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2017-10-09

by shaenon on October 9, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Moe Lane
    October 9, 2017, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    At first I thought that the person behind them was a yellow-eyed lurking toad wearing a fez. Then I saw that it was a dude reading a book. …I would not mind seeing a lurking toad show up in the comic eventually.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      October 9, 2017, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps it could be a companion to the sinister clown that is the strip’s mascot…

      • Pygar
        October 9, 2017, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        He does look disgruntled- hope the Empress Shaenon makes at least a background character of him…
        The last season of Lexx showed a skeleton in the floorboards of the oval office… the whole place was gutted and rebuilt in the Fifties, so it could not have been there long, comparatively…

    • Pygar
      October 9, 2017, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      I’m more partial to Big Blue Frogs, myself…

    • efficacy
      October 9, 2017, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      Welcome to the world of reality blindness. “Of course” it can’;t be a yellow-eyed lurking toad wearing a fez.. Nothing unusual to see here.

  2. Robert Nowall
    October 9, 2017, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    There’s a crypt under the Capitol just waiting for them.

  3. Bruceski
    October 9, 2017, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    They don’t bury you under a monument, that’s what they *want* you to think. Classic misdirection.

    You wind up in Grant’s tomb.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 9, 2017, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Or encased in a concrete pillar in front of Grant’s Tomb.

    • fromthedarkorblackwater
      October 9, 2017, 9:10 am | # | Reply

      The question isn’t “who is buried in Grant’s tomb?” it’s who isn’t.

      • Rodford Smith
        October 9, 2017, 11:09 am | # | Reply

        No-one is, actually, Grant and his wife are interred in an above-ground vault.

      • Shadowmehr
        October 9, 2017, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

        I thought it was George Washington.

    • The J is Silent
      March 26, 2019, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      Since no one has pointed this out, Grant’s Tomb is not in Washington, it’s in New York City.

      Besides, everyone knows that here in The District (DC) we dispose of inconvenient bodies with cement shoes in the tidal basin. It’s important, it’s what gives the cherry blossoms their vibrant color.

  4. Jon
    October 9, 2017, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    I feel like Nera would have a different perspective on the matter if she could remember all the times she died at Carbondale, the way Jonah does.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 9, 2017, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      She seemed to vaguely remember dying at the time (at least the times when she wasn’t just vaporized), but she didn’t die anywhere near as many times as Jonah did. And once they were out, it’s not certain how much of it actually stuck in his memory either. But even without remembering details, simply remembering that A-Sig has a remarkable tendency to kill you should give her a little more serious attitude about it. Kinda doubt they get a restore point on this one.

      (Worse yet, what if they do get a restore point, and they get catapulted all the way back to shoe care training?)

      • Altarboy
        October 9, 2017, 1:30 am | # | Reply

        I think shoe care training is Jonah’s default restore point.

      • Urlance Woolsbane
        October 9, 2017, 1:46 am | # | Reply

        “(Worse yet, what if they do get a restore point, and they get catapulted all the way back to shoe care training?)”
        Precisely. It’s a fate worse than death.

      • Marisa Mockery
        October 9, 2017, 10:53 am | # | Reply

        Do you remember the title of the chapter they’re from?

        • Forrest Davis
          October 9, 2017, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

          I think it was called “Choices”, and if you go back to the first couple of days within their appearance in the current story arc you’ll find a direct link that someone thoughtfully provided.

        • Trivena
          October 9, 2017, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

          Choose.

          • Robert Nowall
            October 9, 2017, 7:10 pm | #

            Well, I thought Strip Number Four in that sequence (“Makeover!”) was one of the funniest things I’d seen lately—I think it might have been that that hooked me, though I might’ve started reading a little later.

  5. D. Walker
    October 9, 2017, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    What makes them think there will still be corpses to bury? Vaporization is cheap and easy in the Narboniverse.

    • Delta Echo
      October 9, 2017, 4:46 am | # | Reply

      But how expensive is extirpation?

      • mahlernut
        October 9, 2017, 9:25 am | # | Reply

        Asking how expensive extirpation is is cause for extirpation.

        But I hear it’s about $1.25 per

        • Chrisn
          October 9, 2017, 11:48 am | # | Reply

          Yup – Safeway, walnuts, roasted: $1.25 per pound. So not too bad, really.

          • awgiedawgie
            October 10, 2017, 7:10 am | #

            Well, walnuts and shea butter.

  6. Midwestmutt
    October 9, 2017, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    Ah, the enthusiasm and willingness for self-sacrifice of youth. So much of history hinges upon it.

