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2020-06-10

by shaenon on June 10, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Doug Relyea
    June 10, 2020, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Now would be a good time for Tigerlily to show up with a coat-hanger tech veeblefetzer.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 10, 2020, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking it would be cool for helicopter-Nick to show up and just lift the whole science hut off the ground.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 10, 2020, 11:14 am | # | Reply

        The Science Hut burned down. Thought they were in a hotel room somewhere on Bad Island.

        • awgiedawgie
          June 10, 2020, 11:48 am | # | Reply

          I was under the impression that the science hut burning was part of Unity’s dream.

          • Candace
            June 11, 2020, 12:08 am | #

            I thought the science hut was part of Unity’s dream.

          • awgiedawgie
            June 11, 2020, 12:47 pm | #

            Hmm… looking back, you may be right.

            And now, looking at it again, I’m wondering if Unity’s foot-faced Abomination wasn’t also part of her dream. We only saw it once, and no one’s mentioned it in-comic since Unity’s dream. Maybe the readers are only keeping it “alive” by talking about it in the comments.

    • Pygar
      June 10, 2020, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

      Veeblefetzers are prone to cracking, though…

      • awgiedawgie
        June 10, 2020, 3:24 pm | # | Reply

        Veeblefetzers are prone to a lot of problems. Pesky little things.

  2. Frank
    June 10, 2020, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    “Here’s your software all ready”
    “How do I close it?”
    “That wasn’t in the specifications!”

  3. palenoue
    June 10, 2020, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    This reminds me of a song:

    • haluesen10
      June 10, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      Ah yes good song, good song. I’ve never seen that video for it actually. It was neat.

  4. Candace
    June 10, 2020, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Now you know how engineers feel, Dr. Lee. All the time.

    • Sheik
      June 10, 2020, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      Ah yes, Engineering.
      Applied Science at the behest of those who don’t know Science from Magic, don’t know that Time is Finite, and don’t know a budget from their Behind.

  5. Towering Barbarian
    June 10, 2020, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    At least they’re a *polite* angry zombie horde! Let’s give them that.

    • maarvarq
      June 10, 2020, 3:14 am | # | Reply

      +1

    • Shadowmehr
      June 10, 2020, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      Just what I was going to point out! You do rarely see such consideration from the monstrous hordes, they really should be commended for going that extra mile.

      • Candace
        June 11, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

        Indeed! I believe Queen Elena deserves much credit here for the gentility of her zombie horde.

  6. No terminus
    June 10, 2020, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Ah yes, the dreaded feature creep. Prompted, in this case, by the dreaded creature creep.

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      June 10, 2020, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      I tried to fit in a feeping creaturism reference here but failed.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 10, 2020, 7:19 am | # | Reply

      Yeah. You build something for the gubmint, they want changes and more features, even after you’ve started building the hardware.

      • Candace
        June 11, 2020, 12:12 am | # | Reply

        It’s not just the gubmint – pretty much everyone does that, as far as I can tell.

        • Robert Nowall
          June 11, 2020, 12:45 am | # | Reply

          I did hear that Lockheed found it easier working with the CIA on spy planes. They told them what they wanted and refrained from feature creep.

  7. casimir
    June 10, 2020, 1:28 am | # | Reply

    …never realised Virginia was being paid for her work. By whom? Skin Horse is a rogue entity now.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 10, 2020, 8:05 am | # | Reply

      I think she’s being paid by Nick… and not in cash.

      • casimir
        June 10, 2020, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        …the wages of sin?

        • Joshua Kronengold
          June 10, 2020, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

          Heh. Cute. But I think it should probably be “to order”. The issue is the customer, not the money.

  8. Efogoto
    June 10, 2020, 3:42 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t the term for that “Dynamic specification”?

  9. Robert Nowall
    June 10, 2020, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    They seem a pretty calm zombie horde for an angry zombie horde…

    • Konrad
      June 10, 2020, 7:49 am | # | Reply

      That’s the zombie receptionist informing them of the arrival of the other zombies.

  10. matt w
    June 10, 2020, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    It’s always the second referee!

  11. jdreyfuss
    June 10, 2020, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    “Excuse me, there’s a zombie horde here to eat you.”

    “Hold them off as long as you can while I formulate an escape plan for us.”

    “See, the thing is, they’re in your waiting room.”

    “You let them in?!”

    “Well, they were so polite about it.”

  12. Robert Nowall
    June 10, 2020, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    That picture on the wall. Have we seen it before, in some other story arc? All I could find was the demotivating motivational poster that drove Sweetheart round the bend in the VR Institute, but it’s not the same picture.

    • Sheik
      June 10, 2020, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      Hard to say.
      It seems to be one of those newfangled electronic picture displays, since it changed between panel one to panel four.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 10, 2020, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      I assumed it was a window, and we’re seeing the sunrise.

      • casimir
        June 10, 2020, 3:49 pm | # | Reply

        +1

  13. Theitzal
    June 10, 2020, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

    So I don’t know if anybody’s guessed this but I’m throwing my hat in for who’s behind this… I’m guessing unity got a little trinity in her goo and trinity took over the ball of leftover limbs and has been attacking the zombies to get the parts she needed that weren’t part of the ball.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 11, 2020, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      But what about the dreams? They started before then.

      • 5-tons-of-flax
        June 11, 2020, 9:24 am | # | Reply

        Great Cthulhu.

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