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2017-06-29

by shaenon on June 29, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Sure as You're Born
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    June 29, 2017, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    But are they *natural* furries or humans *transformed* into furries? ^_^

    • Bruce A Munro
      June 29, 2017, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      Guess it depends whether it’s reversible or not.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 29, 2017, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      I suppose that depends on your definition of “natural”. Since any of the original sapient animals were created by genetic mutation, the only way to get “natural” ones would be as descendents – by means of normal reproduction – of an original. But that still doesn’t exactly make them natural. The police officer seems to be taking it all in stride, however.

      • Bruce A Munro
        June 29, 2017, 3:41 am | # | Reply

        The police officer may be weirdness blind and sees the scientist as just looking like Lee Van Cleef in serious need of a shave.

        • awgiedawgie
          June 29, 2017, 6:44 am | # | Reply

          Good point. I forgot about the “unreality blindness”. But if that’s the case, he shouldn’t even notice the reps from the lab at all. He would just assume that they’re still waiting for them to arrive (and could be wondering who Tip and Unity are talking to). Much the same as Dave’s brother Bill couldn’t see Artie-as-a-gerbil when Dave, Artie and Zeta stopped by Bill’s house, but when Artie changed into human form, Bill was suddenly (and shockingly) able to see him.

          • Thatoneguy
            June 29, 2017, 8:02 am | #

            It affects certain people in different ways. Some see a human version of the talking animals. Some see the animal but don’t hear the animal speaking English. Some don’t see the animal, but they do see the damage left by the disaster.

      • Trivena
        June 29, 2017, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        It’s possible the question is “were they created as furries, or are they humans who were turned into furries?”

    • Shadowmehr
      June 29, 2017, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

      I’d say that’s a distinction that is too fine to really be distinguished.

    • jdreyfuss
      January 30, 2020, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      Doesn’t matter. It’s already been established that Skin Horse has jurisdiction over NHS’s who are former humans, unless they still identify as human. And as far as we know, even that loophole may only apply to cyborgs and not biological transhumans.

  2. GDwarf
    June 29, 2017, 12:54 am | # | Reply

    I really hope that, at some point, that turtle gets a hat.

    …and that we someday get to see Unity in a tiny turtle’s body.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 29, 2017, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s more likely to see Unity wearing the turtle’s vacated shell as a hat.

      • Mental Mouse
        June 29, 2017, 9:16 am | # | Reply

        You do realize that implies a dead turtle? A turtle’s ribs are fused to its shell. Kinda hard to “vacate” your ribcage…

        • awgiedawgie
          June 29, 2017, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

          Yes I do realize that. And Unity’s instinct is to kill. And she likes hats.

    • just a lurker
      June 29, 2017, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      Gotta be honest. Turtles can rock a small bowler.

    • Kitirena
      June 30, 2017, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

      Turtle needs a little fez. Fezzes are cool! -_^ Also filled with balls of timey-wimey… stuff…

  3. Rick
    June 29, 2017, 2:28 am | # | Reply

    So, is Sweetheart still zonked out, all we get to see is her tail in the first frame?

  4. comicsgal
    June 29, 2017, 4:17 am | # | Reply

    Did Tip disappear from beside Unity because he had to go get his puppets?

  5. Robert Nowall
    June 29, 2017, 5:50 am | # | Reply

    Is anyone from the mad science lab gonna be anyone we know?

    • awgiedawgie
      June 29, 2017, 6:46 am | # | Reply

      Oh! I hope it’s Mell… I really miss Mell. And she would be a perfect fit with “explosions”!

      • Rick
        June 29, 2017, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

        But if UNITY met Mell wouldn’t the universe implode?

        • awgiedawgie
          June 29, 2017, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

          It might explode, with their combined destructive tendencies.

  6. Pygar
    June 29, 2017, 6:27 am | # | Reply

    Oh, please, let the turtle be named “Bert”! And may its creator wear little hearts and big glasses…

    • Pygar
      June 29, 2017, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

      No one “got” Bert the Turtle? I am now officially Old. Uh, “dadgummit!” Get off my lawn!!
      Giant rodents… who “does” giant rodents? Probably some Boss with a black bird who thinks he’s human…

      • Pygar
        June 29, 2017, 7:37 pm | # | Reply

        See http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-720/

      • David Palmer
        June 29, 2017, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

        Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.

  7. FanOfMostEverything
    June 29, 2017, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    Anyone else expecting that turtle to explode?

    • codebracker
      June 29, 2017, 8:11 am | # | Reply

      This is furry science not drunk science

    • BRGR
      July 1, 2017, 4:17 am | # | Reply

      Yes.

  8. Mahlernut
    June 29, 2017, 8:50 am | # | Reply

    We’ll obviously need to see more to be sure, but I love that the turtle appears to speak in all lower-case letters. What is it about that that makes it even more adorable?

  9. Clifton
    June 29, 2017, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

    Is the scientist a possum in a lab coat? Or is he a lab rat? Either way, EEEEEEEE!

    • Rick
      June 29, 2017, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      An opossum would have a much lighter face compared to the rest of the fur

  10. Jack
    June 29, 2017, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if the boss is anyone we know.

  11. Sheik
    June 29, 2017, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

    There is something sooo wrong about altering a life form to sapience and _still_not correcting its vision.

    • Chrisn
      June 29, 2017, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

      Or messing up its vision deliberately so it would have to wear tiny little glasses.

      • Pygar
        June 29, 2017, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

        Could be for safety…

      • Clifton
        June 29, 2017, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

        … unless of course you think it would be really cute in glasses – and you’re evil.
        I can’t blame Helen though, as it’s not a gerbil.

  12. Steven
    June 29, 2017, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

    That’s a pretty cute turtle.

  13. BRGR
    June 30, 2017, 3:50 am | # | Reply

    Funny how nobody seems to wonder where Unity got a new spine on such short notice.

    Or what the belt of her Milgrim is made of that is both sturdier and more flexible than a spine.

    I guess a considerable number of commenters here are weirdness blind.

    • Trivena
      June 30, 2017, 9:02 am | # | Reply

      Or it wasn’t as broken as she said.

      • awgiedawgie
        June 30, 2017, 11:18 pm | # | Reply

        A ) Yes, she was undoubtedly exaggerating. Or simply overestimating the damage. She may be filled with unnatural fluid, but her brain is just your average everyday cloned brain, and not normally a very intelligent one, at that.

        B ) That belt is designed to hold a person’s stomach in – probably against its own will – so using it to attach her lunge line isn’t out of the question. I wouldn’t trust it as a fall-arrest harness, but she’s not going to achieve that kind of velocity in a lunge.

        C ) Even if her spine were damaged, as long as it was still inside her body and reasonably in place, her bodily fluid would quickly and easily knit it back together. You notice how no one actually has to stitch her arteries or nerves back together… As long as the parts are reasonably securely attached, the fluid takes care of rigidity and mobility. Remember, the fluid is Unity. The body is just a host.

  14. WJS
    August 2, 2019, 6:09 am | # | Reply

    Between his uniform and skin tone, that cop in the first panel is pretty hard to make out, he’s pretty much just a dark blur unless you peer closely.

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