and he simultaneously hijacked Nick and the Violet drone while Sweetheart was hooked up to it), he could have had the drone on auto-pilot for much of the time.

  6. Miyaa
    March 14, 2018, 2:07 am | # | Reply

    I feel like Unity should quit while she’s a head.

    • Dewy
      March 14, 2018, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, she does seem to be cut off from reality right now. I would hate for her to sever any ties over this.

  7. WuseMajor
    March 14, 2018, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    I want to know how Sweetheart justified to herself that this was a good idea.

  8. Dr. Steve
    March 14, 2018, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    Well… I guess it is better to go to the in-house armory, than the out-house armory. Wait – ARMORY?! Oh, perhaps that’s just where she keeps her spare limbs, so nothing is likely to go wrong.

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 14, 2018, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      Unity logic:

      Sweetheart’s date needs to be better.
      Heavy weaponry make anything better.
      Sweetheart’s date is a thing.
      Therefore, heavy weaponry will make Sweetheart’s date better.

      • Candace
        March 15, 2018, 12:37 am | # | Reply

        This. ^

    • Robert Nowall
      March 14, 2018, 2:56 pm | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t that be an armoire?

  9. Robert Nowall
    March 14, 2018, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    Unity really nails it here.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 14, 2018, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      Nah… she had already nailed it. Now she really pulled off a great move.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 14, 2018, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

        It’s one way to get ahead.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 14, 2018, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

          I’d make a crack about Unity giving Nick head, but I don’t want Virginia to get mad at me. I might wake up with my brain implanted in a food processor.

  10. Barking Monkey
    March 14, 2018, 5:05 pm | # | Reply

    As do I Unity, as do I.

  11. Knuckles
    February 7, 2022, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    Actually Tip, you admitted that the test drive was a fraud and then tried to loudly reassure yourself there would be no problems.

    Still, points for effort.

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