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2017-09-13

by shaenon on September 13, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Sure as You're Born
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  1. casimir
    September 13, 2017, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    I just gotta say. This is hilarious!

    • casimir
      September 13, 2017, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      …and congrats on making your Kickstarter. Must be a new world record.

  2. Marisa Mockery
    September 13, 2017, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    This is not going how I expected and I love it

  3. BRGR
    September 13, 2017, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Is anyone paying attention to anyone Dr Wilkin is saying at all?

    • bitflipper
      September 13, 2017, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      Huh? What? ;-p

    • Jay
      September 13, 2017, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      Oh, c’mon. He’s Shadow Government; if he actually says anything of substance, he’s not doing his job!

    • awgiedawgie
      September 13, 2017, 2:26 am | # | Reply

      Sorry… were you paying attention to what you were saying?

      • midwestmutt
        September 13, 2017, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        I don’t anymore. After 64 years I bore me.

      • Forrest Davis
        September 13, 2017, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

        Nice catch! I didn’t notice BRGR’s word substitution until I read your reply.

    • Bruce A Munro
      September 13, 2017, 3:24 am | # | Reply

      “Did we just vote for something?”
      “I’m not sure what it was, but man, I _seriously_ approved of it.”

    • Kitirena
      September 14, 2017, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      Sorry, what were you saying, nyao? -_^

  4. Clifton
    September 13, 2017, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    When did the Kickstarter begin? I knew it was being prepped, but I wouldn’t have noticed it had gone live if casimir hadn’t commented on it.

    The Kickstarter for Alexis Kennedy’s Cultist Simulator game got funded in its first 12 hours on Sep 1, and I’m sure that’s far from the fastest to hit its goal. (BTW, you should all go take a look at that too, but not until you’ve committed to more Narbonic.)

    P.S. Love the Kurt Vonnegut reference!

    • awgiedawgie
      September 13, 2017, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      It was announced here on Sunday, but I’m not sure exactly when it officially went live. When I looked Monday morning, it was just over 95%. Now it’s over 125%.

      As for the comparisons to how fast other projects hit their goals, that’s kind of meaningless unless their goal was the same dollar amount. (Actually, they’re kind of meaningless anyway, since the only thing that matters here is that Shaenon hit her goal.)

      • Max
        September 13, 2017, 3:38 am | # | Reply

        Ah, I see; I usually skip Sunday pages…

        • awgiedawgie
          September 13, 2017, 3:51 am | # | Reply

          Oh, man, you miss a lot of good artwork.

  5. Ron Merrell
    September 13, 2017, 3:11 am | # | Reply

    Well…if reacting to this doesn’t get Unity and Sweetheart together, I don’t know what will.

    • Sir william
      September 13, 2017, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      I thought they were already together really recently

  6. EvilMidnightLurker
    September 13, 2017, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    Has Tip achieved Super Mojo Stage 2?!

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      September 13, 2017, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      Super Mario Mojo.

    • bergerjacques
      September 13, 2017, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      He’s over 9000!!!

  7. davidbreslin101
    September 13, 2017, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    My theory is, he’s been in drag so long that dressing in a masculine style now counts as /double/ drag. There’s a power law in operation: Tip started out sexy, graduated to sexy squared when he started with the ladyclothes, and now he’s sexy cubed.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 13, 2017, 1:25 pm | # | Reply

      Except with Tip, it’s not simply sexy “cubed”, it’s sexy to the power of ménage à trois.

    • D. Walker
      September 13, 2017, 6:27 pm | # | Reply

      I dunno… if this double drag thing worked, wouldn’t we have have noticed it with Corporal Klinger?

      • reynard61
        September 13, 2017, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, other than in a few memorable moments (i.e. the “Klingerpatra” costume), in the last few seasons of M*A*S*H Klinger stops wearing drag. (Which helps him get promoted to Sergeant.)

        http://mash.wikia.com/wiki/Maxwell_Q._Klinger

      • awgiedawgie
        September 14, 2017, 4:10 am | # | Reply

        Around season 5, Jamie Farr decided he wanted Klinger to stop wearing women’s clothing because his kids were getting old enough to start wondering why their dad wore dresses. That’s why the scene in which Klinger sacrifices his entire wardrobe for the cause (ep 5.01) is so significant. Yes, he still wore dresses off and on during the next couple of seasons, but that was a big turning point.

        And unlike Tip, Klinger only wore the dresses in a futile attempt to get a discharge. They weren’t a part of his very essence like they are for Tip.

        • WJS
          August 2, 2019, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

          They were more than just an attempt to get out though: when Col. Potter first arrives and forces him to wear a regular uniform, he has quite a reaction.

  8. dragongears
    September 13, 2017, 8:55 am | # | Reply

    I love that Unity is eating popcorn.

    • Kaydrien Iceclaw
      September 13, 2017, 9:13 am | # | Reply

      I’d ask where she got it but that isn’t remotely the strangest part of this scenario.

