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2018-03-19

by shaenon on March 19, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. ngmatt
    March 19, 2018, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I cannot tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      Yeah… Headless Unity wielding what is probably an experimental weapon… It’s probably a bad thing, but it looks so awesome it’s hard to be upset about it.

  2. Robert Nowall
    March 19, 2018, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…”

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      If you can trust your zombie when all men doubt her…

  3. Towering Barbarian
    March 19, 2018, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    In a universe like this it would the sanity of those who didn’t pack heat that I would question. ^_^

  4. awgiedawgie
    March 19, 2018, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Is it coincidence or comedic planning that the words in the filename are “of my head”?

  5. awgiedawgie
    March 19, 2018, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Wait until Niue finds out that Unity likes hats even more than Tip does.

    • WuseMajor
      March 19, 2018, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      To be fair to Niue, Unity can’t exactly wear hats right now.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 19, 2018, 1:48 am | # | Reply

        Frankly, I’m surprised Unity didn’t stick her camo pith helmet (the one she got when they were at Area 51) on top of her neck.

  6. Urlance Woolsbane
    March 19, 2018, 2:14 am | # | Reply

    Is that a devolution gun?

    • OneUniverse
      March 19, 2018, 11:20 am | # | Reply

      Maybe a pro-evolution gun? Where lobsters bigger or smaller in the past?

      • Urlance Woolsbane
        March 19, 2018, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

        Some cursory Googling suggests that they haven’t varied wildly in size since their emergence in the Cretaceous. A nine inch long fossil is considered large.

        • Cbob
          March 19, 2018, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

          Running on memory here…A large lobster is usually at least a century old. FWIW, that’s about 3x-ish bigger than the fossil mentioned. Chk back on a normal(ish) lobster in 800 years & who knows.

  7. Dazhbug
    March 19, 2018, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    One might said that, detached from her ‘super’ ego, UNITY’s id has brooked no quarter in hastening to her Sweetheart’s side…

    If, you know, UNITY was anything but id to begin with.

  8. Seph
    March 19, 2018, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    Can Tip mojo-summon Alice while he’s in the drone?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 3:11 am | # | Reply

      He just got through saying the gun is at the table.

      • greenknight32
        March 19, 2018, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

        No, that was Sweetheart talking, according to panel 1.

        • awgiedawgie
          March 19, 2018, 9:36 pm | # | Reply

          I meant “he” as in “the drone”.

  9. emusam
    March 19, 2018, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    Shades of Narbonic, October 7. http://narbonic.com/comic/october-2-7-2006/

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

      That picture of Mell and Zeta hugging Foot is one of my all-time favourite images from Narbonic!

  10. bergerjacques
    March 19, 2018, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    How’s Niue going to deal with Unity’s head?

  11. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    March 19, 2018, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    finally, a new best friend who can NEVER EVER WEAR A HAT!

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

      You underestimate Unity’s versatility. There’s plenty of neck sticking up there to hold a hat. And Unity does love her hats.

  12. Robert Nowall
    March 19, 2018, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    If you can keep your heads when one about you
    Is losing hers and firing on you,
    If you can get Tip’s gun when Niue doubts you
    With no attention for her doubting, too.
    If you can shoot it in a Skin-Horse minute
    Just sixty seconds beyond your comfort zone,
    Yours is the lobster and all the meat that’s in it,
    And—as well—you’ll be The Man, you drone.

    —from Kipling’s “If.” (I looked at the B-52’s “Rock Lobster,” but that already reads like a parody.)

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

      Now you’re making me hungry!

  13. Ogden Wernstrom
    March 19, 2018, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

    They’re the A Team!

    Sweetheart is leader and master of disguise Hannibal

    Tip is ladies’ man Face

    UNITY is fisticuffs master B.A. Baracus

    And of course Nick is “Howling Mad” Murdoch the chopper pilot.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      March 19, 2018, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      Something like that has probably been pointed out before, in which case, apologies to whoever did it first.

      They’re also saving the world from a rampaging sea monster just like AG-I, but I’m not sure the specific roles quite line up. Regardless, they’re a well oiled machine of heroism, each member a critical irreplaceable part in the overall operation.

  14. Pygar
    March 19, 2018, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

    The lobster said “rar”. I forgive him everything…

  15. Sasha Honeypalm
    March 19, 2018, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

    So just to make sure I’m understanding correctly, Niue knows there’s more than one of them in there by now? And they know she knows?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

      Yes. And yes. That’s why Niue called the drone “best gestalt friend” in Saturday’s strip.

  16. mickeyjf
    March 19, 2018, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

    And then those presumably reality-blind diners the lobster is approaching…

    • Shadowmehr
      March 19, 2018, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      I was just about to comment on those two. Their dinner is probably being enhanced by the “floor-show” that’s being put on in the commissary. They’re probably taking video on their phones to post later (which brings up whole new levels of how the Crown-induced reality-blindness works, but that’s an argument for another post.)

  17. Bruce A Munro
    March 19, 2018, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

    Now I wonder how Headless Unity managed to find her way to the lobster. [1] What sort of senses beyond the human does the nanogoop give her? Can she see with her skin? (Her hands have also been shown to be able to find their way around on their own).

    [1] The way to and contents of the armory, she’s probably memorized.

    • awgiedawgie
      March 19, 2018, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

      An intriguing question. Well, Virginia pointed out that the nanogoop is UNITY – full stop. The body is just a vehicle. Which means she is actually Niue’s “new best gestalt friend”. Blind people find their way around just fine.

      • Bruce A Munro
        March 19, 2018, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

        “Blind people find their way around just fine.”

        She’s also missing ears and a nose, unless she has extras on under her clothes. And I suppose she could be using the ray gun as a poking stick (“cane” probably brings up the wrong sort of images for the use she is likely to make of it)

        • awgiedawgie
          March 19, 2018, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

          Maybe she simply “senses” her surroundings. Sort of like flying a plane by instruments when you can’t see what’s outside. And with just as great a danger of catastrophic damage if something goes wrong.

  18. WJS
    August 4, 2019, 10:29 am | # | Reply

    I’m sure Tip has taken Alice with him on all his dates, if you carry you carry. But what is surprising is that he would lend Alice to Sweetheart for her date. I guess she doesn’t have one of her own, due to the whole ‘not having thumbs’ thing, and he’s willing to help her out. If the drone works out for her though, she should really get her own, she can’t rely on Tip all the time.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 6, 2019, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      It is surprising that Tip would let Sweetheart take Alice. Anyone who carries knows that you never loan someone your gun. If anything happens involving that gun, it comes back on you.

  19. jdreyfuss
    January 31, 2020, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

    Seems like what that lobster really needs is some Gentle Persuasion.

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