    • D. Walker
      October 9, 2017, 7:54 pm | # | Reply

      How true. Look at figures like Winston Churchill as a young man. The guy had a vertible death wish in his obsessive pursuit of fame and glory.

      That said, so much of history also hinges on dumb luck and random chance. Churchill was inches from death on so very many occassions, and just… got lucky, over and over again, despite behaving pretty much suicidally all the time.

      If just once, a single bullet had been shot a degree or two more accurately, or if a single shell had fallen a few feet closer, or if just a single coincidence had failed to coincide, he’d have been dead, and history would be entirely different as a result.

      • joannaatkinsJoanna
        October 10, 2017, 6:11 am | # | Reply

        It’s funny how Churchill is everyone’s go-to for a Great Man who changed the world is Churchill, given his obsession with being a Great Man. It’s almost as if someone *wanted* us to think about his luck and then wrote about his experiences in such a way as to stress that very aspect of his life in stories that emanate solely from that single source…

        “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” – Churchill

        “The family motto of the House of Marlborough is “Faithful, but unfortunate”. But I, by my daring and enterprise, have changed it to “Faithless, but fortunate”.” – Churchill

  7. Robert Nowall
    October 9, 2017, 9:52 am | # | Reply

    From the great Northeastern cities, to the DC tourist spots,
    From the green New Hampshire mountains, where the Skin Horse gang are lost,
    She’s kind of dank and empty,
    And moving at a crawl,
    She’s the aberration
    Called the Amtrack Cannonball.

    [Chorus:] Oh, listen to the crinkle,
    The crumble and the snore,
    As she rattles round the hillsides,
    Through the Eastern corridor,
    Hear the patronage of Congress,
    Hear the subsidizer’s call,
    They’re traveling to the swamplands
    On the Amtrack Cannonball.

    They came down from out of town to find out what went on,
    Their website was in chaos, their traffic left and gone.
    Jonah Yu had visions, disaster wall-to-wall.
    But Nera got them tickets
    On the Amtrack Cannonball.

    [Chorus:]

    —from “Wabash Cannonball,” Roy Acufff (no matter what you English types have heard.)

    • jimhenry1973
      October 10, 2017, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

      Bravo!

  8. Eddddd
    October 9, 2017, 11:12 am | # | Reply

    I’m so excited to have another story arc centered around these two! Their last one was great :3

  9. CBob
    October 9, 2017, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

    For a fun time & being able to “get” the cement jokes, lookup “rotary kiln”.

  10. Shadowmehr
    October 9, 2017, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

    Aaand here we go to see the “Red” alias, masquerading as a helpful ally against the Shadow Government.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      October 9, 2017, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

      FWIW, the Red Knight’s treatment of Virginia wasn’t a million miles away from Violet Bee’s…

  11. gyrre
    October 10, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Nobody ever talks about how relatively cheap train tickets tend to be for travel.

    • Jon
      October 10, 2017, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      Really? The few times I’ve looked into it, it seemed to me to be on par with airline tickets. Then again, I may just be living in the wrong section of the US.

  12. D. Walker
    October 10, 2017, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

    If you don’t like Churchill as point of comparison, how about Hitler?

    Could he have swayed so many people with his fiery speeches if his lungs had been ravaged by gas on the Western Front? Would he still have risen to prominence if a bullet had lodged in his spine and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life?

    So much of history hinges on small things and random chance.

    If Scipio Africanus had taken an arrow to the throat, or eatten some bad meat and died groaning in the latrine, think how different the world might be. If Carthage beat Rome in the Punic Wars, all of western history would have happened differently.

    We wouldn’t call them the Punic Wars, for a start. That’s a Latin term. If Carthage won out over Rome and became the dominant power, then it would have been their language and their alphabet that would have passed on. The same is true of their religion, culture, and values.

    And consider the implication of the Hebrews in Judea never coming under Roman rule, of the Temple never being sacked, of Judean life never reaching the point where the son of a carpenter felt his religion to be corrupt under the leadership of hypocritical priests who served a foreign master, and that it needed to be reformed through a popular revolutionary movement.

    All of Christian history, gone. Anything based on Christianity, like Islam, also gone. No universally spoken Latin, no local Romance languages developing in the wake of the fall of Rome, no ascent of Arabic to centuries of prominence, no spread of Muslim culture, science and literature all across Asia and Africa, et cetera, et cetera.

    History turns on the smallest, most mundane things.

    • D. Walker
      October 10, 2017, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      Dangit. Meant to respond to joannaatkinsJoanna above.

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