Dogs have a disgusting habit of rolling in dead animals, presumably to mask their own scent. The fact that she mentioned an opossum was just coincidence.
How precisely do little turtles murder anybody? I mean, if they were snappers I’d understand, but these look nothing like snappers; do they smother people or climb on them and smush them? **ponders**
I’d say they’d crush him. Either by having them all climb on top of him at once and crushing him with pure weight, or getting one to drop from the ceiling onto his head. Probably the first, as it means that all 650 get to participate.
The trouble there is that since they only weigh a couple ounces each, all 650 of them would have to somehow concentrate their weight on a very small area to crush Renard. That would also crush quite a few of the turtles on the bottom of the pile.
They’ve demonstrated the ability to do exactly that just a few pages ago. As for being crushed: if they insist on having everyone in the pile, maybe, but turtles are usually much hardier than foxes (and they don’t look soft shelled), and Renard’s a small fox to begin with. They’d withstand the pressure much better than him.
This comic has been roughly in real time, with timeskips between many of the storylines, and “Sure as You’re Born” started posting three years ago. I haven’t re-read the archives in a while, though, so I’m not sure when the last noticeable timeskip was. It feels like the last several storylines have happened one after the other without much of a timeskip.
Okay, I’ve had a look and here are my findings so far:
“Sure As You’re Born” leads straight into “Unsinkable”, with Joshua and Nera reacting to the reality blindness. “The Hundred Dresses” appears to be set the next day (it seems to be the first time Sweetheart has attempted to talk to the reality-blind shadow agents).
“Angry With The Sky” is probably not more than a couple of days later (it starts with Unity and Sweetheart’s first date), but it probably takes a week or so. And it ends with the Dramatic Revelation Cliffhanger that leads directly into “Figgs and Phantoms”. And while it’s arguably unclear how long Ginny spends in VR, “The Iron Man” has Skin Horse still at Annex-One and wondering what they can do about Nick’s disappearance, so probably a day at most. It definitely lasts more than a day, though, because Virginia spent 24 hours just riding the bus.
“Green Noah”, which I had high hopes for regarding a timeskip, opens with Sweetheart announcing they’re going to start walking the Earth. It probably lasts a couple of days. And then “Swiftly I Glide” opens with the debriefing. Can’t be more than a day later.
“A Life in the Woods”. Ah, now we’re getting somewhere. Tip’s been “shuffled from facility to facility” and “been through Anasigma’s gauntlet of mental and physical torture”. That sounds like it took a while. And the story itself definitely takes several days.
“The Dreadful Future” opens an unspecified amount of time later, but they haven’t gone anywhere, so it’s probably not more than a few days. Since it has so many waking up scenes, I can confidently say it takes exactly a week.
With the best will in the world, I can’t get this to add up to much more than a couple of months, but it’s possible I missed something.
I find it disturbing that Tony is among the nightmare Creators. They knew about Pavane so I’ve always believed they made it to planet Lovetron. Perhaps our hunch that Pavane is instilling the “I’m coming for you” nightmares is mistaken?
I don’t think the status of the real Tony matters much. Pavane, or whoever, chose to take the shape of a “parent figure”, which in the turtles’ case would be the possums. Whether they made it to Lovetron or Pavane knows them personally doesn’t seem to matter much, except that you might expect her to do a better job of it than simulating someone she doesn’t know, based on the subconscious of someone with mixed feelings about them.
I went back to last update and read the comments, someone’s really gonna have to clue me in on this Tony character. Is he from Narbonic?
No, Tony’s from this comic. See the storyline “Sure as You’re Born”.
… didn’t those Possums actually get to Lovetron?
http://skin-horse.com/comic/unusable-and-so/ they definitely knew Pavane at the time, which was an interesting thing to remember…
It’d be great to see them again! I loved the little guys and their funky outfits.
There was a brief comment about Sweetheart rolling in a dead opossum in the Green Noah story. Could’a been Tony or Merc.
Nah, she was pretty specific about there being no bodies left behind. If she said otherwise later, she was probably just being flippant.
Dogs have a disgusting habit of rolling in dead animals, presumably to mask their own scent. The fact that she mentioned an opossum was just coincidence.
Thanks. I’ll have to resume my archive trawl – I’m only back up to Dead Dogs so far.
Oh! Thooose guys! I kinda remember now, I’ll have to reread it.
Ahh…so they’re murdles!
This is where you can see H.T.’s influence on their creation and psyches.
How precisely do little turtles murder anybody? I mean, if they were snappers I’d understand, but these look nothing like snappers; do they smother people or climb on them and smush them? **ponders**
Renard gets up to go answer the door, and as he takes his second step going down the stairs he slips on a turtle shell…
The gas gets turned on and left on when foxy goes to bed…
The turtles call in an Anisigma air strike, then flee…
Maybe not that last one. Turtles rarely flee anywhere at speed.