      • Dr. Steve
        September 13, 2017, 9:16 am | # | Reply

        popcorn just happens

        • paulagee66
          September 13, 2017, 10:10 am | # | Reply

          Like Maletts

          • Dr. Steve
            September 14, 2017, 9:51 am | #

            I have the original of that strip – a treasure!

        • Sir william
          September 13, 2017, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

          I have a superhero character with this as a minor secondary superpower

    • rbuckalew
      September 13, 2017, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Well, yesterday Shadowmehr called for popcorn. I’m not sure how far in advance Shaenon draws these strips, but maybe she added popcorn to what she had.
      Either that, or Shadowmehr is just prescient.

      • Shadowmehr
        September 13, 2017, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

        I knew you’d say that. (Actually, you’re two minutes early posting the comment.)

  9. Gwen Smith
    September 13, 2017, 9:00 am | # | Reply

    I miss a few days ducking a hurricane and come back to the best plot twist ever. When Tip first arrives in pants you wonder if they’ll listen to him bcs he’s a man but then he uses his sexuality even as a man. The brilliant irony of the story line reminds me of why I love Skin Horse so much.

  10. Smithnik
    September 13, 2017, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    The Harrison Bergeron reference worries me, as does the fact that no one else seems to be discussing it. It’s either ominous foreshadowing or a reference too geeky for THIS crowd. Either one is disturbing.
    The question that U.N.I.T.Y. is asking is an important one…were the drag outfits Tip’s tools or his handicap? And if the latter, were they self-inflicted, or part of the programming he was given when he entered Skin Horse?

    • =Tamar
      September 13, 2017, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

      I was wondering whether anyone else would catch that. In context it’s worrisome. Re: Tip’s outfits – he wore them when he applied for the job, so I assume it’s just part of his personality.

    • Daibhid C
      September 13, 2017, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      The Harrison Bergman reference would worry me more if it wasn’t immediately followed by “No, that’s not what’s happening”. Of course, Unity isn’t necessarily right just because she spoke last, but Sweetheart seems to accept her logic.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 13, 2017, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      The ladyclothes are the reason he was discharged from the Army. Although there’s always the possibility that someone with no name began conditioning him while he was in the Army, and precipitated his wearing the ladyclothes to begin with, ergo choreographing his discharge. So far, however, we can only assume he did so of his own free will.

      “His C.O. in Kabul had sent him home with an honorable discharge and a recommendation for CIA training, and the CIA had passed his name along to a group of people who officially didn’t have names. Not important people necessarily, just people who did their work very very quietly. On the other hand it wasn’t like his superiors could do anything else. He wasn’t crazy and he wasn’t gay, so it was hard to get rid of him. This whole convoluted process was easier in terms of paperwork than just discharging him, and they’d wanted him out of the way ever since he’d started dressing well. Tip thought it was a shame that so few military personnel appreciated his sense of style, but he didn’t think seriously about getting rid of his wardrobe any more than he thought seriously about getting rid of his arms.”

      Re: Vonnegut; It may be both ominous foreshadowing and too geeky for this crowd. And being only a short story and from 1961, it may also be too old for this crowd. And yes, it’s disturbing. If you see a woman waving a double-barrel 10 gauge, duck.

      • Andy4Hire
        September 13, 2017, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

        First, I giggled at your last sentence until I saw the comma. I’m still giggling at the image of a woman waving a double-barrel 10-gauge duck.

        Second, pardon my ignorance, but what are you quoting in your middle paragraph (“His C.O. in Kabul … “)? Is it the filename story, which I’m way behind on, or some other source I’m not currently aware of?

        • Landis963
          September 13, 2017, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah, that’s the filename story.

    • Chrisn
      September 13, 2017, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

      I hadda look it up. Guess I don’t need any handicapping.

    • Trivena
      September 13, 2017, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

      Could be neither. It could be “we knew he was powerful, but this is just ridiculous”.

      As for nobody mentioning it, maybe the ones who did recognise it assumed everybody else would too? I did spot it, but assumed somebody else would bring it up.

  11. bergerjacques
    September 13, 2017, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

    Can we please have computer wallpaper of Tip in full Bergeron/Sharon Stone mode?

    • william meagher
      September 13, 2017, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

      Yes please

  12. Frank Hightower
    September 13, 2017, 7:39 pm | # | Reply

    Where did she get the popcorn?

    • Candace
      September 14, 2017, 1:41 am | # | Reply

      From Hammerspace, obviously. 😉

      • kag
        September 14, 2017, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

        No, you wouldn’t want to keep it there. Gets the hammer hafts all buttery.

  13. luciferlordofpride
    September 15, 2017, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

    It’s simple: by dressing in drag for such an extended period of time, he was conserving yang, or ‘male’, energy by limiting his output to yin, ‘female’. It stands to reason that by now he has built up an ungodly store of yang energy. I would not be surprised if he could punch a hole through Mustachio by now.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 15, 2017, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

      He was a Captain in the Army who dragged three of his comrades out of a burning vehicle. He could have punched a hole through Moustachio a long time ago if that were his style.

      • Barbara K
        February 15, 2019, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

        Punching can be hell on the manicure.

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