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2021-11-10

by shaenon on November 10, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon
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  1. FWKnight
    November 10, 2021, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Well good news… MAYBE you can just do the exact opposite of everything you were briefed on and have a better chance of survival?

  2. BMunro
    November 10, 2021, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Seems that for A-Sig, this is less about testing the enemy’s strength and more a quick way to prune the deadwood. (Extirpation can’t be that cheap: besides brain care and feeding expenses, brilliant evil brain surgeons don’t just grow on trees [1], after all.)

    [1] With a possible exception for the Biomass.

    • skullthetroll
      November 10, 2021, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Solution!

  3. Towering Barbarian
    November 10, 2021, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    I knew there was a reason that I tend to sleep during briefing sessions! 🙂

  4. Robert Nowall
    November 10, 2021, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    If your comrades have all been eaten by wheat, it oughta make desertion so much easier…

    • Frank
      November 10, 2021, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      you mean dessertion

      • theysabet
        November 10, 2021, 9:29 am | # | Reply

        …or it could even be a dessertation, if you had to write the mission reports. (badum-ching!)

  5. Venator Animarum
    November 10, 2021, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    The second battle of Antietam has begun…

    • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
      November 10, 2021, 8:04 am | # | Reply

      at least at Sharpsburg the corn itself did not attack.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 10, 2021, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

        Since they’ve gone into the wheat field, it’ll be out to the cornfield for them.

        • David B Huber
          November 10, 2021, 5:28 pm | # | Reply

          It was a good life.

          Well, better than the hideous death at least!

  6. VickiC
    November 10, 2021, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    Echo Bravo’s best survival tactic is not listening to what anyone else says

    • John
      November 10, 2021, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      A viable strategy when going among mad people.

    • Zero
      November 10, 2021, 11:39 am | # | Reply

      Which is the conclusion the person he’s not listening to also just reached.

    • David B Huber
      November 10, 2021, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

      E.B. needn’t worry. H.T. promised not to assimilate him.

      • Shadowmehr
        November 10, 2021, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

        Doesn’t mean he won’t be reduced to mulch, just not assimilated after.

        • David B Huber
          November 10, 2021, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

          Hm. Point taken.

        • Venator Animarum
          November 10, 2021, 6:27 pm | # | Reply

          Besides, can you trust the Biomass to keep their word?

    • Andy4Hire
      November 10, 2021, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

      … Except when it comes to shoe care.

      And even then, he got the lifesaving advice by way of a teenager, rather than directly from the Anasigma training video. So maybe his best survival tactic is listening to other people, just not to the ones he supposedly works for?

  7. Blofeld's Cat
    November 10, 2021, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    Aha! A cereal killer…

    I’m sorry but someone had to say it.

    • maarvarq
      November 10, 2021, 7:28 am | # | Reply

      Boom-tish!

    • BMunro
      November 10, 2021, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      “In Soviet Biomass, Wheaties eat you!”

    • Esteis
      November 10, 2021, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

      This alien corn is ruthless.

      • Esteis
        November 10, 2021, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

        Although on quite another note, the design of the carnivorous plants reminds me of the carnivorous plant in The Smurfs and the Howlibird / Les Schtroumpfs et le Cracoucass / De Smurfen en de Krakakrwa. A fun memory!

  8. Robert Nowall
    November 10, 2021, 6:13 am | # | Reply

    “If I could rate ’em on a scale from one to ten,
    I’m lookin’ for a nine but eight could work right in.
    A few more drinks and I might slip to five or even four.
    But when tomorrow morning comes,
    And I wake up with a number one,
    I swear I’ll never do it anymore!”

    • Wizard
      November 10, 2021, 11:58 am | # | Reply

      I went to bed at two with a ten, and woke up at ten with a two.

  9. Daibhid C
    November 10, 2021, 8:40 am | # | Reply

    Wow, Theresa May wouldn’t have survived ten minutes out there.

    (Really obscure UK politics joke, sorry.)

    • John
      November 10, 2021, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      Not *that* obscure. I’m an American and I get it.

      • Candace
        November 11, 2021, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

        Same.

    • waynezombie
      November 10, 2021, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      Got a smile from me, but I read BBC News, other European news sources, and NewsThump routinely.

    • Lady E
      November 10, 2021, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

      I got the reference. And I’m not from the U.K, either.

  10. Dewy
    November 10, 2021, 10:31 am | # | Reply

    Does anyone else hear “aieeee” as a Wilhelm scream or is it just me?

    • Robert Nowall
      November 10, 2021, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      Y’all be the judge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

      • Frank
        November 10, 2021, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

        OMG they FINALLY put it up! The Wilhelm scream has been SUCH a PAIN to find online!

      • Robert Nowall
        November 10, 2021, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

        Didn’t know I was performing a public service. I swear I looked up “Wilhem Scream” when I first heard the phrase, but I can’t remember whether they had a sound file of it at the time.

  11. Robert Nowall
    November 10, 2021, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    “To the wheat fields,” was what they were briefed. There lay safety, was their firm belief. You know, they had a “honch” that the fields led to “monch,” but misspelling was the leitmotif.

  12. Sleepy John
    November 10, 2021, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

    I’m too moderately attractive and far below Medicare requirements!

  13. Shadowmehr
    November 10, 2021, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

    Does this mean that the Biomass is related to He Who Walks Behind the Rows?

  14. David B Huber
    November 10, 2021, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    I have to voice my appreciation for the subtle nuances in Alfa’s expressions – especially panel 4, where her dismay is palpable.

    Proving she’s not evil. I might’ve dropped the wheat field hint delivering the goon squad that arrested me to a horrible demise on purpose… 😉

  15. Dalben
    November 10, 2021, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

    Hmmm…so not even cannon fodder, because with cannon fodder you’re still trying to use them for some purpose, just at great cost of lives. This seems to be simply wanting them dead, but at someone else’s hands.

    • Andy4Hire
      November 10, 2021, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      Since they’re being eaten by a wheatfield, or at least something they thought was a wheatfield, you can argue that they’re fodder fodder.

      • Dalben
        November 10, 2021, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

        I’d agree with that.

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