They can just pile on. How much do you think is the combined weight of all those turtles?
I’d say they’d crush him. Either by having them all climb on top of him at once and crushing him with pure weight, or getting one to drop from the ceiling onto his head. Probably the first, as it means that all 650 get to participate.
The trouble there is that since they only weigh a couple ounces each, all 650 of them would have to somehow concentrate their weight on a very small area to crush Renard. That would also crush quite a few of the turtles on the bottom of the pile.
…you’re basically describing the plot of Yertle the Turtle, here.
They’ve demonstrated the ability to do exactly that just a few pages ago. As for being crushed: if they insist on having everyone in the pile, maybe, but turtles are usually much hardier than foxes (and they don’t look soft shelled), and Renard’s a small fox to begin with. They’d withstand the pressure much better than him.
Unless Renard’s bedroom has no roof, there’s no way that all 650 of them were all stacked on top of each other.
My theory is that they were designed so they can secrete some sort of neurotoxin at will. I mean, they gotta be able to defend themselves, right?
Well, they can give you a nasty nip. Threatening to kill people is just one of their habits. It doesn’t mean they’ll do anything about it.
Renard should probably get a lock for his bedroom door, though, just in case.
Aerial bombardment. They conspire with Sicilian eagles.
Hello Mine Turtle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNZjzhBrgHI
I love how the turtle appears to be smiling while saying “we’ll murder you in your sleep!” lol
I knew it!
Oh, yeah. I’d forgotten the turtles did that.
And of course any turtles created to HT’s specifications are sociopaths.
H. T. seemed less than pleased about Tony’s “I’ll kill you when you sleep” turtle training. Wonder if this one is that one?
They weren’t created to HT’s specifications. The opossums had already created them. HT simply “saw potential”, as he put it.
Echidna Milk ! When asked about 2ml turtle milk, Goofle returned a link to
https://happylittleturtle.com.au/product/echidna-milk-replacer-late-lactation/
I felt I should share that 🙂
It’s been three years in-universe since Sure As You’re Born?
This comic has been roughly in real time, with timeskips between many of the storylines, and “Sure as You’re Born” started posting three years ago. I haven’t re-read the archives in a while, though, so I’m not sure when the last noticeable timeskip was. It feels like the last several storylines have happened one after the other without much of a timeskip.
Okay, I’ve had a look and here are my findings so far:
“Sure As You’re Born” leads straight into “Unsinkable”, with Joshua and Nera reacting to the reality blindness. “The Hundred Dresses” appears to be set the next day (it seems to be the first time Sweetheart has attempted to talk to the reality-blind shadow agents).
“Angry With The Sky” is probably not more than a couple of days later (it starts with Unity and Sweetheart’s first date), but it probably takes a week or so. And it ends with the Dramatic Revelation Cliffhanger that leads directly into “Figgs and Phantoms”. And while it’s arguably unclear how long Ginny spends in VR, “The Iron Man” has Skin Horse still at Annex-One and wondering what they can do about Nick’s disappearance, so probably a day at most. It definitely lasts more than a day, though, because Virginia spent 24 hours just riding the bus.
“Green Noah”, which I had high hopes for regarding a timeskip, opens with Sweetheart announcing they’re going to start walking the Earth. It probably lasts a couple of days. And then “Swiftly I Glide” opens with the debriefing. Can’t be more than a day later.
“A Life in the Woods”. Ah, now we’re getting somewhere. Tip’s been “shuffled from facility to facility” and “been through Anasigma’s gauntlet of mental and physical torture”. That sounds like it took a while. And the story itself definitely takes several days.
“The Dreadful Future” opens an unspecified amount of time later, but they haven’t gone anywhere, so it’s probably not more than a few days. Since it has so many waking up scenes, I can confidently say it takes exactly a week.
With the best will in the world, I can’t get this to add up to much more than a couple of months, but it’s possible I missed something.
I find it disturbing that Tony is among the nightmare Creators. They knew about Pavane so I’ve always believed they made it to planet Lovetron. Perhaps our hunch that Pavane is instilling the “I’m coming for you” nightmares is mistaken?
I don’t think the status of the real Tony matters much. Pavane, or whoever, chose to take the shape of a “parent figure”, which in the turtles’ case would be the possums. Whether they made it to Lovetron or Pavane knows them personally doesn’t seem to matter much, except that you might expect her to do a better job of it than simulating someone she doesn’t know, based on the subconscious of someone with mixed feelings about them.
“Possum daddy” is the phrase of the day 🙂