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2015-10-30

by shaenon on October 30, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Eddurd
    October 30, 2015, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Please please PLEASE tell me their leader is Homeschool Joe!!

    • alphaghoul
      October 30, 2015, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      Homeschool Joe, doesn’t ring a bell.

      • Frank
        October 30, 2015, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        Li’l Mel recurring character

      • Daniel
        October 30, 2015, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        It makes sense if you read Lil Mell

    • Wasabi Jane
      October 30, 2015, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Oh my goodness. That would be the best thing ever.

    • Pygar
      October 30, 2015, 1:44 am | # | Reply

      He’d be out of college and possibly devoured… He was in elementary school the same time as Mel, obviously… I’m calling the kid “Jai” for now, but doubt the reference will ring many bells…

      • Frank
        October 30, 2015, 11:03 am | # | Reply

        Wouldn’t it be more sense or him to also be home-college’d?

        • Daibhid C
          October 30, 2015, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

          Possibly, but he wasn’t. He went to Smithson College.

          Man, even people who read Li’l Mell don’t remember Smithson.

          • Foradain
            October 30, 2015, 1:56 pm | #

            I recall Smithson, but not Homeschool Joe going there…

            *heads off to find Smithson for an Archive Binge*

          • Foradain
            October 30, 2015, 1:59 pm | #

            Too late. 🙁
            http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/smithson/series.php
            “Site Temporarily Unavailable”

          • shaenon
            October 30, 2015, 2:38 pm | #

            Sadly, Smithson is currently down. It was hosted on WebComicsNation, which went out of business last year, and I haven’t made a new site for it.

  2. alphaghoul
    October 30, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Yyeeaahh, I don’t get that “bonk-onna-head” reference, though I’m guessing it’s from that episode with the teenage paradise trope. You know where all the adults die and there’s just kids left? Anyway if that’s the episode it’s from then I don’t get it because I didn’t see the episode all the way through. On another note I’m guessing Unity’s going to eat that kid, or not since they never show her commiting murder in the comic.

    • Candace
      October 30, 2015, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      You didn’t miss much. Second-worst STOS ep ever. (With the worst one being the other one involving children.)

      They do always seem to cut away from the murdery bits, don’t they?

      • woozy
        October 30, 2015, 1:22 am | # | Reply

        Seeing murdery bits isn’t funny. Talking about murdery bits is.

      • Manifesta
        October 30, 2015, 4:35 am | # | Reply

        Gotta disagree. I thought Kim Darby was terrific, and I still say “grups.”

        • Josh
          October 30, 2015, 9:50 am | # | Reply

          Love that episode. Kim Darby AND the great Michael J. Pollard. And red-headed Steven McEveety who did not act much, but served as executive producer of most of Mel Gibson’s best work as actor/director, before his alcoholism revealed his rabid anti-semitism and his career self-destructed, that is. Come to think of it, in this alt-universe, Gibson is probably still a mega-star.
          Bonk Bonk, indeed.

      • oneuniverse2
        October 30, 2015, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

        I’d vote the one with African tribes was worst.

      • Tuscahoma
        October 30, 2015, 4:42 pm | # | Reply

        I must respectfully disagree. Nothing can compare with the sheer awfulness of Spock’s Brain. And just following that is the Omega Glory with the blonde Native American analogues called Yangs and the somewhat Asian Kohms. The third worst, yeah, definitely that other one with the kids, And the Children Shall Lead with the Gorgan, an alien creeper. Still, Spock’s Brain. “Brain, brain…what is brain!” Classic.

    • Rick
      October 30, 2015, 1:03 am | # | Reply

      Miri episode http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394905/?ref_=ttep_ep9

    • woozy
      October 30, 2015, 1:21 am | # | Reply

      In that epsiode, when the kids get pissed off they circle a grown-up and start shout “bonk” “bonk” “bonk” and make gestures of beating them over the head. It was supposed to be creepy.

