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2016-05-20

by shaenon on May 20, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Can't Catch Me
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  1. Urlance Woolsbane
    May 20, 2016, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    And it is a proper beastie! Yay!

    Alas, poor Gotham hockey players…

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      May 20, 2016, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Also, is this the first time Mustacho’s snarked?

    • John Campbell
      May 20, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      That does not look at all like cavemen. Mulder lied to me!

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 20, 2016, 5:12 am | # | Reply

        Cavewoman you mean

      • DarkStarling
        May 20, 2016, 7:27 am | # | Reply

        The real secret: Mulder just THINKS he’s always right.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          May 20, 2016, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

          That was always my theory about Kolchak: The Nightstalker. Nobody else ever sees the supernatural stuff (and if they do, they never seem to remember/admit it later), and all the evidence is always (coincidentally) destroyed at the end of the episode. The viewers see the monsters, but the show uses Kolchak writing about what happened to him as a framing device, so all we really know for sure is what Kolchak believes he saw.

  2. Alabat Macord
    May 20, 2016, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    That would make a great pet for Unity.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 20, 2016, 7:44 am | # | Reply

      Just one more creature for Sweetheart to clean up after.

  3. BMunro
    May 20, 2016, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Wait. So the angry trees _aren’t_ the Jersey Devil? I’m confused now.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      May 20, 2016, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Given its resemblance to a living Chia-pet, I’m inclined to think its a symbiote.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 20, 2016, 5:13 am | # | Reply

        Or perhaps some sort of ambulatory plant-creature that grows on the trees

        • BMunro
          May 20, 2016, 6:50 am | # | Reply

          Along the lines of the vegetable lamb? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary

  4. Towering Barbarian
    May 20, 2016, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Shelby is just going to have to get used to the fact that machine intelligences are *machine* intelligences and as such quite literal. ^_^

    • Alabat Macord
      May 20, 2016, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      So are humans once you bypass the critical factor of the conscious mind.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 20, 2016, 5:31 am | # | Reply

        Sometimes even before that, depending on the human

  5. Alabat Macord
    May 20, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    It seems friendly enough. Feed it some cake.

  6. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    May 20, 2016, 5:30 am | # | Reply

    The Devil? Don’t be ridiculous. What would Satan, the demon Lucifer, Great Tempter, Adversary of God, Author of Sin, Father of All Lies, Great Red Dragon, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, the Devil his own sel’ be doing here in New Jersey?

    Don’t answer that.

    • nebulousrikulau
      May 20, 2016, 5:58 am | # | Reply

      Slumming?
      (sorry. couldn’t resist.)

    • ZapRowsdower
      May 20, 2016, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      Well, according to local legend, a woman named Mrs. Leeds living in the Pine Barrens had had twelve kids and was sick and tired of being pregnant and giving birth all the time, so when she found she was pregnant again, she declared “may this thirteenth child be a devil!”, and what was born was an inhuman monster that immediately ran out into the pines, where it remains today attacking innocent hikers.

      Plenty of variations of the story, of course, but along that general theme.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 20, 2016, 11:47 am | # | Reply

        I suppose there were no issues of paternity, then.

      • Gemma
        May 20, 2016, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

        I think the issue here is that they thought more ‘Satan’ than ‘Jersey Devil’ when he asked.

  7. Robert Nowall
    May 20, 2016, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Why do all these mad science gizmos never have off switches?

    • Moe Lane
      May 20, 2016, 7:44 am | # | Reply

      Why bother? Everybody’s just going to use the self-destruct button anyway.

      • Rodford E Smith
        May 20, 2016, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

        I think she was expecting the OFF button to reverse the summoning effect.

        • Robert Nowall
          May 20, 2016, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

          Oh. Then she should’a taken the vacuum cleaner hose out of the blow hole and put it back in the suck hole…

          • Moe Lane
            May 21, 2016, 11:08 am | #

            All of this reminds me of that scene in Sherlock with the nuclear bomb.

  8. davidbreslin101
    May 20, 2016, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    Alas, my favourite cryptid explanation for the Jersey Devil is ruled out. That ain’t no six-foot-high hammer-headed bat.

    • D. Walker
      May 20, 2016, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

      Who is to say there aren’t multiple Devils, and one of the IS a six-foot-high hammer-headed bat?

      What if it works like a plant version of Unity’s nanomachines invading a host body? What if all the different versions of the Jersey Devil reported over the years were different creatures all infested by parasitic plants? It turns out they were ALL real!

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 20, 2016, 9:04 pm | # | Reply

        Considering how many different versions of the Jersey Devil legend there are (demon, space alien, mutant, dinosaur, demonic mutant space dinosaur, etc.), there might be something to that theory.

  9. GammarayCanon
    May 20, 2016, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    No wings or improbable-physics-defying bipedal stance? I’m kind of dissapointed, to be honest.

    • Gemma
      May 20, 2016, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

      Wallabies do stand on two feet; I think it’s just leaning and the panel border cut off the feet.

      • Smithnik
        May 21, 2016, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

        Besides, who ever heard of wings on a vegetable.
        There are various descriptions of the Jersey Devil which, being a cryptid, may be able to look like whatever it feels like that day. You never know…

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