      No one actually bonked the kids on the head.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 30, 2015, 7:00 am | # | Reply

      There’s also the one where Cap’n Kirk fell through an opening hatch and went native-american on us…

      • woozy
        October 30, 2015, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, let’s admit it. There were a *lot* of terrible episodes.

      • Candace
        November 1, 2015, 12:50 am | # | Reply

        Point.

      • maarvarq
        January 25, 2016, 12:52 am | # | Reply

        That’s
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradise_Syndrome
        the one that I particularly dislike, especially for introducing the concept of the Preservers and then dismissing it with one throwaway remark by McCoy, never to be spoken of again.

  3. Frank
    October 30, 2015, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Ooga Booga! Me has penknife attached to a stick and not afraid to use it!

  4. Towering Barbarian
    October 30, 2015, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    So Kamandi runs things here then? o_O

    Yes, we definitely *are* in DC! ^_^

    • Daibhid C
      October 30, 2015, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      Now I’m hoping for H.T. as Great Caesar.

  5. Nick
    October 30, 2015, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    It’s… it’s Kamandi!

  6. midwestmutt
    October 30, 2015, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    If male children were spared during the apocalypse then there is still a significant percentage of males left in the population. It ‘s just going to take a few years.

    • Nix
      October 30, 2015, 7:56 am | # | Reply

      I read your comment as saying ‘speared’ and spent a moment feeling very confused.

  7. Robert Nowall
    October 30, 2015, 7:00 am | # | Reply

    In their, er, period of experience, why is Sweetheart so sure that any of these animals aren’t people, too?

    • John Campbell
      October 30, 2015, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

      They haven’t filed the paperwork.

  8. davidbreslin101
    October 30, 2015, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart? You may be making some speciesist assumptions about which of these vertebrates is in charge. ….It’s possible the bird really was a clerk, but one who only speaks Grackle.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      October 30, 2015, 8:29 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, Sweetheart already called it a crapsack world, so why would she find humans or English speakers to be in charge as she hoped? Incidentally, I wonder if Washington uses an unorthodox approach to airspace denial.

  9. mickeyjf
    October 30, 2015, 10:10 am | # | Reply

    I kn-no I really ought to kn-no wh-who’s wh-who, but is that a Gnu? (Or just a shaggier than usual R. Stallman?)

    • Guesticus
      November 1, 2015, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      That’s a Bison, but not a Major 😛

  10. Dewy
    October 30, 2015, 10:38 am | # | Reply

    Please, please PLEASE, let the first word out of that kid’s mouth be “ENFU!”

    • oneuniverse2
      October 30, 2015, 3:39 pm | # | Reply

      That would be great :). That would also make me believe this is the alt-universe that Mell obliterated when president.

  11. ken
    October 30, 2015, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

    That little dude reminds me of how Shannon draws Little Nemo’ish stuff. Is there an homage to a classic comic strip here?

  12. Josh
    October 30, 2015, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

    Muppet Baby Tarzan?

  13. chrisn
    October 30, 2015, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

    Heaven help that world if Sweetheart ever finds her paperwork.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 30, 2015, 3:40 pm | # | Reply

      She’s probably draining a bathtub of margaritas in another universe over that snafu.

  14. ShazPur
    October 30, 2015, 4:34 pm | # | Reply

    Still think the leader is Looking Glass Sweetheart.

    There must be some universe where she make good of her promise:

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/service-to-help/

  15. kicking_k
    October 30, 2015, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

    Not really relevant to this particular strip, but following on from last week’s discovery of Tiptree jams… I found this in the supermarket yesterday!

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/square1k/shares/p0M479

    You two aren’t supplying them with product names, are you?

  16. Shadowmehr
    October 30, 2015, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

    Methinks Sweetheart is just a wee too bit focused on her bureaucratic skills here. A spear pointed at one generally overrides any paperwork that needs to be done.

    • =Tamar
      October 31, 2015, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

      A spear pointed at one is more likely to cause more paperwork to be needed.

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